Did you know? Facts from Wikipedia, 2007

text: Did you knowthat the Abukuma , a veteran of the Pearl Harbor raid , was sunk in 1944 when her own Long Lance torpedoes exploded in the torpedo room?
text: Did you knowthat the Paço Imperial , a Baroque palace in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , served as a main government seat for almost 150 years?
text: Did you knowthat the German actor Heinz Rühmann was 42 years old when he starred as a high school student in the 1944 film Die Feuerzangenbowle ?
text: Did you knowthat lyrics from the B-52's song " Love Shack " were quoted in a 2005 majority opinion by Eleventh Circuit Court judge William H. Pryor, Jr. ?
text: Did you knowthat most of the trees in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve in Belize burnt down just five years after the reserve was established?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish writer Gustaw Morcinek survived three Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat Bhai Taru Singh was a Sikh martyr who was executed for refusing to cut his hair?
text: Did you knowthat feminist author Yuriko Miyamoto wrote over 900 letters to her imprisoned husband, defying Japan 's draconian Peace Preservation Laws ?
text: Did you knowthat the gene that creates the crest of the Bali Duck also causes physical defects which can kill it before it hatches ?
text: Did you knowthat JMWAVE was a secret CIA base on University of Miami campus grounds during the 1960s?
text: Did you knowthat African-American economist Abram Lincoln Harris was a four-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in economics ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sheet Metal Workers International Association Local 28 in New York City negotiated the first pension plan in the construction industry?
text: Did you knowthat the George's Block in Sycamore, Illinois once hosted talks from the likes of Horace Greeley , Bayard Taylor and Charles Sumner ?
text: Did you knowthat Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was awarded the Cricket World Cup award of Man of the Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup after he scored a record 673 runs?
text: Did you knowthat 1979's Hurricane Bob was the first male name ever used for a hurricane in the Atlantic basin?
text: Did you knowthat Donald Cameron of Lochiel , a major figure in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 , was nicknamed the "Gentle Lochiel"?
text: Did you knowthat the ultra-modern disposable female urination device , which lets women urinate upright, was actually invented in 1922 ?
text: Did you know that Oil Creek State Park in Pennsylvania is the site of the world's first commercial oil well ?
text: Did you knowthat as an art student, Soviet painter Fyodor Pavlovich Reshetnikov was employed as an "artistic reporter" on an Arctic expedition aboard the doomed Chelyuskin steamship ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1955 , What's the Story , an American game show , was the last television series broadcast on the DuMont Television Network ?
text: Did you knowthat the Siege of Lathom House during the First English Civil War ended in victory for the Cavaliers because the lady of the house, Charlotte de la Tremoüille , defended it defiantly?
text: Did you knowthat the 1991 Hamlet chicken plant fire resulted in 25 deaths and prison sentences for the owners?
text: Did you knowthat Lord Nolan was the first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life ?
text: Did you knowthat Leonard Crofoot , a dancer in The Singing Detective , has had three Star Trek roles?
text: Did you knowthat the medieval Margraviate of Brandenburg was called "the sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire "?
text: Did you knowthat the Mayan ruins in Belize called Nim Li Punit take their name from the "big hat" headdress on an 8th century stela ?
text: Did you knowthat the yaw string , a simple tuft of yarn used as a flight instrument by the Wright brothers , is still in use today?
text: Did you knowthat Larantuka is an Indonesian district known for Roman Catholic Holy Week processions ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1973 , an experiment successfully demonstrated that spiders can spin webs in space ?
text: Did you knowthat William Henry Wright and his brother-in-law were hunting rabbits when they stumbled upon a quartz outcropping that eventually would yield 13.5 million ounces of gold ?
text: Did you knowthat Manseibashi Station in Tokyo was rebuilt after a 1923 earthquake and later became a museum ?
text: Did you knowthat although the official cause of the 2007 Balad aircraft crash is fog , the insurgent group Islamic Army in Iraq says they shot it down?
text: Did you knowthat former NCAA American football quarterback Wyatt Sexton's career for the Florida State University Seminoles ended when he did pushups in the street and proclaimed he was God ?
text: Did you knowthat the Griggsville Landing Lime Kiln is one of the best preserved periodic lime kilns in the U.S. state of Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat Queen band members teased Freddie Mercury for looking like a prawn in the video for It's a Hard Life ?
text: Did you knowthat the Nusa Kambangan , "the Alcatraz of Indonesia ", has held a son of former President Suharto and terrorists of the 2002 Bali bombing ?
text: Did you knowthat when the Kälvesten Runestone was rediscovered in the walls of a church, it was removed and again used as building material?
text: Did you knowthat the Union forces in the American Civil War won the Battle of Simmon's Bluff without inflicting casualties?
text: Did you knowthat the Akhurian River is said to have turned completely red because of a major battle nearby?
text: Did you knowthat the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines was temporarily abolished during the Japanese occupation ?
text: Did you knowthat labor leader Victor Kamber created playing cards with public figures in 1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie" music video depicting a rapping Ronald Reagan in 1984 ?
text: Did you knowthat Alan Jay Lerner , lyricist of My Fair Lady , also co-wrote a disastrous musical version of Nabokov 's Lolita ?
text: Did you knowthat Soviet actor Pavel Luspekaev played in the classic Russian Ostern movie White Sun of the Desert with both feet amputated?
text: Did you knowthat NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw was a firm created by Germany in 1922 to illegally manufacture submarines?
text: Did you knowthat snow in Florida has been reported at least 34 times, including as far south as Homestead ?
text: Did you knowthat actor Edward Chapman , known for his role as "Mr. Grimsdale" in many Norman Wisdom films, tried to have Sir John Gielgud thrown out of Equity ?
text: Did you knowthat in his lifetime, Thomas Brassey was involved in building one-third of the railway built in the United Kingdom and in one-twentieth of the railway built in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Herkus Monte , one of the most famous leaders of the Great Prussian Uprising, was kidnapped in the 13th century by the Germans as a boy?
text: Did you knowthat Rachel Paulose is the first woman in Minnesota to become a District Attorney ?
text: Did you knowthat Simplicity Patterns has been a leader in home pattern sewing since 1927?
text: Did you knowthat the word jazz was originally a California baseball slang term and was first applied to a style of music in Chicago ?
text: Did you knowthat Stephan Körner's major philosophical work was in the philosophy of mathematics and the study of "exact" and "inexact" concepts ?
text: Did you knowthat La Casa Pacifica , President Richard Nixon 's private retreat in San Clemente, California , became known as the "Western White House"?
text: Did you knowthat criminal and boxer , James Field , was so feared by the police force of London in the 18th century , that they would pretend not to recognize him rather than arresting him?
text: Did you knowthat 60 percent of Carnatic musicians in Karnataka come from Rudrapatna ?
text: Did you knowthat Serenade No. 10 for winds by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is scored for twelve wind instruments and double bass and consists of seven movements ?
text: Did you knowthat former British Member of Parliament Walter Scott-Elliot was murdered by "Monster Butler" Archibald Hall ?
text: Did you knowthat Munir Bashir , known for his mastery of the maqam scale system, was a famous musician in the Middle East during the 20th century ?
text: Did you knowthat the Heinkel He 50 , designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1931, was used operationally by Germany almost until the end of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Duff Goldman of Ace of Cakes hired some painters and sculptors as assistants even though they didn't have experience as pastry chefs ?
text: Did you knowthat in Faridah Begum bte Abdullah v. Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah , it was held that non- Malaysian citizens cannot sue a Malay ruler ?
text: Did you knowthat when the Geats saw the Swedish king Ragnvald Knaphövde travelling among them without Geatish hostages, they deemed him so arrogant that they murdered him?
text: Did you knowthat Oneirocritica , the first major work on dream interpretation , was written in the second century by Artemidorus ?
text: Did you knowthat the City of York was a British barque which sank after hitting a reef off Rottnest Island within sight of its destination?
text: Did you knowthat there are several theories about the origins of the name of Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat Eriogonum parvifolium is a California endemic dunes shrub that is host to several endangered butterflies ?
text: Did you knowthat the first time in World War II submersible tanks were used was on June 22 , 1941 , by German tanks of the 18th Panzer-Division ?
text: Did you knowthat the Anjajavy Forest holds many endangered species including four of the 99 pairs of Madagascar Fish Eagle ?
text: Did you knowthat Alix, the wife of Viscount of Rochechouart Aymeric VI, was imprisoned in Château de Rochechouart castle with a lion, but the animal did not hurt her and laid down at her feet?
text: Did you knowthat J-ska is contemporary Japanese music with origins in Jamaica ?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese surrealist gothic horror author Yumeno Kyūsaku dropped dead due to a cerebral hemorrhage while at an autograph signing party hosted by his publisher?
text: Did you knowthat after an affirmative action dispute, Yale freshman Jian Li was the subject of a controversial parody in the annual joke issue of The Daily Princetonian ?
text: Did you knowthat W. Harry Davis , who helped desegregate Minneapolis , overcame childhood polio to become a Golden Gloves coach and manager of U.S. Olympics boxing teams ?
text: Did you knowthat results of the 1946 Romanian general election , the first in Romania under universal suffrage , were manipulated by the Communist Party ?
text: Did you knowthat Dralasites are an amoeboid extraterrestrial race depicted in science fiction role-playing games for the past 25 years?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish minority in Lithuania is the country's largest non-Lithuanian ethnic group ?
text: Did you knowthat the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland of 1815 , considered among the most liberal constitutions of its time, was increasingly disregarded by the Polish government , leading to the November Uprising of 1830?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Spear Hudson used paintings by professional artists for advertising before Pear's Soap and Lever Brothers ?
text: Did you knowthat the Department of Food Science at Purdue University was created during Bernard J. Liska ' s tenure as Dean of Agriculture in 1983 ?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Chick is a prolific games journalist and Hollywood actor who has a degree in divinity from Harvard Divinity School ?
text: Did you knowthat James Palacio of the HBO series Oz was an empress of the Imperial Court System ?
text: Did you knowthat the first German U-boat sunk by the United States Navy in World War II was U-656 , sunk on 1 March 1942?
text: Did you knowthat Harold G. Schrier led the patrol of U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag on Mount Suribachi ?
text: Did you knowthat the Carbonera Creek watershed in California has diverse plant communities including a rare assemblage known as Maritime Coast Range Ponderosa Pine forests ?
text: Did you knowthat the Round Tower in Sandiway , Cheshire , was originally the gate lodge of the great house of Vale Royal Abbey ?
text: Did you knowthat Lithuania's name was recorded in chronicles by its Latinized Slavic name form Litua , for the first time in 1009 ?
text: Did you knowthat the female Smith's blue butterfly has only seven days to feed, court , mate , and lay eggs ?
text: Did you knowthat John Freke was the first ophthalmic surgeon?
text: Did you knowthat the Ryuho was the only major warship damaged in the Doolittle raid , and the last Japanese aircraft carrier to make a war-time voyage outside the Home Islands ?
text: Did you knowthat the Gouin Reservoir in Quebec , Canada is not one contiguous body of water, but the collective name for a series of lakes with highly irregular shapes?
text: Did you knowthat cock throwing was a popular blood sport in England for centuries?
text: Did you knowthat 51 Birch Street , a low-budget documentary about the mystery of a suburban marriage, was named one of The New York Times top ten films of 2006?
text: Did you knowthat Updown Court , a private residence in England , is valued at over US$120 million?
text: Did you knowthat Roger Bacon sent his Opus Majus , a treatise of natural science , to Pope Clement IV in 1267?
text: Did you knowthat Murderers Among Us was the first German post- World War II film?
text: Did you knowthat 2003's Hurricane Ignacio was the latest-forming first hurricane of a Pacific hurricane season since reliable satellite observation began in 1966?
text: Did you knowthat the champion racehorse Corrida , a two-time winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , disappeared during the Battle of the Falaise Gap ?
text: Did you knowthat the Finnish Air Force selected the Saab 91 Safir as its primary trainer aircraft over the domestic Valmet Tuuli III ?
text: Did you knowthat according to the book Civilization One , there are 366 degrees in a circle?
text: Did you knowthat Richard E. Cavazos , recipient of two Distinguished Service Cross awards, was the United States Army 's first Hispanic 4-star general ?
text: Did you knowthat a copper mine on Brim Fell in England appears as in the novel The Plague Dogs ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mayurakshi river in India wreaks havoc with its floods even after the construction of a dam?
text: Did you knowthat Peter Prendergast was recognised as the leading landscape painter in Wales after the death of Sir Kyffin Williams in September 2006?
text: Did you knowthat Broken Glass , a 1994 play by Arthur Miller , was nominated for the 1994 Tony Award for Best Play, but lost out to Angels in America: Perestroika ?
text: Did you knowthat Randy Conrad became a local celebrity in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia after appearing in a McDonald's TV commercial ?
text: Did you knowthat although Abkhazia is not recognised by any nation, the Abkhazian Air Force had a reported roster of 250 men and seven aircraft in 2001 ?
text: Did you knowthat the first president of the World Association of Copepodologists was a veteran of the Polish resistance movement in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Les Taylor only captained Watford in the 1984 FA Cup final because regular captain Wilf Rostron was suspended?
text: Did you knowthat the interaction of bees and toxic chemicals can make bees drunk or produce poisonous honey ?
text: Did you knowthat Andreas Joseph Hofmann proclaimed the first republican state in Germany on March 18 , 1793 ?
text: Did you knowthat Maurice K. Goddard helped create 45 Pennsylvania state parks ?
text: Did you knowthat Junqueirópolis , a municipality in São Paulo , Brazil , is nicknamed " Acerola Capital" for its agriculture ?
text: Did you knowthat Seb Clover , who sailed the English Channel solo at age 11, set a world record at age 15 when he raced against his father in an Atlantic Ocean crossing?
text: Did you knowthat Target for Tonight was a 1941 documentary filmed, acted, and written by the Royal Air Force ?
text: Did you knowthat fewer than 100 of 500 colonists in the Virginia Colony survived the Starving Time during the winter of 1609-1610?
text: Did you knowthat the Blohm und Voss Bv 144 was an attempt by Nazi Germany to develop an advanced commercial airliner for post-war service?
text: Did you knowthat a Jacksnipe is a two-man racing sailing dinghy created in 1968 by prolific boat designer Jack Holt ?
text: Did you knowthat Major General Keith L. Ware , who was awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II , was the first U.S. Army general officer to be killed in action in the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Suisun Shrew is a rare mammal species that survives only in a narrow marshland at the northern extremity of San Francisco Bay ?
text: Did you knowthat the Stingray Nebula , discovered in 1987, is the youngest known planetary nebula ?
text: Did you knowthat Edwin D. Hill was the first president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to be elected by secret ballot ?
text: Did you knowthat an Egyptian army of 1,500 was defeated by 300 women and old men of Diro during the Egyptian Invasion of Mani in 1826 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Witches of Belvoir supposedly believed a cat named Rutterkin helped them cast spells ?
text: Did you knowthat La Salle Road in Hong Kong is named after French educator Jean-Baptiste de la Salle ?
text: Did you knowthat Arnold Zamora , a Filipino musician , is one of the Singing Priests of Tagbilaran ?
text: Did you knowthat Davi Kopenawa Yanomami , a shaman of the indigenous people of Brazil , received an award from the United Nations Environmental Program ?
text: Did you knowthat the Gettlinge gravefield contains a stone ship , made of standing stones in the shape of the traditional Viking sailing vessel?
text: Did you knowthat Larin Paraske , a Finnish oral poet , could recite over 32,000 verses of poetry?
text: Did you knowthat during the Winter War , a Swedish fundraising drive paid for the purchase of a Fokker F.VIII airliner for the Finnish Air Force ?
text: Did you knowthat Elisabeth Rivers-Bulkeley was one of the first women to become a member of the London Stock Exchange ?
text: Did you knowthat the king stropharia , a prized edible mushroom , develops spiny cells which kill nematodes ?
text: Did you knowthat matches were so prized during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition that Alfred Cheetham offered a bottle of champagne for one?
text: Did you knowthat Craignethan Castle was the last private fortress built in Scotland ?
text: Did you knowthat in his satirical 1827 pamphlet Grand Erratum , French physicist Jean-Baptiste Pérès argued that Napoleon never existed, but was just another expression of an ancient myth?
text: Did you knowthat model Rebecca Twigley became a household name in Australia after wearing a revealing dress to an event in 2004?
text: Did you knowthat the Golden Resources Mall in Beijing , the second-largest shopping mall in the world, has attracted as few as 20 shoppers in an hour?
text: Did you knowthat the Soviet spotter aircraft Sukhoi Su-12 , though approved, was never produced due to lack of manufacturing capacity in the USSR ?
text: Did you knowthat after serving as a surgeon in the Army of the Republic of Texas , David Catchings Dickson was elected to the First Texas Legislature ?
text: Did you knowthat the Black Fell comprised a chapter in the Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells because of its excellent view?
text: Did you knowthat the Heinkel He 46 , designed for the Luftwaffe in 1931, was still being used to fight the Soviets in 1943?
text: Did you knowthat the geology of London includes abundant fossilized animal remains?
text: Did you knowthat the Singapore Conference Hall was the first building to be built in the Shenton Way financial district ?
text: Did you knowthat sculptor Bernardo Cennini helped produce the Doors of Paradise for the Battistero di San Giovanni ?
text: Did you knowthat the Knoxville Campaign ended with a Union Army victory even though the final battle of the campaign at Bean's Station had resulted in a Confederate victory?
text: Did you knowthat Camp Cuddly Pines: Power Tool Massacre is the first adult film to be released in the HD DVD format?
text: Did you knowthat Hawayo Takata , a Nisei fluent in the language and culture of both Japan and the United States , introduced Reiki to the Western World ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ajacan Mission , a failed attempt by Spanish Jesuit priests to bring Christianity to the Native Americans of the Virginia Peninsula , predated the establishment of Jamestown by about 36 years?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese writer Naoki Sanjugo (literally "Naoki 35") changed his pen-name four times, once per year, to match his age?
text: Did you knowthat at the Atlantic House on Cape Cod during World War I , Pulitzer Prize -winner Eugene O'Neill was arrested at gun point as a spy for the Kaiser ?
text: Did you knowthat Ern Westmore was the only member of the famed Westmore family to be given a special Academy Award for make-up , bestowed for his work on the film Cimarron ?
text: Did you knowthat " bohemian " Japanese symbolist poet Nakahara Chuya remained close friends with influential literary critic Kobayashi Hideo all of his life, despite the fact that his girlfriend left him for Kobayashi soon after they met?
text: Did you knowthat although Lehigh Gorge State Park in Pennsylvania is now known for whitewater rafting on the Lehigh River , in the 19th century it was the site of a canal built to bypass those same rapids?
text: Did you knowthat 11-year old Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein is regarded by Jacobites as third in line for the throne of England , Scotland , France , and Ireland ?
text: Did you knowthat the American composer Paul Moravec won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2004 for his Shakespeare -inspired chamber piece Tempest Fantasy ?
text: Did you knowthat in 362 AD, the rhetorician Prohaeresius , a friend of the pagan Emperor , was allowed to keep his teaching post in spite of a ban on Christians but resigned in protest?
text: Did you knowthat Ken Okuyama , a Japanese person , designed the Enzo Ferrari super car ?
text: Did you knowthat Sharon Sayles Belton was the first female and first African-American mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota ?
text: Did you knowthat the Short Sturgeon started life as a high-performance torpedo bomber , became a target tug , then a naval reconnaissance bomber, and finally an anti-submarine aircraft, before failing altogether?
text: Did you knowthat Arthur William Hodge was the only white person in the history of the British West Indies to be executed for killing a black slave ?
text: Did you knowthat Colonel Frederick Gough was the first person to receive the Royal Aero Club Parachutist Certificate?
text: Did you knowthat Michael Beetham , World War II bomber pilot, is now senior Marshal of the Royal Air Force ?
text: Did you knowthat Trachodon , despite being a well-known and often-used duckbill name in the past, is based on teeth that include both duckbill and horned dinosaur specimens?
text: Did you knowthat the Nikolayevsk Incident , in which Japanese people were killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries, was pretext for the invasion of Sakhalin island ?
text: Did you knowthat the National Security League formed the first known political action committee in the United States in 1918, and spent more than $100,000 to defeat congressmen who opposed its positions?
text: Did you knowthat South Korean United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Tanzanian Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro previously worked together as foreign ministers?
text: Did you knowthat Tobias Lear probably destroyed six letters of conflict between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson ?
text: Did you knowthat male spiders , scorpions and mantids have special strategies to avoid sexual cannibalism ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph E. Widener , a major figure in U.S. Thoroughbred horse racing , lost his elder brother and nephew in the Titanic disaster?
text: Did you knowthat the Federal Corrupt Practices Act was the primary law regulating campaign finance in U.S. federal elections until the passage of the Federal Election Campaign Act in 1971?
text: Did you knowthat Trondheim Tramway was reopened in 1990 after being permanently closed for two years, the process costing two mayors in Trondheim their jobs?
text: Did you knowthat Russian billionaire, politician and philanthropist Alexander Lebedev started his career as a KGB agent working in London ?
text: Did you knowthat Windows DreamScene displays videos in MPEG or WMV format as desktop wallpaper ?
text: Did you knowthat Öpir , the "shouter", was the most productive of the old Viking runemasters ?
text: Did you knowthat One is a Japanese adult renai game (or visual novel ), developed by Tactics ?
text: Did you knowthat the schooner Rouse Simmons , known as "The Christmas Tree Ship", was transporting over 5,000 Christmas trees to Chicago when it sank in 1912?
text: Did you knowthat Singaporean Web Map Service Streetdirectory.com successfully sued several businesses for copyright infringment , but is now being sued on the same charge by the Singapore Land Authority ?
text: Did you knowthat only one of the 266 1076 Class steam locomotives built for the Great Western Railway was named, and the rest had only numbers?
text: Did you knowthat Sheila Gallagher has been the City of London 's last remaining lollipop lady since 1990?
text: Did you knowthat the Nuyorican Poets Cafe began in the apartment living room of one of its founders?
text: Did you knowthat the Brazilian labour movement was predominantly anarchist until the 1920s?
text: Did you knowthat the medieval pirate Cord Widderich occupied Eiderstedt and made the Pellworm church tower his base?
text: Did you knowthat future Maltese diplomat Arvid Pardo was successively detained by Fascist Italian , Nazi German , and Soviet authorities between 1940 and 1945?
text: Did you knowthat many of the image stones of the Viking Age depict lost tales from Norse mythology ?
text: Did you knowthat the late Dame Joyanne Bracewell was the fifth woman to be appointed as an English High Court judge ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Samuel Davenport , a South Australian parliamentarian , had an electoral district named after him?
text: Did you knowthat " Push It To The Limit ", a pop rap song backed by The Walt Disney Company , was recently the most downloaded song at the iTunes Store ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1950s , the names and telephone numbers of women who attended the integrated meetings of civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were published in a Ku Klux Klan magazine?
text: Did you knowthat recently-departed Dame Joyanne Bracewell was the fifth woman to be appointed as an English High Court judge ?
text: Did you knowthat despite having won the Cricket World Cup only once ( 1983 ), Indian cricket team batsmen hold most Cricket World Cup batting records ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sao civilisation is the earliest to have left clear traces of their presence in the territory of modern Cameroon ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mediterranean mantis is capable of virgin birth ?
text: Did you knowthat Léonce Perret was a prominent movie director and actor , involved in more than four hundred films from 1909 to 1935?
text: Did you knowthat the twenty-six tons of books and artifacts from Dr. Robert Bell 's private library were almost destroyed in an Ottawa fire?
text: Did you knowthat the 110th United States Congress freshman class contains members from diverse backgrounds, including a professional football player, a Navy vice admiral, several former teachers, and the first Buddhist and Muslim members?
text: Did you knowthat the first plate of William Hogarth 's The Four Stages of Cruelty features a boy supposed to be a young George III ?
text: Did you knowthat Soviet surgeon Aleksandr Bakulev pioneered the first successful lung ablation with open ductus arteriosus ?
text: Did you knowthat the haiku poet Takahama Kyoshi edited the literary magazine Hototogisu ?
text: Did you knowthat all Barrier Reef Anemonefish are born sexless and develop into males, and only become females if they rise to the top of the hierarchy?
text: Did you knowthat sailplane winglets were first successfully implemented by American inventor Peter Masak ?
text: Did you knowthat the German physicist Otto Laporte discovered what is known in spectroscopy as the Laporte rule ?
text: Did you knowthat the Soviet Union considered occupying its ally Lithuania soon after signing the Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty of 1920 , but the Red Army 's defeat at the Battle of Warsaw rendered such plans obsolete?
text: Did you knowthat Ken Cranston began playing Test cricket for the English cricket team within 8 weeks after his debut in first-class cricket in 1947, but retired in 1948 to concentrate on his career as a dentist ?
text: Did you knowthat Mujahedeen KOMPAK has diverted charitable donations from Australia to produce recruitment videos for militant Islamic groups?
text: Did you knowthat American basketball player Fred Roberts was chosen by the Miami Heat in their expansion draft, but never played a game for them in the NBA ?
text: Did you knowthat the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory , containing ores bearing uranium-238 , is one of many products that have been recalled in the interests of toy safety ?
text: Did you knowthat alchemist James Price committed suicide by drinking prussic acid after being challenged to prove he could turn mercury into gold ?
text: Did you knowthat Tombo Ati , a traditional Javanese song based on a popular hadith of the prophet Muhammad , is still popular five centuries after its composition?
text: Did you knowthat Hall of Fame football player Ed Molinski was also a Golden Gloves state boxing champion and served in the U.S. Marines during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Colin Figures was the ninth Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service , known informally as MI6 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Sangarará was a decisive victory for rebel forces under Túpac Amaru II against the Spanish in Peru ?
text: Did you knowthat Arthur McIntyre became England's oldest living Test cricketer after the death of Ken Cranston ?
text: Did you knowthat Indonesian freedom fighter Ernest Douwes Dekker is related to the Dutch writer, Eduard Douwes Dekker and volunteered on the Boers ' side during the Second Boer War in South Africa as a youth?
text: Did you knowthat Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges was awarded two DSOs and a Bar to his DFC for flying secret missions for SOE in Europe and the Far East in the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat two officers have quit their jobs over purported paranormal activity at George Stickney House , home to the Bull Valley, Illinois Police Department?
text: Did you knowthat Stephen Maylad became Voivode of Transylvania with the help of Petru Rareş , who later doomed him to a wretched death in the Yedikule dungeons?
text: Did you knowthat American papermaking authority Dard Hunter published a volume created entirely by himself—including its paper , type design, typesetting , and printing ?
text: Did you knowthat William E. "Bud" Davis , who had a successful career as president at four universities, originally wanted " to be the world's greatest football coach " before he went 2-8 in 1962 and never coached again?
text: Did you knowthat, in autumn 1934, Amicii URSS , a Romanian left-wing cultural society, dispatched the writer Alexandru Sahia on an illegal visit to the Soviet Union , as a means to commemorate the October Revolution ?
text: Did you knowthat Mandy Mitchell-Innes was the last surviving English cricketer to have played Test cricket before the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat William Dronfield founded the United Kingdom Alliance of Organised Trades , which inspired the creation of the Trades Union Congress ?
text: Did you knowthat "On the very first of May", a work composed by singer and organist William Savage , was set to nonsense verses by his wife?
text: Did you knowthat Scottish international rugby player Tremayne Rodd was banned from playing amateur rugby union in 1966 after accompanying the British and Irish Lions ?
text: Did you knowthat the BBC journalist Barbara Plett ' s admission of having cried at the sight of the terminally ill Yasser Arafat led to a controversy?
text: Did you knowthat the title of Namestnik of Kingdom of Poland became unused and replaced with that of Governor-General of Warsaw without any formal decree after the death of the last namestnik ?
text: Did you knowthat members of the music trio Queen of Japan use aliases that sound like Japanese names and are known for synthpop covers of artists such as John Lennon and Bob Dylan ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kentucky High School Athletic Association divides its member schools into separate enrollment classes in only three of the 13 sports in which it conducts state championships?
text: Did you knowthat American activist Nelson Cruikshank is considered the most important non- legislator responsible for the enactment of the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance in 1956 and Medicare in 1965 ?
text: Did you knowthat Têtes à Claques was originally intended to be stop motion animation , but instead superimposed faces on the figurines to save time?
text: Did you knowthat the Karnataka politician Hotte Paksha Rangaswamy is the world record holder for number of elections contested?
text: Did you knowthat during the 1793 Siege of Mainz , Goethe was a military observer and later wrote a book about the bombardment of the city?
text: Did you knowthat the first three Ministers of the Privy Treasury of the Ottoman Empire were Armenian, the first being Hagop Kazazian Pasha ?
text: Did you knowthat Dutch governor-general Jan Willem Janssens surrendered both the Cape Colony and the Dutch East Indies in separate incidents during the Napoleonic Wars ?
text: Did you knowthat at the 1974 Coalition of Labor Union Women convention, Myra Wolfgang declared "...there are 3,000 women in Chicago and they didn't come here to swap recipes !"?
text: Did you knowthat three members of the Hot 8 Brass Band have died as a result of gun violence in New Orleans ?
text: Did you knowthat runestones have allowed archaeologists to reconstruct the family saga of the powerful Viking woman Estrid ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Keyes was related to five of the other Gunpowder Plot conspirators?
text: Did you knowthat David Colville Anderson , whose career was ended by a scandal involving teenage girls , blamed it on the KGB ?
text: Did you knowthat the Alliance for Retired Americans was instrumental in enacting Medicare ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sajama Lines in Bolivia took 3,000 years to make and might be considered the largest artwork in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Cecilia Muñoz-Palma was the Philippines ' first female prosecutor, district judge, and Supreme Court justice?
text: Did you knowthat the six Charles Tayleur locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway were unsuccessful?
text: Did you knowthat Pope Pius XII tried to prevent the bombing of Rome in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat toso is a medicinal sake drunk during Japanese New Year celebrations?
text: Did you knowthat hippocamps are mythological sea-horses that frolic in the Trevi Fountain ?
text: Did you knowthat the Terrace Mutiny of 1944 was the most serious disciplinary breach in Canadian military history ?
text: Did you knowthat pastor and linguist Christoph Mrongovius was honored by having a town named after him ?
text: Did you knowthat Baghdad Street in Istanbul was named by Murad IV to commemorate his conquest of Mesopotamia ?
text: Did you knowthat the mythical Canadian water monster Ogopogo inspired the British film Mee-Shee: The Water Giant ?
text: Did you knowthat Louisiana politician Arthur C. Watson lost the use of his legs in infancy?
text: Did you knowthat the Imperial Japanese Army 14th Division made Chinese dumplings a specialty of Utsunomiya upon returning from Manchuria ?
text: Did you knowthat Iya Abubakar , a Nigerian mathematician , served as his country's Minister of Defence ?
text: Did you knowthat Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe , a Munro in Scotland , is one of the "Five Sisters of Kintail"?
text: Did you knowthat Ovidiu Pecican co-wrote a textbook of Romanian history that caused a national scandal?
text: Did you knowthat a protoplanetary nebula is a short-lived phase of stellar evolution ?
text: Did you knowthat Rolf Dudley-Williams helped set up the company that manufactured the world's first working jet engine ?
text: Did you knowthat John Casor was the first known slave in the Thirteen Colonies ?
text: Did you knowthat the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club claims to be the second oldest ice hockey team in the world?
text: Did you knowthat during the 1933 Simele massacre nearly 3,000 people were killed and more than 63 Assyrian villages were destroyed?
text: Did you knowthat award-winning Japanese novelist Tachihara Masaaki was a Zainichi Korean , whose works were strongly influenced by Zeami 's traditional Japanese Noh dramas?
text: Did you knowthat most of the numerous Jarlabanke Runestones were made by a Viking chieftain in an attempt to immortalize his power and greatness?
text: Did you knowthat the Land Coastal Defence that defended the Polish coast during the German invasion of Poland was subordinate to the Polish Navy , not the Army ?
text: Did you knowthat two Viking women named Gerlög and Inga documented their tragic and dramatic family saga on a series of runestones during the civil wars of 11th century Sweden ?
text: Did you knowthat the Aston Martin DBR1 sports car won the 1000km Nürburgring round of the World Sportscar Championship in all three years it entered?
text: Did you knowthat the Ingvar Runestones commemorate Vikings who died in the raid led by Ingvar the Far-Travelled which pillaged the coasts of Persia ?
text: Did you knowthat St. Cyril's Monastery in Kiev , Ukraine was closed by the Tsarist Government and its living quarters were converted into a hospital and later an insane asylum , which lasted until the mid-late 20th century ?
text: Did you knowthat Zhang Zhenshi created a widely reproduced image of Mao Zedong which is known as China 's Mona Lisa ?
text: Did you knowthat the Free Association of German Trade Unions was the only trade union in Germany to reject the Burgfrieden , a civil truce between the socialist movement and the German state during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat Major Alan Shapley , survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor , had been relieved of duty on the Arizona the previous day, but had stayed aboard overnight before reporting to his next duty station?
text: Did you knowthat Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia was urged by her mother-in-law to testify in the case of Anna Anderson , the woman who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia ?
text: Did you knowthat there are four UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Scotland and four more sites currently undergoing a process of evaluation including the iconic Forth Bridge ?
text: Did you knowthat the inhabitants of Fjuckby , Sweden want to change the name of their village because of its unfortunate associations?
text: Did you knowthat the 17th century Puritan physician Alexander Leighton incurred the wrath of King Charles I for publishing a pamphlet denouncing bishops, and was sentenced by his Star Chamber to public whipping, branding , and having his ears cut off?
text: Did you knowthat the 1927 American silent film The Cat and the Canary was directed by German expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni ?
text: Did you knowthat the world's only memorial to war correspondents is located in Maryland 's Gathland State Park ?
text: Did you knowthat Kenny Leon directed the Broadway premiere of the August Wilson play Gem of the Ocean ?
text: Did you knowthat Alejandro Maclean , Spanish television producer and Red Bull Air Race World Series pilot, is nicknamed "The Flying Matador "?
text: Did you knowthat  the 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone , which left over 500,000 homeless, was the first tropical cyclone of hurricane intensity to hit Sri Lanka since 1978?
text: Did you knowthat the cornerstone for the first museum of space exploration , the Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga , Russia , was laid by Yuri Gagarin ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1968 Florida teachers' strike was the first statewide strike by teachers in United States history?
text: Did you knowthat the Raven banner , a standard used by various Viking leaders including Sigurd the Stout and Harald III of Norway , was a totem believed to have the power to grant victory to its holder?
text: Did you knowthat the 1939 planned encyclical of Pope Pius XI , Humani Generis Unitas , which condemned racism and persecution of Jews , became known as "The Hidden Encyclical" or "The Lost Encyclical," because it was never promulgated?
text: Did you knowthat the 1985 Oregon State vs. Washington football game resulted in the biggest overcome point spread in college football history when the Beavers beat the Huskies , 21-20?
text: Did you knowthat David Robinson, who tried to hijack Qantas Flight 1737 in 2003, wanted to crash the plane into a Tasmanian national park to release the Devil and bring about Armageddon ?
text: Did you knowthat kabuki actor Matsunosuke Onoe became the first superstar of Japanese cinema , appearing in over 1,000 films during the course of his 17-year career, including over 80 per year at his peak?
text: Did you knowthat Ian Harvey , a Conservative junior minister in the United Kingdom , resigned his seat in 1958 after a sex scandal?
text: Did you knowthat the University of Cambridge denied Edward A. Irving a PhD when he submitted evidence supporting continental drift ?
text: Did you knowthat Delaware Canal State Park in Pennsylvania contains the only intact 19th century towpath canal in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat 199 of the 210 soldiers of the 5th Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Japanese Army's 8th Infantry Division froze to death as a result of a winter training accident in January 1902?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. Congressman Cecil R. King of California , deeply involved in the issue of Medicare , ran unopposed for his first 10 years in office?
text: Did you knowthat the twelfth sultan of Aceh , Iskandar Muda , had his own son killed and named as his successor the son of the sultan of Pahang , whom he had brought to Aceh twenty years earlier?
text: Did you knowthat before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans , the United Teachers of New Orleans was the largest trade union in the city?
text: Did you knowthat the removal of President Rolandas Paksas from office by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania was the first successful case of impeachment of a head of state in the history of Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat Dave Burrell 's operatic live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970 's?
text: Did you knowthat Acallam na Senórach , a tale of ancient heroes surviving to recount their deeds to St. Patrick , is the longest original text in medieval Irish literature ?
text: Did you knowthat the Vietnam War veteran Wesley Autrey jumped onto a New York City Subway track in front of an oncoming train to save another man?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian anti-communist resistance movement , operating between 1948 and 1960, was one of the most enduring armed resistance movement in the former Soviet bloc ?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Shambala " by Three Dog Night has a gospel music sound and Tibetan Buddhist subject matter?
text: Did you knowthat the Swedish sculptor Willy Gordon received some attention with a sculpture showing a naked male figure carrying a piece of meat on his shoulders before a reclining female figure?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Francis Mitchell was the last British knight of the realm to be publicly degraded ?
text: Did you knowthat famed Japanese literary critic Kobayashi Hideo toured China as a guest of the Imperial Japanese Army , with future Nobel-prize winner Kawabata Yasunari ?
text: Did you knowthat after former House representative John H. Burke was not a candidate for renomination in 1934 , he went back to his home in Long Beach, California and became a real estate broker ?
text: Did you knowthat William Henry Holbert , a catcher for the 19th century New York Metropolitans baseball team, still holds the records for the most career at-bats without a home run ?
text: Did you knowthat the Landmarks Foundation helps conserve sacred sites such as the stone spheres of Costa Rica and the moai of Easter Island ?
text: Did you knowthat the carom billiards game, cushion caroms , was enjoyed on occasion by Mark Twain ?
text: Did you knowthat Byron N. Scott was a public school teacher in Long Beach, California prior to being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1934?
text: Did you knowthat the Mecelle , the Ottoman civil code of 1877, was the first attempt to codify part of the laws of an Islamic state?
text: Did you knowthat mathematician Đuro Kurepa lectured at almost every university in Yugoslavia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Florida Education Association led the first statewide teachers ' strike in American history in 1968 ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1978 musical film The Wiz re-tells L. Frank Baum 's popular story The Wizard of Oz in an urban setting and with an entirely African-American cast?
text: Did you knowthat USS Stewart , now a museum in Texas , is the only surviving example of an Edsall class destroyer escort ?
text: Did you knowthat Ani , a medieval city once rivaling Constantinople , was ransacked by Mongols and now stands in ruin ?
text: Did you knowthat former California representative Bertrand W. Gearhart ran unopposed and captured nearly 100 percent of the vote in his biennial re-election bids from 1936 to 1944 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian composer Vladimir Shainsky created music and songs for popular cartoons such as Cheburashka and his best friend Crocodile Gena ?
text: Did you knowthat the McCarthy-style interrogations of the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee caused the firing or expulsion of scores of professors and students from Florida universities between 1956 and 1966?
text: Did you knowthat among the earliest accounts of the use of a man-lifting kite is in the story of Ishikawa Goemon 's robbery from Nagoya Castle ?
text: Did you knowthat Major Megan McClung , the first female United States Marine Corps officer killed in combat in Iraq , organized and competed in the first satellite running of the Marine Corps Marathon in Iraq?
text: Did you knowthat John Litchfield trod on the foot of one Prime Minister , sat on the lap of another, and was the first person to toast the health of Queen Elizabeth II ?
text: Did you knowthat the future mother-in-law of Kunikida Doppo urged her daughter to commit suicide rather than marry the Japanese author?
text: Did you knowthat for seven centuries Runamo was famous in Scandinavia as a runic inscription until scientists determined it to be natural cracks in the rock ?
text: Did you knowthat the Union of Salvation , a Russian secret society of revolutionary Decembrists , was organized according to a complex Masonic style system of rituals and vows?
text: Did you knowthat Nobel Prize -winning author Kawabata Yasunari was a houseguest of fellow author Kambara Ariake for almost two years after the end of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Sandra Feldman , former president of the American Federation of Teachers , was mentored by civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and arrested twice during the Freedom Rides ?
text: Did you knowthat British MP Anthony Courtney was blackmailed by the KGB using photographs of him with a tour guide ?
text: Did you knowthat Nikki Haley of South Carolina is the first Republican Indian-American state legislator in the USA ?
text: Did you knowthat the mentally ill Egyptian policeman who perpetrated the Ras Burqa massacre , killing seven Israeli tourists, including four children, was hailed in the Egyptian opposition press as a national hero?
text: Did you knowthat former California representative Allan O. Hunter was appointed as the president and chairman of Fannie Mae by President Richard Nixon in 1970 ?
text: Did you knowthat sixteen people were killed during a general strike in Nepal in 1992 , an incident that contributed to the breakout of a civil war four years later?
text: Did you knowthat a pentimento is an alteration to a painting that can often only be seen in an X-ray or an infra-red photograph ?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese poet Kitahara Hakushu was jailed for adultery in 1912?
text: Did you knowthat Nepalese politician Radha Krishna Mainali , once a communist revolutionary and a political prisoner for 16 years, was appointed Minister of Education & Sports by King Gyanendra after the king's seizure of power in February 2005?
text: Did you knowthat the 2006 Insight Bowl featured the biggest comeback in NCAA Division I-A football bowl history?
text: Did you knowthat 2006 was the 650th anniversary of the 1356 Basel earthquake , the most significant earthquake to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history?
text: Did you knowthat children's writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes has written more than fifty stories, and illustrated over two hundred?
text: Did you knowthat Georgie White was the first woman to run a commercial Grand Canyon river guiding service?
text: Did you knowthat in Johnson Tan Han Seng v. Public Prosecutor , the Malaysian Federal Court held that a Proclamation of Emergency remains in force after the circumstances it was meant for have expired?
text: Did you knowthat The Mall at Turtle Creek in Jonesboro, Arkansas was the only enclosed mall to open in the United States in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat Powelliphanta Sp.Augustus is found only on a five hectare area northeast of Westport , New Zealand ?
text: Did you knowthat Hillsborough County, Florida Commissioner Ronda Storms was the author of an ultimately successful proposal that banned the county from acknowledging "gay pride"?
text: Did you knowthat Tigranakert was a center of Armenian culture until the Armenian Genocide of 1915 , when the population was eradicated and replaced by Kurds ?
text: Did you knowthat an editor for Kangura magazine was convicted at the International Criminal Tribunal for inciting the Rwandan Genocide ?
text: Did you knowthat the first radiosonde was made by Soviet meteorologist Pavel Molchanov ?
text: Did you knowthat Beard Liberation Front efforts led to the inclusion of beard ism in the Oxford English Dictionary ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1936 , 11-term U.S. Congressman Frederick R. Lehlbach closely lost his re-election bid to a political newcomer, Frank W. Towey, Jr. ?
text: Did you knowthat Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajnath Singh has been active in the party since age 13?
text: Did you knowthat in 1945 , Frederick C. Branch became the first African-American U.S. Marine Corps officer?
text: Did you knowthat the Swedish forces at the Siege of Jasna Góra were actually German mercenaries and Polish supporters of Charles X Gustav ?
text: Did you knowthat jazz musician Roscoe Mitchell , while in Germany for the U.S. Army , studied under the first clarinetist of the Heidelberg Symphony ?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian punk rock single " (I’m) Stranded " pre-dated the Sex Pistols ' debut release?
text: Did you knowthat Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate , a Kannada poem, was declared the official anthem of the Indian state of Karnataka in 2004 ?
text: Did you knowthat Plagiostomum vittatum , the " Candy Cane Worm ", is a flatworm with red stripes ?
text: Did you knowthat the Normal School for Colored Girls was incorporated into the University of the District of Columbia ?
text: Did you knowthat Randy Shilts was the first openly gay man in the mainstream U.S. media ?
text: Did you knowthat the chaperon was a hat from the Middle Ages that could be worn in at least six different ways?
text: Did you knowthat Millennium City, Hong Kong has skyscrapers numbered 1, 2, 3, and 5, possibly because 4 is considered unlucky ?
text: Did you knowthat the Louvre describes Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle as the most beautiful ronde-bosse ivory carving ever made?
text: Did you knowthat in his 1560s work the Zimmern Chronicle Count Froben Christoph von Zimmern tried to establish a lineage to the ancient tribe of Cimbri just because his name sounded similar?
text: Did you knowthat Washburn University 's mascot , "the Ichabod", is named after Ichabod Washburn ,  an owner of the world's largest wire mill ?
text: Did you knowthat in Public Prosecutor v. Khong Teng Khen & Anor. it was held that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia can promulgate ordinances with the force of law?
text: Did you knowthat women in some societies may be subject to honor killing for violation of namus ?
text: Did you knowthat after Frank W. Towey, Jr. lost his House of Representatives re- election bid, he became assistant to the U.S. Attorney General ?
text: Did you knowthat the Young Bengal leader Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee was largely ostracized for marrying the widow of Maharaja Tejendra ?
text: Did you knowthat the Malta Summit was the first face-to-face meeting between George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev ?
text: Did you knowthat British MP Will Owen was nicknamed "greedy bastard" by the Czechoslovak intelligence agency to whom he sold secrets?
text: Did you knowthat 2-methylhexane and heptane are liquids with the same molecular formula but they have different density , freezing points and boiling points ?
text: Did you knowthat despite being a Soviet citizen and a confirmed NKVD agent, Alexandru Nicolschi served as head of Communist Romania 's secret police ?
text: Did you knowthat a botánica is a Latin American store that sells religious goods, magical paraphernalia and brand name health care products?
text: Did you knowthat Josef Frings , Archbishop of Cologne , was observed by the Gestapo during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat despite Irish neutrality , weather reports from Met Éireann were used to plan the D-Day landings ?
text: Did you knowthat Scottish language prodigy James Murdoch , after participating in a failed communist commune in Paraguay , was hired by the Australian Ministry of Defence as an expert on Japanese issues?
text: Did you know that Ira Goldstein , an advertisement campaign character for the ASB Bank in New Zealand , supposedly drives a metallic-brown 1979 Leyland Princess 2000 HL?
text: Did you knowthat former New Jersey Representative Henry Helstoski was charged with receiving bribes from illegal aliens in 1976 ?
text: Did you know that the Ayles Ice Shelf at Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago collapsed in less than an hour in August 2005, setting a 66 km² (25 mi²) ice island adrift in the Arctic Ocean , but the collapse was only discovered during the recent analysis of satellite images captured by MODIS ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian cricketer Trevor Chappell was reprimanded by the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand when he rolled an underarm delivery to batsman Brian McKechnie to stop him from lofting the ball for six ?
text: Did you knowthat in Assa Singh v. Menteri Besar of Johore , the Federal Court of Malaysia found that an unconstitutional violation of a person's constitutional rights may be permitted through grandfathering of pre-independence laws?
text: Did you knowthat the earliest fossil reef formations that show high biodiversity , containing the earliest corals , form the mid- Ordovician Chazy Formation , reaching from Tennessee to Labrador ?
text: Did you knowthat Dave Burrell recorded Echo to honor an all-star group Archie Shepp asked him to be a part of during the 1969 Pan-African Music Festival in Algiers ?
text: Did you knowthat Espiritismo is the Latin American and Caribbean belief that good and evil spirits can affect health , luck and other elements of human life ?
text: Did you knowthat former New Jersey Representative Edward J. Patten was unanimously cleared by the House Ethics Committee of charges associated with the 1978 Koreagate scandal?
text: Did you knowthat Bruce Campbell was removed from office as a Circuit Court Judge in the United Kingdom after being convicted of importing whisky and cigarettes without paying customs duty on them?
text: Did you knowthat sleeve garters were first used in the 19th century and are still worn by poker dealers and barbershop musicians ?
text: Did you knowthat sonofabitch stew is a cowboy dish made with meats and organs from a freshly killed calf ?
text: Did you knowthat former New Jersey Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. ,  co-sponsor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act , served as the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Satloff researched the involvement of Muslims and Arabs both as rescuers and perpetrators during the Holocaust in the course of the Axis occupation of North Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat David Gross and Alan Kotok built Expensive Tape Recorder , a digital audio program that ran on MIT 's TX-0 computer circa 1960 ?
text: Did you knowthat the creator of the snack food Pirate's Booty was inspired by the ingredients of another brand's cheese puffs ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pueblo Clowns were priests in the Kachina religion of the Pueblo Indians ?
text: Did you knowthat the fast bowling during West Indies ' tour to England in 1984 was so hostile that England Test cricketer Andy Lloyd was struck on the head and hospitalised, despite wearing a helmet , and Paul Terry 's arm was broken?
text: Did you knowthat Tropical Depression One in June 1992 produced 100-year floods in portions of southwestern Florida ?
text: Did you knowthat Romanian politician Teohari Georgescu was dismissed from his post as Interior Minister in 1952 after being simultaneously accused of left-wing and right-wing deviationism ?
text: Did you knowthat the fourth Nordic Football Championship tournament was started in 1937 but did not end until eleven years later as it was interrupted by the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat Jennifer Pike was the youngest person to ever win the BBC Young Musician of the Year award, at twelve years of age?
text: Did you knowthat Air Marshal Sir Richard Gordon Wakeford flew Catalina flying boats in the Second World War , and was involved in the last sinking of a German U-boat on 8 May 1945 ?
text: Did you knowthat the National Language Authority in Pakistan is the first autonomous regulatory institution to have internationally standardized the Urdu language code table and Urdu keyboard for typewriters , teleprinters , and computer software ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Lithuanian calendar , three months are named for birds and two for trees?
text: Did you knowthat Winnie Winkle by Martin Branner was, in 1920, the first American comic strip to have a working woman as the main character?
text: Did you knowthat the Volga Tatars believed that the Volga Bulgarian medieval city of Aşlı was founded there by Alexander the Great ?
text: Did you knowthat A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant had its name changed due to threats of litigation from the Church of Scientology ?
text: Did you knowthat the official recognition of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Transylvania in the late 18th century was the result of the activity of an Orthodox monk who was canonized two centuries later as Saint Sofronie of Cioara ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ludlow Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution requiring a national referendum for declaration of war ?
text: Did you knowthat despite using sharp needles , bird control spikes do not harm the animals, and are recommended by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ?
text: Did you knowthat Jim Zumbo was forced out of a 30-year career at Outdoor Life magazine, had his television show pulled from the air, and was dropped from sponsorship by companies including Remington and Cabelas due to a single blog post?
text: Did you knowthat the Haitian palm , Attalea crassispatha , is so rare that there were only 25 of them left in 1991?
text: Did you knowthat Belarusian political authorities denounced Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapol'skiy 's book History of Belarus in 1926 as a "Cathechesis of Belarusian National Democratism", banned it and confiscated its manuscript?
text: Did you knowthat British Member of Parliament George Chetwynd seconded a Private Member's Bill to ban toy weapons because he believed they were an incentive to acquire a "gangster mentality"?
text: Did you knowthat Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa committed murder , kidnapping , racketeering , and tax evasion during the 1990s, all in an attempt to establish a chain of gas stations in New York City ?
text: Did you knowthat Derek Gardner became a leading British painter of marine subjects after retiring from a civil engineering career due to deafness ?
text: Did you knowthat Kobe Bryant 's agent, Rob Pelinka , was the only person to play in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship for both the 1989 champion Michigan and for both of the 1992 and 1993 runners-up known as the Fab Five teams?
text: Did you knowthat Fort William College , set up for the training of British officials, fostered the development of Indian languages ?
text: Did you knowthat the lower species diversity among certain mammals of New England compared to mammals of the American West is thought to be due to fewer glacial refugia in the Eastern United States ?
text: Did you knowthat according to legend, Joseph Stalin remained in Moscow during World War II partly  due to a prophecy from Matryona Nikonova , who he covertly visited while she was hiding from his government?
text: Did you knowthat Dembei , a fisherman stranded on the Kamchatka Peninsula in 1701 or 1702, is believed to have been the first Japanese person to settle in Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat when John Horden sent his Cree-language translation of the Bible back to England, the printers returned it with a printing press but no instructions on how to operate it?
text: Did you knowthat Italian - Swiss entrepreneur Carlo Gatti pioneered the sale of ice cream to the general public in London from 1849, and later ran several music halls ?
text: Did you knowthat " Nocturne " is the Eurovision Song Contest winner with the fewest words, the Norwegian language original having only 25?
text: Did you knowthat banking regulations in Russia include significant specifics, such as mandatory deposits placed in special reserve accounts at the Russian Central Bank ?
text: Did you knowthat on December 20 , 2006 , two members of the Italian Radical Party controversially introduced two homosexual figures to the nativity scene at the Italian Congress?
text: Did you knowthat fast neutron therapy utilizes neutrons , typically with more than twenty megaelectronvolts , to treat diseases like cancer ?
text: Did you knowthat the West Indian cricket team lost only two matches during their three-month tour to England in 1980 ?
text: Did you knowthat Weston State Hospital in West Virginia was designed in accordance with the Kirkbride Plan for mental illness treatment?
text: Did you knowthat the Port of Redwood City is the only deep-water port in southern San Francisco Bay ?
text: Did you knowthat Vakıflı is the only ethnic Armenian village in Turkey ?
text: Did you knowthat the Evangelist portraits of early medieval Gospel Books used compositions taken from the pagan author portraits of the Late Classical period?
text: Did you knowthat in Tampa , Florida in 1998, Hank Earl Carr successfully unlocked his handcuffs , disarmed a detective, and killed three law enforcement personnel before killing himself ?
text: Did you knowthat Artin Penik , a Turkish-Armenian , set himself on fire in protest of the attacks against Turks by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA)?
text: Did you knowthat Bernard de Marigny , a New Orleans playboy and politician, introduced the dice game craps to the United States in the early 1800s?
text: Did you knowthat the common idiom behind the eight ball is derived from the pocket billiards game of kelly pool ?
text: Did you knowthat British General Sir Charles Harington was president of the Hurlingham Club for over 25 years?
text: Did you knowthat in order to accommodate the rock musical Dude , the Broadway Theatre in Manhattan was turned into an arena filled with ramps, runways, catwalks, columns, trapezes, and trapdoors at a cost of US$ 800,000?
text: Did you knowthat " Black May " was a turning point in the World War II Battle of the Atlantic ?
text: Did you knowthat Stephen Gilbert was one of only two British artists to join the CoBrA avant-garde art group?
text: Did you knowthat Chip Berlet 's non-fiction book Clouds Blur the Rainbow: The Other Side of New Alliance Party was referenced in a 1993 United States Federal Court lawsuit involving the FBI ?
text: Did you knowthat British architect Stephen Gardiner wrote biographies of sculptors Jacob Epstein and Elisabeth Frink , both of whom were family friends?
text: Did you knowthat the Western Blue-tongued Lizard displays its tongue to frighten off predators?
text: Did you knowthat Anne-Marie Javouhey , the founder and abbess of a new religious order, was one of the first women to establish missions in Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope , an annual and televised footrace held at Mount Cameroon , was first held in 1995?
text: Did you knowthat hundreds of historic tobacco barns in Maryland were rendered obsolete after many farmers took advantage of a 2001 state program offering to buy out tobacco farmers?
text: Did you knowthat Henry le Chen was put in control of a sheriffdom by King Edward I , despite being a senior royal councillor during the reign of King John , whom Edward deposed?
text: Did you knowthat Martha , the mother of Simeon Stylites , is said to have only consented to marriage after John the Baptist appeared to her telling her to do so?
text: Did you knowthat Alan de St Edmund , while in Rome as chaplain to Cardinal Hugh of Evesham , was made Bishop of Caithness after its previous bishop-elect died there while seeking consecration ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1828, Hillfields became the first suburb of Coventry to be located outside of the city walls marking the beginning of a large expansion for the city?
text: Did you knowthat cross-country cyclists are more prone to injury than road cyclists but the injuries sustained by the former are less severe on average?
text: Did you knowthat the spring and village Águas Santas are believed to be named for the spring where Marina of Aguas Santas was beheaded?
text: Did you knowthat retired District of New Jersey judge William G. Bassler is currently teaching at three New York City area law schools?
text: Did you knowthat bridges carrying India 's Grand Trunk Road over the Barakar River were washed away in 1913 and 1946?
text: Did you knowthat the effects of Hurricane Wilma in the Bahamas were generally unexpected and primarily concentrated on the western portion of Grand Bahama Island?
text: Did you knowthat some weather records include a 57.8° C (136° F ) air temperature in Libya , 3.8 cm (1.5 in) of rain in just one minute in Guadeloupe , and a 47.6 cm (18.75 in) circumference hailstone in Nebraska ?
text: Did you knowthat the offices of the Labour Leader , the newspaper of the British Independent Labour Party , were raided in 1915, and editor Fenner Brockway was charged with publishing seditious material?
text: Did you knowthat Canadian water slide manufacturer ProSlide ' s first water coaster driven by linear induction motors opened at Australia 's WhiteWater World in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat Indian poet Gopalakrishna Adiga is known as the pioneer of Navya literature?
text: Did you knowthat the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act of 1956 was said by opponents to be part of a Communist, Catholic, Jewish or psychiatric conspiracy to set up concentration camps in Alaska for political prisoners ?
text: Did you knowthat, after 34 years as Roman Catholic abbot of Coupar Angus , Donald Campbell converted to Protestantism in 1559, and destroyed the icons and altars of his monastery in Scotland ?
text: Did you knowthat 28 civilians were killed in the Bisho massacre in 1992, when soldiers opened fire on marchers demanding that the bantustan of Ciskei be reincorporated into South Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat George Crichton 's death in 1544 initiated a decade long quarrel over the position of Bishop of Dunkeld until the appointment of his nephew, Robert Crichton ?
text: Did you knowthat The Log from the Sea of Cortez documents a trip taken by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts around the Gulf of California , but neither is mentioned by name in the book?
text: Did you knowthat as part of a publicity stunt , the 1927 Texas Relays held a 89 mile (143 km) running race from San Antonio to Austin ?
text: Did you knowthat the entire Kannada film industry lead by Dr.Rajkumar participated in the Gokak agitation to demand the first language status of Kannada in the Indian state of Karnataka ?
text: Did you knowthat German painter Ludwig Thiersch influenced the debate over Byzantine and Western influences in modern Greek art , and painted church frescoes in Greece , Austria , Germany , England , and Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat Emil Calmanovici , the main financial backer of the Romanian Communist Party in the 1940s, was later imprisoned by Communist authorities and died as a result of force-feeding ?
text: Did you knowthat the performance of " Romeo " at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 , was the first time that a drag queen or any other sexual minority had been openly visible onstage at Eurovision ?
text: Did you knowthat 2007 Grammy Award winning single Eyes of the Insane by American thrash band Slayer had two alternative endings filmed for its war-themed music video?
text: Did you knowthat four artillery submarines were among many uncompleted U-boat projects planned by Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hungarian village of Beloiannisz was founded in 1950 by Greek refugees ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Adler invented the Space Command ultrasonic television remote control ?
text: Did you knowthat John McFee and the late Keith Knudsen were the only band members of the country rock group Southern Pacific to stay for its entire eight-year run from 1983 to 1991?
text: Did you knowthat to save weight while walking 1,000 km along the Camino de Santiago , Canadian fiddler Oliver Schroer packed a sleeping bag and clothes around his violin instead of using a case?
text: Did you knowthat Oscar -winning executive producer Randy Stone co-founded The Trevor Project , which provided the first 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention hotline aimed at gay and questioning youth in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat large-scale Greek settlement in what is today Bulgaria dates to the 7th century BC?
text: Did you knowthat the novel Raptor Red , by paleontologist Robert T. Bakker , is told from the perspective of an intelligent therapod dinosaur , Utahraptor ?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese author Kodō Nomura , who patterned his fictional detective Zenigata Heiji after Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes , wrote 383 detective stories set in Edo period Japan ?
text: Did you knowthat the Potawatomi tribe believed that the natural pond in the backyard of the Chauncey Ellwood House in Sycamore, Illinois was once a watering hole for native buffalo ?
text: Did you knowthat Professor Józef Łukaszewicz took part in a failed attempt to assassinate Tsar Alexander III of Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Alignment is the only political party in Israel ever to have held a majority of seats in the Knesset ?
text: Did you knowthat the venomous snake used for murder in Arthur Conan Doyle 's short story " The Adventure of the Speckled Band " is most likely the Indian Cobra or one of its hybrids ?
text: Did you knowthat according to the framework interpretation of Genesis Chapter One, the first three days of creation are poetically reflected in the last three days of creation?
text: Did you knowthat the website of the rock magazine Rock Street Journal has a database of over a thousand South Asian rock bands ?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Wilma set records for the lowest recorded pressure and the smallest eye of any Atlantic hurricane ?
text: Did you knowthat an estimated 20 people died after eating peppermint humbugs that had accidentally been made with arsenic in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning ?
text: Did you knowthat although Russian playwright Viktoriya Tokareva's writing style is often compared to that of Anton Chekhov , none of her work has been published in English ?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish manoeuvre in the Battle of Koziatyn in 1920 is an example of a blitzkrieg -like offensive before the advent of tank warfare ?
text: Did you knowthat the bulk of Bulgarians in Hungary descend from gardeners and other professionals who settled in the country prior to World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat Eric Jansson led a pietist sect of Swedish immigrants to Bishop Hill, Illinois in 1846, where they founded a collective religious colony ?
text: Did you knowthat Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan preferred to close down his weekly newspaper Somprakash rather than sign an undertaking for it?
text: Did you knowthat John de Ralston , the chaplain of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas , rose to become Bishop of Dunkeld and helped to arrange the marriage of King James II of Scotland to Mary of Gueldres ?
text: Did you knowthat although the series 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + · · · is ordinarily said to diverge to infinity , there is at least one generally useful method that gives its sum as −1 ?
text: Did you knowthat Ivan Ray Tannehill ruled out weather balloons as the cause of a rash of UFO sightings, which included the Roswell UFO incident , seen during the summer of 1947?
text: Did you knowthat a discharge petition can force a bill to be considered by the United States House of Representatives if the leadership tries to suppress it?
text: Did you knowthat children as young as three were employed to hurry around British coal mines ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Coleman , owner of several iron furnaces , was Pennsylvania 's first millionaire ?
text: Did you knowthat the Vorontsovsky Palace in Ukraine was designed by the English architect Edward Blore ?
text: Did you knowthat the World War II Italian submarine Cappellini was in all three major Axis navies, before being captured by the U.S. Navy ?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian Test cricketer "Ranji" Hordern played for Philadelphia while studying dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Grant of the British East India Company wanted it to promote Christianity as well as trade in India ?
text: Did you knowthat the comic strip Happy Hooligan by Frederick Burr Opper is said to be the first comic to consistently use speech balloons , and was the first North American comic to be adapted into a movie ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian Fascist Party was the most influential Russian émigré group in Manchukuo in the 1930s?
text: Did you knowthat the three-day S.S. California strike in 1936 triggered a wave of strikes by merchant seamen and led to the founding of the National Maritime Union ?
text: Did you knowthat the view that Jesus and John were lovers , considered a blasphemy , evolved during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries?
text: Did you knowthat the Grand Crimean Central Railway was built to transport artillery ammunition from Balaclava to the Allied troops besiging Sevastopol during the Crimean War ?
text: Did you knowthat the United States Department of Agriculture expects the boll weevil to be eradicated by 2009 as a result of its Boll Weevil Eradication Program ?
text: Did you knowthat in penny gaffs , theatrical entertainments enjoyed by the working classes in 19th century England , the plays were often brought to an end by a timekeeper, regardless of what point in the script the actors had reached?
text: Did you knowthat Nabisco 's bakery in Chicago Lawn was the biggest in the world when it opened in 1941?
text: Did you knowthat the town of Cheshire, Massachusetts created the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese , a four-foot-wide cheese wheel , to honor Thomas Jefferson following his Presidential electoral victory?
text: Did you knowthat the term " stay the course " was dropped by United States President George W. Bush two weeks before the 2006 U.S. midterm elections ?
text: Did you knowthat the unusual configuration of the running track at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas – 84 m straights and 118 m curves – has garnered it a reputation as one of the fastest tracks in the world?
text: Did you knowthat after one group he founded was banned, the neo-Nazi leader Michael Kühnen began a policy of regularly starting up new organizations in order to confuse the authorities?
text: Did you knowthat the Broadway opening of the musical Wildcat had to be postponed, because the trucks hauling the sets and costumes to New York were stranded as a result of a major blizzard ?
text: Did you knowthat English theatre director Steven Pimlott directed a wide variety of performances from popular musicals , through avant garde theatre and Shakespeare , to opera ?
text: Did you knowthat Cornwall Iron Furnace in Pennsylvania is the only intact charcoal-burning iron blast furnace on its original plantation in the western hemisphere ?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian Union of Communist Youth underwent a total of four purges, which resulted in the expulsion of tens of thousands of members?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Able of 1951 was the strongest hurricane to form outside of the Atlantic hurricane season ?
text: Did you knowthat Sulejman Talović , who went on a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in Salt Lake City, Utah , was a refugee from Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
text: Did you knowthat Peter Böhler and other Moravian followers founded the towns of Bethlehem and Nazareth, Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you knowthat Wye Valley Brewery ’s Dorothy Goodbody line of beers were all originally supposed to feature Herefordshire -grown hops , but the best-known beer in that line contains hops grown in Ireland ?
text: Did you knowthat in Islamic law , a mukataba is a contract of manumission according to which the slave buys his freedom from his master?
text: Did you knowthat Ishmael Beah , a former child soldier from Sierra Leone , was rescued by UNICEF and has written about his ordeal and rehabilitation in his new book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier ?
text: Did you knowthat Beverley Baxter raised circulation of the Daily Express from under one million to over two million during his four years as editor?
text: Did you knowthat ice-minus bacteria , a variant of genus Pseudomonas , are useful in agriculture , because they can prevent the formation of ice on crops?
text: Did you knowthat Ponary massacre lasted for 3 years as 100,000 Jews , Poles and Russians were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators near Vilnius ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Legros , who first performed in 1764, was the principal tenor at the Paris Opéra until his retirement in 1783?
text: Did you knowthat Archbishop Anthony Forbes Moreton Clavier was ordained as a priest by five different churches in five years?
text: Did you knowthat New York 's " Timothy's Law " mandated that New York health insurance plans provide coverage for biologically-based mental health conditions comparable to coverage for physical ailments?
text: Did you knowthat England 's cricket selectors picked " coloured " Basil D'Oliveira to replaced the injured Tom Cartwright for the tour to South Africa in 1968-69, triggering the cancellation of the tour and leading to the exclusion of the South African cricket team from international cricket until apartheid was abolished in 1991?
text: Did you knowthat Kazimierz Pelczar , a Polish professor of the Stefan Batory University and pioneer of oncological research, was one of the 100,000 victims of the Ponary massacre ?
text: Did you knowthat M. Athalie Range was the first black since Reconstruction and the first woman to head a state agency in Florida ?
text: Did you knowthat the non-fiction book Inside Scientology , published in 1972 by Olympia Press , was the first to disclose secret Scientology materials?
text: Did you knowthat during the 100 point game , Philadelphia Warriors player Wilt Chamberlain became the only player in history to score at least 100 points in a National Basketball Association match?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Vose Daily resigned his position as Archbishop of Brooklyn one week after being criticized by the Massachusetts attorney general in a report on the recent Roman Catholic sex abuse cases ?
text: Did you knowthat a planning application for a 42-storey building in the recent New England Quarter development in Brighton , England , was rejected on twenty separate counts, including the negative effect it would have on the local microclimate ?
text: Did you knowthat Dallas Theological Seminary , a center of dispensational Christian theology and alma mater for people including Chuck Swindoll and Hal Lindsey , has been in operation since 1924 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mifflin Street Block Party , which attracted around 20,000 participants in 2005 , began as a street dance in protest against the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you knowthat archaeologists at the El Manatí Olmec site have not only found the earliest rubber balls yet discovered and the earliest wooden artifacts in Mexico , but also the skeletons , femurs , and crania of human infants ?
text: Did you knowthat a general contractor makes submittals which are required by the architect and engineer for verification that correct products will be installed in a construction project ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1971 Harley-Davidson Super Glide , the first factory custom motorcycle , used an Electra Glide frame mated to Sportster forks?
text: Did you knowthat the British Indian Association played a catalytic role in building up Indian political consciousness?
text: Did you knowthat Jamestown Rediscovery is an ongoing archaeological project of the APVA which discovered the long-lost remains of the first fort built by the settlers at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony ?
text: Did you knowthat retired Seventh United States Army General Frederick Kroesen survived an RPG-7 anti-tank rocket attack by the Red Army Faction ?
text: Did you knowthat one method of torture used by the French Army in the Algerian War of Independence was to throw prisoners into the sea from helicopters in so-called death flights ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bronx, New York farmhouse which belonged to Isaac Varian , mayor of New York City from 1839-41, currently houses the Museum of Bronx History?
text: Did you knowthat Brian Williams was one of three Welsh farmers in the "farming" front row at Neath RFC ?
text: Did you knowthat Hawaii Route 560 was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 because of its historical character of one lane bridges?
text: Did you knowthat grape and raisin toxicity is a potential cause of acute renal failure in dogs ?
text: Did you knowthat approximately 10,000 young Germans known as the Ritchie Boys served in the United States Army in World War II helping conduct psychological warfare against Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat Adelaide was the first city in Australia to introduce horse trams and the last to discard them for more modern public transport?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Sergio in 2006 was the strongest Pacific hurricane on record in the month of November ?
text: Did you knowthat Blackadder Goes Forth , the final series of the BBC situation comedy Blackadder , is noted for its sensitive depiction of World War I trench warfare , and was placed 16th in the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes by the British Film Institute ?
text: Did you knowthat the insanity of Australian serial killer Catherine Birnie is believed to have been caused by the death of her son?
text: Did you knowthat the San Bruno Creek Trail provides a key link in the San Francisco Bay perimeter trail, but a two-mile detour inland is required?
text: Did you knowthat the town of Sayram in Kazakhstan has earned the nickname "Little Uzbekistan " because of its large Uzbek population?
text: Did you knowthat Lyman Reed Blake devised a sewing machine for sewing the sole to the vamp of the shoe?
text: Did you knowthat French Major General René Cogny , who later commanded French forces during the First Indochina War , was captured in June 1940 by the German army, and had to escape by crawling naked through a drainpipe?
text: Did you knowthat the Pianta Grande di Roma by Giambattista Nolli of 1748 was still being used in urban planning in Rome down to the 1970s?
text: Did you knowthat kissing the statue Il Gobbo di Rialto marked the conclusion of a traditional Venetian punishment in which petty criminals were forced to run naked through the streets from Piazza San Marco ?
text: Did you knowthat New Zealand rugby union player Billy Stead co-authored The Complete Rugby Footballer while on tour with the All Blacks in 1905-6?
text: Did you knowthat the Frank and Ernest comic strip first remarked that Fred Astaire "was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, ... backwards and in high heels," according to The Yale Book of Quotations ?
text: Did you knowthat Pinchas Rosen , Israel 's first Minister of Justice , served in the German army during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat the subtropical ridge helps steer tropical cyclones ?
text: Did you knowthat the Old Admiralty House , a national monument in Singapore , was used by the British Armed Forces for strategic planning during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat robotic jockeys are used in camel racing events in Qatar in an effort to phase out the widespread use of forced child labor in the races?
text: Did you knowover 250,000 pieces of 15th century Vietnamese pottery were recovered from the Hoi An Wreck over a four-year period from 1996, at a cost of USD 14 million?
text: Did you knowthat British Postmaster General Reginald Bevins ' s promise in November 1962 to "do something" about the BBC programme That Was The Week That Was was immediately countered by the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ?
text: Did you knowthat Colony Collapse Disorder is a syndrome describing the increasing die-off of honey-bees and other arthropods ?
text: Did you knowthat the first of the Joe McDoakes series of one-reel short subjects began as a project to teach students at the University of Southern California movie making before being bought by Warner Bros. for $2500 in 1942 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish Second Army was the second major formation of the Peoples' Army of Poland fighting alongside the Soviet Union in the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat RNA -binding piwi proteins are required for the formation of sperm in many animals, including mammals ?
text: Did you knowthat Uzbekistani artist Nikolai Shin spent more than two decades working on his 44-metre-long painting Requiem , which depicts the 1937 deportation of the Koryo-saram to Central Asia ?
text: Did you knowthat a road in Charlcombe , Somerset , England is closed for two months every spring to allow frogs and toads to cross safely?
text: Did you knowthat Colin McDonald and George Thoms were Australian cricketers who, uniquely, opened the batting for their club, state and national teams in the same season?
text: Did you knowthat the 101 female Members of Parliament elected in the United Kingdom in Labour 's landslide general election victory in 1997 were popularly known as Blair Babes ?
text: Did you knowthat plant cells go through an additional stage in their cell cycle , the preprophase , which does not occur during mitosis in animal cells ?
text: Did you knowthat the five themes of geography is an educational framework for geography adopted in 1984 by the Association of American Geographers ?
text: Did you knowthat the House of Lords declined to hear an appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeal in Aerotel v Telco and Macrossan's application , concerning the patentability of computer programs in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat Little Mikey was a character who appeared in a television advertisement for Quaker Oats ' Life cereal that was aired in the United States for over 12 years?
text: Did you knowthat the The Bull Ring is a henge that was built in the late Neolithic period near Dove Holes in Derbyshire ?
text: Did you knowthat the causes and extent of Olmec influences on Mesoamerican cultures are still being debated long after they were first raised at a conference in Tuxtla Gutiérrez in 1942?
text: Did you knowthat the Seal Slough tidal channel in California hosts a thriving marshland habitat despite encroachment by a sewage treatment plant and two schools?
text: Did you knowthat Ann Ebsworth was the first female High Court judge to be assigned to the Queen's Bench Division , the previous five having all been assigned to the Family Division ?
text: Did you knowthat Iñaki de Juana Chaos began a hunger strike in November 2006 to protest what he believes to be unlawful imprisonment by the Spanish government ?
text: Did you knowthat because the horse does not have a gall bladder , they can only have up to 20% fat as part of their equine nutrition ?
text: Did you knowthat Able Seaman Just Nuisance is the only dog to have been officially enlisted in the Royal Navy ?
text: Did you knowthat the Dutch barn was the first non-native barn model ever built in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Indian Test cricketer Murali Kartik was expelled from the first intake of the National Cricket Academy due to indiscipline?
text: Did you knowthat 16th-century Genevan reformer John Calvin held Bible studies in the Calvin Auditory ?
text: Did you knowthat the Brunswick Manifesto , issued during the French Revolution to intimidate Paris , backfired and spurred further revolutionary action?
text: Did you knowthat archaeologist Francis Turville-Petre , discoverer of Neanderthal remains in Israel , was portrayed in works by authors W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood ?
text: Did you knowthat 17th-century philosopher Cesare Cremonini refused to look at the Moon 's mountains through Galileo 's telescope, believing that Aristotle had proven the Moon was a perfect sphere ?
text: Did you knowthat a recent oil discovery in Bojonegoro is the biggest in Indonesia for three decades and one of the biggest reserves in Indonesia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Minute Women of the U.S.A. was a militantly anti-communist organization for American housewives in the 1950s?
text: Did you knowthat General Stanislav Poplavsky was one of thousands of Soviet officers who served as commanders, advisors and officials in the People's Republic of Poland during the Stalinization period?
text: Did you knowthat Philip Blaiberg survived for more than nineteen months after receiving the second heart transplant ever?
text: Did you knowthat the four corners of the main crossroads in the historic town of Ross in Tasmania are known as Temptation , Recreation , Salvation and Damnation ?
text: Did you knowthat the Empire State Building in New York City was illuminated with blue lights on April 5, 2005 to mark the 10th anniversary of National Poetry Month which is celebrated every April in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Squad Five-O grew from an indie band and eventually signed to the general market label Capitol Records before disbanding in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat the representatives at the Vilnius Conference in 1917 elected a 20-member Council of Lithuania to negotiate with the Germans for the independence of Lithuania ?
text: Did you knowthat the statue of the Virgin and Child in the porch of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford was cited as evidence in Archbishop Laud's execution trial, and has bullet holes made by Oliver Cromwell 's troops?
text: Did you knowthat Polish Navy admiral Włodzimierz Steyer commanded the Polish Army in the Battle of Hel , the longest battle of the Polish September Campaign ?
text: Did you knowthat John Oliver Wheeler and his grandfather Arthur Oliver Wheeler mapped the Selkirk Mountains ?
text: Did you knowthat George Washington 's threshing barn was an early example of an American round barn ?
text: Did you knowthat Jablunkov is the easternmost town of the Czech Republic ?
text: Did you knowthat Daniel Friedmann , Israel 's Minister of Justice , is a seventh-generation sabra , a rarity in a country where mass Jewish immigration did not begin until the late 19th century?
text: Did you knowthat 49 of Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous ' s novels have had film adaptations ?
text: Did you knowthat Caffè Florian , established in 1720, was the first coffeehouse in Venice to admit women?
text: Did you knowthat the 7th-century King Cynegils , the first West Saxon ruler known to have been baptised as a Christian , is called the son of at least three different fathers in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ?
text: Did you knowthat Bryan Pearce overcame learning disabilities from congenital phenylketonuria to be recognised as one of the UK 's leading naïve artists ?
text: Did you knowthat the deadly mushroom Clitocybe dealbata is known as the "sweating mushroom" because this is a striking side effect of consuming it?
text: Did you knowthat laminopathies are a diverse group of genetic diseases caused by mutations in nuclear envelope filaments?
text: Did you knowthat a strike in the Hipolit Cegielski Industries in Poznań , June 1956, led to the first major Polish protest against communism ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles R. Stelck proved that ancient coral reefs had once existed in the Arctic and that oil could be found there?
text: Did you knowthat despite being illiterate , Duncan Bàn MacIntyre became one of the most famous Scottish Gaelic poets?
text: Did you knowthat, worldwide, only 9 cases of the genetic disorder atransferrinemia have ever been reported?
text: Did you knowthat the advertising campaign " Love in the Afternoon " only became lucrative for ABC when advertisements chronicling the troubled union of Luke and Laura were aired, bringing General Hospital to the top of the U.S. soap opera ratings?
text: Did you knowthat Polish general Jan Rządkowski was dismissed from his post as the commander of the armed forces of Central Lithuania when it was discovered that he did not have citizenship in that state?
text: Did you knowthat even though Denis Potvin retired in 1988, fans of the New York Rangers still practice a tradition aimed at insulting him?
text: Did you knowthat the United States Africa Command , the newest U.S. military Unified Combatant Command , will cover all of Africa , except for Egypt ?
text: Did you knowthat J.M. Legard's 2006 novel Giraffe is based on the real-life mass killing of giraffes at the zoo in the Czechoslovakian town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem on the night of 30 April 1975 ?
text: Did you knowthat Private Passions , a weekly classical music programme on BBC Radio 3 , has occasionally featured interviews with hoax characters played by comedian John Sessions ?
text: Did you knowthat Robin Wilson was not only a science fiction author and editor, but President of California State University, Chico ?
text: Did you knowthat the Newgate novels of the 19th century were attacked by the press for glamorizing the criminals portrayed in their stories?
text: Did you knowthat of the world's largest wooden ships , almost all those longer than 300 feet leaked or were not seaworthy?
text: Did you knowthat Corona Schröter , an 18th century German singer , composed musical settings for several works by Friedrich Schiller , as well as two dramas, hundreds of arias and duets , and an autobiography given to Johann Wolfgang Goethe , but that all of these works are now lost?
text: Did you knowthat Australian -born American actor Marc McDermott joined an acting troupe to support his mother and sister after his father's death?
text: Did you knowthat current Journal of Food Science scientific editor Daryl B. Lund was a college roommate of future Governor of Wisconsin and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson ?
text: Did you knowthat Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame member Allan Pickard built and managed amateur ice hockey organizations that produced future NHL stars and became a model for modern organized amateur hockey?
text: Did you knowthat the history of science and technology in China was made known in the West largely through the work of the Jesuits and later through Joseph Needham ?
text: Did you knowthat Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University publishes the largest number of research papers among agricultural universities in India ?
text: Did you knowthat a major source for Greek mythology , the first Vatican Mythographer , survives in a single text in the Vatican Library ?
text: Did you knowthat the first foreigner decorated in World War Two with the highest Soviet medal, Hero of the Soviet Union , was a Czechoslovak soldier, Otakar Jaroš after the Battle of Sokolovo in 1943 ?
text: Did you knowthat Radishchev Museum in Saratov founded by Russian painter Alexey Bogolyubov was the first museum in the country opened to the general public?
text: Did you knowthat the Ganesha Purana is a religious text in Hinduism dedicated to the elephant -headed deity Ganesha and was produced by the Hindu sect Ganapatya ?
text: Did you knowthat British Labour politician Fiona Jones was disqualified from the House of Commons when she was convicted for submitting fraudulent election expense returns, but was later reinstated?
text: Did you knowthat John T. Ford was the only American theatre manager to pay Gilbert and Sullivan royalties for H.M.S. Pinafore during its initial U.S. run?
text: Did you knowthat Władysław Wejtko joined the Polish Army and constructed fortifications in the decisive Battle of Warsaw ?
text: Did you knowthat the Iowa horticultural professor Griffith Buck created over 80 named cultivars of the rose ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1263 Fürstenfeld Abbey was founded by Ludwig the Severe of Bavaria as a penance for killing his wife?
text: Did you knowthat on February 1, the National Weather Service began using the Enhanced Fujita Scale to assess tornado damage, replacing the Fujita scale ?
text: Did you knowthat Cuba 's Latin American School of Medicine is supported by both the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus and Venezuela 's President Hugo Chávez ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1965 Marguerite Legot became the first female Belgian federal government minister ?
text: Did you knowthat link-boys were paid to carry a torch to guide pedestrians at night before street lighting became commonplace?
text: Did you knowthat the Tomlin order , a court order in England and Wales under which a court action is stayed on terms which have been agreed in advance between the parties, is named from a 1927 ruling of the High Court judge , Mr Justice Tomlin ?
text: Did you knowthat French Champagne merchant Charles Heidsieck was imprisoned for espionage during the American Civil War , sparking an international incident?
text: Did you knowthat Calabazas Creek in Sonoma Valley cuts through a volcanic watershed with nearby relict hot springs ?
text: Did you knowthat Torbjörn Nilsson is considered to be one of the greatest Swedish footballers of all time, despite only having played 28 matches for the national team ?
text: Did you knowthat the levée of Louis XIV , the privilege of removing the king's nightshirt, was a great honour only accorded to a high noble ?
text: Did you knowthat the Gippeumjo is a "pleasure group" that was established in 1978 during the administration of Kim Il-sung ?
text: Did you knowthat the Krazy Kat cartoons printed in the San Francisco Examiner prompted a serious physical assault on author Agnes Newton Keith ?
text: Did you knowthat Norwegian politician Harald T. Nesvik claimed to have nominated George W. Bush and Tony Blair for the Nobel Peace prize ?
text: Did you knowthat Lublin Castle was the place where the Union of Lublin , creating the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , was signed?
text: Did you knowthat Salmson 2 , along with the Breguet 14 , was the main reconnaissance aircraft of the French army in the First World War ?
text: Did you knowthat " Vrede " was the first Eurovision entry to feature DJ scratching ?
text: Did you knowthat U-256 was one of seven German World War II submarines converted into anti-aircraft submarines, and the last German submarine to leave Brest, France ?
text: Did you knowthat Gordon Macklin was the first president and CEO of NASDAQ , and later a board member of WorldCom up to its bankruptcy in 2002?
text: Did you knowthat Carnival in Flanders , which was performed only six times, is the least performed play to be recognized with a Tony Award ?
text: Did you knowthat Ludwig Preiss collected the first specimen of the Western Swamp Tortoise in 1839, but no further collections occurred until 1953?
text: Did you knowthat Kesatuan Melayu Muda was the first Malayan political body to request Malayan independence?
text: Did you knowthat Fossil Cycad National Monument , established in South Dakota in 1922, was withdrawn as a national monument in 1956 because all of the visible fossils had been stolen?
text: Did you knowthat English seaman John Vincent lost part of his upper lip when it froze to a metal cup during the voyage of the James Caird ?
text: Did you knowthat the first class Kaunas Fortress was captured by German forces in 1915 after eleven days of fighting?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Flossy was the first tropical cyclone to significantly impact oil refining in the Gulf of Mexico ?
text: Did you knowthat Southern stingrays , originally drawn to an area in Hol Chan Marine Reserve in Belize by food from fishermen cleaning their nets, are now a tourist attraction fed by local tour guides?
text: Did you knowthat Třinec Iron and Steel Works produces more than a third of the steel in the Czech Republic ?
text: Did you knowthat Aeroplanes Voisin , a major French aircraft manufacturer during World War I , was dissolved after the war when its cofounder Gabriel Voisin became more interested in designing automobiles than planes?
text: Did you knowthat television executive Barry Crane was such an avid contract bridge player his record number of masterpoints was not matched until six years after his death?
text: Did you knowthat on Malaita in the Solomon Islands , the mean daily temperature in the warmest month is only 3.4° F warmer than that of the coolest?
text: Did you knowthat the lyrics of the debut song of Indian rock musician Rabbi Shergill were written by the 18th century Punjabi poet Bulleh Shah ?
text: Did you knowthat the Monkey River feeds the second largest barrier-reef complex in the world?
text: Did you knowthat the Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro was the setting for the coronation of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil in 1822 and several other important historical events?
text: Did you knowthat the Arado Ar 197 plane was designed by Germany before World War II for a never completed aircraft carrier ?
text: Did you knowthat modern dye tracing techniques are capable of detecting concentrations of dye as low as one part per trillion ?
text: Did you knowthat U-106 was one of Germany's most successful submarines, sinking twenty-two Allied ships in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat highwayman Henry Simms invented a plot against the King to try to gain a pardon ?
text: Did you knowthat the bulbs of Utah 's state flower , the Sego Lily , were an important food source for Native Americans and the Mormon pioneers ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert King High was mayor of Miami for ten years and unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Florida as a Democrat in 1966?
text: Did you knowthat the Ramban Synagogue , founded by Nahmanides in 1267 , is the oldest active synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem ?
text: Did you knowthat zookeeper Ram Brahma Sanyal ' s pioneering works on the scientific treatment of captive breeding led to his zoo 's hosting the first live birth in captivity of a Sumatran Rhinoceros , a feat not replicated for 112 years?
text: Did you knowthat the Palace in the Quinta da Boa Vista park in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , was inhabited by one King of Portugal and the two Brazilian Emperors ?
text: Did you knowthat free-diver Herbert Nitsch can hold his breath for over nine minutes?
text: Did you knowthat the Norte Chico civilization is the oldest known civilization in the Americas ?
text: Did you knowthat the fictional planet Zenn-La , homeworld of the Silver Surfer , has been destroyed at least three times?
text: Did you knowthat the Kaleva , a Finnish passenger plane carrying diplomatic post, was shot down by Soviet bombers in an act of aggression?
text: Did you knowthat even though the Mooney aircraft company bears Albert Mooney's name, upon his death he held no ownership in the company?
text: Did you knowthat in 2003-2004, ANA had to pay almost ¥ 100 m for flying too many passengers to Noto Airport ?
text: Did you knowthat the tyranny and the perceived dread of Gobindram Mitter , a British deputy in Calcutta , earned him a place in a Bengali rhyme?
text: Did you knowthat the Duchy of Veragua , granted to the grandson of Christopher Columbus , is a perfect square of land 25 leagues to a side?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish cochineal gave its name to the color red and the month of June in many Slavic languages ?
text: Did you knowthat John Perlman , one of South Africa 's most popular radio presenters, resigned after blowing the whistle on political censorship at the South African Broadcasting Corporation ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1916 Lorado Taft work, The Soldiers' Monument , constructed for $21,000, is now worth over $1,000,000?
text: Did you knowthat Disco D specialized in hip hop music and was a 2005 pioneer in composing original ring tone works for cell phones?
text: Did you knowthat Lauren Nelson , newly crowned Miss America 2007 , is the second consecutive winner from Oklahoma ?
text: Did you knowthat Jacob Nolde was so inspired by a pine tree on his land in the early 1900s that he planted 500,000 more in what is now Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center in Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you knowthat the Singing Priests of Tagbilaran not only proclaim the gospel in the pulpit but also on stage in songs and dances?
text: Did you knowthat Guy de Rothschild temporarily moved to New York when the French government under François Mitterrand nationalized his bank ?
text: Did you knowthat Mount Burgess is nicknamed the Ten Dollar Mountain because it was featured on Canadian currency ?
text: Did you knowthat Antoni Bohdziewicz , a Polish film director , was a member of the Armia Krajowa Polish resistance and worked on a documentary film made and shown entirely in besieged Warsaw ?
text: Did you knowthat one of Atomic Games ' most successful titles, Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far , topped their previous sale record by a factor of ten?
text: Did you knowthat the earliest scientifically dated cemetery in the United Kingdom was found at Aveline's Hole , one of the Caves of the Mendip Hills in Somerset , England ?
text: Did you knowthat French historian Augustin Cochin was the son of Denys Cochin , a prominent right wing Deputy in the National Assembly of France ?
text: Did you knowthat the Swedish spelman Anders Ljungqvist , according to rumors, had a contract with the Nix , signed in blood on human bones from the local churchyard?
text: Did you knowthat ball culture , as seen in Paris is Burning , has drag houses that compete for 12' tall trophies and prizes of $1000 or more?
text: Did you knowthat one person was killed and another injured when they entered a tiger 's cage in Alipore Zoological Gardens , Calcutta , and tried to put a floral garland round his neck?
text: Did you knowin 1293 , the Bartian tribe of Prussia asked Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytenis for protection against the Teutonic Knights ?
text: Did you knowthat according to Germanic legends , the cruel king Níðuðr captured the divine smith Weyland and had him hamstrung to prevent escape?
text: Did you knowthat Egyptian actor Omar Sharif 's first film role was in the 1954 film Sira` Fi al-Wadi ?
text: Did you knowthat French soprano Germaine Lubin was imprisoned for three years after World War II for her alleged support of Nazi Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat Emperor Frederick II ran an experiment that involved raising infants in isolation to discover what language God spoke?
text: Did you knowthat the life of Polish ship captain Mamert Stankiewicz was immortalized in a popular book series ?
text: Did you knowthat William Frederick Yeames ' painting , And When Did You Last See Your Father? , has been reproduced as a waxwork at Madame Tussauds , London ?
text: Did you knowthat the discovery of Archaeamphora longicervia , the first known carnivorous plant , suggests that flowering plants should have originated much earlier than previously thought?
text: Did you knowthat John Murray of Broughton was a Jacobite turncoat, whose evidence led to Lord Lovat's execution for high treason ?
text: Did you knowthat students who finish a doctorate at the Georg-August University of Göttingen traditionally kiss the Gänseliesel , a statue in the center of Göttingen ?
text: Did you knowthat Jonas Vileišis was a member of the Council which proclaimed Lithuania 's independence in 1918?
text: Did you knowthat the charity Facing the World offers cosmetic surgery to children with facial disfigurements who live in countries where effective treatment is unavailable?
text: Did you knowthat Julius Caesar appears in Norse mythology as the legendary king Kjárr ?
text: Did you knowthat Bulgarian Dobri Zhelyazkov founded the first textile factory in the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat Samuel T. Wellman built the first commercially successful open hearth furnace in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Leach was the only British Member of Parliament to have been disqualified under the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese author Mushanokōji Saneatsu emulated Leo Tolstoy in establishing a commune based on humanism and utopian socialism ?
text: Did you knowthat Archibald Cameron of Locheil was the last man to be executed for his part in Bonnie Prince Charlie 's Jacobite rebellion ?
text: Did you knowthat the Piraeus Lion is an ancient Greek statue "embellished" with runic graffiti by Vikings ?
text: Did you knowthat Lithuanian collective farm workers were 50% more productive than the Soviet average?
text: Did you knowthat the Strangeways Prison inmate Gordon Park was convicted of murdering his first wife 28 years after the fact?
text: Did you knowthat Humshaugh in Northumberland , England , is acknowledged as the site of the first official Scout camp?
text: Did you knowthat economist J. C. Kumarappa coined the term Gandhian economics to describe a school of thought based on Gandhism ?
text: Did you knowthat construction of Żarnowiec , Poland 's only nuclear power plant , was cancelled as the project neared completion?
text: Did you knowthat New Zealand rugby player Andy Dalton suffered an injury that kept him from captaining the All Blacks side that went on to win the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup ?
text: Did you knowthat the standing army created during the Thirty Years' War by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg , developed into the Prussian Army ?
text: Did you knowthat the Young Bengal leader Ramgopal Ghosh was threatened with ostracism for opposing the Hindu religion?
text: Did you knowthat about 1,400 people of Fryštát died in 1623 because of bubonic plague ?
text: Did you knowthat the Suzuki MR Wagon was previewed as a concept car called Mum's Personal Wagon ?
text: Did you knowthat since the first Urdu language typewriter was created in 1911, the Urdu keyboard layout has evolved to accommodate the needs of the digital age ?
text: Did you knowthat historian Henry William Carless Davis once served as a member of the British contingent to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919?
text: Did you knowthat the PEI Tenant League was an agrarian populist movement created in 1863 which overthrew the proprietary land system created by King George III in Prince Edward Island ?
text: Did you knowthat Jeannette Piccard piloted a hydrogen balloon to the stratosphere for Jean Piccard , likely namesake of Captain Picard of Star Trek ?
text: Did you knowthat a Lithuanian Heavy Draught horse could weigh up to 920 kilograms ?
text: Did you know that Gandhian economics , centering around the values of trusteeship , human dignity and equality , has been viewed as an alternative to left-wing and right-wing economic models?
text: Did you knowthat the Bellefonte Central Railroad once carried passengers and freight to Pennsylvania State University ?
text: Did you knowthat John McShain was a successful American contractor known as The Man Who Built Washington ?
text: Did you knowthat Bodysgallen Hall sits on the site of the home of a 5th century AD Welsh king ?
text: Did you knowthat New Zealand rugby union player Mark Hammett won four Super 12 titles with the Crusaders between 1996 and 2003 before being appointed as their assistant coach for 2007?
text: Did you knowthat the Royal Fort in Bristol was built with façades in Baroque , Palladian and Rococo styles because it was a compromise between the designs of three different architects?
text: Did you knowthat the French Military Mission to Japan played a key role in the establishment of the nascent Imperial Japanese Army ?
text: Did you knowthat a power struggle between Thomas Benolt and Thomas Wriothesley in 1530 almost brought an end to the College of Arms ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2002, 72% of Swiss voters voted in favour of making abortion in Switzerland legal on demand in the first trimester of a pregnancy?
text: Did you knowthat on April 29 , 1899 , trade unionists in Coeur d'Alene , Idaho killed two men by steering an explosives-laden train to the site of a mill, in order to protest the firing of fellow union members?
text: Did you knowthat the British Member of Parliament Dr Donald Johnson was interested by the connotations of the Macmillan government's 69-vote win over the Profumo sex scandal ?
text: Did you knowthat Hersey Kyota has represented Palau at the United Nations Millennium Summit , even though he is not Palau's ambassador to the U.N.?
text: Did you knowthat Aristotle 's ideas of physics held that because an object could not move without an immediate source of energy , arrows created a vacuum behind them that pushed them through the air?
text: Did you knowthat by tradition, military leaders participating in military simulations will often do so anonymously ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir John Ruggles-Brise, 2nd Baronet , Lord Lieutenant of Essex for 20 years, was the first Pro-Chancellor of Essex University ?
text: Did you knowthat the gang-rape and murder of Sarathambal in 1999 became an internationally known incident of the Sri Lankan civil war ?
text: Did you knowthat Room 307, Gilman Hall on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley , where the element plutonium was discovered, is a United States National Historic Landmark ?
text: Did you knowthat the status of the Northern Group of Forces , the Soviet Army unit stationed in Poland from 1945 to 1993, was formally regulated by Soviet-Polish treaty only in 1956?
text: Did you knowthat on March 21 , 1943 , Rudolf Christoph von Gersdorff tried to kill Adolf Hitler in a suicide attack in Berlin , but failed because Hitler left earlier than expected?
text: Did you knowthat Francis Barber was born a slave in Jamaica and was the manservant for over 30 years, and finally the heir, of Dr. Samuel Johnson of dictionary fame?
text: Did you knowthat " O Meu Coração Não Tem Cor " was the most successful Portuguese Eurovision entry to date, but was ironically followed by the country's worst result since the Carnation Revolution ?
text: Did you knowthat there are significant breeding populations of 35 mammalian species in Kaziranga National Park , Assam , India , out of which 15 are threatened mammals according to the IUCN Red List ?
text: Did you knowthat the Goulburn Valley region of Australia is home to the oldest and largest plantings of the little used Marsanne grape variety?
text: Did you knowthat G. S. Shivarudrappa is only the third person to be named "poet of the nation" by the Government of Karnataka ?
text: Did you knowthat the British colonial Administrator Sir Robert Codrington was influential in establishing British colonial government in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and making them different in character from white-settler-led Southern Rhodesia ?
text: Did you knowthat rhymed prose has been popular in various cultures, ranging from medieval Arabic maqamat to modern rap ?
text: Did you knowthat Polish general Józef Zając held military decorations from Poland , the United Kingdom , France , Germany , Austro-Hungary , and the short-lived state of Central Lithuania ?
text: Did you knowthat a 1968 court challenge to the right of Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet , born "Elizabeth", to inherit his family baronetcy rested on the question of his gender ?
text: Did you knowthat Kolkata West International City has one of the largest foreign direct investments in township projects in India ?
text: Did you knowthat Brigadier General Mihiel Gilormini , founder of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard , served in the Royal Canadian Air Force , the UK's Royal Air Force , and the United States Army Air Corps during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Cesar Picton , who was enslaved aged six in Senegal , died in England as a wealthy coal-merchant?
text: Did you knowthat, according to human rights organizations, Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev has been beaten, received death threats and had his father kidnapped due to his criticism of the government ?
text: Did you knowthat three days after a fire gutted the passenger ferry Levina 1 , killing at least 49, she sank with a party of journalists and investigators on board, killing at least one more?
text: Did you knowthat during the Battle of Jarosław in 1939 the Polish Army defended the town for two days before retreating in good order?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1850s Arnold Guyot measured the elevation of Old Black in the Great Smoky Mountains to within 3 feet (1 m) of the modern value?
text: Did you knowthat Sir David Robertson initially agreed to mind the constituency of another British parliamentarian who was interned during the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat Lil' Pimp was the first feature-length film to be created entirely with Macromedia Flash animation?
text: Did you knowthat Javad Malik-Yeganov was exiled to Karelia following the collapse of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on suspicion of being a member of Musavat ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2005 the then 28-year-old Murat Yusuf became the youngest ever Mufti of Romania ?
text: Did you knowthat Mao Anqing , the last known surviving son of Mao Zedong , suffered from a mental illness often attributed to a severe beating received from a policeman while living on the streets in Shanghai in the 1930s?
text: Did you knowthat shortly after Jonah of Manchuria died in 1925, he is said to have appeared in a dream before a crippled boy saying "Here, take my legs. I don't need them anymore," and the boy woke up completely healed?
text: Did you knowthat Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 's Missa Papae Marcelli was once thought to have been composed to convince the Council of Trent not to ban polyphonic music from the Catholic Church ?
text: Did you knowthat New Black Panther activist Quanell X is featured in some of Scarface 's early rap videos?
text: Did you knowthat the Rev. Arthur Wagner, the first curate of the Church of St. Paul, Brighton , England, commissioned stained glass windows of his mother, father and aunt for the church?
text: Did you knowthat the Romney Expedition , led by Stonewall Jackson , cleared Union forces from the lower Shenandoah Valley and surrounding Allegheny ranges during the early part of the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat after the Japanese Supreme Court found Shibusawa Tatsuhiko guilty of obscenity for translating the works of the Marquis de Sade into Japanese , he was outraged by the triviality of his fine?
text: Did you knowthat, during the Great Depression , the Romanian politician Grigore Iunian proposed devaluing the leu as a means to curb peasant insolvency ?
text: Did you knowthat the 3rd Earl of Radnor , wanting the borough of Downton to be free from his own influence, successfully pushed for its complete disenfranchisement?
text: Did you knowthat Crveni Krst , a neigborhood of Belgrade , Serbia , was built around the alleged burial site of Saint Sava ?
text: Did you knowthat it was recently discovered that about 10,000 Muslim graves in Cebeci Asri Cemetery , Ankara , Turkey were not oriented in the direction required by Islam ?
text: Did you knowthat Oscar Kiss Maerth asserted in his 1971 book The Beginning Was the End that humankind evolved from cannibalistic apes?
text: Did you knowthat Australian physicist , Sir Kerr Grant studied with Nobel Prize winning chemist and physicist , Irving Langmuir at the University of Göttingen ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hilary Duff song " Haters " is rumored to be directed at actress Lindsay Lohan ?
text: Did you knowthat the term Rashtrapati , the native word in India to refer the nation's President , was first suggested by the Kannada poet , scholar T.N. Srikantaiah ?
text: Did you knowthat the Benicia Arsenal in Benicia, California , was home to the short-lived U.S. Camel Corps ?
text: Did you knowthat Icelandic tenor Garðar Thór Cortes was voted sexiest man in Iceland twice in one year in separate polls?
text: Did you knowthat Hakim Habibur Rahman , a Unani physician, collected all the Arabic , Persian and Urdu books written in Bengal for more than 40 years and published a catalog titled Sulasa Ghusala ?
text: Did you knowthat for more than a century, the oxygen we breathe was thought to evolve from carbon dioxide during photosynthesis , but later proven to be split from water molecules instead?
text: Did you knowthat lobbying by the International Seamen's Union led to the abolition of the practice of imprisoning seamen who deserted their ship in the United States in 1915?
text: Did you knowthat Elli Perkins , having refused psychiatric care for her schizophrenic son because of Scientology beliefs, was murdered by him?
text: Did you knowthat because of liberal divorce laws in the U.S. state of Nevada , the Riverside Hotel in Reno catered specifically to wealthy divorce-seekers?
text: Did you knowthat Albert Blaustein was a consultant on the national constitutions for over 14 countries and helped found the United States ' Law Day ?
text: Did you knowthat Seaport Centre , a large biotechnology research complex, was developed over old salt evaporation ponds ?
text: Did you knowthat Henri Le Secq was a founding member of the short-lived, first ever photographic organization Société héliographique ?
text: Did you knowthat author Dean Koontz reportedly was so unsatisfied with the film version of his novel Hideaway that he attempted to have his name removed from the credits?
text: Did you knowthat the extinct species of Edaphodon , a type of rabbitfish related to the shark , grazed along the bottom of the ocean like land-dwelling herbivores do now?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian Communist Varvara Yakovleva was a member of the board of the Secret Police and led food inspections that requisitioned food as a punitive measure?
text: Did you knowthat the dispute settlement system in the World Trade Organization is characterized as the most adjudicative mechanism in the world ?
text: Did you knowthat United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally intervened to make sure the new post office in Ellenville, New York was built of stone instead of brick after residents complained to him via telegram ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian painter Grigory Gagarin was also a military leader and a diplomat in Paris , Rome , and Istanbul ?
text: Did you knowthat Torrent was the first American film starring the Swedish actress Greta Garbo ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine , a secret synod of Ukrainian bishops in Pochaiv Lavra created the Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church , canonically linked to the Moscow Patriarchate ?
text: Did you knowthat a forehead lift is a procedure used in plastic surgery to remove the deep "worry" lines that run across the forehead ?
text: Did you knowthat the newly-named Oryctodromeus , a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur from the mid Cretaceous of Montana , is the first dinosaur described as making burrows ?
text: Did you knowthat Cochiti Dam in New Mexico is one of the ten largest dams in the United States , the 23rd largest in the world, and the eleventh largest earthen dam worldwide?
text: Did you knowthat the South African physician Abdullah Abdurahman became Cape Town 's first coloured city councillor in 1904 ?
text: Did you knowthat the publishers of the American music magazine Option once launched a spin-off fashion magazine, UHF ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1991 Spanish film Amantes shocked audiences due to the frankness of its sex scenes?
text: Did you knowthat professor Malcolm Grant , the Provost and President of University College London , agreed to shave off his moustache if UCL students raised £1500 for Comic Relief , on Red Nose Day in 2005 ?
text: Did you knowthat adjuvants are sometimes used to modify the effects that a vaccine has on disease resistance by stimulating the immune system to respond to the vaccine with much more vitality ?
text: Did you knowthat Jiri Dudacek , the first Czechoslovak ice hockey player to be selected in the first round of the National Hockey League draft , never left Czechoslovakia due to the protests of the country's sports minister?
text: Did you knowthat the foreign minister of Turkmenistan Batyr Berdiyev was dismissed for poor knowledge of the native language Turkmen , before being arrested and convicted for his involvement in an assassination attempt on President Saparmurat Niyazov ?
text: Did you knowthat Lophostropheus from Normandy is one of the only dinosaurs known from the Triassic - Jurassic boundary?
text: Did you knowthat the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters , the earliest extant Chinese Buddhist sutra , is similar in form to the Analects of Confucius ?
text: Did you knowthat Varvara Yakovleva , a nun of the Russian Orthodox Church , was canonized as a martyr after she was killed with her former mistress, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem , Oregon , is the third largest museum in the state - and Yahoo! Travel's tenth best thing to do in Salem?
text: Did you knowthat Steve Fossett 's Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer aircraft had a fuel fraction of nearly 85 percent, meaning it carried more than five times its weight in fuel?
text: Did you knowthat during World War II the British military successfully airdropped homing pigeons into German -occupied France so that they might carry the locals' intelligence reports back to England?
text: Did you knowthat England cricket captain Tony Greig said that England would make the West Indies "grovel" on their tour to England in 1976 , but went on to lose 6 of the 8 matches?
text: Did you knowthat Shaul Shimon Deutsch left the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish movement to set up his own Hasidic court in 1995 and curates a museum of Biblical archaeology in Brooklyn, New York ?
text: Did you knowthat following the 1886 Seattle anti-Chinese riot the United States Congress paid the Chinese government $276,619.15 in compensation, but the victims received nothing?
text: Did you knowthat the streak of a mineral , the color of the mark it makes when rubbed on a plate, is usually a more consistent identifier than the color of the original mineral?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese alpinist Ken Noguchi became the youngest person to scale the Seven Summits when he ascended Mt. Everest in 1999 at the age of 25?
text: Did you knowthat Rush Limbaugh guest-hosted the short-lived The Pat Sajak Show in 1990 and caused such an uproar with his controversial comments that the audience had to be removed from the studio?
text: Did you knowthat the prehistoric badger genus Chamitataxus lived during the Late Miocene and is considered the most primitive badger genus in North America ?
text: Did you knowthat Justus of Beauvais , a cephalophore saint, is reported to have picked up his head and continued preaching after his beheading?
text: Did you knowthat The Dove , an American film released in 1974 , is based on the real life experiences of Robin Lee Graham , a 16-year-old who spent five years sailing around the world alone?
text: Did you knowthat when the English programmer Pete Shaw was still a teen , he had already written eleven technical computer books, published around the world in several languages?
text: Did you knowthat Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka came to power in Ghana through a military coup d'état in 1966, only to be deposed and killed in a further coup fourteen months later?
text: Did you knowthat the Académie de Poésie et de Musique , which was founded in 1570 under the auspices of Charles IX of France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville , was the first academy in France ?
text: Did you knowthat Canadian ice hockey referee and organizer Fred Waghorne was the first to use a whistle to stop game play rather than the customary cowbell , when disruptive fans started bringing their own cowbells?
text: Did you knowthat the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plants complex in Slovakia became the first Soviet-era nuclear plant in Eastern Europe to have safety standards comparable to Western ones ?
text: Did you knowthat Kenneth Branagh had his earliest theatre appearances with Progress Theatre , including one minor role of "second policeman"?
text: Did you knowthat The Kinship of the Three is the earliest book on theoretical alchemy in China and is the earliest source to have mentioned the compositions necessary to create gunpowder ?
text: Did you knowthat the International Society for Science and Religion was founded by two winners of the Templeton Prize ?
text: Did you knowthat English book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps acquired some 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts over the course of his lifetime?
text: Did you knowthat the plant Erigenia bulbosa is known as " harbinger of spring " because it is one of the first plants to bloom in the hardwood forests of eastern North America each year?
text: Did you knowthat Zhuangzi Tests His Wife , the first feature film in Hong Kong cinema , was the first ever Chinese film to be shown abroad?
text: Did you knowthat The Irish Famine debunks myths about the Irish Potato Famine , including one claiming that the country remained a net exporter of food during the famine?
text: Did you knowthat, at a congress in May 1921, all Socialist Party of Romania delegates who supported Bolshevik guidelines were arrested 24 hours after a vote on affiliation to the Comintern ?
text: Did you knowthat 1971's Out of the Darkness was the first Thai science fiction film?
text: Did you knowthat 1939's Indramalati , directed by the Assam poet Jyoti Prasad Agarwala , was the second ever Assamese language film?
text: Did you knowthat the efforts of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources have restored Indiana 's total forestland acreage to more than double its turn-of-the-20th-century level?
text: Did you knowthat on July 1 , 1940 , Romanian military units attacked a Jewish funeral in the town of Dorohoi , killing 53 people according to official sources, but more than 165 people according to Jewish sources?
text: Did you knowthat 18th-century operatic star Anna Maria Strada was known as "the Pig" on account of her ugliness?
text: Did you knowthat a promotional video by the band The Bastard Fairies was described as "child abuse" on the talk show The O'Reilly Factor ?
text: Did you knowthat over 53,000 Puerto Ricans served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Singaporean citizenship was first granted in 1957, when Singapore was a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat the steel strike of 1959 led to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history?
text: Did you knowthat in the 2001 Grand National , only two horses managed to complete the whole course without stopping?
text: Did you knowthat Canadian scientist Bill Mathews was a pioneer in the study of subglacial eruptions and volcano-ice interactions in North America ?
text: Did you knowthe Huguenot Hubert Le Sueur cast the giant equestrian sculpture of Charles I in Charing Cross , London in 1633?
text: Did you knowthat Yoshiaki Yamashita , a pioneer of judo in the United States , was the first person to have been awarded 10- dan grading in Kodokan judo ?
text: Did you knowthat the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus , founded in Australia in 1990, was the first organisation of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere ?
text: Did you knowthat Blackadder II , the second series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder , contains many tongue-in-cheek references to the plays of William Shakespeare ?
text: Did you knowthat the opening sequence to the 1983 Thai film Gunman was shot by the director, Chatrichalerm Yukol , while riding on the back of a motorcycle?
text: Did you knowthat because of its system of ravines , Toronto has been described as " San Francisco turned upside down"?
text: Did you knowthat the Roman Catholic Church objected to the English translations in the Tyndale Bible , believing them to be purposeful mistranslations to promote anticlericalism and heretical views?
text: Did you knowthat the Texas State University labor historian Gregg Andrews is also a folk musician who performs under the stage name "Doctor G"?
text: Did you knowthat Irish poet John Keegan Casey was released from prison on the condition he leave for Australia , but instead he stayed in Dublin in disguise?
text: Did you knowthat Norwegian -born merchant seaman Harry Lundeberg became a labor leader in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Dimitrie Gerota , who is considered to be Romania 's first radiologist , was forced to abandon this field after his hand had to be amputated as a result of radiodermatitis ?
text: Did you knowthat the retired United States Air Force lieutenant general Nicholas Kehoe became the President and CEO of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society in 2003 after 34 years of military service?
text: Did you knowthat the Alexander Suvorov cruise ship stayed afloat despite its crash into a girder of an Ulyanovsk railway bridge that led to 177 deaths, and is still in working order today?
text: Did you knowthat a Vihara is an Indian Buddhist cave monastery that takes its name from the Sanskrit word for "a secluded place in which to walk"?
text: Did you knowthat the Balık sisters from Turkey claim to be the only identical twins who are both professional opera singers?
text: Did you knowthat the 1935 film Joymati , produced and directed by the noted Assam poet Jyotiprasad Agarwala , was the first-ever Assamese language film?
text: Did you knowthat five states have declared independence during the territorial history of Mexico , and all but Texas returned to Mexico ?
text: Did you knowthat in Ovid 's Metamorphoses , the love between Acis and Galatea ended when a jealous suitor, the Cyclops Polyphemus , killed Acis with a boulder?
text: Did you knowthat Jamaican actress and singer Amru Sani appeared on the same 1956 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show as Elvis Presley ?
text: Did you knowthat Carla Thorneycroft married Conservative Party politician Peter Thorneycroft in 1949, after their respective first marriages had both been dissolved and almost 20 years after the two were first engaged?
text: Did you knowthat Indian copper plate inscriptions play an important role in the reconstruction of India 's elusive history?
text: Did you knowthat the first railway locomotive in China was in service for only 15 months between 1876 and 1877 before being purchased and deliberately destroyed by the ruling Qing Dynasty ?
text: Did you knowthat the Presidential Palace in Kaunas was used as a movie theater during the Soviet rule of Lithuania ?
text: Did you knowthat the eyespots of green algae and euglenids are the simplest and most common "eyes" found in nature?
text: Did you knowthat Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia claimed to have a tumor to hide the fact she was pregnant with the illegitimate child of her lover?
text: Did you knowthat Operation Queen was a joint British - American operation during World War II at the western front between Aachen and the Rur river in November 1944?
text: Did you knowthat according to the controversial Hockney-Falco thesis , the rise of realism in Renaissance art, such as Jan Van Eyck 's Arnolfini Portrait , was largely due to the use of curved mirrors and other optical aids?
text: Did you knowthat, in mythology , iron is often associated with blood , or used as a protective or lucky charm ?
text: Did you knowthat Yogesh K. Gandhi and his Gandhi Memorial International Foundation were investigated by the United States Senate and Department of Justice for contributions to the Democratic National Committee ?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese producer Genjiro Arato exhibited his 1980 film Zigeunerweisen across Japan in a specially-built inflatable mobile dome after exhibitors refused to screen it, and the film went on to win 4 Japanese Academy Awards ?
text: Did you knowthat the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum recorded over 1,200 violations of human rights in Zimbabwe by the law enforcement agencies from 2001 to September 2006?
text: Did you knowthat Edward Alleyn had to form a partnership with twelve others to meet the £1,000 cost to rebuild the Fortune Playhouse in London after it burned down in 1621 ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Norman Hulbert claimed that That Was The Week That Was infringed Parliamentary privilege in 1963 when it named 13 MPs who had not spoken in the chamber of the House of Commons since they were elected in 1959 ?
text: Did you knowthat the musical Foxy was a total flop in Dawson City in 1962, costing its producers their $400,000 investment, but was revived on Broadway in  1964?
text: Did you knowthat Bandung in Indonesia was dubbed the " Paris of Java " ( Parijs van Java ) in the 1920s due to the European ambience of Braga Street ?
text: Did you knowthat more than six thousand Japanese people settled in North Korea voluntarily in the 1960s, accompanying ethnic Korean spouses returning under a repatriation campaign supported by the Japanese and North Korean governments?
text: Did you knowthat Chester Wilmot , the Australian War correspondent and military historian of the Second World War , was killed in an air crash in 1954?
text: Did you knowthat Ashoka's Major Rock Edict was the first and most impressive of Ashoka 's edicts, and is the only one remaining unaltered in its original location?
text: Did you knowthat the Percival Petrel , a twin-engine, low-wing monoplane with a tailwheel undercarriage , was used as a British communications aircraft in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Bodawpaya , an 18th - 19th century king of Burma , fathered 120 children?
text: Did you knowthat TIME magazine's Gerald Loeb Award -winning article " The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power " highlights the suicide of Noah Lottick ?
text: Did you knowthat, after a heavy bomb raid on the city of Heilbronn , raining fragments of the blast were lodged in cattle in the surrounding countryside, and that this meant days of slaughtering for veterinarians ?
text: Did you knowthat World Vision , an international charity organization, have developed various famine events that spread across the globe, notably the 30 Hour Famine ?
text: Did you knowthat Hilda Hewlett was the first British female aviator to earn a pilot's licence?
text: Did you knowthat Peter Knowles ,  a popular English football player,  voluntarily ended his football career at the age of 24, after becoming a Jehovah's Witness ?
text: Did you knowthat an inquiry into Sidhom Bishay ' s execution for his refusal to convert to Islam and renounce Christianity resulted in the dismissal of a judge and a governor?
text: Did you knowthat ABC-TV 's Broadcast Standards and Practices department placed a gagging order on the song " Jihad " by American thrash band Slayer during its live U.S. network broadcast?
text: Did you knowthat Katsuhiko Nakajima , a Japanese professional wrestler , represented as a freelancer by Kensuke Office , is the youngest junior heavyweight champion in history ?
text: Did you knowthat the citadel that once stood on the mountain of Tâmpa in Transylvania was never captured by an enemy force?
text: Did you knowthat the paintings of the Giant's Causeway by Irish artist Susanna Drury were so detailed that the authors of the French Encyclopédie used an engraving of one as a reference, and included it in a supplementary volume?
text: Did you knowthat Vodka Belt , an informal term for the territory where vodka is the most popular alcoholic beverage , wages a vodka war in support for vodka's traditional ingredients?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Katrina in 1981 caused two deaths?
text: Did you knowthat the charity song " The Magnificent " became a protest anthem of the Serbian anti- Milošević resistance ?
text: Did you knowthat the pen-name of the Kannada poet , Karnataka Ratna and Jnanpith Award winner Kuvempu , was derived from his full name " Ku ppalli Ven katappa Pu ttappa", Kuppalli being his native place?
text: Did you knowthat following its industrialization , Bridgeport , Connecticut became a manufacturing center producing such goods as the famous Bridgeport milling machine, brass fittings, carriages , sewing machines , saddles, and ammunition ?
text: Did you knowthat tradition indicates Nicasius of Rheims completed saying his prayer at his execution after he had been beheaded?
text: Did you knowthat the 1989 secret files scandal in Switzerland resulted from the revelation that police had been engaged in illegal surveillance ?
text: Did you knowthat during the 72 day session of the First State Duma in 1906 , a total of 391 requests about illegal actions of the Russian government were filed, but only two laws were passed?
text: Did you knowthat the Phyllodon , a small herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic found in present-day Portugal, may have been closely related to North American dinosaurs?
text: Did you knowthat in 1990, it was revealed that a stay-behind army backed by NATO had been active in Switzerland throughout the Cold War , preparing for a possible Soviet invasion?
text: Did you knowthat Fort Senneville , built in 1671 near Montreal , included the most fortified windmill in New France , along with a machicolation and other castle -like features?
text: Did you knowthat the 1957 film La Anam was selected as one of the best Egyptian films in history by the Egyptian Film Association in 1996?
text: Did you knowthat the Kalka-Shimla Railway track, a narrow gauge rail track in Himachal Pradesh ,  has a length of 96 kilometres , passing through 102 tunnels and crossing 864 bridges ?
text: Did you knowthat copies of the 1982 biopic Will: G. Gordon Liddy , about a Watergate co-conspirator, are stored in the Nixon Presidential Materials collection at the U.S. National Archives ?
text: Did you knowthat bergamottin , a chemical found in grapefruit , is believed to be responsible for drug interactions known as the " grapefruit juice effect "?
text: Did you knowthat aussieBum , an Australian swimwear manufacturer, was founded by Sean Ashby in 2001 when he couldn't find the "Aussie cozzie" style of swimwear he grew up with?
text: Did you knowthat Piers Corbyn claims that he can predict the weather a year in advance by observing solar activity ?
text: Did you knowthat Otto Orseolo became Doge of Venice in 1006 at the age of 16, the youngest in history?
text: Did you knowthat Shenxiu, one of the most influential Chan Buddhist masters of his day, is known as the “loser” in modern Zen circles?
text: Did you knowthat the F-111 fighter , the B-1 bomber , the Space Shuttle , and the Boeing fleet of commercial airliners were all tested at the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel ?
text: Did you knowthat Danish painter Carl-Henning Pedersen was known as the " Scandinavian Chagall "?
text: Did you knowthat the island sub-species of the Tomtit are much larger than their mainland relatives?
text: Did you knowthat when builders told Lou Henry Hoover , who designed her own house , that some of her architectural ideas weren't done, she responded, "Well, it's time someone did"?
text: Did you knowthat the gravestone of Abraham von Franckenberg , a 17th century mystic, is covered with as yet undeciphered mystical symbols?
text: Did you knowthat Billy Walkabout is thought to have been the most highly decorated Native American in the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you knowthat during the 1690 Battle of Québec , a group of French paddled a canoe up to the English flagship and under a hail of musket shots managed to return its ensign to the city unscathed?
text: Did you knowthat forensic scientist Paul Kirk , who is known for his work on the Sam Sheppard case, worked to isolate fissionable plutonium on the Manhattan Project ?
text: Did you knowthat a 1934 survey of Japanese language education in the United States found only thirteen professors in the whole country fluent in Japanese ?
text: Did you knowthat silent film star Norma Talmadge started a famous Hollywood tradition when she accidentally stepped into wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater ?
text: Did you knowthat the Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur , Géraud Réveilhac ordered artillery to shell his own troops in order to force them to attack?
text: Did you knowthat until 1947 in Spain , Eurosia was the patron saint of demonic possession ?
text: Did you knowthat Julius Fromm invented the latex condom in 1914 and marketed his invention under the name Fromms Act until he was forced to sell his business under Nazi rule ?
text: Did you knowthat VolgaGES in Russia is the largest hydroelectric station in Europe as it produces 2541 MW?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Navy 's Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment , a combined whole-body dry suit and one-man life raft , allows submariners to escape from depths of up to 600 feet (180 meters)?
text: Did you knowthat Ralph "Petey" Greene overcame a drug addiction and prison sentence to become an Emmy Award -winning radio and television talk show host and a guest at the White House ?
text: Did you knowthat the French torpedo boat La Combattante ferried General de Gaulle and other Free French leaders across the English Channel from Portsmouth to Courseulles in Normandy on 14 July 1944 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian mathematician Simion Stoilow was ambassador to France and a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946, just prior to serving as founding director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy ?
text: Did you knowthat Procter & Gamble discontinued its praised "demi-couture" Rochas fashion brand in 2006, 81 years after it was founded?
text: Did you knowthat Fyodor Schechtel , the architect of Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal in Moscow , Russia , was expelled from his classes at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1878 for "bad attendance"?
text: Did you knowthat German Luftwaffe fighter ace Walther Dahl shot down 128 enemy aircraft in the Second World War , including a USAAF B-17 that he rammed in 1944?
text: Did you knowthat the Billboard top 10 live DVD War at the Warfield by American thrash metal band Slayer features one of the last shows drummer Paul Bostaph played with the group?
text: Did you knowthat Karaköy , part of ancient Galata , and an important commercial and transport center at the Golden Horn , was the birthplace of André Chénier , a French poet beheaded during the French Revolution ?
text: Did you knowthat Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young , owner of the Yung See San Fong House in Los Gatos, California , didn't want it to be a bungalow , but a "bungahigh"?
text: Did you knowthat Steve Crowley , a Marine Security Guard , was posthumously promoted to the rank of Sergeant after he was killed in the 1979 U.S. Embassy Burning in Islamabad , Pakistan ?
text: Did you knowthat the forty-six Recreational Demonstration Areas , built as model parks near urban areas in the United States during the Great Depression , later became national and state parks , and in one case, Camp David ?
text: Did you knowthat Giorgio Francia of Italy became the first non- German to win the German Formula Three Championship , by winning the title in the year 1974 ?
text: Did you knowthat the ancient Greek city of Cyme in Asia Minor was the largest and most important of the twelve cities of the Aeolians ?
text: Did you knowthat unlike other Young Bengal members, Hara Chandra Ghosh refrained from involvement in religion and social reformation?
text: Did you knowthat the 1983 rock and roll comedy film Get Crazy was a tribute to the famed Fillmore East theater, where director Allan Arkush once worked as an usher?
text: Did you knowthat the Lupeni Strike of 1929 in Romania was originally blamed on Hungarian propagandists and Comintern activists?
text: Did you knowthat at the time of his martyrdom in 202 , Saint Charalampus was 113 years old?
text: Did you knowthat despite having no prior experience as a professional actress, Teresa Cheung was nominated for Best Actress in the 2004 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for her performance in Colour Blossoms ?
text: Did you knowthat German toymaker Richard Steiff 's invention of a toy bear received highest honors at the 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair ?
text: Did you knowthat more is known about Neaira , a hetaera who lived during the 4th century BC in ancient Greece , than any other prostitute in classical antiquity ?
text: Did you knowthat taxi driver David Wilkie was killed during the UK miners' strike in 1984, when two striking coal miners dropped a 46 lb concrete block on his taxicab , which was carrying a working miner?
text: Did you knowthat the Bienwald is a large forested area in the southern Pfalz region of Germany , near the towns of Kandel and Wörth am Rhein ?
text: Did you knowthat "urban Indian " activist Bernie Whitebear was the brother of groundbreaking health care administrator Luana Reyes and of sculptor, curator and memoirist Lawney Reyes ?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian Proclamation of Timişoara unsuccessfully called for lustration to be applied to former Communist Party officials?
text: Did you knowthat the award-winning Chinese film Cell Phone , with its box office profit of over ¥ 50 million, was the highest-grossing film made in China in 2003 ?
text: Did you knowthat WildlifeDirect was established in 2006 to support wildlife protection in Africa via the use of weblogs ?
text: Did you knowthat the Halmidi inscription , an Indian inscription , found near the tiny village of Halmidi , in Karnataka , India , is the oldest known inscription in the Kannada language ?
text: Did you knowthat a small Allied rearguard at the strategic pass of Thermopylae held off German forces invading Greece in 1941 at the most recent Battle of Thermopylae ?
text: Did you knowthat the case of Angela Carder , a cancer patient who was forced to undergo a caesarean section in 1987, established the rights of pregnant women to determine their own health care in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat George Ormerod , an English antiquary and historian , was responsible for organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire in 1816?
text: Did you knowthe coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States outside of Alaska is -70 °F (-57 °C ) at Rogers Pass, Montana ?
text: Did you knowthat Walter Arthur Berendsohn , who successfully nominated Nelly Sachs and Willy Brandt for their respective Nobel Prizes , wrote Die humanistische Front , the seminal book on German exile literature?
text: Did you knowthat Nikita Balieff , a vaudeville performer, writer, impresario , and director, named his theater "Chauve-Souris" ( bat ) after a bat flew up out of the basement door and landed on his hat?
text: Did you knowthat Mandritsa is known as the only Albanian village in Bulgaria ?
text: Did you knowthat Matild Manukyan , a wealthy Turkish businesswoman of Armenian origin, made her fortune as a brothel owner?
text: Did you knowthat a 2005 compendium of The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate , held annually at the University of Chicago since 1946, included contributions by Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman and Leon M. Lederman ?
text: Did you knowthat the Barbarigo was a World War II Italian submarine that mysteriously disappeared in 1943?
text: Did you knowthat the Downtown Historic District of San Jose , California , an area of just one square block , contains buildings of six different architectural styles ?
text: Did you knowthat Anthony Baldinucci , a Jesuit priest , often carried a cross and wore heavy chains while walking barefoot into towns where he was conducting missions ?
text: Did you knowthat when the Dovre Railway was inaugurated in 1921, the train returning with the prominent guests crashed in the Nidareid train disaster , killing six people?
text: Did you knowthat " E depois do adeus " was one of two songs played on Portuguese radio to signal the beginning of the Carnation Revolution in 1974 ?
text: Did you knowthat during a 90-minute period on January 30 , 1996 , three commuters fell into the gap at the Long Island Rail Road station at Syosset due to icy platform conditions?
text: Did you knowthat Harry Kent worked both as a manufacturer of munitions and as a pub landlord whilst managing Watford F.C. ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has several programs aimed at conserving the habitat of the mission blue butterfly ?
text: Did you knowthat during his Eastern journey Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovitch of Russia visited Egypt , India , China and Japan travelling a distance of more than 51,000 km (31,500 mi)?
text: Did you knowthat Scieno Sitter , a content-control software package created by the Church of Scientology , was referred to in the 2006 fictional film The Bridge ?
text: Did you knowthat Larry Blakeney , the current head coach of the Troy Trojans football team, is one of only two men to take a college football team from Division II to Division I -AA and then Division I-A?
text: Did you knowthat the main tennis court at the Stade de Roland Garros , the home of the French Open in Paris , was renamed in honour of Philippe Chatrier , a former Davis Cup player and president of the International Tennis Federation from 1977 to 1991?
text: Did you knowthat Brigadier Sir Otho Prior-Palmer , a British Conservative Member of Parliament , accused a Labour MP of "never [having] done a damned day's work in his life", and claimed that Labour sent someone to stop Spitfire construction?
text: Did you knowthat Australian cricketer Karen Rolton has scored the most runs for the Australian women's cricket team in women's Test cricket ?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian Communist ideologue Iosif Chişinevschi distanced himself from his Jewish origins and publicly supported the persecution of Jews?
text: Did you knowthat Madame Montour , of Native American and French Canadian heritage, was paid the same as a man when she worked as an interpreter for the colonial governments of New York and Pennsylvania in the first half of the 18th century?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Lloyd Wright 's Hanna-Honeycomb House takes its inspiration from the hexagonal structure of a bee 's honeycomb ?
text: Did you knowthat Arishima Ikuma , Japanese novelist , published his new-style poems and short stories as a vehicle to introduce the works of the French impressionist painter Paul Cézanne to the Japanese public ?
text: Did you knowthat eight of Australia 's top fighter pilots attempted to resign their commissions in the final months of World War II , in the so-called Morotai Mutiny ?
text: Did you knowthat most of Western Australia , South Australia and the Northern Territory have not been divided into cadastral units ?
text: Did you knowthat Paul Secon was an unemployed writer and musician living in New York City when he co-founded Pottery Barn with his brother in 1950?
text: Did you knowthat the Erdene Zuu monastery , one of the oldest monasteries in Mongolia , was built in 1585 using stones from the ruins of Genghis Khan 's capital, Karakorum ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1966 Holman Moody Ford Fairlane was the basis for NASCAR racecars until NASCAR's newly redesigned Car of Tomorrow ?
text: Did you knowthat Sai Tso Wan Recreation Ground was the first permanent recreational facility in Hong Kong built from a landfill ?
text: Did you knowthat two Beagle B.206 aircraft were built for evaluation by the UK Ministry of Aviation , resulting in an order for twenty aircraft for the Royal Air Force ?
text: Did you knowthat in surgery theory , the Spivak normal bundle is named after Michael Spivak , a mathematician specializing in differential geometry ?
text: Did you knowthat Satyendranath Tagore , the first Indian to join the elite Indian Civil Service , played a pioneering role in freeing women from being imprisoned in their homes?
text: Did you knowthat the recent flooding in Jakarta is considered to be the worst in the last three centuries?
text: Did you knowthat Australian soprano Gladys Moncrieff performed her famous role as Teresa in the musical comedy The Maid of the Mountains about 2800 times?
text: Did you knowthat the Flag of Springfield, Illinois was designed in a contest conceived by poet Vachel Lindsay in 1917 ?
text: Did you knowthat British politician George Oliver once lost his seat at Ilkeston by two votes in the closest result in any British Parliamentary election, but later won by 30,398 in the fourth largest majority in 1951 ?
text: Did you knowthat 18th century castrato Giuseppe Millico taught singing to Bourbon princesses and to Emma Hamilton ?
text: Did you knowthat the remains of the Azerbaijani poet Huseyn Javid , who became a victim of the Stalin purges , were moved from Magadan to his homeland of Nakhichevan in 1982 and reburied in a mausoleum built in his honor?
text: Did you knowthat the London cabinet-makers Ince and Mayhew were rivals of Thomas Chippendale in introducing Neoclassical furniture ?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Strauss helped the German composer Heinz Tiessen obtain a job at the Berlin State Opera in 1917?
text: Did you knowthat a series-parallel graph is a mathematical model  of series and parallel electric circuits with two different nodes called source and sink , indicating the direction of the electrical current flow?
text: Did you knowthat the English nurse Lucy Osburn was chosen by Florence Nightingale to train Australia's first nurses?
text: Did you knowthat some American slaveholders forced their slaves to drink an infusion of black haw to prevent abortions ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian architect Alexander Zelenko was one of the authors of the linear city urban concept?
text: Did you knowthat at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics , Yipsi Moreno became world champion in the hammer throw at the age of twenty, improving from an eighteenth place finish in 1999 ?
text: Did you knowthat Cecil A. Bickley was one of the founders of Denver City , the largest community in Yoakum County on the Texas South Plains ?
text: Did you knowthat William Clowes Ltd. 's installation of noisy, steam-powered printing presses in 1823 irked the Duke of Northumberland so much that he brought its owner William Clowes to court?
text: Did you knowthat the Japanese guitar duo Gontiti wrote the soundtrack for the 2004 Hirokazu Koreeda film Nobody Knows ?
text: Did you knowthat the Woodstock of physics refers to the marathon session of the American Physical Society ’s March 1987 meeting that featured 51 presentations on superconductors and lasted until 3:15 AM?
text: Did you knowthat the South African record set in 2001 by All-African shot put champion Burger Lambrechts was subsequently annulled because of a positive doping test ?
text: Did you knowthat since 1978, countries including Austria , Belgium , Canada , France , Germany , and the United States have compiled government reports on groups referred to as cults ?
text: Did you knowthat the Knob Creek Gun Range hosts a biannual event promoted as the "World's Largest Machine Gun Shoot and Military Gun Show"?
text: Did you knowthat early Baroque lutenist Michelagnolo Galilei was the younger brother of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei ?
text: Did you knowthat Rabbi Avrohom Blumenkrantz ' s The Laws of Pesach —considered an authoritative text on the observance of Passover by many North American Jews —started as a privately distributed newsletter?
text: Did you knowthat Giovanni Dominici was initially refused admittance to the Dominican Order because of a speech impediment that was later reportedly cured after intercession by Catherine of Siena ?
text: Did you knowthat one submarine volcano located in Banda Sea of Indonesia is called the Emperor of China ?
text: Did you knowthat bottle pool , a hybrid game combining elements of pocket and carom billiards , was played by world-renowned quantum chemist and biochemist Linus Pauling ?
text: Did you knowthat Wa-Wan Press was founded in 1901 by composer Arthur Farwell to publish works that incorporated traditional Native American music into new compositions?
text: Did you knowthat Demi-Brigades were military formations created by France , to help better organize the French Revolutionary Army ?
text: Did you knowthat one of the earliest known references to Karnataka , the name of an Indian state, is found in the ancient Hindu epic Mahabharata ?
text: Did you knowthat Whuppity Scoorie is a traditional celebration in Lanark , Scotland during which children run around a church three times swinging paper balls over their heads?
text: Did you knowthat William P. Bryant presided over the first criminal trial in what is now the U.S. state of Washington ?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian writer Paul Goma , whose citizenship was revoked by Ceauşescu ’s regime in 1978, now resides in France as a stateless person ?
text: Did you knowthat the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport , Connecticut has architectural influences ranging from Byzantine to Romanesque architecture ?
text: Did you knowthat Gnanendramohan Tagore was the first Asian to be called to the bar in England in 1862 ?
text: Did you knowthat Great American Country television host Nan Kelley (then Nan Sumrall) became Miss Mississippi in 1985 after her fellow Mississippian Susan Akin was crowned Miss America ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chappell Ganguly controversy in Indian cricket resulted in fiery street protests in Ganguly's home town of Calcutta and then raised debate in the Parliament of India ?
text: Did you knowthat the Portland Brownstone Quarries , which once provided brownstone to many landmark buildings in the United States during the 1800s, are now a National Historic Landmark and a regional scuba diving destination?
text: Did you knowthat two members of the outlaw Banditti of the Prairie were lynched in Ogle County, Illinois on June 27 , 1841 ?
text: Did you knowthat Patrick Heenan , a Captain in the British Indian Army , was convicted of treason after spying for the Empire of Japan during the Malayan campaign of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat a Secret Council of the Lithuanian Council of Lords dealt with all crucial state affairs in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ?
text: Did you knowthat the McLaren F1 GTR , based on the production McLaren F1 supercar , won the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans in its first year against purpose-built Le Mans Prototypes ?
text: Did you knowthat the Siribhoovalaya , a unique work of multi-lingual literature composed by Jain monk Kumudendu Muni , is written entirely using Kannada numerals , without the use of any alphabets ?
text: Did you knowthat Polish painter and critic Józef Czapski was twice sent to the Soviet Union to find missing Polish officers who had been executed by the Soviets?
text: Did you knowthat Graeme Park is the only surviving residence of a colonial era Governor of Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you knowthat Luan Jujie is the only East Asian person to have won an Olympic gold medal in the sport of fencing ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Ingraham , an American sailor who discovered several of the Marquesas Islands , was lost at sea in 1800?
text: Did you knowthat Caryl Churchill 's play Mad Forest , developed partly in Bucharest in collaboration with Romanian and English drama students, was in production less than six months after the Romanian Revolution of 1989 ?
text: Did you knowthat after suppressing the Mytilenean revolt , the Athenian assembly considered executing the entire male population of Mytilene ?
text: Did you knowthat during the blood-vomiting game , a famous Go game between Honinbo Jowa and Intetsu Akaboshi that lasted four days, Jowa made three unorthodox moves that were reputed to have been suggested to him by ghosts ?
text: Did you knowthat a Spokane, Washington , television station devoted the first 11 minutes of its Saturday evening newscast to the February 2007 arrests of Gonzaga University basketball player Josh Heytvelt and his teammate?
text: Did you knowthat Mayurasharma was the founder of the Kadamba Kingdom of Banavasi , the earliest native kingdom to rule over what is today Karnataka state, India ?
text: Did you knowthat the balloon framing method of wall framing became obsolete in the 1940s when it was replaced by the platform framing method?
text: Did you knowthat the 1960 crash of Capital Airlines Flight 20 marked the third accident in three years involving a Capital Airlines Vickers Viscount ?
text: Did you knowthat American music critic and editor Smokey Fontaine is the son of English documentary filmmaker Dick Fontaine , the maker of the 1984 BBC documentary Beat This: A Hip-Hop History ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian defense correspondent Ivan Safronov , who was writing about the third consecutive launch failure of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile , died in a mysterious fall from his fifth floor apartment?
text: Did you knowthat Danny Kaye , Duke Ellington , Ella Fitzgerald , Abbott and Costello and Sammy Davis, Jr. are among the performers to have graced the stage of the Howard Theatre in Washington, D.C. ?
text: Did you knowthat Timothy Campbell was assigned the role of promoting an anti-wrinkle device from Amstrad 's Health & Beauty division after winning the first series of the television show The Apprentice UK ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pingo National Landmark , in the Northwest Territories , is the only national landmark in Canada protecting pingos ?
text: Did you knowthat Steve Stanton , Largo, Florida 's city manager since 1993, was fired for pursuing sex reassignment ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ottoman Bank , established as a private bank in 1856, became a central bank in 1863 and issued banknotes in the Ottoman Empire and then Turkey until 1931?
text: Did you knowthat after the publication of the non-fiction book Cults of Unreason , other writers used the title to refer to strange groups, including UFO cults ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indian poet and philosopher Dwijendranath Tagore wrote the book Boxometry about the construction of boxes ?
text: Did you knowthat the Gordon Strong Automobile Objective was the first of six Frank Lloyd Wright designs to use spiraling ramps?
text: Did you know that American film director Jim Fields recently wrote , produced and directed a documentary called Bugeaters ?
text: Did you knowthat Dermodactylus was the first pterosaur (flying reptile) named from North America ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sound Effects Choir can imitate the sounds of a car using only the mouth or other body parts?
text: Did you knowthat Charles E. Peterson is widely considered to be the "godfather" of historic preservation in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Lance Armstrong 's autobiography , It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life , headed the New York Times Best Seller list , and was the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2000?
text: Did you knowthat the Area Boys are a gang of Nigerian street children and teenagers who roam the streets of Lagos extorting money from passers-by?
text: Did you knowthat Lothar-Günther Buchheim , author of the 1973 novel Das Boot , refused to give his Expressionist paintings to a museum unless it would also display his collection of curiosities?
text: Did you knowthat the United States National Weather Service 's StormReady program was credited with saving the lives of more than 50 movie-goers in Van Wert County , Ohio in 2002?
text: Did you knowthat the Simpsons short Good Night aired April 19 1987 on The Tracey Ullman Show and was the first ever appearance of the Simpson family on television?
text: Did you knowthat Kasongo Ilunga , incumbent Minister of Foreign Trade for the Democratic Republic of the Congo , is widely believed to be a non-existent person?
text: Did you knowthat the best-selling British author Edwy Searles Brooks is estimated to have published 800 adventure novels , including the Norman Conquest and Ironsides Cromwell serialized novels, under several pseudonyms ?
text: Did you knowthat Ahmad Hasan Dani , an expert of South Asian archaeology and Ancient history , was the first Muslim graduate of the Banaras Hindu University ?
text: Did you knowthat Francisco Serrão , one of the Portuguese vessel commanders sent by Afonso de Albuquerque to the ' Spice Islands ', took a Javanese woman as his wife when his ship berthed at Gresik ?
text: Did you knowthat many regional cuisines of medieval Europe were heavily influenced by Arab cuisine through contact with Muslim Iberia and Sicily ?
text: Did you knowthat Lady Una Troubridge introduced the French writer Colette to English readers?
text: Did you knowthat pockets of resistance created during the German invasions of France in 1940 and Yugoslavia in 1941 developed into resistance movements that tied down several German divisions?
text: Did you knowthat Sol Spiegelman , a prominent American molecular biologist , is credited with creating the Spiegelman Monster ?
text: Did you knowthat the oldest known remains of anatomically modern humans in the world were excavated in the Klasies River Caves ?
text: Did you knowthat Buster Martin , aged 100, is believed to be the United Kingdom 's oldest employee ?
text: Did you knowthat Siba Singha established Shaktism , a Hindu sect, as the major religion in Assam in the early 18th century?
text: Did you knowthat the main force of the Łódź Army was destroyed in the Battle of the Border during the Polish Defensive War of 1939, but an Operational Group held out for a month defending the Modlin fortress ?
text: Did you knowthat the nearly circular shape of Lukanga Swamp , a wetland covering 2,600 km² in Central Province , Zambia , has led to speculation that it may be a crater formed by the impact of a meteorite ?
text: Did you knowthat the Stag-moose (Cervalces scotti) went extinct about 11,500 years ago, part of a mass extinction of large North American mammals toward the end of the most recent ice age ?
text: Did you knowthat a Junkers Ju88 was shot down and crashed on the drive of historic Hestercombe House on 28 March 1944 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indian Institute in central Oxford , England was founded by Sir Monier-Williams in 1883 to provide training for the Indian Civil Service ?
text: Did you knowthat J.C. Newman Cigar Company , founded in 1895, is America's oldest family-owned premium cigar maker?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian fascist politician Ion Sân-Giorgiu at first considered Antisemitism to be "an act of poverty of a failed intellectual", but soon changed his position calling Jews a "national cancer"?
text: Did you knowthat the names of broad gauge railway locomotives were drawn from areas such as Greek , Roman and other mythologies , famous people, literature , flora , fauna , towns , geographical features, speed and power?
text: Did you knowthat the Embassy Gulf Service Station in Washington, D.C. was designed to be reminiscent of banks and libraries ?
text: Did you knowthat one of the victims of convicted Balcony Rapist Paul Callow was awarded damages of $ 220,000 against the Toronto police force because it failed to warn women in her neighbourhood after four earlier rapes ?
text: Did you knowthat British banker, Conservative MP , and conservationist Sir John Lindsay Eric Smith founded the Landmark Trust in 1965?
text: Did you knowthat a part of Rawa River in Silesia is currently so polluted it is officially classified as a sewage channel?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Brickowski played basketball in Italy , France and Israel for three years in the early 1980s, until the New York Knicks thought he was ready for the NBA ?
text: Did you knowthat the "Mohawk Valley formula," a strikebreaking plan devised during the Remington Rand strike of 1936-1937 , was declared by the National Labor Relations Board to be "a battle plan for industrial war"?
text: Did you knowthat the Monument to the Heroes of the Military Engineers' Army is dedicated to the Romanian military engineers of World War I , of whom more than a thousand were killed?
text: Did you knowthat British Labour Party politician Lena Jeger, Baroness Jeger was the oldest female former member of the British House of Commons at the time of her death?
text: Did you knowthat the German submarine U-777 was sunk in October 1944, less than 7 months after being launched?
text: Did you knowthat George Patterson's score of 271 is the highest total in a single innings for a cricketer from a non- Test nation?
text: Did you knowthat Silesia Stadium in Poland has hosted crowds of over 100,000 people, but its capacity was reduced below 50,000 to comply with international safety standards?
text: Did you knowthat Group Captain (later Air Chief Marshal Sir) Frederick Scherger was one of the few senior RAAF officers in Northern Australia to emerge from the inquiry into the bombing of Darwin in February 1942 with his career undamaged?
text: Did you knowthat " Follow My Heart " , performed in five different languages at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 , was the fourth consecutive song by Poland in multiple languages?
text: Did you knowthat the American mathematician Yudell Luke wrote two books on the probabilities of winning at the card game of cribbage ?
text: Did you knowthat the Scottish island of Lunga is the location of the "well of the church of Saint Columba ", which reputedly never runs dry?
text: Did you knowthat in exchange for shutting down the Manhattan Opera Company and refraining from producing opera in the United States for ten years, Oscar Hammerstein I received over a million dollars from the Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you knowthat Czech decathlete Roman Šebrle , world record holder and 2004 Olympic winner, was injured in January 2007 when a javelin which had been thrown 55 metres pierced his shoulder?
text: Did you knowthat Kiev 's Museum of Western and Oriental Art houses the largest collection of foreign art in Ukraine ?
text: Did you knowthat private investigator Bradley Willman used a Trojan horse to gain open access to 2,000 to 3,000 computers that had been used to visit websites of interest to pedophiles ?
text: Did you knowthat despite finishing its first season with a profit of $53,000, the Damrosch Opera Company was forced to close due to mounting deficits after only six years in business?
text: Did you knowthat six striking coal miners , nine of their family members, and one bystander were killed during the Westmoreland County Coal Strike of 1910-1911 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian communist politician Valter Roman was active not only in the Romanian Communist Party , but also in the communist parties in Czechoslovakia , France , and Spain ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Old Javanese eulogy of Nagarakretagama , Kertanegara , the last king of the Singhasari kingdom , was deified into three deity forms?
text: Did you knowthat Amaro spent three hundred years standing at the gate of the Earthly Paradise without being allowed in, according to the Life of Saint Amaro ?
text: Did you knowthat Free French Forces liberated all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France in November 1940 in the Battle of Gabon ?
text: Did you knowthat the Church of Scientology attempted to ban the non-fiction book Scientology: The Now Religion in Canadian libraries during 1974 ?
text: Did you knowthat U-F2 was a French submarine that was taken as a prize by the Germans in 1940 from a dockyard, and was later converted for German usage?
text: Did you knowthat prominent Russian sculptor Fyodor Kamensky worked as a farmer in Florida ?
text: Did you knowthat the Monastery of Jesus in Setúbal , Portugal , the first building associated with the Manueline style, was built by Diogo Boitac ?
text: Did you knowthat "Antietam" is misspelled on the facade of the Civil War Memorial in DeKalb County, Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat the majority of Assyrians in Finland live in Oulu , the sixth largest city in the country?
text: Did you knowthat for participating in the American premiere of Richard Wagner 's Parsifal against the wishes of the composer's family, Milka Ternina was never again invited to perform at Bayreuth ?
text: Did you knowthat the Grade I-listed St. Bartholomew's Church, Brighton , England , was described as a "monster excrescence", "a cheese warehouse" and a "brick parallelogram " by some of its detractors at a heated Council meeting in 1893?
text: Did you knowthat Albinus of Angers , who as bishop reportedly used diocesan funds to ransom people captured by pirates, thereafter became the patron saint against pirate attack and of coastal communities as far away as Poland and New Jersey ?
text: Did you knowthat Portuguese architect Mateus Fernandes is best known for his Manueline -style work at the Monastery of Batalha ?
text: Did you knowthat the Winter Garden Atrium was the first major structure in New York City to be completely restored following the September 11, 2001 attacks ?
text: Did you knowthat James Bond author Ian Fleming suggested that Dame Violet Dickson should write her autobiography while he was researching a book on Kuwait , and that her autobiographical book was eventually published but his never was?
text: Did you knowthat the National Philharmonic Society of Ukraine was used as a House of Political Education and a Bolshevik Club after the Russian Revolution ?
text: Did you knowthat the mummified fossil of an Edmontosaurus annectens was secured by the American Museum of Natural History for $2,000?
text: Did you knowthat the pool game of baseball pocket billiards borrows both language and aspects of form from the game of baseball , featuring a pitcher, a home plate , runs and is played to nine innings ?
text: Did you knowthat Ousmane Sembène's 1966 Senegalese film Black Girl was one of the first Sub-Saharan African films to receive international acclaim?
text: Did you knowthat of the 95 Auk class minesweepers used in World War II only one was sunk by an enemy submarine and only 11 were lost in total?
text: Did you knowthat the Leo J. Ryan Federal Building , which opened in 1973 , was named in honor of Congressman Leo J. Ryan , the first and only United States Congressman to die in the line of duty?
text: Did you knowthat " Kinek mondjam el vétkeimet? " received three perfect scores at the start of voting in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 before ultimately coming in fourth, making Hungary the only debuting nation to lead the voting?
text: Did you knowthat a shop drawing is not created by the architect or the engineer , but by the fabricator ?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Colin Skinner , a British molecular biologist , is attempting to walk around the world?
text: Did you knowthat wandering spleen is a rare medical disease caused by the loss or weakening of the ligaments that help to keep the spleen in the upper left part of the abdomen ?
text: Did you knowthat the Stowe Recreation Path received the majority of its funding from selling of pieces of it, as small as an inch ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie is the oldest continuously operating theater in New York State ?
text: Did you knowthat the heart of Frederic Chopin is kept in an urn in the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw ?
text: Did you knowthat the Inuktun language, spoken by 1000 Inughuit people around Qaanaaq in northern Greenland , is related to Canadian Inuit languages ?
text: Did you knowthat retired American football player William Fuller is one of the few players in National Football League history to record 100 career quarterback sacks ?
text: Did you knowthat Darjeeling Himalayan Railway was the second railway in the world that was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO ?
text: Did you knowthat Edyta Górniak sang part of " To Nie Ja " in English at the dress rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 , which almost caused the song to be disqualified?
text: Did you knowthat Mount Omine is a sacred mountain in Nara , Japan , famous for its controversial ban on women and for its three tests of courage?
text: Did you knowhow patients with gender identity disorder are classified over the course of their medical treatments?
text: Did you knowthat Tolay Lake has yielded thousands of charmstones thrown into the lake by prehistoric peoples to invoke health and high crop yields?
text: Did you knowthat the illumination method used in modern light microscope design was invented by 27-year-old German graduate student August Köhler in 1893?
text: Did you knowthat Goat Rock Beach in Sonoma County, California has a number of sea stacks and offers viewing of marine natural arches ? ...
text: Did you knowthat Lou Ye ' s film Summer Palace was the first Chinese film to feature both male and female full-frontal nudity ?
text: Did you knowthat Nicholas II of Russia , his wife and children have all been recognized as saints of the Russian Orthodox Church ?
text: Did you knowthat Vitamin C megadosage is an alternative medical practice which advocates huge doses of vitamin C to cure a wide range of diseases?
text: Did you knowthat Jacob Dacian , a Franciscan missionary to the P'urhépecha Indians of Mexico, spoke 8 different languages and was probably a son of King John I of Denmark ?
text: Did you knowthat 16-year-old Cory Kennedy became an "Internet It girl " in 2006 without her parents even knowing?
text: Did you knowthat the location of tropical cyclone formations are traditionally divided into seven basins ?
text: Did you knowthat Hernando Arias de Saavedra was the first native-born governor of a New World colony and issued the order leading to the modern-day partition of Argentina and Paraguay ?
text: Did you knowthat Kavirajamarga , the earliest extant literary work in the Kannada language , was written by King Amoghavarsha I who was a famous poet and a scholar ?
text: Did you knowthat many Australian wool, dairy, and wheat towns were created overnight when demobilized WWI and WWII soldiers accepted Crown land in otherwise uninhabited rural locations?
text: Did you knowthat the Life Assurance Act 1774 , still in force in Britain today, closed a legal loophole which had allowed life insurance policies to be used as a form of gambling ?
text: Did you knowthat Stefan Báthory assisted Vlad Dracula to reclaim the throne of Wallachia in 1476?
text: Did you knowthat when it was shown at the Metropolitan Opera , Diana von Solange by Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was so poorly received that three hundred people signed a petition demanding that it be removed from the repertory?
text: Did you knowthat Beata Brookes , Conservative MEP for North Wales for ten years, has been nicknamed "the Celtic Iron Lady"?
text: Did you knowthat the actions of Captain Alfred C. Haynes and the crew of United Airlines Flight 232 are often cited as an exemplar of good airmanship ?
text: Did you knowthat the 22 Bodmer Papyri from a fifth-century Egyptian monastic library near Nag Hammadi contain three plays by Menander and fragments of the Iliad , as well as early versions of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John ?
text: Did you knowthat The Christian by Hall Caine (published 1897) was the first novel in Britain to sell over a million copies?
text: Did you knowthat British Conservative MP Norman Miscampbell turned down a knighthood because he thought it would prevent him enjoying his retirement from politics?
text: Did you knowthat the former KGB agent Yuri Nosenko was incarcerated for five years by the CIA including 1,277 days of interrogation, because the American agents did not believe he had truly defected ?
text: Did you knowthat Leon Wasilewski , first Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs , was one of the chief supporters of the Prometheism policy aimed at breaking up the Soviet Union ?
text: Did you knowthat Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden wrote three biographies about the Russian imperial family and about her own escape from Russia in 1917?
text: Did you knowthat, when first built, the Chicago Board of Trade Building became the second structure located at 141 West Jackson Boulevard to bear, for a time, the title of tallest building in Chicago ?
text: Did you knowthat just 51 days after Adam Air 's loss of Flight 574 , Adam Air Flight 172 snapped in half after a hard landing, but there were no casualties?
text: Did you knowthat George Cecil Ives created the Order of Chaeronea , a secret society to promote gay rights, and left 122 volumes of diaries and 45 of scrapbooks?
text: Did you knowthat approximately 300 pieces of mail a day are still being sent to 10048 , the ZIP code assigned to the former World Trade Center complex?
text: Did you knowthat the legend of the smuggler Cruel Coppinger was embellished by the Reverend Robert Stephen Hawker when he published it in 1866?
text: Did you knowthat a special kind of soil from Bidar fort is an essential ingredient in making Bidriware , a metal handicraft of Karnataka , India ?
text: Did you knowthat United States Senator Charles Sumner was nearly beaten to death by Representative Preston Brooks in the Old Senate Chamber of the United States Capitol ?
text: Did you knowthat maize was the staple of Aztec cuisine , and that maguey worms , spirulina and corn smut were popular Aztec foods?
text: Did you knowthat the low alcohol beer Buckler was taken out of the market in the Netherlands after sales dropped as a result of the negative image created by comedian Youp van 't Hek in 1989?
text: Did you knowthat orographic rainfall, one of the three types of rainfall , is caused when cool air is forced upward by mountains to form clouds which then produce rain?
text: Did you knowthat the Brown Rock Chat sometimes nests in the rafters of inhabited houses ?
text: Did you knowthat St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is one of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 's oldest churches and a prime example of the ' Polish Cathedral ' style?
text: Did you knowthat nomadic eagle falconers maintain that "as the man trains the eagle, so does the eagle train his man"?
text: Did you knowthat Josef Hoffmann co-founded two major art groups and his designs served as a precedent for modern architecture ?
text: Did you knowthat ten case forms can be traced in the Lithuanian language , seven of which are preserved in the standard language version?
text: Did you knowthat Arthur Fonjallaz was expelled from the Heimatwehr , a fascist organization in Switzerland , because he advocated an annexation by Italy ?
text: Did you knowthat Copadichromis borleyi is a type of mouthbrooding fish endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat the first Director of Singapore 's Commercial Affairs Department , Glenn Knight , was also the first legal officer in the country to be charged for corruption ?
text: Did you knowthat a British submarine flotilla dominated the Baltic Sea for a major part of WWI , but the loss of the Socialists in the Finnish Civil War forced the crews to scuttle the fleet outside Helsinki ?
text: Did you knowthat the term " a feather in your cap " comes from the traditional rights bestowed upon warriors or hunters who have killed their enemy or prey?
text: Did you knowthat Fort Antes in what is now Nippenose Township , Pennsylvania , survived a scorched earth attack during the American Revolutionary War , despite having been abandoned by its defenders?
text: Did you knowthat Chitrakala Parishat , an art institution and a cultural organization in Bangalore , was the brainchild of famous Russian painter Svetoslav Roerich who used to reside in that city?
text: Did you knowthat Peter of Tarentaise started the charitable tradition of giving food to poor farmers in the spring called pain de Mai (May-bread), which continued for over 600 years?
text: Did you knowthat the people of the Bronze Age Elp culture in the present-day Netherlands lived in longhouses similar to those inhabited by the area's farmers today?
text: Did you knowthat MANual Enterprises v. Day 370 U.S. 478 (1962) was the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a Post Office Department order holding obscene materials "nonmailable"?
text: Did you knowthat the Arab Socialist Action Party , the main secular opposition group in Saudi Arabia at the time, faced a massive crackdown in the spring of 1982?
text: Did you knowthat William Firmatus , a Norman hermit , is said to have led a wild boar by the ear from a farmer's plot and instructed it to fast for the night in a solitary cell?
text: Did you knowthat the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 established the first peacetime draft in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Philip Whistler Street was a Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of New South Wales , Australia -- as were his son Kenneth and his grandson Laurence ?
text: Did you knowthat the Common Skullcap , a perennial plant found throughout Eurasia , is traditionally used as a mild sedative ?
text: Did you knowthat the Potawatomi , a tribe of Native Americans , were evicted from land near Indiana ’s Yellow River less than six years after tribal chiefs signed a treaty granting them that land in perpetuity?
text: Did you knowthat the Lutheran Church of China was created from the union of no less than 25 separate Lutheran missionary agencies?
text: Did you knowthat 18% of all deaths occurring in automobile accidents are the result of traumatic aortic ruptures ?
text: Did you knowthat Gaetano Donizetti 's opera Le duc d'Albe didn't receive its first performance until more than 40 years after his death?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Andrew Rochford , a presenter on the popular Australian television show What's Good For You , got his break after he won the popular show The Block ?
text: Did you knowthat the ideology of the Romanian National Renaissance Front has been described as " operetta fascism "?
text: Did you knowthat according to Ronald Enroth 's book Churches That Abuse , " spiritual abuse can take place in the context of doctrinally sound, Bible -preaching, fundamentalist , conservative Christianity "?
text: Did you knowthat Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look", a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of gay pornography which dominated the genre through the 1980s?
text: Did you knowthat the port of Kuala Belait , one of the two ports in Brunei , is located in Kampong Sungai Duhon ?
text: Did you knowthat Benedict Arnold learned about the capture of his fellow-conspirator John André while living on Sugarloaf Hill , from which he then fled?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese painter Shimomura Kanzan came from a family of Noh actors, and that themes from Noh drama frequently appeared in his works?
text: Did you knowthat participants in the Sterling Institute of Relationship dance naked in a ritual while being videotaped?
text: Did you knowthat Jim Hutchinson , who died in 2000, was the longest-lived first-class cricket player, at 103 years and 344 days?
text: Did you knowthat Edward R.  Bradley was the preeminent owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses in the Southern United States during the early 20th century?
text: Did you knowthat there are 618 species of birds in Belize ?
text: Did you knowthat the Zambian district of Chiengi has no television or telephone service?
text: Did you knowthat American comic book artist Art Saaf also made storyboards for The Jackie Gleason Show and illustrated Highlights for Children ?
text: Did you knowthat the Institute of National Remembrance , a Polish research institute on modern Polish history , has been in a center of recent Polish politics ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tel Aviv bus 5 massacre was the deadliest suicide bombing in Israeli history up until that time?
text: Did you knowthat when Reprise Records signed 17-year-old Chris Cummings to a record contract in 1992, he was the youngest artist they had ever signed?
text: Did you knowthat ceramics expert Otto Natzler perfected over 2,000 colours and styles of glazes ?
text: Did you knowthat the enrollment rate of girls in schools in Yemen is the lowest out of all Middle Eastern countries?
text: Did you knowthat gay pornographic film director Scott Masters directed more than 100 loops before founding his own company, Nova Studios ?
text: Did you knowthat more than one million Koreans moved to Arab countries and Iran between 1975 and 1985?
text: Did you knowthat nearly 3 million rupees worth of property was stolen from the house of Kannada cinema actor Srinath on the day of his daughter's marriage in 2001?
text: Did you knowthat the 1914 comic strip Abie the Agent , the first American comic with a Jewish protagonist , has been called the first adult comic?
text: Did you knowthat Kveldulf Bjalfasson , a ninth-century Norwegian landowner and grandfather of the Viking Egill Skallagrímsson , was reputed to be an ulfhéðinn or werewolf ?
text: Did you knowthat Nabisco Brands, Inc. sold the US Shredded Wheat operations to General Foods , and the international Shredded Wheat operations to General Mills ?
text: Did you knowthat between her marriage to Marcus Garvey and her relationship with President of Liberia William Tubman , Pan-Africanist activist Amy Ashwood Garvey ran a club on London 's Carnaby Street ?
text: Did you knowthat reification is a logical fallacy that occurs when qualities of a living being are attributed to an abstract concept ?
text: Did you knowthat Whistling Kites in Australia primarily hunt live prey, while those in New Guinea are principally scavengers ?
text: Did you knowthat the Poplar Tree Elementary School building was damaged by boulders from blasting works during its construction, and it initially had no playground ?
text: Did you knowthat the women courtiers in the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom were expected to be adept in 64 arts, with Kasuti embroidery being one of them?
text: Did you knowthat former Ghana MP Eric Amoateng was arrested in the United States and has pled guilty to drug trafficking -related charges?
text: Did you knowthat the town of Channapatna in India is known as the "toy-town of Karnataka " due to the popularity of the wooden toys manufactured there?
text: Did you knowthat the eight surviving medieval Bulgarian royal charters are among the few available secular documents from the time of the Second Bulgarian Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat the performance of " Let Me Try " at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 featured performers banging on what appeared to be drums of industrial waste ?
text: Did you knowthat there are 254 Hewitts and Nuttalls in England?
text: Did you knowthat Yalchik Lake is the biggest lake in Mari El , Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat Anne Hyde Choate was the second president of the Girl Scouts of the USA and also an international Scouting leader in WAGGGS for fifty years?
text: Did you knowthat Marbrianus de Orto was one of the first composers to write a completely canonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass ?
text: Did you knowthat Tejashwini Sreeramesh , an Indian Member of Parliament from the Kanakapura constituency of Karnataka , was previously an anchor of a talk show on Udaya TV ?
text: Did you knowthat microfinance organization FINCA International is known as the " World Bank for the poor"?
text: Did you knowthat Alex Stevenson is the only footballer to play for both the Republic of Ireland and Rangers F.C. ?
text: Did you knowthat the non-fiction book Est Playing the Game was almost blocked from publication because it described techniques used in Erhard Seminars Training ?
text: Did you knowthat one of the liturgies of the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate , a part of Western Rite Orthodoxy , is a modified form of the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer ?
text: Did you knowthat John Bower was the first non- European to ever win in any events at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1968?
text: Did you knowthat Banga Mahila Vidyalaya (Bengali Women’s College) was the first women’s liberal arts college in India ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1934 film Sati Sulochana was the first ever talkie produced in the Kannada language ?
text: Did you knowthat Marthe Richard was a former prostitute and spy who worked to make brothels illegal in France ?
text: Did you knowthat Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park in California was initially built and run in the 1970s by the Newhall Land and Farming Company ?
text: Did you knowthat despite a requirement for scientists to share data , over a quarter of geneticists could not access data required to validate research?
text: Did you knowthat Andrew N. Meltzoff 's research revealed that infants of only a few weeks of age can imitate facial expressions and hand gestures ?
text: Did you knowthat Alexandru Ghika , the founder of the Romanian school of functional analysis , was the great-great-grandson of Grigore IV Ghica , Prince of Wallachia ?
text: Did you knowthat the villagers of Kotor referred to Dominican visionary and anchoress Osanna of Cattaro as "the trumpet of the Holy Spirit " and the "teacher of mysticism "?
text: Did you knowthat it is said that the name for Gilbertstone in Birmingham derives from a man named Gilbert lifting an erratic to extend his land?
text: Did you knowthat Amsterdam 's Prostitution Information Center provides the city's visitors with information and advice about prostitution ?
text: Did you knowthat the Lieutenant Governor's Court was the first real civil court in Tasmania and that a judge-advocate presided in the court rather than the lieutenant governor?
text: Did you knowthat Terry Major-Ball , elder brother of the former British Prime Minister Sir John Major , wrote an "exquisitely funny" autobiography detailing his mishaps running the family's garden ornament business in the 1950s?
text: Did you knowthat the Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation is the first attempt at recording the complete history of Russian and Soviet animation ?
text: Did you knowthat the father of Nguyen Van Cu , the Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilot who led the 1962 Presidential Palace bombing , was a dissident jailed by Ngo Dinh Diem ?
text: Did you knowthat the David Bowie song " Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) " was inspired by Evelyn Waugh 's novel Vile Bodies , which was also the basis for the film Bright Young Things ?
text: Did you knowthat Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club was the site of Tiger Woods ’ record third consecutive amateur championship ?
text: Did you knowthat Very Light Jet entrepreneur Jim McCotter founded a religious movement ?
text: Did you knowthat 25 of the 368 Cuban bird species are endemic ?
text: Did you knowthat according to legend, when a peasant stole a donkey from Opportuna of Montreuil ' s abbey , she "left the matter up to God ," and the next day, the peasant's field was sown with salt ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2,000 American soldiers who fought in the Battle of Short Hills against 17,000 British men suffered only minor casualties and were able to inflict considerable damage on the enemy?
text: Did you knowthat there are two radio stations in Brunei that broadcast partially in Gurkhali for the Nepalese speakers of the First Battalion of the Royal Gurkha Rifles stationed in Brunei?
text: Did you knowthat Jiang Rong was inspired to write his 2004 novel Wolf Totem during China 's Cultural Revolution after a failed attempt to domesticate a wolf ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1983 film Circle of Power won a Dramatic Films award at the 1982 Sundance Film Festival ?
text: Did you knowthat County Route 708 in Camden County, New Jersey is only one of four routes in that county that has multiple routes of the same number?
text: Did you knowthat Donald Stephens , recently deceased mayor of Rosemont, Illinois for 51 years, is believed to have been the longest-serving mayor in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat in economics , the kinked demand curve theory was the first attempt at explaining sticky prices?
text: Did you knowthat French mycologist and naturalist Lucien Quélet claimed in his book, Mycologic Flora of France , that the human race as a whole was becoming more and more primitive ?
text: Did you knowthat the Lykaia in Arcadia was a primitive rite of passage centered upon a threat of cannibalism and the possibility of a werewolf transformation?
text: Did you knowthat James T. Brand of the Oregon Supreme Court was the presiding judge for most of the Judges' Trial , in which 10 German lawyers and judges were convicted of war crimes after World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat in negative base systems, positive and negative numbers can be represented without the use of a minus sign ?
text: Did you knowthat Gurdwara Sahib Klang , a Sikh Gurdwara in Malaysia , was constructed with donations collected by Sikh Sangats all over Malaysia, including a large sum from the Prime Minister's Department?
text: Did you knowthat in 2000, Willamette Industries, Inc. was fined a then-record $11.2 million by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for violations of the Clean Air Act ?
text: Did you knowthat Ladipo Solanke , long the Secretary-General of the West African Students' Union , was the first person to broadcast on the radio in the Yoruba language ?
text: Did you knowthat the Portland Power ’s Natalie Williams was the leading scorer in the ABL during the 1997 to 1998 season?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian artist Ion Valentin Anestin was censored and ultimately arrested by the Communist regime for publishing caricatures of Joseph Stalin during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat a British Gurkha Battalion has been maintained in Brunei at the request of the Sultan of Brunei since the 1962 Brunei Revolt ?
text: Did you knowthat Kerry Lynch is the only nordic combined skier to ever be disqualified for doping and stripped of his medal at the Winter Olympics or Nordic skiing World Championships ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Menzies established Newcastle, New South Wales as a settlement, when he was only 21 years of age?
text: Did you knowthat Jacqui Oatley is the first female football commentator in the history of BBC football programme Match of the Day ?
text: Did you knowthat the Avinguda Diagonal , a street in Barcelona , Spain , is so named because it cuts the central district Eixample in two diagonally?
text: Did you knowthat Dan Jones heard founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Joseph Smith, Jr. 's " final prophecy " the day before Smith was killed?
text: Did you knowthat the Vietminh named the grenades they made and used against the French after Phan Dinh Phung , who led a rebel army in the initial colonisation of Vietnam ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian Test cricketer Ray Lindwall played in two rugby league grand finals for the St. George Dragons ?
text: Did you knowthat Annette Akroyd , an orientalist , is remembered primarily for her early efforts at women’s education in India ?
text: Did you knowthat a German-American was aboard the German submarine, U-94 , when she was sunk by United States Navy and Canadian Navy forces?
text: Did you knowthat the Royal Brunei Navy formed as the Boat Section of the Brunei Malay Regiment ?
text: Did you knowthat Eduard Bloch was a Jewish doctor whose life was saved out of "everlasting gratitude" by Adolf Hitler ?
text: Did you knowthat on May 3 , 2002 a military MiG-21bis aircraft crashed into the Bank of Rajasthan in India , killing eight?
text: Did you knowthat the far right political writer Armin Mohler was refused entry to the SS and forced to return to his native Switzerland , where he was arrested for desertion from the Swiss Army ?
text: Did you knowthat Lyndon Johnson declined to respond to the Vietcong 's Christmas Eve 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing , fearing that fighting during the holiday season would damage morale?
text: Did you knowthat Julian Salomons was the only chief justice in New South Wales to resign before he was sworn into office?
text: Did you knowthat tourism is Nicaragua 's second largest industry, having grown 394% in the past 12 years?
text: Did you knowthat Royal Governor of Chile José de Garro planned to defeat the Mapuches by taking their chiefs hostage in a ruse, but the plan was rejected by King Charles II of Spain as too deceitful?
text: Did you knowthat in 1961 the Portland Buckaroos hockey team beat the Seattle Totems in the Western Hockey League championship to win the Lester Patrick Cup in its first season of existence?
text: Did you knowthat the non-fiction book The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled is cited in academic journals as an extreme example of encounter groups ?
text: Did you knowthat Irish cricketer and artist Robert Gregory was the subject of four poems by W. B. Yeats ?
text: Did you knowthat piano player and pupil of Ignacy Jan Paderewski , Maryla Jonas , debuted at the age of 9?
text: Did you knowthat book peddlers played an important cultural role in various countries, for which they sometimes suffered state persecution and sometimes enjoyed state protection?
text: Did you knowthat Australian Olympic swimming gold medalist Neil Brooks retired after being suspended for drinking 46 cans of beer on a flight from Britain back to Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat as British Colonial Secretary , Arthur Creech Jones oversaw dominion status in 1948 for Ceylon ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1928 legislative election is considered the last free election in Poland before the fall of communism six decades later?
text: Did you knowthat Kannada poet and Indian political activist Kayyara Kinyanna Rai published his first journal, Susheela , at the age of 12?
text: Did you knowthat Michigan State University Libraries has the largest catalogued collection of comic books in the world, with over 150,000 items?
text: Did you knowthat President Ngo Dinh Diem survived the 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing after a 500 lb (225 kg) bomb landed in his room and failed to detonate?
text: Did you knowthat the West Pharmaceutical Services explosion in 2003 occurred just 170 miles from the site of another industrial disaster , America 's second-worst ?
text: Did you knowthat Du battant des lames au sommet des montagnes ( French for "From the beating of the waves to the summit of the mountains") is a legal description of the manner in which the island of Réunion was divided into parcels?
text: Did you knowthat Rasau Field , one of the two onshore oil fields of Brunei , was discovered in 1979 but oil production only started in 1983?
text: Did you knowthat when the Sudanese Boeing 737 Air West Flight 612 was hijacked , the hijacker originally wanted to fly to Rome or London but was forced to settle for Chad due to a lack of fuel?
text: Did you knowthat the mushroom Lactarius rubrilacteus is also known as the " Bleeding milkcap " because it releases a dark-red milky substance when sliced or cut?
text: Did you knowthat the South Seas Evangelical Church , the third-largest religious affiliation in the Solomon Islands , traces its history to a mission for Kanakas in Queensland , Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat British Conservative politician Robert Jones was the only person to represent the parliamentary constituency of West Hertfordshire from its creation in 1983 to its abolition in 1997?
text: Did you knowthat the brief Dodecanese Campaign in 1943 resulted in one of the last major German victories in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Pankaj Gupta was one of the earliest Indian sports administrators involved in football , hockey and cricket ?
text: Did you knowthat Wee Chong Jin , one of the former judicial officers of the Republic of Singapore , was the longest-serving Chief Justice of Singapore and of a Commonwealth country, having held the post for over 27 years?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Hanumappa Sudarshan was honored with the Right Livelihood Award , also known as alternative Nobel Prize , for showing how tribal culture can help secure the basic rights and needs of indigenous people?
text: Did you knowthat Ashley Mallett , Australia 's most successful post-war off spinner , had his career curtailed by arthritis ?
text: Did you knowthat the genus Brachyplatystoma includes many large species of Amazonian catfish , including one which may reach about 3.6 metres (almost 12 feet ) in length?
text: Did you knowthat, even though the soldiers that constituted the Red Lancers , a horse -mounted military unit, first served as the Dutch Royal Guards, they were almost completely destroyed after their first battle in 1812?
text: Did you knowthat the role of Kanephoros was the most prominent public office a girl or woman could hold in ancient Athens ?
text: Did you knowthat tens of thousands of Armenian Khachkars have allegedly been destroyed in a systematic manner by the government of Azerbaijan ?
text: Did you knowthat during a 1942 air attack on the Koolama , an Australian merchant ship , a man survived a direct hit to his head by a bomb , dropped by a Japanese aircraft?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Naseem Ashraf was accused in Dawn of having a hidden agenda of de-Islamisation of  the Pakistan cricket team ?
text: Did you knowthat Shikellamy , an Oneida chief , was an emissary between the Iroquois and colonial government of Pennsylvania for nearly twenty years and helped negotiate several treaties?
text: Did you knowthat the 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt stalled after President Ngo Dinh Diem falsely promised reform, allowing loyalist forces to crush the rebels?
text: Did you knowthat in the early 18th century the Marquis de Ségur owned three of the five most prestigious wine estates in Bordeaux?
text: Did you knowthat 1927 Italian football champions Torino F.C. were stripped of their title for match fixing ?
text: Did you knowthat labor union activist Sam Pollock , who helped lead the Auto-Lite Strike , is the grandfather of noted experimental filmmaker Damon Packard ?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian politician Costică Canacheu campaigns for the official recognition of Aromanians as a national minority in his country?
text: Did you knowthat females of the tropical fish subfamily Glandulocaudinae are able to hold sperm in their ovaries for several months ?
text: Did you knowthat the body of a 5th-century Germanic warrior found with the Treasure of Pouan was initially thought to be that of Theodoric I ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian cricketer John Gleeson attributed the finger strength used in his two-finger bowling action to a childhood of milking cows ?
text: Did you knowthat the first documented discovery of gold in California was at Rancho San Francisco in 1842, six years before the California Gold Rush ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1964 South Vietnamese coup by General Nguyen Khanh succeeded even though his accomplice General Tran Thien Khiem overslept?
text: Did you knowthat Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee John Pesek was also inducted into the Greyhound National Hall of Fame?
text: Did you knowthat somewhere between a quarter and a third of Icelanders living in Iceland died due to the 1783 eruption of Laki , and the subsequent famine ?
text: Did you knowthat light echoes appear to exceed the speed of light due to simple interstellar illusions ?
text: Did you knowthat despite the scar literature after the Cultural Revolution in China contributing to Deng Xiaoping 's return to power, he later suppressed it?
text: Did you knowthat the Irish – Australian surveyor Robert D. Fitzgerald became so skilled in his hobby of botany that Charles Darwin corresponded with him and 4 plants were named in his honour?
text: Did you knowthat Churumuri.com , one of the most popular blogs on WordPress.com , is  named after a snack made of puffed rice that is a speciality of Mysore , Karnataka in India ?
text: Did you knowthat the Governors Court in New South Wales had a rule barring ex-convict lawyers from appearing before it, but all of the lawyers in the penal colony were ex-convicts?
text: Did you knowthat British philosopher Iain King is attempting to apply the scientific revolution to ethics ?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency is building nuclear power plants that float on water ?
text: Did you knowthat during the 2007 Rolex 24 At Daytona , Katherine Legge completed the one millionth lap in the history of the race?
text: Did you knowthat Dusky Woodswallows roost together in large flocks during the breeding season to protect their young from predators ?
text: Did you knowthat the person or group responsible for the blackmail letters of the Glico Morinaga case in Japan is known as the Monster with 21 Faces ?
text: Did you knowthat First Command Financial Planning, Inc. , a financial services company that caters to the U.S. military , was found "willfully" non-compliant related to fraudulent activities in its marketing ?
text: Did you knowthat Neville Duke was the top Allied fighter ace in the Mediterranean theatre in World War II , having shot down at least 27 aircraft?
text: Did you knowthat the Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball program is the only college women's team to appear in every NCAA Tournament and every Sweet 16?
text: Did you knowthat in the book Beyond Capricorn Peter Trickett claims that the Portuguese were the first to discover Australia , between 1519-24?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Charles MacCarthy , the British colonial governor of Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast , was killed by the Ashanti and his head kept as a trophy?
text: Did you knowthat Uruguayan footballer Víctor Rodríguez Andrade helped found the Uruguayan Basketball Federation team 25 de Agosto?
text: Did you knowthat Zhang Chengzhi , who formed China 's first group of Red Guards while a student at Tsinghua University Middle School , converted to Islam ?
text: Did you knowthat a version of the traditional Bengali panjika , the Hindu astrological almanac , comes with an interactive CD-ROM ?
text: Did you knowthat none of the storms of the 1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season in the Arabian Sea made landfall ?
text: Did you knowthat as Charles I of Austria attempted to regain the Hungarian throne in 1921, Czechoslovakia nearly entered Budapest in order to prevent a Habsburg restoration?
text: Did you knowthat the study reported in Evaluating a Large Group Awareness Training concluded that attending an LGAT seminar had minimal lasting effects, positive or negative, on participants' self-perception ?
text: Did you knowthat Martin Lindsay led the 1934 British Trans- Greenland Expedition, which set a world record for travelling 1050 mi (1680 km) using sledges ?
text: Did you knowthat only three works of Egardus , a fourteenth century composer whose music was known in Flanders , Italy , and Poland , are known to have survived?
text: Did you knowthat Gottlieb Ott changed Berne 's cityscape both by constructing new buildings and removing a medieval tower?
text: Did you knowthat the All India Sikh Students Federation was a major part of the movement for a Sikh -majority state of Punjab in India ?
text: Did you knowthat species of Prosaurolophus , a duckbilled dinosaur , have been described by Barnum Brown and Jack Horner , two of the most prominent paleontologists of the 20th century?
text: Did you knowthat Thrud the Barbarian , a comic character parodying Arnold Schwarzenegger 's depiction of Conan the Barbarian , has the intelligence of a garden snail ?
text: Did you knowthat the Free Belgian Forces fought in several theaters during World War II , including Great Britain, East Africa, the Mediterranean, and northwestern Europe?
text: Did you knowthat Jerry Zimmerman was the last active Major League Baseball coach to umpire a major league game?
text: Did you knowthat the first recorded use of " mad as a March hare " , which refers to the antics of hares during their breeding season , was written by Sir Thomas More in 1529?
text: Did you knowthat the defection of Polish secret police agent Józef Światło in 1953 shook the Polish United Workers' Party and led to the liberalization of Polish October ?
text: Did you knowthat Mother Theresa University, in Vilpatti Panchayat , South India , is the nation's only university exclusively devoted to women's issues?
text: Did you knowthat the history of invasive and interventional cardiology began with catheters being placed into the right and left ventricles of a living horse in 1711?
text: Did you knowthat the Korean dialect spoken by ethnic Koreans in Japan has changed so much that some of its speakers don't think it can be properly referred to as " Korean " anymore?
text: Did you knowthat Berne 's Christoffelturm , when it was over 500 years old, was pulled down in a political move that had 415 supporters and 412 opposers?
text: Did you knowthat in Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. , the United States Supreme Court declared that " nudity itself is not inherently expressive conduct"?
text: Did you knowthat Ninasam , a cultural organization in Karnataka , India , had a project sponsored by the Ford Foundation of the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cadillac Northstar LMP Le Mans prototype did not actually use an engine from a Cadillac , but instead an Oldsmobile ?
text: Did you knowthat Dominican Anthony Neyrot renounced Christianity after being captured by Moorish pirates , but publicly reconverted and was stoned to death at Tunis ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Battle of Dalmatia , Croatian forces were so ill-equipped that they stuffed explosives into Coca-Cola cans to create hand grenades ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1932 comedy Pojkarna på Storholmen , starring Fridolf Rhudin , is one of the most successful Swedish films in history?
text: Did you knowthat the White-eyed Gull , a rare gull endemic to the Red Sea , does not have white eyes?
text: Did you knowthat Rajarsi Janakananda , before becoming the leading disciple of Hindu Guru Paramahansa Yogananda , was a self-made American millionaire named James Jesse Lynn?
text: Did you knowthat the polymathic Thomas Shaw Brandreth invented the Cycloped , a horse-powered locomotive, and published a blank verse translation of the Iliad into English?
text: Did you knowthat Hugo Stoltzenberg developed the poison gas used at the 1915 Battle of Ypres during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat former Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson was cast in the 1927 silent exploitation film Is Your Daughter Safe? to ensure it would pass the city's censorship boards?
text: Did you knowthat a nonconvex polygon with three convex vertices is called a pseudotriangle ?
text: Did you knowthat online data broker Intelius owns more than half of the people search market?
text: Did you knowthat Dorus Rijkers was a Dutch lifeboat -captain who saved over 500 men, women and children from drowning at sea?
text: Did you knowthat Kampong Sungai Teraban in Brunei was settled by a group of Malay fishermen who moved across the Belait River after a falling out with the inhabitants of Kuala Belait ?
text: Did you knowthat the Court of Civil Jurisdiction was the first civil court established in New South Wales , Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2005, the newly-upgraded RORO ferry Queen of Oak Bay lost power and crashed into a marina , damaging or destroying 28 other vessels?
text: Did you knowthat the history of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore dates back to the arrival of Lutheran Hakka refugees following the Taiping Rebellion in China ?
text: Did you knowthat Operation Independence , which aimed to crush the Guevarist guerilla ERP , was the first large-scale operation in the Argentine Dirty War ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian Olympic swimming champion Faith Leech grew up on a diet of carrot juice and beetroot after refusing all other food as a baby?
text: Did you knowthat the pyramid scheme Holiday Magic was investigated by the State of California , the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission and shut down for fraud ?
text: Did you knowthat footballer Francis Lee earned his nickname Lee One Pen by setting an English record for the most penalties scored in a single season?
text: Did you knowthat Polish-Jewish and American historian Adam Ulam escaped The Holocaust by leaving to study in the U.S. only days before the Germans invaded Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat the cities of Viterbo and Narni fought a two-year battle over where the popular nun Lucia Brocadelli of Narni would reside?
text: Did you knowthat exploitation film director/producer S. S. Millard was able to pass himself off as Romanian nobility when a former Romanian queen visited California ?
text: Did you knowthat John Downer , Premier of South Australia from 1885 to 1887, is the grandfather of Alexander Downer , the current Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs ?
text: Did you knowthat Beighton Cup is the oldest field hockey tournament in the world?
text: Did you knowthat until 1861 Newton Abbot railway station had three separate train sheds for trains running on lines to and from Exeter , Plymouth , and Torquay ?
text: Did you knowthat Canford Cliffs , an affluent suburb of Poole , Dorset , includes an exclusive branch of HSBC bank which requires that customers without large accounts or mortgages pay to enter?
text: Did you knowthat Reginald H. Thomson , the civil engineer responsible for "virtually all of Seattle 's infrastructure", had a Ph.D. in philosophy ?
text: Did you knowthat like the characters in his television series The Practice and Boston Legal , David E. Kelley worked as a lawyer in a Boston law firm?
text: Did you knowthat the concentration ability of Augustine Fangi reportedly allowed him to undergo an operation without anesthetic and feel nothing?
text: Did you knowthat Bengali nationalism motivated the proposal for a united, independent Bengal as an alternative to the 1947 partition of Bengal ?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian legal doctrine of Persona designata allows a judge to exercise non-judicial power, if it has been conferred to the judge personally, rather than to his or her court?
text: Did you knowthat the concept of cross-boundary subsidies is developed out of a merging of ideas from the studies of landscape ecology and food web ecology?
text: Did you knowthat Judy Morris , co-writer of the Academy Award winning Happy Feet has also acted in many of the most popular North American and Australian television programs since the age of 10?
text: Did you knowthat some species of Iridomyrmex ants have a symbiotic relationship with caterpillars?
text: Did you knowthat Bhadda Kapilani , the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in understanding past reincarnations , was the former wife of Mahakasyapa , who led the sangha following the Buddha's paranibbana ?
text: Did you knowthat the First Tokyo Middle School , one of the top public secondary schools in Japan , expelled all of its Korean international students in 1905 when they demonstrated against the Eulsa Treaty between Japan and Korea ?
text: Did you knowthat Pedro Vuskovic 's plan to move Chile 's economy to a socialist model by democratic means led to runaway inflation and economic recession ?
text: Did you knowthat the International Grape Genome Program in Adelaide, Australia discovered that white grapes only exist today due to a rare genetic mutation that took place thousands of years ago?
text: Did you knowthat, following his death, Constabilis is said to have appeared to the abbots of La Trinità della Cava , which he founded, the first four of whom have also been declared saints ?
text: Did you knowthat Kannada cinema star Dr. Rajkumar was buried at Kanteerava Studios in Bangalore ?
text: Did you knowthat aged 14, Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win a gold medal at the Olympics ?
text: Did you knowthat Sam Mbakwe was nicknamed "the weeping governor" for shedding tears when trying to get the federal government of Nigeria to pay more attention to his state?
text: Did you knowthat the events of Polish October together with Hungarian November shook the Eastern Bloc in 1956 and set the course for the Revolutions of 1989 ?
text: Did you knowthat, until Johannes Rebmann saw snow on Kilimanjaro in 1848, most Europeans thought it could not exist in Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat Sarkis Soghanalian , the "Cold War's largest arms merchant", was backed by the CIA and was the primary private arms dealer to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war ?
text: Did you knowthat the preservation movement that resulted in the Chicago Landmark designation began with the 1957 adoption of the Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House ?
text: Did you knowthat National Cavalry refers to the reformed Polish cavalry , succeeding the famous but obsolete Polish Hussars ?
text: Did you knowthat Lake Kutubu , the largest upland lake in Papua New Guinea , has 12 endemic species of fish?
text: Did you knowthat Charles M. Loring was the father of the park system in Minneapolis , where Horace Cleveland designed the Grand Rounds and Theodore Wirth placed a park near every home?
text: Did you knowthat Nihonga artist Ogura Yuki was the first woman to be selected chairperson of the Japan Art Academy , and one of only two women painters to be awarded Japan's Order of Culture ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Smith Jr. instructed that members of the Latter Day Saints ' First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles should be accepted by the church as prophets, seers, and revelators ?
text: Did you knowthat Nguyen Van Nhung , who executed Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu following South Vietnam 's 1963 coup, was himself executed a few months later, after another coup?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Lant called the College of Arms "a company full of discord and envy?"
text: Did you knowthat the Dehousing Paper , presented to the British War Cabinet in 1942, advocated for a strategic bombing campaign of German cities?
text: Did you knowthat American John Thayer is the only known first-class cricketer to have died on the RMS Titanic ?
text: Did you knowthat the French-designed Minié rifle was the dominant infantry weapon of the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat Franz Liszt 's symphonic poem Hunnenschlacht was inspired by a painting of the same name by Wilhelm von Kaulbach ?
text: Did you knowthat David Lewis and his son Stephen Lewis served simultaneously as the leaders of the Canadian and Ontario New Democratic Party ?
text: Did you knowthat Lt.-Col. Tatsuji Suga of the Imperial Japanese Army and Commander of all POW and civilian internee camps in Borneo in World War 2 , was a graduate of the University of Washington ?
text: Did you knowthat Yasa , the sixth arahant of Gautama Buddha , was also the son and former husband of the first two female lay disciples?
text: Did you knowthat Frederick Matthew Darley was offered the position of Chief Justice of New South Wales , Australia, twice, and that he refused it the first time as he would earn less money than if he continued to practise as a barrister ?
text: Did you knowthat Emperor Gia Long united Vietnam under the Nguyen dynasty after French missionary Pigneau de Behaine , whom he met in a forest while fleeing the Tay Son dynasty , sought French military assistance?
text: Did you knowthat Canadian Ministers of Finance have a tradition of buying or wearing new shoes on budget day ?
text: Did you knowthat the key area of NBA basketball courts was widened to reduce the effectiveness of dominating centers like George Mikan ?
text: Did you knowthat Bollywood actress Shenaz Treasurywala was discovered while stuck in India when Kuwait Airways lost her luggage, including travel documents she needed to return to school in New York?
text: Did you knowthat Alan Davidson , regarded as one of the greatest left arm fast bowlers in the history of cricket , only took up the skill when his uncle's weekend team ran out of fast bowlers?
text: Did you knowthat the Beta Effect, which affects larger tropical cyclones and needs to be accounted for in tropical cyclone forecasting , forces a more northwest tropical cyclone track in the Northern Hemisphere ?
text: Did you knowthat when the Workers Party of North Korea was founded in 1946, Kim Il-sung was given the position of Vice Chairman of the party?
text: Did you knowthat Lloyd Groff Copeman , the inventor of the rubber ice cube tray , the electric stove and a toaster which turned bread automatically, was singer Linda Ronstadt 's grandfather?
text: Did you knowthat when Katherine Ann Power , a fugitive from justice for 23 years before turning herself in, was on the run in Oregon , she was treated for depression by Courtney Love 's mother?
text: Did you knowthat the lionfish genus Parapterois includes P. heterura , an attractive species uncommon in the aquarium trade, and the poorly known P. macrura ?
text: Did you knowthat long after Lana Stempien died by drowning, someone or something turned on the GPS system on her abandoned boat?
text: Did you knowthat after being captured by pirates , friar Matthew Carrieri offered to remain a captive in place of others, which shocked the pirate captain so much he set all the prisoners free?
text: Did you knowthat in 1954, the Federal Communications Commission sought to force union attorney Edward Lamb to surrender his broadcasting license on the grounds that he associated with communists ?
text: Did you knowthat vented cell (or flooded cell) nickel-cadmium batteries are used when large capacities and discharge rates are required?
text: Did you knowthat the Swiss castle Ruine Wulp was at one point torn apart and replaced with a single tower and building?
text: Did you knowthat Building 470 at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland housed fermentor tanks for producing Bacillus anthracis during the Cold War ?
text: Did you knowthat generic antecedents are essential parts of communication; and there are many strategies to refer to them clearly and appropriately?
text: Did you knowthat the 1975 film Tubby the Tuba marked the first time that computers were used in the production of an animated feature?
text: Did you knowthat during the Mexican-American War , Ygnacio del Valle destroyed a gold mine on his property to prevent the Americans from gaining access to it?
text: Did you knowthat it took a musicologist 12 years to reconstruct the missing portions of the only copy of English Renaissance composer Martin Peerson ' s Latin motets so they could be published and recorded?
text: Did you knowthat the Declaration to the Seven was the first British pronouncement to the Arab states of the former Ottoman Empire advancing the principle of national self-determination ?
text: Did you knowthat due to Claude de Bernales ' marketing of the gold fields of Western Australia in the 1930s, production increased sevenfold and employment in the industry quadrupled?
text: Did you knowthat the Missa de Beata Virgine was the most popular of Josquin des Prez 's masses in the 16th century?
text: Did you knowthat British MP James Henderson Stewart was only one of four National Liberals to vote against Neville Chamberlain in the Norway Debate ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cave of Swallows is so large and wide that it is possible to navigate a hot air balloon through the cave with ease?
text: Did you knowthat Phreatobius cisternarum , a species of catfish , is one of the few fish species that lives underground?
text: Did you knowthat Alwatan is the first and oldest Omani newspaper ?
text: Did you knowthat legend says that Osanna of Mantua miraculously learned to read just by looking at a piece of paper with the words Jesus and Mary written on it?
text: Did you knowthat US physicist Gaylord Harnwell was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ?
text: Did you knowthat Elvira Popescu , an actress , theatre director , and recipient of the Légion d'honneur , was one of four women who inspired Henri Matisse 's painting La Blouse Roumaine ?
text: Did you knowthat in Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. the U.S. Supreme Court held that preliminary work activities should be included as working time under the Fair Labor Standards Act ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ouachita Madtom is a rare species of miniature catfish found only in central Arkansas ?
text: Did you knowthat Kenneth Farrow GC attempted to rescue a boy from an underground aqueduct despite strong current, heavy deposits on the floor and almost no headroom or handholds?
text: Did you knowthat Camillo Ynitia was the only Native American on the northern frontier of Alta California to secure a large land grant for his tribe?
text: Did you knowthat Zen master Dahui Zonggao ordered the destruction of the Blue Cliff Record , his master's collection of koans , making it unavailable for the next two centuries?
text: Did you knowthat although Russian is the most widely used second language in Ukraine , it has no official status in the country?
text: Did you knowthat 11th century Muslim Al-Andalusian poet Wallada bint al-Mustakfi dressed in public in the fashion of the harems of Baghdad , without a customary hijab ?
text: Did you knowthat the homosexual content of the works of António Botto led Catholic students to call for the author's hanging ?
text: Did you knowthat the Auto-Lite Strike culminated in the "Battle of Toledo ," a five-day melee between 6,000 striking workers and 1,300 members of the Ohio National Guard that left two dead and more than 200 injured?
text: Did you knowthat botanist Leonard John Brass was born and died in Australia , served in the Canadian Army , became an American citizen and did most of his fieldwork in New Guinea ?
text: Did you knowthat educator Eliot Wigginton , editor of the landmark 12-volume Foxfire oral history anthologies, had to give up teaching in 1992 after pleading guilty to child molestation ?
text: Did you knowthat citizens from the city of Narni, Italy tried to kidnap Dominican mystic Columba of Rieti for their own city, but she escaped?
text: Did you knowthat Put Down Your Whip , a 1939 oil painting by Xu Beihong , recently sold for US$ 9.2 million, the highest price ever paid for a Chinese painting at an auction?
text: Did you knowthat the Saint Petersburg–Hiitola railroad was completed by 1917, but a year later the Finnish Civil War caused traffic to stop, with a mile of track removed?
text: Did you knowthat the crown in the coat of arms of Amsterdam is the Imperial Crown of Austria ?
text: Did you knowthat yaylag , the Turkic tradition of moving to highland pastures in the summer, started in the fourth millennium BCE?
text: Did you knowthat Grey Herons began nesting in the Kaggaladu heronry in only a single tree?
text: Did you knowthat the ancient goddess Venus derived her epithet Venus Erycina from her celebrated temple on Mount Eryx in Sicily ?
text: Did you knowthat the steam generated by the Southeast Steam Plant for the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota is enough to heat 55,000 homes?
text: Did you knowthat Stephana de Quinzanis once threw herself upon a cartload of thorns in imitation of a penance done by St Thomas Aquinas ?
text: Did you knowthat the idiom forty winks relates to the biblical use of the number 40 , thus meaning just the right amount of sleep?
text: Did you knowthat Sorubim is a genus of catfish with shovel -shaped long noses ?
text: Did you knowthat despite the country's oil revenues, only 87% of Venezuelan citizens have access to potable water and 71% have access to sanitation ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Holocaust , Capuchin friar Père Marie-Benoît created fake passports and baptism certificates in order to smuggle hundreds of Jews out of Southern France ?
text: Did you knowthat chal is a traditional Turkic drink made from fermented camel 's milk, which is popular in Central Asia , as well as in the Near East ?
text: Did you knowthat an appellate court panel immediately freed Wisconsin civil servant Georgia Thompson on conclusion of oral arguments , an almost-unheard of occurrence?
text: Did you knowthat the bestselling 1906 erotic novel Josephine Mutzenbacher is thought to have been written by Felix Salten , the author of Bambi ?
text: Did you knowthat Leela Majumdar , author of children's books, translated Jonathan Swift 's Gulliver's Travels and Ernest Hemingway 's The Old Man and the Sea into Bengali ?
text: Did you knowthat Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta is an ancient Sumerian tablet describing how Enmerkar of Uruk forced the people of Aratta to contribute materials for the ziggurats he was building?
text: Did you knowthat the modern meaning of " ballad ", a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form, came about from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway composers?
text: Did you knowthat NASA conducts field trials, called Desert RATS , for new technologies for manned exploration of the surface of the Moon , Mars , or beyond?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1957 Polish legislative elections , only 723 of 60,000 candidates were allowed to run?
text: Did you knowthat it is unclear whether the Church of St Abamūn in 13th century Busiris was dedicated to Abāmūn of Tarnūt or Abāmūn of Tukh ?
text: Did you knowthat the earliest known examples of polyphonic music , dating from the 9th century, are written in Daseian notation ?
text: Did you knowthat Hypancistrus is a genus of catfish with suckermouths , including popular aquarium fish such as the zebra pleco ?
text: Did you knowthat pharmacist Sir Hugh Linstead introduced the British Act of Parliament which criminalised cannabis cultivation?
text: Did you knowthat Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter was the first of its kind in Hong Kong ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1906 The New York Times praised The Langham apartment building , noting among its modern amenities " real ice "?
text: Did you knowthat the "secret university " largely organised by Frank Bell in a World War II POW camp taught subjects as diverse as Urdu , pig-farming, civics and chess?
text: Did you knowthat Neil Doak was named in the Ireland squad for the 2003 Rugby World Cup but did not play, just missing out on becoming the first Irish dual cricket / rugby union international since the 1960s?
text: Did you knowthat Antoni Szylling was captured by the Germans as a Major in the Russian Army during World War I , and was captured again by the Germans in World War II as a General of the Polish Army ?
text: Did you knowthat the "Girl Grimmett ", Peggy Antonio , was the first Australian to take a wicket in women's Test cricket ?
text: Did you knowthat Finland was close to becoming an independent kingdom in 1742?
text: Did you knowthat professional ice hockey player Bob Bailey was traded three separate times for Bill Dineen over a nine year period?
text: Did you knowthat the process of adding sugar to wine prompted 900,000 people to protest in the French Languedoc , culminating in riots that killed five people?
text: Did you knowthat the Armenian community of Dhaka played a major role in education in Bangladesh , and owned major landmarks, such as the gardens of Shahbag and Bangabhaban ?
text: Did you knowthat, as part of an advertising campaign in 2006, award-winning Romanian writer Ioan T. Morar impersonated Communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu ?
text: Did you knowthat Grey's Scouts , despite starting off as a small provisional group, became one of the most effective and successful Special Forces units in the Rhodesian Bush War ?
text: Did you knowthat although the modern trumpet is a recent invention, primitive trumpets of one form or another have been in existence for millennia?
text: Did you knowthat the Amoy dialect of Chinese formed the basis of Taiwanese ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chaga mushroom has been used as a folk remedy in Eastern European countries for ulcers , cancer and gastritis since the 16th century?
text: Did you knowthat Dr John Billings was an Australian neurologist who developed the Billings ovulation method of family planning ?
text: Did you knowthat the Poznań International Fair is the largest trade fair in Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat 18th century prostitute Sally Salisbury was sent to prison after a riot but was released by a judge who was infatuated with her?
text: Did you knowthat the city of Mysore , in the Indian state of Karnataka , has been called the " Cultural Capital of Karnataka "?
text: Did you knowthat Neil McLean persuaded the British government not to recognise the Yemen Arab Republic takeover of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen during the North Yemen Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthe 1765 cookery book The Frugal Housewife, or, Complete woman cook by English author Susannah Carter was republished in Boston in 1772, illustrated with engravings by Paul Revere ?
text: Did you knowthe AT&T Corporate Center is the tallest building built in Chicago in the last quarter of the 20th century?
text: Did you knowthat the Century apartments is one of the first residential buildings to be built in the Art Deco style, causing it to stand out from its Beaux-Arts neighbors on Central Park West ?
text: Did you knowthat despite plagiarizing a Chinese - French - Latin dictionary ordered by Napoleon , Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes went on to become a member of the French Academy of Sciences ?
text: Did you knowthat convicted American felon Matthew Cox was so bold in committing over $ 15 million of mortgage fraud that he allegedly even took out a mortgage under the name of The Simpsons character " C. Montgomery Burns "?
text: Did you knowthat The Wordless Book was invented by the London Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon and employs religious symbolism and color psychology in evangelism ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bangladeshi filmmaker Alamgir Kabir was imprisoned by Ayub Khan for being a leftist ?
text: Did you knowthat upon completion of Central Reclamation Phase 1 of the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation project in Hong Kong , the coastline of Central, Hong Kong was extended up to 350 metres beyond the original coastline?
text: Did you knowthat Eugene Antonio Marino became the first African American Catholic archbishop in the United States in 1988?
text: Did you knowthat Hungerford Market , a food market in London for nearly 200 years, was demolished in the 1860s to make way for Charing Cross railway station ?
text: Did you knowthat George B. Schwabe served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1921 to 1922 and was the first and only Republican to hold that position until 2005?
text: Did you knowthat the LST-1 -class tank landing ship USS Benzie County was featured in a World War II -era Camel cigarettes advertisement?
text: Did you knowthat the 1903 Vagabond Hurricane is the most recent Atlantic hurricane to strike the state of New Jersey , and briefly threatened the life of President Theodore Roosevelt ?
text: Did you knowthat the large reredos above the altar in St. Martin's Church in Brighton , England , includes 20 pictures and 69 statues, all of which were carved in Oberammergau , Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat 8-year-old Sylvia Mendez played an instrumental role in the 1946 Mendez v. Westminster case, which successfully ended de jure segregation in California schools?
text: Did you knowthat architecture critics praised the Art Deco Ghostbusters Building , in New York City , when it opened in 1929?
text: Did you knowthat Al Sobotka , who drives the Zamboni for Detroit Red Wings games, is the namesake of the team mascot Al the Octopus ?
text: Did you knowthat naturalist Remington Kellogg used his time serving in France during World War I to collect specimens for universities in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat archaeologists discovered bones of at least seven people sacrificed by druids in Havránok , Slovakia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Imperial Castle in Poznań was to be a symbol of Prussian power but was lost to Poland only eight years after its completion?
text: Did you knowthat S. graminifolium was one of only four Stylidium species collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander from Botany Bay in 1770 on their voyage to Australia with James Cook ?
text: Did you knowthat in five years of operation during World War II , more than 747 vessels were built in the Richmond Shipyards in Richmond, California —a feat not equaled anywhere else in the world, before or since?
text: Did you knowthat Lucceius Albinus had just been appointed Roman procurator and was still on his way to take office in Judea when the High Priest of Israel took advantage of the lack of imperial oversight to assemble a Sanhedrin and had James, the brother of Jesus stoned without Roman authorization?
text: Did you knowthat The Crystals did not actually sing on their 1962 #1 hit " He's a Rebel "?
text: Did you knowthat Pectinaria australis , a marine ice cream cone worm of New Zealand , builds a delicate tube home from sand grains only one grain thick?
text: Did you knowthat New York City 's Central Park West Historic District contains only one building not felt to contribute to its historic character?
text: Did you knowthat Brazilian bull rider Adriano Moraes is one of only three men to ride ten out of ten bulls at the U.S. National Finals Rodeo ?
text: Did you knowthat Ellis Bent was the first barrister appointed as a judge in Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat despite the relatively low level of academic output by Professor Gary Chaison , he is widely cited in the American mass media ?
text: Did you knowthat Le Quang Tung , the Catholic head of South Vietnam 's special forces had his CIA funding threatened because he concentrated on repressing Buddhists and raiding temples instead of fighting communists ?
text: Did you knowthat press passes grant the bearer access to crime scenes or other restricted areas unless it would interfere with the duties of emergency personnel?
text: Did you knowthat Innocence , a 2005 documentary film about a school in rural northern Thailand , influenced the Thai government to reverse cuts it had made in the education budget?
text: Did you knowthat an apparition of Saint Michael is said to have convinced Antoninus of Sorrento and Catellus of Castellammare to found a new church after both resigned from the same bishopric ?
text: Did you knowthat bishop Adam Stanisław Krasiński was one of the leaders of the Bar Confederation , the first Polish uprising ?
text: Did you knowthat Dr Brewer's A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar is a 19th century example of the persistence of the caloric theory of heat transfer?
text: Did you knowthat poison , over its 6500-year history , has been used for both great progression in medicine and as a hugely popular method of assassination ?
text: Did you knowthat the Banat Bulgarian Stefan Dunjov participated in both the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Italian unification , and was the first Bulgarian to be promoted to the rank of Colonel ?
text: Did you knowthat Anuruddha , one of the leading five disciples of Gautama Buddha , was his cousin?
text: Did you knowthat Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets is believed to have been the first professional painter of Chechen origin ever?
text: Did you knowthat the Gortyn code is the largest surviving piece of ancient Greek epigraphy ?
text: Did you knowthat aquarium filters are necessary to support life as aquaria are relatively small, closed volumes of water compared to the natural environment of most fish ?
text: Did you knowthat British architect Jan Kaplický escaped from Prague to London in the wake of the Prague Spring , carrying only US$100 and a few pairs of socks?
text: Did you knowthat the cornerstone of moral syncretism is that religion cannot be the only arbiter of morality ?
text: Did you knowthat Chabad rabbi Milton Balkany misappropriated more than $700,000 of federal grant money from a charitable organisation that cared for disabled children?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian cricket team 's world record of 16 consecutive wins ended during its 2002 India tour , when India recorded only the third win in Test cricket history by a side forced to follow-on ?
text: Did you knowthat Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church , the oldest church in Minneapolis, Minnesota , was originally built by a Universalist Society but soon acquired by a Catholic French Canadian congregation?
text: Did you knowthat Adolfo Holley was the first Minister of War and Navy of the victorious revolutionary congressional junta in the Chilean Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat Assaji , the last of the first five bhikkhus of Gautama Buddha to become an arahant , converted Sariputta and Mahamoggallana , the Buddha's two chief disciples?
text: Did you knowthat the Woodward & Lothrop Service Warehouse in Washington, D.C. still features a large pink neon sign identifying it as a Woodward & Lothrop property, even though the company is defunct?
text: Did you knowthat Work , painted over 13 years from 1852 to 1865, is generally considered to be the most important painting by Ford Madox Brown ?
text: Did you knowthat the units of the Red Army and the Afghan army fought the Battles of Zhawar in 1985-86 to destroy a mujahideen supply base near the Pakistani border?
text: Did you knowthat numerous common idioms feature one of the various slang meanings of 'dime' ?
text: Did you knowthat when Birmingham -based early-music choir Ex Cathedra founded its Baroque orchestra in its 1983–1984 season, this was the first period instrument orchestra to be established in an English city outside London ?
text: Did you knowthat Ngo Dinh Diem became president of South Vietnam after a fraudulent 1955 election run by his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu , polling 133% of registered voters in Saigon ?
text: Did you knowthat Sara Gruen’s historical novel Water for Elephants recounts that circus workers were sometimes thrown off the circus train in the middle of the night, a practice known as "redlighting"?
text: Did you knowthat an entire army had to retreat during the Cádiz Expedition of 1625 because almost all had become drunk on wine taken from a village they were raiding?
text: Did you knowthat The Best Bet , a film by former Singaporean gambling addict Jack Neo , was intended to warn people of the perils of gambling ?
text: Did you knowthat the July Theses , a set of proposals found in a speech by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu , were inspired by his visits to Communist China , Korea and Vietnam ?
text: Did you knowthat a boycott of Juanes ' song " La Camisa Negra " was organized after it was used by neo-fascists ?
text: Did you knowthat Squirrel Systems introduced the first touch screen point of sale terminal in 1984?
text: Did you knowthat the mother of Jamila Massey , an Indian actress and writer , refused to allow her to attend drama school, after the death of her father?
text: Did you knowthat Bishop Barbatus of Benevento is thought to have helped the city's resistance to Byzantine Emperor Constans II by destroying a Temple of Isis in the city, reusing the materials in building the city wall ?
text: Did you knowthat Dumitru Dămăceanu was a Romanian Army officer prominent in the royal coup of 1944 , and later was a signatory to the Paris Peace Treaties of 1947 ?
text: Did you knowthat the late-15th century Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales , a setting of the Ordinary of the Mass , is one of the most famous works composed by Josquin des Prez ?
text: Did you knowthat the Brabham BT19 driven by Jack Brabham was the first car bearing its driver's name to win a Formula One world championship race ?
text: Did you knowthat during his tenure as India's cricket coach , Kapil Dev , broke down in a BBC interview about alleged match-fixing ?
text: Did you knowthat Ajit Wadekar was the first Indian to represent the country as Test Cricket player, captain, coach/manager and Chairman of Selectors?
text: Did you knowthat Alexander of Bergamo is thought to have survived the decimation of the Theban Legion for their conversion to Christianity only to be individually beheaded later for the same reason?
text: Did you knowthat as part of a successful flattery campaign to persuade Ngo Dinh Diem 's loyalist general Ton That Dinh to defect, his colleagues bribed his soothsayer to predict his elevation to political authority?
text: Did you knowthat American Chabad Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin has been convicted of fraud twice?
text: Did you knowthat British barrister Sir Tony Hetherington was the first head of the Crown Prosecution Service after it was founded in 1986?
text: Did you knowthat it is estimated that 40% of the Tamil and Malayalam Nadar caste are Christians ?
text: Did you knowthat the SS in Nazi Germany were above civilian law, answering only to the SS-run Hauptamt SS Gericht ?
text: Did you knowthat after his 1967 film Branded to Kill , contract director Seijun Suzuki was fired by the Nikkatsu Company for making films "that make no sense"?
text: Did you knowthat retired LAPD homicide detective "Jigsaw John" St. John was posthumously reinstated to active duty in 1995 so that he could be buried as a detective?
text: Did you knowthat the Chronicle of Huru , a 19th century forgery advancing Moldavia 's independence, claimed that a Moldavian federal republic emerged from the Roman province of Dacia in 274?
text: Did you knowthat Patacara , who became a Buddhist while disconsolately wandering naked through the Indian city of Savatthi , rose to become the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in her mastery of the Vinaya ?
text: Did you knowthat the 16th-century Castillo de la Real Fuerza in Havana is the oldest stone fortress in the Americas ?
text: Did you knowthat German textile artist Gunta Stölzl was the only female "master" of the Bauhaus ?
text: Did you knowthat Liu Heita was a Xia general during China 's transition between the Sui and Tan dynasties in the 7th century?
text: Did you knowthat Ngo Dinh Can , brother and confidant of South Vietnam 's president Ngo Dinh Diem , was believed to have organised black market smuggling into North Vietnam ?
text: Did you knowthat the 800,000-member Global Pastors Network continues the legacy of Bill Bright by attempting to, in their own words, "win 1 billion people to Christ "?
text: Did you knowthat French pirate Jacques de Sores , who captured Havana in 1555, went by the nickname of "The Exterminating Angel"?
text: Did you knowthat the taekwondo form Ko-Dang was named after Korean nationalist Cho Man-sik , imprisoned and executed for his opposition to Kim Il-sung 's communists ?
text: Did you knowthat the fruits of Matico ( Piper aduncum ) are used as a condiment , for flavoring cocoa , and its leaves are used as an antiseptic , to stop hemorrhage , and to treat infections ?
text: Did you knowthat Greek composer Phivos has written songs for artists including Keti Garbi , Angela Dimitriou , Manto , Thanos Kalliris , and, most successfully, Despina Vandi ?
text: Did you knowthat the graphic novel The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers combines Kolkata 's Babu culture and the legend of The Wandering Jew ?
text: Did you knowthat the television series ER aired an episode based on the 2003 Chicago balcony collapse ?
text: Did you knowthat Clarenceux King of Arms Stephen Leake appointed his thirteen year old son Chester Herald in 1752?
text: Did you knowthat Clare Winger Harris was the first woman to publish short stories under her own name in science fiction magazines ?
text: Did you knowthat Phoebe Hessel , who masqueraded as a man for 17 years to fight in the British Army alongside her husband, is buried in the churchyard at St. Nicholas Church, Brighton , England ?
text: Did you knowthat when Indrajit Gupta , a Communist , became India 's Union Minister for Home Affairs in 1996, he became head of a ministry "which once policed the Commies"?
text: Did you knowthat Russian architect Lev Kekushev built Art Nouveau buildings in Moscow , Russia , in the 1890s and early 1900s, "signed" with a lion ( Lev ) ornament or sculpture?
text: Did you knowthat the synagogue at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna , Austria was devastated during Kristallnacht in 1938 and converted into a transformer station after the war ?
text: Did you knowthat John Aloysius Ward , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff from 1983, took early retirement in 2001, after the later years of his ministry were overshadowed by cases of sexual misconduct by priests in his archdiocese ?
text: Did you knowthat Conservatory Water in Central Park , New York City , shelters a seasonal population of the unusual freshwater medusa Craspedacusta sowerbyi ?
text: Did you knowthat Monisha , a South Indian cinema actress, was only 15 years old when she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her debut performance in Nakhashathangal ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Navy tank landing ship USS Orange County was decommissioned in August 1946, less than 18 months after entering service, but recommissioned four years later for the Korean War ?
text: Did you knowthat Immediate Past President of the American Bar Association Michael S. Greco taught English at Phillips Exeter Academy before attending law school ?
text: Did you knowthat Ranji Hordern took 34 out of 51 wickets (66 percent) in three matches for the Philadelphians in their 1909 tour of Jamaica ?
text: Did you knowthat Anastasio Aquino led a rebellion of El Salvador 's indigenous Nonualco tribe in the early 19th century, sacking the city of San Vicente in the then- Federal Republic of Central America ?
text: Did you knowthat Stoic philosophy contrasts kathekonta , actions in accordance with nature , with "perfect actions" (katorthomata) derived from pure reason ?
text: Did you knowthat Alpamysh , an ancient Turkic epic or dastan , is one of the foremost examples of the Turkic oral literature of Central Asia ?
text: Did you knowthat the de Bruijn notation and the de Bruijn index are mathematical notations invented by Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn for use in λ calculus ?
text: Did you knowthat the Red Forest , near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant , gets its name from the ginger brown colour of its dead pine trees after the Chernobyl accident ?
text: Did you knowthat the site of Spains Hall , an Elizabethan house near Finchingfield in Essex , has been owned by only three families since the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086?
text: Did you knowthat the relics of Sariputra and Mahamoggallana , Gautama Buddha 's two chief disciples, were the subject of more than two million Sri Lankan pilgrimage visits after their discovery by Sir Alexander Cunningham ?
text: Did you knowthat the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction , the first criminal court in Australia under British rule, operated more like a court-martial than a court of law?
text: Did you knowthat Jan du Plessis , Chairman of British American Tobacco 's board of directors , was named the tenth most powerful person in British business by The Times in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat the 1860 Republican and 1864 Democratic national conventions were held at the Wigwam , a building built in just over a month?
text: Did you knowthat Lor Tok , a Thai comedian and actor, had roles in more than 1,000 films from the 1930s to the 1980s?
text: Did you knowthat Helen Hunt Jackson 's 1884 novel Ramona was set at Rancho Camulos in Piru, California ?
text: Did you knowthat German physicist Max von Laue wrote an article for Acta Crystallographica , which dealt with the absorption of x-rays under interference conditions, while in French military incarceration in 1945?
text: Did you knowthat William Ansah Sessarakoo , the "Prince of Annamaboe", became a celebrity in mid-18th century London after he was released from slavery , and was compared to Aphra Behn 's fictional Oroonoko ?
text: Did you knowthat Burning Bright by John Steinbeck was an attempt at a new form of literature, the "play-novelette"— but both the play and novel were savaged by the critics and Steinbeck never wrote for the theatre again?
text: Did you knowthat while the center of gravity for a set of points is located at the spot from which the sum of the squares of distances to all the points is minimized, the geometric median is the spot from which the sum of distances is minimized?
text: Did you knowthat although a response to the 1885 Endicott Board recommendations for the coastal defense of San Francisco , the batteries at Fort Miley were not completed until 1902?
text: Did you knowthat Flocabulary is an educational New York City -based project that uses hip hop music to teach SAT -level vocabulary ?
text: Did you knowthat the Althing of Iceland confirmed Thorlac Thornalli as a saint over 700 years before the Catholic Church did?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Monier was one of the principal inventors of reinforced concrete ?
text: Did you knowthat Koreans in Vietnam form that country's second-largest group of expatriates after the Taiwanese ?
text: Did you knowthat South African mining magnate Sir Lionel Phillips survived being shot five times in an assassination attempt?
text: Did you knowthat when Archie Goodall scored the lone goal for Ireland in a 9–1 loss to Scotland in 1899, he became the oldest footballer to score in international football in the 19th century?
text: Did you knowthat Kosambi , a city in ancient India which was a frequent site of sermons by the Buddha , was one of the places considered suitable for his Parinibbāna ?
text: Did you knowthat Desmarest's Hutia has the most complex stomach of any rodent ?
text: Did you knowthat Richard de Southchurch , Sheriff of Essex , planned to attack London with burning cocks ?
text: Did you knowthat Rush Limbaugh was a U.S. ambassador to India ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tempest Prognosticator employs a jury of twelve leeches that use small hammers to ring a bell to indicate the approach of a storm?
text: Did you knowthat Serge Voronoff ' s surgical technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue onto human males has some modern supporters?
text: Did you knowthat the Alameda Works Shipyard in Alameda, California , was one of the largest and best equipped shipyards in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Ananthabhadram , a film by Indian director Santhosh Sivan , was inspired by classical Kathakali dancing and paintings of Raja Ravi Varma ?
text: Did you knowthat the California Condor , Mauritius Kestrel and Kakapo were all saved from extinction using modern bird conservation techniques?
text: Did you knowthat German settlement in Bulgaria dates back to the 13th–14th century?
text: Did you knowthat Mahmoud el-Meliguy , an Egyptian actor famed for his villain film roles, was nicknamed " Marlon Brando of the East"?
text: Did you knowthat Lucy Brewer claimed to have served in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 , but was probably invented by an American writer?
text: Did you knowthat Suyab , the 7th-century capital of the Western Turkic Khaganate , had Buddhist temples, Nestorian monasteries, Zoroastrian ossuaries , and Turkic bal-bals ?
text: Did you knowthat little is known about the career of American architect John S. Van Bergen because a fire in 1964 destroyed most of his architectural drawings and records?
text: Did you knowthat Supraśl Lavra is one of six Eastern Orthodox monasteries for men in Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat Alse Young is believed to have been the first person to be executed as a witch in the American colonies ?
text: Did you knowthat British music publisher Boosey & Hawkes owns copyrights to much major 20th century music, including works by Bartók , Bernstein , Britten , Elliott Carter , Rachmaninoff , Steve Reich and Stravinsky ?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas , the first known Bishop of Finland , resigned after confessing to torture and forgery ?
text: Did you knowthat the Commonwealth of Kentucky had a Confederate shadow government during the U.S. Civil War , although it never officially seceded from the Union ?
text: Did you knowthat British politician David Renton, Baron Renton served for over 60 years in Parliament , representing two parties and then as a life peer , and was the oldest member of the House of Lords when he died?
text: Did you knowthat Australian cricketer Bill Johnston , the fastest bowler to reach 100 Test wickets , took career-best figures shortly after a near-fatal car crash?
text: Did you knowthat Thoroughbred horse trainer Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr. is a United States' Racing Hall of Fame inductee?
text: Did you knowthat Yuri Izrael , Russian vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , believes the Kyoto Protocol is scientifically unsupported?
text: Did you knowthat after capture by English adventurer Sir David Kirke and combat with the Iroquois , surgeon Robert Giffard de Moncel helped start the first hospital in North America?
text: Did you knowthat William Penn Patrick , founder of companies Holiday Magic and Leadership Dynamics , ran against Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination for Governor of California ?
text: Did you knowthat the beach volleyball events at the 2007 Games of the Small States of Europe will take place on the Larvotto , Monaco's most famous beach?
text: Did you knowthat Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from the Red Mountain AVA were used to create the first US wine outside of California to receive consecutive perfect scores from Robert Parker 's Wine Advocate ?
text: Did you knowthat, aged 38 in November 1984, Bob Holland was the oldest Australian cricketer to make his Test debut in more than half a century?
text: Did you knowthat the fictional Tyranids Hive Fleets of the Warhammer 40,000 game contain special ships for an alien invasion ?
text: Did you knowthat the sack of Constantinople by Latin crusaders in 1204 destroyed the Byzantine economy , with the Latin emperors melting down statues for coin, and the Venetians exporting architecture spoils to decorate their churches?
text: Did you knowthat Alfred Winslow Jones , father of the hedge fund industry, was a sociologist ?
text: Did you knowthat the medieval Greek mystic Gregory Palamas successfully defended his doctrine of Tabor Light through three synods of the Orthodox Church ?
text: Did you knowthat the shooting of followers of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Tri Quang by the Catholic government of Ngo Dinh Diem led to months of protests which culminated in a coup in November 1963?
text: Did you knowthat the government of Kenya named the 1963-67 secessionist Shifta War after " shiftas ", the local word for " bandit ", as part of a propaganda initiative?
text: Did you knowthat Vagish Shastri , Sanskrit grammarian , linguist and yogi taught the pop singer Madonna Sanskrit pronunciation?
text: Did you knowthat Aluminaut , the world's first aluminum submarine , helped recover a lost atomic bomb ?
text: Did you knowthat not only have Isobel Joyce and her twin sister Cecelia played for the Ireland women's cricket team , three of their brothers have played for the men's team ?
text: Did you knowthat Judge Learned Hand showed his disrespect for U.S. District Judge Robert A. Inch by frequently referring to him in internal documents as "the Inchworm" or "Judge Millimeter"?
text: Did you knowthat the first experimental reforestation station established in California was Henninger Flats in 1903?
text: Did you knowthat Gour Govinda Ray , Brahmo Samaj missionary and scholar specialising in Hinduism , attempted to compare Krishna with Christ ?
text: Did you knowthat the OSA Group was the first association of architects to bridge Constructivism from art to architecture ?
text: Did you knowthat Slovak Paradise National Park is home to more than 2,100 species of butterfly , resulting in the highest concentration in Slovakia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indian mobster turned Congress politician Pappu Kalani won two elections while in jail?
text: Did you knowthat the company Leadership Dynamics was cited by psychologists as the first form of Large Group Awareness Training ?
text: Did you knowthat the catfish genus Steindachneridion was named after its discoverer, the Austrian zoologist Franz Steindachner ?
text: Did you knowthat William R. Ellis served as mayor of two Iowa cities before being elected to represent Oregon in the United States Congress ?
text: Did you knowthat the Society for the Reformation of Manners , founded in England in 1691, included a network of "moral guardians" in London to gather information about moral infractions?
text: Did you knowthat L.J. Cooke , the first coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team, created the tradition of the Little Brown Jug ?
text: Did you knowthat an Anglo-Australian trade boycott was threatened in 1932-33 after Australian cricket captain Bill Woodfull was struck over the heart by a ball bowled by Harold Larwood according to England 's Bodyline tactics?
text: Did you knowthat the Discovery Institute conducts public relations campaigns to promote intelligent design and discredit evolution ?
text: Did you knowthat the Unami Lodge was the founding chapter of the Boy Scouts of America 's Order of the Arrow ?
text: Did you knowthat during the 1990 New York Giants season , the NFL American football team set a league record for fewest turnovers in a season?
text: Did you knowthat the 16th-place of " Vjerujem u ljubav " in the semi-final of Eurovision 2007 marked the first time that Croatia had not reached the final since its independence?
text: Did you knowthat vinkenzetting ( Dutch ) is a 400-year-old sport in which the male Chaffinch that makes the most bird calls wins?
text: Did you knowthat the Great Western Railway operated road motor (bus) services in England and Wales from 1903 until 1933 as it was cheaper than building new railways?
text: Did you knowthat tajchy , a network of 60 water reservoirs and more than 100 km of channels, was built in the 1700s to drain flooded silver mines in Banská Štiavnica ?
text: Did you knowthat before 1954, public transport in Belfast included electric trams ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1992 about 10-15% of the Nicaraguan population emigrated to the U.S. ?
text: Did you knowthat Pascal Taskin altered a harpsichord by Joannes Goermans to make it look like Jan Couchet 's work so he could earn more from its sale?
text: Did you knowthat Major League Baseball player Cass Michaels was given the last rites after being hit in the head by a career-ending pitch ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Napoleonic Wars , a Prussian Regiment , formed from prisoners-of-war, served in the French Army?
text: Did you knowthat Sajjida Shah debuted for Pakistan's women's cricket team aged just twelve?
text: Did you knowthat Wollongong Head Lighthouse is the only place in eastern Australia to have two lighthouses within close proximity?
text: Did you knowthat Anthony of Kiev left his Monastery of the Caves when it gained 12 members because he felt it was crowded?
text: Did you knowthat Saudi Arabian Prince Abdul Majeed bin Abdul Aziz was Governor of the provinces of Tabuk , Medina and then Mecca , between 1980 and his death in 2007?
text: Did you knowthat England has won six of the seven Women's European Cricket Championship s to date?
text: Did you knowthat Anthelm of Belley left his post as bishop of Belley in protest at the lifting of the excommunication of a count who had held one priest captive and murdered a second?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Anthony Eden was considered the least effective British Prime Minister of the 20th century in three separate polls ?
text: Did you knowthat the Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster involved 30 tons of liquid steel at 1,500 °C , engulfing a room full of workers?
text: Did you knowthat James Madison 's Report of 1800 was used to support the doctrine of nullification , despite his objection to that doctrine?
text: Did you knowthat Gay Talese 's seminal 1965 magazine feature " Frank Sinatra Has a Cold " was written without Talese ever being allowed to interview Frank Sinatra ?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Benjamin Bates gave up his practice to accompany Sir Francis Dashwood around Europe, but Dashwood died and Bates never received the huge payment he had been promised?
text: Did you knowthat the German 502nd heavy tank battalion was the first unit to be issued the famous Tiger I heavy tank?
text: Did you knowthat Pham Ngoc Thao , one of the key figures in South Vietnam 's Strategic Hamlet Program , was a communist agent who deliberately mismanaged it to stimulate popular dissent?
text: Did you knowthat the distinct resemblance of a certain silver mixture, known as Diana's Tree , to a forest of trees led alchemists to theorize the existence of life in the realm of minerals?
text: Did you knowthat World War II naval aviator William O. Gallery was one of three brothers who became US Navy rear admirals ?
text: Did you knowthat the earliest cannon projectiles were round shot and grapeshot ?
text: Did you knowthat Ernie Toshack debuted for the Australian cricket team a year after World War II ended, during which he had been rejected by the army on health grounds?
text: Did you knowthat Saalumarada Thimmakka was awarded the National Citizen's award for planting and nurturing 284 banyan trees along an Indian highway ?
text: Did you knowthat beneath Vienna 's Judenplatz is an excavation that displays the remains of a medieval synagogue ?
text: Did you knowthat the Roman general Barbatio was beheaded for treason after his wife's indiscreet letter was intercepted by Emperor Constantius II ?
text: Did you knowthat the Crusade of Varna required simultaneous attacks on the Muslim Ottoman Empire by Christian Hungary and the Muslim Karamanids , which did not occur?
text: Did you knowthat the external decorations of the Perugia Cathedral were never completed?
text: Did you knowthat New South Wales Chief Justice Sir Leslie Herron was Australian Father of the year?
text: Did you knowthat the earliest European term for " cannon " was the Medieval Latin word " bombardum ", and that "cannon" itself came from the Latin word canna , meaning a tube?
text: Did you knowthat in 1925 Saskatchewan produced over half of the wheat in the Dominion of Canada ?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish air force combated in the victory of Lublin-Brest Offensive , which cleared the path for the Red Army to recapture Warsaw ?
text: Did you knowthat despite wild differences in subject matter, 1970s Japanese science fiction television series Akumaizer 3 features frequent allusions to Alexander Dumas ' famous novel The Three Musketeers ?
text: Did you knowthat during his research into women's olfactory selection of potential mates , Swiss biologist Claus Wedekind conducted what has become known as the "Sweaty T-shirt Study"?
text: Did you knowthat emigration of physicians and nurses poses a major problem for Nigeria 's health care system , as there were 21,000 Nigerian doctors practising in the U.S. alone?
text: Did you knowthat the events in the novel The Dig take place during the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo , in Suffolk , England ?
text: Did you knowthat Kona lows bring severe weather to Hawaii two to three times each year between October and April ?
text: Did you knowthat while leader of the short-lived secessionist state of South Kasai , Albert Kalonji gave himself the title of Supreme Chief of the Muluba People and Protector of the Associated Tribes ?
text: Did you knowthat a slogan of the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire is "Prolétaires de tous les pays, caressez-vous" ( Workers of the world, caress yourselves! )?
text: Did you knowthat the DC comic book Batman: The Last Arkham drew on the influences of psychology and biology books such as " Superstition in the Common Pigeon "?
text: Did you knowthat over 100 million people in Indonesia lack access to safe water and more than 70 percent of the country’s 220 million population relies on water obtained from potentially contaminated sources?
text: Did you knowthat Sungai Tujoh is the westernmost point of Brunei and is one of the four land crossing points into the Malaysian state of Sarawak from Brunei?
text: Did you knowthat in Ancient Roman entertainment, a desultor was a performer who led several horses in full gallop—as many as six or eight at once—and leaped from one to another?
text: Did you knowthat Maharaja Suraj Mal took over Bharatpur, India , and established it as the capital of Mewat state?
text: Did you knowthat New Zealand photographer Laurence Aberhart uses an obsolete camera and a type of photographic paper that is no longer manufactured?
text: Did you knowthat Batasio sharavatiensis , a species of bagrid catfish discovered near Jog Falls in India , is named after the Sharavathi river in which it was found?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph-François Lambert was a French adventurer who tried to overthrow the "Mad Queen" Ranavalona I of Madagascar ?
text: Did you knowthat Jeremiah Arkham , the sadistic head of Arkham Asylum in the Batman universe of DC Comics , held Batman captive in his comic book debut?
text: Did you knowthat Byzantines were skilled at using diplomacy as a weapon of war?
text: Did you knowthat the late Sir William Northam was the oldest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal ?
text: Did you knowthat Genlisea margaretae , a carnivorous plant native to Southeast Africa , has the smallest recorded flowering plant genome ?
text: Did you knowthat nearly every known example of the New Zealand -designed Charlton Automatic Rifle was destroyed in a fire at the storage depot shortly after World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Lloyd Wright 's Plan for Greater Baghdad included a 300-foot gilded statue of Harun al-Rashid ?
text: Did you knowthat the red column of the Kruty Heroes Memorial recalls the colonnade of the famously red-colored main building of the Kiev University where many of the Ukrainian cadets slain at the 1918 Battle of Kruty had studied?
text: Did you knowthat the play Four Nights in Knaresborough , which tells the story of the aftermath of Thomas Becket 's murder using modern language and idiom , is to be re-made as an action movie in the style of Young Guns ?
text: Did you knowthat William R. Bell , the District Officer for Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1915 to 1927, was killed while collecting a head tax from the resistant Kwaio ?
text: Did you knowthat Jack Fingleton , a journalist who was press secretary to former Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes , represented Australia in Test cricket ?
text: Did you knowthat the Japanese seaplane carrier Wakamiya conducted the world's first naval-launched air raids ?
text: Did you knowthat cloud suck has dragged paragliders to altitudes as high as 9,946 meters (32,600 feet )?
text: Did you knowthat the snakeskin gourami is one of Thailand 's five most important aquacultured freshwater species?
text: Did you knowthat the artistic creations of Tommaso Francini marked a distinct stage in the importation of Italian features in the French formal garden ?
text: Did you knowthat Tran Kim Tuyen , the intelligence chief of South Vietnam 's Ngo Dinh Diem was referred to as "Vietnam's Goebbels "?
text: Did you knowthat researchers believe the monotypic New Zealand genus Oreostylidium represents an extreme example of floral paedomorphosis and should be transferred back to the related Australian genus Stylidium ?
text: Did you knowthat the Youth Olympic Games are planned to teach Olympic values to teenage athletes?
text: Did you knowthat Manuel Gamio conducted the first scientific excavations in the Valley of Mexico ?
text: Did you knowthat Western Ganga literature included Kannada poetry and prose written by royalty , on topics ranging from religion to elephant management?
text: Did you knowthat the time traveling premise featured in the Chrono series of video games was inspired by such television programs as The Time Tunnel ?
text: Did you knowthat Marshal Soult 's last offensive against the Duke of Wellington 's forces in the Peninsular War was lost before a single red coat could join the battle?
text: Did you knowthat the Short Knuckleduster gull-winged flying boat never entered military service, but data from its handling and engine steam-cooling aided the design of Short 's Empire and Sunderland aircraft?
text: Did you knowthat although people from the Isle of Man are British citizens , they do not have freedom of movement or employment throughout the European Union ?
text: Did you knowthat the Scientology Task Force of Hamburg , Germany reported on what it called brainwashing in Scientology 's Rehabilitation Project Force ?
text: Did you knowthat Gaius Pontius , the Samnite general and victor at the Battle of the Caudine Forks , is believed to be an ancestor of the Roman governor of Judea Pontius Pilate ?
text: Did you knowthat ten days before the ratification of the Peace of Szeged , Vladislaus , King of Hungary , swore an oath which invalidated it and all future treaties with the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat Eddie Ingram played for the Irish cricket team for 25 years, after making his debut at the age of 17?
text: Did you knowthat in 2002 Nicaragua had 15 times fewer banks than its Central American counterparts with only six compared to the regional average of 107 per country?
text: Did you knowthat almost 60% of Belfast 's adult population regularly participate in one or more sports ?
text: Did you knowthat trade unions in Argentina have traditionally played a strong role in the politics of the nation , with approximately 40% of workers in the formal economy being unionized ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sabine Free State , a border area between Spanish Texas and American Louisiana but administered by neither for 15 years in the early 19th century, attracted every kind of outlaw known from both sides, as well as settlers, adventurers and political refugees?
text: Did you knowthat Ira Losco , who led Malta to a second place finish in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest , sang the official anthem at the opening ceremonies of the 2003 Games of the Small States of Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat police officers in Croatia are only allowed to use their guns if there is a threat to their life or the lives of other people, or to prevent a crime from being committed for which the maximum prison sentence is five years or more?
text: Did you knowthat the San Salvador was a galleon of the Spanish Armada whose capture supplied the English with a significant proportion of the gunpowder that they used in the campaign?
text: Did you knowthat the " Guild of Saint Luke " was the usual name for the painters ' guild in cities of the Low Countries ?
text: Did you knowthat the cruiseferry M/S Nordlandia (originally M/S Olau Hollandia ) was built to be NATO -compatible, so that she could easily be converted to a troopship ?
text: Did you knowthat Ivan Bogorov , who published the first Bulgarian newspaper in 1846 in Leipzig , was also an ardent supporter of Bulgarian linguistic purism and was known for his often amusing neologisms ?
text: Did you knowthat the ocean liner SS Paris , built in 1913, reached such heights of luxury and service that sea gulls purportedly followed it more than any other ship, hoping to feast on scraps of haute cuisine that were thrown overboard?
text: Did you knowthat the Tooting impact crater on Mars was named after the London suburb of the same name because the discoverer "thought [his] mum and brother would get a kick out of having their home town paired with a land form on Mars"?
text: Did you knowthat there are fifteen distinct police agencies enforcing law in Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
text: Did you knowthat Gustavus Blin Wright , a pioneer road builder and entrepreneur in British Columbia , Canada , built the 127-mile-long Old Cariboo Road in 1862–3?
text: Did you knowthat the 14th century Chinese military treatise of the Huo Long Jing edited by Jiao Yu described the use of cast iron grenades , firearms , fire lance flamethrowers , cannons , land mines , naval mines , rocket launchers , and winged rockets ?
text: Did you knowthat Bristol Byzantine was an architectural style used for industrial buildings in Bristol between 1850 and 1880?
text: Did you knowthat the minesweeper USS Threat was transferred to the government of Mexico after being decommissioned by the US Navy and renamed the Francisco Zarco ?
text: Did you knowthat West Indies cricketer Sir Harold Austin , who captained the team twice on tours to England, later became the Speaker in the Barbados House of Assembly ?
text: Did you knowthat Horabagrus brachysoma , an endangered species of the genus Horabagrus , has been considered a potential flagship species for media attention to provide a focus for wildlife conservation of inland biodiversity ?
text: Did you knowthat the 18th century Bow porcelain factory in the district of Bow, London was a short-lived rival of the Chelsea porcelain factory in making the earliest soft-paste porcelain in Great Britain?
text: Did you knowthat the Turkish tanbur is one of the four musical instruments that make up Turkish classical music 's basic quartet ?
text: Did you knowthat Otto van Veen was Peter Paul Rubens ' first master , but is now best known for his emblem books ?
text: Did you knowthat two separate newspapers called the Western Mail have been published in Perth, Western Australia , the first from 1885 to 1955 and the second from 1980 to 1988?
text: Did you knowthat Władysław Orkan , a Podhale Polish writer and poet of the Young Poland movement, never passed his matura exams?
text: Did you knowthat Conor McPherson 's The Weir was performed on Broadway in 1998, less than a year after its original opening at The Royal Court Theatre in London ?
text: Did you knowthat Judge Henry F. Werker ' s rejection of unfair labor practice charges against baseball owners preceded the two-month 1981 Major League Baseball strike , even though his opinion ended by urging the parties to "PLAY BALL"?
text: Did you knowthat the non-fiction book The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions analyzes cults from an evangelical Christian perspective?
text: Did you knowthat the name of the Cheers episode The Gift of the Woodi is a reference to O. Henry 's short story The Gift of the Magi ?
text: Did you knowthat the first Azerbaijani language newspaper , Akinchi was founded in 1875 by Hasan bey Zardabi ?
text: Did you knowthat Job Charnock landed at Sutanuti on 24 August , 1690 with the objective of establishing the settlement, which is now Calcutta ?
text: Did you knowthat Lieutenant Peter Bover , whose shooting of a Royal Navy sailor sparked the Nore mutiny of 1797, was exonerated by the mutineers and cheered on returning to his ship?
text: Did you knowthat the summer 1944 Lublin-Brest Offensive of Soviet Army succeeded in bringing the Soviets to the vicinity of Warsaw , where the Warsaw Uprising began?
text: Did you knowthat modern nursing was founded by Florence Nightingale at the Selimiye Barracks in Istanbul , Turkey during the Crimean War (1854-1856)?
text: Did you knowthat the Gideon H. Pond House was built by Gideon Pond , who came to Minnesota to teach farming and Christianity to the Native Americans ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kipawa River in Quebec , Canada , is being considered for hydroelectric development which would completely divert it?
text: Did you knowthat Randy Gumpert first pitched for the New York Yankees in 1946, even though it had been eight years since he was on a major league roster?
text: Did you knowthat consumer protection law in the United Kingdom incorporates directives from the European Union ?
text: Did you knowthat the Brothers Grimm were amongst the Göttingen Seven , university teachers who protested changes to the constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1837 ?
text: Did you knowthat when the RMS Titanic was built in Belfast in 1912, the largest shipyard in the world was in Belfast ?
text: Did you knowthat Vortex I , which took place in Oregon in 1970, remains the only state-sponsored rock festival in United States history?
text: Did you knowthat Colombian National Police Sub-Intendant John Frank Pinchao was kidnapped by the FARC guerrillas for almost 9 years, until finally escaping in 2007 ?
text: Did you knowthat a 1973 book on Prem Rawat , Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji? , featured an introduction by American anti- Vietnam War activist Rennie Davis ?
text: Did you knowthat the satirical magazine The Georgetown Heckler changed its name from The Georgetown Lampoon after being threatened with a lawsuit by the Harvard Lampoon ?
text: Did you knowthat British architect Sir Colin Wilson , known for designing the new British Library near St Pancras station , donated his collection of modern art to the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Roman Empire , ten-year celebrations called " decennalia " originated after Augustus refused the lifetime supremacy offered to him?
text: Did you knowthat although it was not particularly well-known  in Bulgaria until the late 19th century, today Bulgarian beer is one of the country's most popular alcoholic beverages ?
text: Did you knowthat the Duke of Wellington had not seen Kitty Pakenham for ten years when he proposed marriage to her in 1806?
text: Did you knowthat the Northeastern United States was struck by a major tornado outbreak on July 10 , 1989 ?
text: Did you knowthat, like Aphrodite bathing in the sea at Paphos , Hera too renewed her maidenhood annually, in the spring of Kanathos ?
text: Did you knowthat nutritionist-turned-molecular biologist Thomas H. Jukes was one of the few scientists ever to have a regular column in the journal Nature ?
text: Did you knowthat John J. Clague won the Logan Medal , the highest award of the Geological Association of Canada , in 2007?
text: Did you knowthat 5-HT 3 antagonists , effective for treating the nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy , have no effect on motion sickness ?
text: Did you knowthat the fifth-century Syriac Curetonian Gospels found in Egypt represent a considerably older, independent textual tradition of the four gospels ?
text: Did you knowthat alpine skier Jean Saubert won one-third of all medals earned by the entire United States Olympic team at the 1964 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you knowthat Californian politician Lou Papan received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1996?
text: Did you knowthat Romulus Whitaker won the Whitley Award for establishing a rainforest research station at Agumbe , India to conserve King Cobras ?
text: Did you knowthat the House of Gediminas ruled Lithuania from 1285 to 1572?
text: Did you knowthat Betty Roberts was the first woman to serve on Oregon's Supreme Court ?
text: Did you knowthat Swearing on the Horns is a Highgate pub tradition that dates back to the 1600s?
text: Did you knowthat the autobiography of Italian sculptor Raffaello da Montelupo contains the only known contemporary reference to Michelangelo 's natural left-handedness ?
text: Did you knowthat the Rusty-barred Owl is one of the only two members of the Strix genus of birds to be found in South America ?
text: Did you knowthat William Moore was the earliest settler of Skagway , the famous gold rush town in the Klondike Gold Rush ?
text: Did you knowthat the European fascist alliance New European Order split in 1955 due to a dispute over the issue of whether South Tyrol should be Italian or Austrian ?
text: Did you knowthat at least 36 vases painted by the Athenian Meidias Painter are still in existence more than 2,400 years after they were created?
text: Did you knowthat Mary Brunner , a member of the " Manson family", was incarcerated after a shootout with police at a robbery?
text: Did you knowthat Irish writer and trade unionist Brian Behan once took part in a swearing match at the British Museum ?
text: Did you knowthat unemployment protection in Italy is guaranteed by Italy 's constitution ?
text: Did you knowthat Superman stops a mad scientist and his army of robots in the 1941 animated short film The Mechanical Monsters ?
text: Did you knowthat Saskatchewan Highway 58 travels the Missouri Coteau to an important shore bird site on Canada 's second largest saline lake ?
text: Did you knowthat the Jesus Army , a British Christian outreach organisation, has been condemned by the Cult Information Centre , another British charity ?
text: Did you knowthat 13 rioters convicted by a jury of their peers were later pardoned for their actions in the Muncy Abolition Riot of 1842 ?
text: Did you knowthat British art historian Sir Oliver Nicholas Millar GCVO served in the Royal Household for 41 years, becoming the first Director of the Royal Collection in 1987?
text: Did you knowthat Robert S. Vance was the third American federal judge to be assassinated as the result of his judicial service?
text: Did you knowthat over four hundred 4000-year-old carved stone balls have been uncovered in archaeological digs in Scotland ?
text: Did you knowthat the Judaic legal fiction of Prozbul protects both the poor and wealthy from the effects of the Sabbatical Year ?
text: Did you knowthat Sammy Ellis won 22 games and made the All-Star team for the Cincinnati Reds in 1965 despite allowing the most Earned Runs in the league?
text: Did you knowthat the 1912 comic strip Polly and Her Pals by Cliff Sterrett was the first American strip to have a female protagonist ?
text: Did you knowthat the New York Giants of the NFL won the first Super Bowl in their franchise history during their 1986 season ?
text: Did you knowthat bread and beer were the two basic staples of Ancient Egyptian cuisine ?
text: Did you knowthat the first computer simulations of galaxy mergers were conducted by Alar Toomre in the 1970s?
text: Did you knowthat Crotalus tigris has the highest toxicity of venoms among rattlesnakes , even though it has a low venom yield?
text: Did you knowthat German -born Richard Lieber started the trend of American state parks having inns and charging fees for using the parks, so that citizens would appreciate them more?
text: Did you knowthat BBC radio presenter Margaret Hubble presented Woman's Hour alongside Marjorie Anderson and Jean Metcalfe in the 1950s?
text: Did you knowthat major portions of Japanese writer Shōko Ieda ' s 1991 book Yellow Cab , about the eponymous sexual stereotype of Japanese women , were later denounced as "fraudulent" by her research assistant?
text: Did you knowthat Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia was exiled for life, after marrying a commoner of black ancestry?
text: Did you knowthat the 1942 animated short film Japoteurs features a scene similar to the one in Superman Returns in which Superman catches an airplane in mid-air?
text: Did you knowthat Beechy, Saskatchewan , despite only having a population of 243, is home to former provincial Leader of the Opposition and Saskatchewan Party founder Elwin Hermanson ?
text: Did you knowthat the story of Kamsa and Bar Kamsa is the most famous Jewish legend regarding the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kraków szopka is a unique Polish Christmas tradition that portrays artistic interpretations of buildings of Kraków along nativity scenes ?
text: Did you knowthat the biggest walk-through aviary in India is located on the shore of the Karanji Lake in Mysore ?
text: Did you knowthat Shinozaki Mamoru was credited as the "Japanese Schindler " for saving thousands of Chinese and Eurasians during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore ?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian poet Mehmet Niyazi , a major figure in Crimean Tatar literature, was expelled from Crimea three times during his lifetime?
text: Did you knowthat the Defense Production Administration , a branch of the U.S. government set up to oversee defense production during wartime mobilization , was abolished after only two years?
text: Did you knowthat the Center Region of Argentina produces 90% of the country's vegetable oil ?
text: Did you knowthat John Vesey , a 16th-century bishop of Exeter , had a fordkeeper's cottage built along Plants Brook to help provide security for travelers on the Wylde Green Road?
text: Did you knowthat Pokey Allen , former head coach of the Portland State Vikings football team, appeared in television commercials threatening to have himself shot out of a cannon into the backyards of anyone not buying season tickets?
text: Did you knowthat after an ultimatum by the Chicago White Stockings to pull his African American players from the active roster , baseball manager Charlie Morton put Moses Fleetwood Walker back on despite having given him time off for injuries?
text: Did you knowthat Isaac Ironside , a politician in Sheffield , attempted to implement ideas originating from Robert Owen and from Toulmin Smith 's localist theories?
text: Did you knowthat some of the disused railway stations between Plymouth in Devon and Penzance in Cornwall , England , were closed during the " Beeching Axe " in the 1960s?
text: Did you knowthat from 1950 to 1953 , the Office of Defense Mobilization was one of the most powerful agencies in the U.S. , controlling almost every facet of the economy?
text: Did you knowthat Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard created a belief system regarding sexual activity ?
text: Did you knowthat American thoroughbred race horse Little Current received the 1974 Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse despite having his racing career ended mid-season by a bone chip in his leg?
text: Did you knowthat chief justice Frederick Richard Jordan once decided that the government of New South Wales had "no business" refusing a water irrigation licence just because the applicant was Italian ?
text: Did you knowthat Bertie Smalls , considered by many as Britain 's first supergrass , avoided jail by informing on his partners-in-crime, despite having led them in an armed bank robbery ?
text: Did you knowthat the non-fiction book All Gods Children was cited by a report of the American Psychiatric Association , to describe coercive persuasion ?
text: Did you knowthat Georgian theatre director Kote Marjanishvili 's use of puppetry in his adaptation of Oedipus Rex was inspired by a similar set-up in Edward Gordon Craig 's 1911 adaptation of Hamlet ?
text: Did you knowthat John Constable did full-size oil sketches before starting all his largest "six-footer" paintings?
text: Did you knowthat many abandoned flour mills in Mills District, Minneapolis have been converted to museums, parks, theaters, and condominiums ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Indian Gaarudi Gombe ceremonial dance , dancers are required to wear full-body doll-suits made of bamboo sticks?
text: Did you knowthat at the age of 70, former English Football League and international soccer referee Pat Partridge took over as linesman in a non-league match he was watching, after the original linesman took over from the injured referee?
text: Did you knowthat Cameroon 's Western High Plateau has a rainy season that lasts nine months?
text: Did you knowthat a tiger-haunted jungle was cleared to make way for the wide grassy stretch of the Maidan park of Kolkata ?
text: Did you knowthat " Anytime You Need " was the first Eurovision Song Contest entry to feature lyrics in Armenian ?
text: Did you knowthat an average of 90,000 people a month walk, jog, cycle or skate along Florida 's Pinellas Trail ?
text: Did you knowthat John Martin Scripps was the first Briton in Singapore to be sentenced to death by hanging ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2800 verses of the Mohanatarangini make it the longest work by Kanaka Dasa , a 16th century saint and one of the foremost names in Kannada literature?
text: Did you knowthat the ethnically-fueled 1989 Sukhumi riots in the Soviet Union 's Abkhaz ASSR left eighteen dead and almost 450 injured?
text: Did you knowthat Christopher Buckley 's novel Florence of Arabia was an homage to Fern Holland , one of the first U.S. civilians to be killed in the Iraq War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Imperial Russian statesman and sociologist Paul von Lilienfeld laid out his theories on organicism when he served as the governor of Courland ?
text: Did you knowthat the Gaussian Network Model has a wide range of applications from enzymes composed of a single domain , to large macromolecular assemblies , such as ribosomes and viral capsids ?
text: Did you knowthat Rotylenchulus reniformis , a roundworm found in tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world, is a major parasite of crop plants ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Harrill , ironically known as the " Fort Fisher Hermit," received thousands of visitors per year and was once the second most popular tourist attraction in North Carolina ?
text: Did you knowthat American evolutionary biologist Jack Lester King co-authored a provocative 1969 paper, "Non-Darwinian Evolution", on the neutral theory of molecular evolution ?
text: Did you knowthat, while the first model of the Atar Volant series was a simple turbojet engine, the third model was a proper coleopter , an aircraft with an annular wing that is able to land and take-off vertically without need of a runway?
text: Did you knowthat the Defense Production Act played a vital role in the establishment of the American domestic aluminum and titanium processing industries in the 1950s?
text: Did you knowthat Himalayan Hemlock ( Tsuga dumosa ) was first brought into the United Kingdom in 1838?
text: Did you knowthat the Hukou F-5F crash in May 2007 involved an F-5/F jet fighter hitting a military base in Taiwan while simulating a low attack, killing four people?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Schröter , a 19th century Prussian military doctor , was a noted mycologist who discovered and described many previously unknown species of flora and fungi ?
text: Did you knowthat Alessandro Striggio 's influential Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno will be performed in June 2007 after being lost for more than 400 years?
text: Did you knowthat Irish cricketer Scott Huey was the last bowler to dismiss Sir Len Hutton in first-class cricket ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian author Ion Idriess wrote an average of one book every ten months for 42 years?
text: Did you knowthat the Haberbusch i Schiele company provided food for the entire city of Warsaw during the Uprising of 1944 ?
text: Did you knowthat the spring of the Hell-Bourg village spa on Réunion started to fail around 1920, but an attempt to reopen it with dynamite caused the partial destruction of the spa, while the spring was later buried by a landslide?
text: Did you knowthat the Marcab Confederacy was said by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard to be one of the most powerful galactic civilizations?
text: Did you knowthat with the publication of Deepnirban in 1876, Swarnakumari Devi became the first woman novelist amongst the Bengali people ?
text: Did you knowthat the non-fiction book Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion is cited in the definition of Cults , by the American Psychological Association 's Encyclopedia of Psychology ?
text: Did you knowthat Polish composer Roman Palester 's involvement with Radio Free Europe in the early 1950s led to communist officials expunging his name from official publications and prohibiting performances of his work?
text: Did you knowthat Reid Stowe and Soanya Ahmad are attempting to circle the globe multiple times in a 1,000-day, non-stop voyage in a gaff-rigged schooner designed and built by Stowe?
text: Did you knowthat Clemente Micara was the Vatican ’s first envoy to Czechoslovakia ?
text: Did you knowthat Estonian nationalist Aili Jõgi , aged 14,  blew up the wooden memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn in 1946?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1984 Brown v. Hotel and Restaurant Employees case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New Jersey gaming law requiring union leaders to be of good moral character?
text: Did you knowthat Frederick Bligh Bond enlisted the help of a number of spiritualist mediums to guide his excavations at Glastonbury Abbey ?
text: Did you knowthat the Six Feet Under episode The Plan has been described as a parody of Werner Erhard 's est and The Forum personal development programs?
text: Did you knowthat Iowa Stars centre Aaron Gagnon twice lost out on a Western Hockey League award to the Medicine Hat Tigers ' Kris Russell before finally winning an award of his own?
text: Did you knowthat NFL hall of famer Bud Grant and MLB hall of famer Dave Winfield both played for the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team?
text: Did you knowthat the land of Haydarpaşa Cemetery , a burial ground in Istanbul , Turkey for British Commonwealth soldiers from three wars, belonged to Suleiman the Magnificent ?
text: Did you knowthat heavyweight boxer Joe Baksi recorded nine victories in his first year as a professional, including one over future actor Jack Palance ?
text: Did you knowthat Marie de France 's poem " Chevrefoil ", one of the 12 Lais of Marie de France , recounts an episode from the legend of Tristan and Iseult ?
text: Did you knowthat the linenfold style of relief carving , popular in Northern Europe from the 14th to 16th centuries, could be made with little carpentry skill and was mass produced in workshops from the later 15th century?
text: Did you knowthat the once-buried remains of a power canal and flour mills in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota have been unearthed and are now open as Mill Ruins Park to provide historical interpretation in the area?
text: Did you knowthat the World of Final Fantasy VIII is the second in the Final Fantasy series of console role-playing games to include pre-rendered backgrounds?
text: Did you knowthat in Greek mythology , Heracles chased off the man-eating birds of Lake Stymphalia by playing castanet -like clappers called " crotala "?
text: Did you knowthat Tomorrow's Pioneers is a television program for children produced by Hamas ?
text: Did you knowthat the Atari 8-bit computer game Dandy was originally written as its developer's MIT thesis ?
text: Did you knowthat the lyrics of one of the most popular French folk songs , Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre , which has the same melody as the English song For He's a Jolly Good Fellow , were written on a false rumour?
text: Did you knowthat the concept of a communist crime was introduced in Polish law to facilitate studying and prosecution of crimes committed by people in authority against Polish citizens or the nation?
text: Did you knowthat Kendal mint cake was carried by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on the first successful ascent of Everest ?
text: Did you knowthat the Greater Poland Uprising of 1806 was one of two entirely victorious uprisings in the history of Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat Saskatchewan Highway 39 is one of Canada 's busiest highways, facilitating transport for $6 billion in trade goods via approximately 100,000 trucks per year?
text: Did you knowthat The Haunted Manor is the most famous and popular of Polish operas ?
text: Did you knowthat the non-fiction book From Slogans to Mantras was cited in Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title that should be owned by every library?
text: Did you knowthat William Hone played cricket both for and against the MCC inside four days in June 1868?
text: Did you knowthat Manitoba Provincial Route 394 is the farthest north in the province?
text: Did you knowthat the body of Grand Duke Dimitri Konstantinovich of Russia was rescued from a mass grave and secretly buried in the garden of a house in St. Petersburg ?
text: Did you knowthat the Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group is developing a standardized interface for NAND flash , the memory used in flash drives , digital cameras , and MP3 players ?
text: Did you knowthat the novel The Program draws on influences from Lifespring , Werner Erhard , and Large Group Awareness Training ?
text: Did you knowthat almost 12,000 years ago, the 2,700 feet- (820 m) wide River Warren Falls fell 175 feet (53 m) in the area that is now downtown St. Paul, Minnesota ?
text: Did you knowthat Brazilian director Humberto Mauro first became interested in film after buying a Kodak camera in 1923, and won the Brazilian film of the year award only 4 years later?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Durbe was by far the largest defeat suffered by the Teutonic Knights and Livonian Order in the 13th century ?
text: Did you knowthat Leung Kar Yan , one of the best-known kung fu film stars in Hong Kong action cinema , actually knew no martial arts , and simply copied moves shown to him?
text: Did you knowthat the " 100,000 year problem " is among the biggest mysteries facing those attempting to reconstruct past climates today?
text: Did you knowthat the Hungarian Gold Train was a 1944 Nazi operated freight train that carried stolen Hungarian valuables to Berlin , but never reached its destination?
text: Did you knowthat Australian chef Tobie Puttock is the godfather of Daisy Boo Oliver, the youngest daughter of British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver ?
text: Did you knowthat due to the reputation of its founder, Jan Groenveld , the Cult Awareness and Information Centre of Australia became used as a resource in publications on cults soon after its founding?
text: Did you knowthat George Hennet built and operated depots on behalf of the South Devon Railway after it was short of money?
text: Did you knowthat members of the Lingbao School of Taoism believed their spirits would be refined in heaven after death and then reincarnated on Earth?
text: Did you knowthat a Hocktide initiation ceremony in Hungerford , England involves a blacksmith driving a nail into the initiate's shoe?
text: Did you knowthat Margaret Singer was mandated to attend a PSI Seminars course by a United States federal court order ?
text: Did you knowthat Russian television implied that Filipp Kirkorov won the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with " Kolibelnaya Dlya Vulkana " when he in fact only came 17th?
text: Did you knowthat British Labour politician Margaret Hodge defeated five challengers in the Parliamentary Barking by-election in 1994 , including Conservative Theresa May and UKIP 's Gerard Batten ?
text: Did you knowthat the oldest ornamental water tower in the world is the Louisville Water Tower , which is even older than the famed Chicago Water Tower ?
text: Did you knowthat out of 60 four-star generals in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps , 17 were promoted upon retirement in recognition of combat citations, and one was promoted posthumously?
text: Did you knowthat Thurman Tucker did not commit a single error during the Cleveland Indians ' 1948 World Series -winning season, finishing with a perfect fielding percentage ?
text: Did you knowthat former Manitoba MLA John Moore Robinson established the soft fruit industry in British Columbia 's Okanagan Valley in the late 1800s, along with the region's first corporate water management system to irrigate it?
text: Did you knowthat at the 2005 Games of the Small States of Europe in Andorra , Iceland won 34 medals in swimming alone?
text: Did you knowthat Leo Arnaud is the composer of the well-known Olympic theme "Bugler's Dream?"
text: Did you knowthat the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution explains why the rates of molecular clocks are generally independent of population size ?
text: Did you knowthat Reginald Hugh Hickling drafted Malaysia 's Internal Security Act , but did not expect it to be used against political opponents?
text: Did you knowthat Mussolini's Quota 90 fixed the lira exchange rate against the pound sterling at the prevailing rate from five years earlier, when he assumed power?
text: Did you knowthat Nazi officer Reiner Stahel commanded the garrison of Warsaw during the uprising of 1944 ?
text: Did you knowthat Oliver Granger was a licensed Methodist preacher before becoming an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement ?
text: Did you knowthat Dougherty Valley High School will be, upon its opening, the first real-estate developer -built high school in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District ?
text: Did you knowthat not only did Jim Harrison play for the Ireland cricket team , but so did his three brothers, his brother-in-law, and his nephew?
text: Did you knowthat during World War II , Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gerlier asked that religious orders take Jewish children into hiding to avoid Nazi death camps ?
text: Did you knowthat as a young man, Fang Xuanling correctly predicted the downfall of the Sui Dynasty after the death of Emperor Wen of Sui ?
text: Did you knowthat Georgia was the home of prehistoric humans more than one and a half million years ago?
text: Did you knowthat former Boston Red Sox player Matt Young was only the second pitcher to throw a complete game no-hitter and lose, accomplishing the feat against the Cleveland Indians in 1992?
text: Did you knowthat the current constitution of Nicaragua , the ninth in the country's history, was the final step in the institutionalization of the Sandinista regime?
text: Did you knowthat two of the four known species of the worm -eating shrewlike rats from Luzon Island , Philippines were first described in April, 2007?
text: Did you knowthat the Kent Music Report was a weekly table of Australian music singles and albums which was the primary record chart in that market from 1974 to 1988?
text: Did you knowthat Monomohun Ghose became the first Indian practicing barrister in 1867?
text: Did you knowthat potato tubers grow at the end of stolons ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Sassoon Eskell is regarded in Iraq as the Father of Parliament?
text: Did you knowthat in one type of Anglo-Saxon trial , the accused tried to prove innocence by swallowing a piece of bread and cheese, called " corsned ", without choking ?
text: Did you knowthat the speed of sound and temperature in the atmosphere can be remotely sensed by bouncing a radar signal off of sound waves in a RASS system?
text: Did you knowthat some irregular troops in the Khyber Pass region during World War II were issued Khyber Pass Copy rifles because of concerns they would steal higher-quality ones and desert with them?
text: Did you knowthat Beatus of Lungern , a first century Christian missionary to Switzerland , is often depicted as a monk fighting a dragon ?
text: Did you knowthat Edward F. Boyd pioneered the concept of niche marketing in the United States by avoiding ethnic stereotypes in advertising for Pepsi ?
text: Did you knowthat flora and fauna of the Indian state of Karnataka include a species of ant newly discovered on the campus of the Indian Institute of Science ?
text: Did you knowthat though no fossil grasses have been discovered, the earliest-known grassland ecosystem , the 30+ million-year-old Tinguiririca fauna of Chile , can be detected through the grazers' teeth ?
text: Did you knowthat baseball player Jimmy Brown led all St. Louis Cardinals hitters in batting average with .300 en route to their 1942 World Series victory?
text: Did you knowthat Francis Bacon described antiquities as "remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time"?
text: Did you knowthat during the Hardin County onion pickers strike in 1934 , anti- union vigilantes seized control of the town of McGuffey, Ohio , for a day?
text: Did you knowthat William Campbell was the first acknowledged discoverer of gold in the Australian state of Victoria in 1850, but kept his discovery secret for fear a gold rush would disrupt his pastoral interests?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Polwhele 's polemic poem The Unsex'd Females deplored the female pastime of amateur botany due to the impropriety of learning about the reproduction of plants ?
text: Did you knowthat the well-known Parthenon building in Athens replaced an Older Parthenon on the same site?
text: Did you knowthat the United Kingdom 's most reported UFO incident was observed at RAF West Freugh ?
text: Did you knowthat Lewis Sperry Chafer was a budding musician at Oberlin College but became a leader in the dispensationalist movement and founded Dallas Theological Seminary ?
text: Did you knowthat despite his lack of surgical training, Gerónimo Lluberas once successfully removed a foreign object embedded in the cornea of an eight-year-old boy's eye?
text: Did you knowthat the 32nd Indiana Monument , currently at Cave Hill National Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky , is the oldest surviving American Civil War memorial?
text: Did you knowthat Edward Lipiński was one of the most prominent Polish economists of the 20th century ?
text: Did you knowthat Mongolian barbecue is neither Mongolian nor barbecue but is a restaurant style of stir-frying based on teppanyaki that originated in Taiwan ?
text: Did you knowthat Triptych, May-June 1973 is the second of Francis Bacon 's three "Black Triptychs" painted in commemoration of the suicide of his lover George Dyer?
text: Did you knowthat the Oriental Seminary , established in 1829, was the earliest privately run modern school in Kolkata ?
text: Did you knowthat the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute has trained over 10,000 trade union organizers since its 1989 founding?
text: Did you knowthat the first feature film of director Paul Verhoeven is Business Is Business , a 1971 comedy film about two prostitutes in Amsterdam ?
text: Did you knowthat the catfish genus Hemiancistrus currently includes species of two other undescribed genera?
text: Did you knowthat the early 1980s recession was the most serious recession in the United States since the Great Depression ?
text: Did you knowthat plastic surgeons use body shaping to remove large amounts of hanging skin from the bodies of men and women who have lost as much as 45 to 136 kg (100 to 300 pounds )?
text: Did you knowthat Elias Zoghby , a Melkite Catholic archbishop, attempted to re-establish communion between the Melkite Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church while maintaining communion with the Roman Catholic Church ?
text: Did you knowthat the precise status of the Florida Maple ( Acer barbatum ) as an independent species , or a subspecies of Sugar Maple ( A. saccharum ) is not clear?
text: Did you knowthat most of the dogs seen in the 2007 Thai film , Ma-Mha , were strays rescued from shelters and trained specifically for the film?
text: Did you knowhammered oak piles used during the Medieval construction of pile bridges have remained solid for up to 750 years?
text: Did you knowthat among people on stamps of Azerbaijan , featured in 1995 are eight female astronauts ?
text: Did you knowthat Boans , a department store in Perth , Australia , was once the largest private employer in Western Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat although Duraiappa stadium mass grave was unearthed in the northern city of Jaffna , Sri Lanka in April 1999 , the 24 victims have not been identified yet?
text: Did you knowthat the Chief Justice of Chester presided over a court independent of the rest of the English judiciary until 1830?
text: Did you knowthat the phage group was an informal network of biologists centered around Max Delbrück that contributed heavily to the origins of molecular biology ?
text: Did you knowthat American diplomat and attorney Adrian S. Fisher was a leading negotiator of the earliest international nuclear test ban and non-proliferation treaties?
text: Did you knowthat Archbishop of Toledo Pedro Segura y Sáenz had to leave the city during the Spanish Civil War , because he denounced the Republican government and extolled monarchy ?
text: Did you knowthat Dwarkin developed the hand-held harmonium , a western instrument, to make it suitable for use with Indian music?
text: Did you knowthat the grey colored Achelous -class landing craft repair ship USS Askari was painted green during the Vietnam War , reflecting her assignment to the brown-water navy ?
text: Did you knowthat Antonio Ricaurte immolated himself in 1814 to prevent the Spanish Crown from taking over the San Mateo estate in Venezuela ?
text: Did you knowthat Four Plays in One is a Jacobean stage play by John Fletcher and his collaborators containing four shorter plays written between 1590 and 1607?
text: Did you knowthat the Calvinist philosopher and New Testament scholar Vern Poythress argues that mathematics is the rhyme of the universe ?
text: Did you knowthat the travel narrative The Malay Archipelago , by biologist Alfred Russel Wallace , was used by Joseph Conrad as a reference for his novel Lord Jim ?
text: Did you knowthat Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler Raatbek Sanatbayev was running for President of the National Olympic Committee of Kyrgyzstan , when he was assassinated , as the previous head of the Committee had been?
text: Did you knowthat Flamingo , a stabile by Alexander Calder located in Chicago , was the first piece of art commissioned by the General Services Administration under its Percent for Art program?
text: Did you knowthat Brazilian indie singer-songwriter CéU was the first international artist chosen for promotion through the Starbucks Hear Music Debut CD series?
text: Did you knowthat the non-fiction book Gifts of Deceit described Koreagate , and the United States Congressional investigation of the Unification Church ?
text: Did you knowthat the regional newspaper of Wagga Wagga , The Daily Advertiser , was first published in 1868, making it one of the oldest in Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat the valleys of the Minnesota and Upper Mississippi Rivers were carved by Glacial River Warren , an enormous river which drained Glacial Lake Agassiz in central North America ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. President Bush has indicated he may use the third veto of his Presidency on the Matthew Shepard Act ?
text: Did you knowthat the world's third largest statue under cover, The Statue of the Republic , is housed in El Capitolio , in Havana ?
text: Did you knowthat José María Morelos , a mule driver and priest from Michoacán , won 22 straight battles against the Spanish in the Mexican War of Independence ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Brian Smedley was named a High Court judge only a few years after overruling Government attempts to keep key evidence secret in the 1992 Matrix Churchill trial?
text: Did you knowthat 2007 International Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee Bruton Smith went to bankruptcy court before he became one of the 400 richest Americans ?
text: Did you knowthat Ray Davies of The Kinks began having an identity crisis when people walked up to him singing "Oh yes he is" after " Dedicated Follower of Fashion " became a hit?
text: Did you knowthat the football stadium Nya Gamla Ullevi which is under construction in Gothenburg , Sweden , is only the second Swedish top league stadium built since 1966?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian Skete Prodromos on Mount Athos shelters an icon of Theotokos considered in the Eastern Orthodox world to have been miraculously painted?
text: Did you knowthat Jacobean play The Atheist's Tragedy is the only dramatic work recognized by the consensus of modern scholarship as the undisputed work of Cyril Tourneur ?
text: Did you knowthat Ganendranath Tagore established the Jorasanko Natyasala, a private theatre in his own household, in Kolkata in 1865?
text: Did you knowthat Werner Erhard named his company Erhard Seminars Training after the science fiction book est: The Steersman Handbook ?
text: Did you knowthat of 43 people on board, the sole survivor of the 2006 Slovak Air Force Antonov An-24 crash was at the toilet at the time of the crash ?
text: Did you knowthat, fearing his life was threatened, Ottoman Dragoman Alexander Hangerli moved to Russia and started a career as a linguist ?
text: Did you knowthat Maniam Moorthy , a member of the first team of Malaysians to summit Mount Everest , fell during army training a year later and became a paraplegic ?
text: Did you knowthat though the origin of the Western Ganga Dynasty of Talakad (in modern Karnataka , India ) is debated, they made rich contributions to the polity , culture and literature of the region?
text: Did you knowthat historical demography , popularized by French historian Louis Henry , is the study of historical records leading to estimations of past human population ?
text: Did you knowthat plant collector Mary Strong Clemens sometimes paid for field-trip accommodation with scripture lessons and hymn -singing?
text: Did you knowthat ancients thought that the river Himera divided the island of Sicily in half, when in reality Himera was the name of two separate rivers, the Grande River and the Salso River ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian cricketer John Elicius Benedict Bernard Placid Quirk Carrington Dwyer was the great-grandson of transportee Michael Dwyer , a leader in the Irish Rebellion of 1798 ?
text: Did you knowthat Flaschenhals was a micronation created in the Rhineland after the Armistice of 1918 ?
text: Did you knowthat there are eleven disused railway stations between Exeter St Davids and Plymouth Millbay , Devon , England , at eight of which there are visible remains?
text: Did you knowthat the website of the defunct magazine Child was so successful, it has become a portal to the publisher's other parenting magazines' sites?
text: Did you knowthat Marc-André Raffalovich ,  a French poet, writer on homosexuality , and patron of the arts, had a life-long relationship with John Gray , the purported model for Oscar Wilde 's Dorian Gray ?
text: Did you knowthat Hispanics in the United States Naval Academy account for the largest minority group in the institution?
text: Did you knowthat the non-fiction book A Doctor's Report on Dianetics criticized L. Ron Hubbard 's prescription of vitamins and glutamic acid to Dianetics subjects?
text: Did you knowthat a scandal caused by the suicide of French politician and suspected murderer Charles de Choiseul-Praslin helped foment the 1848 Revolution ?
text: Did you knowthat Wiborada , a spiritual mentor of Ulrich of Augsburg , was the first female saint to be canonized by the Vatican ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1843 the German missionary Hermann Mögling published the first ever newspaper in the Kannada language ?
text: Did you knowthat a regiment of Spanish troops served in the French Army from 1809 to 1813, despite France and Spain being at war with each other in the Iberian Peninsula ?
text: Did you knowthat mine drainage from the Iron Mountain Mine toxic waste site in Northern California was measured to have a pH of -3.6?
text: Did you knowthat Robbery Under Arms by Rolf Boldrewood , a classic Australian novel , hasn't been out of print since it was edited into a single volume in 1889?
text: Did you knowthat at Traverse Gap , a valley in Minnesota and South Dakota , water originating in the watershed of the Gulf of Mexico can flood across the continental divide into the watershed of Hudson Bay ?
text: Did you knowthat endocrinologist Sir Raymond Hoffenberg was forced to leave South Africa in 1968 due to his opposition to apartheid , and was later President of the Royal College of Physicians and President of Wolfson College, Oxford ?
text: Did you knowthat the Very Reverend Anthony Bridge , brother of former Law Lord Lord Bridge of Harwich , gave up a career as an artist to become a Church of England priest ?
text: Did you knowthat the duckbilled dinosaur Hypacrosaurus is known from the largest collection of hatchling remains for any duckbill, due to the discovery of nests belonging to H. stebingeri ?
text: Did you knowthat Hugh O'Bryant , the first mayor of Portland, Oregon , was elected into office by a mere four votes?
text: Did you knowthe Madriu-Perafita-Claror Valley , a World Heritage Site , is considered to be the "spiritual heart" of Andorra ?
text: Did you knowthat Catherine Lim 's 1994 essay The PAP and the people - A Great Affective Divide invoked such a strong response from the Singapore government , its then-PM Goh Chok Tong outlined which topics were permissible for public discussion?
text: Did you knowthat Chinese immigration to the Russian Far East has led to fears of Chinese irredentism in Russia , even though there are less than 35,000 Chinese in all of Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat the congress hall on the site of the former Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg has been converted into a museum ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1775 military-minded Empress Maria Theresa of Austria dedicated the Schönbrunn Palace Garden Gloriette as a monument to Just War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Supreme Court of Civil Judicature of New South Wales was the first Supreme Court in Australia and that its first judge evaded hearing any cases?
text: Did you knowthat American aircraft designer Clyde Vernon Cessna 's most famous inventions included the cantilever wing and the V-shaped tail configuration?
text: Did you knowthat cricketer Les Jackson played in two Test matches for England , one in 1949 and a second in 1961, the longest gap between Test appearances for any player with only two caps?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas MacNutt , the first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan , was also one of the original eight people who formed the precursor of the Progressive Party ?
text: Did you knowthat the Way of Human Rights in Nuremberg , Germany has a sculpture and engraving dedicated to each article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1927, Oregon congressman Maurice E. Crumpacker drowned in San Francisco Bay after claiming he had been poisoned?
text: Did you knowthat cricketer Dick Motz took one wicket in his last Test match in August 1969, becoming the first New Zealand bowler to take 100 Test wickets?
text: Did you knowthat from around 900 to 1500 the Mixtec people wrote using pictorial representations and symbols?
text: Did you knowthat Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center archivist Larry Pile has a military intelligence background with the U.S. Army Security Agency ?
text: Did you knowthat Philadelphian Nelson Graves was only 14 years old when he made his first-class cricket debut?
text: Did you knowthat the Kentucky bar examination is the only one in the United States that uses the Multistate Essay Examination without also using the Multistate Performance Test ?
text: Did you knowthat The Man Who Came Early , a 1956 time travel short story by Poul Anderson , was written as the antithesis of Mark Twain 's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ?
text: Did you knowthat since its founding in 1948 Israel has had twelve Attorneys General ?
text: Did you knowthat John F. Davis , who served for ten years as Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States , had previously worked as a defense lawyer for perjury defendant Alger Hiss ?
text: Did you knowthat Canadian agronomist Seager Wheeler was instrumental in developing a sustainable agricultural economy in Saskatchewan , which has a short prairie growing season and harsh winters?
text: Did you knowthat former journalist Walter Hayes developed the business case for the development of the Ford Cosworth DFV , the most successful engine in Formula One history?
text: Did you knowthat the fish Coreoleuciscus splendidus had a movie named after it in 1999 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Monument of Liberty in Istanbul , the gathering place for the second rally of the Republic Protests , is a memorial for the 31 March Incident that took place in 1909?
text: Did you knowthat the creation of Kannada Sahitya Parishat , an Indian non-profit organization to promote the Kannada language , was first initiated by Bharat Ratna Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah , the Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat during the drive to emancipate Russia's serfs , one scurrilous rumor held that committee member Grand Duke Constantine Nikolayevich was insane thanks to too much masturbation ?
text: Did you knowthat the Farm Labor Organizing Committee 's 2004 collective bargaining agreement with the Mt. Olive Pickle Co. marked the first time an American labor union represented guest workers ?
text: Did you knowthat the wealthy connoisseur Claude-Henri Watelet created the first romantic landscape garden in France ?
text: Did you knowthere are at least twelve large Rottnest Island shipwrecks ?
text: Did you knowthat for fifty years the Red River Trails were used by Red River ox carts as the principal means of transportation between modern-day Winnipeg, Manitoba and St Paul, Minnesota ?
text: Did you knowthat Bold Lane car park , used by shoppers in Derby , England , is one of the ten most secure places in the world, alongside Air Force One , Area 51 , and Fort Knox ?
text: Did you knowthat before he became Vice Chancellor at Ahmadu Bello University , Ishaya Audu was the personal physician of the University's namesake, Ahmadu Bello ?
text: Did you knowthat there are 43 designated " Areas of Concern " within the Great Lakes watershed that show severe environmental degradation?
text: Did you knowthat some South Welsh coal miners in the 1800s would raid the homes of strikebreakers dressed as a "herd" of Scotch Cattle ?
text: Did you knowthat Jyotirindranath Tagore played a major role in the flowering of the talents in his younger brother, the first Asian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore ?
text: Did you knowthat James Mortimer was regularly invited to chess tournaments even though he lost most of his matches, managing to beat masters including Johannes Zukertort and Mikhail Chigorin ?
text: Did you knowthat the film Quitting , originally titled Yesterday in an allusion to the song by The Beatles , was retitled after copyright owner Michael Jackson withheld permission to use the song?
text: Did you knowthat a researcher at the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences discovered that the linear arrangement of genes on a chromosome corresponds to the development of body segments in fruit flies ?
text: Did you knowthat Victor Gauntlett supplied his personal pre-production Aston Martin Vantage for use in the filming of the James Bond film The Living Daylights ?
text: Did you knowthat the architecture of Ottawa is dominated by its role as the national capital of Canada ?
text: Did you knowthat, in 1989 , the daughter of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed , then Indian Minister for Home Affairs , was kidnapped within five days of her father assuming office?
text: Did you knowthat the Cave of the Mounds ’s many speleothems have earned it recognition as the “jewel box” of North American caves ?
text: Did you knowthat cefquinome is an antibiotic developed to treat bovine respiratory disease?
text: Did you knowthat marine conservation activists have organized an annual International Coastal Cleanup day that draws more than 300,000 volunteers in 88 countries to pick up trash from the beaches around the world?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Sue Gordon became the first full-time and first Aboriginal magistrate in Western Australia in 1988?
text: Did you knowthat the Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge protects nearly 7,000 acres of American crocodile habitat in southern Florida ?
text: Did you knowthat Sabancaya , a 5,976 m (19,606 ft) stratovolcano in the Andes , is the most active volcano in Peru ?
text: Did you knowthat arctic haze contributes to global warming , raising temperatures by up to 1.7°C (3°F) during the arctic winter ?
text: Did you knowthat British rifleman William Green's memoir is one of the few accounts by an enlisted man of life in the Duke of Wellington 's army, and as such, has provided source material for many historians ?
text: Did you knowthat Xaltocan , an island in Mexico , means "sandy ground of spiders " in Nahuatl ?
text: Did you knowthat the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh , Wisconsin provides visitors with rides in an 80-year-old biplane ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1851 , Hugh O'Bryant was elected the first mayor of Portland, Oregon by a mere four votes?
text: Did you knowthat Minnesota 's Buffalo Ridge is the site of the first wind farm in the upper Midwest ?
text: Did you knowthat King Henry VIII was a talented musician and composer, and his song Pastime with Good Company became a popular tune throughout Renaissance Europe and remains a choral favorite?
text: Did you knowthat Iceland leads the world in renewable energy and is the first country to supply all electricity from renewable sources ?
text: Did you knowthat Doppler spectroscopy was used to discover the first extrasolar planet in 1995 and has since been used to identify more than one hundred exoplanet candidates?
text: Did you knowthat overcrowding in Chicago 's racially segregated Black Belt was so severe that in 1934 an estimated 6.8 people were living in the average kitchenette apartment?
text: Did you knowthat Israeli pilot and peace activist Abie Nathan landed his plane in Egypt in 1966 in an attempt to deliver a message of peace to President Nasser ?
text: Did you knowthat the average speed of the contestants in the Great Steamboat Race , held each year before the Kentucky Derby , is only 7 miles per hour ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay will carry the Olympic torch across 22 countries on 6 continents between March and August 2008?
text: Did you knowthat Werner Erhard was investigated by the Church of Scientology after he incorporated Scientology beliefs and practices into Erhard Seminars Training and The Forum ?
text: Did you knowthat chocolate was the first non-alcoholic social beverage in early modern European cuisine ?
text: Did you knowthat the South Wales Gas Pipeline is the United Kingdom 's largest high pressure gas pipeline?
text: Did you knowthat the Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball team has won two NIT championships and made 14 NCAA Tournament appearances, but has also had a winless season?
text: Did you knowthat children in a test audience for Sesame Street ’s episode Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce were so distressed by the show that producers declined to air it?
text: Did you knowthat Saint Gorgonia supposedly cured herself of a life-threatening illness by anointing herself with elements of the Eucharist mixed with her own tears ?
text: Did you knowthat huge boulders can be transported to the open ocean by rafts of plant matter?
text: Did you knowthat Israel is the world's largest recipient of United States overseas military assistance?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian organization Corpul Muncitoresc Legionar was created by the Iron Guard in order to rally the working class around fascism ?
text: Did you knowthat the cast of By the Sword (1991), the first feature film about fencing , included two actors sharing the same last name as the director?
text: Did you knowthat real estate developer James Graham Brown , who was worth $100 million when he died in 1969, lived most of his life in a small suite in his Brown Hotel ?
text: Did you knowthat reindeer hunting provides an important staple food for many households in Greenland ?
text: Did you knowthat the expulsion of Poles by Germany was contemplated in the 19th century and implemented in the 20th?
text: Did you knowthat more than half of the 214 bird species found on Barbados are considered " accidental "—that is, they are found there only because they strayed off-course?
text: Did you knowthat selenium contamination in the late 1970s led the Kesterson Reservoir in Central California , once rich in several species of fish and other life, to only support saline-tolerant mosquitofish ?
text: Did you knowthat a separatist group refuses to allow the exploitation of crude oil and natural gas reserves in the Ogaden Basin , Ethiopia ?
text: Did you knowthat aggressive NK-cell leukemia , a type of leukemia with a systemic proliferation of natural killer cells , is more prevalent in Asians than other ethnic groups?
text: Did you knowthat Golden Boy was the first book musical ever to play at the London Palladium ?
text: Did you knowthat English cricketer and footballer Arthur Milton was the last surviving person to have played Test cricket for the England cricket team and international football for the England football team ?
text: Did you knowthat Klaus Traube worked on building the German fast breeder in Kalkar when he changed his view about nuclear power, went into opposition and was considered a security threat by the German secret service?
text: Did you knowthat a 1922 dispute about how Georgia was to be integrated into the Soviet Union was one of the factors that led Lenin to break with Stalin and call for his removal for office in his testament ?
text: Did you knowthat Orval Grove was one out away from a no-hitter in a baseball game on July 8 , 1943 when Joe Gordon hit a double off his pitch?
text: Did you knowthat the founding of Phenomena Research Australia , in response to a surge of unidentified flying object sightings in 1947 , was the first gathering of Australian UFO enthusiasts?
text: Did you knowthat Marilee Jones , the disgraced former dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , was called "the guru of the movement to tame the college-admissions frenzy" by The New York Times ?
text: Did you knowthat until the discovery of the Library of Nag Hammadi in 1945, the 2nd century CE work Against Heresies was the best surviving description of Gnosticism ?
text: Did you knowthat poet Anna Williams 's works include On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philipps, Unfortunately Drowned in the River Avon ?
text: Did you knowthat the avifauna of Lithuania includes a total of 342 species, of which 2 have been introduced by humans?
text: Did you knowthat the monopoly of The Hostmen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne over coal trade in the Tyneside area raised questions in the House of Commons in the 1620s?
text: Did you knowthat the bark of the African tree Bombax buonopozense is burnt in Ghana to drive away evil spirits?
text: Did you knowthat because of Salvatore Pincherle , German mathematicians could attend the Third International Congress of Mathematicians despite a ban imposed during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cherokee Nation was induced to cede large portions of land in Tennessee and Georgia to the United States in the Tellico Blockhouse , Monroe County, Tennessee ?
text: Did you knowthat one of the largest rainwater harvesting projects in the world is being implemented in the rural areas of the state of Karnataka , India ?
text: Did you knowthat the Old National Library Building , a much-beloved national icon of Singapore , was demolished despite a rare display of public opposition?
text: Did you knowthat in China , access to water supply and sanitation varies greatly between rural areas, where only 67% of the population has access to improved water supply, and cities, where 93% does?
text: Did you knowthat Demologos , the first warship powered by a steam engine , saw only one day of active service in the U.S. Navy , carrying President James Monroe around New York Harbor ?
text: Did you knowthat the Danish firm Marcussen & Søn have built over 1000 organs since their foundation in 1806 ?
text: Did you knowthat " Comme Ci, Comme Ça " was performed in French at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 , despite being the Cypriot entry?
text: Did you knowthat the Burgsvik beds , a geological formation exposed on Gotland , Sweden , contain the only fossil euglenid ever discovered?
text: Did you knowthat Paul C. Barth , former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky , committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse?
text: Did you knowthat despite sending 8000 ARVN soldiers from out of district to stuff ballot boxes , South Vietnam 's President Ngo Dinh Diem could not prevent his candidate from losing to Phan Quang Dan in a 1959 legislative election by a ratio of 6-1?
text: Did you knowthat Akwasi Afrifa became Lt. General and head of state of Ghana after a coup d'état , was detained after a second coup, won parliamentary elections after a third and was executed after a fourth coup?
text: Did you knowthat former University of Kentucky basketball star Dirk Minniefield smoked marijuana the night before Kentucky's loss in the 1983 NCAA Tournament to the University of Louisville ?
text: Did you knowthat the Rupert Downes Memorial Lecture commemorates a Australian Army general , physician and historian who was killed in a plane crash during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Tung Hua Lin led a team that designed and built China 's first twin-engine aircraft in a cave to avoid detection by the Japanese during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat American sculptor Lynda Benglis sought to confront the male ethos in the arts community with an  advertisement in which she only wore a pair of sunglasses?
text: Did you knowthat the recently beatified Paul Joseph Nardini died of pulmonary typhus he contracted when giving the last rites to a member of his parish?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Push The Button " was believed by some to relate to Iran 's attempt to build nuclear weapons ?
text: Did you knowthat Louise Pitre , a Tony Award -nominated musical theatre actress, was turned down after auditioning for the role of Josephine in the London musical Napoleon ?
text: Did you knowthat three years after tying for its final Kentucky State Football championship, Flaget High School closed due to falling enrollment?
text: Did you knowthat the final episode of the 1986 television series Outlaws recycled footage from The Oregon Trail , because actors Rod Taylor and Charles Napier appeared in both programs?
text: Did you knowthat income inequality increased in the United States in 2005 with the top 1% of earners having roughly the same share of income as in 1928?
text: Did you knowthat Lt. Gen. Terry Gabreski is the first female to hold the rank of Lieutenant General in the US Air Force ?
text: Did you knowthat catfish species of the genus Hypophthalmus are unusual among neotropical fishes because they feed on plankton by straining water over a fine sieve created by numerous long, thin gill rakers ?
text: Did you knowthat Gabriele Kohlisch is one of only two people to ever win World Championship gold medals in both bobsledding and luge ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mitcham and Morden by-election in 1982 remains the last to see a gain by the British Conservative Party ?
text: Did you knowthat the Union Stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska was the largest livestock market and meatpacking center in the United States from 1955 until 1973?
text: Did you knowthat Carlos Morales Troncoso , the foreign minister of the Dominican Republic , has degrees in both chemical engineering and sugar engineering ?
text: Did you knowthat the Poltava Bandurist Capella , directed by Hnat Khotkevych , was the first Soviet ensemble to be invited to tour North America ?
text: Did you knowthat the football song Hampden in the sun celebrates the record scoreline of the 1957 Scottish League Cup final?
text: Did you knowthat the Lajkonik is an unofficial symbol of the city of Krakow as well as an annual festival celebrated for over 700 years commemorating victory over the Tatar invasion?
text: Did you knowthat American Revolutionary War officer William Stacy narrowly escaped death by burning at the stake and was given a gold snuff box by George Washington ?
text: Did you knowthat the Frosty Leo Nebula was so named because it is the only known protoplanetary nebula whose circumstellar outflow is dominated by crystalline ice in the long-wavelength emission spectrum ?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian town of Bundarra, New South Wales is home to a breeding colony of endangered Regent Honeyeaters , containing around thirty of the less than 1,500 birds remaining in existence?
text: Did you knowthat William Cooley was a salvager and pioneer whose family's 1836 murder during the Second Seminole War led to the abandonment of the New River Settlement near Fort Lauderdale, Florida , United States ?
text: Did you knowthat among the toughest fighters of the Dahomey War were the corps of female warriors armed with rifles and double-edged machetes ?
text: Did you knowthat the color signals of Israel Broadcasting Authority television transmissions were erased until 1981, when Minister of Communications Yoram Aridor authorized color television broadcasting?
text: Did you knowthat brownouts have claimed more helicopters in recent military operations than all other threats combined?
text: Did you knowthat Kannada is the only language in which a Jain version of the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata exists?
text: Did you knowthat Julius Reubke composed his Sonata on the 94th Psalm for organ a year before dying aged 24?
text: Did you knowthat Scottish footballer Billy McPhail launched a legal case claiming that heading heavy leather footballs contributed to him developing Alzheimer's disease ?
text: Did you knowthat Vancouver police Chief Jamie Graham apologized for  leaving a paper target riddled with bullet holes on the desk of the city manager , his boss, as a joke?
text: Did you knowthat the New Zealand Railways Department dumped tank locomotives of the W B class in the Mokihinui River to protect against erosion beside the route of the Seddonville Branch line?
text: Did you knowthat the Greek Phlyax plays of South Italy might have been an influence on Roman comedies of Plautus ?
text: Did you knowthat La Martiniere Boys' College in Lucknow , India is the only school in the world to be awarded a battle honour ?
text: Did you knowthat Introitus et Exitus , a financial record of the Apostolic Camera from 1279 to 1524 , has been used to authenticate the provenance of artworks and study past European exchange and interest rates ?
text: Did you knowthat the Salerno Mutiny of 1943 saw the largest number of men charged with mutiny at any one time in all of British military history ?
text: Did you knowthat the third of four expeditions sent in the late 19th century by French nobleman Marquis de Rays to an imaginary majestic colony called New France in present day Papua New Guinea , saw 123 Italian settlers perish of disease and famine?
text: Did you knowthat the Bangalore based SELCO company, which promotes solar power in rural India , has twice won an Ashden Award ?
text: Did you knowthat Ben Abell provided the St. Louis area with more than 120,000 weather forecasts ?
text: Did you knowthat The Secret Battle (1919) was the first novel by A. P. Herbert , and the first war novel to deal with the soldiers " shot at dawn " during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat Dutch publisher Emanuel Querido published 110 works between 1933 and 1940 by German writers in exile ?
text: Did you knowthat the rock band The Sidewinders changed their name to the Sand Rubies after being sued by a cover band over the use of their name?
text: Did you knowthat Lough Hyne is a marine lake that was probably freshwater until rising ocean levels flooded it about 4000 years ago?
text: Did you knowthat Omaha chief Logan Fontenelle sold the Omaha land to the U.S. government and was subsequently killed by Brulé and Arapaho ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 18th century the owners of Tom King's Coffee House developed their own argot , Talking Flash , to prevent informers learning of their misdeeds?
text: Did you knowthat brownouts have claimed more helicopters in recent military operations than all other threats combined?
text: Did you knowthat, in 19th and 20th century Romania , Roma people known as Ursari trained brown bears to step on people's backs, as a folk remedy for back pain ?
text: Did you knowthat according to legend , the Polish Princess Wanda would rather commit suicide than marry a leader of an invading German force?
text: Did you knowthat Edwin Lemare was the most highly-paid organ virtuoso of his day?
text: Did you knowthat Indian whisky is actually a distilled spirit made mostly from molasses ?
text: Did you knowthat Paul C. Barth , former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky , committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse?
text: Did you knowthat a Court of Disputed Returns is an independent body that determines disputes about election results in some countries?
text: Did you knowthat the world's first birth control clinic was set up in 1930 in the Mandya district of the state of Karnataka , India ?
text: Did you knowthat Iraqi refugee Wafaa Bilal was shot by more than 60,000 paintballs in a month-long performance art piece in Chicago ?
text: Did you knowthat the foreman of the jury who acquitted Thomas Hardy of treason during the 1794 Treason Trials in Britain fainted after reading the verdict?
text: Did you knowthat Rufous Whistler birds, unlike all other Whistler birds, never forage on the ground but high up in trees or other high places?
text: Did you knowthat the Sicilian friar Antonio del Duca lobbied for decades for papal authorization of a more formal veneration of the Seven Archangels ?
text: Did you knowthat the Suwa Shrine survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki , although the nearby Urakami Cathedral and surrounding Catholic neighborhoods were completely obliterated?
text: Did you knowthat Józef Mianowski , a 19th-century Polish academic and personal physician of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna , falsified university records to give alibis to Polish insurgents in 1860s ?
text: Did you knowthat stellar magnetic fields create loops of plasma that arc over the surface of a star ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mexico tropical cyclone rainfall climatology tells us that one-third of the annual rainfall along the Mexican Riviera , and up to one-half of the annual rainfall within Baja California Sur , is due to tropical cyclones moving up Mexico 's west coast?
text: Did you knowthat Ba Cut (meaning Short Third ), a military commander of the Hoa Hao religious sect in Vietnam, was so named because he cut off his third finger to remind him to fight French colonialism?
text: Did you knowthat the Royal Navy ordered the construction of the destroyer HMS Ledbury two days after the outbreak of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Mexican singer-actor Antonio Aguilar made over 150 albums and 150 movies in his career?
text: Did you knowthat a decline of the population of brook trout in the Straight River in central Minnesota was caused by rising water temperatures, prompting government scrutiny of nearby irrigation operations?
text: Did you knowthat Ryszard Bartel 's design, the Bartel BM-4 , was Poland's first own aircraft built in series?
text: Did you knowthat Vlasina Lake in southeastern Serbia is famous for floating islands arising from chunks of peat broken off the shore?
text: Did you knowthat political boss John Henry Whallen influenced every election in Louisville, Kentucky from 1885 until his death in 1913?
text: Did you knowthat the Empire Gallantry Medal ' s design was changed twice in its seventeen year existence?
text: Did you knowthat areas of the North Fly District in Papua New Guinea 's Western Province experience a peak annual rainfall of ten metres?
text: Did you knowthat Hancock Manor received wounded men from the Battle of Bunker Hill and entertained both Lafayette and George Washington ?
text: Did you knowthat Key Highway , built to provide better access to the municipal piers in Baltimore in preparation for increased trade through the Panama Canal , is now a truck bypass of the historic Federal Hill neighborhood?
text: Did you knowthat the Columbia detachment of the Royal Engineers built some of the first major roads in British Columbia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indian state of Maharashtra has started a project for the location of suitable sites for Jatropha plantations ?
text: Did you knowthat 173 of the 198 Kwaio arrested during the Malaita massacre were hospitalized for dysentery while awaiting trial in Tulagi , the Solomon Islands ?
text: Did you knowthat British Labour politician Piara Singh Khabra was the fifth Asian MP , and was the oldest MP sitting in the House of Commons and the only sitting MP to have served in the armed forces during the Second World War at the time of his death?
text: Did you knowthe Art Institute of Chicago Building was co-financed by the financiers of the World's Columbian Exposition , which occupied the building for its first six months?
text: Did you knowthat the Ordos culture includes some of the easternmost Scythians , who were settled for several centuries in an area about 300 kilometers from modern Beijing in China ?
text: Did you knowthat Linus Pauling and Emile Zuckerkandl proposed using protein sequences to estimate the time since genetic divergence , early in the history of molecular evolution research?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Dennison got a mayor elected eight times, instigated a race riot and controlled all sale of liquor, gambling and prostitution during his 30+ year reign as Omaha 's political boss ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kodava Hockey Festival held annually in the Kodagu district of the Indian state of Karnataka is one of the largest field hockey tournaments in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Irene Jordan of the South Fort George suburb of Prince George, British Columbia had owned a popular brothel that later became the first City Hall of Prince George?
text: Did you knowthat the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting was dropped in favor of the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2006, reestablishing a prize not awarded since 1952?
text: Did you knowthat "Cherry Pie" , the best-known song by the glam metal band Warrant , was a last-minute addition to their 1990 album ?
text: Did you knowthat the author of the term Third Reich predicted that " Germany might perish because of the Third Reich dream"?
text: Did you knowthat Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Malaika was the first person to write in free verse in Arabic ?
text: Did you knowthat after thirty-five ballots, Republican presidential candidates James G. Blaine and John Sherman withdrew their campaigns to support a dark horse candidate named James Garfield at the 1880 Republican National Convention ?
text: Did you knowthat Kentucky philanthropist Eli Metcalfe Bruce contributed more than $400,000 of his personal fortune to aiding Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat Semar , although depicted as a clown in Indonesian wayang shadow puppetry, is said to be the guardian spirit of Java and a god in human form?
text: Did you knowthat litigation in the Vice Admiralty Court was frustrated after Justice Jeffery Bent absconded with its seal when he was not re-appointed to the Supreme Court?
text: Did you knowthat Canadian musician Richard Bell was a member of Janis Joplin 's Full Tilt Boogie Band and became a member of The Band during the 1990s?
text: Did you knowthat Herb Boxer was the first U.S. -born ice hockey player ever drafted by a National Hockey League team?
text: Did you knowthat Serranus Clinton Hastings served as chief justice of both the Iowa and California Supreme Courts ?
text: Did you knowthat O. Rajagopal represented Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha , despite living in Kerala ?
text: Did you knowthat the first online-only correspondence law school started operating in 1998 and graduated its first class in 2002?
text: Did you knowthat Major Oscar F. Perdomo downed five Japanese aircraft in a single day and thereby became the United States ' last "Ace in a day" of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Gubbi Veeranna ' s theatre company was the first one in the state of Karnataka , India to employ female artists to portray female characters on the stage?
text: Did you knowthat Britartist Tracey Emin 's "tent", Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 , destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire, listed 102 names including her grandma and two foetuses?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish Coal Trunk-Line , one of the most important rail connections in Poland , was built because post- First World War border changes made old rail lines obsolete?
text: Did you knowthat Peter Cochrane and Les Carlyon were the joint inaugural winners of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History ?
text: Did you knowthat of the more than one million photographic plates made in the studio of Henri Manuel , only five hundred survived World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Scotland rugby union player Duncan Macrae won a Military Cross for his actions as part of the 51st Highland Division at Saint-Valery-en-Caux ?
text: Did you knowthat Challenge 1934 was the fourth and last FAI International Tourist Plane Contest, a major aviation event in pre-war Europe?
text: Did you knowthat the United States Supreme Court ruled in Bronston v. United States that statements made under oath which are literally truthful yet misleading cannot be prosecuted as perjury ?
text: Did you knowthat the "helicopter" damselflies of family Pseudostigmatidae specialize in plucking spiders from their webs ?
text: Did you knowthat the state of Karnataka , particularly the region belonging to the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi , is known as the cradle of banking in India ?
text: Did you knowthat the Commander-in-Chief's Guard was a unit of the Continental Army that protected George Washington during the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Clark made his own alcoholic drink, "Gut Rot 1916", while stranded on Elephant Island in 1916?
text: Did you knowthat it may take more than 220 years for eucalyptus trees to form hollows suitable for larger animals?
text: Did you knowthat the oldest state government building in the US state of Oregon , the 1914 Supreme Court Building in Salem , has a stained glass skylight in the shape of the State seal?
text: Did you knowthat ten of the twenty-three Cardinal electors in the 1492 papal conclave —which elected Rodrigo Borja as Pope Alexander VI —were nephews of the popes that elevated them ?
text: Did you knowthat The Jaguar Smile was the first book-length non-fiction work by author Salman Rushdie and was written during a break from the composition of The Satanic Verses ?
text: Did you knowthat Papyrus 45 may have been one of the earliest manuscripts to collect more than one New Testament genre into a single codex ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry is the second oldest continuously operating ferry service in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat like other bronzewing pigeons ,  the Common Bronzewing releases a milky substance from its crop to feed its young?
text: Did you knowthat Dum Diversas , promulgated by Pope Nicholas V in 1452, authorized Afonso V of Portugal to enslave indefinitely Saracens , pagans , and other "enemies of Christ"?
text: Did you knowthat before World War II , the Polish Army prioritized defence planning in case of Soviet attack over a plan against German invasion until the late 1930s?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Worth Bingham purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1918 using a bequest from his second wife, to whom he had been married for less than a year before her death?
text: Did you knowthat Ben Brocklehurst , one of the last amateur captains in county cricket and later owner and publisher of The Cricketer magazine from 1972 to 2003, is the grandfather of cricketer Ben Hutton ?
text: Did you knowthat the Wall Street Journal tracks median home purchase prices of starter homes as part of its real estate index?
text: Did you knowthat Unsung Heroes , a twenty-part North Korean spy film series, cast U.S. Army defectors Charles Jenkins and Joe Dresnok in the role of villains?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Joseph Rothrock is known as the "Father of Forestry " in Pennsylvania , and is the namesake for Rothrock State Forest ?
text: Did you knowthat the award ceremony of Turkey 's most important film festival , the Golden Orange , is held at the Roman amphitheatre of Aspendos in Antalya ?
text: Did you knowthat Eric Johnston , president of the MPAA , issued the Waldorf Statement in November 1947, marking the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist ?
text: Did you knowthat Frederick Augustus Hely , a justice of the peace and public servant in colonial Australia , was the first man to settle permanently at Narara , Brisbane Water ?
text: Did you knowthat Janowa Dolina , a model settlement built by the Polish state in interwar Poland , was razed barely ten years after its creation by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army during the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat Mikveh Israel , the first modern Jewish agricultural settlement in the Land of Israel , was founded in 1870 by Charles Netter ?
text: Did you knowthat the beach where Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared in 1967, and presumably drowned, was named after the SS Cheviot that was wrecked nearby in 1887 with the loss of 35 lives?
text: Did you knowthat Roman trade with India was so large as to drain gold resources from Rome and involved the despatch of 120 ships every year?
text: Did you knowthat Australian rules footballer Tom Lonergan returned to the sport ten months after losing a kidney as the result of an injury?
text: Did you knowthat Sergeant George Jordan received the Medal of Honor for repulsing 100 Chiricahua Apache warriors led by Victorio with 25 Buffalo Soldiers in the Battle of Tularosa ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir John Gilmour Bt emulated his father by also winning the Distinguished Service Order , becoming a Conservative Member of Parliament , and twice serving as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ?
text: Did you knowthat capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969 ?
text: Did you knowthat baseball player Jack Lelivelt's International League -record hitting streak set in 1912 was not recognized by the International League until 2007 , the year it was broken?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Hanley 's book South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating analyzes issues of applied ethics as presented in South Park ?
text: Did you knowthat British Labour MP Harry Ewing was joint chairman of the Scottish Constitutional Convention , formed in 1989 to plan for the devolution of Scotland ?
text: Did you knowthat Lake Ceauru in southwestern Romania does not exist, despite appearing on maps today?
text: Did you knowthat, along with many other scientific discoveries made during its course, the Morea expedition confirmed the presence of jackals in Greece ?
text: Did you knowthat weather extremes in Minnesota include temperatures of −60 ° F (−51 ° C ) and 114 °F (46 °C)?
text: Did you knowthat HNoMY Norge , one of only two Royal Yachts left in Europe, was produced by Camper and Nicholsons , the oldest leisure marine company in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Francisco Sionil José is one of the most widely-read Filipino writers in the English language, and has been translated into 22 other languages?
text: Did you knowthat Czech saint Zdislava Berka ran away from home to live as a hermit when she was only seven years old?
text: Did you knowthat in the Calgary Flames ' 1988-89 season , they became the only visiting team to defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup in the Montreal Forum ?
text: Did you knowthat the Lakshminarayana Temple in Hosaholalu, Karnataka state, India is mounted on a platform ( jagati ), a style unique to Hoysala architecture ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. President Chester A. Arthur , a known Stalwart , signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act , a piece of legislation that was drawn up by the rival Half-Breeds ?
text: Did you knowthat Swedish emigration to North America was so high around 1900 that the Swedish Emigration Commission produced a 21 volume report on curbing it?
text: Did you knowthat pioneering African American journalist Larry Whiteside was part of an expert panel that chose the Major League Baseball All-Century Team ?
text: Did you knowthat football players Billy and John McPhail are the only brothers to have both scored hat-tricks for Celtic F.C. against their Old Firm rivals, Rangers F.C. ?
text: Did you knowthat, prior to developing the Elder Scrolls series , Bethesda Softworks was primarily known as a sports game company?
text: Did you knowthat the Kisima Music Awards recognise talent from across East Africa?
text: Did you knowthat Jeż Jerzy is a popular Polish comic , a satire on modern life, often making fun of subcultures like skinheads or dresiarze ?
text: Did you knowthat the initials of former Canadian Football League executive J.I. Albrecht stand for "Just Incredible"?
text: Did you knowthat during the Soviet deportations from Estonia in 1940-1941 and 1944-1951 the Soviet Union forcibly transferred tens of thousands of Estonian citizens to Siberia ?
text: Did you knowthat the USS Sandpiper , originally built as a minesweeping ship , was redesignated a seaplane tender ?
text: Did you knowthat Omaha, Nebraska 's Little Italy neighborhood was largely the result of two brothers' efforts to help their countrymen?
text: Did you knowthat Shivappa Nayaka , a king in 17th century Karnataka , India , introduced a unique and variable tax system called Sist ?
text: Did you knowthat African American Methodist preacher and missionary John Marrant undertook a mission to the Cherokee while he was a teenager?
text: Did you knowthat sports agent David Falk represented Michael Jordan for the whole of the player's career?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Bowman was the only American officer killed during George Rogers Clark 's campaign to capture the Illinois Country in the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1985, Texas Instruments became the first multinational to set up base in Bangalore ?
text: Did you knowthat E.E. Roberts ' Oak Park, Illinois architecture firm rivaled the studio of fellow architect Frank Lloyd Wright ?
text: Did you knowthat a man was crushed to death during the construction of the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol ?
text: Did you knowthat Don White was the first-ever coach of the England national rugby union team ?
text: Did you knowthat Texas settlers at the Council House Fight ambushed and killed thirteen Comanche chiefs at a peace treaty negotiation, provoking the Great Raid of 1840 ?
text: Did you knowthat Neville Miller is remembered as Louisville, Kentucky 's "flood mayor" for his strong leadership during the Ohio River flood of 1937 ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1876, Paul Zweifel became the first to demonstrate that the fetus in utero consumes oxygen ?
text: Did you knowthat, despite its name, the Pygmy Blue Whale reaches lengths of 24 m (79 ft)?
text: Did you knowthat John Candy improvised the famous " Orange Whip ? Orange Whip? Orange Whip? Three Orange Whips." line from The Blues Brothers on the request of a set designer's father?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. Route 322 in New Jersey used to be concurrent with state highways on its entire route?
text: Did you knowthat after publishing his first book, magistrate James Mudie became so hated in Sydney that he was horsewhipped in the street?
text: Did you knowthat the uniforms of United Nations tour guides are designed by internationally famous fashion designers such as Hollywood ’s Edith Head , Christian Dior and Benetton ?
text: Did you knowthat the 3rd Viscount Buckmaster , grandson of the Liberal Party Lord Chancellor 1st Viscount Buckmaster , served as diplomat in the Middle East until 1981?
text: Did you knowthat for New York City to receive up to $ 500 million from the Department of Transportation , its congestion pricing plan must be approved by August 2007?
text: Did you knowthat a military coalition from four countries helped the British colonial government to quell the 1915 Singapore Mutiny ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bucharest school of Jean Alexandre Vaillant contributed to Westernization in Wallachia during the 1830s?
text: Did you knowthat the Lutheran liturgical calendar includes several biblical personages as “Saint” though it is commonly believed that Lutherans “do not have saints”?
text: Did you knowthat Puerto Rican singer Tito Gómez once shared vocal duties in Ray Barretto 's band in the 1970s with Rubén Blades ?
text: Did you knowthat it was common for the Roman Emperor to be elected to one of two offices of the highest judicial magistrates known as duumviri , and the other position was left up to the emperor for the appointment of a praefectus ?
text: Did you knowthat Horace Liveright published the works of numerous important authors, including Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot , and hired Béla Lugosi for Dracula , but still died penniless?
text: Did you knowthat Vishvakannada.com was the first Internet magazine in Kannada and also the first website in an Indian language to use dynamic fonts ?
text: Did you knowthat Nebraska Highway 14 became a cross- Nebraska highway with the completion of the Chief Standing Bear Memorial Bridge over the Missouri River in 1998?
text: Did you knowthat the arms of Ferry de Clugny are featured in the Clugny Annunciation , attributed either to Rogier van der Weyden or Hans Memling ?
text: Did you knowthat even though a 1959-1961 survey showed that the Central African Republic 's Bakouma sub-prefecture contained phosphatic sediment with the highest uranium content in all of sub-Saharan Africa , exploitation didn't start until 2006?
text: Did you knowthat the Charles E. Roberts Stable was converted from a barn into a garage by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1896?
text: Did you knowthat had it moved into production as scheduled, the Bede BD-10 would have been the world's first kit-built jet-powered general aviation aircraft?
text: Did you knowthat the Pagal Panthis were a religious order who led the peasants of the Mymensingh region of Bengal in armed revolts against the British East India Company and zamindars ?
text: Did you knowthat factors affecting the preservation of textiles include ambient heat , light , and humidity , and the presence of pests, airborne chemicals and pollutants?
text: Did you knowthat during the 1950s, when the Soviet training model barred students from participation in professional theatre, Ludwik Solski Academy for the Dramatic Arts maintained its close ties with it?
text: Did you knowthat the initial publication of the The Highfield Mole (since dubbed "the next Harry Potter ") was financed by the sale of the house of one of the authors?
text: Did you knowthat, after the wife of liberal journalist Aleksey Suvorin was shot dead by her lover, Suvorin experienced a conversion to virulent conservatism ?
text: Did you knowthat Rīgas Satiksme is the largest provider of public transport in Riga ?
text: Did you knowthat riots broke out among Azeris in Iran after a newspaper published a cartoon about a cockroach ?
text: Did you knowthat the Naniwa class cruisers were the first protected cruisers designed in Japan ?
text: Did you knowthat existence of arbitrarily many primes in arithmetic progression was proven in 2004, but it took 75 computers to find an example with 24 primes ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian deputy judge advocate Richard Dore once ordered several hundred lashes be given to  suspected Irish insurrectionists before a verdict had been made?
text: Did you knowthat French mathematician André Bloch murdered his brother, produced all his mathematical work from an insane asylum , and published under aliases to avoid the interest of Nazi occupiers?
text: Did you knowthat Eocursor , a small bipedal herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Triassic of South Africa , is the most completely known Triassic ornithischian (beaked dinosaur)?
text: Did you knowthat to speed up patent cases, United States federal judge T. John Ward uses a chess clock to  time opening and closing arguments ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2004 USC Trojans football team went undefeated, becoming the tenth team to win consecutive Associated Press National Championships ?
text: Did you knowthat Omar Hayssam , a Syrian -born Romanian financier, was recently sentenced to 20 years in prison after a court found him guilty of masterminding the kidnap of three Romanian journalists in Iraq in 2005?
text: Did you knowthat the extinct marine reptile Kaganaias is the only ancient aquatic scaled reptile to be found in Asia ?
text: Did you knowthat the burning of the Torah by Apostomus is noted in the Mishnah as one of five catastrophes to affect the Jews on the seventeenth of Tammuz ?
text: Did you knowthat Smoky Bay in South Australia was named so after the discoverer noticed large plumes of smoke from fires lit by the area's aboriginal people ?
text: Did you knowthat Alexander Brodie Spark , influential merchant , magistrate , investor and exporter in Australia during the 19th century , entertained in excess of 800 different guests in his home solely in 1839 ?
text: Did you knowthat John Sebastian Helmcken opposed British Columbia joining Canadian Confederation —until he negotiated the terms himself?
text: Did you knowthat Kuh Ledesma was the first Philippine singer to receive the Salem Music Awards in London in March 1989?
text: Did you knowthat the yet unnamed EADS Astrium Space Tourism Project is the first suborbital space tourism project by a major aerospace consortium?
text: Did you knowthat Muristan , a complex in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem , was the location of the first hospital of the Knights of St. John ?
text: Did you knowthat Gigantoraptor , a bird-like dinosaur discovered in Inner Mongolia , is thirty-five times larger than its peacock -sized relative, Caudipteryx ?
text: Did you knowthat Vijaya Dasa , an 18th-century Hindu saint from the Karnataka Haridasa tradition, composed about 25,000 devotional songs in the Kannada language ?
text: Did you knowthat Johann Christoph Altnickol , Johann Christian Kittel , and Johann Caspar Vogler were all students of Johann Sebastian Bach ?
text: Did you knowthat Vittorio Ambrosio was an Italian general who served an instrumental role in the fall of Mussolini and the eventual Italian renunciation of its alliance with Germany?
text: Did you knowthat destructive creativity is a social theory that has been used to explain Nazi Germany , and the Enron and Watergate scandals ?
text: Did you knowthat Ghum is the highest railway station in India at 2,225 m (7,407 ft)?
text: Did you knowthat Narayana Hrudayalaya , located in Bangalore , India and one of the largest pediatric heart hospitals in the world, offers a telemedicine service for free?
text: Did you knowthat the war elephant army of Basalawarmi , a Yuan Dynasty loyalist and the Prince of Liang , was, according to myth , defeated by ten thousand mice ?
text: Did you knowthat Mogollon, New Mexico had a reputation as one of the wildest mining towns in the American West ?
text: Did you knowthat it is believed that Elizabeth I granted a temporary reprieve to the Catholic priest Richard Simpson to forestall invasion by Philip II of Spain ?
text: Did you knowthat the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment led to the enactment of mandatory arrests , without warrants , when responding police had probable cause that domestic violence had occurred?
text: Did you knowthat the Viagens Interplanetarias series of science fiction stories by L. Sprague de Camp was influenced by Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Martian novels ?
text: Did you knowthat Fort Victoria was established as a Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading post, and eventually grew into the modern capital city of British Columbia ?
text: Did you knowthat one British bank , as an incentive for university students to open a new account with it, offers free Young Persons Railcards , valid for five years and worth £ 100?
text: Did you knowthat, in Scientology beliefs and practices , KRC ("Knowledge, Responsibility and Control") forms the main ingredients of "cause" or effectiveness in life?
text: Did you knowthat the tornado that struck Moscow on June 29 , 1904 was the first ever recorded in Central Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat Judith Quiney , one of William Shakespeare's daughters, was illiterate?
text: Did you knowthat newspaper editor George D. Prentice expressed regret later in life for fiery anti-Catholic editorials that played a role in the Bloody Monday riot of 1855?
text: Did you knowthat Jack Hides led what Lieutenant-Governor Hubert Murray described as "the most difficult and dangerous" patrol ever carried out in Papua ?
text: Did you knowthat Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna left her unfaithful husband and became a nun ?
text: Did you knowthat Sophia Collier used profits from her autobiography Soul Rush , which she wrote at age nineteen, to develop her own soft drink company?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Wolfe 's The Pump House Gang was published on the same day as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and both went on to become best-sellers?
text: Did you knowthat Mark Taylor was the first batsman in Test cricket to have made centuries on his debuts against four different opponents?
text: Did you knowthat over 9,000 animals were killed during the inaugural games of the Flavian Amphitheatre ?
text: Did you knowthat the USS Grebe survived both World War I and the attack on Pearl Harbor , only to be destroyed by a hurricane in 1943?
text: Did you knowthat Swedes have lived in Estonia for more than 700 years, although only a small number are permanently resident there today?
text: Did you knowthat New Mexico State Road 6563 takes its number from the wavelength (6563 Å ) used by scientists to locate areas of interest on the Sun ?
text: Did you knowthat despite shortages of money during the construction of the Deerwood Auditorium in Minnesota , the building was substantially completed in time for its first event, a lutefisk supper?
text: Did you knowthat the yacht Fri spearheaded an international protest of a flotilla of yachts in a voyage against atmospheric nuclear tests at Moruroa in French Polynesia in 1973?
text: Did you knowthat the Vietnamese emperor Minh Mang attempted to stifle the work of Catholic missionaries by appointing them as mandarins in the royal court, claiming a lack of translators?
text: Did you knowthat Frederick Rotimi Williams was the first Nigerian to become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bonn–Oberkassel train ferry was one of six train ferries that commenced operations across the Rhine in Germany in the late 19th century?
text: Did you knowthat despite having its faculty decimated by Operation Sonderaktion Krakau , the Agricultural University of Kraków continued to hold secret agronomy courses during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat one of the most successful weapons of the American Civil War was designed by one of the war's most incompetent generals ?
text: Did you knowthat Peter of Atroa was accused of exorcising demons by the power of Beelzebub , not the power of Christ ?
text: Did you knowthat during World War II , Pietro Cardinal Boetto protested against the shelling of Genoa by British warships, claiming that God would assure the triumph of Italy?
text: Did you knowthat 12th-century Muslim scientist Al-Khazini , who proposed a theory of gravitation long before Isaac Newton , was, in his early life, a slave of the Seljuq Turks ?
text: Did you knowthat Bob Simpson made a comeback from ten years in international retirement to lead the Australian cricket team at the age of 42 when it was decimated by defections to World Series Cricket ?
text: Did you knowthat members of the catfish genus Auchenipterichthys are capable of producing sound?
text: Did you know Summis desiderantes affectibus , a papal bull promulgated by Innocent VIII in 1484 , was re-published as the preface to Malleus Maleficarum ?
text: Did you knowthat Nicolas Chédeville arranged Antonio Vivaldi 's The Four Seasons for hurdy gurdy or musette , flute , and violin to amuse French aristocrats who liked to pretend to be peasants ?
text: Did you knowthat a Romantic poem by Alexandru Hrisoverghi is credited with having inspired historic preservation in Moldavia ?
text: Did you knowthat the village which later became Chickasaw , Alabama was started as a company town by a local shipyard ?
text: Did you knowthat the Iran-Pakistan barrier is currently being constructed by Iran along its border with Pakistan to stop illegal migration and thwart terror attacks?
text: Did you knowthat Petrus Marcellinus Felix Liberius served in high public office for almost 60 years under both the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy and the Eastern Roman Empire , leading a conquest of Spain at the age of 85?
text: Did you knowthat Wilco 's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was named after an encounter that singer Jeff Tweedy had with a Memorial Day parade ?
text: Did you knowthat " Salvem el món " was the first punk song performed in the Eurovision Song Contest ?
text: Did you knowthat although Pope Gregory XVI condemned railroads as "the road to hell," Vatican City includes the world's shortest national railway system ?
text: Did you knowthat Olivia Newton-John made at least 16 appearances on The Go!! Show , an Australian popular music television series which aired between 1964 to 1967, before she found international success?
text: Did you knowthat Ain-Ervin Mere , commander of the Estonian Sicherheitspolizei , was sentenced to death in 1961 for organizing the holocaust in Estonia , but died as a free man in England ?
text: Did you knowthat actor Powers Boothe won a 1980 Emmy Award for his portrayal of Jim Jones in the film Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones ?
text: Did you knowthat for the jazz album The Meeting , Joseph Jarman returned to the Art Ensemble of Chicago after leaving in 1993 to open a Buddhist dojo in Brooklyn, New York?
text: Did you knowthat Abraham of Farshut founded a new Monophysite monastery at Farshut after the monks of his old monastery at Pbow almost all accepted the decision of the Council of Chalcedon ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ghana Navy was established under British Royal Navy command and headed by D. A. Foreman , a retired British officer commissioned as a Ghana naval officer with the rank of Commodore ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2003, Kimberly Casiano became the first Hispanic woman to serve on the board of one of the Fortune 1000 top five companies when she was appointed to the board of Ford Motor Company ?
text: Did you knowthat Augusto Genina 's Lo squadrone bianco (1936), released during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War , lionized the Italian colonization of Libya ?
text: Did you knowthat Bagrichthys macracanthus , the black lancer, is the only species of Bagrichthys , a genus of catfishes , that is traded in the aquarium hobby ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2005 movie The Interpreter by film director Sydney Pollack was based on real-life conference interpreters from the United Nations Interpretation Service ?
text: Did you knowthat the George Furbeck House represents the beginning of a three year period of experimentation by Frank Lloyd Wright which resulted in the first Prairie houses ?
text: Did you knowthat Emil Rieve was elected president of his local union when he was only 22 years old, and president of the Textile Workers Union of America when he was 46?
text: Did you knowthat, partly as a result of the Estonian national awakening , the Estonians had the second highest literacy rate in the Russian Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat Archaeopotamus is the oldest well-identified genus of hippos , having lived 7.5 million to 1.8 million years ago?
text: Did you knowthat Australian pop singer Lynne Randell was the first Australian recording artist to shoot a colour music video for her 1967 hit "Ciao Baby"?
text: Did you knowthat Tsar Alexis of Russia wrote a detailed instruction to his falconers ?
text: Did you knowthat after criticising the Australian Cricket Board , its captain Bill Lawry was sacked without being informed, and only learned of his fate on the radio?
text: Did you knowthat Prussian uprisings refer to several uprisings of Prussians , one of the Baltic tribes , against the Teutonic Knights , in the 13th century during the Northern Crusades ?
text: Did you knowthat Church of Scientology private investigator Eugene Martin Ingram was charged with impersonating a police officer , in Hillsborough County, Florida ?
text: Did you knowthat Gia Long , the first Emperor of Vietnam 's Nguyen Dynasty unified the country for the first time in its modern state with French military assistance from his friend and Catholic priest Pigneau de Behaine ?
text: Did you knowthat composer Takanori Arisawa won three JASRAC International Awards for most international royalties , due to the worldwide popularity of the Sailor Moon anime soundtrack?
text: Did you knowthat when the first Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island was elected, there were only five qualified voters in the three-member district of Victoria ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1892 Thomas Gale House was one of at least eight "bootleg houses" designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in breach of his contract with architect Louis Sullivan ?
text: Did you knowthat Bona of Pisa , after seeing a vision of James, son of Zebedee , became a leader of pilgrimages to his shrine at Santiago de Compostella ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Burnaby is the namesake of at least eleven places in British Columbia , including a city , a lake , and a hill ?
text: Did you knowthat Sylvia Seegrist was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences for killing three people in 1985 in a Pennsylvania shopping mall , even though she had a history of paranoid schizophrenia ?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Petty won the 1979 Daytona 500 by passing race leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough who were involved in a fight in the infield?
text: Did you knowthat Maria Bertilla Boscardin , who was rejected by one religious order for her slowness, became a nurse and was eventually canonized a saint in the presence of several of her earlier patients?
text: Did you knowthat Chicago theater -owner Tony DeSantis survived two near-fatal explosions in his life?
text: Did you knowthat one of the largest slave escape attempts in American history occurred in Kentucky in August 1848 ?
text: Did you knowthat Pinirampus pirinampu , a species of migratory catfish , is one of the most important fishery resources in certain reservoirs in its native range ?
text: Did you knowthat since his capture, Hassan Ghul has been labelled everything from a simple mail courier to top lieutenant of figures ranging from Osama bin Laden to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to al-Zarqawi ?
text: Did you knowthat some areas of the Finnish Lakeland have up to 1,000 lakes per 100 km²?
text: Did you knowthat Lorenz Christoph Mizler founded a musical society whose members included Georg Philipp Telemann , George Frideric Handel , and Johann Sebastian Bach ?
text: Did you knowthat the city of Quneitra in Syria was captured on the last day of the Six-Day War , was later destroyed and never rebuilt, and is today preserved as a memorial to the Arab-Israeli wars ?
text: Did you knowthat zuclopenthixol is a medication that can be given every two weeks to treat people suffering from schizophrenia who are unable to take tablets daily?
text: Did you knowthat Melbourne rock band The Strangers appeared on weekly television for nine years straight?
text: Did you knowthat the first private radio station in India was Akashvani which was set up in 1935 in Mysore , Karnataka ?
text: Did you knowthat Virginia Lamp Thomas , wife of United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas , collected résumés for appointments in the George W. Bush Administration while working at the Heritage Foundation ?
text: Did you knowthat, in connection with the 7th-century Turkic conquest of Aghvania , the invaders were reported "to suck the children's blood like milk"?
text: Did you knowthat during the G-8 Summit in Germany on June 7-8, Russian president Vladimir Putin offered to deploy elements of an American anti-misssile shield in Qabala Radiolocation Station in Azerbaijan instead of Poland and the Czech Republic ?
text: Did you knowthat Matt Wieters , the fifth pick in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft , was the third player in Georgia Tech history to earn first-team All-America honors twice?
text: Did you knowthat the Caves of Nerja were discovered in 1959, and opened as a tourist attraction a year later?
text: Did you knowthat western-style Japanese painter Kawabata Ryushi was so impressed with the Japanese art collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston that he switched to the Japanese-style Nihonga genre?
text: Did you knowthat Australian soldier Ringer Edwards survived 63 hours of crucifixion by Japanese soldiers during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the Wiseman hypothesis proposes the accounts of the book of Genesis were written hundreds to thousands of years before Moses , and that Genesis names the authors?
text: Did you knowthat Erica Larson , a chemist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory , won the Pikes Peak mountain marathon five times in six years between 1999 and 2004, more than any other woman in the event's history?
text: Did you knowthat worm charming, grunting, and fiddling competitions are held around the world?
text: Did you knowthat Europe's largest sewage treatment plant is in Psyttaleia , Greece ?
text: Did you knowthat the performance of La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina in Warsaw in 1628 was the earliest performance of an Italian opera outside of Italy ?
text: Did you knowthat Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana , and Cyprien Ntaryamira , the Hutu president of Burundi were assassinated by two surface-to-air missiles ?
text: Did you knowthat poor performance in the twilight of the career of Graham McKenzie , Australia 's leading pace bowler of the 1960s, led to mistaken fears that he had contracted hepatitis ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Wilfred Orr wrote more settings of A. E. Housman 's poetry than any other composer ?
text: Did you knowthat religion in the Western Ganga Dynasty included influences from Jainism and the Hindu sects Shaivism , Vedic Brahminism and Vaishnavism ?
text: Did you knowthat Scottish clergyman Alexander Edward was deprived of his parish after the establishment of Presbyterianism , and later became an architect ?
text: Did you knowthat males of the endangered South Andean Deer have a distinctive black "face mask" that forms an elongated heart-shape?
text: Did you knowthat the Andrew O. Anderson House in DeKalb, Illinois , a design by architect John S. Van Bergen , has long been mistaken for a Frank Lloyd Wright building?
text: Did you knowthat Deborah Lawrie became the first female pilot with an Australian airline after winning a landmark sex discrimination case against Ansett Airlines ?
text: Did you knowthat Ernest Austin set the whole of John Bunyan 's The Pilgrim's Progress for solo organ , at a length of nearly three hours?
text: Did you knowthat in order to stem a population decline a "dollar block" promotion was held in the Australian town of Jandowae, Queensland where 38 parcels of land were sold for one dollar each?
text: Did you knowthat World War II historian Janusz Piekałkiewicz fled Poland in 1956, relying on mountaineering and secret resistance routes?
text: Did you knowthat Dutch amateur football club IJsselmeervogels received the Dutch Sports Team of the Year Award in 1975, for reaching the semi-final of the KNVB Cup ?
text: Did you knowthat 2006 Winter Olympics speedskating champion, Shani Davis ', welcome-home celebration was held at the Harold Washington Cultural Center ?
text: Did you knowthat the Orange Mill Historic District between Newburgh and Gardnertown , New York , features the only remaining 19th-century gunpowder mill complex in the state?
text: Did you knowthat Oleh Lysheha , educated at Lviv University , was the first Ukrainian poet to receive the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ?
text: Did you knowthat Henry Pering Pellew Crease was appointed British Columbia 's first Attorney General by Governor (and ex- HBC Chief Factor) Sir James Douglas ?
text: Did you knowthe crash of Aero Flight 311 , which claimed the lives of all 25 people on board, was the worst aviation accident ever to occur in Finland ?
text: Did you knowthat, in 1999, General Abdulsalami Abubakar was responsible for converting Nigeria 's government system from military rule to democracy?
text: Did you knowthat Shakespeare's religion is speculated by many scholars to have been Catholic ?
text: Did you knowthat B. V. Karanth trained alongside Dr. Rajkumar under Gubbi Veeranna , one of the pioneers of Kannada theater?
text: Did you knowthat Slabsides , John Burroughs ' historic log cabin in West Park , New York , is only open to the public two days every year?
text: Did you knowthat Neil Harvey once helped the Australian cricket team win a Test by deliberately throwing away his wicket when Pakistan attempted to thwart a victory by time wasting?
text: Did you knowthat a massive mudflow destroyed two-thirds of the Valley of Geysers on June 3 , 2007 ?
text: Did you knowthat Ronald Reagan is the only American President to have his diaries published into a best selling book ?
text: Did you knowthat Gasparo Berti 's experiment in atmospheric pressure and vacuums led to the invention of the barometer ?
text: Did you knowthat William A. Brady is the only person to have managed two undisputed heavyweight champion boxers?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian Harvey family includes the leading Australian batsman of the 1950s Neil Harvey as well as his grandnephew Robert Harvey , who won consecutive Brownlow Medals as the best player in Australian Football ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sicilian revolt caused so many slaves to leave mainland Rome that the Vestal Virgins prayed for the desertion to stop?
text: Did you knowthat the Aberfeldy Distillery closed for two years during World War I , because they could not get barley ?
text: Did you knowthat Paul Philippoteaux was a noted painter of cycloramas , cylindrical paintings over 100 yards long, whose effect was so realistic they have been likened to IMAX movies?
text: Did you knowthat Kung Fu Jimmy Chow is a cartoon parody that has the appearance of a dubbed Japanese anime ?
text: Did you knowthat nearly one in every twelve suicides by firearm is a multiple gunshot suicide ?
text: Did you knowthat the first Western abbot of Singapore 's Buddhist Poh Ern Shih Temple was an American ?
text: Did you knowthat in a few of the international cricket matches played by India in the 1990s, more than half of the players in the Indian team belonged to the state of Karnataka ?
text: Did you knowthat Lake Taupo 's Hatepe eruption around 180 AD devastated much of New Zealand's North Island and turned the skies red over China and Rome?
text: Did you knowthat the Soviet MT-55 bridge layer tanks were  modified by the Czechoslovakians using their gap measuring mechanism and infrared equipment and renamed as the MT-55A?
text: Did you knowthat German composer Christian Geist died of the bubonic plague in 1711 , along with his wife and children?
text: Did you knowthat the New York Giants , an NFL American football team, were founded in 1925 by a bookmaker with an investment of US$ 500, and their estimated value has increased to nearly $900 million?
text: Did you knowthat the father of cricketer Peter Burge had to resign from Queensland 's selection committee when his son was being discussed for selection?
text: Did you knowthat French Minister of Marine Jean-Marie Charles Abrial fought in both World Wars and was imprisoned on accusations of collaboration with the Nazis ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Kotei , then Ghana 's high jump record holder, once successfully foiled a military coup against the NRC government , only to be executed years later after a successful coup against his own SMC government ?
text: Did you knowthat famed Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof lived in a Tibetan monastery while he recorded the height and location of the highest peak outside of the Himalayas , Minya Konka ?
text: Did you knowthat the catfish of the genus Batasio are found in fast-flowing hillstreams throughout South and mainland Southeast Asia ?
text: Did you knowthat for Lee Ritenour 's first album, First Course , he drafted his friends, including Dave Grusin , Frank Rosolino and Tom Scott , from Dante's and the Baked Potato club in Studio City ?
text: Did you knowthat the recently released diary of teenaged Polish Holocaust victim Rutka Laskier has been compared to the diary of Anne Frank ?
text: Did you knowthat giant vegetables are entered in competitions around the world, with seeds being traded over the Internet ?
text: Did you knowthat Germerius is said to have been given as much land as the shadow of his cloak could cover (about a six miles radius) by Clovis I in exchange for his prayers ?
text: Did you knowthat footballer George Wynn was Manchester City 's leading goalscorer in three consecutive seasons?
text: Did you knowthat the repertoire of the Australian passerine , the Red-capped Robin includes "tinkle" and "blurt" calls?
text: Did you knowthat Mahalo.com is a human-powered search engine whose lead investor Sequoia Capital helped start both Yahoo! and Google ?
text: Did you knowthat, after playing the solo for the disastrous premiere of Elgar's Cello Concerto , the English cellist Felix Salmond never taught the piece to his students, even though he taught cello in America for 18 years?
text: Did you knowthat, dating back to 1682 , Connecticut has suffered more than 100 tornadoes , including the sixth most damaging in United States history and one which killed up to 34 people?
text: Did you knowthat the bombing of Zurich in World War II led to court martial proceedings with Jimmy Stewart as presiding officer?
text: Did you knowthat Mammes of Caesarea is said to have been breast-fed by his father?
text: Did you knowthat Manson Family member Paul Watkins gave testimony to the Los Angeles District Attorney which helped explain Helter Skelter ?
text: Did you knowthat Donald Johanos , music director and conductor of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra , was given an award by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1991 for "adventuresome programming of contemporary music"?
text: Did you knowthat pachamanca is a Peruvian dish which has its origins in Inca cuisine ?
text: Did you knowthat some species of fish undergo a genetically programmed sex change during their development ?
text: Did you knowthat the disinvestment from South Africa campaign in the late 1980s was a key factor pressuring the South African Government to embark on the negotiations which ultimately led to the dismantling of apartheid ?
text: Did you knowthat Bidhannagar College , a government college in Kolkata , West Bengal , India , had to move out of its old premises because of student overpopulation?
text: Did you knowthat the house of University President Marion L. Brittain was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you knowthat Rhode Island ratified the United States Constitution more than a year after the new government had started operating?
text: Did you knowthat all five species of the catfish genus Epactionotus are endemic to limited geographic areas in Brazil and Argentina ?
text: Did you knowthat between 1952 and 1976 members of the Soviet Armed Forces sports society won more than a hundred gold medals at Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you knowthat Cecilia Krieger , who translated the work of Sierpinski into English, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics in Canada?
text: Did you knowthat the Foedus Cassianum , named after the negotiator, Spurius Cassius , was the first of many foederati signed by Rome?
text: Did you knowthat Government Sanskrit College was the first college of the ancient city of Benares , established in 1791 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Squander Bug was a propaganda character created to encourage saving in the United Kingdom during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the rape case involving a party at De Anza College has drawn national criticism and focus on the Santa Clara County District Attorney 's office?
text: Did you knowthat after taxiing past the smoldering wreckage of Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402 , BOAC flight 911 also crashed, with 188 total lives lost in less than a day?
text: Did you knowthat Norm O'Neill ' s maiden Test century helped the Australian cricket team win its only Test on Pakistani soil for 39 years?
text: Did you knowthat a Three-Year Plan succeeded in rebuilding the economy of Poland from World War II devastation?
text: Did you knowthat the energy lobby contributed 19 million dollars to United States political campaigns in the 2006 election cycle ?
text: Did you knowthat the only written version of the Arthurian ballad " King Arthur and King Cornwall " was torn up and used to start fires?
text: Did you knowthat Ujjayanta Palace was rebuilt in downtown Agartala , India after being destroyed by an earthquake in 1897?
text: Did you knowthat Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time , a 1939 painting by Salvador Dalí , is believed to be a criticism of the sexualisation of child stars by Hollywood ?
text: Did you knowthat the Aranthalawa Massacre , by the Tamil Tigers , resulted in the deaths of 30 young novice monks , their mentor , and four other civilians ?
text: Did you knowthat the test for enrollment at Germany 's Helmut Schmidt University involves not an intelligence test, but military training and troop procedures?
text: Did you knowthat before police duty belts , British female police officers had to apply for permission to carry handcuffs ?
text: Did you knowthat sexual size dimorphism in the Brown Songlark is among the most pronounced in any bird , with males as much as 2.3 times heavier than females?
text: Did you knowthat the number of North Koreans in Russia has increased due to a decline in the North Korean economy ?
text: Did you knowthat the Finnish-Novgorodian Wars only ended with the Swedish conquest of Finland in 1249, resulting in the Swedish-Novgorodian Wars ?
text: Did you knowthat the bear Wojtek was an officially enlisted soldier of the Polish II Corps and a participant in the Battle of Monte Cassino ?
text: Did you knowthat Samuel Azu Crabbe was named and fired as Chief Justice of Ghana in a decree specifically made for the purpose by the Supreme Military Council that had appointed him four years earlier?
text: Did you knowthat Gerlachovský štít , Slovakia 's highest mountain, has been renamed seven times due to regime changes ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1950s Dr. Leonidas Berry started the Berry Plan to provide medical counseling clinics for young drug addicts in Chicago ?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian town of Great Western, Victoria is home to a series of labyrinthine tunnels ("drives"), originally made by miners searching for gold and now used to store sparkling wine while it is resting and settling?
text: Did you knowthat Elsa Eschelsson , the first woman both to finish a doctorate in Law and to teach in a university in Sweden , was denied the right to serve even as acting professor because of her sex?
text: Did you knowthat the 1902 British Home Championship football tournament was won by Scotland in a replay after the deciding match was marred by the deaths of 25 spectators when a stand collapsed at Ibrox Park ?
text: Did you knowthat Józef Franczak , last of the cursed soldiers , was a Polish resistance fighter for 24 out of 45 years of his life?
text: Did you knowthat the Walter Gale House is the earliest independent design by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright ?
text: Did you knowthat Stereo Type , by the Welsh composer Guto Puw , was written for the combination of amplified typewriters and tape and was premiered in a shopping centre in Bangor, Gwynedd ?
text: Did you knowthat L.L. "Stub" Stewart Memorial State Park is the first new full-service state park in Oregon since 1972?
text: Did you knowthat the practice of cumul des mandats in French politics , holding multiple political offices at different levels of government concurrently, has been used by Jacques Chirac and Ségolène Royal ?
text: Did you knowthat the law enforcement agencies of Adjara made a gift of four cars and two two-roomed apartments to six of its most successful officers?
text: Did you knowthat cricketer Charles Macartney , who set a record for the most runs scored in one day, first learnt to bat with apples from the family orchard?
text: Did you knowthat Oregon Governor Oswald West sent his personal secretary Miss Fern Hobbs to Copperfield, Oregon, to shut down illegal activities and impose martial law in 1914?
text: Did you knowthat the climate of Florida includes snowfall or sleet as early as November (in 2006) and as late as April (in 2007)?
text: Did you knowthat thermal vent ecosystems have been discovered in the Aegean Sea , in the caldera of Kolumbo underwater volcano ?
text: Did you knowthat during World War II , Allied leaders met at the Droxford Station of the Meon Valley Railway to plan Operation Overlord ?
text: Did you knowthat the Byzantine general Belisarius held the last Roman triumph ever to be awarded to a private citizen for his victory in the Vandalic War ?
text: Did you knowthat John Campanius , an early Lutheran missionary to Delaware , transliterated the Lenape language and created one of the first documents to be written in a Native American language?
text: Did you knowthat investment banker Bill Hambrecht has pledged $2 million to help start an American Football league to compete with the National Football League ?
text: Did you knowthat the heaviest domestic pig on record weighed over a long ton but died before it could be exhibited at the Century of Progress in 1933 ?
text: Did you knowthat slavery existed in Indiana as late as 1840, even though Indiana was always a free state above the Mason-Dixon line , and slavery had been outlawed in the region due to the Northwest Ordinance in 1787?
text: Did you knowthat Hjalmar Hvam came up with the design for the world's first safety ski bindings while recovering from a skiing injury in hospital?
text: Did you knowthat Saint Gangulphus , who was murdered by his wife's lover in 760 , is invoked as a patron against adultery and marital difficulties?
text: Did you knowthat the mounds of Indian Mound Park on Dauphin Island , Alabama are composed of oyster shells discarded over centuries by migrant Indians?
text: Did you knowthat motorsport announcer Ken Squier coined the phrase "The Great American Race" for the Daytona 500 ?
text: Did you knowthat Ghazi Mullah proclaimed that only the elimination of Russians from the Caucasus would please Allah ?
text: Did you knowthat when British charity Aid Convoy ' s first dedicated vehicle broke down while delivering aid to Macedonia , it was rescued by British radio and TV presenter Simon Mayo ?
text: Did you knowthat Paul Henkel , operating out of his son's printing house, became the first and only Lutheran publisher in the United States for years?
text: Did you knowthat ribbon diagrams , which represent the three-dimensional structure of proteins , are produced by a computerized spline function?
text: Did you knowthat General Edmund Rice led his regiment against Pickett's Charge , was wounded three times, escaped imprisonment by jumping out of a moving train, and received a Congressional Medal of Honor ?
text: Did you knowthat Itzik Zohar scored Israel 's first international goal in football after gaining full admittance to UEFA ?
text: Did you knowthat U-515 sank seven Allied ships in a 12-hour period during her third patrol of the war ?
text: Did you knowthat Józef Franczak , last of the cursed soldiers , was a resistance fighter for over half his life?
text: Did you knowthat the Historic Michigan Boulevard District came to be one of the most famous one-sided streets as a result of the legal persistence of Aaron Montgomery Ward ?
text: Did you knowthat Gordon Murray , the creator of classic British children's television shows Trumpton , Camberwick Green and Chigley , burnt all but one of his puppets on a bonfire in the 1980s?
text: Did you knowthat the modern history of aviation in Bangladesh began by meeting the needs of the Royal Indian Air Force for its World War II Burma campaign?
text: Did you knowthat the Susquehanna Boom led to Williamsport, Pennsylvania having more millionaires per capita than any other city at the time?
text: Did you knowthat in his varied career in French politics , Raymond Janot was concurrently mayor of a small town and secretary-general of the international French Community ?
text: Did you knowthat for the past 16 years Michael Kesterton has written a column in The Globe and Mail made up of a collection of odd news stories pulled from various sources?
text: Did you knowthat after the 1607 Battle of Guzów , the victorious King Sigismund III Vasa gave a general amnesty which punished nobody and decided nothing?
text: Did you knowthat investigative journalist John Sweeney stated his outburst in the documentary Scientology and Me was a by-product of viewing the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights exhibit, " Psychiatry: An Industry of Death "?
text: Did you knowthat Englishman Peter Marner was the first batsman to hit a century in one-day cricket , in the first round of Gillette Cup matches in 1963?
text: Did you knowthat Handigodu Syndrome is an osteoarthritic disorder endemic to the Malnad region in Karnataka , India ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bukit Batok Memorial was built by Australian POWs to honor the war dead of the Japanese and Allies from Singapore 's Battle of Bukit Timah ?
text: Did you knowthat although largely forgotten, Spring in Park Lane is still the British film with the highest cinema attendances in the UK ?
text: Did you knowthat St. Assam's Church in Raheny , Dublin , has been the site of Christian worship since 1189 ?
text: Did you knowthat the US Supreme Court overturned the suspension of seventy-five students from Marion-Franklin High School ?
text: Did you knowthat General Sir Edward Jones was the only man to follow his father as a member of the Army Board in the 20th century, and later served as Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod in the House of Lords ?
text: Did you knowthat Dateline: Toronto , a collection of Ernest Hemingway 's newspaper writings for the Toronto Star in the early 1920s, contained themes and ideas later used in The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises ?
text: Did you knowthat Chief Yellow Horse was the first full-blooded Native American to play Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you knowthat Irish cricketer Leslie Kidd played his first first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University and played his last against them?
text: Did you knowthat some scholars interpret the petroglyphs of Kamyana Mohyla in Ukraine as precursors of the Sumerian cuneiform script ?
text: Did you knowthat Tong Yabghu , khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate , campaigned with the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius in the Caucasus Mountains ?
text: Did you knowthat 35 Jewish Zionists were executed in the Pinsk massacre because they were suspected of being Bolsheviks ?
text: Did you knowthat the Community Court of Australia 's Northern Territory aims to reduce re-offending by involving the indigenous community in the sentencing process?
text: Did you knowthat Don Tallon , regarded as one of Australia's greatest ever wicketkeepers, was once dropped from his state team because he was ruled to be too young to travel interstate?
text: Did you knowthat the peacekeeping Polish-Ukrainian Peace Force Battalion , created in the late 1990s, is serving as part of the Kosovo Force ?
text: Did you knowthat battle for trade was a phrase introduced by Polish communist propaganda for the nationalization of private sector shops ?
text: Did you knowthat John J. Bernet was known for bringing railroad companies back from bankruptcy to solvency, earning him the nickname "Doctor of Sick Railroads"?
text: Did you knowthat Peter Herdic , a 19th-century Pennsylvania lumber baron, millionaire, and philanthropist, also invented the horse-drawn herdic , an early form of taxicab?
text: Did you knowthat Allen Steere , a professor of rheumatology at Harvard University , is credited with discovering Lyme disease ?
text: Did you knowthat Trivikrama Mahadeva has organized the funerals of over 42,000 people?
text: Did you knowthat debt-relief activist Ann Pettifor staged a 70,000 person protest which formed a human chain and encircled the 1998 G8 summit ?
text: Did you knowthat the first wine region established as an American Viticultural Area was the Augusta AVA in Augusta, Missouri being selected eight months before Napa Valley, California ?
text: Did you knowthat the nudie cutie The Adventures of Lucky Pierre was the first sexploitation movie to be filmed in color?
text: Did you knowthat the Gotha Go 145 bi-plane started service as a trainer in the Luftwaffe in 1935, and was still in service as a night bomber at the end of the war in Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cumberland Valley Railroad ran its first trains in 1837 on oak stringers in place of iron rails, and that in 1839 it ran the first sleeping cars in America?
text: Did you knowthat wind gradient causes sounds to appear to carry farther downwind, not the wind itself?
text: Did you knowthat the Pleasant Home , a U.S. National Historic Landmark , derives its name from its location, the intersection of Pleasant Street and Home Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat ASNOVA was a group of architects that linked psychology and architecture by building laboratories and expounding psychological theories?
text: Did you knowthat the island of Tanjong Pelumpong in Brunei was created when a ten meter deep channel was cut through the spit to provide access to Muara Port ?
text: Did you knowthat Morlon Wiley was part of the NBA 's only trade on the day of the trading deadline in 1995, being traded for Scott Brooks ?
text: Did you knowthat the $7m (£4.2m) estate of Gregory Hemingway , the youngest son of Ernest Hemingway , could not be left to his wife because of the same-sex marriage laws in Florida ?
text: Did you knowthat the first large influx of Russians in Korea came after the fall of Vladivostok to communist forces in 1922?
text: Did you knowthat Dov Yosef , Israel's second Minister of Justice , immigrated to Israel as a soldier in the Canadian Jewish Legion ?
text: Did you knowthat biologists Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling would intentionally avoid peer review when publishing their most provocative works on molecular evolution ?
text: Did you knowthat Johann Sebastian Bach wrote concertos for 1, 2, 3, and even 4 harpsichords ?
text: Did you knowthat the pasilalinic-sympathetic compass was an attempt to communicate across vast distances using a telepathic link between snails ?
text: Did you knowthat Luxembourg City 's Place Guillaume II is colloquially known as the 'Knuedler', after the knot in the belt worn by Franciscan friars, one of whose monasteries once stood there?
text: Did you knowthat Matysiakowie is both the most popular radio drama in Poland and one of the longest running in the world, with over 2600 episodes broadcast since 1956?
text: Did you knowthat the Frank Lloyd Wright -designed Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House is considered a forerunner to the famous Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania ?
text: Did you knowthat baseball player Rollie Hemsley was the first member of Alcoholics Anonymous to break their anonymity on a national level?
text: Did you knowthat St. Patrick's Church was the first Catholic parish established in New Orleans outside the French Quarter , so that Irish immigrants would have a parish that was not dominated by French-speaking Creoles ?
text: Did you knowthat Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia once owned the largest and finest collection of Russian coins?
text: Did you knowthat footballer David Weir scored Manchester City 's first ever FA Cup goal?
text: Did you knowthat the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals was a leading Islamic political group, founded in 1990 by senior politician and later president of Indonesia , B. J. Habibie ?
text: Did you knowthat Paula Cooper , sentenced to death at age 15, had her sentence commuted in 1989 after an international uproar ensued and Pope John Paul II appealed to the Governor of Indiana for leniency?
text: Did you knowthat Alexander Everett used techniques from the Unity Church and Jose Silva 's Silva Mind Control , in his company Mind Dynamics ?
text: Did you knowthat Dave Brubeck 's The Real Ambassadors was largely based on the goodwill tours of Louis Armstrong and other jazz musicians on behalf of the U.S. State Department during the Cold War ?
text: Did you knowthat the founding father of physical education in Poland , Dr. Henryk Jordan , started a school for midwives during his stay in New York City in the late 19th century ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1926, author Helen Dore Boylston and Laura Ingalls Wilder 's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane , drove from Paris to Albania in a Model T Ford called "Zenobia"?
text: Did you knowthat some catfishes of the subfamily Glanapteryginae live exclusively in sand ?
text: Did you knowthat just as there is a " Fifth Beatle ," Phillip Wilcher is called the "fifth Wiggle" for leaving The Wiggles shortly before they became Australia's highest grossing entertainers?
text: Did you knowthat writer and publisher Bernard d’Abrera is a fervent creationist who blames environmental problems on the "waste" of studying evolution ?
text: Did you knowthat Bernard de Neufmarché was the first of the Norman conquerors of Wales , who annexed the Kingdom of Brycheiniog to England ?
text: Did you knowthat the great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi , Leela Gandhi , is a senior lecturer at La Trobe University in the English program?
text: Did you knowthat on 28 April 1285 at Girona , Jean Cholet crowned Charles of Valois with his galero and pronounced him King of Aragon , earning Charles the affectionate moniker roi du chapeau (king of the hat)?
text: Did you knowthat Ed Trice , creator of the chess variant known as Gothic Chess , helped Jonathan Schaeffer solve the game of checkers , the largest game ever solved?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian solicitor and politician , Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott was a Freemason , and the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of NSW and ACT ?
text: Did you knowthat all four deaths in the thirty annual Chicago Marathons have occurred in the last ten years?
text: Did you knowthat when Nizah Morris , an African American transgender woman, was murdered, the medical examiner immediately labeled it a homicide , but the Philadelphia police took over a month to do so?
text: Did you knowthat Jeffrey Pollack , Commissioner of the World Series of Poker , won two Emmy Awards for the work he did as NASCAR 's marketing director?
text: Did you knowthat Thai actor Mitr Chaibancha died while filming a stunt for the final scene of the 1970 film, Insee thong ?
text: Did you knowthat Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania was America's first student union?
text: Did you knowthat the last archbishop of Bordeaux of the Hundred Years' War , Pey Berland , built annexed to the cathedral a tower that still bears his name: the Tour Pey Berland ?
text: Did you knowthat East Perth Cemeteries ' first recorded burial was of Private John Mitchell from the 63rd regiment who died on 6 January 1830 ?
text: Did you knowthat the praetorian prefecture of Africa , a Byzantine province established after the Vandalic War , saw continuous warfare and two major military mutinies during its first 15 years of existence?
text: Did you knowthat most species of catfishes of the subfamily Sarcoglanidinae are small and transparent ?
text: Did you knowthat Mozart was a frequent guest at the villa Bertramka on the outskirts of Prague and that the house is now a museum in his memory?
text: Did you knowthat in 2006 Gibraltar was granted a new constitution , giving it a modern constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat Oscar the Cat was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine for his purported ability to predict the impending death of the terminally ill ?
text: Did you knowthat when severely disturbed, catfish of the genus Acrochordonichthys may release a milky-white mucus -like substance that can kill other fish?
text: Did you knowthat Abraham Lincoln helped bury the dead at Kellogg's Grove following the second Battle of Kellogg's Grove during the Black Hawk War ?
text: Did you knowthat the online business term Enterprise 2.0 originated with Participate Systems CEO Alan Warms in 2001 and has spawned an annual collaborative technologies conference of the same name?
text: Did you knowthat children who turn 16 during the validity of a Family Railcard may still travel at child fares until the card expires?
text: Did you knowthat the Duncan Hunter presidential campaign, 2008 has been endorsed by both Chuck Yeager and Ann Coulter ?
text: Did you knowthat Ed Bruneteau was traded twice to the Detroit Red Wings within two years?
text: Did you knowthat the children's group The Wiggles , Australia's most successful entertainers, have franchised their image and songs to groups in Taiwan and South America?
text: Did you knowthat the winners at the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe in September, 2007, will receive the first WSOP bracelets ever awarded outside of Las Vegas?
text: Did you knowthat Auburn Tigers offensive coordinator Al Borges wrote both a book and an instructional video titled Coaching the West Coast Quarterback ?
text: Did you knowthat members of the genus Breitensteinia have a longer body than other stream catfishes due to an increase in number of vertebrae ?
text: Did you knowthat in terms of political ideology , American economists tend to be liberal ?
text: Did you knowthat oleoresin extracted from Byadgi chilli is used in making nail polish and lipstick ?
text: Did you knowthat library@esplanade is Singapore 's first public library for the performing arts ?
text: Did you knowthat Iraqi world-class wrestler and weightlifter Kadhem Sharif attempted to use a sledgehammer to bring down the statue of Saddam Hussein at Baghdad 's Firdos Square ?
text: Did you knowthat University Hall , Northwestern University's oldest building, is composed of Joliet limestone - the same kind used to build the Chicago Water Tower ?
text: Did you knowthat the homosexual relationship between Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone only became a major on-screen plot line on All My Children after the series fans demanded it?
text: Did you knowthat the Cleeves Cove caves were used as a refuge for the local Covenanters , a religious group seeking religious freedom, during the time of their persecution by Charles II 's government?
text: Did you knowthat Johnny Ramensky was a Scottish criminal who used his safe-cracking abilities to help the British Army ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1999, John Pollack quit his job as a Congressional speechwriter to build a boat made entirely out of corks ?
text: Did you knowthat State Route 69 (road sign pictured) in the U.S. state of Utah was renumbered State Route 38 in 1993, due to sign theft caused by one connotation of the number ?
text: Did you knowthat catfish of the genus Leporacanthicus are also known as vampire plecostomus because of the presence of very long teeth on their upper jaw?
text: Did you knowthat Russian parliamentarian Vasily Maklakov is suspected of having procured the poison that was used to murder Grigori Rasputin ?
text: Did you knowthat Christopher Wright , one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot , could be the source of the letter that betrayed the plan?
text: Did you knowthat the Singapore Declaration , one of the two most important constitutional documents of the Commonwealth of Nations , is thought to have been unenforceable until the Harare Declaration twenty years later?
text: Did you knowthat besides writing 3000 songs during his life, Clifford Grey also competed for the United States in bobsledding while still a British citizen?
text: Did you knowthat the Esplanade in Calcutta , which formed a favourite promenade for "elegant walking parties" in the eighteenth century, now sees some 200,000 to 300,000 vehicles pass through during rush hour ?
text: Did you knowthat William Gaskell , husband of the well-known Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell , was a pioneer in the education of the working classes ?
text: Did you knowthat Tan Howe Liang is Singapore 's only Olympic Games medallist?
text: Did you knowthat algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota , Wisconsin , Illinois , and Iowa ?
text: Did you knowthat the Austrian government gave the American soprano Teresa Stich-Randall the title of Kammersängerin given to esteemed artists?
text: Did you knowthat the Javanese Damarwulan legend may be based on events during the reign of Queen Suhita of the Majapahit Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat the Calendar of saints of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa includes feasts for a number of individuals from Africa, including Bernard Mizeki , Robert Gray , Manche Masemola , and Charles Frederick Mackenzie ?
text: Did you knowthat Jews of Iran is the first documentary film about Iran 's Jewish minority ?
text: Did you knowthat Carpenter's Coffee House in Covent Garden , London , became known as "The Finish" as it was the place revellers went when all the other coffee houses and taverns closed?
text: Did you knowthat subjective logic can help you deal with uncertainty?
text: Did you knowthat Choir is the site of the longest runway in Mongolia ?
text: Did you knowthat while under construction the Lena Water Tower in Lena, Illinois had to be demolished and rebuilt because it began to crumble?
text: Did you knowthat there were no police in Cascade City, British Columbia in 1897 and when thieves broke into a store, taking 150 pounds of tobacco , a book-keeper was sent to arrest the suspects?
text: Did you knowthat Edgar Allison Peers was an English Hispanist who coined the term " red-brick university "?
text: Did you knowthat prominent pops conductor and arranger Jeff Tyzik released six albums from 1981–1990 as a solo trumpeter?
text: Did you knowthat former sumo wrestler Asahikuni Masuo suffered from chronic pancreatic trouble and sometimes commuted to tournaments from a hospital?
text: Did you knowthat in the years 1936–1939 about 3 million Poles gave their personal savings, jewelry and valuables to the Fundusz Obrony Narodowej (National Defence Fund), to improve the equipment of the Polish Army ?
text: Did you knowthat Pareuchiloglanis catfishes can be distinguished from other members of the Sisoridae family only by their premaxillary tooth bands?
text: Did you knowthat the Cody Caves are part of the setting of the children's book, The Kootenay Kidnapper by Canadian author Eric Wilson ?
text: Did you knowthat the story of the video game Code Age Commanders is set in a fictional "intraglobular world" similar to a Dyson sphere ?
text: Did you knowthat road maintenance depots have been used as fronts to disguise entrances to military installations?
text: Did you knowthat Count Vladimir Lambsdorff managed to talk Nicholas II of Russia out of the projected Russian-German alliance against Britain ?
text: Did you knowthat John Beckett is the only American football player to have been the team captain for two different Rose Bowl teams: the University of Oregon in 1917 and Mare Island in 1918?
text: Did you knowthat the medieval Irish narrative The Sickbed of Cúchulainn gave its name to the first song on The Pogues ' 1985 album Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bilbie family produced more than 1,350 bells , from the late 1600s to the early 1800s?
text: Did you knowthat the BBC reported that the John West Salmon ' s "Bear Fight" videos have been viewed over 300 million times making it the sixth most viewed online video ?
text: Did you knowthat according to a legend, Polish-Lithuanian noble Mikołaj Sapieha stole a Holy Painting from a private Papal chapel in Rome?
text: Did you knowthat horses hauled both passenger and goods trains to Weston-super-Mare railway station , England , from 1841, when the railway opened, until 1851?
text: Did you knowthat The French Connection led the Buffalo Sabres to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in each of the seven full seasons they were together except the one Gilbert Perreault 's broken leg limited him to 55 games?
text: Did you knowthat in 1078 the Chinese statesman and poet Su Shi ( 1037 - 1101 ) wrote a memorial to the throne warning of the potential danger of bandits overrunning the iron industry of Xuzhou ?
text: Did you knowthat Christina Lake, British Columbia is the first golf course in Canada to offer black sand traps ?
text: Did you knowthat the 29 species in the fish genus Sillago are so similar they can only be positively identified by the shapes of their swim bladders ?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Wolfe 's book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers was set at a party hosted by composer Leonard Bernstein in which Manhattan socialites mingled with the Black Panther Party ?
text: Did you knowthat 64 Cu-ATSM (diacetyl-bis(N4-methylthiosemicarbazone)) , a chemical with a radioactive isotope of copper , has been shown to increase the survival time of tumor-bearing animals with no acute toxicity ?
text: Did you knowthat papal conclaves from the 14th to 17th centuries attempted to use capitulations to influence the popes they elected in matters from the appointment of cardinal-nephews to papal travel and construction projects?
text: Did you knowthat Len Waters was the first Australian Aboriginal military pilot , flying P-40 "Kittyhawk" fighter planes during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Anonymous Christian is Karl Rahner 's controversial theological premise used to postulate that people can be saved through Christ even if they explicitly reject Christianity ?
text: Did you knowthat the Stuart Oil Shale Project , the world’s first application of the Alberta-Taciuk Processor technology on oil shale , was in operation only five years?
text: Did you knowthat Russia 's Foreign Minister Sergey Sazonov , who brought the country into World War I , was the brother-in-law of Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin ?
text: Did you knowthat, except in 1987 , the United States presidential candidate who wins the Ames Straw Poll has always gone on to win the Republican Party 's Iowa Caucus ?
text: Did you knowthat a Cossack community existed in Beijing as early as 1685 ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Polish-Ottoman War of 1672-1676 , a few years before crippling the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna , the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was forced to sign an unfavorable treaty with the Empire?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas L. Bromwell is a former Maryland State Senator who, along with his wife, pleaded guilty to public corruption charges?
text: Did you knowthat poet Sekou Sundiata taught alternative musicians Ani DiFranco and Mike Doughty ?
text: Did you knowthat the Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977 was the largest protest movement against the Communist regime in Romania before the Romanian Revolution of 1989 ?
text: Did you knowthat Silas Rhodes co-founded what would become the School of Visual Arts in order to help returning World War II veterans transition back to civilian life?
text: Did you knowthat General Augusto Pinochet was once kept under house arrest at a house on the Wentworth Estate , an exclusive residential area surrounding the Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey , England ?
text: Did you knowthat Catherine Troeh , a Native American activist, often signed her letters "member of the Chinook Tribe Allottee 1865 Quinault reservation" as a reference to 80 acres of land granted to her by the U.S. federal government ?
text: Did you knowthat Taiwanese alternative musician Deserts Chang wrote her first song at the age of 13 before she learned how to play a musical instrument ?
text: Did you knowthat the discovery of the dinosauromorph Dromomeron , from the Late Triassic of New Mexico , indicates that dinosaurs did not rapidly replace their close relatives?
text: Did you knowthat Byzantium under the Komnenoi was the Medieval continuation of the Roman Empire , and played a key role in the history of the Crusades in the Holy Land ?
text: Did you knowthat Rani Abbakka , who fought the Portuguese in the 16th century, is regarded as the 'first woman freedom fighter of India '?
text: Did you knowthat David Feldman , philatelist , achieved the world’s record price of 2.5 million Swiss Francs for a single postage stamp , the Treskilling Yellow for which he appeared in the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records ?
text: Did you knowthat Captain Austin M. Knight was court-martialed for allowing the USS Puritan to sink, but nevertheless became a four-star admiral whose textbook Modern Seamanship was a standard shiphandling reference for over eight decades?
text: Did you knowthat after reading the Vietnam War memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places , Oliver Stone realized that his films Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July lacked a Vietnamese perspective, leading to his directing of Heaven & Earth ?
text: Did you knowthat John Salminen is an award-winning American watercolorist well known for his realistic urban landscapes ?
text: Did you knowthat Vikkamabahu was the first Sri Lankan monarch to mount an organised campaign to expel the Chola army which invaded the island in the 12th century?
text: Did you knowthat pioneer claim clubs were used in the American Old West to protect land claims by settlers against claim jumpers and to promote claim jumping against absentee land owners?
text: Did you knowthat The Land of the Settlers is a five-part documentary series made by Chaim Yavin , dubbed " Israel's Walter Cronkite ", and was so controversial that his station refused to air it?
text: Did you knowthat Fort Greble was built so fast that there was no time to construct proper earthen magazines for artillery , and three years later company quarters had to be demolished to add them?
text: Did you knowthat the seeds of Prunus mahaleb , a spice, contain coumarin ?
text: Did you knowthat one of the most influential people in Polish-French relations was Napoleon Bonaparte , still considered a hero in Poland and mentioned in the Polish national anthem ?
text: Did you knowthat Fancy Farm, Kentucky is recognized as the home of the world's largest picnic?
text: Did you knowthat British general Frederick Barton Maurice was forced to resign after writing a letter accusing David Lloyd George of misrepresenting the strength of British forces during the Spring Offensive ?
text: Did you knowthat Samson was made by Academy Award winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda and blends the Biblical tale of Samson with his Holocaust coming-of-age story?
text: Did you knowthat on January 27 , 1987 83 workers of a shrimp farm in Kokkadichcholai, Sri Lanka were shot , allegedly by Special Task Force officers?
text: Did you knowthat pioneer James Harrod established the first permanent European settlement in the U.S. state of Kentucky on June 16 , 1774 ?
text: Did you knowthat construction of 'Tagore Castle' in Pathuriaghata , a Calcutta neighbourhood, was modelled on that of an English castle, a departure in the way of building residences in India?
text: Did you knowthat Artine Artinian was used as a fictional character by two of the most prominent American writers of the 20th century?
text: Did you knowthat the Baptist Foundation of Arizona (BFA) filed for the largest bankruptcy of a religious organization in U.S. history after its 600 million dollar fraud went undetected by the same Big Five firm that audited Enron ?
text: Did you knowthat the Gestapo and NKVD convened four conferences discussing the elimination of the Polish resistance movement ?
text: Did you knowthat after Hugo Chávez's September 2006 speech to the United Nations , gas stations operated by the United Refining Company starting removing Citgo signs from their buildings?
text: Did you knowthat the saint Hermagoras of Aquileia gave his name to the Austrian city and district of Hermagor ?
text: Did you knowthat the Southern right whales off the coast of Argentina 'sail' by raising their flukes and catching the wind?
text: Did you knowthat Shalom Yoran , a Jewish partisan during World War II and the author of The Defiant: A True Story of Jewish Vengeance and Survival , played a major role in developing Israeli Aircraft Industries ?
text: Did you know Glassworts are plants named to indicate that their ashes contain an alkali that is important in making glass ?
text: Did you knowthat Marcin Czechowic , a 16th-century Polish theologian , frequently changed his religious views as far as from Catholicism to Arianism ?
text: Did you knowthat Smederevo fortress survived for over 500 years without much damage, then was devastated in a single explosion during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat, in addition to having a passion for opera, dramatic soprano Othalie Graham enjoys music by Prince and Jamaican reggae musician Jimmy Cliff ?
text: Did you knowthat Dode Criss is considered by historian Bill James to be the first player to be used as a baseball pinch hitter regularly?
text: Did you knowthat the comprehensive metabolic panel is a suite of 14 blood tests routinely administered to screen for many different diseases?
text: Did you knowthat Captain William Walter Kouts located the son of the Medal of Honor recipient who died while saving Kouts during World War II after over sixty years of searching?
text: Did you knowthat famous Mexican poet and politician Guillermo Prieto saved the life of President Benito Juárez by interposing himself between the guns of rebellious guardsmen and the president?
text: Did you knowthat Quebec City 's Clarendon Hotel originally hosted the Queen's Printers for Canada?
text: Did you knowthat the title of Mary Wollstonecraft 's conduct book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters alludes to John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education , one of its primary philosophical influences?
text: Did you knowthat the Group C Nissan R90Cs won the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship three times, the 1000km Suzuka twice, and the 24 Hours of Daytona once in their four years of competition?
text: Did you knowthat silver coins in the 10th-century Viking Harrogate Hoard , recovered intact in Yorkshire , January 2007, came from as far as Afghanistan ?
text: Did you knowthat Chin Gee Hee (1844–1929) was a successful labor contractor in the United States and later a railroad entrepreneur in his native China ?
text: Did you knowthat Lowell Observatory staff resisted building the telescope used to discover the dwarf planet Pluto until trustee Roger Putnam ordered them to do so?
text: Did you knowthat Chilean cricketer John Jackson was once on the opposing side to his brother Alfred in an international match against Argentina ?
text: Did you knowthat in the PlayStation 2 live action adventure game 0 Story , two Japanese female actresses kiss while one is possessed by the player's ghost?
text: Did you knowthat the 1988 Chiado district fire caused more damage to the city of Lisbon than any catastrophe since the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake ?
text: Did you knowthat after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the population of the neighboring Hyde Park Township exceeded that of the devastated Chicago ?
text: Did you knowthat Eddy Brown , an English football player who had originally planned to take Holy Orders , was well known for his goal celebrations as early as the 1950s?
text: Did you knowthat in Tum Teav , a classic 19th century Cambodian tragedy, a novice monk named Tum sleeps with an adolescent girl named Teav and then is killed after kissing her at her wedding?
text: Did you knowthat a catfish of the genus Helogenes is known to jump out of the stream during rotenone fishing by locals, and jump back afterwards?
text: Did you knowthat the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway was opened in 1930, more than 20 years after the original plans were drawn up?
text: Did you knowthat the origin of the Azerbaijanis has been traced to indigenous Caucasians from more than a millennium ago?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian town of Thangool, Queensland produces over 60% of the Australian market for squab ?
text: Did you knowthat Sarangapani Temple is named after Sarang, the bow of Rama ?
text: Did you knowthat approval in 1963 by Bishop Hermann Volk of Mainz resulted in a former Lutheran minister with two children becoming a Roman Catholic priest?
text: Did you knowthat the bagarius , a carnivorous catfish that lives on eating other fish , breeds in rivers prior to the beginning of the annual flood season in southeast Asia?
text: Did you knowthat 1900 was the only year in the history of Baltimore City College that no public commencement was held because the students made fun of the professors in the school's yearbook?
text: Did you knowthat Somerset County Cricket Club player Peter Denning was known for an unorthodox shot called the Chewton carve?
text: Did you knowthat architects Eggers & Higgins took over construction of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial after the death of John Russell Pope , despite protests that their appointment was "un-Jeffersonian"?
text: Did you knowthat Pyongyang 's Central Zoo was accused of staging death matches between caged animals for the filming of a so-called nature documentary ?
text: Did you knowthat Loai al-Saqa was denied entry to his own trial for wearing a copy of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's uniform ?
text: Did you knowthat Nicolás Zúñiga y Miranda considered himself the President of Mexico for two decades, despite losing in each of the ten elections he entered?
text: Did you knowthat Rico J. Puno , a popular Filipino pop singer, launched his career by incorporating Tagalog lyrics into the American song The Way We Were , among others?
text: Did you knowthat the Olson Hotel in Ainsworth, British Columbia had a two-story outhouse ?
text: Did you knowthat the Karrinyup Shopping Centre was the first mall in Western Australia to implement a complete ban on smoking ?
text: Did you knowthat yak racing is a spectator sport held at many traditional festivals in Tibet and Mongolia ?
text: Did you knowthat Boden Fortress not only served to protect northern Sweden from enemy attacks, but was also used to store some 280 tonnes of the Swedish gold reserve ?
text: Did you knowthat Bhudev Mukhopadhyay taught at Hindu , Muslim and Christian schools?
text: Did you knowthat Maes Titianus penetrated farther along the Silk Road than any other Westerner in Antiquity , reaching the Stone Tower of Tashkurgan in the Pamirs ?
text: Did you knowthat catfish of the genus Dekeyseria can rapidly change their colouration to fit their mood or their surroundings?
text: Did you knowthat Singapore 's Middle Road is home to over 21 Hainanese clan and sub-clan associations?
text: Did you knowthat, prior to the introduction of regulation seamen's uniforms in the Royal Navy , the commanding officer of HMS Harlequin once paid for his entire crew to dress as harlequins ?
text: Did you knowthat madame Anna Wilson , the "Queen of the Underworld" in early Omaha, Nebraska , bequeathed her 25-room brothel mansion to the city to use as an emergency hospital upon her death?
text: Did you knowthat Jewish mandarin Zhao Yingcheng helped rebuild Kaifeng 's synagogue after its destruction in 1646?
text: Did you knowthat the government of Korkai, an important industrial center of ancient Tamil country , employed convicts as pearl divers ?
text: Did you knowthat, believing himself to be George Washington , the 19th-century phrenologist Frederick Coombs petitioned Congress to give him the Washington Monument ?
text: Did you knowthat the Trumpeter Swans introduced into the Wye Marsh in the 1980s were the first seen in Ontario since 1884?
text: Did you knowthat Swedish chemist Gustaf Erik Pasch invented the safety match ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. President Ronald Reagan lived in an apartment on the second floor of the H.C. Pitney Variety Store from 1919 to 1920?
text: Did you knowthat in mid-1939 almost 5000 Poles volunteered as living torpedoes ?
text: Did you knowthat the William H. Roberts House is the only property in Pecatonica, Illinois listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you knowthat Canada's first female columnist wrote under the pseudonym Faith Fenton so she could retain her day job as a teacher ?
text: Did you knowthat Kumortuli neighbourhood of Calcutta supplies images of Goddess Durga to Indian communities in about 90 countries?
text: Did you knowthat Chen Wen Hsi was the first Singaporean artist to be conferred an honorary doctorate by the National University of Singapore ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2005 docudrama The Burnt Theatre is set in Cambodia 's Suramet National Theatre, which was destroyed by a fire in 1994?
text: Did you knowthat the Robert Weber Round Barn is one of 31 round barns constructed in a four-county area centered on Stephenson County, Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat the city of Piteşti was the original site of Seventh-day Adventist activities in Romania ?
text: Did you knowthat the spy Aldrich Ames handed over U.S. secrets to the Soviets at the Brickskeller saloon near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. ?
text: Did you knowthat the Palacio de los Capitanes Generales was commissioned by the Governor of Havana but took so long to build that another five Governors had come and gone before it was completed?
text: Did you knowthat the Jews in Pagan Armenia were deported from Palestine to Armenia by Tigranes the Great ?
text: Did you knowthat the Evelyn tables , acquired by John Evelyn in Padua in 1646, are thought to be the oldest anatomical preparations in Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat an effigy mound in the shape of a turtle is located in the Beattie Park Mound Group in downtown Rockford, Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat Saionji Kinmochi , the 11th Prime Minister of Japan , was a member of the Saionji family , a line of court nobles stretching back to the 12th century?
text: Did you knowthat the capital city Chang'an during the Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) had 111 Buddhist monasteries and 41 Daoist abbeys within its walls?
text: Did you knowthat Russian poet Dmitri Prigov wrote approximately 36,000 poems with much of his work distributed as samizdat ?
text: Did you knowthat Wilhelm von Pressel designed the first railroad in Turkey ?
text: Did you knowthat Kobayashi Kiyochika , the last great ukiyo-e artist, extensively studied photography and Western-style painting, the two forms which heralded the demise of his art?
text: Did you knowthat several of the Orkney islands ' highest points are named "Ward Hill" due to the many old warning beacons in the area?
text: Did you knowthat under the First Organic Laws of Oregon , the de facto constitution of the Provisional Government , women could get married at the age of 14?
text: Did you knowthat the 2007 Super 14 Final between the Bulls and the Sharks was the first all- South African final in Super rugby history?
text: Did you knowthat the assassination of Ottoman sultan Osman II came about in part due to the military reforms made following his defeat at the Battle of Khotyn in 1621?
text: Did you knowthat Chao Tzee Cheng , a Singaporean forensic pathologist , performed over 25,000 autopsies ?
text: Did you knowthat in one Indonesian legend, Prince Panji 's vanished bride disguised herself as a man and became king of Bali ?
text: Did you knowthat Academy Award -winning American singer Barbra Streisand filled in a tooth gap with Aspergum when she started out in theater?
text: Did you knowthat the nickname Ned arose from an instance of rebracketing , as children interpreted the term of endearment "mine Ed" as "my Ned"?
text: Did you knowthat the vigilante actions of the Omaha Claim Club , including many founding fathers of Omaha, Nebraska , were later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Baker v. Morton ?
text: Did you knowthat York radiate groundsel ( Senecio eboracensis ) is a hybrid plant species thought to have evolved suddenly within the last 300 years?
text: Did you know St Peter's Church, Plemstall in Cheshire , England , is built on the site of a hermitage occupied by Plegmund who was later the Archbishop of Canterbury ?
text: Did you knowthat John Wylde (1781-1859) at one time filled the post of Deputy Judge Advocate of New South Wales , where he effectively had to simultaneously perform the roles of committing magistrate, public prosecutor and judge?
text: Did you know8,909,200 pounds of cast iron were used to build the United States Capitol dome ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mosque of Kefeli in Istanbul was used jointly as a church by Roman Catholic and Armenian believers before becoming a mosque ?
text: Did you knowthat the dwarf pygmy goby ( Pandaka pygmaea ), a freshwater fish from  the Philippines , is the smallest fish in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Stirling Moss is the only racing driver who was given a distinctive caricature design (wearing a helmet ), differing from the usual design, by Autosport 's cartoonist Jim Bamber in 1998?
text: Did you knowthat in 2007, British forces serving in Basra , Iraq were accused of using killer badgers as a weapon?
text: Did you knowthat What to Expect When You're Expecting has been called "the Bible of American pregnancy " and consistently tops the New York Times Best Seller list in the paperback advice category?
text: Did you knowthat Karnataka is home to the largest concentration of Siddhis (a tribe of African descent) in India ?
text: Did you knowthat after the Hospital Real de Todos os Santos was destroyed in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake , its remains were demolished to create a public square ?
text: Did you knowthat for special effects in the 2001 Cambodian film , The Snake King's Child , live snakes were glued to a cap worn by the lead actress?
text: Did you knowthat on the same day Arbroath beat Bon Accord 36-0 in the Scottish Cup that 18 miles away in Dundee, Dundee Harp had beaten Aberdeen Rovers 35-0?
text: Did you knowthat the known writings of Caius, Presbyter of Rome exist only in fragments, many of which were preserved in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea ?
text: Did you knowthat Pakistani artist Anwar Shemza changed his name so it would match that of his studio in Lahore ?
text: Did you knowthat the auto racing division of Sigma Automotive (later known as SARD ) became the first Japanese team to compete in the 1973 24 Hours of Le Mans ?
text: Did you knowthat family lawyer Harry Fain played a significant role in the introduction of no-fault divorce law in California in 1970?
text: Did you knowthat the fruit of the apple dumpling was one of the first bushfoods to be commonly eaten by Europeans in Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Timucua Indians of the St. Johns culture left many large shell middens , including one estimated to be 75 feet high, even though shellfish were a minor part of their diet?
text: Did you knowthat Sabarna Roy Choudhury sold to the British, for Rs. 1,300, the land rights of Sutanuti , Kalikata and Gobindapur , that ultimately merged to become Calcutta ?
text: Did you knowthat the construction of the Édifice Price was originally so criticized that it caused an ordinance prohibiting buildings exceeding 65 feet in Old Québec ?
text: Did you knowthat the former imperial vineyard at Abrau-Durso is known for a brand of Russian wine marketed as the Soviet Champagne ?
text: Did you knowthat Arundinaria appalachiana is one of only three bamboos native to temperate North America ?
text: Did you knowthat Ian Pont is the only professional cricketer to have played a professional baseball game?
text: Did you knowthat due to safety concerns , a number of U.S. states require air ambulance services to be accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chinese philosopher Wang Chong ( 27 - 97 AD) accurately described the water cycle in meteorology ?
text: Did you knowthat Alexander Pope was expelled from Twyford School for writing a poem that poked fun at one of his school masters?
text: Did you knowthat the Klaus Advanced Computing Building is named for Chris Klaus , who donated $ 15 million to his alma mater, Georgia Tech , when he was just 26?
text: Did you knowthat Gundoin was the first Duke of Alsace , a duchy which existed as part of the Frankish Empire from the 630s ?
text: Did you knowthat Shardha Ram Phillauri , a Punjabi , wrote the first Hindi novel ?
text: Did you knowthat Rice People , a 1994 drama film by director Rithy Panh , was the first Cambodian film to be submitted for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ?
text: Did you knowthat Megaloprepus caerulatus , a giant damselfly with a wingspan of up to 19 centimeters (7.5 inches), breeds in water-filled tree holes ?
text: Did you knowthat Choke , an upcoming film adaptation of the 2001 novel by Chuck Palahniuk , will be the author's first film adaptation since Fight Club ?
text: Did you knowthat Édouard Richard , a two-term member of the Canadian House of Commons and Acadian historian , practiced law with future Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier ?
text: Did you knowthat the Dima Halim Daoga and the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland broke ties because of competing separatist ideologies ?
text: Did you knowthat World War II Imperial Japanese Navy light cruiser Kuma was torpedoed by a Royal Navy submarine while engaged in anti-submarine warfare training?
text: Did you knowthat Song Du-yul , a professor of philosophy and sociology at the University of Münster in Germany , was the only South Korean to attend the 1994 funeral of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2007 main event World Series of Poker bracelet , awarded on July 17 , 2007 , is made with 136 grams of 18-carat white gold set with 120 diamonds?
text: Did you knowthat after seeing the documentary, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine , former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan was moved to admit the existence of the S-21 torture center in Phnom Penh after years of publicly denying it?
text: Did you knowthat the United States Army formed 106 tank destroyer battalions in World War II , all of which were disbanded by 1946?
text: Did you knowthat Besalú was an independent county from 988 to 1111, when Ramon Berenguer III inherited it, annexing it to the County of Barcelona ?
text: Did you knowthat the hostility of English alchemist Thomas Charnock ' s neighbours forced him to barricade himself in his cottage?
text: Did you knowthat the Shuguang spacecraft was designed by the People's Republic of China with the goal of achieving a manned space flight in 1973?
text: Did you knowthat the unimportance and consequent emptiness of Kalikata afforded the British room to settle there and establish Calcutta ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1993 film Heaven & Earth , directed by Oliver Stone , was  based on the life of the Global Village Foundation initiator Le Ly Hayslip , who had a cameo appearance in the film?
text: Did you knowthat Josephus's Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades is actually the work of Hippolytus of Rome , but was considered Josephus 's by his translator William Whiston ?
text: Did you knowthat the Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard ferry , Sankaty , set fire to the famous whaler Charles W. Morgan before being commissioned as a minelayer by the Royal Canadian Navy ?
text: Did you knowthat the Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project that allows members of the public to help classify previously unseen images of galaxies ?
text: Did you knowthat the Roman merchants who traded with ancient Tamil country , used the monsoon winds to reduce the travel time between Egypt and India to forty days?
text: Did you knowthat the San Rafael Wilderness was the first U.S. Primitive Area to be reclassified as wilderness after the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act ?
text: Did you knowthat although in 1939 the Polish Army had an elaborate plan for defence against the Soviet invasion , it couldn't implement it when the invasion began due to being committed against an earlier German invasion ?
text: Did you knowthat William W. Powers State Recreation Area 's Wolf Lake co-hosted a BioBlitz by over 150 scientists who unofficially counted 1,815 species in a day?
text: Did you knowthat infanticide is committed by animals as diverse as gray langurs , pigs , jacanas and water bugs ?
text: Did you knowthat Union Army color bearer Thomas J. Higgins received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Vicksburg during the US Civil War at the request of his Confederate captors?
text: Did you knowthat the 1975 U.S. Supreme Court case NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc. allowed all workers in unionized workplaces to have a union representative present during management inquiries that might result in discipline?
text: Did you knowthat there is a 14 foot (4.3 m ) tall miniature Stick style house on the grounds of the Ellwood House in DeKalb, Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat John Hill , former Texas Attorney General , was prominent in shutting down the Chicken Ranch known as the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ?
text: Did you knowthat the Christian Specht Building is the only existing building with a cast iron facade known in Nebraska today, and one of the few ever built there?
text: Did you knowthat in 1920 , KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first radio station to broadcast Major League Baseball on the radio ?
text: Did you knowthat Juliana Anicia commissioned the largest church of pre- Justinian Constantinople ?
text: Did you knowthat 18th century brothel-keeper Jane Douglas sold condoms in silken bags to her customers?
text: Did you knowthat the critically endangered totoaba , a member of the drum family which weighs up to 100 kg , is found only in the northern end of the Sea of Cortez ?
text: Did you knowthat nineteenth-century ventriloquist Alexandre Vattemare originally studied to be a physician, but was refused a diploma after making cadavers seem to speak during surgical exercises?
text: Did you knowthat the first chancellor of the University of Houston , Andrew Davis Bruce , was a former lieutenant general in the US Army and the founder of Fort Hood ?
text: Did you knowthat the first railway in Germany , the Bayerische Ludwigsbahn , was originally mostly horse-hauled because of the high cost of importing coal from Saxony ?
text: Did you knowthat Vanvoorstia bennettiana is the only protist on the IUCN 's Red List ?
text: Did you knowthat though musicologist Knud Jeppesen wrote that without voice crossing "no real polyphony is possible," many counterpoint exercises prohibit it?
text: Did you knowthat all of the publications of 17th century Milanese historian Gregorio Leti were listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ?
text: Did you knowthat during engineering work in 1979, the collapse of the Penmanshiel Tunnel severed the main railway line between London and Edinburgh for five months?
text: Did you knowthat the American neurophysiologist Ralph W. Gerard developed an intracellular recording microelectrode , that revolutionized research in neurobiology ?
text: Did you knowthat the architect Hans Price was responsible for the distinctive look of buildings in Weston-super-Mare , England , during the Victorian era ?
text: Did you knowthat the modern-day role of women in the Philippines is similar to their social status during pre-colonial times ?
text: Did you knowthat despite over a hundred years of scientific study, fierce debate still rages about how arthropods ' heads are constructed ?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian native Dagger Hakea is an effective plant for sheltering small birds such as the Superb Fairy-wren , especially in the natural landscaping style of gardening ?
text: Did you knowthat the Union Station in Omaha, Nebraska was the first Art Deco style train station in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat besides taking the athletes' oath , Paul Aste also competed on the bobsleigh track that he designed for the 1964 Winter Olympics ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Sargeant Jagger sculpted three World War I memorials, all in London ?
text: Did you knowthat John Little , established in 1845, is the oldest department store in Singapore ?
text: Did you knowthat General Ulysses S. Grant's Civil War dispatch boat Monohansett was a chartered Martha's Vineyard ferry?
text: Did you knowthat Pelton's Rose Gentian was recently discovered by a retired mechanic and is only found in a single county in Arkansas ?
text: Did you knowthat an unnamed hurricane in 1975 attained hurricane status further north than any other Pacific hurricane before dissipating near Alaska ?
text: Did you knowthat the Poker Players Alliance hired former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato to help overturn the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that makes it illegal for financial institutes to deal with online gambling sites?
text: Did you knowthat Father Joseph Le Caron , the first European to see Lake Huron , also assisted at the first Catholic mass in Quebec and performed the first Christian marriage in Canada?
text: Did you knowthat the naval history of China goes back as far as the Spring and Autumn Period ( 722 BC - 481 BC )?
text: Did you knowthat English missionary Andrew White , the "Apostle of Maryland ", celebrated the first Catholic mass in the original Thirteen Colonies on March 25 , 1634 on St. Clement's Island ?
text: Did you knowthat those opposed to the construction of the Stroudwater Navigation used poetry to support their cause?
text: Did you knowthat fear of retaliatory terminations is a leading obstacle to union organizers in their efforts to unionize a workplace?
text: Did you knowthat the demolition of the Jobbers Canyon Historic District in Omaha, Nebraska represents the largest loss of buildings on the National Register of Historic Places to date?
text: Did you knowthat in three days of nearly non-stop negotiations, Nathan Feinsinger mediated an end to a 1947 pineapple workers' strike which threatened the entire Hawaiian economy?
text: Did you knowthat girls received the right to inherit the Danish throne as the result of a referendum in 1953?
text: Did you knowthat Marcin Dunin , primate of Poland , was once interned and arrested by the Prussian authorities?
text: Did you knowthat Anna Mae Winburn led the International Sweethearts of Rhythm , the only integrated, all-female big band of the 1940s?
text: Did you knowthat the first Baptist baptism in Ukraine took place in 1864 on the river Inhul of today's Kirovohrad Oblast ?
text: Did you knowthat the First cabinet Gerhardsen in 1945 featured the first female Norwegian Government minister , Kirsten Hansteen ?
text: Did you knowthat at the 25th CMA Music Festival in 1996, country music artist Garth Brooks signed autographs for 23 hours and 10 minutes without taking a single break?
text: Did you knowthat the Danish land laws referendum of 1963 is the only referendum in the history of Denmark to have been held by a minority of parliament ?
text: Did you knowthat the Israeli four-door Jeep Wrangler -based AIL Storm was produced before Jeep 's own model?
text: Did you knowthat the Mayfair Club , the real life underground gambling hall loosely depicted in the movie Rounders , was in the mid-80's the training grounds for five poker players who have since won 20 World Series of Poker titles?
text: Did you knowthat French Jesuit Pierre Nicolas d'Incarville introduced the Tree of Heaven ( Ailanthus altissima ) and Pagoda Tree ( Styphnolobium japonicum ) to Europe?
text: Did you knowthat Lorenzo M. Tañada was the longest-serving senator in Philippine history ?
text: Did you knowthat the Narasinganavar family residing in the Indian state of Karnataka is one of the largest undivided families in the world?
text: Did you knowthat the United States superhero film John Hancock went through four directors before succeeding in being made with director Peter Berg ?
text: Did you knowthat The New 7th Storey Hotel , a budget hotel catering to backpackers in Singapore , is actually nine storeys high and was the tallest building in the Beach Road area in the 1950s ?
text: Did you knowthat George W. Taylor assisted unions by mediating more than 2,000 strikes , but also helped draft New York 's Taylor Law —which banned strikes by public employees?
text: Did you knowthat Ossubtus xinguense is an endangered species of fish that has an unusual downturned mouth which gives the appearance of a beak ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian bishop Sydney James Kirkby , who presided at the synod to elect the successor of Archbishop John Charles Wright , actively worked to not be given the job himself?
text: Did you knowthat the wimple piranha is a specialized predator whose diet consists primarily of fish scales ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pali Lookout in Hawaii was originally the site of the bloody Battle of Nu'uanu , where 400 warriors were driven over a cliff by Kamehameha I ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hungarian-born Jew Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln was successively a Presbyterian missionary in Canada , a British Member of Parliament , an international double agent, a German right-wing politician, and a Buddhist abbot in China ?
text: Did you knowthat in a Danish referendum in 1916 64.2% of the voters were in favour of selling the Danish West Indian Islands to the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat despite only being eight inches tall, the Tiny Hawk , a raptor found throughout much of the central neotropics , successfully hunts hummingbirds ?
text: Did you knowthat Emma Crawford was described as "the principal benefactress" of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane for her work in establishing several religious schools?
text: Did you knowthat the Augustinian monk Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro was instrumental in persuading King Robert of Naples to make Petrarch the first poet laureate since antiquity?
text: Did you knowthat Polish I Corps in Russia , originally intended to fight for the Triple Entente against the Central Powers , was forced to ally itself with the German Ober Ost forces?
text: Did you knowthat Lapland's Sjisjka railway stop was built in part because it was the only place in the country where the letters SJ occurred in the name twice?
text: Did you knowthat Delta Sigma Theta Sorority founder Myra Hemmings starred, co-produced and co-directed the 1941 film Go Down, Death! The Story Of Jesus and the Devil ?
text: Did you knowthat, at one time, Eliza Marsden Hassall's school produced roughly three-quarters of Australia 's foreign missionaries ?
text: Did you knowthat the German historian Albert Brackmann argued that the Poles should be pushed farther eastwards, into Ukraine ?
text: Did you knowthat advertising executive Lois Wyse came up with the slogan "With a name like Smucker's , it has to be good!"?
text: Did you knowthat Michael Dadap , the popular Filipino guitarist, is married to the eldest sister of American cellist Yo-Yo Ma ?
text: Did you knowthat after the Battle of Deir ez-Zor in World War II , most Syrian troops avoided capture by changing into civilian clothes?
text: Did you knowthat the Kallanai dam, built by Karikala Chola to support agriculture in ancient Tamil country , is considered the oldest water-regulation structure still in use?
text: Did you knowthat the papal election of 1061 , the first carried out solely by cardinal bishops , resulted in a war between Pope Alexander II and Antipope Honorius II ?
text: Did you knowthat the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile's French neoclassical building was built to commemorate the centenary of the independence of Chile ?
text: Did you knowthat the site of a crashed JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft is now marked with a sculpture of a crumpled paper aeroplane ?
text: Did you knowthat the Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse are among the oldest Canadian buildings of their type?
text: Did you knowthat, owing to Henry Babson's selective breeding work, thousands of Arabian horses today have "Babson-influenced" bloodlines ?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian White-naped Honeyeater derives its Latin epithet lunatus from the crescent-shaped markings on its nape ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hibbs Bridge on the Snicker's Gap Turnpike , which partly replaced the first toll road in the United States , still carries traffic, and is being rebuilt in its original state?
text: Did you knowthat the village of Montgomery , New York , was originally named Ward's Bridge ?
text: Did you knowthat the "Amerikansky Golland" class submarines ordered by the Imperial Russian Navy also served in the Soviet and United States navies?
text: Did you knowthat Roman Catholic priest Paul Couturier helped establish the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ?
text: Did you knowthat, in addition to horror fiction , Edgar Allan Poe wrote an essay on interior decorating called The Philosophy of Furniture ?
text: Did you knowthat Raeapteek in Tallinn , Estonia is one of the oldest continuously running pharmacies in Europe?
text: Did you knowthat brewer and politician Michael Thomas Bass introduced legislation into the British House of Commons to ban organ grinders as nuisances?
text: Did you knowthat Gunnhild, "Mother-of-Kings" , the wife and queen of Erik Bloodaxe of Norway , was rumored to be a witch ?
text: Did you knowthat after the HMS Tyger wrecked in 1742, the crew survived 56 days on a desert island and another 56 days sailing to Jamaica in small boats, at a loss of only 11 out of 281 men?
text: Did you knowthat Benjamin Pearse , later an influential provincial politician in British Columbia , came to Vancouver Island working for Hudson's Bay Company ?
text: Did you knowthat musician Ian Craig Marsh , once of pop groups The Human League and Heaven 17 , began his career in a band called "Musical Vomit"?
text: Did you knowthat global mining magnate Charles W. Engelhard, Jr. was the inspiration behind the character Auric Goldfinger in author Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger ?
text: Did you knowthat Danny Barcelona was a Filipino American self-taught drummer for Louis Armstrong ’s All-Stars jazz band?
text: Did you knowthat Indian youth Meraj Khalid Noor was used for political campaigning in Muslim-dominated areas of Bihar as he resembled Osama Bin Laden ?
text: Did you knowthat the prosperous Caspian Sea port of Abaskun disappeared from records in the 13th century ?
text: Did you knowthat the Code of Ur-Nammu is the world's oldest extant example of a legal code ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pennsylvania Ministerium was the first Lutheran church body in North America ?
text: Did you knowthat Rabanus Maurus 's attribution of the Liber Pontificalis to Saint Jerome was the prevailing view throughout the Middle Ages ?
text: Did you knowthat no piece of goldwork embroidery has ever actually used pure gold ?
text: Did you knowthat the racially charged Escambia High School riots , which reached a climax in 1976, continued in various forms for five years?
text: Did you knowthat despite being dissolved as a kibbutz in the 1980s, Ir Ovot continues to host Christian volunteers working on its Solomonic / First Temple period archaeologic site?
text: Did you knowthat the musical piece composed by Will Schaefer for the United States Bicentennial earned him a Pulitzer Prize nomination?
text: Did you knowthat Observatory Hill, Darjeeling , the site of Darjeeling 's oldest Buddhist monastery is now home to a Hindu temple?
text: Did you knowthat Lee Choon Seng , a Singaporean philanthropist built a Buddhist temple with the intention of liberating the spirits of those killed during the 1942 Battle of Pasir Panjang ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1922 Swatow Typhoon killed 50,000 people in Swatow (now Shantou , China ), out of a total population of 65,000?
text: Did you knowthat in three years during World War II , the U.S. Army prisoner of war camp called Camp Atlanta had more occupants than the nearby town of Atlanta, Nebraska has had in its entire existence?
text: Did you knowthat auto racing icon Dan Gurney tricked competitors into installing his Gurney flap upside down?
text: Did you knowthat voice exchange , the preeminent compositional technique of the medieval Notre Dame school , died out in art music but remains a characteristic feature of rounds ?
text: Did you knowthat as many ballots were cast in four days electing Chris Young and Hideki Okajima in the All-Star Final Vote as in ten weeks electing the 2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game starting lineup ?
text: Did you knowthat although no fossils of the extinct Malagasy Hippopotamus have been dated within the last 1,000 years, villagers in Madagascar described a similar creature still alive as recently as 1976?
text: Did you knowthat the SS Suevic of the White Star Line ran into rocks off the coast of England while steaming at full speed in dense fog at night in 1907 but everyone on board survived?
text: Did you knowthat before he became Pope Urban IV , Jacques Pantaléon mediated the Treaty of Christburg between the pagan Prussians and the Teutonic Knights ?
text: Did you knowthat Dungeons & Dragons , an album by Midnight Syndicate , is the only official soundtrack to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game ?
text: Did you knowthat although Paul MacGillivray ' s main interest was natural history , he was also the president of the Medical Society of Victoria and a member of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria?
text: Did you knowthat Miss Pittsburgh was the first plane to deliver airmail between Pittsburgh and Cleveland ?
text: Did you knowthat the Blue-faced Honeyeater of eastern and northern Australia is also known as the "Bananabird" for its fondness for that fruit?
text: Did you knowthat cross stitches are part of the embroidery traditions of the Balkans , Middle East , Afghanistan , Colonial America and Victorian England ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1646 Union of Uzhhorod was brokered by the Basilian monastic order on the model of the earlier Union of Brest ?
text: Did you knowthat the television drama Hill Street Blues imitated the visual style of The Police Tapes , a low-budget documentary about a police precinct in the South Bronx ?
text: Did you knowthat Rob Mazurek's avant-garde Chicago Underground projects began as a workshop at local jazz club The Green Mill ?
text: Did you knowthat, during the Basque witch trials , 1,384 children voluntarily reported themselves and denounced their "accomplices"?
text: Did you knowthat the versorium , the world's first electrical device, was invented in 1600 by one of Queen Elizabeth I 's physicians?
text: Did you knowthat the smallest papal election since the expansion of suffrage to all cardinals was undertaken by only six cardinal electors ?
text: Did you knowthat many Japanese POWs continued to toil in Siberian labor camps ten years after the end of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat St. Stephen's is the last remaining Bulfinch -designed church in Boston ?
text: Did you know the transition from Renaissance to Baroque in instrumental music occurred partly as a result of deliberate actions taken by the Florentine Camerata ?
text: Did you knowthat Abraham Klausner was the first rabbi at the Dachau concentration camp after it was liberated?
text: Did you knowthat Y. G. Parameshwara was the first blind Indian to qualify as a doctor?
text: Did you knowthat the town of Santikhiri in northern Thailand has been home to a "lost division" of the Republic of China Army since 1961?
text: Did you knowthat the church of St John the Divine, Kennington suffered severe bomb damage in 1941 during World War II but was restored and re-opened in 1959?
text: Did you knowthat although Lloyd Hunter played trumpet and led a big band for 38 years, he only recorded once, for the race record label Vocalion ?
text: Did you knowthat airman Timothy Tovell smuggled a French orphan adopted by his squadron as a mascot back to Australia in an empty sack of oats ?
text: Did you knowthat the fifteenth and sixteenth-century Hochstetter family were for a time on a par with the Fugger and the Welser controlling metal ores in Bohemia , Slovakia , Hungary and Tyrol ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic is the largest African American parade in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Estonia joined World War II in 1940 , after the Soviet Union blockaded the country, a Finnish airliner was shot down and three diplomatic couriers were killed ?
text: Did you knowthat though students and educators agree on the importance of student engagement in learning , there is little consensus on a working definition?
text: Did you knowthat the short film 5 Men and a Limo showcases the world's five most prolific English language film trailer voiceover artists narrating a shared limousine ride?
text: Did you knowthat a portion of Connecticut Route 108 was part of an early highway system in the town of Stratford, Connecticut ?
text: Did you knowthat Halsey Ives was involved in six world's fairs , directed the art departments of two of them, and was the first director of the Saint Louis Art Museum ?
text: Did you knowthat Claude Pompidou was responsible for choosing much of the art for the Centre Georges Pompidou , named after her husband ?
text: Did you knowthat Vibhuti Narayan Singh was the last king of the ancient city Benares ?
text: Did you knowthat Angola gained its independence from Portugal through the Alvor Agreement ?
text: Did you knowthat the first family-run Hawaiian language preschool , or Pūnana leo ( Hawaiian : "nest of voices"), was opened illegally?
text: Did you knowthat the Luxtorpeda , looking more like a cross between a rail bus and a limousine than a train, was the fastest and most luxurious train in interbellum Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat Salazar 's associate Fernando Santos Costa was appointed Deputy Minister of War while holding only the junior rank of captain ?
text: Did you knowthat 4th century martyr Emygdius is said to have carried his own severed head away after being decapitated?
text: Did you knowthat former professional boxer Giichi Nishihara was the writer - director of such Japanese cult pink films of the 1960s and 1970s as Abnormal Reaction: Ecstasy and Grotesque Perverted Slaughter ?
text: Did you knowthat Birtles Shorrock Goble , the founders and original singers/songwriters of Little River Band , are legally prevented from using that band name?
text: Did you knowthat only two of the fourteen French cardinals were in Italy at the start of the papal conclave, 1549-1550 because a clause of the Concordat of Bologna allowed the pope to redistribute their benefices if they died in Rome ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1942 survivors of the British submarine P36 were shipwrecked again less than six weeks later when the submarine HMS Olympus hit a mine off Malta ?
text: Did you knowthat the First National Bank of Omaha , founded by Herman Kountze , is a privately held company in its sixth generation of family ownership?
text: Did you knowthat American systems theorist Debora Hammond explores new ways of thinking about complex systems that support more participatory forms of social organization ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Richard Garth was a barrister , MP , Privy Counsellor and Chief Justice of Bengal as well as Lord of the Manor of Morden ?
text: Did you knowthat Bill Apiata of the Special Air Service of New Zealand was the first ever recipient of the Victoria Cross for New Zealand ?
text: Did you knowthat the Victoria Cross for Australia , instituted in 1991 as the highest award for gallantry that can be awarded to Australian military personnel , has yet to be awarded to anyone?
text: Did you knowthat Wing Commander George H. Stainforth AFC RAF was the first man to exceed 400 mph in an aircraft ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles A. Johns went from being a justice on the Oregon Supreme Court to a justice on the Supreme Court of the Philippines in 1921?
text: Did you knowin the 4th century, the Persian Chosroid Dynasty introduced Christianity as the official religion in ancient Georgia ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Glasgow Hillhead by-election, 1982 , future leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy wore a sandwich board reading "The real Roy Jenkins is number 5"?
text: Did you knowthat national service in Cuba 's law enforcement agencies is regarded as more dangerous than serving in the country's armed forces ?
text: Did you knowthat Crystle Stewart won the Miss Texas USA title on her fifth attempt, after placing first runner-up for two consecutive years?
text: Did you knowthat news of the British victory in the Battle of Trafalgar was reported in the Gibraltar Chronicle a fortnight before it reached England ?
text: Did you knowthat Fernando Amorsolo was the first Filipino to be distinguished as a National Artist of the Philippines in painting?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Damascus was the final action of the Allied advance on Damascus in Syria during the Syria-Lebanon campaign in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Jukes , an English-born colonial Australian geologist , sketched the very first complete map of Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat authorship of a research article in fields such as genome sequencing and particle physics is sometimes claimed by over 100 scientists?
text: Did you knowthat the four state-owned Regional Health Authorities run all the public hospitals in Norway ?
text: Did you knowthat Texas Tech track and field runner Sally Kipyego is the first Kenyan woman to win an NCAA cross country individual championship?
text: Did you knowthat Saint Maximilian Kolbe sacrificed his life at Auschwitz to save the life of Polish Army sergeant Franciszek Gajowniczek ?
text: Did you knowthat the last territorial expansion of Bratislava , the capital of Slovakia , took place in 1972, creating Greater Bratislava with the 17 current boroughs ?
text: Did you knowthat the first shot fired by British Empire forces in World War I was targeted at the German ship Pfalz which was departing Melbourne , Australia as Britain declared war on Germany?
text: Did you knowthat Operation Salaam was a World War II covert operation led by the aristocratic explorer László Almásy to insert two German spies into British-held Cairo ?
text: Did you knowthat Hindus in the ancient Tamil country worshipped different deities depending on the landscape of the region they lived in?
text: Did you knowthat Yavapai is an overarching term for four distinct tribes of Native Americans from central Arizona ?
text: Did you knowthat the official Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano , prematurely announced the death of Bishop Donald Trautman ?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Henry Woodward was the first British colonist of colonial South Carolina ?
text: Did you knowthat In Nomine Domini , promulgated by Pope Nicholas II in 1059, established cardinal-bishops as the sole electors of the pope ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pub Design Awards are annually given to exceptional pubs in the UK that have undergone construction work?
text: Did you knowthat the WWF in 1986 introduced a stable of masked wrestlers to keep the injured wrestler Andre the Giant on television, but off the ring?
text: Did you knowthat in an attempt to speed up the longest papal election in history , the magistrates of Viterbo removed the roof of the Papal Palace ?
text: Did you knowthat the inmates of San Pedro prison run a hotel for visiting tourists and sell cocaine to the local community?
text: Did you knowthat the Church Slavonic word for " nativity scene " has come to denote "the den of depravity" in modern Russian ?
text: Did you knowthat the novel Pioneer, Go Home! (adapted into the Elvis movie Follow that Dream ) was inspired by squatters who settled on land created when Florida built a bridge to Pine Island ?
text: Did you knowthat the Darjeeling Ropeway was stopped on 19 October 2003 after four tourists were killed in an accident?
text: Did you knowthat W. Gene Corley investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center , as well as the performance of the Murrah Building in response to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing ?
text: Did you knowthat Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia gave away his cat to one of the soldiers tasked with his execution ?
text: Did you knowthat the first poet in the Russian language , Symeon of Polotsk , was ethnically Belarusian ?
text: Did you knowthat " Being Boiled ", the first single by The Human League , cost just £2.50 to record?
text: Did you knowthat the pentadic numbers on the Spirit Pond runestones have led to speculation that they contain an authentic record of Thorfinn Karlsefni 's expedition to Maine in 1010 ?
text: Did you knowthat when the Italian medalist and sculptor Leone Leoni was accused of counterfeiting by Pope Paul III 's jeweler in 1540, he came so close to killing the man that he was sent to the galleys ?
text: Did you knowthat Stoke City F.C. is the second-oldest English football league club, as it was founded in 1863?
text: Did you knowthe Efficiency Medal of Great Britain and the Commonwealth has been awarded with three different ribbons in over thirty separate countries, and featured three monarchs wearing four distinct crowns ?
text: Did you knowthat though George Bernard Shaw called fellow Edwardian playwright St John Hankin ’s death "a public calamity," his work was largely neglected until the 1990s?
text: Did you knowthat Takemoto Gidayū ' s contributions to the form of bunraku (Japanese puppet theatre) were so influential that all chanters (narrators) in bunraku are now called gidayū ?
text: Did you knowthat although the No Child Left Behind Act in the United States prescribes the consequences for schools failing to meet Adequate Yearly Progress , it leaves responsibility for defining that progress up to each state education agency ?
text: Did you knowthat David Nash, the managing director of Nash Timbers , single-handedly stopped the Australian Government's practice of burning down old railway bridges, thus saving timber up to 400 years old?
text: Did you knowthat in the Battle of Kissoué during the Syria-Lebanon campaign in World War II , the outnumbered defenders at Quneitra , Syria surrendered because they ran out of ammunition?
text: Did you knowthat the words " Never Again " were supposedly inscribed in English and Hebrew on the first warhead from Israel's nuclear program ?
text: Did you knowthat Confederate brigadier general James Morrison Hawes studied advanced military tactics at the Cavalry School of Saumur , France ?
text: Did you knowthat the Austrian Rieger Orgelbau and Czech Rieger-Kloss are two organ -building firms formed after World War II with origins in a single company?
text: Did you knowthat the staff of the mayor of Mirik , West Bengal vowed to spend a month's salary in SMS voting for Indian Idol contestant Prashant Tamang , the first finalist of Nepalese descent?
text: Did you knowthat the proglacial lakes of Minnesota were massive freshwater lakes covering many times the area of the Great Lakes at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation ?
text: Did you knowthat, after driving the French Republicans from Italy , Russian Field-Marshal Alexander Suvorov managed to conduct a masterful flight across the snow-capped Alps ?
text: Did you knowthat early 20th century German explorers mounted many expeditions to the Ramu river in German New Guinea in the hope of finding gold?
text: Did you knowthat in 1970, University of Oregon head baseball coach Don Kirsch fell to his death out of a second-story window at Stanford University Medical Center ?
text: Did you knowthat the Swan by-election, 1918 not only resulted in the election of the youngest person ever to be elected to the Parliament of Australia , but directly prompted the introduction of instant-runoff voting in Australia?
text: Did you knowthat scandal erupted after the Department of Justice initiated prosecution of Jackie Presser only to abruptly end it once the press revealed Presser had been an informant for the FBI for over 10 years?
text: Did you knowthat the Oregon Coast Range was created by a forearc basin along the Pacific Ocean ?
text: Did you knowthat Hugh Johns commentated for England 's only FIFA World Cup victory during his first year as a commentator?
text: Did you knowthat Rod Marsh was the first Australian wicketkeeper to score a century in Test cricket ?
text: Did you knowthat the Logan Fontenelle Housing Project in Omaha, Nebraska , along with restrictive covenants and redlining , were used to segregate African Americans in the Near North Side neighborhood?
text: Did you knowthat the poet Dinakara Desai is known as Chutuka Brahma (creator of chutukas ) because he invented a four-line limerick form of Kannada poetry known as chutuka ?
text: Did you knowthat Francis Price Blackwood , a colonial Australian naval officer and sea surveyor, charted locations like Whitsunday Island and the Great Barrier Reef ?
text: Did you knowthat Irish cricketer and rugby union player Dickie Lloyd was regarded as one of the most famous pupils of Portora Royal School , alongside Samuel Beckett and Oscar Wilde ?
text: Did you knowthat George Rogers Clark was called the "Conqueror of the Northwest " because of his victorious Illinois campaign in the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you knowthat HNoMS Heimdal became the first Norwegian ship to apprehend a ship for illegal fishing when she seized the British trawler Lord Roberts in 1911?
text: Did you knowthat Operation Tracer was a top-secret WWII mission in which six men were to be buried alive inside the Rock of Gibraltar so that they could monitor enemy movements after the Rock's capture?
text: Did you knowthat the bark of Kleinhovia hospita is used to treat hair lice in Indonesia ?
text: Did you knowthat Rear Admiral Sir Richard Trowbridge was the twenty-fifth Governor of Western Australia and the first officer of the Royal Navy to rise from boy seaman to captain of the Queen's yacht HMY Britannia ?
text: Did you knowthat the first teacher and practicing doctor in Portland, Oregon , Ralph Wilcox , killed himself with a Deringer pistol while at work at the federal court ?
text: Did you knowthat Sycorax , an unseen character in William Shakespeare 's The Tempest , is viewed by some as a symbol of the silenced African woman?
text: Did you knowthat Huynh Phu So , the founder of the Hoa Hao religious sect, converted his doctor after being put in a mental asylum by the French colonial forces?
text: Did you knowthat the bestselling children's book The History of the Fairchild Family by Mary Martha Sherwood inspired the character of Pip in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations ?
text: Did you knowthat Ariel , a sprite in William Shakespeare 's The Tempest , may be based on the biblical Ariel in Isaiah ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1968 Eldridge Dickey was the first African-American quarterback to be drafted to a professional American football league in the first round?
text: Did you knowthat Friz Freleng 's 1937 cartoon Clean Pastures narrowly evaded Hollywood Production Code censors, before being removed from distribution by United Artists in 1968?
text: Did you knowthat the Dawesville Channel , a 2.5 kilometre long, 200 metre wide man-made channel near Mandurah , Western Australia , was built specifically to counter algal blooms ?
text: Did you knowthat Bill Barber played tuba on a number of Miles Davis albums including Birth of the Cool , Miles Ahead and Sketches of Spain ?
text: Did you knowthat the Yamasee War of 1715-17 nearly annihilated the colony of South Carolina and paved the way for the founding of Georgia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Cheat Mountain salamander of West Virginia is the only vertebrate known to be unique to that state?
text: Did you knowthat when John Torrington ' s corpse was exhumed 138 years after his death, it was almost perfectly preserved?
text: Did you knowthat the United States Capitol crypt was intended as the entrance to George Washington 's tomb?
text: Did you knowthat the Queensland Court of Disputed Returns once heard an election dispute from a person who claimed that the Queensland Government was unconstitutional but who still wished to be elected to it?
text: Did you knowthat Liz Claiborne Inc. was the first company founded by a woman to make the Fortune 500 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kannada film Shanti is one of just a few narrative films with only a single actor?
text: Did you knowthat the Trygg class was a class of three torpedo boats built for the Royal Norwegian Navy and that they were all sunk during World War II , two after having been captured by the German Kriegsmarine ?
text: Did you knowthat Selvarajah Rajivarnam was the fourth journalist to be killed on April 29 , during the last three years of the Sri Lankan civil war ?
text: Did you knowthat Dumfries House , designed by John and Robert Adam in the 1750s, was recently bought by a consortium of charities organised by Prince Charles ?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian legal case of D'Emden v Pedder followed United States legal precedent in holding that state and federal governments were immune from each other's laws?
text: Did you knowthat Nguyen Ngoc Tho , Vice President of South Vietnam under Ngo Dinh Diem , was not allowed to take part in policy discussions and was slapped at the order of Diem's brother Ngo Dinh Nhu ?
text: Did you knowthat the first person in Britain to suggest studying modern history was eighteenth-century clergyman Joseph Priestley ?
text: Did you knowthat the Stephen Wright House in Paw Paw, Illinois is located on a road that was once a stage coach and Native American trail?
text: Did you knowthat the film Hellbreeder's distinct look was created by being shot on color reversal stock and then cross processed ?
text: Did you knowthat the crown-cardinals of Austria , France , and Spain could exercise the jus exclusivae during papal conclaves from the 16th to 20th centuries ?
text: Did you knowthat Spiral Scratch was the first independently-released Punk rock record, and inspired a wave of DIY record labels across the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat although the South American Bittern is widespread, much about its life history remains little-known, due to its skulking habits?
text: Did you knowthat viable sperm has been extracted from cadavers up to 36 hours after the donor's death ?
text: Did you knowthat José María Robles Hurtado , a martyr during the Cristero War , placed the noose that would be used to hang him around his own neck, telling his executioner "Don't dirty your hands"?
text: Did you knowthat the Arts Club of Chicago arose from the success of the Art Institute of Chicago 's handling of the Chicago showing of the Armory Show ?
text: Did you knowthat Danish botanist Christen C. Raunkiær made quantitative studies of plants in literature ?
text: Did you knowduring the annual romeria from the Guadalajara Cathedral to the Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan , the statue of Our Lady of Expectation is accompanied by more than 3,000,000 people?
text: Did you knowthat the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in Connecticut will be reconstructed as the first extradosed bridge in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat 19th century Polish general Ludwik Mierosławski led revolutionaries in Poland , Germany and Italy ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hills Memorial Library of Hudson, New Hampshire had 60% of all area residents sign up for library cards in 1909, its first year of operation?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle for Saigon in 1955 started as Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem tried to wrest control of the police from the Binh Xuyen organised gang licensed by Emperor Bao Dai ?
text: Did you knowthat the War of the Two Peters , fought between Castile and Aragon during the 14th century , lasted 19 years?
text: Did you knowthat Antonio Salieri 's  opera Europa riconosciuta was recently revived for the re-opening of La Scala in Milan , after not being seen for 226 years after it premiered?
text: Did you knowthat Flight Lieutenant Bobby Gibbes landed his single-seat fighter in the North African desert in 1942 to rescue a comrade who had been shot down, jettisoning his own parachute to accommodate his passenger?
text: Did you knowthat the lifelong Democrat Jim Naugle is in his sixth straight term as the Mayor of Fort Lauderdale and supported only Republicans for President since 1968 ?
text: Did you knowthat during the 1998 Guinea-Bissau Civil War , as many as 100 refugees an hour passed through the border checkpoint of Mpack , Senegal , which has a population of 518?
text: Did you knowthat the Itchen Navigation canal provided an essential trading route between the historic city of Winchester and the port of Southampton ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bangalore Palace in India , which was built to resemble Windsor Castle in England , has hosted music concerts of bands like Aerosmith , The Rolling Stones and Deep Purple ?
text: Did you knowthat Jeroen Straathof is the first and still only sports person in the world to represent his country at the Summer Olympics , the Winter Olympics and the Paralympics ?
text: Did you knowthat Lynn Visson , a United Nations conference interpreter , is also a Russian cuisine cookbook author?
text: Did you know that Romanian poet, dissident, and journalist Dorin Tudoran was only allowed to leave Romania for the United States after a 42-day-long hunger strike in 1985?
text: Did you knowthat the Land of Onias , a region in Ptolemaic Egypt settled by Jewish military colonists, had its own Temple separate from that of Jerusalem ?
text: Did you knowthat the White Building in Bloomington, Illinois , represents an interesting example of the Chicago school architecture?
text: Did you knowthat women in the Early Pandyan Society dressed their hair differently according to their marital status?
text: Did you knowthat in New South Wales , a Sentencing Council which is the first of its type in Australia , conducts research to improve the consistency of sentencing of criminals?
text: Did you knowthat the Silurian Lau extinction event caused the Earth to temporarily return to a condition similar to how it was before multicellular life evolved?
text: Did you knowthat the Eastern Spinebill of Australian forests has adapted to urban gardens and can feed from Fuchsias as well as native banksias and grevilleas ?
text: Did you knowthat Texas has a long history of producing wine with grape vines planted by Franciscan missionaries over 100 years before vineyards were planted in California ?
text: Did you knowthat Marine corporal Charles W. Lindberg was part of the first flag raising on Iwo Jima hours before the famous photo was taken by Joe Rosenthal ?
text: Did you knowthat Nkiru Books , the oldest African American bookstore in Brooklyn , was saved from being closed down by rappers Mos Def and Talib Kweli in 2000?
text: Did you knowthat Hiptage benghalensis is considered a weed in Florida ?
text: Did you knowthat Williamsport, Pennsylvania was once known as the " Lumber Capital of the World " and is the birthplace of Little League Baseball ?
text: Did you knowthat the Adivasi Cobra Force was formed after ethnic conflict between Santal and Bodo erupted in 1996 ?
text: Did you knowthat originally a mudflat, Lido Isle in Newport Beach was one of the first master planned communities in California ?
text: Did you knowthat Ulley reservoir was sold to Rotherham council for £ 1 in 1980, when it was no longer needed to supply drinking water ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Raymond founded Australia 's longest running current affairs television program?
text: Did you knowthat the steam rail motors , introduced by the Great Western Railway in 1903 to stimulate traffic, were so successful that they had to be replaced by conventional trains?
text: Did you knowthat Australian male singing duo Bobby & Laurie had a national number-one hit with Hitchhiker for five weeks in 1966?
text: Did you knowthat Fort Pasir Panjang , part of the 11 coastal fortifications built to repel the Japanese invasion, saw little action during the Battle of Singapore ?
text: Did you knowthat Juanelo Turriano was forced to build a second version of his Artificio de Juanelo as the city of Toledo refused to pay for the first one?
text: Did you knowthat legend has it that Alexander Campbell slapped a muddy handprint on a prison cell wall in 1877 which has never been removed, despite extensive efforts?
text: Did you knowthat the British architect William Benson was relieved from his position as Surveyor General of the Royal Works after falsely insisting that the House of Lords Chamber was in imminent danger of collapse?
text: Did you knowthat the airport in the Nigerian city of Calabar is named after Margaret Ekpo , the 1950s civil rights activist?
text: Did you knowthat the discovery of Icadyptes salasi , a prehistoric five-foot-tall penguin in Peru , has caused scientists to reconsider the timeline of penguin evolution?
text: Did you knowthat outlaws John Dillinger , Machine Gun Kelly , and Baby Face Nelson were tried in the historic Landmark Center in St. Paul ?
text: Did you knowthat money donated in 1905 by the fans at Celtic Park football stadium in Glasgow, Scotland was given to the mother of international Scottish footballer Barney Battles, Jr. while Battles was still in the womb?
text: Did you knowthat the newly- merged Franco-Dutch firm Unibail-Rodamco is the largest public real estate company in Europe?
text: Did you knowthat a portion of the Palatine Library returned to Heidelberg in 1816, almost two centuries after it was looted from city by the Catholic League ?
text: Did you knowthat the rotation of a star slows down as it grows older?
text: Did you knowthat although the first meeting of the Indian Independence League took place in Tokyo in March 1942 , it was not formally proclaimed until June of that year in Bangkok ?
text: Did you knowthat the professional wrestling promotion International Championship Wrestling was owned and operated by Angelo Poffo , father of wrestling legend Randy Savage , and starred Randy Savage and his brother Lanny Poffo ?
text: Did you knowthat abbot Gerald of Sauve-Majeure began the practice of celebrating mass and the Office of the Dead for 30 days for the recently deceased?
text: Did you knowthat opinion polls in Armenia suggest that 64% of its population favors eventual Armenian membership in the European Union ?
text: Did you knowthat sexual relations between a man and his daughter-in-law were fairly common in pre- revolutionary rural Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat Singapore 's Ee Hoe Hean Club , a century-old millionaires ' club for Chinese businessmen, became a headquarters of an anti- Japanese movement in Southeast Asia from 1937-1942?
text: Did you knowthat a community centre will be incorporated in Sengkang New Town's new sports complex ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles K. Landis attracted residents to his new city of Vineland, New Jersey to clear land and grow grapes, which were purchased by Thomas Bramwell Welch , founder of Welch's , to make " unfermented wine "?
text: Did you knowthat James W. Parker spent nine years in the Comancheria searching for his family ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kentucky General Assembly responded to unpopular rulings by Justice William Owsley by dissolving the Court of Appeals on which he served?
text: Did you knowthat the 1940s experimental aircraft Vought V-173 featured an unorthodox "all-wing" design consisting of a flat, somewhat disk-shaped body with a pair of three-bladed propellers ?
text: Did you knowthat Crystal Grottoes is the only show cave in the U.S. state of Maryland ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. President Jimmy Carter , Nobel Prize winner Gary S. Becker and baseball player Joe Garagiola were all School Safety Patrol members?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Bernard Brigham , an elderly American war veteran, killed three tourists in Central Station in Montreal, Canada hoping to intimidate Pope John Paul II prior to his 1984 visit to Canada?
text: Did you knowthat the Palazzo Malta in Rome , Italy was granted extraterritoriality by the Italian Government and is the property of the Sovereign Order of Malta ?
text: Did you knowthat Mormon abstinence from drinking caffeinated beverages goes back to a 1918 Improvement Era article by Frederick J. Pack ?
text: Did you knowthat Thalassina anomala , a mud lobster found in Indo-Pacific mangrove swamps , is used in Thailand in powdered form or steeped in alcohol as a remedy for asthma ?
text: Did you knowthat the Nebraska School for the Deaf became nationally known within the Deaf community for its fight against an anti- American Sign Language state bill endorsed by Alexander Graham Bell ?
text: Did you knowthat Eastern school whiting caught along the coast of Queensland are frozen whole, shipped to Thailand for processing and then sold in Japan ?
text: Did you knowthat the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College were given powers of governance after the College charter was signed by George III of the United Kingdom in 1769?
text: Did you knowthat the first labor investigations by a United States government body were prompted by petitions from the Lowell girls , textile workers in Lowell , Massachusetts , during the mid-nineteenth century?
text: Did you knowthat Nikolay Kruchina , a top Soviet official, committed suicide by jumping out of his window after learning about the failure of the Soviet coup attempt in August 1991 ?
text: Did you knowthat Noble Threewitt worked for 75 years training Thoroughbred racehorses before retiring on his 96th birthday ?
text: Did you knowthat according to the 2R hypothesis , the genomes of modern vertebrates are the result of two rounds of genome duplication hundreds of millions of years ago?
text: Did you knowthat the banning of the Buddhist flag and the subsequent shootings of nine Buddhists who were protesting the ban on the birthday of Gautama Buddha led to civil unrest which toppled Ngo Dinh Diem 's regime?
text: Did you knowthat on the death of Governor George Madison , Kentucky lieutenant governor Gabriel Slaughter was refused the title of "governor" by a hostile state legislature and was referred to as "acting governor" for the duration of his three-year administration?
text: Did you knowthat Edwin Sherbon Hills , a well-known Australian geologist , had at first chosen undergraduate courses with the idea of becoming a chemist and took geology as a suitable ancillary?
text: Did you knowthat McGregor Lake , a man-made reservoir in Southern Alberta , receives most of its water from canals linked to the Bow River despite being in the Oldman River drainage basin?
text: Did you knowthat the Markonahalli Dam across the River Shimsha in India had to be partly demolished in order to prevent excess water from flooding the villages?
text: Did you knowthat Orator Hunt ' s presentation of the first petition in support of women's suffrage was received in Parliament with ribald laughter?
text: Did you knowthat the Franco-Hova War resulted in the demise of the Merina monarchy of Madagascar ?
text: Did you knowthat popular Turkish fusion band Yansımalar has recorded an album with Erkan Oğur , the inventor of the first fretless classical guitar?
text: Did you knowthat in 1995 The Virgin Islands Daily News , with a staff of only 18 full-time reporters and editors, won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service , beating the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Charlotte Observer ?
text: Did you knowthat Isaac Goodnow , a Free-Stater from New England , helped combine two settlements in Kansas Territory to form a new town named 'Boston', which was later re-named Manhattan ?
text: Did you knowthat a rock-cut basin may eventually form a circular holed stone, and passing through the hole was considered to have healing properties according to legend ?
text: Did you knowthat during the World War II amphibious offensive known as the Kerch-Eltigen Operation , the Red Army landed 75,000 men and over 10,000 tons of munitions and material near Kerch in eastern Crimea ?
text: Did you knowthat Michelle Rocca , longtime girlfriend of singer Van Morrison , was the first woman to appear on one of Morrison's album covers since his then-wife Janet Minto in 1971?
text: Did you knowthat Duncan Spears Casper , an early Mormon pioneer , was driven from his home twice due to anti Mormon sentiments?
text: Did you knowthat Iftikhar ad-Daula , Fatimid governor of Jerusalem during the siege of 1099 , surrendered Jerusalem to Raymond of Saint-Gilles in the Tower of David and was then escorted out of the city with his bodyguard?
text: Did you knowthat the Black Dirt Region of Orange County , New York contains the largest concentration of muck soil in the United States outside of the Florida Everglades ?
text: Did you knowthat Aretas III commissioned the minting of the first silver Nabataean coins?
text: Did you knowthat Dick Merrill piloted a transatlantic flight known as the "Ping Pong Flight" because his client, singer Harry Richman , insisted on carrying 41,000 ping pong balls in case of a crash at sea?
text: Did you knowthat despite declines in production in recent years, Victoria still produces almost 19.5% of Australia 's crude oil ?
text: Did you knowthat actress, writer and producer Michelle Paradise created the television series Exes and Ohs without an agent ?
text: Did you knowthat Shakadvipi (Bhojaka) is the only division of brahmins whose origins are said to be outside India ?
text: Did you knowthat Franco Freda , one of the main Italian far right ideologues, has been put to trial for the Piazza Fontana bombing , which was originally believed to have been perpetrated by anarchists?
text: Did you knowthat before Hannibal crossed the Rhône River with his Carthaginian forces to battle the Gauls , he sent a detachment under Hanno, son of Bomilcar to cross at a different point upriver for an ambush ?
text: Did you knowthat John Lamb was accused of diverting money from the New York impost to publish the Federal Farmer pamphlets?
text: Did you knowthat Scott Milanovich was the first pick in the 2001 XFL Draft , the only draft the league ever held?
text: Did you knowthat Carcross Desert , the "world's smallest desert ", measuring just over one square mile , is in fact not a desert, but a large series of northern sand dunes ?
text: Did you knowthat Alex Leake was offered a £ 10 bribe by Manchester City player Billy Meredith to throw the final match of the 1904–1905 season?
text: Did you knowthat the Prussian Nicola Marschall was the designer of the Confederate States of America 's first flag, the Stars & Bars ?
text: Did you knowthat Space Industries Incorporated was founded in the 1980s in Houston for the purpose of building the first private space station , to be called the Industrial Space Facility?
text: Did you knowthat a week before Charles Dickens died, he willed his literary journal All the Year Round to his son Charles Dickens, Jr ?
text: Did you knowthat Jane Storms was the first female war correspondent in American history?
text: Did you knowthat the Habakkuk Commentary of the Dead Sea scrolls accused the " Wicked Priest " of neglecting to circumcise the "foreskin of his heart"?
text: Did you knowthat the Egyptian Pyramid of Sahure and surrounding complex contained an estimated 10,000 m 2 of fine relief carving ?
text: Did you knowthat Admiral Harry D. Felt , a fervent anti-communist who planned for the use of tactical nuclear weapons during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis opposed American military intervention in Vietnam ?
text: Did you knowthat Jiffs was a derogatory propaganda term employed by military intelligence of British India to denote soldiers of the Indian Army in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the Franco-Mongol alliance in the 13th century involved multiple embassies and military collaborations against the common Muslim enemy in the Holy Land ?
text: Did you knowthat Baron Ijuin Gorō became Fleet Admiral and Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff in the pre-war Imperial Japanese Navy without ever having actually commanded a ship?
text: Did you knowthat Kentucky governor Charles Scott served as chief of intelligence for George Washington during his later campaigns in the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you knowthat Holbeach House served as the theatre for the final battle of the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot , in which the conspirators undid themselves after they accidentally detonated their gunpowder store?
text: Did you knowthat Bargil Pixner ' s identification of the biblical location of Bethsaida was based on artifacts found in trenches used by Syria in the Six-Day War ?
text: Did you knowthat the piaohao and the qianzhuang were financial institutions in ancient China ?
text: Did you knowthat 12th-century troubadour Raimon Vidal de Bezaudun wrote a grammatical manual for Occitan poetry that influenced Dante Alighieri 's De Vulgari Eloquentia , justifying the use of Italian vernacular ?
text: Did you knowthat Miran , an ancient oasis town in the Taklamakan Desert in present day Xinjiang , was also a thriving centre of Buddhism on the Silk Road , with many monasteries and stupas ?
text: Did you knowthat the Phoenix Hotel in Lexington, Kentucky was used as a headquarters by Generals William "Bull" Nelson , Braxton Bragg , and Kirby Smith during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat one of the oldest captive alligators in Europe was named Čabulītis , which means sweet and tender creature in Latvian ?
text: Did you knowthe first and last verses to the song " Hellhound on My Trail " by Robert Johnson are considered to be some of the finest in twelve bar blues ?
text: Did you knowthat a controversy about whether the real name of the first President of the Nigerian Senate in the Fourth Republic was Evan or Evans Enwerem led to his removal from office?
text: Did you knowthat Kentucky governor Christopher Greenup was one of Kentucky 's first two Congressmen and was an original trustee of Transylvania University ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore the Kempeitai East District Branch was the site of interrogation and torture of many civilians and that later the building housed the YMCA ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2003 French musical film Not on the Lips had a predominantly enthusiastic reception in France , but caused indignation and incomprehension in Britain ?
text: Did you knowthat Johnson's Seagrass was the first marine plant listed under the United States Endangered Species Act ?
text: Did you knowthat a survey in 2001 of the New South Wales - Queensland border in Australia found an error of 200 metres (656 ft ) in the original survey, indicating that the town of Jennings, New South Wales should actually be in Queensland?
text: Did you knowthat soon after German reunification , the Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant in the former East Germany was shut down due to conflicting technical requirements with the West?
text: Did you knowthat during his administration, Kentucky governor William J. Fields forbade drinking alcohol and dancing in the Governor's Mansion ?
text: Did you knowthat University of Oregon athletic director Leo Harris gained the right to use Donald Duck as the school's mascot through an informal handshake deal he made with Walt Disney in 1947?
text: Did you knowthat 20th century attorney Joseph Scott made so many contributions to civic life in Los Angeles that he earned the nickname "Mr. Los Angeles"?
text: Did you knowthat in 1835, Warren A. Cowdery , an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement , accused a local Quorum of the Twelve of neglecting their fund-raising activities while serving as Mormon missionaries ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 , which resulted in 38 deaths, 537 injuries and approximately 1,000 displaced, was the worst riot of the Red Summer of 1919 ?
text: Did you knowthat influential makeup artist Pat McGrath takes between 30 and 50 bags of tools, materials, and reference books whenever she travels to fashion shows ?
text: Did you knowthat Héctor López was the first Panamanian-born Major League Baseball player to play in the World Series with the New York Yankees ?
text: Did you knowthat before the 17th century, it was believed that all organisms grew from miniature versions of themselves that had existed since the beginning of creation ?
text: Did you knowthat Italian fascist propaganda referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Italian Mare Nostrum , as by 1942 Italy controlled nearly two-thirds of the sea's area?
text: Did you knowthat William E. McAnulty, Jr. , the first African American to sit on the Kentucky Supreme Court , injured himself playing basketball on Election Day in 1983 with future NBA star Allan Houston ?
text: Did you knowthat the northernmost miles of pavement of the Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive in Wisconsin were part of the original track circuit for Road America ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2006 Japanese film Hula Girls is set in the coal mining town of Iwaki in the 1960s when a Hawaiian spa resort was built to resolve the community's faltering fortunes?
text: Did you knowthat the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest , a precursor to the modern day Big Ten Conference , survived for only two seasons of college football competition before disbanding?
text: Did you knowthat Puerto Rican third baseman Félix Torres , who only played three Major League seasons, topped the home run charts in the 1960 Caribbean Series ?
text: Did you knowthat the automatic tide signalling system at Irvine harbour, North Ayrshire , invented and patented by its harbourmaster Martin Boyd, is probably unique?
text: Did you knowthat the dialogue Julius Excluded from Heaven , credited to Desiderius Erasmus , involves Pope Julius II trying to convince Peter to allow him into heaven by threats of armed force and excommunication ?
text: Did you knowthat Tawfiq Canaan , a Palestinian physician and medical pioneer, was also known for his research on Palestinian popular heritage?
text: Did you knowthat after the British took control of the Mysore Kingdom in the 19th century, they had a strong influence on Kannada literature ?
text: Did you knowthat the Brazil 's 1838 Balaiada uprising was named after the job of one of its leaders, a basketmaker ?
text: Did you knowthat Edward A. Halbach was the first official president of the Astronomical League ?
text: Did you knowthat in his 1915 Kentucky gubernatorial campaign, Augustus O. Stanley advocated a one dollar tax for every dog a person owned?
text: Did you knowthat Utkala Brahmins are the historical caretakers of the Jagannath Temple in Puri ?
text: Did you knowthat the Falklands Crisis of 1770 nearly caused a war between Great Britain and Spain ?
text: Did you knowthat a pub in Old Whittington was the shelter for three men in 1688 who were plotting the replacement of James II of England with a Protestant foreigner?
text: Did you knowthat 1965 Records was founded by James Endeacott, who also originally discovered The Libertines and The Strokes ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Cecil Hunter Rodwell was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal for bravery in the Second Boer War and went on to serve as Governor of Southern Rhodesia ?
text: Did you knowthat W. H. Auden 's poem " In Praise of Limestone " has been called topographic , sui generis , and a "postmodern pastoral "?
text: Did you knowthat the Silpathorn Award is given to significant living Thai contemporary artists and that the name of the award means "upholder of art"?
text: Did you knowthat Catholic priest Cornelius Loos was forced to recant his view in 1593 that witch trials in early modern Europe were not required as witchcraft didn't exist?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph "Blueskin" Blake , accomplice of notorious 18th century thief Jack Sheppard , grievously wounded the self-styled "Thief-Taker General" Jonathan Wild outside the courtroom where he was subsequently convicted of burglary and sentenced to death, hastening Wild's fall from power?
text: Did you knowthat children up to the age of five can find it difficult to distinguish between television programmes and toy advertising campaigns ?
text: Did you knowthat prior to the development of binoculars , bird collections , collections consisting of birds and parts of their anatomy , were the dominant method of bird observation and study among ornithologists ?
text: Did you knowthat a picture of Mary Ann Bevan , "the ugliest woman in the world", featured on a birthday card until a complaint led to its withdrawal?
text: Did you knowthat Sholakia , a tiny town in Bangladesh , draws 300,000 Muslims for Eid prayers every year on Eid ul-Fitr ?
text: Did you knowthat Sooriyakanda mass grave is alleged to contain 300 bodies of school children but only few were recovered?
text: Did you knowthat Kazys Lozoraitis was independent Lithuania 's first ambassador to the Holy See and to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta ?
text: Did you knowthat the Second Manifesto , a 1904 declaration made by Joseph F. Smith , the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , confirmed that the church was opposed to plural marriage ?
text: Did you knowthe oldest stud farm in India , Kunigal stud farm , was used by Tipu Sultan for breeding horses for cavalry regiments to fight the British?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish Resettlement Corps was tasked with organizing the 250,000 members of the Polish Armed Forces in the West , over half of whom eventually chose to settle in the UK instead of returning to communist Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1973, Margaret Thatcher temporarily saved the Strand Grammar School , famous for its contribution of young men to the British Civil Service , from closure?
text: Did you knowthat after publishing his National Book Award -winning Invisible Man in 1952, Ralph Ellison continued writing for a further 42 years without ever finishing his second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting ?
text: Did you knowthat Father Boleslaus Goral was one of the key persons in the "news war" between the Milwaukee Archdiocese and Michał Kruszka ?
text: Did you knowthat Den , a fictional character in the Battle Angel Alita , is actually a giant remote-controlled slave unit run from a transmitter embedded in the chest of one of the story's main characters ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1967, a group of Latin American writers including Mexican Carlos Fuentes started a series of biographies depicting caudillos , which became the basis of the Dictator Novel genre?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Chilton was the first person to be awarded a D.Sc. degree in New Zealand ?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Georges had the strongest effects on the Dominican Republic of any hurricane since Hurricane David in 1979?
text: Did you knowthat North Dakota's location in the Upper Midwest allows it to experience some of the most extreme weather in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the name Flying fox refers to bats as well as a freshwater algae-eating aquarium fish ?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Rosenfelt , CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1972 until 1982, was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge and received a Purple Heart for his injuries?
text: Did you knowthat after spending seven years traveling across the Saskatchewan District , Rev. Robert Rundle was allowed to establish a mission in 1847, only to be forced to leave a year later due to health issues?
text: Did you knowthat the Chinese high fin banded shark ( Myxocyprinus asiaticus ) has 20 other common names in the aquarium trade?
text: Did you knowthat the 13th-century troubadour Guilhem Figueira was a strong critic of the contemporary Papacy , going so far in his sirventes contra Roma as to consign Rome to hell ?
text: Did you knowthat the Minnesota Twins made Joe Nathan their closing pitcher for the 2004 Major League Baseball season , despite the fact that Nathan only had converted one save in five opportunities?
text: Did you knowthat the leader of the Dick Cheney protests at Brigham Young University refused an offer to appear on The Daily Show , out of a concern that the show would poke fun at the university?
text: Did you knowthat Kuryer Polski was the first daily Polish language newspaper in the USA ?
text: Did you knowthat members of Sub-Carpathian Reformed Church were persecuted by communists in the Soviet Union and were sent to Gulag labour camps in Siberia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Rani people , a West Slavic tribe inhabiting the island of Rugia , maintained their native paganism , its ritual, temple, and priesthood, well into the twelfth century?
text: Did you knowthat Flight Lieutenant Wallace McIntosh was recognised as the most successful air gunner in RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War , having shot down eight German aircraft , including three during one mission?
text: Did you knowthat the 14 remaining children of the Jewish Orphanage in Oslo , Norway were evacuated to Sweden by the Norwegian resistance movement in November of 1942?
text: Did you knowthat the uniformly fine quality of surviving Roman copies of Lysippean bronze Hermes Fastening his Sandal indicates that it stood high in Roman esteem?
text: Did you knowthat the German neo-Nazi German Alternative party was banned in 1992 after the group was associated with an arson attack on an asylum seeker refuge?
text: Did you knowthat Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch lost the sight in one eye when his submarine , HMS Splendid , was sunk in 1943?
text: Did you knowthat in the folklore of the Celts , a fairy path is a route taken by these supernatural beings, usually in a straight line and between sites of traditional significance, such as Stone Age monuments?
text: Did you knowthat in 1989, some 300,000 people created a 300 mile human chain stretching from Lviv to Kiev on the 71st anniversary of the Act Zluky ?
text: Did you knowthat the South American rubber boom ceased in 1912 when plantations in Malaysia , Sri Lanka , and tropical Africa grown from seed smuggled out of Brazil 36 years earlier began producing rubber ?
text: Did you knowthat Illinois State Senator John H. Addams was the primary influence on his daughter Jane Addams ' social activism ?
text: Did you knowthat the Treaty of Kyakhta between the Russian and Qing Empires was negotiated by a Bosnian Serb from Dubrovnik , Sava Vladislavich ?
text: Did you knowthat during the First Battle of Ypres , Edward Bulfin organized an impromptu formation of six battalions , later known as "Bulfin's force," that was instrumental in stopping the German advance?
text: Did you knowthat the Indian Congress of 1893 drew more than 500 Native Americans representing 35 tribes to Omaha, Nebraska ?
text: Did you knowthat Fr. Thiruchelvam Nihal Jim Brown barely escaped the April 2006 St. Phillip Neri church bombing only to disappear a week later?
text: Did you knowthat the site of the hermitage of Ginés de la Jara retained its reputation for holiness even during Spain's Moorish occupation?
text: Did you knowthat the popular YouTube star Christine Gambito attributes her nickname Happyslip to her Filipino mother's mispronunciation of half slip ?
text: Did you knowthat Jakub Karol Parnas , a prominent Polish – Soviet biochemist , despite having collaborated with the Soviet regime since its invasion of Poland , fell victim to a Stalinist purge in 1949?
text: Did you knowthat British surgeon Richard Partridge apprehended the London Burkers gang of body snatchers , alerting the authorities while claiming to be getting change for a £50 note?
text: Did you knowthat a 300-page iPhone bill became the subject of a viral video by blogger Justine Ezarik viewed more than 3 million times?
text: Did you knowthat Waddams Grove was the first settlement in Stephenson County , Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat Malcolm X , James Brown , and the current President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva all worked as shoeshiners when they were young?
text: Did you knowthat the medieval kingdom of Alania controlled the most practicable route through the Greater Caucasus ?
text: Did you knowthat Oswald Tesimond , involved in the Gunpowder Plot , escaped severe punishment by stowing away on a cargo ship ferrying dead pigs to Calais ?
text: Did you knowthat German leaders of the World Confederation of Labour were sentenced to Nazi concentration camps in the 1930s for their political opposition to the growth of authoritarian governments in Europe?
text: Did you knowthat Downtown Omaha is home to 31 historic buildings, two historic districts , and the site of the largest loss of historic buildings ever from the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you knowthat the S.S. Christopher Columbus , the only whaleback passenger liner ever built, carried 1.8 million passengers to and from the World's Columbian Exposition in a single season?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian politician and socialite Pantazi Ghica was identified as the "black-faced, hunchbacked and greedy" person depicted, alongside other liberals , in one of Mihai Eminescu 's most famous poems?
text: Did you knowthat when Democratic congressman A. Jeff McLemore opposed President Woodrow Wilson over the United States' entry into World War I , the Texas legislature redrew the state's congressional districts in 1917 to force him to run against another incumbent?
text: Did you knowthat the Vladimirka , a road by which convicts marched to the Siberian katorga , is mentioned in the works of Herzen , Nekrasov and Dostoevsky ?
text: Did you knowthat rainbow sharks are Cyprinids , making them relatives of goldfish , carp and minnows ?
text: Did you knowthat Franklin D. Roosevelt threatened Postmaster General James Farley and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. 's jobs if they did not make sure a new post office was built in his hometown of Hyde Park ?
text: Did you knowthat Yingzao Fashi is a Chinese technical treatise on architecture and craftsmanship written during the mid- Song Dynasty ?
text: Did you knowthat despite being portrait painter to Queen Victoria , John Partridge ' s career plummeted after a dispute with Ramsay Richard Reinagle over altering one of his paintings ?
text: Did you knowthat Jeffrey Goldberg , a writer for The New Yorker , was convinced to write for The Atlantic Monthly when publisher David G. Bradley purchased ponies for Goldberg's children?
text: Did you knowthat although an Iron Workers union member planted the dynamite in the 1910 Los Angeles Times bombing , the 21 people who died in the explosion and fire were all workers and not managers?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. Representative John Y. Brown was censured by his peers for unparliamentary language during a speech denouncing General Benjamin F. Butler ?
text: Did you knowthat Major League Baseball relief pitcher Ramón Peña , younger brother of All-Star catcher Tony Peña , allowed no home runs to any of the 88 batters he faced despite 6.00 career earned run average ?
text: Did you knowthat arms , munitions , and Vietcong documents were planted prior to raids on South Vietnam's Buddhist pagodas as a pretext to crush protests over religious discrimination?
text: Did you knowthat molecular evolutionist Morris Goodman used protein sequence data to reconstruct the evolutionary history of hemoglobin and called this the first "hard evidence of Darwinian evolution"?
text: Did you knowthat American musician Wade Mainer is credited with bridging the gap between old-time mountain music and Bluegrass ?
text: Did you knowthat the Young Christian Workers movement, founded by Joseph Cardijn , had 2 million members in 69 countries at the time of his death?
text: Did you knowthat during the Russo-Japanese War , the London Times refitted the Chinese ship Haimun , creating the world's first ship dedicated to war correspondence covering the on-going naval battles?
text: Did you knowthat the Kościuszko Mound in Kraków , Poland , erected by Cracovians in 1823 and modeled after prehistoric mounds , became a strategic lookout for the occupying Austrian army ?
text: Did you knowthat the crown prince and princess of Denmark and Iceland helped lay the cornerstone for the post office in Rhinebeck , New York ?
text: Did you knowthat the song " I Am a Child of God " is related to a phrase used in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a declaration of a basic belief of Mormonism ?
text: Did you knowthat the open habitat of grassy balds in the forested Appalachian Mountains may be relicts of grazing pressure from Pleistocene megaherbivores ?
text: Did you knowthat Eleanor Davies-Colley was the first woman admitted as fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ?
text: Did you knowthat David Yudelman asserts that South African Apartheid predates the traditional demarcation of the National Party's 1948 rise to power?
text: Did you knowthat Al Hopkins and his group The Hill Billies originated the term " hillbilly music", and were the first to play country music for a United States president and the first to play country in a film ?
text: Did you knowthat as an Illinois State Senator James M. Strode introduced legislation authorizing a loan used to begin construction on the Illinois and Michigan Canal ?
text: Did you knowthat the Major League Baseball pitcher Carl Zamloch was also a professional magician ?
text: Did you knowthat a ditch excavated to fend off marauding Maratha soldiers, was filled up when the city was never attacked, to form a road from Shyambazar ' s five-point crossing?
text: Did you knowthat Swiss pharmacologist Hartmann F. Stähelin led the R&D of both the anti-cancer drug etoposide and cyclosporine A , an immunosuppressant used in organ transplantation ?
text: Did you knowthat Les Chouans , Honoré de Balzac 's novel about royalist forces in France , was the first book he published without using a nom de plume ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1990s , business process outsourcing company PeopleSupport gave their employees job titles such as gladiator , crusader , and marketing mechanic ?
text: Did you knowthat the book Historia naturalis palmarum , by German botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius , was described by E. J. H. Corner as "the most magnificent treatment of palms that has been produced"?
text: Did you knowthat 159 soldiers of the Malay Regiment fought against a 13,000-strong Japanese force to defend a hill position in Singapore ’s Kent Ridge Park ?
text: Did you knowthat while the first union was founded in 1927, Tanzania did not have a significant labor movement until the 1940s?
text: Did you knowthat several universities now offer courses on the politics of Harry Potter ?
text: Did you knowthe first edition of Patience and Sarah , winner of the 1971 Stonewall Book Award , was self-published and all copies sold by the author after six publishers rejected it for not being marketable?
text: Did you knowthat in group theory , a word is any written product of group elements and their inverses ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mosque of Amr in Fustat , originally built in 642 CE, was the first mosque ever built in Egypt ?
text: Did you knowthat the construction of the John T. Loughran Bridge in Kingston , New York , led to the creation of the Rondout-West Strand Historic District ?
text: Did you knowthat Takakia is a genus of moss first discovered in the Himalayas in 1861 , but no fertile plants were known until collected in 1993 in the Aleutian Islands ?
text: Did you knowthat Roosevelt's World War I volunteers , a unit similar to Roosevelt's Rough Riders of the Spanish-American War , were authorized by the U.S. Congress to fight in France in 1917, but President Woodrow Wilson refused?
text: Did you knowthat DeWitty , the largest African American village ever founded in Nebraska , existed for only 29 years?
text: Did you knowthat Jakob Künzler was an eyewitness to the Armenian Genocide , the subject of his 1921 book In the Land of Blood and Tears ?
text: Did you knowthat the first customer of the Maine Diner , which has been featured on NBC's Today Show , crashed into a pole in the parking lot ?
text: Did you knowthat the SMS Hannover and her four sister ships represented the last Deutschland class pre- dreadnought battleships ?
text: Did you knowthat while Sanskrit is the liturgical language for many Indian religions, only one daily newspaper, the Sudharma , uses it?
text: Did you knowthat 62 people died in a fire on the sets of the TV serial The Sword of Tipu Sultan in Mysore , India ?
text: Did you knowthat A Tragedy by 19th century poet , singer and composer Theo Marzials is frequently referred to as the worst poem ever written in the English language ?
text: Did you knowthat six months after his nomination James W. Stephenson was forced to withdraw from the 1838 election for Governor of Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat the Japanese science fiction film I.K.U. was the first pornographic film ever screened in the Sundance Film Festival ?
text: Did you knowthat Murray's Ranch , a former guest ranch in Apple Valley , California , was unique in that it was owned by African-Americans and catered primarily to an African-American clientele?
text: Did you knowthat St. Mary's Basilica is the oldest church in Bangalore and the only basilica in the Indian state of Karnataka ?
text: Did you knowthat James D. Henry died four days after the people of New Salem, Illinois supported him for the office of Governor of Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat under English criminal law , intoxication is technically not a defence, but can negate the mens rea for specific intent offences?
text: Did you knowthat Harlem on the Prairie , a 1937 race movie , is billed as the first " all-colored " western musical ?
text: Did you knowthat Labour Party politician Ruth Dalton , who was the shortest-serving female MP in British history, represented Bishop Auckland for 92 days?
text: Did you knowthat Michiel Daniel Overbeek was the first amateur astronomer to detect supernova -related gamma ray burst effects?
text: Did you knowthat the Chicago -based Lincoln Towing Service uses satellite tracking to provide towing services for landlords with tenant parking problems?
text: Did you knowthat Adolf Hitler served in the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat a clock tower added to the old Washington County Courthouse in 1891 did not have a working clock ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that during an outbreak of an itch mite in August 2004 , 54 percent of Crawford County, Kansas suffered from bites?
text: Did you knowthat in 1945, Congregationalist minister Geoffrey Nuttall became only the second nonconformist theologian to become a Doctor of Divinity at Oxford ?
text: Did you knowthat militia company commander John Giles Adams may have been killed by his own men during the 1832 Black Hawk War as he tried to order them to battle?
text: Did you knowthat Singaporean anime distributor Odex is asking for legal settlements from children as young as nine years old for copyright infringement through file-sharing?
text: Did you knowthat the Latécoère 611 , a reconnaissance flying boat for the Vichy French Navy, switched sides and joined the Free French after the Allied Invasion of North Africa in 1942?
text: Did you knowthat Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in both licensed and unlicensed versions?
text: Did you knowthat Major League Baseball for Nintendo was the first ever video game licensed by the MLB ?
text: Did you knowthat the 42nd Infantry Division was formed in 1912, fought both on the Eastern and Western Fronts of World War I , and was the last regular division created in the Imperial German Army ?
text: Did you knowthat when John Kuester became head men's basketball coach at Boston University , he was the youngest head coach in NCAA Division I ?
text: Did you knowthat Oscar Monnig donated one of the largest private collections of meteorites to Texas Christian University ?
text: Did you knowthat the location of William D. Brown 's Lone Tree Ferry landing, which prompted the founding of Omaha, Nebraska , was lost to historians until 2004?
text: Did you knowthat Maria Longworth Nichols Storer became the first American woman to found a music festival when she planned and raised money for the now annually celebrated Cincinnati May Festival ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1991 Heinz Barth , former Obersturmführer in the Waffen-SS , was granted a "war victim" pension while in jail for war crimes for involvement in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre of 1944 ?
text: Did you knowthat the early settlers of Savanna, Illinois fended off a Native American attack in a bloodless battle known as the Plum River raid ?
text: Did you knowthat Bob McGrory managed the English football team Stoke City for a period of 17 years, having previously played for the club for 14 years?
text: Did you knowthat Erik Chisholm , former dean and director of the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town , was a Scottish musician often known as " Scotland ’s forgotten composer"?
text: Did you knowthat Cable 243 by the Kennedy administration , which authorised preparations for a coup against South Vietnam 's Ngo Dinh Diem , came after Kennedy's advisers signed off, wrongly believing that Kennedy had already approved?
text: Did you knowthat the Zip to Zap , originally intended as a 1969 spring break alternative in Zap, North Dakota , was the only riot quelled by the National Guard in the history of North Dakota ?
text: Did you knowthat Albert F. A. L. Jones , awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1987 for his services to astronomy , is an amateur astronomer in New Zealand ?
text: Did you knowthat causing a stack buffer overflow is one of the oldest and most reliable methods for hackers to gain unauthorized access to a computer ?
text: Did you knowthat William Joseph Snelling , one of the first American realists , wrote the earliest accurate literary portrayal of the lifestyle of Plains Indians ?
text: Did you knowthat Stillman Creek became ironically known as "Stillman's Run" following the 1832 Isaiah Stillman -led debacle at the Battle of Stillman's Run ?
text: Did you knowthat matron literature is also known as hen lit , a play on the notion that it is chick lit for older women?
text: Did you knowthat under Archbishop Alwyn Rice Jones , the Church of Wales reformed its rules to permit the ordination of women priests and to allow divorcees to remarry in church?
text: Did you knowthat, despite being relatively small compared to other members of its genus, the Black Hawk-Eagle feeds on animals such as monkeys and toucans ?
text: Did you knowthat Byron's poem Darkness was written based on predictions that the sun would burn out on July 18 1816 ?
text: Did you knowthat as a result of the 1832 Sinsinawa Mound raid the residents of Platteville, Wisconsin nearly fled to Galena, Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bulldog Bash , one of the largest motorcycle festivals in Europe , was originally organized by the Hells Angels motorcycle club for bikers ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Arthur Wellesley referred to the Battle of Sabugal as "one of the most glorious that British troops were ever engaged in"?
text: Did you knowthat Lakeridge Health Whitby was the first combination medical hospital and psychiatric hospital in North America ?
text: Did you knowthat Socrates , the last defender of orality in ancient Greece , denounced writing as 'inhuman' because it weakened the mind , the memory and the prospects for finding truth through dialogue?
text: Did you knowthat dead bodies in Britain were often transported along special corpse roads ?
text: Did you knowthat the tiyanak is an infant -like creature from Philippine mythology that is said to attack tourists with its fangs and claws ?
text: Did you knowthat the Black Hawk Tree in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin was so revered that it grew from the middle of a road without being cut down?
text: Did you knowthat the lament of Jheronimus Vinders on the death of Josquin des Prez has been used for a computer game in modern times?
text: Did you knowthat the Spanish Paralympic basketball team were stripped of their gold medals from the 2000 Sydney Games because ten of their players did not have a disability ?
text: Did you knowthat the Double Seven Day scuffle was a fight in Saigon in 1963 between South Vietnamese secret police and journalists covering the Buddhist crisis ?
text: Did you knowthat the first Festival of the Flowers in Medellín , Colombia took place in May in 1957 but was moved to August the following year to celebrate the independence of Antioquia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Top 14 competition in French rugby union will test a change to the sport's bonus point system in the upcoming 2007-08 season ?
text: Did you knowthat 19th-century American poet Thomas Holley Chivers accused his former friend Edgar Allan Poe of plagiarizing " The Raven " and " Ulalume " from his own work?
text: Did you knowthat plant morphology is the science of the physical form and external structure of plants ?
text: Did you knowthat the Italian conquest of British Somaliland was the only successful Italian campaign of World War II without German support?
text: Did you knowthat 19th-century U.S. Congressman Thomas D. English had an ongoing feud with Edgar Allan Poe , which inspired " The Cask of Amontillado "?
text: Did you knowthat in 1924 Baptist minister Herbert Dunnico became the first British Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) to vote against a Labour government?
text: Did you knowthat Hinduism describes the peacock as the vehicle of several gods, including Ganesh , Skanda and Sarasvati ?
text: Did you knowthat one reason for the African Wild Dog name controversy is that endangered African Wild Dogs are being confused with feral domestic dogs?
text: Did you knowthat, in 1964, J. N. L. Baker , Bursar of Jesus College, Oxford became the first member of the University of Oxford to hold the post of Lord Mayor of Oxford ?
text: Did you knowa four-year-old boy lama visiting Singapore 's Amitabha Buddhist Centre caused a stir when over 10,000 people from all walks of life, including some Christians and Hindus , sought blessings from him?
text: Did you knowthat with Calcutta developing in the 18th century, the Janbazar neighbourhood was gradually taken over by the Portuguese, Armenians, half-castes and others, to become a grey area between Black and White Towns?
text: Did you knowthat Salvation Army officer Sir Arthur McIlveen was known for playing a phonograph in the battlefields of World War II , and was the unofficial padre to many brigades ?
text: Did you knowthat the Apple River Fort near Elizabeth, Illinois was completed in about one week during the Black Hawk War of 1832 ?
text: Did you knowthat Susan Kiefel is only the third woman appointed to the bench of the High Court of Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat Antonio Bagioli , musical director for one of the first Italian opera companies to tour the United States, stayed behind for love, rather than continuing on to Cuba ?
text: Did you knowthat the Amman Message was a statement issued by King Abdullah II of Jordan calling for tolerance and unity in the Muslim world ?
text: Did you knowthat the six permutations of the vector (1,2,3) form a hexagon in 3d space , the 24 permutations of (1,2,3,4) form a truncated octahedron in four dimensions , and both are examples of permutohedra ?
text: Did you knowthat Rangayana is the only repertory in India that is sponsored by the government?
text: Did you knowthat the Protector lock , a lock design by A. C. Hobbs , which was said by Hobbs himself to be impossible to crack, was defeated only one or two years after its patenting?
text: Did you knowthat Vasanta Habba , an annual cultural event organised by Nrityagram in Bangalore , is considered to be the classical Woodstock of India ?
text: Did you knowthat chess grandmaster Yasser Seirawan invented a new chess variant in 2007 , Seirawan chess , which features two new pieces to the chess: elephant and hawk ?
text: Did you knowthat Balfour, Orkney was built in 1782 to house tenants evicted to make way for the house now called Balfour Castle , then partly demolished later to improve the castle's view?
text: Did you knowthat Theudimer who signed the Treaty of Orihuela with the Moors conquering Spain was the same Visigothic count who had defended the peninsula from the Byzantine navy a decade or so earlier?
text: Did you knowthat Ion Calvocoressi won an immediate Military Cross in Libya in 1942, and was married to the sister of Ludovic Kennedy for over 60 years?
text: Did you knowthat Epiphanius , Bishop of Pavia from 466 to 496 , often influenced and changed the tides of war as a result of his negotiations with numerous war leaders?
text: Did you knowthat advocates for pregnant patients' rights in the United States urge that a pregnant woman be allowed the company of her partner, friends, and/or family for emotional support during labor and delivery ?
text: Did you knowthat Czech amateur astronomer Kamil Hornoch has discovered over 40 extragalactic supernovae ?
text: Did you knowthat epistemology questions how we know, while agnotology questions why we do not know?
text: Did you knowthat the use of Congreve rockets during the bombardment of Fort McHenry led to the line, "And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air" in the " The Star-Spangled Banner ," the national anthem of the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Prabhat Kalavidaru , a theatre group based in Bangalore , has performed the fairytale Cinderella over 1000 times since 1977 and that a few artists have acted in each of those performances?
text: Did you knowthat according to Allied military intelligence , the 27th Infantry Division was one of the very best German divisions in World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat amygdalohippocampectomy is the removal of the hippocampus and amygdala ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert E. Murray , a partial owner of Crandall Canyon Mine , which recently collapsed trapping six workers, says he was himself once trapped in a collapsed mine for 12 hours?
text: Did you knowthat the Web encyclopedia glbtq.com has almost 2,000 entries categorized into Arts , Literature , and History and Social Sciences —and was called "the Britanni queer Encyclopedia" by The Advocate ?
text: Did you knowthat in his Pulitzer Prize -winning career as a foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times , William Tuohy covered the Tet Offensive , the Fall of Saigon , The Troubles in Northern Ireland , and the fall of the Berlin Wall ?
text: Did you knowthat in order to encourage more people to move from North to South Vietnam during the partition of 1954 , CIA agent Edward Lansdale spread false rumors of a nuclear attack on the Communist north ?
text: Did you knowthat Walter Braithwaite , who was dismissed for incompetence following the Battle of Gallipoli , was later commissioned to write an official report on the effectiveness of British staff officers during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat Howard Judd developed objective measures of the hot flushes experienced in menopause , which were later used to assess the effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy ?
text: Did you knowthat Dele Olojede ' s 2004 reports from Rwanda 10 years after the Rwandan Genocide led him to become the first African-born winner of the Pulitzer Prize ?
text: Did you knowthat the perpetrators of the largest bank robbery in Chinese history spent almost all the US$ 6.7 million they embezzled on lottery tickets , in the hope of winning back even more than they had stolen?
text: Did you knowthat the social reform organization Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz has been labeled "un- Islamic " by upper caste Muslims ?
text: Did you knowthat the Baths of Zeuxippus , built sometime around the 1st century CE in Constantinople , housed over 80 statues of important historical figures like Aristotle , Homer , Plato and Julius Caesar ?
text: Did you knowthat the first trade union in Botswana was not recognised by the ruling Bechuanaland Protectorate until 1964, 16 years after its formation?
text: Did you knowthat British military engineer Major-General Sir John Capper helped develop both airships and tanks during his service with the Royal Engineers ?
text: Did you knowthat actor S.J. Warmington had several supporting roles in Alfred Hitchcock films in the 1930s and was killed when the German Luftwaffe bombed London in 1941?
text: Did you knowthat photography in the Philippines was pioneered by a Spaniard named Sinibaldo de Mas in 1841?
text: Did you knowthat the Solar Sentinels , a NASA spacecraft designed to study the Sun , will have to survive at distances from the Sun only one-quarter of Earth 's distance?
text: Did you knowthat the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board has made rainwater harvesting mandatory to address a critical water shortage?
text: Did you knowthat Cornelius Canis was the music director at the imperial chapel of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V ?
text: Did you knowthat the annual Suicide Race is a horse race where riders charge down a 225-foot (70m) slope at a 62-degree angle into and through the Okanogan River ?
text: Did you knowthat astronomer Russell M. Genet founded the first totally automatic robotic observatory ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tai chi classics are manuscripts and commentaries that are used as standards for the correct study and practice of the art of tai chi chuan ?
text: Did you knowthat Andrew Clemens designed hundreds of elaborate sand bottles from 1880–1886 some of which are valued at more than US$ 25,000 today?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Nicholas Nuttall, 3rd Baronet inherited the Edmund Nuttall engineering business and the family baronetcy in 1941, aged 8?
text: Did you knowthat the first match between the Minnesota Golden Gophers football team and the Wisconsin Badgers took place in 1890, starting the most played rivalry at the top level of NCAA competition?
text: Did you knowthat Jatindramohan Tagore , a theatre enthusiast, music and art-lover, and philanthrophist, was the first Indian to be a member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1898?
text: Did you knowthat the dioptic lens at Start Point lighthouse was the first of this kind to be used by Trinity House ?
text: Did you knowthat John W. Blassingame 's The Slave Community (1972) is one of the first histories of slavery in the United States written from the perspective of African American slaves?
text: Did you knowthat Edward Filene , the American entrepreneur who built Filene's department store and Filene's Basement , also founded the 87-million member US credit union system in 1907?
text: Did you knowthat Holy Cross was the first Roman Catholic church built in Boston ?
text: Did you knowthat Oregon's Salmon River is the only river in the 48 contiguous U.S. states to be a protected National Wild and Scenic River along its entire length?
text: Did you knowthat the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers lost 8,000 of its 15,000 members when Jamaica restructured local government services in 1984?
text: Did you knowthat the Roman emperor Augustus prevented Vedius Pollio from feeding a slave to his lampreys as punishment for breaking a glass?
text: Did you knowthat Bunocephalus is the most species -rich and widespread genus of the South American banjo catfishes ?
text: Did you knowthat Minnie D. Craig , the first female speaker of a legislative body in the US , was elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives just three years after gaining suffrage ?
text: Did you knowthat the 30-mile (50-km) section of Interstate 15 in Arizona through the Virgin River Gorge was the most expensive section of rural freeway by mile?
text: Did you knowthat when 400 RNs unionized with the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals on July 19 , 2007, it was the largest successful organizing effort among nurses in the state since 2000?
text: Did you knowthat an Internalnet of Nanochondria could allow someone to exhale a Utility fog , in effect allowing them to breathe out a needed tool?
text: Did you knowthat South America 's eyeless Micromyzon akamai is the smallest species of banjo catfish ?
text: Did you knowthe South side of Chicago hosted a Black Renaissance that paralleled the Harlem Renaissance ?
text: Did you knowthat pitcher Scott Bailes finished the 1997 MLB season with a career-best earned run average of 2.86 despite having not played in the Major Leagues for four seasons?
text: Did you knowthat the People's Park Complex was the first shopping mall in Singapore to incorporate a large internal atrium , based on the Metabolist Movement of the 1960s?
text: Did you knowthat Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha , in the city of Hubli , is the only unit in India authorised to manufacture and supply the national flag ?
text: Did you knowthat Mary Saunderson played several female Shakespearean characters previously portrayed only by men, including Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Ophelia in Hamlet ?
text: Did you knowthat the Snake River Bridge , in the U.S. state of Washington , was originally built in one location, completely dismantled, and reassembled in its current location?
text: Did you knowthat Richard I's army of Crusaders encountered Saladin's archers, tarantulas , and heat exhaustion on their march to the Battle of Arsuf ?
text: Did you knowthat the Longsnout butterflyfish was given three scientific names by two separate scientists when it was first described in 1860 ?
text: Did you knowthat 141 buildings in Těrlicko were destroyed during the construction of Těrlicko Dam ?
text: Did you knowthat to finance the musical Jelly's Last Jam , producer Margo Lion used a nude sculpture by Henri Matisse , which she inherited at age 18 when her parents died in a plane crash in Egypt , as collateral?
text: Did you knowthat metalwork accessories were the clearest indicator of high-ranking persons in early medieval European dress ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Ian Anstruther, 8th Baronet held three separate baronetcies ?
text: Did you knowthat the foam blocks used to lessen the impact of crashes at Flemington Speedway led to the development of the SAFER barrier ?
text: Did you knowthat before turning to acting, Ulrich Mühe , the star of the Academy Award -winning 2006 film The Lives of Others , was a border guard on the communist side of the Berlin Wall ?
text: Did you knowthat the impresario Ernesto de Quesada invented an imaginary partner when he founded a classical music management agency in Berlin?
text: Did you knowthat Around the World is the oldest magazine still published in the Russian language ?
text: Did you knowthat the introduction of chlorpromazine revolutionized the treatment of schizophrenia in the 1950s ?
text: Did you knowthat Pearl Bank Apartments was the tallest residential building in Singapore when it was completed in 1976?
text: Did you knowthat the once flourishing Indian port of Saptagram faded out as a result of river silting ?
text: Did you knowthat Bahraini runner Tareq Mubarak Taher lost his medals from the 2005 World Youth Championships and the 2006 World Junior Championships because he competed with a falsified age?
text: Did you knowthat the Chinese government requires any living Buddha who wishes to reincarnate to submit a Reincarnation Application ?
text: Did you knowthat epidemiologist and science activist Tara C. Smith writes the award-winning science blog Aetiology , rated by a Nature study as the number 7 science blog out of 46 million blogs studied?
text: Did you knowthat the Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the earliest film studio of " race movies "?
text: Did you knowthat after his mother's death from diabetes , Giuseppe Moscati began experiments using insulin to treat the disease?
text: Did you knowthat the 2007 Brooklyn tornado was the strongest tornado on record in New York City and the first in Brooklyn since 1889?
text: Did you knowthat the song Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday has received more than five million views on YouTube and has generated thousands of covers, remixes, and parodies?
text: Did you knowthat literary critics credit William Shakespeare's Hamlet as a significant contributor to Sigmund Freud's idea of the Oedipus complex ?
text: Did you knowthat Jamaican labor leader Helene Davis-Whyte was anti-union before being elected a delegate in her union ?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas William Bowlby (1818 - 1860), a British correspondent for The Times was captured and imprisoned by the Tartar General Sengge Rinchen whilst on correspondence in Tongzhou , Beijing ?
text: Did you knowthat the bliaut , a fitted gown with flared sleeves , was an important item of both men's and women's fashion in Europe between 1100 and 1200 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Assyrian King Sargon II deported more than 100,000 rebels from Babylon as punishment?
text: Did you knowthat, in his book Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine , Tom Wolfe famously called Jimmy Carter a "Missionary lectern­pounding Amenten-finger C-major chord Sister-Martha-at-the-Yamaha keyboard loblolly piney­woods Baptist"?
text: Did you knowthat Jay U. Gunter , professor of pathology , devoted his life to astronomy after he retired?
text: Did you knowthat the Roman province of Dacia ripensis contained eight fortresses developed by Trajan ?
text: Did you knowthat the Elagabalium was the center of a controversial religious cult established by the Roman emperor Elagabalus ?
text: Did you knowthat ice hockey player Mark Major attained 355 penalty minutes during the 1997-98 AHL season for the Portland Pirates , where he averaged 4.5 penalty minutes a game and still holds the club record?
text: Did you knowthat by 1608, performances of William Shakespeare's plays had become popular enough that his playing company was able to act indoors, in the Blackfriars Theatre ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kannada film Samskara , initially banned by the censor board, won the President 's Gold Medal for the Best Indian Film of 1971?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Ashbel Smith , who served as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War , later established a college for African-Americans known today as Prairie View A&M University ?
text: Did you knowthat the highest mountain in the Far Eastern Fells of the Lake District is High Street , rising up to 828 metres (2,718 ft )?
text: Did you knowthat Paradise Camp is a documentary explaining how Nazi officials fooled the Red Cross into believing the Jews were being well cared for?
text: Did you knowthat the commanding officer of American soldier Matthias W. Day wanted to court-martial him for the actions that instead won him the Medal of Honor during the Indian Wars ?
text: Did you knowthat Somapura Mahavihara , a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bangladesh, was one of the best known Buddhist viharas in South Asia since King Dharmapala erected it in the 8th century?
text: Did you knowthat Manuel Benito de Castro assumed the Presidency of Cundinamarca , with the condition that he would be allowed to leave Congress at a certain time to feed his dog?
text: Did you knowthat South Korean actress Jang Jin-young was only the second winner of two Blue Dragon Film Awards for Best Actress, having won in 2001 for Sorum , and again in 2003 for Singles ?
text: Did you knowthat Elihu Embree published the first newspaper in the United States devoted to abolishing slavery until his death in 1820?
text: Did you knowthat Feliks Kon started the Polish language section at Radio Moscow , had a Russian ship named in his honor, and the only member of the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee to die naturally?
text: Did you knowthat the Finnish company YIT was responsible for the construction of the Finnish National Opera house, the Helsinki Fair Centre and Cirrus , the tallest high-rise building in Finland ?
text: Did you knowthat the residents of the suburb of Cameron Park in Newcastle , Australia , voted to rename the suburb after a local speedway ?
text: Did you knowthat Alexander Eugen Conrady abandoned his native Germany in disgust, settled in England, and there designed optical instruments used by the British in World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat the forthcoming CBS sitcom pilot Worst Week will be the third attempt to adapt the British series The Worst Week of My Life in the United States , having previously been attempted by Fox and NBC ?
text: Did you knowthat German artist and cartographer Augustin Hirschvogel is the first person known to have used triangulation in surveying ?
text: Did you knowthat Buttercup Dickerson , who debuted for the 1879 Cincinnati Reds , is credited as the first Italian-American to play Major League Baseball ?
text: Did you knowthat a report of high school students laughing during Schindler's List inspired a film-maker to create the 2003 documentary Marion's Triumph about a child Holocaust survivor?
text: Did you knowthat while other nations have marine aviators, only the United States Marine Corps has their own dedicated aviation arm ?
text: Did you knowthat Anastasius of Alexandria , despite being forbidden to enter the city of Alexandria , helped arrange for the unification of the Coptic Church and the Church of Antioch ?
text: Did you knowthat Steve Hamilton's A Cold Day in Paradise is the only book to win both the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award and the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for best first novel?
text: Did you knowthat Syādvāda is a Jain Doctrine of Postulation which provides the teaching or instruction from which a postulate or axiom is provided to determine the truth of the matter?
text: Did you knowthat Patriarch Alexander II of Alexandria died trying to escape from the Umayyad government after having been brought before it for refusing to have a lion branded on his hand?
text: Did you knowthat one of the stories of the Jain teacher Haribhadra relates how he ordered some Buddhist monks to leap into a vat of hot oil for killing his nephew?
text: Did you knowthat 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner David Leeson was once shot in the face in Panama while covering the 1988 ousting of Manuel Noriega ?
text: Did you knowthat in the peak days of Iranian migration to Japan , Iran Air flights to Tokyo were fully booked several years in advance?
text: Did you knowthat Caspar David Friedrich 's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog was one of several of his paintings that were based upon the concept that self-expression was to be bonded with physical and spiritual isolation?
text: Did you knowthat Andrew Saul heads the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board , which manages the $158 billion Thrift Savings Plan for 3.7 million soldiers and federal employees?
text: Did you knowthat despite two centuries of exploration nobody has found evidence of the legendary silver mine of Jonathan Swift ?
text: Did you knowthat the largest score and winning margin between the All Blacks and France at rugby union was a 61–10 victory by the All Blacks at Westpac Stadium in 2007?
text: Did you knowthat the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy showed religious tolerance towards its Arian , Chalcedonian Christian and Jewish citizens?
text: Did you knowthat at the 1832 Battle of Apple River Fort , a group of about 25 militia fought off Chief Black Hawk's warriors with the assistance of the nearby settlement's women?
text: Did you knowthat after Manuel Rodríguez Torices , an agitator for Colombian independence, died in the gallows , his body was shot, beheaded , dismembered , and his head displayed in a metal cage?
text: Did you knowthat Tekka Mall is the first and largest modern shopping mall in Singapore 's Little India ?
text: Did you knowthat towns across the United States and Australia have memorials dedicated to the birth of their first white child ?
text: Did you knowthat The Great Day of His Wrath , an oil-on-canvas by John Martin , is based on Revelation 6:12-17 in the Bible , which vividly describes the end of the world?
text: Did you knowthat Liang Wern Fook , a pioneer of Singapore 's xinyao movement, has composed over 200 songs?
text: Did you knowthat the football (soccer) stadium at Tehelné pole , in Bratislava , was the largest in the former Czechoslovakia ?
text: Did you knowthat the motorcycle racing couple of Jagat and Anita Nanjappa once completed a rally in which Anita sat on the bike's petrol tank to reduce the weight on the flat rear tyre?
text: Did you knowthat the Romanian crude oil tanker M/T Independenţa burnt for weeks in 1979 after colliding with a freighter?
text: Did you knowthat Ben Kuroki was the only Japanese-American in the U.S. Army Air Force to serve in combat operations in the Pacific during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Mother Frances Hospital, a part of Trinity Mother Frances Health System , opened a day early in 1937 due to the explosion of a nearby school?
text: Did you knowthat the band of Potawatomi that carried out the Indian Creek massacre kidnapped and ransomed two teenage girls during the attack?
text: Did you knowthat the song " See See Rider " was first recorded in 1924 by Ma Rainey and reached the top of the rhythm and blues charts twice in versions by Bea Booze and Chuck Willis ?
text: Did you knowthat Tommy Sale scored 282 goals during 14 years at the English Football club Stoke City F.C. ?
text: Did you knowthat Joshua Reynolds ' Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers recently sold for £2.5 million (US $4.4 million) despite the artist's limited success during his lifetime?
text: Did you knowthat then- President of the United States Franklin Pierce and all of his cabinet attended the second wedding of playwright Anna Cora Mowatt ?
text: Did you knowthat Alfred Tennyson 's 1847 lyric poem " Tears, Idle Tears " is written such that readers often don't notice its lack of rhyme ?
text: Did you knowthat the Santa Fe courthouse ghost , the video of which got more than 80,000 hits on YouTube , appeared to be a bug ?
text: Did you knowthat Colne Cricket Club is the oldest club in the Lancashire League ?
text: Did you knowthat curling is the provincial sport of Saskatchewan ?
text: Did you knowthat W.N.T. Beckett was presented the Royal Victorian Order for services to the British Royal Family during a cruise?
text: Did you knowthat Dax Holdren and Stein Metzger never won a domestic AVP event as partners despite winning silver at the 2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships ?
text: Did you knowthat Mozart never finished his composition for voice and piano to celebrate the Great Siege of Gibraltar during the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you knowthat lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia is a syndrome secondary to autoimmune and other lymphoproliferative disorders ?
text: Did you knowthat although Plunketts Creek in Pennsylvania was named for a suspected Loyalist during the American Revolution , by 1838 his name was so controversial that Plunketts Creek Township was named for the creek instead?
text: Did you knowthat the Jack of the President of Poland was originally intended only for usage on naval vessels in the presence of the commander-in-chief?
text: Did you knowthat 24 Royal Marines cadets aged 10 to 13 were killed when a double-decker bus ploughed into their marching column in the 1951 Gillingham bus disaster , setting a new British record of fatalities in a road accident?
text: Did you knowthat the Sangam poems , an important source of ancient Tamil history , were composed by a total of 473 poets over a period of a few centuries?
text: Did you knowthat the title of ‘ Raja ’ was bestowed on Subodh Chandra Mullick by the people after he donated Rs. 100,000 in 1906 for the National Council of Education which later became Jadavpur University ?
text: Did you knowthat Timothy Christian School was forced to move from Cicero, Illinois to enroll African American students?
text: Did you knowthat Buffalo Grove was the first settlement in Ogle County , Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat some rocks at the Kupgal neolithic site , near Bellary , India , produce gong -like musical tones when struck with boulders ?
text: Did you knowthat Joe Hauser was the first player ever to hit 60 or more home runs in a season twice in a professional baseball career?
text: Did you knowthat the 457 visa is the most common way for employers to temporarily sponsor skilled overseas workers to come to Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat Constantine Possiet was the first Russian minister to support the project of a Trans-Siberian Railway ?
text: Did you knowthat legend has it that Benjamin I of Alexandria was escorted to heaven by Athanasius of Alexandria , Severus of Antioch , and Theodosius I ?
text: Did you knowthat Coluccio Salutati , Chancellor of Florence during the War of the Eight Saints , disseminated Republican propaganda throughout the Papal States ?
text: Did you knowthat snail races usually start with the words "Ready, Steady, Slow!"
text: Did you knowthat the 1979 arrest of Raymond Lee Harvey and Osvaldo Ortiz for being part of an alleged plot to assassinate President Jimmy Carter drew parallels to the name of Lee Harvey Oswald ?
text: Did you knowthat Uncle Tupelo singers Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy got into several physical altercations during the promotional tour for Anodyne ?
text: Did you knowthat the first tamaya , built in 1599 in the Toyokuni Shrine in Kyoto for Toyotomi Hideyoshi , was destroyed by the Tokugawa ?
text: Did you knowthat Protestant and Orthodox minorities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth gained significant concessions from the Catholics during the election sejm of 1632 ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1989, the Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo was the first race car to overcome Porsche 's seven-year dominance of the IMSA GT Championship 's GTP category?
text: Did you knowthat the trolley believed to have been used in the film A Streetcar Named Desire is housed at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum ?
text: Did you knowthat in his rookie year, Major league baseball pitcher Matt Kilroy set a record of 513 strikeouts , which still stands 121 years later?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese writer Makoto Oda wrote a book on his travels through Europe and Asia on a budget of a dollar a day?
text: Did you knowthat Michelle Morgan , a child abuse victim murdered by her stepmother at age four, was featured on an episode of Cold Case Files ?
text: Did you knowthat Vitalian of Capua refused to return to his post as bishop after being thrown into the Garigliano River in a leather bag?
text: Did you knowthat at 34 months, Georgia Brown became the youngest ever female member of Mensa ?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish Home Army planned an uprising in Krakow in 1944 to complement the Warsaw Uprising ?
text: Did you knowthat Marion Harris was the first widely known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs?
text: Did you knowthat British soldier and poet Patrick Hore-Ruthven met his wife while rusticated from Cambridge for biting a policeman's nose?
text: Did you knowthat in the Smolensk War , the Russian Tsardom and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth tried various Western military innovations and strategies for the first time?
text: Did you knowthat the elephants Castor and Pollux were shot for food during the Siege of Paris in 1870 and their trunks sold as a delicacy?
text: Did you knowthat Ardencaple Castle is used as a navigational aid for shipping on the Firth of Clyde ?
text: Did you knowthat Mary Wollstonecraft was born the same year that Voltaire 's Candide and Adam Smith 's The Theory of Moral Sentiments were published?
text: Did you knowthat Oregon Supreme Court justice George Van Hoomissen wrote the decisions in its most cited case and the overturning of a voter approved ballot measure ?
text: Did you knowthat Edward Kozłowski , the second Polish-American bishop , died after just a year in office?
text: Did you knowthat the urban villages found in some of China's major cities are inner city slums with Chinese characteristics?
text: Did you knowthat Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope was killed by the opening shots of the Battle of Magersfontein ?
text: Did you knowthat El Güegüense , a theatrical play written anonymously in the 16th century , is regarded as the first literary work of Nicaragua ?
text: Did you knowthat the pitch notation developed by Hermann von Helmholtz for his work on acoustics and is one of two main systems for describing musical pitch?
text: Did you knowthat the Banner of Poland , despite its 1000-year old history, is not an official national symbol ?
text: Did you knowthat the former head of the Royal Australian Navy , George Francis Hyde , was the first Australian naval officer to become an honorary aide-de-camp to King George V ?
text: Did you knowthat the Swiss Vetterli rifles , a series of Winchester -derived repeating rifles , were Europe's most advanced service rifles at the time of their introduction in 1869?
text: Did you knowthat the Greek frigate Hellas , the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy , was burned by the Admiral Andreas Miaoulis during a civil war in 1831?
text: Did you knowthat through 1981, Arizona 's silver mining industry had produced a cumulative total of 490 million troy ounces of silver ?
text: Did you knowthat two people died outside of San Francisco 's Pier 26 during the 1934 Bloody Thursday Riots ?
text: Did you knowthat novelist Amelia Barr 's most successful body of work is called the "Cherry Croft novels", after the summer house where she wrote them?
text: Did you knowthat Oppa may have been both Bishop of Seville and King of the Visigoths at the time of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania ?
text: Did you knowthat Tranby House is the oldest surviving brick building in Perth , Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat Francis Julius LeMoyne built the first crematory in the United States and was its third crematee?
text: Did you knowthat Bob Case named the cyclone known as The Perfect Storm ?
text: Did you knowthat the RevoPower motorized bicycle kit was inspired by a visit to a bicycle taxi manufacturer?
text: Did you knowthat in 1904, H. Chandler Egan won the U.S. Amateur golf championship , and was a member of both the U.S. college  championship and the gold medal -winning United States Olympic golf teams ?
text: Did you knowthat Filipino Ilustrados originally demanded that the Philippines become a province of Spain instead of independence ?
text: Did you knowthat Major Derek Cooper and his wife, Pamela , assisted with refugee relief efforts from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 to the Siege of Beirut in 1982 , and established the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians in 1984?
text: Did you knowthat novelist Wilhelm Stepper-Tristis actively supported the Hungarian Soviet Republic , lived part of his life as a vagabond , and probably died in a Nazi concentration camp ?
text: Did you knowthat Catholic bishop and Visigothic political leader Masona built the first hospital in Spain and endowed it with farms to provide its patients with food?
text: Did you knowthat it has not rained at the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning since they began performing a virgin ritual ?
text: Did you knowthat the 850-ton Belle Tout lighthouse was pushed 17 metres (56 feet) away from a cliff face to save it from coastal erosion ?
text: Did you knowthat the first reference to toilet paper was made in the year 589 AD by the Chinese scholar Yan Zhitui ?
text: Did you knowthat the Beyoncé song " Suga Mama " features a sample of the song "Searching for Soul" by funk band Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers ?
text: Did you knowthat Soviet diplomat Pyotr Voykov was assassinated in Warsaw for his part in the killing of Tsar Nicholas II and his family?
text: Did you knowthat high levels of ultraviolet colors on the neck of a male Platysaurus broadleyi , a type of lizard in the Cordylidae family, indicate dominance over other males?
text: Did you knowthat humans have lived near Nevada 's Swan Lake Nature Study Area since 400 AD?
text: Did you knowthat Joaquín Camacho , an agitator for the Independence of Colombia , was executed by firing squad when he was 50 years old, blind, and paralyzed?
text: Did you knowthat over 15,000 men of the battle-hardened 10th and 11th Divisions of the Imperial German Army were demobilised following World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat Stanisław Patek , dropped from the Russian Empire 's list of attorneys for defending political dissidents , was later involved in the creation of a new Polish legal system ?
text: Did you knowthat RMS Dunottar Castle transported Winston Churchill , Frederick Russell Burnham , Robert Baden-Powell , and Lord Roberts , among others, to and from Cape Colony , South Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat in place of execution, Saint Cerbonius was exiled after the bear brought in to kill him instead licked his feet?
text: Did you knowthat Archbishop Gennady of Novgorod commissioned the first complete Slavic translation of the Bible ?
text: Did you knowthat an image of Tesslynn O'Cull , a child abuse victim who was murdered by her stepfather at the age of two, was used in the Stop the Abuse poster for Oregon ?
text: Did you knowthat St. Paul Roman Catholic Church in St. Paul, Oregon is the oldest brick building in the Pacific Northwest ?
text: Did you knowthat while working for the Department of Justice attorney Jacob Tanzer worked on the case that led to the movie Mississippi Burning ?
text: Did you knowthat there are 59 conjectured reconstructions of the Olympia Master 's work on the East pediment of the Temple of Zeus ?
text: Did you knowthat some species of the catfish genus Cetopsis are only known by a single specimen?
text: Did you knowthat Hutti Gold Mines Limited , located in the state of Karnataka , is the only company in India that produces gold by mining and extracting it from its ore?
text: Did you knowthat following the Battle of Waddams Grove members of the Illinois militia returned to Galena with the scalps of two Sauk warriors?
text: Did you knowthat the Yangzhou riot of 1868 almost led to a Sino - British war because many Chinese believed that English missionaries were stealing children?
text: Did you knowthat 17.5% of the murders in Colombia in 1993 were vigilante "social cleansings" of gays , transvestites , and prostitutes ?
text: Did you knowthat the New England Seamount chain was once at or above sea level off the Massachusetts coast?
text: Did you knowthat Robin Starveling , a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , may be a satire of one of Queen Elizabeth's suitors?
text: Did you knowthat Runme Shaw , philanthropist and founder of the Shaw Organisation , started his Singapore movie business in a makeshift timber cinema known as The Empire in 1927?
text: Did you knowthat Bob Meusel was best known as a member of the fabled " Murderer's Row " of the New York Yankees championship teams of the 1920s ?
text: Did you knowthat Henry Wallis ' The Stonebreaker shows a dead labourer who appears to be resting?
text: Did you knowthat ACS Chemical Biology is the first peer-reviewed scientific journal to publish 3D interactive chemical structures replicating printed figures?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish Army in France continued to fight in the Battle of France despite Pétain ’s call for armistice and demobilization ?
text: Did you knowthat Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar , king of Mysore , set up a factory to manufacture Mysore Sandal Soap because World War I prevented any export of sandalwood ?
text: Did you knowthat Town Creek Indian Mound near Mount Gilead , North Carolina , preserves a ceremonial mound built by the Pee Dee with 563 burials?
text: Did you knowthat the four catfish species of the genus Pseudolithoxus are only found in the Amazonas and Bolívar states of Venezuela ?
text: Did you knowthat in Puerto Rico alone, about two people die and 25 more are injured each year from celebratory gunfire ?
text: Did you knowthat even though Jefferson Smith had been shot three times he managed to escape an attack by Native Americans at Blue Mounds Fort ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2006 , the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency arrested an ex-bodyguard of Kim Jong-il for trading fake aphrodisiacs ?
text: Did you knowthat Russian émigré Jerzy Bulanow captained the Poland national football team through the 1920s and early 1930s?
text: Did you knowthat Colonel Johnston de Peyster raised the first U.S. flag over Virginia's Capitol Building since the state's secession in 1861?
text: Did you knowthat Archbishop Vasily Kalika of Novgorod was not appointed to his post, but was elected by the popular assembly ?
text: Did you knowthat Albertan politician Joseph Unwin was arrested for producing an official leaflet urging the "extermination" of opposition leader David Milwyn Duggan and Senator William Griesbach ?
text: Did you knowthat two Italian towns competed over who would receive pieces of Saint Paternian — one ultimately receiving a finger , while the other took the rest?
text: Did you knowthat Odile Crick sketched the DNA double helix for the 1953 paper in Nature by her husband Francis Crick and James Watson announcing its discovery?
text: Did you knowthat the 1758 British construction of Fort William in the heart of populous Gobindapur incited the whole colony to migrate  north of Calcutta ?
text: Did you knowthat folktales claim that 19th century Ethiopian poet Gebre Hanna spread rumors of his own death to trick Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia into sending money for a proper funeral?
text: Did you knowthat professional wrestler Norvell Austin was part of the first mixed race bad guy tag team in the Southern United States ?
text: Did you knowthat, when playing the lead in Alexander Nevsky , actor Nikolai Cherkasov wore a replica of the helmet lost by Alexander's father in the Battle of Lipitsa ?
text: Did you knowthat the term Art Deco was derived by abbreviating the words Arts Décoratifs in the title of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes ?
text: Did you knowthat Black Entertainment Television comedy series We Got to Do Better , had its name changed from Hot Ghetto Mess amidst allegations of enforcing negative stereotypes of African Americans ?
text: Did you knowthat the buke shohatto , a Japanese code of conduct for feudal lords , served as the foundation of the baku han system of government?
text: Did you knowthat the Chester Roman Amphitheatre was the largest amphitheatre in Roman Britain , seating over 8,000 people?
text: Did you knowthat during the 537 Siege of Rome , the defenders used the statues from the Mausoleum of Hadrian as missiles?
text: Did you knowthat Wally Tatomir , head equipment manager of the Carolina Hurricanes , holds four patents on ice hockey -related equipment?
text: Did you knowthat while the majority of Benin 's formal workforce are represented by trade unions , nationwide use of child labour and forced labour continues?
text: Did you knowthat despite being heavily outnumbered, Chief Black Hawk's forces held off the American militia at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights long enough for many civilians to escape?
text: Did you knowthat the group who buried the only casualty of the Buffalo Grove massacre were killed the following day?
text: Did you knowthat John Singleton Copley 's oil-on-canvas The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 is one of Britain’s largest oil paintings ?
text: Did you knowthat Jacques de Morgan in 1887-89 unearthed 576 ancient graves around Alaverdi and Akhatala, near the Tiflis - Alexandropol railway line?
text: Did you knowthat The Princess Anne was elected Chancellor of the University of London in preference to Nelson Mandela and Jack Jones in the first contest in the history of the position?
text: Did you knowthat 19th century cartoonist and artist Edward Jump gained a status of renown in the U.S. states of California and Washington, D.C. for his satirical caricatures?
text: Did you knowthat the childhood home of Emily Carr , one of Canada's most famous painters , is open to the public today as a museum known as Emily Carr House — and still contains the family Bible ?
text: Did you knowthat Polish-American journalist and politician Michał Kruszka was at constant odds with the American Catholic Church , with reading his newspaper declared sinful and many lawsuits being filed by both parties?
text: Did you knowthat Bob Massie set a world record by being the first player to take 16 wickets on his Test debut in 1972?
text: Did you knowthat Étienne-Gaspard Robert terrified audiences with his pioneering phantasmagoria shows and greatly influenced others with his ballooning feats?
text: Did you knowthat the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 killed four people and inspired Peter Benchley 's novel Jaws (1974)?
text: Did you knowthat the pinhole camera model is an ideal camera without lensing aberrations?
text: Did you knowthat the West End Street Railway fired Cyrus S. Ching in 1901 after he was nearly electrocuted on the job, only to appoint him manager two months later?
text: Did you knowthat the Russian sailing ship STS Sedov features a glass-domed banquet hall with a stage and a movie theatre ?
text: Did you knowthat Psalm 83 is cited by the Jehovah's Witnesses as a proof of Jehovah being God's personal name?
text: Did you knowthat the Boot Monument at Saratoga National Historical Park donated by John Watts de Peyster is the only American war memorial that does not bear the name of its honoree?
text: Did you knowthat the 10-day battle for the Festung Kolberg in March 1945 was one of the most intense urban battles of the Polish First Army , destroying most of the city?
text: Did you knowthat it has been suggested that using Incan agriculture technologies (such as the andenes ) again, would solve the malnutrition problems of the modern Andean peoples for many decades?
text: Did you knowthat Old College , the first building on Northwestern University's campus, stood for over 100 years, despite being built as a temporary structure?
text: Did you knowthat fetal movement begins as early as seven weeks after conception ?
text: Did you knowthat the character of Philostrate , the Master of Revels in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , may have been created as a way to poke fun at play censorship ?
text: Did you knowthat Georgia Governor Carl Sanders declared May 16 , 1964 to be George C. Griffin day, because of his service to Georgia Tech ?
text: Did you knowthat the Alfathi brand of red meat from Nortura combines the strict Islamic rules concerning food preparation for slaughter with Norwegian cuisine ?
text: Did you knowthat Congressman Albert Richard Thomas brought the Johnson Space Center to Houston, Texas in 1961?
text: Did you knowthat the recent treasure recovery by Odyssey Marine Exploration prompted international media attention and controversy with the Spanish government over the rights to the treasure?
text: Did you knowthat at the age of 10, Megan Zheng became the first Singaporean to win a Golden Horse Award ?
text: Did you knowthat during the American Civil War John Breckinridge Castleman was sentenced to death for spying, but his execution was suspended by Abraham Lincoln ?
text: Did you knowthat the genus Prietella includes two threatened species of eyeless, unpigmented catfish adapted to living in caves?
text: Did you knowthat the Trent Codices are the largest single music manuscript source of the entire 15th century ?
text: Did you knowthat the Profane Oaths Act 1745 , which criminalised "profane cursing and swearing" in the United Kingdom , was not fully repealed until 1967?
text: Did you knowthat while anarcho-syndicalists are usually a minority in their respective labor movements , the anarcho-syndicalist General Confederation of Labour was not only the largest but the only union in post- World War I Portugal ?
text: Did you knowthat any two friends who live together more than three years may be legally considered partners in an adult interdependent relationship in Alberta , just like spouses in a common-law marriage ?
text: Did you knowthat Gabriel Garcia Márquez based his book News of a Kidnapping on the fight by Colombian politician Alberto Villamizar against kidnappings in that country?
text: Did you knowthat the Former Singapore Badminton Hall was marked as a historical site by Singapore 's National Heritage Board in 1999, as it held two Thomas Cup tournaments and was the vote counting station for a landmark 1962 referendum ?
text: Did you knowthat the Makuleke region of Kruger National Park is a natural history area with almost 75% of the diversity of the whole park?
text: Did you knowthat the April 1920 Polish-Ukrainian agreement became the legal justification of the Kiev Offensive against Bolshevik Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat a galloping horse must breathe with every stride , due to the movement of the gut contents pushing forward and back on the diaphragm ?
text: Did you knowthat Artabanes was a 6th century Armenian noble who served both the Sassanid Persians and the Eastern Roman Empire , and became involved in a plot against Emperor Justinian I ?
text: Did you knowthat the famous black-and-white striped shirts of Italian football club Juventus were based on the kit of English Notts County , replacing the club's initial pink and black colours in 1903?
text: Did you knowthat the Brand Junction shopping centre development in Melbourne , Victoria , is located on land known from 1937 until 1962 as the Janefield Colony for the Treatment of Mental Defectives?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Creede printed ten editions of William Shakespeare's plays, several of them poorly-written bad quartos ?
text: Did you knowthat even though the 1952 steel strike lasted 53 days and cost the U.S. $4 billion in lost economic output, it was settled on nearly the same terms offered by the union at the strike's beginning?
text: Did you knowthat Polycarp was a fictional Cajun character who hosted a local children's TV program in south Louisiana and lived in the swamp ?
text: Did you knowthat the proposed underground car park at the northern end of Lal Dighi will be the biggest in Calcutta and is located in a heritage zone?
text: Did you knowthat the launch of the protected cruiser Chitose in 1898, one of the few ships in the Imperial Japanese Navy built by the United States , was filmed by Thomas Edison ?
text: Did you knowthat Canada 's syndicalist One Big Union kept itself alive for some time by running an illegal lottery in its weekly bulletin?
text: Did you knowthat the planned Marina Coastal Expressway is Singapore 's most expensive expressway , and will cost S$ 2.5 billion for the 5- kilometre route?
text: Did you knowthat United States Indian Agent Felix St. Vrain had his head, hands, feet and heart removed during the St. Vrain massacre ?
text: Did you knowthat the writer and actor, Henryk Grynberg , is known as the " chronicler of the fate of the Polish Jews "?
text: Did you knowthat congressman Cyclone Davis earned his moniker after demolishing an opponent in a debate ?
text: Did you knowthat Dang Hyang Nirartha founded the Hindu priesthood in Bali ?
text: Did you knowthat the St. Eugene Mine in Moyie, British Columbia produced ten million dollars worth of ore between 1895 and 1905 and was considered to be the most important silver –lead mine in Canada ?
text: Did you knowthat Admiral Louis R. de Steiguer was a legendary disciplinarian and martinet whose funeral instructions directed his former flag secretary to bury him with his hindquarters facing the Pentagon ?
text: Did you knowthat the period of Colonial Assam began with the Treaty of Yandaboo ?
text: Did you knowthat the siege of Anatoly Pepelyayev ' s forces in the Pacific port of Ayan in June 1923 was the last military action of the Yakut Revolt and the Russian Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat singer Larry Stewart originally moved to Nashville, Tennessee in search of a career in baseball, but instead ended up as the lead singer of country-pop band Restless Heart ?
text: Did you knowthat the coach in which King Philip II of Portugal travelled from Spain to Portugal in 1619 is preserved at the National Coach Museum in Lisbon ?
text: Did you knowthat the Irish artist Gerald Davis dressed as Ulysses protagonist Leopold Bloom and led Bloomsday parades?
text: Did you knowthat Perna viridis , a fast-growing bivalve mussel native to the Asia-Pacific , is an invasive species that harbors deadly toxins and biofouls submerged structures?
text: Did you knowthat Stanley Evans was sacked after six weeks as a junior minister of food when he said "no other nation feather-beds its agriculture like Britain "?
text: Did you knowthat Polish partisan Adam Lazarowicz , organizer of an assassination attempt on Nazi official Hans Frank , refused the Order of the Red Star and joined the anti-Soviet resistance ?
text: Did you knowthat Harry Newbould was the first-ever manager of Derby County F.C. ?
text: Did you knowthat Polish bishop of Płock Antoni Julian Nowowiejski , murdered by German Nazis in Soldau concentration camp , became one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Omaha gained an important place in the history of the First Transcontinental Railroad against the will of President Abraham Lincoln ?
text: Did you knowthat the ongoing Belgian political crisis has led to popular demands for the partition of Belgium ?
text: Did you knowthat 17-year-old Emily Benn , granddaughter of veteran politician Tony Benn , is the youngest ever Labour Party parliamentary candidate , and would, if elected, become the youngest British MP since the Reform Act 1832 ?
text: Did you knowthat the long-defunct firm of E. C. Hazard and Company has been credited with pioneering the U.S. manufacture and distribution of processed canned , jarred and bottled food products?
text: Did you knowthat the Norman church in Pawlett , Somerset has a stained glass window showing Christ blessing children who are in modern dress and holding a teddy bear and toy boat?
text: Did you knowthat the kidnapping of Edward Cudahy, Jr. caused a national uproar in 1903 because Cudahy's father, a meatpacking magnate in Omaha, Nebraska , paid the ransom request?
text: Did you knowthat the Royal Air Force base RAF Honiley was closed in March, 1958 and is now being used by Prodrive Ltd. to build a motor sport facility called "The Fulcrum"?
text: Did you knowthat the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association is a Christian sect founded by Ruben Ecleo in 1965 on the Philippine island of Dinagat , that is notorious for a 2002 gun  battle with police that left 17 dead?
text: Did you knowthat the City & South London Railway , opened in 1890, was the world's first major deep tube and electric railway and ran under the Thames from the City of London to Southwark ?
text: Did you knowthat New Jersey 's Museum of Early Trades and Crafts houses a collection of over 8,000 tools and artifacts used before 1860 that had been collected by Agnes and Edgar Land over a 50-year span?
text: Did you knowthat Nikolaus Riehl researched the production of uranium in Nazi Germany , nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union , and the civil use of nuclear power in West Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat Alexander Hamilton's son William S. Hamilton helped recruit Native Americans to join the U.S. against Sauk Chief Black Hawk during the 1832 Black Hawk War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ten Great Buildings were constructed in ten months, for the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic of China ?
text: Did you knowthat neotectonics is the study of geologically recent tectonics , but a clear consensus does not always exist over how far back in time "geologically recent" is?
text: Did you knowthat in the late 1980s, as many as 50 percent of Argentina 's thermal power plants had to be shut down due to lack of maintenance, causing a supply crisis?
text: Did you knowthat Max Ernst's 1921 painting The Elephant Celebes combined Surrealism with the collage effects of Dada ?
text: Did you knowthat James Vaupel has set up an international database to study supercentenarians ?
text: Did you knowthat popular 1950s game show Down You Go is one of the only U.S. television series to air on all four networks of television's Golden Age : ABC , NBC , CBS and DuMont ?
text: Did you knowthat in the Sandeshkhali region of West Bengal more than 100 women get trafficked to red-light areas in Mumbai and Pune each year?
text: Did you knowthat you stole the cookie from the cookie jar ?
text: Did you knowthat the Spanish shepherd Diego Marín Aguilera attempted flight in a manned glider on May 15, 1793 after jumping from a castle at Coruña del Conde ?
text: Did you knowthat the England national football team is to train on the football pitch of the Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College , as it is the only one identical to one in Russia on which they are due to play in October 2007?
text: Did you knowthat the 1881 Warsaw pogrom was caused by panic after pickpockets raised a false fire warning, resulting in 29 deaths by stampede ?
text: Did you knowthat the founders of the Kingdom of Mysore may have been descendents of the Hoysala Dynasty or fugitives from the Vijayanagara Empire court?
text: Did you knowthat the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy is responsible for America 's Strategic Petroleum Reserve ?
text: Did you knowthat the upcoming British film Hippie Hippie Shake by Beeban Kidron , which follows the 1971 obscenity trial of the Australian editor Richard Neville of satirical magazine Oz , was in development hell for nearly ten years?
text: Did you knowthat despite being organised on St. Andrew's Day , the first official international football match did not result in a home win?
text: Did you knowthat because of its karez well system , an ancient water system using gravity , Turfan became a prosperous Silk Road oasis city located in the second deepest depression in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Rancho Los Encinos near Los Angeles was founded in  1797, and raised cattle , sheep and wheat , and was a stagecoach stop, before becoming a real estate subdivision with Los Encinos State Historic Park at its heart?
text: Did you knowthat Jan Roskam wrote his book on airplane war stories, based on his own experiences, to remind aircraft engineers of the consequences of their mistakes?
text: Did you knowthat its central location as a transportation hub for the United States led to the branding of Omaha, Nebraska as  the "Gateway City of the West"?
text: Did you knowthat huge numbers of otakus made pilgrimages to Washinomiya Shrine after it was featured in the popular anime and manga series Lucky ☆ Star ?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Wolfe 's 1989 criticism of contemporary American literature, " Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast " , began a feud with authors John Updike and John Irving that has continued ever since?
text: Did you knowthat Samuel Pegge , a Derbyshire antiquarian , published a book compiled by Richard II 's cooks called Forme of Cury ?
text: Did you knowthat hackers and rogue administrators often seek to eliminate evidence of their unauthorized activities by manipulating the Microsoft Windows Security Log ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chicago City Council revoked the McCarthy Building 's Chicago Landmark status to make way for the controversial redevelopment of Chicago 's Block 37 in the Chicago Loop ?
text: Did you knowthat the Beasts of Satan were a heavy metal band and suspected satanic cult in Italy that committed three notorious ritual murders before being arrested?
text: Did you knowthat Mikołaj Hussowczyk ' s  book The Song about Bison is considered to be the first large fiction work about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ?
text: Did you knowthat the first public toilets in England were invented by George Jennings for the Great Exhibition of 1851?
text: Did you knowthat Prof. Fuller Albright (1900-1969) made numerous discoveries in endocrinology (hormonal medicine), including the link between menopause and osteoporosis ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sun Ning Railway Company , South China 's first significant railway, was dismantled in December 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War to deny its use by the Japanese military?
text: Did you knowthat the planned South Beach complex in Singapore will incorporate four conservation buildings, where the first National Service enlistment was held in 1967?
text: Did you knowthat when Nebraska completed construction of its stretch of Interstate 80 in 1974 , it became the first state in the U.S. to complete its mainline interstate system ?
text: Did you knowthat the German children's series Bibi Blocksberg has been criticised because it can give a negative view of politics to children?
text: Did you knowthat Tanjong Katong Primary School has the most diverse student population among all government-operated schools in Singapore , as its students come from 39 countries?
text: Did you knowthat the winnings from the 1975 Yellow Sam betting coup were paid out in the form of over a hundred sacks of IR£ 1 notes ?
text: Did you knowthat although Ronald Bird was on the staff of Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1934, his first-class debut came twelve years later for their rivals Worcestershire ?
text: Did you knowthat the earliest bones of the rare Golden Guernsey goat , dating from 2000 BC, were found in dolmens in Guernsey on the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy ?
text: Did you knowthat the sale of the Libyan Arabian Cement Co. was the country's first initial public offering of shares and the biggest sale of a Libyan state-owned business?
text: Did you knowthat nearby town officials caused an uproar when they moved highway markers from the Lincoln Highway in Omaha, Nebraska to their local roadway after the highway was rerouted there in 1930?
text: Did you knowthat Hugo Award -winning science fiction fan and editor Earl Kemp served a year in prison for publishing an illustrated edition of the Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography ?
text: Did you knowthat the last surrender of the American Civil War took place aboard the British HMS Donegal after the CSS Shenandoah completed a 9,000 mile voyage specifically to do so?
text: Did you knowthat plant physiology is the subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology , of plants ?
text: Did you knowthat a scathing obituary of British author Lord Michael Pratt in The Daily Telegraph called him "an unabashed snob and social interloper on a grand scale", who habitually outstayed his welcome?
text: Did you knowthat during his tenure as curator at Université Laval , François-Xavier Bélanger built a thousand-specimen strong collection of Canadian birds from the ground up?
text: Did you knowthat the 22,200 meter Shimizu Tunnel was the world's longest tunnel when it was completed in 1982?
text: Did you knowthat even though the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly was held in the house of statesman Carsten Anker , he was not present himself?
text: Did you knowthat Henri II 's Edict of Châteaubriant (1551) assigned the regulation of the French press to the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris ?
text: Did you knowthat Bykivnia , a former village, now part of the Ukrainian capital Kiev , was the burial site of thousands of enemies of the Soviet power ?
text: Did you knowthat the Defense (Emergency) Regulations first enacted in British Mandate Palestine in 1945 were incorporated into Israel 's domestic legislation in 1948 and remain in force to this day?
text: Did you knowthat long-time University of Oregon track coach Bill Hayward also played lacrosse for the world champion Ottawa Capitals?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka wore a costume made of lit lightbulbs—her 1956 work Electric Dress —to exhibitions?
text: Did you knowthat a total of 4156 films were submitted to the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and 349 of those, from 55 countries, were selected?
text: Did you knowthat an edition of Alpin , a supplement of the Bangladeshi newspaper Prothom Alo , was banned by the caretaker government for publishing a controversial cartoon in relation to the Islamic prophet Muhammad ?
text: Did you knowthat after Robert William Hughes shot and wounded future Virginia Governor William E. Cameron , he was appointed a federal judge by Ulysses S. Grant ?
text: Did you knowthat during the siege of Constantinople in 626 AD, 12,000 Byzantine cavalry successfully fought off 80,000 Avars ?
text: Did you knowthat the Grant Park Music Festival , a Chicago tradition since its 1931 introduction by Anton Cermak , is America's only remaining free, outdoor concert series featuring classical music ?
text: Did you knowthat China's leadership for the next five years will be unveiled at the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China , which will open on October 15 in the Great Hall of the People ?
text: Did you knowthat after the defeat of his British Band in the 1832 Black Hawk War , Chief Black Hawk was taken captive and exhibited to large crowds throughout  the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Ivor Bulmer-Thomas , having lost his position on the Historic Churches Preservation Trust (for which he denounced the Archbishop of Canterbury as having "held a pistol to my face while the Dean of Gloucester plunged his dagger into my back"), founded his own, more intransigent, committee, the Friends of Friendless Churches ?
text: Did you knowthat a graffiti artist from the Bronx named PHASE 2 invented the famous "bubble letter" style of graffiti writing when tagging trains on the New York City Subway system in the early 1970s ?
text: Did you knowthat more than 75% of kraft pulp is bleached without chlorine ?
text: Did you knowthat Luník IX , a borough in Košice , Slovakia , although originally built for army and police officers, now houses the largest Roma community in Central Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat Wurzbach Parkway , an unnumbered freeway in San Antonio, Texas , does not connect directly to the city's other freeways?
text: Did you knowthat by using automatic number plate recognition , a CCTV network known as ANPR , police in the United Kingdom are able to track the movement of cars in  real time and store vehicle movement information  for five years?
text: Did you knowthat four-time Moscow chess champion Nikolay Grigoriev won ten awards in an endgame study composing tourney in 1935?
text: Did you knowthat the Ukrainian Marines were from May 1996 until 1998 part of the Ukrainian National Guard, but were transferred to the Navy in 1998 ?
text: Did you knowthat Juan de Arphe y Villafañe was a renowned engraver, goldsmith , artist, anatomist and author?
text: Did you knowthat autobiographer Lois Mark Stalvey ' s 1960s anti-racist activism in Omaha, Nebraska was responsible for her husband's job transfer to Philadelphia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Stiefelgeiss , a breed of goat , became nearly extinct in the 1980s but is making a comeback?
text: Did you knowthat the leaders of the failed coup in Poland in 1919 were arrested by their intended troops?
text: Did you knowthat Matthew Ricketts was the first African-American to graduate from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and be elected to the Nebraska Legislature ?
text: Did you knowthat the photographer duo of Krupakar-Senani were kidnapped by the bandit Veerappan , while filming the movie Wild Dog Diaries in India ?
text: Did you knowthat the Annie Larsen affair led in 1917 to one of the longest and most expensive trials in America at the time?
text: Did you knowthat lime was diluted in separated milk instead of water  for Vileišis Palace construction?
text: Did you knowthat the Danae class cruiser HMS Durban ended her wartime career supporting the Battle of Normandy as a blockship off the Normandy coast in 1944?
text: Did you knowthat The Most Reverend Whakahuihui Vercoe was the first Bishop of Aotearoa to be elected by its Maori congregation, the first Maori to become Archbishop of New Zealand , and the first Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit ?
text: Did you knowthat by leading by one more lap in the final NASCAR race of the 1992 season , Alan Kulwicki won the 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship over Bill Elliott ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1897 Pattern British Infantry Officer's Sword was carried into battle by a young Bernard Montgomery , was used in service against the Dervishes in Sudan , and is still the ceremonial sidearm for many British regiments?
text: Did you knowthat Samuel Hieronymus Grimm , a Swiss painter, toured England for twenty years leaving 2,662 sketches in the British Library -- including the only known image of the coronation of Edward VI ?
text: Did you knowthat John Joseph Briggs , the author of a history of the original Melbourne (in Derbyshire ), corresponded regularly with Charles Darwin regarding the fins of a fish?
text: Did you knowthat the Suevic king Hermeric abdicated his throne due to a prolonged seven-year illness?
text: Did you knowthat the Yue Hwa Building used to house a popular boutique hotel , and was the tallest building in Singapore 's Chinatown when it was completed in 1936?
text: Did you knowthat although in present-day India the former princely states and their princes have lost that status, the Raja of Rajnagar still wears his ancestors' tattered royal attire twice a year?
text: Did you knowthat the Jay Pritzker Pavilion , an outdoor bandshell and great lawn, uses an innovative sound system that recreates an indoor concert hall sound experience?
text: Did you knowthat the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , today a prominent academic journal in statistics, had as its first work a simple door-to-door survey of occupations in Manchester ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kallawaya healers travel around South America , often on foot and on ancient Inca trails, in search of traditional herbs ?
text: Did you knowthat Major Sir Hamish Forbes, 7th Baronet was awarded the MBE (Military Division) for his many escape attempts while a prisoner-of-war in Germany from 1940 to 1945, and was later patron of the Lonach Highlanders ?
text: Did you knowthat Karl Emil Nygard was the first Communist mayor in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat a series of miscommunications and withdrawals by Allied forces during the Battle of Kranji allowed the Japanese forces to gain strategic footholds which led to the fall of Singapore in 1942?
text: Did you knowthat the city of Puerto Suárez in eastern Bolivia is supplied by the Brazilian power grid , not the Bolivian ?
text: Did you knowthat architect Andreyan Zakharov rebuilt the Admiralty in Saint Petersburg , with symmetrical wings to its central tower, making it a symbol of the city?
text: Did you knowthat after the November Uprising in partitioned Poland , the government of the Russian Empire offered a bounty for one of the Polish leaders, Jan Czyński ?
text: Did you knowthat Eastern Orthodox icon expert Father Egon Sendler is highly respected by  many Eastern Orthodox scholars , despite being a Roman Catholic ?
text: Did you knowthat Yugoslavian boxing champion Marijan Beneš played the violin in his youth, and published a book of poems after the end of his career?
text: Did you knowthat Augie Hiebert not only built Alaska 's first television station , KTVA , but also founded the state's first FM radio station , KNIK-FM ?
text: Did you knowthat the Norwegian roller coaster Speed Monster features a unique loop around an escalator ?
text: Did you knowthat Mark Knight , a political cartoonist for the Herald Sun , created Leuk the Duck, a mascot for charity named after leukemia ?
text: Did you knowthat in Chinua Achebe 's novel Arrow of God , an African chief's refusal to allow his villagers to harvest yams causes them to convert to Christianity?
text: Did you knowthat research has shown the 80-plus miles of trails in Omaha , Nebraska increase homeowners' perceptions of the value of their houses ?
text: Did you knowthat, although only a junior officer, Akiyama Saneyuki developed the basic strategy for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War based on his firsthand observations of the U.S. Navy in the Spanish-American War ?
text: Did you knowthat the engravings of French Renaissance artist Jean Duvet exhibit horror vacui , or a fear of leaving space unfilled?
text: Did you know Benjamin Stephenson's indentured servants made over 100,000 bricks during the construction of his house in Edwardsville, Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat Peter Adolf Thiessen , who received a Stalin Prize for his work on the Soviet atomic bomb project , had joined the Nazi Party as early as 1925?
text: Did you knowthat South African anti- conscription activist Nan Cross once climbed a tank at a weapons exhibition and attached stickers to it reading: " Arms are for hugging , not killing "?
text: Did you knowthat the 2002 ITC Inferno , a fire that destroyed a six-storey business complex, claimed sixty lives, and injured more than a hundred in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam , was started by poor welding ?
text: Did you knowthat after Oregon's Point Adams Lighthouse changed colors to reduce confusion, it caused a ship to run aground in 1881?
text: Did you knowthat the success of the Lifeline Express in providing medical services to remote places in India has seen similar projects being initiated in other countries including China , Zimbabwe , and Bangladesh ?
text: Did you knowthat Giuseppe Maggiolini , a cabinet-maker from late 18th century Milan , also made marquetry flooring for royal villas in Lombardy ?
text: Did you knowthat Dick Mann was the first motorcycle rider to win AMA's career Grand Slam by winning on short track , mile, half mile, Tourist Trophy, and road racing race tracks ?
text: Did you knowthat the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo had its origins in a humble Jesuit mission known today as Pátio do Colégio ?
text: Did you knowthat Locust Grove , Samuel F. B. Morse 's home near Poughkeepsie , was the first Hudson Valley estate to be designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark ?
text: Did you knowthat Spanish art critic Juan Eduardo Cirlot , of the Dau al Set school, gained international fame for his Dictionary of Symbols ?
text: Did you knowthat Mzoli's , a popular Cape Town eatery, nightclub and tourist attraction, in the township of Gugulethu , South Africa , started off as a butcher's shop operating from a garage?
text: Did you knowthat the Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat is only the second species in its genus and the 26th endemic bat species from the Philippines to be described?
text: Did you knowthat the gorge in China 's Flaming Mountains ,  near the ruins of  the once busy oasis city  of Gaochang ,  was an important pass on the ancient trade route , the Silk Road , skirting the deadly Taklamakan Desert ?
text: Did you knowthat Justice Hans Raj Khanna was the lone dissenter when the Supreme Court of India ruled that those arrested during India 's repressive Emergency period from 1975 to 1977 would have no rights to habeas corpus ?
text: Did you knowthat the AMP NHL Winter Classic is scheduled to be the first regular-season outdoor National Hockey League game in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat Pierre Monatte was one of the few French trade-unionists and members of the French Left to oppose the Union sacrée national bloc during World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat Oregon's Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge was the first National Wildlife Refuge established west of the Mississippi River and will be a hundred years old next month?
text: Did you knowthat Otton de Grandson participated in three separate military expeditions to the Holy Land : the Ninth Crusade (1270–1272), the Siege of Acre (1291), and a Templar - Hospitaller offensive in Cilicia (1298)?
text: Did you knowthat at the peak of the 1979 student protests in Nepal , radicals tried to humiliate moderate student leaders by painting their faces black, garlanding them with shoes, and parading them on a push-cart through the streets of Kathmandu ?
text: Did you knowthat partially as a result of the mythical " bomber gap " between the USA and USSR, the USAF built an enormous fleet of over 2,500 jet bombers to deter what turned out to be only twenty Soviet aircraft?
text: Did you knowthat Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited is the only company in India authorised to manufacture the indelible ink which is used in elections to prevent fraudulent voting?
text: Did you knowthat the appearance of an outline of monkeys on a tree in Singapore drew large crowds as devotees believed that the images are a manifestation of the Monkey God and Hanuman ?
text: Did you knowthat the last chief of Clan MacQuarrie sold off his clan lands in Scotland and joined the British Army , at age 68, and fought in the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Leopoldov Prison in Slovakia was once the largest prison in the Kingdom of Hungary ?
text: Did you knowthat Stamford House in Singapore , at first an office building, was for a time in the early 20th century an annex of Raffles Hotel due to a shortage of hotel rooms?
text: Did you knowthat Linda Chavez-Thompson was the first woman, colored person , and Hispanic elected an officer of the AFL-CIO ?
text: Did you knowthat the hearing for the Nanoor massacre case has stalled because of the defendants ' repeated failure to appear in court ?
text: Did you knowthat missionary Josiah Parrish drove the first spike for the Oregon and California Railroad , and had a land dispute reach the U. S. Supreme Court ?
text: Did you knowthat Alfred D. Jones , the original surveyor of Des Moines, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska , was known for delivering mail from his stovepipe hat as the first postmaster of Omaha?
text: Did you knowthat medieval Liubice , the capital of Prince Henry of the Obotrites , was the predecessor to Lübeck , Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pentapolis of North Africa is believed to be the birthplace of Saint Mark the Evangelist ?
text: Did you knowthat poet, film producer and journalist Pritish Nandy is credited with opening India 's first cyber cafe in 1996?
text: Did you knowthat around a third of New Zealanders claim no religious affiliation , including the leaders of both main political parties ?
text: Did you knowthat the boulevards in Omaha, Nebraska are part of a 1889 system designed by Horace Cleveland that Omaha city planners are currently starting to reutilize to guide suburban street design?
text: Did you knowthat the Katsuyama Eiheiji Line was forced to transfer operation companies because of two head-to-head train collisions within a year?
text: Did you knowthat after Evelyn Waugh brought a priest to anoint him on his deathbed, lapsed Catholic Hubert Duggan was reconciled to the church, an event Waugh fictionalised in Brideshead Revisited ?
text: Did you knowthat to further the career of future Naval Minister Takarabe Takeshi ,  close friend Takeo Hirose asked Admiral Yamamoto Gonnohyoe , father of Takeshi's betrothed, to veto the marriage?
text: Did you knowthat Samuel Parker was a lawmaker in the Provisional , Territorial , and State governments of Oregon ?
text: Did you knowthat Turkish-German professional boxer Hülya Şahin , the undefeated junior flyweight world champion, is the only female member of her club Universum?
text: Did you knowthat Philippe de Champaigne's 1662 painting Ex-Voto was a votive offering in gratitude for the miraculous cure of his daughter?
text: Did you knowthat 12,000-year-old Paleo-Indian artifacts , including a rare fluted point , have been found in a quarry near Goshen, New York ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian amateur astronomer Gregg Thompson has been acknowledged by supernova hunters for publishing comparison charts of the brightest galaxies ?
text: Did you knowthat architect John M. Van Osdel drafted the plans for the first architect-designed house in Chicago, formed Chicago 's first architectural firm and ensured passage of Chicago's first building codes ?
text: Did you knowthat the death of Eugene Ejike Obiora , a naturalized Norwegian citizen,  was  caused by positional asphyxiation when he was placed in a chokehold , then handcuffed on his stomach during arrest ?
text: Did you knowthat Florence Boulevard in Omaha, Nebraska was originally called the "Prettiest Mile in Omaha Boulevard" when it was designed by Horace Cleveland in 1892?
text: Did you knowthat 18-year-old online poker phenom, Annette_15 , became the youngest person to ever win a World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event?
text: Did you knowthat of the nine children born of Martina, Heraclius ' wife and niece, four died in infancy, one had a twisted neck and another was deaf & dumb?
text: Did you knowthat Fort Runyon , built to defend Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War , was almost the same size, shape, and in almost the same place as the Pentagon , built 80 years later?
text: Did you knowan inscribed tombstone of a political dissident , Tan Chay Wa , sparked off a court case in Singapore which eventually made international news in 1983?
text: Did you knowthat Warsaw 's Carmelite Church was the site of Fryderyk Chopin 's first job?
text: Did you knowthat Spec Keene ' s Willamette University football team was stranded in Honolulu for two weeks following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor ?
text: Did you knowthat Roosevelt Raceway , the first night-time harness racing track, saw the first mobile starting gate ?
text: Did you knowthat wolf collars with long spikes, now widely adopted by the BDSM community, were originally used to protect dogs from wolf attacks?
text: Did you knowthat the Ghurni clay dolls of West Bengal have been inaugurated by Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev ?
text: Did you knowthat every Byzantine Emperor under the Angeloi dynasty was overthrown in a violent coup d'état?
text: Did you knowthat the area known as the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield has been inhabited by at least five Native American tribes?
text: Did you knowthat Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas , one of the founders of the Party of National Progress , was accused of book smuggling during the Lithuanian press ban?
text: Did you knowthat despite being hit by two torpedoes that broke her in half, only one life was lost in the sinking of the Liberty ship SS James B. Stephens ?
text: Did you knowthat Piłsudski's Mound , built in 1937, is the youngest and largest of the four mounds of Kraków ?
text: Did you knowthat the Newton Food Centre is promoted by the Singapore Tourism Board for sampling Singaporean cuisine , despite allegations of overpricing and mediocre food quality by locals?
text: Did you knowthat scientists are concerned that the Bangali River in northern Bangladesh may merge with the Jamuna River and cause a loss of 100,000 hectares of land in the region?
text: Did you knowthat Carnegie Medal -winning children’s author Berlie Doherty has written the libretti for three operas ?
text: Did you knowthat the James Bruce Round Barn was designed with a distinctive single hip roof style because of the inability of many carpenters to build a self-supporting roof?
text: Did you knowthat director Zhang Yuan 's 1999 film, Seventeen Years was the first Chinese film allowed to film inside a Chinese prison?
text: Did you knowthat the 371-acre Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge provides nesting for 1.2 million seabirds —more than California and Washington combined?
text: Did you knowthat the Pyramid of Senusret I was built in single-cell units instead of all at once, as was the norm?
text: Did you knowthat Major League Baseball pitcher Sam Zoldak ' s only home run in his major league career did not count after the game was cancelled because of rain?
text: Did you knowthat Welshman Sir Gore Ouseley arranged for Azerbaijan to become part of the Russian Empire in 1814?
text: Did you knowthat former Italian Prime Minister Mario Scelba was known as the "Iron Sicilian"?
text: Did you knowthat Lucas Bols is the oldest extant Dutch distillery ?
text: Did you knowthat Duleep Singh , the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire , was the first member of the Sikh diaspora ?
text: Did you knowthat Fox Point State Park , a Delaware State Park which opened in 1995 along the Delaware River , was built atop a hazardous waste site?
text: Did you knowthat zero is even ?
text: Did you knowthat the rare Northern colletes bee was recently found to be thriving in the unique machair seaside habitat of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland ?
text: Did you knowthat Alexandru Papana competed in bobsleigh for Romania at two Winter Olympics and later was involved in test flying the P-61 Black Widow ?
text: Did you knowthat in Greek mythology , Arion (or Areion) was an extremely swift immortal horse that could talk?
text: Did you knowthat the railways of Jamaica were the first built outside of Europe and continental North America and the first in a British colony ?
text: Did you knowthat cryptologist Harry Hinsley 's realisation that German weather ships were the Achilles' heel of the Enigma code led to the capture of the Lauenburg ?
text: Did you knowthat Theodosios (Hanna) of Sebastia is the second Palestinian Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem ?
text: Did you knowthat Lois DeBerry is the first African-American woman speaker pro tempore of the Tennessee House of Representatives ?
text: Did you knowthat the planetary nebula luminosity function is an accurate standard candle ( luminosity measurement ) outside Earth 's home galaxy , the Milky Way , despite an average error factor of two for distance estimates to planetary nebulae within this galaxy ?
text: Did you knowthat Swan and Maclaren is the oldest architectural firm in Singapore ?
text: Did you knowthat the Fama-DFA Prize is named after University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor Eugene Fama , a financial economist whose publications are the foundation of efficient market theory ?
text: Did you knowthat Rachel Carson was so disappointed in the Oscar-winning film adaptation of her 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us that she never again sold film rights to her work?
text: Did you knowthat the Crown Colony-class light cruiser HMS Nigeria made one of the earliest captures of German Enigma material ?
text: Did you knowthat the chairman of the Tennessee House of Representatives ' Judiciary Committee, Rob Briley , was arrested for vandalism and driving under the influence of alcohol after a 100 mph car chase?
text: Did you knowthat fossilised crinoid columnals from Lindisfarne which were strung together as a necklace or rosary became known as St Cuthbert's beads ?
text: Did you knowthat one reviewer of Mary Wollstonecraft 's Rights of Men apologized for his harsh review once he discovered a woman had written the book?
text: Did you knowthat Rush Street , now known for its nightlife , has had four bridges over the Chicago River connecting the Loop to the Near North Side and once handled 50% of Chicago 's north-south traffic ?
text: Did you knowthat the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Army is the only airmobile unit of the Ukrainian Airborne Forces which has BMD-1 and BMD-2 airborne infantry fighting vehicles?
text: Did you knowthat the annual Gorolski Święto is the largest cultural and folklore festival in the Zaolzie region of Eastern Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat hotels in Mannum, South Australia served patrons in boats from the second floor when floodwaters rose during the 1956 Murray River flood ?
text: Did you knowthat Kentucky governor William S. Taylor was implicated in the assassination of William Goebel , his political rival, and fled to Indiana to avoid indictment ?
text: Did you knowthat the efforts by Taiwan to distinguish itself from mainland China have their roots in the Cold War of the 1950s?
text: Did you knowthat Chinatown, San Francisco 's waiter Edsel Ford Fong is fondly remembered for calling patrons "retarded" and "fat", slamming food on tables, groping female patrons, telling patrons to "sit down and shut up" and clearing tables before diners were finished?
text: Did you knowthat the Palace under the Four Winds in Warsaw was owned by an heir to an enormous fortune who went bankrupt after the lost war of independence with Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat the ancient Egyptians believed that a false door allowed the spirits of the dead  to receive offerings and to enter and exit the world of the living?
text: Did you knowthat after spending a billion dollars developing borane -enriched " zip fuels " to power a new generation of jet engines , the US Air Force realized the entire idea was unworkable and had to abandon it all in 1959?
text: Did you knowthat the Crown Colony-class light cruiser HMS Nigeria made one of the earliest captures of German Enigma material ?
text: Did you knowthat Libya 's Sirte Basin —which in some places lies more than 47 metres below sea level —contains roughly 80% of the country's known crude oil reserves?
text: Did you knowthat pianist Glenn Gould later criticized his own 1956 recording Bach: The Goldberg Variations , which had made him instantly famous?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Federal Government 's largest provider of HIV / AIDS services, the Ryan White Care Act , is named after Ryan White , a teenager who was expelled from his Indiana middle school in 1985 for having AIDS?
text: Did you knowthat in 2006, nearly 50,000 people were marooned in Labhpur and surrounding areas of Birbhum district in West Bengal because of floods?
text: Did you knowthat the military doctrine of the cult of the offensive was one of the main causes of World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat Buddhist monk Ekai Kawaguchi was the first Japanese citizen to travel to Nepal ?
text: Did you knowthat Harriet Howard was not only Louis Napoleon 's mistress, but also financed his successful 1851 coup d'état ?
text: Did you knowthat the supply of natural gas and electricity in New Orleans , Louisiana ceased as a result of the General Strike of 1892 , plunging the city into darkness for four nights?
text: Did you knowthat the Doctorfish tang has the largest range of its genus , which includes 38 species from three oceans ?
text: Did you knowthat the Plaza film theatre in Bangalore , India was modelled after the Piccadilly Circus in London ?
text: Did you knowthat Parke County, Indiana bills itself as the Covered Bridge Capital of the World because it has more covered bridges than any other county in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Igo Sym , one of the most popular actors of interbellum Poland , was executed in 1941 by the Polish resistance for cooperating with German occupiers?
text: Did you knowthat Clayton Jacobson II , a banker from Arizona , is credited with inventing the personal water craft ?
text: Did you knowthat the memo calling for the 1907 International Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam went unsigned by French anarchists , as many rejected the very idea of organized collaboration?
text: Did you knowthat an advertising spot immediately following Xinwen Lianbo , a daily news programme shown by most terrestrial television stations in mainland China , can sell for an estimated US$ 100,000?
text: Did you knowthat Colonel Gerardo Huber , a former DINA agent in charge of buying military supplies for the Chilean Army , disappeared in 1991 shortly after weapons disguised as humanitarian aid were discovered in Budapest ?
text: Did you knowthat investment analyst Martin Fridson is often referred to as the "Dean of high-yield debt "?
text: Did you knowthat ADP-ribosylation , a posttranslational protein modification , is involved in the actions of several bacterial toxins in diseases such as cholera and whooping cough ?
text: Did you knowthat Vera Pezer , current Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan , is a four-time Canadian Ladies' curling champion and a member of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you knowthat a woman , chamberlain Urszula Mayerin , was among the most influential figures at Sigismund III Vasa 's court , signing official state documents in his name and receiving foreign ambassadors during his illness?
text: Did you knowthat Jay Barbree is the only journalist to have covered every manned space flight in the United States , beginning with Alan Shepherd 's maiden voyage in 1961 ?
text: Did you knowthat between 1872 and 1876 the buildings of Tampico, Illinois ' central business district were destroyed by fire three times and tornado once?
text: Did you knowthat Duke University Fuqua School of Business Professor , financial economist and regular CNBC Closing Bell guest, John Graham was nominated for four Journal of Finance best paper awards before winning?
text: Did you knowthat the Classic Veracruz culture of pre-Columbian Mexico was obsessed with human sacrifice as part of the Mesoamerican ballgame ?
text: Did you knowthat The Harvey School , a rural school in New York , was established to give an education to the founder's handicapped son?
text: Did you knowthat Garth Butcher was a member of Canada 's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League ?
text: Did you knowthat Harvard Business School associate professor and financial economist Randolph Cohen has published research on the valuation of baseball star Alex Rodriguez ?
text: Did you knowthat the Arly-Singou ecosystem shelters the largest remaining population of lions in West Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat the Irish politician the O'Gorman Mahon commanded a Chilean fleet, fought thirteen duels , and won a by-election aged 87?
text: Did you knowthat Norman Williams shot down eight German aircraft while serving as an air gunner in Halifax bombers in the Second World War , becoming the most highly decorated non-commissioned officer in the RAAF and its only " ace " who was not a fighter pilot?
text: Did you knowthat Fischer Black Prize , first awarded in 2003, is the finance analogue to the Clark Medal in economics and the Fields Medal in mathematics , introduced in 1947 and 1936, respectively?
text: Did you knowthat a Lesser Caymans iguana was the longest living Cyclura lizard ever at thirty-three years?
text: Did you knowthat The Encyclopædia of Ball Juggling contains completely cross-referenced A to Z article indexing , complemented by Charlie Dancey ’s light-hearted writing and cartoon illustration style?
text: Did you knowthat St. Anne's Church in Warsaw was the place of execution of Bishop Józef Kossakowski during the Warsaw Uprising of 1794 ?
text: Did you knowthat according to "Believe It or Not", Florian ZaBach played " The Flight of the Bumblebee " faster than any known violinist?
text: Did you knowthat the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in the southwestern United States was established in 1939 to protect Desert Bighorn Sheep and the name Kofa is a contraction of King of Arizona ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1745 William Cleghorn won a University of Edinburgh position after his rival, David Hume , was described by the town council as amoral , an atheist , and a sceptic ?
text: Did you knowthat Saskatchewan Deputy Minister of Agriculture F. H. Auld ' s personal papers are among the few records that chronicle the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s in Alberta ?
text: Did you knowthat cultivated Christmas trees are susceptible to such pests and diseases as the Balsam woolly adelgid and sudden oak death ?
text: Did you knowthat Kellom Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska is the alma mater of Fred Astaire , Gale Sayers and Bob Gibson , as well as home to youth programs once led by Whitney Young ?
text: Did you knowthat Kumaran Pathmanadan , former chief procurer of arms for the Tamil Tigers rebel group, used over 200 passports and at least 23 pseudonyms to evade Interpol , CIA and MI-5 ?
text: Did you knowthat the first public interest litigation case to be heard in the Karnataka High Court in India was to prevent the demolition of the very building from which it was functioning?
text: Did you knowthat after the retreat of the Wisconsin glaciation , postglacial Lake Michigan used to drain through Mackinac Falls , which are now completely submerged under Lake Huron ?
text: Did you knowthat Peggy McKercher was the first woman to serve on the Corman Park Council ?
text: Did you knowthat each year over 1000 research papers are submitted for academic publishing in the Journal of Finance ( finance 's most cited journal) of which only five are awarded Smith Breeden or Brattle Prizes ?
text: Did you knowthat Patience Strong was the pen name by which the English poet Winifred Emma May was best known?
text: Did you knowthat the annual delivery of fur tribute to the Tsar was followed by a state-sponsored feast and distribution of royal gifts to the Siberian natives ?
text: Did you knowthat Omaha, Nebraska's Krug Park was the site of a 1930 roller coaster accident, the worst in U.S. history?
text: Did you knowthat New York State Route 20SY is the only route in the state to have ever had the "SY" suffix?
text: Did you knowthat Time predicted 1973 to be a " gilt -edged year" for the stock market, just three days before the stock market crash of 1973–4 began—wiping 45 percent off the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average ?
text: Did you knowthat Fort Delaware State Park , once a Civil War prisoner-of-war camp , is now home to one of the largest heronries north of Florida ?
text: Did you knowthat though Theodore Thurston Geer was the tenth Oregon governor , he was the first native Oregonian to serve in that office?
text: Did you knowthat Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell resigned as a government whip to sue Auberon Waugh who claimed that his translation of Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward was unauthorised, and helped lead to Solzhenitsyn's arrest?
text: Did you knowthat German physicist Walter Gerlach helped prove the fact that electrons spin ?
text: Did you knowthat prospector Reuben D'Aigle missed finding a huge gold deposit by only a few feet, and his boot print was found pressed into the vein when the Porcupine Gold Rush started in 1909 ?
text: Did you knowthat during Ted Snyder's six-year tenure as dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business , the business school has relocated two of its four campuses ?
text: Did you knowthat the crest for the World Association of Ugly People features a reclining man smoking a pipe with the slogan: "Ugliness is a virtue, beauty is slavery"?
text: Did you knowthat Edward Kerr Turner was a delegate for Saskatchewan agriculture in both national and international affairs?
text: Did you knowthat Germany is the European leader in Christmas tree production ?
text: Did you knowthat the Lyre River provides the only spawning grounds for the endemic Beardslee trout ?
text: Did you knowthat the second redaction of Lithuanian Chronicles started the myth of Lithuanian Roman origin?
text: Did you knowthat Mitică , a character in the works of Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale , has become, especially in Transylvania , a stereotype of both Bucharesters and Wallachians ?
text: Did you knowthat University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor Toby Moskowitz won the Fischer Black Prize as the top finance researcher under 40 after a 4 year hiatus with no worthy candidates?
text: Did you knowthat Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was indicted for the 1976 assassination of Spanish diplomat Carmelo Soria ?
text: Did you knowthat until the 1930s and 1940s people in the United States and Canada obtained their Christmas trees mostly from native forests ?
text: Did you knowthat the 17th century Jesuit Church in Warsaw was one of many buildings razed to the ground by the Germans after the Warsaw Uprising ?
text: Did you knowthat the Core Pacific City mall in Taipei , Taiwan , is the largest mall in Asia at 204,190 square meters of total floor space?
text: Did you knowthat Nathaniel Ames , publisher of the first annual American almanac , avoided arrest by replacing his vituperative cartoon of local judges with a biblical quotation?
text: Did you knowthat the hills in the south of the English Lake District are known as the Southern Fells and they include England's highest peak?
text: Did you knowthat the Italian sculptor Giovanni Duprè began his career carving fakes of Renaissance works of art?
text: Did you knowthat anti-ganglioside antibodies may cause peripheral neuropathies and that their levels correlate with Guillain-Barré syndrome ?
text: Did you knowthat yellowtail trumpeter , a coastal marine fish tolerant to a very wide salinity range, because of its poor taste is considered a nuisance in Australia by many fishermen who target bream in estuaries?
text: Did you knowthat the Underfall Yard takes its name from a unique system of sluices designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to remove silt from Bristol Harbour ?
text: Did you knowthat the coat of arms of Catalonia is one of Europe's oldest, dating back to the 1150 seal used by Ramón Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona ?
text: Did you knowthat an Irish immigrant to America who settled on New Jersey 's Pettys Island in 1851 was later proclaimed " king " of the island?
text: Did you knowthat the appearance of several Nero impostors may have given rise to the passage of the Book of Revelation about the Beast , which is mortally wounded and then miraculously heals?
text: Did you knowthat Italian film director Marco Ferreri hired actor Michel Piccoli almost immediately after the two first met for his art house masterpiece Dillinger Is Dead ?
text: Did you knowthat three different languages that used to be spoken in Nicaragua are now extinct ?
text: Did you knowthat because of low rainfall, poor soils , and the growth of the oil industry , Libya 's domestic agriculture can only cover 25% of the country's food demand and accounts for just 5.6% of the GDP ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1998 Puerto Rican general strike paralyzed the island for two days, when 500,000 people took to the streets to protest against privatizing the Puerto Rico Telephone Company ?
text: Did you knowthat the original scatological lyrics of Leck mich im Arsch , a canon composed by Mozart , were only rediscovered in 1991?
text: Did you knowthat in 1526, with the heirless death of Janusz III Mazowiecki , last of the Masovian Piasts , the Duchy of Masovia was reunited with Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat Kentucky governor Ruby Laffoon bestowed the honorary title of " Kentucky colonel " the most times in the state's history, including KFC founder "Colonel" Harland Sanders ?
text: Did you knowthat many of the specific allergens of wheat causing gluten allergies have not yet been characterized?
text: Did you knowthat in order to fight in the Spanish Civil War , American biologist Clement Markert stowed away aboard a freighter?
text: Did you knowthat the embankment dam at Backwater Reservoir was the first in Britain to employ chemical grouting in order to form a waterproof barrier beneath the embankment?
text: Did you knowthat while performing the Viking ritual of Heitstrenging Harald Hairfair swore not to cut or comb his hair until he conquered all of Norway ?
text: Did you knowthat James Jurin used statistical studies to show the probability of death from smallpox vaccine was significantly less than from smallpox ?
text: Did you knowthat the Illinois Freedom Bell was submerged underwater in Geneva Lake for over 40 years before being surfaced and adopted as the official freedom bell of Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat William Frankena "played an especially critical role in defense of fundamental academic freedoms during the McCarthy era " while chair of the philosophy department at the University of Michigan ?
text: Did you knowthat the website HardwareZone initiated the first court case in Singapore over a domain name , which was settled after just four days?
text: Did you knowthat the father of The Simpsons ’ creator Matt Groening was a founding director of the American Advertising Museum in Portland, Oregon ?
text: Did you knowthat the Storz , Krug , Willow Springs and Metz breweries were regarded as Omaha, Nebraska 's "Big 4" breweries?
text: Did you knowthat former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney's Memoirs: 1939-1993 criticises another Canadian PM, Pierre Trudeau ?
text: Did you knowthat the Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park in Scotland covers an area of 108 square miles of Inverclyde , North Ayrshire and Renfrewshire , stretching from Greenock in the north, down the coast to Largs and West Kilbride and inland to Dalry and Lochwinnoch ?
text: Did you knowthat the wife of troubadour Raimon Jordan joined the sect of the Cathars , while the troubadour himself declared in a poem that he would give up eternity in Paradise for one night with his desired lady (not his wife)?
text: Did you know Amri Hernandez-Pellerano , a Puerto Rican electronics engineer and scientist, designed the power systems electronics for the NASA WMAP mission?
text: Did you knowthat the Independent Royalist Party of Estonia ' s election campaign costs for the 1992 elections of Riigikogu , the first post- Soviet occupation parliamentary elections in Estonia , were 25 Estonian cents per pair of seats?
text: Did you knowthat poet Forceythe Willson believed he was clairvoyant and that he could serve as a medium for communication with the dead?
text: Did you knowthat Epimachus of Athens , an ancient Athenian engineer, constructed the Helepolis , which remains the largest siege machine ever built, at over 60 feet in width and 125 feet in height?
text: Did you knowthat swimmer Katherine Rawls , Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year for 1937, flew in the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the Dutch National Labor Secretariat once lost many members because each union received one vote but had to pay dues for each member, severely disadvantaging larger unions?
text: Did you knowthat Keremane Shivarama Heggade , the founder of folk-art troupe Idagunji Mahaganapathi Yakshagana Mandali was the first Yakshagana artist in India to receive the Rashtrapati Award ?
text: Did you knowthat English actor Ronald Magill played Amos Brearly , landlord of The Woolpack public house in ITV 's soap opera Emmerdale , for 19 years?
text: Did you knowthat Meng Xuenong was sacked as mayor of Beijing during the SARS crisis , but has now made  a comeback as governor of Shanxi province?
text: Did you knowthat Mahakala , a small dromaeosaurid from Mongolia , is named after Mahakala , one of the eight protective deities ( dharmapalas , "Protectors of the Law ") in Tibetan Buddhism ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chilean biochemist Eugenio Berríos , involved in the Letelier case and in the Soria case , also produced black cocaine and sarin gas for Augusto Pinochet ?
text: Did you knowthat alphabet books were one of the earliest forms of American literature ?
text: Did you knowthat Fritz Bleyl was one of the four founders of Die Brücke art group in 1905, but left two years later and never exhibited again?
text: Did you knowthat Belarus Free Theatre is an underground theatre project created to oppose Belarusian government pressure and censorship?
text: Did you knowthat the merged Rainbow/PUSH is an outgrowth of Jesse Jackson 's 1984 Presidential campaign and a factional split in Operation Breadbasket , an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ?
text: Did you knowthat Deganga , in West Bengal , where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination , will have to wait till 2009 for a supply of piped arsenic-free water?
text: Did you knowthat although he contributed to an anti-militarist resolution at a congress of the Second International in 1891, Christiaan Cornelissen was one of a few syndicalists to support the Allied effort in World War I in 1914?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Nisibis in 217 AD , the last battle fought between the Roman Empire and the Parthians , lasted for three days and ended in a draw?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Desoille guided patients through waking dreams as a form of psychotherapy ?
text: Did you knowthat the European Union directive about anti-smoking warnings on cigarette packs has led to a surge of sales of cigarette cases ?
text: Did you knowthat Samuel Rivera , mayor of Passaic, New Jersey , was permitted to take office despite the fact that he had been convicted of a felony in his native Puerto Rico in the 1970s?
text: Did you knowthat Eduardo Malapit , mayor of Kauai , Hawaii , from 1974 to 1982 , was the first mayor of Filipino descent in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat abrasion has destroyed the 14th century Church in Trzęsacz , Poland , near the Baltic Sea , except for part of its southern wall?
text: Did you knowthat the proposed BBC television special Planet Relief , created to raise awareness of climate change , was cancelled before it was made, for fear that it would be biased against climate sceptics ?
text: Did you knowthat retired General Volney F. Warner has publicly criticized the Iraq War ; his granddaughter , First Lieutenant Laura Margaret Walker, served in Afghanistan and was the first female graduate of West Point to die in combat ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash is the last time spectators were killed in an accident at a British air show ?
text: Did you knowthat Kentucky governor Flem D. Sampson declined the Du Pont family 's offer to purchase Cumberland Falls and donate it to the state for a state park?
text: Did you knowthat Nayachar Island in the Hooghly River was chosen as the location for a major chemical hub based on experience in developing Jurong Island in Singapore ?
text: Did you knowthat bellboy Johnny Roventini was paid $1 to  page a hotel lobby for a "Call for Phillip Morris", unknowingly performing a screen test for a 40-year career as living trademark?
text: Did you knowthat wind assistance has caused the non-ratification of many potential world records in athletics ?
text: Did you knowthat judge Otto Richard Skopil, Jr. was nominated to the federal district court by a Republican U.S. President and to the federal court of appeals by a Democratic President?
text: Did you knowthat the Fique is a natural fiber obtained of furcraea plants, typical of Colombia , which is used in the fabrication of ropes, fabrics, tapestry and handcrafts?
text: Did you knowthat French Canadian ornithologist Charles-Eusèbe Dionne became an elective fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union before he ever received a college degree ?
text: Did you knowthat during an emergency, U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo planes can be modified with the Modular Airborne FireFighting System and used to help fight forest fires?
text: Did you knowthat during the Western Schism Thomas de Rossy , Franciscan friar and Bishop of Galloway , challenged any bishop of England to fight in single combat ?
text: Did you knowthat Ah Jook Ku , a journalist and writer based in Hawaii , was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press , as well as the first Asian American female reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin ?
text: Did you knowthat the shrub Stirlingia latifolia is commonly known as "Blueboy" because wall plaster turns blue if made using sand taken from where the plant occurs?
text: Did you knowthat the disastrous defeat of Yaroslav the Wise 's sons at the Alta River led to a popular uprising in Kiev and dethronement of Grand Prince Iziaslav ?
text: Did you knowthat Mercedes Reaves , a Puerto Rican research engineer and scientist , is responsible for the design of a viable, full-scale solar sail at the NASA Langley Research Center ?
text: Did you knowthat Ildephonsus of Toledo regarded the Nicene Creed as comprising "sufficient knowledge for salvation" and considered it to be a pact ( foedus ) between a believer and God?
text: Did you knowthat the California aerial firefighting force is operated by the CDF Aviation Management Program ?
text: Did you knowthat Santanachelys gaffneyi is the earliest known sea turtle ?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian war memorial at Mont St. Quentin was not replaced for over 30 years after its destruction by the German Army in 1940?
text: Did you knowthat the calligraphic script of the Ford Motor Company logo is credited to Childe Harold Wills ?
text: Did you knowthat the Journal of Molecular Evolution , founded in 1971, was the first scientific journal dedicated to this field ?
text: Did you knowthat Jordan de Exeter , sheriff of Connacht , died fending off a Hebridean pirate raid in 1258?
text: Did you knowthat Otto Schimek was himself later executed for refusing to join a firing squad executing a Polish family in 1944?
text: Did you knowthat unlike most plesiosaurs , Leptocleidus once lived in shallow lagoon environments and likely visited brackish and fresh water systems such as the mouths of rivers ?
text: Did you knowthat Isaac Homer Van Winkle served for 23 years as Oregon Attorney General , the longest of any attorney general in the state’s history?
text: Did you knowthat the French Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities took almost 50 years to complete from A to Z?
text: Did you knowthat while the Ukrainian Chortkiv offensive was eventually pushed back by the Polish army , the initial success of this desperate attack by the Ukrainian Galician Army is considered its finest hour in the Polish-Ukrainian War ?
text: Did you knowthat zaojing , an elaborately ornamented wooden ceiling, shaped like a well and often painted with water plants, was believed by the ancient Chinese to prevent wooden buildings from burning?
text: Did you knowthat there was a lighthouse on the roof of The Fullerton Hotel Singapore , which could be seen by ships 29 kilometres away?
text: Did you knowthat, at the age of 21, Henry III 's favorite Anne de Joyeuse enjoyed precedence over all other dukes and peers of France , with the exception of the Capetians ?
text: Did you knowthat shortly after Appalachian State's 2007 college football upset of Michigan at Michigan , ecstatic Appalachian State students tore down a goalpost at their own stadium 600 miles (1000 km) away?
text: Did you knowthat westbound trains can arrive unexpectedly on the eastbound track at Bedminster railway station to ease congestion at nearby Bristol Temple Meads ?
text: Did you knowthat a portion of the money used to purchase land for the publicly owned Noble Woods Park in Hillsboro , Oregon , came from private pledges?
text: Did you knowthat water vapor is probably present in the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury , being brought to the planet by comets ?
text: Did you knowthat the German Communist Martin Hoop , who was arrested and murdered by the Nazi regime in 1933, was an undercover agent for the Communists?
text: Did you knowthat the luxurious Kazanowski Palace in Warsaw , built in the 1620s, was destroyed in the 1650s and never rebuilt?
text: Did you knowthat Singapore 's DHL Balloon is the world's largest tethered helium balloon ?
text: Did you knowthat stained glass in Marston Bigot church in Somerset , England is from the abbey of Altenberg in Germany and depicts a scene from the early life of St Bernard ?
text: Did you knowthat the Shelly was an Israeli cargo vessel that sank after being accidentally rammed by a cruise liner , killing two crewmembers?
text: Did you knowthat the real objective of the 1732 Treaty of Three Black Eagles , where Prussia , Austria and Russia agreed to support the Portuguese Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém in elections to the Polish throne , was to create a rift between France and Prussia?
text: Did you knowthat Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi‎ became the first Muslim commander ever to cross the Pyrenees mountain range in 717 ?
text: Did you knowthat James Dahlman , Omaha, Nebraska 's "perpetual mayor," was regarded as the "wettest mayor in America" after the number of saloons doubled during his term?
text: Did you knowthat Queen Victoria sanctioned the British South Africa Company to issue the British South Africa Company Medal in honour of the troops who served in the Matabele Wars ?
text: Did you knowthat Portuguese soldier and explorer Francisco Barreto led an expedition to Monomotapa in search of legendary gold mines, but died along the way from tropical diseases, as did many of his men?
text: Did you knowthat Emmy -nominated actor Leon Russom has portrayed two different characters in two different branches of the Star Trek franchise?
text: Did you knowthat  several mountains , a chain of craters , a learned society and a botanical genus are named after Louis Ramond de Carbonnières ?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish historian and survivor of the Nazi German Operation Sonderaktion Krakau Stanisław Kutrzeba joined an underground university in defiance of Nazi edicts?
text: Did you knowthat in 2005 , during D1 Grand Prix 's end of season US vs Japan event at Irwindale Speedway , U.S. drifting driver, Vaughn Gittin, Jr. became the first to break the all- Japanese stranglehold?
text: Did you knowthat centenarian Nittoor Srinivasa Rau , was the first chief of the Central Vigilance Commission of India and also the first to translate Mahatama Gandhi's autobiography to Kannada ?
text: Did you knowthat although the Youguo Temple collapsed in 1847 when the Yellow River flooded, its Iron Pagoda has survived six floods and remained intact for almost 1,000 years?
text: Did you knowthat Fred Astaire , Marlon Brando and Nick Nolte were all born to German-American families in Omaha , Nebraska ?
text: Did you knowthat the medieval village of Babington in Somerset , England was destroyed around 1705 to make way for a new Manor House ?
text: Did you knowthat the largest sea turtles ever to have swum the oceans belonged to the family Protostegidae ?
text: Did you knowthat former basketball player Jim Krebs wrote a humorous article for Sports Illustrated about surviving a plane crash during his third season in the NBA ?
text: Did you knowthat model Albert Reed , selected to appear in September 2007 on the United States television show Dancing with the Stars , admits that he cannot dance?
text: Did you knowthat Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801–1822) was the first university student ever to self-identify as Estonian , thus contributing to the Estonian National Awakening ?
text: Did you knowthat as part of Smirnoff vodka 's Sea advertising campaign , parent company Diageo toured England with an installation capable of making saline or polluted water potable?
text: Did you knowthat Scots' Dike was constructed by the English and the Scots in 1552 to mark the division of the Debatable Lands and thereby settle the exact boundary between the kingdoms of Scotland and England ?
text: Did you knowthat Rachel Plummer wrote the first book about being a slave to the Comanche Native Americans ?
text: Did you knowthat Father Hyacinth (Jacek) Gulski had such a gift for singing that he was nicknamed the "Polish Nightingale "?
text: Did you knowthat the short-lived Industrial Syndicalist Education League was both the first and the largest syndicalist organisation ever in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat American folklorist Helen Hartness Flanders recorded, transcribed and catalogued traditional ballads from New England at a time when people were ceasing to sing them?
text: Did you knowthat the use of turtle excluder devices has decreased the number of sea turtles accidentally killed by shrimp fishermen by 97%?
text: Did you knowthat photographer Hans Namuth took over 500 black and white images of abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock at work in his studio in 1950?
text: Did you knowthat Henry III of France took to calling Catherine of Cleves "the mistress of Saint-Mégrin", in reference to a young nobleman killed by her illustrious husband ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hypothenemus hampei , a small coleopter insect native to Africa , is recognized for being the most harmful pest to coffee crops worldwide?
text: Did you knowthat the Lobel's Maple is one of very few trees that grow with a narrow, erect crown, known as a fastigiate form, naturally?
text: Did you knowthat aeronautics engineer Paul Moller plans to sell the M200G Volantor , a flying saucer -style aircraft, in the United States by early 2008?
text: Did you knowthat the Hughes Brothers became the first sibling duo allowed by the DGA since Jerry and David Zucker to take co-credit as directors for their 1993 film Menace II Society ?
text: Did you knowthat Graham Linehan , co-creator of Father Ted , made his directorial debut with the comedy horror short film Hello Friend ?
text: Did you knowthat when a rival took over an estate belonging to Sir Walter Clarges , Clarges used his position as a Member of Parliament to send the interloper to jail?
text: Did you knowthat the United States Youth Council received more than 90 percent of its funds from the Central Intelligence Agency ?
text: Did you knowthat the first HMS Ark Royal was sunk in 1636 when she struck her own anchor and stove in her hull whilst underway?
text: Did you knowthat Benjamin Aaron helped negotiate the first contract between a county and its public employee union in California history in 1968?
text: Did you knowthat Coptic architectural monuments in Christian Cairo include the Hanging Church , one of the oldest in Egypt ?
text: Did you knowthat Olga D. González-Sanabria , a Puerto Rican scientist and inventor , is the highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center ?
text: Did you knowthat three Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross for their role in the Battle of Mont St. Quentin , a battle that the commander of the British Fourth Army , General Henry Rawlinson , considered Australia's greatest military achievement of the war ?
text: Did you knowthat although enterprising citizens were said to have dragged a flatboat up Spring Creek to establish Bellefonte, Pennsylvania as the head of navigation and the county seat in 1800, the Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation canal did not reach the town until 1848?
text: Did you knowthat the sixteen eight-million-year-old cypresses found in Northern Hungary in 2007 had been preserved without being fossilized ?
text: Did you knowthat fox tossing was a popular blood sport in parts of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries?
text: Did you knowthat Patrick Nash helped change the city charter, which called for a special election in the case of death of the Chicago Mayor , so that the Chicago City Council could appoint Edward Joseph Kelly ?
text: Did you knowthat Sir T. L. Yang was the first ethnic Chinese to become Chief Justice of Hong Kong under British colonial rule?
text: Did you knowthat the gulf sturgeon , a subspecies of the Atlantic sturgeon , fasts for eight to nine months each year?
text: Did you knowthat the United States threatened privately to cut off aid to Ngo Dinh Diem 's Catholic regime as a result of chemical attacks on Buddhist protestors in Huế , Vietnam in 1963?
text: Did you knowthat Alexander Novikov , double Hero of the Soviet Union and pioneering commander of the Soviet Air Force , was used to frame Marshal Zhukov , then thrown in prison by Joseph Stalin ?
text: Did you knowthat the bootleg album The Lost Paris Tapes contains the last known recording by Jim Morrison ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bank of the Holy Spirit , founded by Pope Paul V in 1605, was the first national bank in Europe?
text: Did you knowthat during World War II , Shepton Mallet , the oldest operating prison in Britain , was used as the protective storage of important government documents including the Magna Carta and Domesday Book ?
text: Did you knowthat Presbyterian minister Robert Jefferson Breckinridge is known as the father of the public school system in Kentucky ?
text: Did you knowthat the Suevic king Rechiar was the first Germanic monarch to convert to Nicene Christianity , the first to mint his own coins, and the only to ever ally with the peasant rebels called the bagaudae ?
text: Did you knowthat the Native American Old Connecticut Path from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Connecticut River across from Hartford , was the very first of the American trails that led west from the Atlantic seacoast settlement, towards the interior?
text: Did you knowthat the citizens of Perugia compelled the surrender of the citadel of Gérard du Puy , the cardinal-nephew of Pope Gregory XI , during the War of the Eight Saints with a trebuchet nicknamed the cacciaprete ("priest chaser")?
text: Did you knowthat in 1995-1997 a Centers for Disease Control program identified over a hundred patients likely suffering from life threatening infections new in the history of emerging infectious diseases ?
text: Did you knowthat in late 1992, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior banned the neo-Nazi groups German Alternative (DA), Nationalist Front (NF), German Comradeship Alliance (DKB), and the National Offensive (NO) all within a month?
text: Did you knowthat in 2005 John Carroll , the editor of the Los Angeles Times , chose to resign rather than continue reducing the number of journalists at the paper?
text: Did you knowthat the Wendish Crusade of 1147 was a largely unsuccessful campaign of Saxons and Danes against the Polabian Slavs concurrent to the Second Crusade ?
text: Did you knowthat Pope Martin V objected to the wording of the inscription on the tomb of Antipope John XXIII in the Florence Baptistry because he thought it implied John had died as pope?
text: Did you knowthat electrocardiogram technicians responsible for recording ECGs in hospitals reduce medical errors in the emergency reporting of ECGs?
text: Did you knowthat despite being open for only two years, the Naomi Institute earned a reputation as one of the leading educational institutions in pioneer Nebraska ?
text: Did you knowthat many of the carnatic musicians of the Mysore Kingdom were also trained in Western classical music ?
text: Did you knowthat the small population of Estonian Ruhnu sheep is thought to descend from animals left on Ruhnu Island by Swedes ?
text: Did you knowthat over 70,000 Dark-eyed Juncos have been counted in a single day at the Bird Observatory in Prince Edward County , Ontario , Canada ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1847, the German engineer Gustav Schleicher , who later became a veteran of the Confederate Army , founded a commune in Texas to prove the truth of communist ideals?
text: Did you knowthat the Peshtigo Fire Museum features an intact tabernacle , one of the few items to survive the deadliest natural fire in United States history ?
text: Did you knowthat the first company union in the United States was created by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. , in response to the bad publicity generated by the Ludlow massacre ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hal Far Fighter Flight , a British fighter unit formed during the siege of Malta , is the source of the myth that only three aircraft formed the entire fighter cover for Malta in June 1940?
text: Did you knowthat the pieces of dougong , an ancient Chinese structural element of interlocking wooden brackets , are cut to fit so perfectly that no glue or fasteners are needed?
text: Did you knowthat Miriam Rodon-Naveira , a Puerto Rican scientist , was the first Hispanic woman to hold the Deputy Directorship for the Environmental Sciences Division in the National Exposure Research Laboratory ?
text: Did you knowthat the participants of the Channel 4 programme Dumped were not told that they would be living on a landfill site for three weeks?
text: Did you knowthat romance novelist Nancy Warren wrote real-life NASCAR driver Carl Edwards into two of her novels?
text: Did you knowthat citrus fruits white sapote , hercules' club and rue are all members of the family Rutaceae ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2007, the first Australian outbreak of equine influenza caused a nationwide ban on horse racing ?
text: Did you knowthat MinnPost plans a non-profit Minneapolis-Saint Paul online newspaper that readers who wish for hard copies can print on demand ?
text: Did you knowthat the Toronto Magnetic Observatory had to be moved as the University of Toronto 's electric lighting was interfering with observations?
text: Did you knowthat WikiPilipinas is the first online encyclopedia based in the Philippines ?
text: Did you knowthat Omaha, Nebraska is the original home of the Reuben sandwich , Omaha Steaks and ConAgra Foods ?
text: Did you knowthat the apparent disparagement of Singapore as a " little red dot " by former Indonesian President B.J. Habibie has come to be used by Singaporeans with pride?
text: Did you knowthat four of the thirty-eight IRA members that escaped from Maze Prison in 1983 were caught hiding in a river near the prison using reeds to breathe?
text: Did you knowthat Gord Bamford , a country music singer , was one of only two Canadian artists invited to perform at the Global Artist Party at the 2007 CMA Music Festival ?
text: Did you knowthat though the Indian rivers , Tunga and Bhadra originate at Gangamoola , they flow separately for more than 145 km (90 mi)?
text: Did you knowthat controversy arose over the ABC television network's licensing and production of a doll based on fictional rapist Todd Manning ?
text: Did you knowthat the Treatise of Garcia of Toledo was written as a satire against Pope Urban II and Bernard, Archbishop of Toledo in the eleventh century?
text: Did you knowthat Christine Langan distracted a man from jumping off of a multi-storey car park by speaking to him in a Manchester accent until the police arrived?
text: Did you knowthat at the time of Roman rule in Palestine , the village of Um ar-Rehan , now located in the Barta'a enclave of the Seam Zone , held a hundred houses, a road system and a Roman bathhouse?
text: Did you knowthat Turkish record label Kalan Müzik was suspended for a song with the word " Kurdistan " in it?
text: Did you knowthat zoologist Georgina Sweet was the first woman to receive a DSc from the University of Melbourne and the first female recipient of the David Syme Research Prize ?
text: Did you knowthat in Estonia , a digital signature is considered legally equivalent to a manual signature through the successful Estonian ID card project?
text: Did you knowthat John Hunt Morgan 's beloved mare , Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial , as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini , believed " No hero should bestride a mare! "?
text: Did you knowthat Daphne Pearson was the first woman awarded the George Cross for acts of bravery during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the computer-player of the 1979 video game Video Chess could take up to ten hours to decide a move?
text: Did you knowthat David Fung performed Rachmaninoff 's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Sydney Symphony in the Sydney Opera House at only 19 years of age?
text: Did you knowthat New Zealand 's North Island Robin was originally thought to be a subspecies of the New Zealand Robin , but mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis has shown that the two lineages split prior to the Pleistocene ?
text: Did you knowthat the territorial governor of Montana Preston Leslie pardoned a prostitute convicted of grand larceny because the penitentiary was not equipped to accommodate women?
text: Did you knowthat Hasan Saltık , called "The Anthropologist of Folk Music " by Time magazine, was saved from a three-year jail term because the prosecutor was a fan?
text: Did you knowthat National Medal of Science recipient Evelyn M. Witkin ' s interest in mutagenesis led her to discover mechanisms of bacterial DNA repair ?
text: Did you knowthat Victor-Alphonse Huard styled himself the "disciple" of Léon Abel Provancher ?
text: Did you knowthat the Iroise Sea on the Atlantic Ocean is France 's first marine park ?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Rougier , son of novelist Georgette Heyer , became a British High Court judge ?
text: Did you knowthat HMAS Stalwart was the largest Australian designed and constructed naval vessel?
text: Did you knowthat the case of Rice v. Collins concerned a juror who may have  " rolled her eyes " under questioning?
text: Did you knowthat Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Paget was also an MP for Carnarvon despite his active navy career?
text: Did you knowthat, in 1987, Bolaji Akinyemi proposed the development of nuclear weapons by Nigeria ?
text: Did you knowthat John L. Fugh was the first Chinese American to be Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army ?
text: Did you knowthat Gavin Kaysen was undone at the Bocuse d'Or cooking competition because a dishwasher ate part of his entry?
text: Did you knowthat Joe Robertson , Dean of Oregon Health and Science University , lives on a houseboat ?
text: Did you knowthat The Legendary Buster Smith was the only solo album by Charlie Parker 's mentor Buster Smith ?
text: Did you knowthat it was Frances Seymour, the Duchess of Somerset who interceded with Queen Caroline to obtain a pardon for the poet and murderer Richard Savage ?
text: Did you knowthat royal fish , such as whales and sturgeons , are property of the Queen when found on the shores of the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat the " negro of Banyoles " was a human piece of taxidermy which prompted debate by the United Nations ?
text: Did you knowthat most trains stop before reaching the platform at Coombe railway station in Cornwall , UK , and then reverse away?
text: Did you knowthat the Minority Treaties of 1919-1921, designed to protect ethnic minorities , were not implemented on the victorious allies of World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat the construction of Tellico Dam on Little Tennessee River in 1979 put several 18th century Overhill Cherokee towns underwater?
text: Did you knowthat Ian Smith ' s 24 international tries , scored for Scotland in rugby union between 1924 and 1933, was an international record until 1987?
text: Did you knowthat the Ukrainian pogroms in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917 were falsely attributed by the communists to Symon Petlura , despite his efforts to save Jews ?
text: Did you knowthat criteria of truth are standards and rules used to judge the accuracy of statements and claims?
text: Did you knowthat the Hearst Medical Papyrus , considered to be an authentic ancient Egyptian document for more than a century, may be an almost perfect fake?
text: Did you knowthat two male lovers of German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder committed suicide?
text: Did you knowthat Jehovah's Witnesses have had an impact on civil liberties in the United States, winning 47 cases involving religious beliefs brought by them before the U.S. Supreme Court ?
text: Did you knowthat Ellen Hammer is regarded as one of the first Americans to study the history of Vietnam ?
text: Did you knowthat Nanda , the half-sister of Gautama Buddha , went on to be the foremost nun in the practice of jhana ?
text: Did you knowthat Belinda Dann , a member of Australia's Stolen Generation , died just months after being reunited with her family, who had been searching for her for over a century?
text: Did you knowthat 27 years passed between the discovery of Ravenel's stinkhorn and the publication of its scientific description?
text: Did you knowthat Le Naturaliste Canadien is the oldest French-language academic journal in North America?
text: Did you knowthat one of the television advertisements from the Good things come to those who wait Guinness advertising campaign was voted the "Best ad of all time" by the British public?
text: Did you knowthat the award for European Parliament 's newly established cinema prize, Lux , consists of subtitling the winning film in the 23 official EU languages and an original language adaptation for the deaf and hard of hearing?
text: Did you knowthat due to backlash from the trial of John Hinckley, Jr. , under US law an expert witness can no longer testify on legal issues such as the insanity defense ?
text: Did you knowthat Captain Clack Stone led the intense defense of Apple River Fort against 150-200 Sauk and Fox warriors, which resulted in only one death at the fort?
text: Did you knowthat the Whitman-Walker Clinic adopted oral testing for HIV in 1993, before most major AIDS clinics in the US?
text: Did you knowthat PlumpJack Winery was the first winery in the Napa Valley to use screwcaps as a wine closures on Cabernet Sauvignon wines sold for over USD $100 per bottle ?
text: Did you knowthat after being suspended for life from the Ontario Hockey League , Marc Laforge still played professionally for two National Hockey League teams?
text: Did you knowthat when Richard Fort won a seat in the 1950 general election , he became the third person with the same name to represent Clitheroe in the British House of Commons ?
text: Did you knowthat in Tennard v. Dretke , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it a cruel and unusual punishment to ignore the defendant 's mental retardation in sentencing the death penalty ?
text: Did you knowthat archaeological evidence has shown that the Indian threadfish (Alectis indicus) has long been a resource for humans , with prehistoric and more modern sites in the United Arab Emirates preserving its remains?
text: Did you knowthat Bob Odom , Louisiana 's Commissoner of Agriculture and Forestry , is, with 28 years experience, his state's longest-serving statewide constitutional official?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. Senator Henry F. Ashurst had a cameo as a U.S. Senator in Otto Preminger's film Advice and Consent ?
text: Did you knowthat the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area in Ontario will be the largest freshwater marine protected area in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Frederick Garling was the second solicitor admitted to practice in the Australian state of New South Wales ?
text: Did you knowthat Ann Northrop gave up a successful career at CBS to eventually become an AIDS educator for the Hetrick-Martin Institute and co-host of TV news program Gay USA ?
text: Did you knowthat even though nothing definite can be said about the existence of Sebaldus ,  the patron saint of Nuremberg , his veneration continued even after the Protestant Revolution ?
text: Did you knowthat before U.S. short track speed skater Cathy Turner won a gold medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics , she had left the sport for eight years to pursue a singing career under the stage name "Nikki Newland"?
text: Did you knowthat the Little Treaty of Versailles was the first of several Minority Treaties , and Poland 's renouncing of it was the deathblow to the League of Nations ' ethnic minority -protection regime?
text: Did you knowthat before competing in luge , Bonny Warner competed for Stanford University on a field hockey scholarship?
text: Did you knowthat the founding of the Church in Malta is described in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible ?
text: Did you knowthat only three of the largest islands of the United States – the Big Island of Hawaii , Kodiak Island , and Puerto Rico – are greater than 3,000 square miles (8,000 km² ) in size?
text: Did you knowthat descendants of Betsy Mix Cowles 's brother Edwin founded Cowles Publishing Company , the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics , and the Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company ?
text: Did you knowthat at King of the Ring 1998 , Mick Foley was thrown head first off a sixteen foot high cell onto a table by The Undertaker and it has since become one of the most famous moments in professional wrestling ?
text: Did you knowthat the Spiral Q Puppet Theater in Philadelphia uses puppetry , street theatre and pageantry to promote social and political change?
text: Did you knowthat Varbola Stronghold was the largest circular rampart fortress and a trading center built in Ancient Estonia that only lost its importance in the 14th century ?
text: Did you knowthat José María Campo Serrano became President of Colombia after the resignation of the President and the dismissal of the Vice President by Congress?
text: Did you knowthat the hydroid Hydractinia bayeri was named by Emperor Hirohito of Japan in honor of a fellow marine biologist , Frederick Bayer ?
text: Did you knowthat visual evidence of the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba which triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was found in reconnaissance photographs by CIA analysts led by Arthur C. Lundahl ?
text: Did you knowthat the rent control program in New York State is America's longest-running?
text: Did you knowthat Michael G. Strain is Louisiana 's first elected Republican commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry?
text: Did you knowthat the Utah Scenic Byways program includes the highest paved road in the state with a summit at 10,715 ft (3266 m)?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Morris Woodford wrote a dispatch appointing himself the first Deputy Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate , and then convinced the High Commissioner to sign it?
text: Did you knowthat Raspberry Island in the Gulf of Alaska boasts some of the largest Roosevelt elk ever recorded?
text: Did you knowthat the Heller House marked a turning point in Frank Lloyd Wright 's shift to Prairie School architecture?
text: Did you knowthat Sumitro was a prominent Indonesian General in the early years of General Suharto 's New Order , but retired after student riots in Jakarta in 1974?
text: Did you knowthat the 1999 Sydney hailstorm is the costliest natural disaster in Australian history, causing over A$ 1.7 billion in insured damages?
text: Did you knowthat the unusual Mexican ball game of pelota mixteca is thought to be a development of real tennis ?
text: Did you knowthat the Rose Quarter sports and entertainment complex in Portland, Oregon was constructed in the parking lot of the Memorial Coliseum ?
text: Did you knowthat the Winchester Model 1895 is one of the few lever-action rifles equipped with a charger guide, allowing it to be reloaded by charger clips ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2002, Devon and Cornwall set up a scheme where travellers on rural railways were rewarded for visiting pubs along the route?
text: Did you knowthat the chief suspect in the 1919 Green Bicycle Case tried to destroy the bicycle that tied him to the victim, but was nonetheless acquitted ?
text: Did you knowthat scientific jury selection is used by some U.S. attorneys in high-stakes cases?
text: Did you knowthat the book This Is Not The Life I Ordered , co-authored by former California State Senator Jackie Speier , has twice reached the San Francisco Chronicle best seller list?
text: Did you knowthat Canada's first dedicated movie theater, the Ouimetoscope , was created in 1906 with an original investment of only seventy-five dollars?
text: Did you knowthat Chris Cosentino , a contestant on The Next Iron Chef famous for cooking offal , hated his grandmother's tripe as a child?
text: Did you knowthat poet Violet Kazue de Cristoforo wrote haikus while she and her family were detained in Japanese American internment camps during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat near the end of World War II , American soldiers conducted a raid behind Soviet lines to rescue the bay stallion Witez II from a Czechoslovakian stud farm at the behest of captured German officers?
text: Did you knowthat ethnic cleansing of Poles in 1943 Volhynia was resisted by the Defence of Przebraże ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Throckmorton was called a "second Nero or Calligula (sic)" for his actions on his steamboat Warrior at the 1832 Battle of Bad Axe ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2004, the Children's Court of Victoria in Australia granted a teenager a "divorce" from his mother?
text: Did you knowthat Goose Creek State Park , a North Carolina state park off Pamlico Sound , is in an inlet that once provided cover for Blackbeard , Stede Bonnet and other pirates ?
text: Did you knowthat Lothar Neethling of the South African Police confiscated and denied crash investigators access to the aircraft flight recorders from the wreckage of the air disaster which killed President Samora Machel of Mozambique in 1986?
text: Did you knowthat Ugaritic culture hero Danel may have been a model for the Biblical Daniel of Ezekiel ?
text: Did you knowthat NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. examined photographs and newsreels for three days before determining that unofficial 1959 Daytona 500 race winner Johnny Beauchamp had actually finished second behind Lee Petty ?
text: Did you knowthat from 1955 to 1973, the United States conducted a scientific initiative aimed at producing gravity -manipulation technology?
text: Did you knowthat intoxication is never recognized as an excuse for crime , but settled insanity due to substance abuse is?
text: Did you knowthat former Finance Minister of Israel Pinchas Sapir was famous for carrying a "black notebook" of economics-related observations in his travels?
text: Did you knowthat G. Venkatasubbaiah is regarded as the father of the modern Kannada dictionary ?
text: Did you knowthat artist R. B. Kitaj blamed the death of his second wife on the savagely negative reactions to his 1994 retrospective?
text: Did you knowthat wide receiver Mercury Hayes caught the game-winning touchdown in Lloyd Carr 's Michigan coaching debut?
text: Did you knowthat Fermin Rocker , son of anarchist writer Rudolf Rocker , once sold a painting to rock star Mick Jagger ?
text: Did you knowthat despite being found guilty of conspiring with Mary, Queen of Scots to assassinate Elizabeth I , Charles Paget was given the manor of Weston-on-Trent ?
text: Did you knowthat the first film to take advantage of the relaxation of communism in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s was The Sun in a Net ?
text: Did you knowthat the now- Polish Gliwice Canal was known as the " Adolf Hitler Canal" during WWII ?
text: Did you knowthat the NATO commander in Afghanistan labelled the Siege of Sangin against Taliban insurgents the most intensive engagement involving British soldiers since the Korean War ?
text: Did you knowthat sculptor Tom Otterness delivered more than four times the amount of work commissioned for his popular " Life Underground " subway installation?
text: Did you knowthat Professor Padraig O'Malley of the University of Massachusetts Boston helped bring 16 Iraqis to a conference in Finland , where they met with participants in the internal reconciliations in South Africa and Northern Ireland ?
text: Did you knowthat Singapore ’s Fort Tanjong Katong , one of the oldest military forts built by the British colonial government , never saw combat action and was nicknamed the "Wash-out Fort"?
text: Did you knowthat in his 1968 Declaration of Perth , British Conservative leader Edward Heath pledged his party's support for Scottish devolution , a policy later reversed by Margaret Thatcher ?
text: Did you knowthat the Louisiana Tigers Confederate Army brigade were a key part of the Army of Northern Virginia and developed a reputation as fearless, hard fighting shock troops ?
text: Did you knowthat the training exercises in Flash Focus were developed under the supervision of a professor at Japan's Aichi Institute of Technology?
text: Did you knowthat the US Navy Bayfield class attack transports USS Alpine , USS Barnstable , USS Callaway , USS Cecil and USS Goshen all found use as cargo vessels after World War II but were scrapped at Kaohsiung in Taiwan in the 1970s?
text: Did you knowthat Heuneburg , an early Celtic settlement by the upper Danube , was already fortified with a massive ditch-and-bank enclosure by the Middle Bronze Age (15th to 12th century BC)?
text: Did you knowthat Derbyshire M.P. George John Venables-Vernon who enthused about Italian literature is the namesake of Vernon County in Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat Harold E. Martin , a newspaper publisher and editor , won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1970 and served for twenty years on the board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association ?
text: Did you knowthat when Sir Francis Rodes bequeathed a yearly £20 , it was enough to run a secondary school in the 16th century?
text: Did you knowthat a dispute over the Sudanese region of Abyei may determine the fate of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the 22-year civil war ?
text: Did you knowthat the United States Supreme Court held in Moyer v. Peabody (1909) that the U.S. government may imprison citizens without probable cause during an insurrection so long as it acts in good faith ?
text: Did you knowthat Mafia turncoat Baldassare Di Maggio claimed that Cosa Nostra boss Totò Riina respectfully kissed former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti at a meeting?
text: Did you knowthat it was John Hollingshead who brought together Gilbert and Sullivan in 1871?
text: Did you knowthat Jüri Vilms , a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee , issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence in February 1918, and was executed by German troops less than two months later?
text: Did you knowthat Harris Wash is a 40-mile long tributary of the Escalante River within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mourning of Muharram , observed by Shi'a Muslims , commemorates the anniversary of the death of Imam Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680 ?
text: Did you knowthat London will soon have a Walk of Fame for dogs ?
text: Did you knowthat Gershwin 's musical Primrose had its Broadway première more than sixty years after its 1924 London debut?
text: Did you knowthat the Praetorian Building , a high-rise in Dallas ,  is regarded to be the first skyscraper constructed in the Southwestern United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Douglas Bruce is so associated with Colorado 's Taxpayer Bill of Rights that attempts to loosen its spending restrictions are known as "de-Brucing"?
text: Did you knowthat during a copper miners' strike in Michigan in 1913, labor leader Charles Moyer was shot in the back by unknown assailants and then expelled by Calumet city police while still bleeding?
text: Did you knowthat a prosecution was started against Benjamin Robinson for starting a school in Findern in 1693?
text: Did you knowthat Zhenzhu Khan of Xueyantuo once offered 50,000 horses, 10,000 cattle or camels, and 100,000 goats to Emperor Taizong of Tang China to serve as bride price for a princess ?
text: Did you knowthat Unnale Unnale was the director of Jeeva 's final film before his death?
text: Did you knowthat nine workers died at India 's Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited due to a blast that occurred when leaking water was accidentally mixed with molten steel ?
text: Did you knowthat Speak, Mnemosyne was replaced by Speak, Memory as the title of Vladimir Nabokov 's autobiography for fear that people could not pronounce it?
text: Did you knowthat Ron Cole was involved in a violent standoff with Amo Bishop Roden , the wife of former Branch Davidian leader George Roden, at the site of the compound destroyed in the Waco siege ?
text: Did you knowthat major league baseball player Terry Pendleton participated in the World Series in 1985 , 1987 , 1991 , 1992 and 1996 , but lost all five times?
text: Did you knowthat Edward Laurillard produced musical comedies in London and New York in the early 20th century, in partnership with George Grossmith, Jr. ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mustagh Pass crosses the Baltoro Muztagh range in the Karakorams , from Pakistan to China ?
text: Did you knowthat Shripat Amrit Dange was a founding member of the Communist Party of India ?
text: Did you knowthat the Jacobean play The Widow's Tears is thought to be the last comedy written by George Chapman ?
text: Did you knowthat the Blue-throated Piping-guan is a South American bird similar to a turkey ?
text: Did you knowthat the Đorđe Martinović affair, concerning a farmer hospitalised with a beer bottle in his rectum , was a major ethnic and political controversy in Serbia in 1985 and contributed to the collapse of Yugoslavia ?
text: Did you knowthat former Palermo mayor Vito Ciancimino explained that Italy without bribes would be "as though someone wanted to remove one of the four wheels of a car"?
text: Did you knowthat numerous references to Wikipedia on The Colbert Report , an American satirical comedy series, defined the word Wikiality as "Truth by consensus, rather than fact"?
text: Did you knowthat in Floyd's algorithm for cycle detection , the tortoise and hare move at very different speeds, but always finish at the same spot?
text: Did you knowthat Molly Badham , co-founder of Twycross Zoo , trained the chimpanzees who appeared in the long-running Brooke Bond PG Tips television advertisements ?
text: Did you knowthat during the first six years of the Australian edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? nobody won the top prize of one million dollars ?
text: Did you knowthat Belfast streetfighter "Buck Alec" Robinson kept two lions at his home, frequently walking them on the streets of the city?
text: Did you knowthat the Hunt Memorial Building in Ellenville, New York , has served as a public library , an appliance store, and several other things?
text: Did you knowthat Alexey Ekimyan , the author of many Soviet hits , was considered the only popular composer in the world who ruled a law enforcement department at the same time?
text: Did you knowthat the 1997 volcanic eruption of Pillan Patera on Jupiter 's moon Io was the largest effusive eruption ever witnessed?
text: Did you knowthat " Pick You Up " was the first Powderfinger song to be nominated for an ARIA Music Award ; the 1996 award for "Song of the Year"?
text: Did you knowthat cricketer Steve Atkinson has played for both the Netherlands and Hong Kong in international cricket ?
text: Did you knowthat the giant jellyfish Chrysaora achlyos is the largest invertebrate discovered in the 20th century ?
text: Did you knowthat road slipperiness causes over 53,000 accidents a year in the United Kingdom alone?
text: Did you knowthat Sholom Schwartzbard was acquitted in the Schwartzbard trial despite pleading guilty to murder, and that the family of his victim was ordered to pay for the cost of the trial?
text: Did you knowthat St Patrick's Marist College , the oldest school in Australia run by Marist Brothers , started out as a primary school ?
text: Did you knowthat William Wallace disguised himself as a woman to hide at the castle in Riccarton , a village and parish in East Ayrshire , Scotland ?
text: Did you knowthat Randle Holme III of Chester painted memorial boards without the permission of the English College of Arms resulting in its King of Arms , William Dugdale , travelling north on at least three occasions between 1667 and 1670  to destroy them?
text: Did you knowthat the Muslim Revolution of Agriculture industrialized sugar production, building the first sugar refineries and sugar plantations in the 8th century?
text: Did you knowthat former Branch Davidian leader George Roden was shot twice in a gun battle with his rival David Koresh and  seven other Branch Davidians, before being evicted from the Mount Carmel Center near Waco ?
text: Did you knowthat South Africa and England had already  played each other during pool play before meeting in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final ?
text: Did you knowthat a single raccoon reduced the entire population of White Cay iguanas to 140 males and 10 females in one year?
text: Did you knowthat in Colombian folklore the legendary Alligatorman ( Hombre Caiman ) is said to be a fisherman converted by the spirit of the Magdalena River into an alligator, that returns every year on St. Sebastian ´s Day to hunt human victims?
text: Did you knowthat some liverwort species in the class Haplomitriopsida rafted from Gondwana to Asia via the Indian subcontinent ?
text: Did you knowthat Walter Plunkett 's "barbecue dress" for Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind was one of the most widely copied dresses in fashion of the 1930s and early '40s , second only to the Duchess of Windsor's wedding dress?
text: Did you knowthat Colombia 's 12th President, Carlos Eugenio Restrepo , was nicknamed Monsieur Veto for his common practice of vetoing many bills he considered were not in the best interest of his nation?
text: Did you knowthat Andrew Winch , an award-winning yacht designer, has been selected to design the interior of a version of the Boeing 787 , a commercial airliner?
text: Did you knowthat the Suevi of Gallaecia were converted from a form of Germanic paganism to Arian Christianity by a Celtic missionary, Ajax , sent by the Visigoths ?
text: Did you knowthat the population of the Falkland Islands was only 50 people in 1841 ?
text: Did you knowthat German nuclear physicist Heinz Barwich had illegal contacts to the Soviet secret police NKVD during Nazi rule , and then spied on the Soviet Union for the West while working in the East ?
text: Did you knowthat Senator Ron May is credited with installing the first wireless internet network in the Colorado State Capitol ?
text: Did you knowthat the White-browed Scrubwren , which inhabits dense undergrowth, can occur close to urban areas in Sydney ?
text: Did you knowthat between a half and two million Poles were deported from the Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union to the Regained Territories in the repatriation of 1944-1946 ?
text: Did you knowthat country musician Johnny Sea ' s spoken word recording "Day For Decision", a response to Barry McGuire 's protest song , " Eve of Destruction ", was a Top 40 hit in the U.S. and was nominated for a Grammy award ?
text: Did you knowthat leading New Testament scholar C. F. D. Moule was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity , the oldest chair in the University of Cambridge , for 25 years?
text: Did you knowthat Ove Karlsson is both the name of a Swedish sports player and a Swedish sports journalist ?
text: Did you knowthat Transfusion was the first EP by Powderfinger to receive significant commercial airplay, and was their first work to top the ARIA alternative music chart ?
text: Did you knowthat Andy Papathanassiou , a former college football player who was the first person hired as a NASCAR pit crew coordinator, started use of trained athletes to cut pit stop times from 19 down to 13 seconds?
text: Did you knowthat the French space agency funded the operation of the Soviet space observatory Granat after the dissolution of the USSR ?
text: Did you knowthat the Finsch's Flycatcher-thrush , a flycatcher -like thrush of West African forests, sings four melodious whistles and responds to recordings of its own songs?
text: Did you knowthat the election of Dominican friar Laurence de Ergadia as Bishop of Argyll in Scotland was voided by Pope Urban IV in 1274 on a technicality?
text: Did you knowthat in the anonymous Breton lai Melion , one of King Arthur 's knights was transformed into a werewolf by his wife using a magic ring before she ran off with another man to Ireland ?
text: Did you knowthat English football referee Matt Messias once urged a Portsmouth defender not to kick an opposing player during a match against Newcastle United because "the devil was trying to get him sent off "?
text: Did you knowthat American archaeologist and flintknapper Errett Callahan produces and sells obsidian scalpels that are 100 times sharper than the traditional surgical scalpels made of steel ?
text: Did you knowthat Mdm2 , whose role in regulating p53 was discovered by British scientist Karen Vousden , is a potential target for anti-cancer drugs ?
text: Did you knowthat eleven months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , U.S. four-star admiral Charles P. Snyder opted to lose two ranks rather than serve under incoming Pacific Fleet commander Husband E. Kimmel ?
text: Did you knowthat the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu is considered the holiest Catholic shrine in Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you knowthat Giles Clarke , chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board , studied Arabic at the University of Damascus ?
text: Did you knowthat a U.S. government funded research project is concluding that racial discrimination is a significant factor when jurors make death penalty decisions?
text: Did you knowthat the Austrian industrialist Johan E. Zacherl made a fortune in the late 19th century by selling dried flower heads of Chrysanthenum cinerariifolum as insecticide ?
text: Did you knowthat Oscar M. Laurel , a south Texas Mexican-American Democratic state representative known for his flamboyant oratory, opposed a late 1950s bill that would have declared cactus peyote an "unlawful dangerous substance"?
text: Did you knowthat in 1890, future centenarian and four-star admiral Richard H. Jackson was commissioned ensign by special act of Congress after originally being cashiered from the Navy for poor grades at the U.S. Naval Academy ?
text: Did you knowthat a series of explosions destroyed two miles of Louisville, Kentucky 's sewer system on Friday the 13th in February 1981?
text: Did you knowthat James Roche became CEO and chairman of the board of General Motors without a college education?
text: Did you knowthat Yekaterina Zelenko was the only woman to perform an air ramming and the only female pilot in the Winter War ?
text: Did you knowthat though many troubadours wrote about the Crusades and either encouraged or mocked them as politics dictated, the jongleur Peirol was one of the few to actually travel to the Holy Land , on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1221?
text: Did you knowthat American football coach Dick Anderson , who led Rutgers to its first victory over Penn State in 70 years, was a Penn State assistant coach before and after his time at Rutgers?
text: Did you knowthat John Popper , now frontman of the rock band Blues Traveler , once convinced a teacher to let him play harmonica in his high school band with an in-class solo performance of the song " She Blinded Me with Science "?
text: Did you knowthat Arumuga Navalar , a Hindu revivalist , also helped translate the Bible into Tamil ?
text: Did you knowthat the Spanish military engineer Julio Cervera Baviera , a veteran of the Spanish-American War , pioneered radio technology in his native country?
text: Did you knowthat although it is commonly referred to as Fort Detroit , the fort William Hull surrendered to the British without a fight during the War of 1812 was actually named Fort Lernoult ?
text: Did you knowthat British Conservative Member of Parliament Cyril Banks was friendly with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser , and left his party over the Suez Crisis ?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Chris Hatcher convinced the jury in a capital punishment case without having interviewed the defendant ?
text: Did you knowthat Joe Shishido transitioned from a moderately successful melodrama actor into a popular villain and then action star after he underwent plastic surgery to severely enlarge his cheeks?
text: Did you knowthat the New Zealand Journal of Forestry was first published in 1925 with a title in Māori ?
text: Did you knowthat the first Hawaii showing of From Here to Eternity premiered at the Iao Theater ?
text: Did you knowthat when former New Mexico Governor Tom Bolack died, his ashes were scattered over his ranch by 16 specially-made fireworks ?
text: Did you knowthat Wilhelm Koppe , one of the chief Nazi Holocaust perpetrators in occupied Poland , escaped arrest and under false name managed a Bonn chocolate factory for over a decade?
text: Did you knowthat many works of the Romanian Symbolist poet Traian Demetrescu survived as popular romanzas after their author died from tuberculosis in 1896?
text: Did you knowthat Darren Heitner was a champion Nintendo video game player aged six and then defeated over 400,000 other students at age ten in a US educational poster contest run by the National Football League ?
text: Did you knowthat merchant , sugar grower and politician George Raff helped establish the Brisbane government and was the main substantiater of wool trade between Brisbane and London ?
text: Did you knowthat Gatot Soebroto , who would become a leader in the Indonesian independence movement, was expelled from elementary school for fighting?
text: Did you knowthat Dudley Ryder , a managing director of Coutts private bank for 40 years, was also a director of English Big Four bank NatWest for 19 years until he succeeded his father as 7th Earl of Harrowby ?
text: Did you knowthat Edmund Blacket became known as "the Christopher Wren of Sydney " for building four cathedrals, 80 churches and a university?
text: Did you knowthat the book South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today analyzes the animated television comedy series South Park using philosophical concepts?
text: Did you knowthat Catherine Pegge from Derbyshire had a son who was named Charles like his heirless and exiled father, Charles II of England ?
text: Did you knowthat the Christian mission founded by Florence Young on her brothers’ sugar plantation in Queensland led her to make annual trips to the Solomon Islands for twenty years?
text: Did you knowthat when Dorothy Andrews Elston married Walter Kabis, she became the first, and so far the only, Treasurer of the United States to have her name changed while in office?
text: Did you knowthat the British General John Reid , second in command in Henry Bouquet's expedition against the western and Ohio Indians , was also a proficient flute -player and a musical composer ?
text: Did you knowthat before the launch of a satellite , a group of scientists from ISRO's Master Control Facility at Hassan offer prayers to a miniature model of the satellite and donate it to a temple in Dharmasthala ?
text: Did you knowthat passengers for Lympstone Commando railway station have to pass an armed guard as the only access is through the adjacent Royal Marine Commando Training Centre ?
text: Did you knowthat the majority of St. Thomas' ciguatera cases are linked to the same species of fish , the bar jack , or Caranx ruber ?
text: Did you knowthat NBA point guard John Bagley was the first Boston College Eagle to earn Big East Men's Basketball Player of the Year honors?
text: Did you knowthat Sakina Akhundzadeh is considered the first female playwright and dramatist in Azerbaijani literature ?
text: Did you knowthat Craigiehall , a country house designed for the Earl of Annandale by Sir William Bruce in 1699, is now the headquarters of the British Army in Scotland ?
text: Did you knowthat Summit Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota , a well preserved Victorian residential boulevard, is home to three National Historic Landmarks and five other structures on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you knowthat rye and oats used to be crop-mimicking weeds before they became domesticated ?
text: Did you knowthat Martin Meehan was the first person to be convicted of membership of the Provisional IRA and the last prisoner released following the abolition of internment in Northern Ireland ?
text: Did you knowthat Madame Tussauds Hong Kong is the oldest permanent wax museum in Asia ?
text: Did you knowthat Blanca Errázuriz was acquitted of the murder of her ex-husband John de Saulles , due to the testimony of Rudolf Valentino ?
text: Did you knowthat, according to Shinto tradition, four kami , including the soul of Emperor Meiji , are enshrined at the Hokkaidō Jingū , a Shinto shrine in Sapporo , Japan ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2004, running back Mike Hart broke Ricky Powers ' Michigan Wolverines freshman rushing record and matched Jon Vaughn , the only other Michigan back with consecutive 200-yard games?
text: Did you knowthat the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall houses the remains of victims of the Nanking Massacre in a building shaped like a coffin ?
text: Did you knowthat over 60.1% of Colombian families are below the poverty threshold ?
text: Did you knowthat the Greek submarine Delfin was the second submarine to enter service in the Greek navy?
text: Did you knowthat the entire population of Exuma Island Iguanas on Leaf Cay in the Bahamas was translocated to Pasture Cay in 2002 in an effort to protect the species?
text: Did you knowthat the freshwater weed Azolla may have grown in the Arctic Ocean with enough vigour to plunge the world into an ice age ?
text: Did you knowthat North American helitack crews are airlifted into remote areas to "attack" wildland fires before they get out of control?
text: Did you knowthat in the USSR , people such as Nikolai Yezhov and Leon Trotsky were removed from photos to erase them from Soviet history?
text: Did you knowthat sky anchors combine a gas balloon for buoyancy and a superpressure balloon for ballast?
text: Did you knowthat lignosulfonates , wood pulp byproducts, are used to make concrete , tanned leather , and even artificial vanillin ?
text: Did you knowthat Polish painter and politician Henryk Józewski protected Ukrainian leader Symon Petliura from extradition to Soviet Union by hiding him in his flat?
text: Did you knowthat a translocation mutation in chromosome 11 may result in mantle cell lymphoma ?
text: Did you knowthat though Alfred Balfour was a British MP for 14 years, he made only a single speech in the House of Commons ?
text: Did you knowthat English civil engineer James Trubshaw's straightening method used on Wybunbury 's St Chad's tower in 1832 was later used to stabilise the Leaning Tower of Pisa ?
text: Did you knowthat the mother of PIRA prisoner Jackie McMullan chained herself to railings outside 10 Downing Street in London ?
text: Did you knowthat the Solomon Islands Christian Association came out of a meeting of church representatives that included the future first Prime Minister and first Governor-General ?
text: Did you knowthat the rules for a scrum in rugby union were changed in 2007 to try to reduce the number of serious neck injuries to players?
text: Did you knowthat the extinct crocodile -like Prionosuchus is the largest amphibian known to have existed?
text: Did you knowthat Admiral Clarence S. Williams , commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet , directed a 1926 military intervention to protect foreign nationals in Shanghai at the start of the Chinese Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Coat of arms of Asturias bears the Victory Cross , a Christian cross carried by King Pelagius of Asturias of Spain at the Battle of Covadonga ?
text: Did you knowthat Leonid Hurwicz , winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics at the age of ninety, is the oldest recipient of any Nobel Prize in any category?
text: Did you knowthat there is space for an additional 15,000 names to be added to the British Armed Forces Memorial ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sapporo Factory in Japan , a building complex with a shopping mall , offices, a multiplex movie theatre and a Meissen porcelain museum , was originally constructed as a brewery ?
text: Did you knowthat when British diplomat Sir Alan Campbell became ambassador to Ethiopia , he noticed people kneeling down in reverence as his car drove to the palace of Emperor Haile Selassie ?
text: Did you knowthat missionary Don Richardson discovered that aborigines of Western New Guinea have a concept called the Peace Child which is very similar to the incarnation of Jesus ?
text: Did you knowthat from 1747 to 1831, present-day Iraq was ruled by Georgian Mamluks ?
text: Did you knowthat Los Angeles considered changing the name of the geographic region known as San Fernando Valley in 2002 to San Angeles , the same name used for the fictional city in the 1993 movie Demolition Man ?
text: Did you knowthat the Solomon Islander Peter Ambuofa , who had converted to Christianity while working on a sugar plantation in Queensland , was left to starve by his own relatives when he returned home?
text: Did you knowthat in 2004, a California Senate committee passed a youth suffrage constitutional amendment called Training Wheels for Citizenship to give 14-year-olds one-quarter of a vote and 16-year-olds one-half of a vote in state elections?
text: Did you knowthat low energy ion scattering causes various phenomena at a material's surface, that are used to explore its structure and composition ?
text: Did you knowthat the accuracy of Al Gore 's An Inconvenient Truth was challenged  in the English High Court of Justice case Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills ?
text: Did you knowthat United States Presidential candidate Ron Paul has won a total of fifteen Republican straw polls , placing him second among all candidates yet remains near the bottom of statewide polls ?
text: Did you knowthat early Indian Christians were Nestorians until the arrival of Portuguese in the 16th century introducing Roman Catholicism to the country ?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas de Dundee , later Bishop of Ross , was one of three men from the small Scottish burgh of Dundee studying Roman law at the University of Bologna at the same time in the later 13th century?
text: Did you knowthat the Yorkshire Museum paid £2.5 million pounds for an item found in Yorkshire using a metal detector ?
text: Did you knowthat Mormon settlers on the 1879 San Juan Expedition to establish a colony in what is now southeastern Utah spent several months widening a " Hole-in-the-Rock " for the passage of wagons?
text: Did you knowthat the development of the Lockheed XF-104 , a single-engine, high-performance, supersonic interceptor aircraft prototype , earned aircraft engineer Kelly Johnson his first Collier Trophy in 1958?
text: Did you knowthat Elizabeth F. Ellet was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to and survived the American Revolutionary War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sauk and the British Army defeated the U.S. Army at Campbell's Island during the War of 1812 ?
text: Did you knowthat at Bougon , a prehistoric burial mound in France , archeologists found the skull of a man who had undergone three trepanations during his lifetime?
text: Did you knowthat St Lawrence's Church , a listed building in Stoak , Cheshire , England , has a Tudor hammerbeam roof , a Jacobean altar , a Georgian pulpit , an Elizabethan chalice and chairs from the time of Charles II ?
text: Did you knowthat in Bigby v. Dretke , the defendant put a gun to the judge's head, but the judge testified the assault did not bias him, and refused to recuse himself?
text: Did you knowthat the automatic tire chain system OnSpot was created in 1977 by a Swedish inventor who mounted it onto a local milk delivery truck ?
text: Did you knowthat Pat "Gravy" Patterson , the head coach of the Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 1990 , was the winningest baseball coach in the state's history ?
text: Did you knowthat Kenneth Lockwood , one of the first six British prisoners at Colditz in 1940, remained a POW until the castle was liberated in April 1945?
text: Did you knowthat Nigerian businessman Alhassan Dantata was the wealthiest person in West Africa at the time of his death in 1955?
text: Did you knowthat A Gift to Young Housewives , a Russian cookbook condemned under communism , contained nearly 4,000 recipes in some editions?
text: Did you knowthat former Belfast City Councillor Pat McGeown was a Provisional IRA volunteer referred to as the "11th hunger striker" in the 1981 Irish hunger strike ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1959, Barksdale Hamlett , the U.S. commandant in Berlin , threatened to forcefully prevent the East German government from flying its new flag over elevated railway stations in West Berlin ?
text: Did you knowthat a galdr was an incantation that Viking men chanted in falsetto ?
text: Did you knowthat the New Caledonia cricket team have lost every international they have ever played, including the only known loss by more than 500 runs ?
text: Did you knowthat four member states of the European Union have de jure opt-outs and do not participate fully in all common policies?
text: Did you knowthat the wine -producing region of Blackwood Valley is named after the longest continually flowing river in Western Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story Never Bet the Devil Your Head spoofs moral tales and Transcendentalism ?
text: Did you knowthat on September 29 , 1968 a global horizontal sounding technique superpressure balloon became the first balloon to fly for a full year?
text: Did you knowthat John Grant's moated manor near Stratford-on-Avon was chosen for storing weapons for the rebellion that was to follow the Gunpowder plot ?
text: Did you knowthat Japanese matinée idol Akira Kobayashi wore a gash across his face and large, Brezhnevian eyebrows for his role in the Seijun Suzuki yakuza film Kanto Wanderer ?
text: Did you knowthat former Portland mayor Frank Ivancie was defeated in his run for re-election by a local tavern owner with no prior political experience ?
text: Did you knowthat Negombo Tamil identity survives primarily in just one village called Udappu in Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you knowthat Eliza Jumel married former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr in 1833, only to divorce him three years later?
text: Did you knowthat the former Iraqi Air Force commander, politician and ambassador Hardan al-Tikriti was assassinated on Saddam Hussein 's orders in 1971?
text: Did you knowthat Wiley W. Hilburn was in 1962 among the youngest editorial writers for major daily newspapers in the U.S. ?
text: Did you knowthat the Red-chested Goshawk (Accipiter toussenelii) , a hawk of West Africa , was named after French journalist Alphonse Toussenel ?
text: Did you knowthat the murder of Michael Francke while he was at work became the basis of the movie Without Evidence ?
text: Did you knowthat students at the four ancient universities of Scotland are no longer afforded a traditional Meal Monday holiday, but manual staff at the University of St Andrews still are?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a mental illness is a mitigating factor in death penalty cases , but the Supreme Court of California in one case ruled that mental illness is an aggravating factor ?
text: Did you knowthat Horace Engdahl , permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy , said that The Four-Gated City is Nobel laureate Doris Lessing 's most important work?
text: Did you knowthat everything biologists know about the Small-eyed whiting (Sillago microps) came from studies conducted on two specimens found at a market in Taipei in 1985?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. Edward Smith showed that muscles did not get their energy from proteins but from fats and carbohydrates ?
text: Did you knowthat Scotland Yard introduced the murder bag forensics kit after a police officer was reported to have scooped chunks of flesh from a murder victim into a bucket with his bare hands?
text: Did you knowthat the Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha, Nebraska was almost destroyed by mob violence only five years after it was built?
text: Did you knowthat although Brian Elliott was drafted second-last in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft , he recently played a regular-season game for the Ottawa Senators ?
text: Did you knowthat Bernt Carlsson , the last United Nations Commissioner for Namibia , died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988, while travelling to the signing ceremony of the Namibian independence agreement in New York ?
text: Did you knowthat rayon fibers used to make clothes come from trees pulped using the sulfite process ?
text: Did you knowthat the Portuguese football champion has been one of S.L. Benfica , F.C. Porto or Sporting Clube de Portugal on 78 out of 86 occasions?
text: Did you knowthat by the end of 19th century, there were an estimated two thousand English language schools in the Kingdom of Mysore ?
text: Did you knowthat Lady Isle , a small Scottish island in the Firth of Clyde , is Britain's first seabird reserve?
text: Did you knowthat Shyampukur was the site of one of the two tents Jamshetji Framji Madan set up to screen films when he entered the ‘ bioscope ’ scene in Kolkata in 1902?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1963 that a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to "effective" legal counsel , but " effective " was not defined until Wiggins v. Smith in 2003?
text: Did you knowthat Swami Vipulananda was the founding Professor of Tamil at both University of Ceylon and Annamalai University ?
text: Did you knowthat the Folly Theatre , which specialised in burlesque and opéra bouffe , was originally the residence for Catholic priests of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in London ?
text: Did you knowthat 120,000 people participated in the 2005 Siyum HaShas , celebrating their completion of the eleventh 7½-year Daf Yomi study cycle, in which one folio of the 2,711-page Babylonian Talmud is studied each day?
text: Did you knowthat Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya has won the Ananda Purashkar and the Rabindra Puraskar , prestigious awards for Bengali literature , for his writing on insects and popular science ?
text: Did you knowthat Second World War bomber pilot "Micky" Martin broke the speed record flying from England to Cape Town ?
text: Did you knowthat a baby Indian Rhinoceros at the San Diego Wild Animal Park was named Ecko after fashion designer Marc Ecko donated funds to launch a campaign by the International Rhino Foundation ?
text: Did you knowthat United States v. Binion upheld the conviction of a defendant who was found guilty of obstruction of justice for feigning madness in a competence-to-stand-trial evaluation ?
text: Did you knowthat the Schuster Building in Louisville, Kentucky was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as a "significant example" of Colonial Revival architecture?
text: Did you knowthat the medieval Noraduz cemetery contains the largest cluster of khachkars ( stone crosses ) in Armenia?
text: Did you knowthat Russell Adam Burnham , the U.S. Army Soldier of the Year in 2003, became the U.S. Army Medical Command NCO of the Year in 2007?
text: Did you knowthat bromopyruvic acid , a simple inexpensive chemical, is being studied as a potential treatment for cancer?
text: Did you knowthat Rod Millen lost the 34 hour long Baja 1000 off-road race across the desert by 33 seconds, which is considered to be a photo finish ?
text: Did you knowthat Aramaean treaty-making in the first millenium BCE, as documented in the Sefire inscriptions, included loyalty oaths that invoked magical rites with curses to befall any violators?
text: Did you knowthat the Kerguelen Shag , a species of cormorant of the Kerguelen Islands , is the smallest species amongst Blue-Eyed Shags ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mahāvyutpatti is the first substantial bilingual dictionary known?
text: Did you knowthat Princess Vera Konstantinovna was the last surviving member of the Romanov family who could remember Imperial Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat George J. Adams led an ill-fated effort to establish a U.S. colony in Palestine ?
text: Did you knowthat British MP Arthur Allen became Sir Stafford Cripps ' assistant right after defeating Cripps' nephew in an election?
text: Did you knowthat technology from 18th-century France and China was used to improve the economy of Mysore kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat the city of Sapporo has the only beer museum in Japan ?
text: Did you knowthat in eighteen years, baritone William Walker performed over 360 times at New York's Metropolitan Opera ?
text: Did you knowthat one of the first discoveries of atmospheric neutrinos was made at India 's Kolar Gold Fields ?
text: Did you knowthat bibliographers determined that Edward Allde had printed early editions of William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet by comparing damaged type used in his other works?
text: Did you knowthat in 1956, The New York Times ran a front-page story featuring Winston H. Bostick ' s " plasma gun "?
text: Did you knowthat Louis Pienaar was the last Administrator-General of South West Africa before Namibian independence was declared in 1990?
text: Did you knowthat despite sweeping the elimination round of the 2007 UAAP men's basketball tournament , the University of the East was still beaten by De La Salle University-Manila 2-0 in the finals series?
text: Did you knowthat according to the U.S. landmark court case Rennie v. Klein , an involuntarily committed mental patient has a constitutional right to refuse psychiatric medication ?
text: Did you knowthat c. 300 , Egyptian alchemist Agathodaimon produced arsenic trioxide , an amphoteric oxide which he described as a 'fiery poison '?
text: Did you knowthat the killing of a gay Marvel superhero by Wolverine led to the creation of the novel Hero , whose protagonist is a gay teenager?
text: Did you knowthat a three-horse omnibus plied briefly between Dharmatala , a  neighbourhood in Kolkata , and Barrackpore in November 1830?
text: Did you knowthat the Kaiparowits Plateau in Utah contains fine details of bones , teeth , eggshells , and even tracks of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs and other animals?
text: Did you knowthat Central Asia plus Japan is an ongoing dialogue between Japan and the Central Asian republics to promote regional cooperation?
text: Did you knowthat Chicago City Council alderman Toni Preckwinkle has dissented against Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley more often than any other alderman in council votes?
text: Did you knowthat Saint Olaf's Church in Novgorod was a church especially for Vikings who stayed in Novgorod , Russia ?
text: Did you knowthat only twenty Marines have received the Marine Corps Brevet Medal ?
text: Did you knowthat Wildenstein Index Numbers are used to chronologically index works of art by specific artists ?
text: Did you knowthat the Łódź insurrection was one of the largest disturbances of the Russian Revolution of 1905 ?
text: Did you knowthat an American Revolution -era cannonball fired at Saint Paul's Church in Norfolk, Virginia was later reinserted into its wall?
text: Did you knowthat in 1975, British historian Marcus Binney founded a lobby group for the preservation of endangered historic buildings?
text: Did you knowthat the fire tower on Hunter Mountain in the Catskills is the highest in New York ?
text: Did you knowthat Polish-American historian Jerzy Jan Lerski was a member of the cichociemni , a Polish elite commando unit, during WWII ?
text: Did you knowthat Amsterdam has a concentric belt of canals around it?
text: Did you knowthat Jesse Bankston was fired as director of the Department of Hospitals for refusing to release the Louisiana Governor from involuntary commitment to a mental institution ?
text: Did you knowthat Wang Wanxing is the only person to have been released from a Chinese Ankang asylum to a Western country?
text: Did you knowthat itinerant minister Adam Payne was decapitated by a band of Potawatomi during the 1832 Black Hawk War ?
text: Did you knowthat the town of Sant'Oreste , Italy grew up around the site at which Saint Orestes was said to have been buried alive during the reign of Nero ?
text: Did you knowthat Zdzisław Peszkowski , one of the few Polish Army officers who survived the Katyn massacre , became a priest and preached forgiveness for the massacre's perpetrators?
text: Did you knowthat Patrick Ivuti 's photo finish victory in the 2007 Chicago Marathon , one of the five major marathons , was his first marathon victory?
text: Did you knowthat in 1988 , North Carolina politician Wendell H. Murphy was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine ?
text: Did you knowthat literary magazine Mundo Nuevo had to be abandoned by its founder because of a CIA scandal?
text: Did you knowthat Daniel Theron formed a military bicycle corps for the Boer Army, leading British Frederick Roberts to put a £ 1,000 reward on his head?
text: Did you knowthat Seattle 's Ballard Carnegie Library remains standing 44 years after it was sold, despite experts' claims that it would not survive an earthquake ?
text: Did you knowthat Hema Sardesai is the only Indian singer to have won the Grand Prix award at the International Pop Song Festival in Germany ?
text: Did you knowthat when Tungning forces under Koxinga captured Fort Zeelandia after a siege in 1662, they ended decades of European colonial rule in Taiwan ?
text: Did you knowthat Jack Daniels , a New Mexico politician, gave out Jack Daniel's whiskey at campaign events?
text: Did you knowthat Bashful Brother Oswald took his stage name so that it would appear that an unmarried female member of his band had a family member accompanying her?
text: Did you knowthat in the landmark case Erie v. Pap's A. M. , the Supreme Court of the United States upheld an ordinance requiring some erotic dancers to wear nipple pasties and a G-string ?
text: Did you knowthat during the St. John's University strike of 1966–7, Jewish professor Israel Kugler sought an audience with Pope Paul VI to win his support?
text: Did you knowthat in 1948 , Frank W. Mayborn , a Texas newspaper publisher, cast the tie-breaking vote to certify Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party's U.S. Senate nominee?
text: Did you knowthat while Al Jaffee created the comics character Ziggy Pig , it was Stan Lee who named him?
text: Did you knowthat the Randy Van Horne Singers performed the theme songs for many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons , including The Flintstones and The Jetsons ?
text: Did you knowthat the megalithic Niedertiefenbach tomb in Hesse , Germany has at least ten discernible layers of burials from the New Stone Age ?
text: Did you knowthat former U.S. Representative Berkley Bedell left Congress in 1986 after contracting Lyme disease from a tick bite ?
text: Did you knowthat the New South Wales Court of Arbitration is claimed to be the first court devoted to resolving labour disputes in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Ipi Tombe , a Thoroughbred racehorse , was sold for the equivalent of US$30 and went on to earn more than $1.5m in races on three continents?
text: Did you knowthat William E. Metzger opened one of the United States' first automobile dealerships and co-organized Cadillac Motor Car Co ?
text: Did you knowthat Adriana Pirtea lost the 2007 Chicago Marathon to Berhane Adere when Adere slipped down the side of the street and crossed outside of the finish-line tape?
text: Did you knowthat before becoming Prime Minister of the Central African Republic , Barthélemy Boganda was a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the French National Assembly ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Forest Service airtanker scandal resulted in millions of dollars' worth of military aircraft being illegally transferred to private companies?
text: Did you knowthat the Don Cesar beach resort in Florida is named after the title character in William Vincent Wallace 's 1845 opera Maritana ?
text: Did you knowthat the 203 BC Battle of Utica was the turning point of the Second Punic War ?
text: Did you knowthat Wilf Wild was the first Manchester City manager to win the League Championship ?
text: Did you knowthat Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar , the king of the Kingdom of Mysore in India , was also a collector and an inventor of board games ?
text: Did you knowthat Chapter XVI of the United Nations Charter declares that if there is a conflict between the UN Charter and any other treaty, the Charter will prevail?
text: Did you knowthat the academic journal African Affairs was first published to commemorate the travels of the explorer Mary Kingsley ?
text: Did you knowthat the Solarium Augusti in ancient Rome was the largest sundial in history?
text: Did you knowthat the Orthodox cave monastery in Bakota , Ukraine is said to have been founded by St. Anthony of Kiev ?
text: Did you knowthat Peter Paul Rubens produced a series of paintings depicting episodes from Marie de' Medici 's life for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris ?
text: Did you knowthat former mayor of San Jose, California Ernie Renzel was called the "Father of San Jose International Airport " for his work in establishing the city's first airport?
text: Did you knowthat the Indo-Burma barrier , a 1,624 kilometer-long barrier between India and Burma , is being built to curtail gunrunning and illicit drug trafficking ?
text: Did you knowthat legally, a Mett , a preparation of minced pork popular in Germany , is not allowed to contain more than 35% fat ?
text: Did you knowthat in Orangeville, Illinois , four of the five Registered Historic Places : Union House , Masonic Hall , People's State Bank , and Central House are all within three blocks of each other?
text: Did you knowthat Chinua Achebe 's novel A Man of the People described a coup d'état so similar to the real circumstances of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi 's rise to power in Nigeria that Achebe was suspected of knowing about the coup in advance?
text: Did you knowthat the Shrapnel Valley Cemetery at Gallipoli is named after the distinctive sound produced by shrapnel in the area?
text: Did you knowthat Jenna Bush 's book Ana's Story , about a young woman with AIDS , has been criticized for not taking a stand on her father U.S. President George W. Bush 's policies toward United Nations AIDS programs?
text: Did you knowthat the government of Burmese Prime Minister U Nu was saved from a parliamentary no confidence vote in June 1957 by the communist Burma Workers and Peasants Party ?
text: Did you knowthat the works of poet Frank Messina include responses to the September 11, 2001 attacks , and poems about the New York Mets ?
text: Did you knowthat in the post- World War I business slump, Chicago meat packing magnate J. Ogden Armour lost a million dollars a day for 130 days?
text: Did you knowthat the first ever Representative Assembly in 19th century British India was formed in the Kingdom of Mysore ?
text: Did you knowthat when John Sands excavated a ~2,000 year old building on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda he unearthed tools that the 1877 residents recognised?
text: Did you knowthat the Niedermünster in Regensburg was the wealthiest and most influential house of canonesses in Bavaria ?
text: Did you knowthat least-squares spectral analysis is a method for estimating a frequency spectrum , based on a least squares fit between data and trigonometric functions ?
text: Did you knowthat the events surrounding the lynching of Joe Coe in Omaha, Nebraska in 1891 are said to foreshadow the lynching of Willy Brown 28 years later?
text: Did you knowthat Dutch abstract artist Jules de Goede described his art by saying "A reflection of the world like it visually appears is not quite enough ... I try to show what is invisible"?
text: Did you knowthat C.W.W. Kannangara , Sri Lanka 's first Minister of Education, made education free for all children in the country?
text: Did you knowthat Clarence W. Wigington , the first African American municipal architect , designed four buildings in two cities that are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
text: Did you knowthat Joe Keenan 's 2006 novel My Lucky Star won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2007?
text: Did you knowthat Joe Mitty launched the first Oxfam charity shop in the United Kingdom , in Oxford in 1949?
text: Did you knowthat the 1945 sinking of USS Eagle 56 was classified as a boiler explosion until 2001 when historical evidence convinced the Navy to reclassify it as a combat loss due to enemy action?
text: Did you knowthat 'Dus-rong Mang-po-rje acceded to the Tibetan throne in AD 676, when he was only six or seven years old?
text: Did you knowthat the Great Wall of China has impacted the process of evolution in plants ?
text: Did you knowthat the reconstruction of the Saalburg , Germany 's most completely reconstructed Roman fort , began under Kaiser Wilhelm II ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1832 capture and execution of Lucy and James Sample by burning was one of several minor attacks of the Black Hawk War ?
text: Did you knowthat Rizwanur Rahman was charged with abducting his wife by West Bengal police after her father disapproved of the marriage?
text: Did you knowthat William Wordsworth 's poem " She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways ", an ode to loneliness and loss, is more concerned with his own emotions on the death of an unrequited love , than with the death itself?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. state of Oregon has a rail network of over 2,400 miles?
text: Did you knowthat Ethiopian Abebe Aregai saved his resistance from defeat by repeatedly misleading the Italian occupiers into thinking he was about to join their side?
text: Did you knowthat the Mona Lisa is named for Lisa del Giocondo ?
text: Did you knowthat Quentin L. Cook is the latest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles ?
text: Did you knowthat the National Mint of Jubia was created in an attempt to counter a shortage of coin production in Spain during the Peninsular War ?
text: Did you knowthat Gavrinis , an island in the Gulf of Morbihan off the coast of Brittany , France , has a rich abundance of megalithic art from the New Stone Age ?
text: Did you knowthat Vernice Armour was the first female African-American combat pilot in U.S. military history ?
text: Did you knowthat the "van" in the name of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven is a remnant of his Flemish ancestry ?
text: Did you knowthat Ann Moore - the fasting woman from Tutbury was actually from Rosliston in Derbyshire and she had not eaten "for nearly five years"?
text: Did you knowthat the Broomfield Rowhouse in Omaha, Nebraska was designed for a 1909 competition sponsored by Good Housekeeping magazine?
text: Did you knowthat railroad water stops contributed to the development of bass fishing in the 19th century United States?
text: Did you knowthat Mir Geribert defied the Count of Barcelona for nearly two decades in the 11th century , even claiming the title of Prince of Olèrdola ?
text: Did you knowthat Emir Rodríguez Monegal had a cameo in Jorge Luis Borges's 1949 short story The Other Death ?
text: Did you knowthat Friedrich Hayek 's assertion that price fluctuations are an essential part of the economy was initially rejected by his peers?
text: Did you knowthat Finnish-American Klaus Nordling is best known for his work on comic books , including the 1940s masked crimefighter " Lady Luck "?
text: Did you knowthat St. Trudpert's Abbey , a Benedictine monastery in Münstertal in the southern Black Forest , was plundered during the Peasants' War and destroyed by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War ?
text: Did you knowthat 17th century London printer Nicholas Okes printed the first quartos of Shakespeare 's King Lear and Othello ?
text: Did you knowthat future space tourists may use the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination (Quid) as currency when traveling?
text: Did you knowthat a person must be deemed competent to receive the death penalty in order to be executed , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ford v. Wainwright ?
text: Did you knowthat after his release from prison, Laurence McKeown , a former volunteer in the Provisional IRA who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike , earned a Ph.D. from Queen's University Belfast and co-founded the Belfast Film Festival ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hillsboro Police was the first law enforcement agency in Oregon to collect demographic statistics from traffic stops to combat racial profiling ?
text: Did you knowthat the Michigan Wolverines are college football 's most victorious program by total wins and percentage?
text: Did you knowthat early Seattle real estate developer George Kinnear served as the Captain of the "Home Guard" that put down the city's Anti-Chinese riots of 1885–1886?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. President Ronald Reagan timed his first proclamation of National Sanctity of Human Life Day to coincide with the anniversary of the Supreme Court 's decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion case?
text: Did you knowthat despite a Nazi ban on all sports, soccer matches with hooliganism still occurred in Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat Isaac Jefferson was a valued slave at U.S. President Thomas Jefferson 's Monticello plantation ?
text: Did you knowthat " The fate of the language ", a radio lecture in Welsh by Saunders Lewis on February 13 , 1962 , was the catalyst for the formation of the pressure group Welsh Language Society ?
text: Did you knowthat Tyolet is an anonymous 13th century Breton lai in Francien which shares elements with Chrétien de Troyes ' Le Conte du Graal ?
text: Did you knowthat Outhwaite Park in Auckland , New Zealand , is named after early settlers, the Outhwaite family ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2000, Tony Blair established a commission to review how the British co-operative movement could be modernized?
text: Did you knowthat Colonel William H. Wilbur of the United States Army received the Medal of Honor for attempting to arrange an armistice with Vichy French forces in Casablanca and then leading an assault on an artillery battery during Operation Torch ?
text: Did you knowthat the megalithic Altendorf tomb in Hesse , Germany contains bones from at least 235 individuals from the New Stone Age ?
text: Did you knowthat segregated seating known as ghetto ławkowe (" ghetto desks" or "ghetto benches") were introduced in Polish universities in the late 1930s, primarily for Jewish students?
text: Did you knowthat the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island includes three books bound in human skin ?
text: Did you knowthat the Fehr Round Barn , the Otte Round Barn and the Harbach Round Barn are three of 21 round barns that were built in Stephenson County, Illinois during the early 20th century?
text: Did you knowthat the Susukino district was established as a red-light district in Sapporo , Japan in 1871 to keep labourers in Hokkaidō ?
text: Did you knowthat most land south of latitude 40°S is part of the Antarctic Floristic Kingdom , with plant species that remain closely related despite their physical separation, dating back to the prehistoric southern hemisphere supercontinent of Gondwana ?
text: Did you knowthat English clergyman Ralph Tollemache gave his many children increasingly eccentric names, such as that of British Army officer Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache ?
text: Did you knowthat in his book James the Brother of Jesus , Robert Eisenman contends that the Twelve Apostles were in fact an artificially expanded replacement of the factual smaller circle of the brothers of Jesus ?
text: Did you knowthat Nellie Farren was best known for her roles as the " principal boy " in burlesques at the Gaiety Theatre in London ?
text: Did you knowthat Simon Girty 's son Mike called Potawatomi chiefs Waubonsee and Shabbona cowards when they opposed Sauk Chief Black Hawk in the 1832 Black Hawk War ?
text: Did you knowthat a dispute about S$ 60 has led to a court appeal amounting to over S$120,000 in legal costs?
text: Did you knowthat moot hills in Scotland were mostly artificial mounds built as traditional meeting places for de facto lairdly courts and courts of law?
text: Did you knowthat an Ivorian air attack in 2004 which killed 9 and wounded 37 French soldiers on a UN peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire prompted a retaliation that annihilated the Air Force of Côte d'Ivoire on the same day?
text: Did you knowthat the Ephraim Smith House is the only unaltered Greek Revival rural house in Kane County , Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat construction of the Brussels-Charleroi Canal was ordered several times over nearly 400 years before work finally began in 1827?
text: Did you knowthat 16th century Scottish Bishop of Ross Henry Sinclair was simultaneously Lord President of the Court of Session , and was succeeded in that office by his brother, John Sinclair , Bishop of Brechin ?
text: Did you knowthat Lake Karla is the only lake in the plain of Thessaly ?
text: Did you knowthat South African rugby player Jannie du Plessis is both a physician and professional athlete?
text: Did you knowthat Godfrey Howitt had to wait over ten years for his family to visit him in Victoria and in the same year he also played host to three Pre-Raphaelite artists?
text: Did you knowthat the 13th century Prussian Crusade commanded by Hermann Balk led to the conquest and gradual Christianization of the Old Prussians by the Teutonic Knights ?
text: Did you knowthat Czech fighter pilot Otto Spacek survived three air crashes and won five Czechoslovak War Crosses during the Second World War , but then spent 40 years in exile in Canada after the Communists came to power?
text: Did you knowthat Dykes on Bikes have regularly participated at gay pride events, such as Pride parades , Dyke Marches , and other LGBT events, such as the Gay Olympics , since 1976?
text: Did you knowthat in the landmark decision United States v. Oppenheimer , the U.S. Supreme Court held that the common law principle of res judicata applies to criminal cases?
text: Did you knowthat Chicago Police Department Police Commander Jon Burge was absolved of responsibility for police brutality and torture by statute of limitations after a $ 17 million investigation of 148 cases?
text: Did you knowthat the first ever Ranji Trophy cricket match, played in the year 1933 between Mysore and Madras teams, is the only game in the history of the Ranji Trophy to have been completed in a single day?
text: Did you knowthat Sting won a Grammy Award for the 1980 The Police instrumental " Behind My Camel " (as a band member) even though he didn't play on it, hated it, and even buried the tape of it in a garden?
text: Did you knowthat Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee originally served as Florida 's first penitentiary ?
text: Did you knowthat Nathaniel Butter published the first English newspaper ?
text: Did you knowthat the idea of spoofing Soviet radars' blip-to-scan ratio led to the design of the Convair KINGFISH and Lockheed A-12 high-speed aircraft?
text: Did you knowthat the cuisine of Gibraltar includes Maltese , Genoese and Portuguese influences?
text: Did you knowthat Naval Aircraft Factory PN flying boats were a series of US patrol aircraft in the 1920s and 1930s?
text: Did you knowthat German physical chemist Max Volmer became head of a design bureau for the production of heavy water in the Soviet Union after the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat English biochemist Ernest Baldwin (1909 – 1969) was a pioneer in the field of comparative biochemistry ?
text: Did you knowthat Dutch 19th century scientist Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff was his country's War Minister for 10 months?
text: Did you knowthat British farmer Sir Nigel Strutt , great-nephew of Nobel Prize -winning physicist Lord Rayleigh , declined an offer of peerage , as did his great-great-grandfather, Joseph Holden Strutt ?
text: Did you knowthat whether Gaius Stertinius Xenophon , a Roman physician , was involved in the death of Claudius is debated to this day?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Honeck , an American murder convict, was freed after serving 64 years of a life sentence , reputedly the longest prison term which ended in parole ?
text: Did you knowthat Singaporean Venerable Ho Yuen Hoe worked nineteen-hour days hairdressing for nearly thirty years, and used the money to open a nursing home at age 61?
text: Did you knowthat both ancient and modern examples of Roman brick have similar proportions?
text: Did you knowthat the 1½ km long Odori Park which bisects the Japanese city of Sapporo was originally intended as the city's main street?
text: Did you knowthat Russian pastor Gennadi Kryuchkov led his illegal Baptist organisation for 20 years in the USSR while hiding from the KGB ?
text: Did you knowthat Dutch linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk published a Batak - Dutch dictionary to enable him to translate the Bible into Batak in 1861, and his posthumous trilingual Kawi - Balinese - Dutch dictionary was republished in English in 1971?
text: Did you knowthat the EPA 's lead and copper rule restricts allowable lead levels in drinking water to 15 parts per billion ?
text: Did you knowthat the first Swedish alphabet book , the Runa ABC , was mainly intended to teach the runic alphabet in an attempt to supplant the Latin one?
text: Did you knowthat R. C. Evans , an apostle in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , became the leader of a schismatic sect in 1918 after concluding that Joseph Smith, Jr. was a false prophet ?
text: Did you knowthat Major-General John Hill rose high as a courtier and officer in the British Army in the reign of Queen Anne , becoming Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance despite having no particular military ability?
text: Did you knowthat Mary Howitt wrote " The Spider and the Fly " (the poem parodied in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) and 120 other books, and translated Hans Christian Anderson ?
text: Did you knowthat the National Bike Registry is a database in the United States that has helped to identify and return stolen bicycles and scooters to their rightful owners since 1984 ?
text: Did you knowthat a tasting room for Twisted Oak Winery in Murphys, California is located in a building that was once the childhood home of Albert Abraham Michelson , the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Physics ?
text: Did you knowthat Apo Reef in Sablayan , Mindoro is the world's second-largest contiguous coral reef system and the largest in the Philippines ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1955 novel Teneke by Turkish author Yaşar Kemal was adapted into an Italian opera of the same title by Fabio Vacchi in 2007?
text: Did you knowthat the Chinese national basketball team is guaranteed of a berth in the upcoming Olympics despite finishing ninth in the FIBA Asia Championship 2007 ?
text: Did you knowthat 16th century Indian musician-composer Miyan Tansen laid the foundations of Hindustani classical music by mixing Sufi and Bhakti musical traditions ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hillsboro Civic Center was only the second city hall in America to earn an LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council ?
text: Did you knowthat some editions of Tom Wolfe 's first published book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby , quoted Kurt Vonnegut , "Verdict: Excellent book by a genius", but omitted the rest of his quote, "who will do anything to get attention"?
text: Did you knowthat the Baal teshuva movement refers to the phenomenon that began during the mid- 20th century , whereby large numbers of previously highly-assimilated Jews chose to move in the direction of practicing Judaism ?
text: Did you knowthat Dominique Strauss-Kahn , recently elected president of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was a member of the Union of Communist Students in his youth?
text: Did you knowthat the Freedman's Savings Bank , created in 1865 for emancipated African-Americans , had 19 branches in 12 states and assets worth $3.7 million at the height of its success?
text: Did you knowthat the Building of Bath Museum was originally constructed in 1765 as a chapel for Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon ?
text: Did you knowthat Nils Alwall initiated the treatment for two of the longest known survivors on dialysis worldwide over 35 years ago?
text: Did you knowthat Lord Canning wanted to build a port at Canning , now in West Bengal , that could rival Singapore but gave up when the Matla River surged its fury on the new port town in 1867?
text: Did you knowthat " On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog " is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker magazine, and its title a phrase still used around the world?
text: Did you knowthat over 130,000 species of plants from Colombia have been described?
text: Did you knowthat the first drive thru in the United States is at Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop along U.S. Route 66 in Springfield, Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tsalenjikha Cathedral , a medieval cathedral in Georgia , is decorated with murals of Byzantine Palaeologan art from the 12th to 14th centuries?
text: Did you knowthat English inventor Edward Butler produced an early three-wheeled automobile capable of travelling up to 10 mph, but was prevented from adequately testing it because it exceeded the legislated speed limit of 4 mph at the time?
text: Did you knowthat although William Quesse was convicted of conspiracy in 1922, less than five years later his union was one of the most politically powerful organizations in Chicago ?
text: Did you knowthat Prince Dimitri Romanov is the first member of the Romanov dynasty to be married in Russia since its fall in 1917?
text: Did you knowthat Reinald , a 13th century Cistercian monk and Bishop of Ross , was nicknamed Macer , French for "skinny"?
text: Did you knowthat the tamburi , the principal drone instrument in Carnatic music to this day, was introduced during the Vijayanagara era in India ?
text: Did you knowthat George P. Kane , Marshall of Police in Baltimore, Maryland , was imprisoned in Fort McHenry along with Mayor George William Brown and pro-South members of the city council by the Northern Army during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat Church of Scotland clergyman William Couper protested against the introduction of episcopacy in 1606, but became Bishop of Galloway four years later?
text: Did you knowthat the Blackstone Hotel in Omaha, Nebraska introduced both the Reuben sandwich and Butter Brickle ice cream to the world?
text: Did you knowthat Ali Murtopo laid down the party platform for Sekber Golkar , which was instrumental to the party's success in the 1971 legislative elections and the transition to the New Order in Indonesia ?
text: Did you knowthat American trade union leader William McFetridge switched from Democrat to Republican in 1948 and supported Thomas E. Dewey for president even though Dewey had successfully prosecuted his predecessor for labor racketeering ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles B. Thompson , who had converted to Mormonism in 1835, later claimed to be the reincarnation of the biblical figure Ephraim and established a communitarian commune with his followers in Iowa ?
text: Did you knowthat the legislator from Kultali was sentenced by the Kolkata High Court , in 2005, to life imprisonment in a case where a mob dragged two persons out of their house and tortured them to death?
text: Did you knowthat every autumn more than 23,000 Common Cranes stop at Matsalu National Park in Estonia , making it the biggest autumn stopping ground of Common Cranes in Europe?
text: Did you knowthat about 22% of all reported species of mammals in Colombia are endangered or critically endangered ?
text: Did you knowthat the once-standing Palmer Mansion in Chicago , Illinois , had a self-supported spiral staircase which rose 80 feet into a tower?
text: Did you knowthat natural oil polyols from soy beans are used to make car parts and mattresses?
text: Did you knowthat Dale Houston and his singing partner Grace Broussard, both performed as Dale and Grace while singing with other singers?
text: Did you knowthat in 1986 the Basque coat of arms had one of its quarters removed following a legal suit by the Navarre Government claiming that the usage of the arms of a region on the arms of another was illegal?
text: Did you knowthat Anne Montgomery , who has been a sportscaster for several local television stations as well as SportsCenter , was the first female football referee in Arizona ?
text: Did you knowthat in graph theory , a pseudoforest can contain trees and pseudotrees, but cannot contain any butterflies, diamonds, handcuffs, or bicycles?
text: Did you knowthat the John R. Oughton House was used to house patients from the Keeley Institute , where over 400,000 people were treated for alcoholism with injections of "bichloride of gold" from 1879 to 1930?
text: Did you knowthat Tikigaq Inuit children attending public school in Point Hope, Alaska can take a three-week whaling class to learn specific whaling traditions and skills?
text: Did you knowthat Holmöarna , an island group in the Gulf of Bothnia , forms the largest island nature reserve in Sweden ?
text: Did you knowthat the design for the 1941 Art Moderne Illinois State Police Office in Pontiac was also used for the state police headquarters building in Rock Island, Illinois ?
text: Did you knowthat the seeds of Capparis masaikai found in Yunnan , China contain mabinlins , sweet -tasting proteins more than 100 times sweeter than sucrose on a weight basis?
text: Did you knowthat Icelandic operatic soprano Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir, better known as Diddú , began her singing career in the 1970s with a folk and pop group ?
text: Did you knowthat gold was first discovered in Oregon in 1850 in the Illinois Valley near Cave Junction, Oregon , the same valley in which a 17-pound gold nugget was found, the largest in Oregon history?
text: Did you knowthat the ashes of hillwalker and author Alfred Wainwright lie in his favourite fell , Haystacks in the Western Fells of the English Lake District ?
text: Did you knowthat Romanian writer Dumitru Ţepeneag was a founding member of the Oniric group, an avante garde aesthetic movement, which tries to describe a world which cannot be seen?
text: Did you knowthat the autobiography has been called the oldest form of Egyptian literature ?
text: Did you knowthat in April 1999, Australian Justice Carolyn Simpson joined Margaret Beazley and Virginia Bell to form the first all-female bench to sit in Australia , England or New Zealand ?
text: Did you knowthat singer Al Bernard , known as "The Boy From Dixie", helped popularize W.C. Handy 's blues songs, and also recorded as the female half of a vocal duo with Ernie Hare ?
text: Did you knowthat King Narasaraja Wodeyar II , who ruled over the Indian Kingdom of Mysore for a decade in the 18th century, was either mute or preferred to remain silent throughout his rule?
text: Did you knowthat political donations in Australia up to $ 1500 were made tax-deductible in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat Ethel Benjamin was the first woman in the British Empire to present a legal case in court ?
text: Did you knowthat a street corner in New York City is named after IRA member Joe Doherty , who was convicted in absentia for the murder of the highest ranking SAS officer killed during The Troubles ?
text: Did you knowthat Kelbessa Negewo was charged with murder in his home country of Ethiopia after one of the women who claims he tortured her discovered him working as a bellhop in an Atlanta , Georgia hotel elevator?
text: Did you knowthat the arcade conversion of the 2001 video game Ballistics features a unique reclined seating cabinet ?
text: Did you knowthat Cosa Nostra boss Gerlando Alberti , on his arrest in 1980, claimed that he thought that Mafia was a kind of cheese ?
text: Did you knowthat architect Frank Lloyd Wright's belief that banks should not "put on the airs of a temple of worship" is reflected in the design of the 1905 Frank L. Smith Bank ?
text: Did you knowthat Sam Ormerod was the first manager to gain promotion to the First Division , the highest level of English football , with Manchester City F.C. ?
text: Did you knowthat the Global Community Communication Alliance , an Arizona religious sect led by the New Age figure Gabriel of Sedona, has been compared by the media to the Heaven's Gate group?
text: Did you knowthat Spanish soldier Manuel la Peña was widely regarded as incompetent, but rose to become Captain General of Andalusia in the Napoleonic Peninsular War ?
text: Did you knowthat wood paneling from the ruins of Colden Mansion in Montgomery, New York is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1924 , the Calgary Tigers became the first ice hockey team from Calgary to compete for the Stanley Cup ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. Route 70 runs across the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico , and can be closed several times per week for missile tests?
text: Did you knowthat relative volatility in a liquid mixture of chemicals measures the difficulty of separating them by distillation ?
text: Did you knowthat Dr. John Stevenson , 18th century Scottish merchant and developer of Baltimore , was known as the " American Romulus "?
text: Did you knowthat after hundreds of years of construction and use, few gunpowder magazines remain in the United Kingdom as gunpowder has not been manufactured there since 1976?
text: Did you knowthat NW Natural in Portland, Oregon was the first gas company in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States when it started in 1859?
text: Did you knowthat Hampshire and England cricketer Derek Shackleton took over 100 wickets in 20 consecutive seasons of first-class cricket ?
text: Did you knowthat although William McFetridge retired as president of BSEIU in 1960, his successor, David Sullivan , fought him for control of the union until 1964?
text: Did you knowthat Anglo-Sudanese entrepreneur Mo Ibrahim is offering a US$ 5 million prize, plus $200,000 a year for life, to an African leader whose term as head of state meets certain criteria?
text: Did you knowthat David Quinn , a first-round selection in the 1984 National Hockey League entry draft , was forced to retire before turning professional due to being diagnosed with Christmas disease ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1901, Dombrau , a village in Karviná District , Moravian-Silesian Region , Czech Republic , was bought by a member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria ?
text: Did you knowthat British Member of Parliament Alfred Edwards , a Christian Scientist , campaigned to allow Christian Science Nurses to call themselves "Nurses" despite not being registered ?
text: Did you knowthat the Old Loggers Path , a loop hiking trail in Lycoming County , Pennsylvania , uses old logging railroad grades and roads, and its trailhead is a lumber ghost town ?
text: Did you knowthat the inscription on the memorial stone of Ingram de Ketenis is the earliest known English inscription north of the River Forth ?
text: Did you knowthat Julius Joseph Overbeck was unable to be received into the Orthodox Church as a priest for his Western Rite project because he had married after his ordination as a Roman Catholic priest?
text: Did you knowthat female bolas spiders attract moth prey by mimicry of sex pheromones ?
text: Did you knowthat Halotus was an Ancient Roman royal servant who, despite being a prime suspect in the poisoning of Claudius in 54 AD , was granted royal stewardship by Galba in 68 AD , even when the public was calling for his death?
text: Did you knowthat in 2002, two firefighting airtankers crashed after their wings came off in flight, revealing safety problems that led to the permanent grounding of almost the entire U.S. fleet of tankers?
text: Did you knowthat the residents of Basanti and other deltaic islands in the Indian part of the Sundarbans thanked the French author Dominique Lapierre for the floating dispensaries he had provided?
text: Did you knowthat the Hilton Hotels brand, Waldorf-Astoria, is attempting to expand its brand beyond the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel , with new hotels such as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Residence Tower in Chicago?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Edward Tomkins , British Ambassador to the Netherlands and then France in the 1970s, owned Winslow Hall , a house often attributed to Christopher Wren , for nearly 50 years?
text: Did you knowthat diamonds have been known in India for at least 3000 years, but most likely 6000 years?
text: Did you knowthat facilitating, or "grease" payments to foreign officials, unlike bribes , are lawful under U.S. law , but still considered to be questionable from the point of view of business ethics ?
text: Did you knowthat Aaron Sapiro , a Jewish-American lawyer and cooperative organizer in the farmers' movement of the 1920s, won a court case against Henry Ford for antisemitic comments in his book The International Jew ?
text: Did you knowthat Horseferry Road takes its name from a horse-ferry from The Embankment to Lambeth Stairs, once one of the most important Thames crossings in London , and which was owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury ?
text: Did you knowthat the first gas works in the United Kingdom was built by the Gas Light and Coke Company , incorporated by Royal Charter in 1812 with a share capitalisation of £ 1m (approximately £9bn at today's prices)?
text: Did you knowthat, prior to English physicist C.G. Darwin ’s 1952 conception of man as a human molecule , in 1813 British chemist Humphry Davy had compared man to a " point atom "?
text: Did you knowthat the song " Swanee " was written in ten minutes by George Gershwin and Irving Caesar , and sold over two million copies after being recorded by Al Jolson in 1919?
text: Did you knowthat the May 1945 Battle of Kurylowka was one of the biggest clashes fought between the NKVD and Polish anti-communist resistance ?
text: Did you knowthat the French physician and agronomist Jules Guyot revolutionized the training of grape vines , and the Guyot-system is extensively used throughout vineyards in Europe?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Jennings won the 1977 U.S. Open 14.1 Pocket Billiards Championship by coming back from a score of 196–42 to win by a score of 200–197, an event called the best comeback in billiards history?
text: Did you knowthat fighting during the 1998 Six-Day War of Abkhazia actually lasted for more than six days?
text: Did you knowthat actor Frederick Baltimore Calvert toured America lecturing on the English poets and then toured England talking about America ?
text: Did you knowthat the namesake for Hondo Dog Park in Hillsboro, Oregon , won an award for valor just weeks before being killed in the line of duty?
text: Did you knowthat the Orthodox Church of France is a Western Rite Orthodox church that uses a restored Gallican liturgy known as the Divine Liturgy of Saint Germain ?
text: Did you knowthat the Italian invasion of Albania was launched by Benito Mussolini in April 1939 as a response to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia , and was completed within five days?
text: Did you knowthat players had to submit their turns by ZX Microdrive cartridge in the play by mail version of video game Dark Sceptre ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1999 Athens earthquake and the 1999 İzmit earthquake , which happened less than a month earlier, gave rise to the " Greek-Turkish earthquake diplomacy "?
text: Did you knowthat labour law expert Ron McCallum is the first totally blind person to have been appointed to a full professorship at any university in Australia or New Zealand ?
text: Did you knowthat the Belgian French Community Holiday celebrates a victory over the Dutch army , while the Dutch speaking region 's holiday celebrates a victory over the French army ?
text: Did you knowthat Korean independence activist Jang In-hwan used Arthur Schopenhauer 's " patriotic insanity " defense when on trial for the murder of Japan lobbyist Durham Stevens , in San Francisco in 1908?
text: Did you knowthat from 1985 through 2004, about seventy-five honey collectors from Gosaba and the surrounding areas of West Bengal were killed by tigers in the forests of Sundarbans , but none since?
text: Did you knowthat an essential component for hillclimbing cars is named after racing driver Patsy Burt , who was once said to be a "waste of a beautiful motor car"?
text: Did you knowthat release of the award-winning film Lost in Beijing was delayed in part because censors insisted on removing a scene of a Mercedes-Benz driving through a puddle-filled pothole ?
text: Did you knowthat new bacterial species names are not considered valid until published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology ?
text: Did you knowthat three 500-goal scorers appeared on a single hockey team for the first time during the 2001–02 Detroit Red Wings season , helping the team to win their tenth Stanley Cup ?
text: Did you knowthat British Conservative MP Richard Hornby unsuccessfully challenged former Prime Minister and Labour leader Clement Attlee before securing a safe seat?
text: Did you knowthat Teamsters president Dave Beck invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 117 times before a U.S. Senate investigating committee?
text: Did you knowthat two Dutch professors who lost an article written by Samuel Iperusz Wiselius were nonetheless to join him in forming the Batavian Republic in the Netherlands ?
text: Did you knowthat New World , the first and largest family-oriented amusement park in Singapore , was known for its striptease , cabaret girls, and wrestling matches during its heyday?
text: Did you knowthat Dennis Spurgeon , formerly chief operating officer at uranium supplier USEC Inc. , became U.S. Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat some of Frank Sinatra 's recordings of the 1964 song " My Kind of Town " change the original lyrics to omit reference to the Union Stock Yard which closed in 1971?
text: Did you knowthat the 1476 edition of Giovanni Boccaccio 's De casibus virorum illustrium by Flemish printer Colard Mansion was the first printed book with engraved illustrations?
text: Did you knowthat Oregon pioneer Levi Scott is the namesake for a town, a valley, and a mountain, as well as the highest peak in Crater Lake National Park ?
text: Did you knowthat the play Charlie Victor Romeo has a script consisting of the almost-verbatim cockpit voice recorder transcripts from six real-life air disasters ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2001 GMAC Bowl set a record as the highest-scoring bowl game in college football history even before it went into overtime ?
text: Did you knowthat Walter Scott 's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake is in six cantos , each of which concerns the action of a single day?
text: Did you knowthat Silma Ihram decided to found Al-Noori Muslim Primary School in Greenacre , New South Wales after Presbyterian Ladies' College would not allow her daughters to wear hijabs in school?
text: Did you knowthat in 1921 the United States Department of State mailed out invitations for the Second International Eugenics Conference around the world?
text: Did you knowthat under the 1557 Edict of Compiègne all those who travelled to Geneva or published books in this Protestant city could be put to death?
text: Did you knowthat mountains are sometimes bombed to trigger small avalanches and thus prevent larger, more dangerous ones?
text: Did you knowthat the three-month Great Tea Race of 1866 to bring tea to London from China almost ended in a tie?
text: Did you knowthat the Tibetan Empire reached its greatest extent under Ralpacan ' s rule from 815 to 838 CE?
text: Did you knowthat Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Nancy Montanez Johner has suggested changing the name of the Food Stamp Program ?
text: Did you knowthat The Victim , a 2006 Thai horror-thriller film, was shot on locations of actual crime scenes?
text: Did you knowthat Republican Jerry Sonnenberg was the only member of the largest class of freshman legislators in the history of the Colorado House of Representatives to be elected to an open seat without opposition?
text: Did you knowthat Somerset cricket captain Jack Meyer was entrusted with the education of seven Indian boys, six of them princes, and founded the Millfield School to do so?
text: Did you knowthat the Alicante Bouschet is the only Vitis vinifera wine grape with red juice ?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Fulco , a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1956 and 1972 , was once honored on his House floor by the government of Italy for his long involvement in Italian American causes?
text: Did you knowthat the Hudson River Historic District is, at 35 square miles (89 km²), the largest Registered Historic District in the contiguous United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the haor located in north-eastern Bangladesh , is a bowl-shaped depression with such vast stretches of turbulent water that it is thought of as a sea during a monsoon ?
text: Did you knowthat Eagle River, Wisconsin is known as the " Snowmobile Capital of the World" because it hosts the World Championship Snowmobile Derby ?
text: Did you knowthat Washington Ellsworth Lindsey became the third Governor of New Mexico after his predecessor died while in office?
text: Did you knowthat a silver dish thought to be the Ancient Roman Risley Park Lanx was on display in the British Museum for several years before being determined to be a complete fabrication?
text: Did you knowthat the new airport being constructed near Islamabad , Pakistan will be named Gandhara International Airport , after the ancient kingdom Gandhara ?
text: Did you knowthat Haiti has the lowest coverage of electricity in the Western Hemisphere , with only about 12.5% of the population having regular access to electricity ?
text: Did you knowthat Lesbian wines were some of the most highly sought after wines of the Ancient Greeks ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1512, the 2nd Marquess of Dorset unsuccessfully led an English army to France to reconquer Aquitaine , which had been lost during the Hundred Years' War ?
text: Did you knowthat safety Don Dufek was cut from the Seattle Seahawks four times?
text: Did you knowthat Alexandre Bontemps , senior head valet to Louis XIV of France , was a rich and powerful figure, feared by courtiers , whose behaviour was reported to him by the Swiss Guard ?
text: Did you knowthat no viable solution has yet been found to counteract radiation from space , which is a serious threat to astronauts on any future mission to Mars ?
text: Did you knowthat Norma Elizabeth Boyd , founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, was a United Nations observer in 1949 and supported the Principle 10 of the Declaration of Human Rights ?
text: Did you knowthat John Straffen , a triple child-killer who escaped from Broadmoor , served 55 years in prison becoming the longest-serving prisoner in British history?
text: Did you knowthat R Family Vacations offered the first all- gay and lesbian family vacation packages where LGBT parents can bring their children?
text: Did you knowthat Thomas Bancroft ' s Times out of Tune (1658) includes verses against whoring , gluttony , alcoholism , hedonism , lying , pride in clothing , betrayal , ambition , cowardice , and the abuse of poetry ?
text: Did you knowthat Hadspen House has been owned by the family of Henry Hobhouse since 1785?
text: Did you knowthat Michigan Wolverines football player Bill Yearby was an All-American football player as well as a champion shot putter who the coaches felt could have starred for the Wolverines basketball team?
text: Did you knowthat until Darren Cheeseman ' s win in 2007 , the Australian seat of Corangamite had not been won by a Labor candidate in over 70 years?
text: Did you knowthat during the winter the Romans of the Mosel wine region would drink their wine hot like a tea ?
text: Did you knowthat the green-flag wielding Republican Army defeated the Spanish forces during the Battle of Rosillo at Salado Creek in San Antonio and established the first Texas Republic in April 1813 ?
text: Did you knowthat Ornatifilum is likely to be the oldest known fossil fungus ?
text: Did you knowthat although Ohio State Buckeye Archie Griffin defended the Heisman Trophy in 1975, Michigan Wolverines football player Gordon Bell won the 1975 Big Ten rushing championship?
text: Did you knowthat certain biological neuron models are a literally spherical cow , in that the cell is approximated to be a sphere?
text: Did you knowthat William Scrots , King's Painter to Henry VIII and his son Edward VI , was paid a salary twice as large as that of his predecessor, Hans Holbein ?
text: Did you knowthat Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority founder, Margaret Flagg Holmes and her husband were received by Pope Pius XI in 1931?
text: Did you knowthat KGB head Ivan Serov did not go on tour in Britain as planned because the British press labelled him "Ivan the Terrible"?
text: Did you knowthat Irena Iłłakowicz , a secret agent of the Polish resistance during WWII , was formerly married to a Persian prince?
text: Did you knowthat Michigan Wolverines football player Jim Pace not only won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Most Valuable Player in the Big Ten Conference, but also won the Big Ten 60-yard indoor dash title?
text: Did you knowthat in 1866 Polish exilees to Siberia staged an uprising trying to escape to China ?
text: Did you knowthat Sam Little , a retired farmer from Bastrop, Louisiana , was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives by a margin of only 9 votes out of 7,863 cast in a low-turnout contest?
text: Did you knowthat as cricket in Ireland is organised on an All-Ireland basis, a team representing Northern Ireland has appeared just once, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games cricket tournament ?
text: Did you knowthat Queensland MP Peter Wellington held the balance of power for four months, until a by-election allowed the Australian Labor Party to form a majority government ?
text: Did you knowthat, after hitting another driver from behind in heavy traffic, screenwriter Jennifer Philbin and her husband Michael Schur raised $ 26,000 for charity in a retaliation campaign instead of paying $840 to fix the driver's broken bumper?
text: Did you knowthat in 1902, 23-year-old British archaeozoologist Dorothea Bate discovered a new species of dwarf elephant in a cave on the island of Cyprus ?
text: Did you knowthat Pundravardhana was a territory, mostly in present-day Bangladesh , of the Pundras, a group of non- Aryan people, dating back to 8th - 7th centuries BC ?
text: Did you knowthat Neil Riser , an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Columbia, Louisiana , began working at the age of fourteen as a logger ?
text: Did you knowthat the urn atop Charles Bulfinch 's grave in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts , U.S. once stood at the center of Franklin Place , Boston ?
text: Did you knowthat the mythical Connla's Well , home to the Salmon of Wisdom , is the legendary source of the Shannon and Boyne Rivers as well as Irish poetic inspiration?
text: Did you knowthat Etaples Military Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in France , with over 11,500 burials ?
text: Did you knowthat Fred Ryan was instrumental in the development of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library ?
text: Did you knowthat the Kiva Koffeehouse in the Canyons of the Escalante was designed by Bradshaw Bowman, the inventor of Bomanite , on property his family has owned since homesteading it in the 1860s ?
text: Did you knowthat James Wayne "Jim" Tucker of suburban New Orleans will in 2008 become the first Republican Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives since Reconstruction ?
text: Did you knowthat Betzy Kjelsberg , a Norwegian member of the international feminist movement , founded or co-founded six women's rights associations and organizations?
text: Did you knowthat Jim Hermiston , a member of the Aberdeen FC "Hall of Fame" , was cited for bravery after intervening in a bank robbery in Brisbane in 1999?
text: Did you knowthat Asit Kumar Haldar was the first Indian fellow at the Royal Society of Arts ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bristol Packers American football team won every game in its debut season, but failed to win any in its final year?
text: Did you knowthat Robert L. Howard received his Congressional Medal of Honor while part of a Hatchet Force operating near the Laos – Cambodia border during the Vietnam War in 1968 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Lachine massacre , in which Iroquois warriors destroyed a New France settlement on Montreal Island , was instigated by English forces in New York following the declaration of King William's War ?
text: Did you knowthat the field of DNA nanotechnology has used the unique molecular recognition properties of DNA to construct two-dimensional lattices, nanomechanical devices , computers , polyhedra, and even a smiley face out of DNA?
text: Did you knowthat Henry Lomb became a co-founder of the Bausch & Lomb Company when he loaned $60 to his friend John Jacob Bausch ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1846, Albert Tirrell became the first to successfully use sleepwalking as a defense for murder and arson in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Rennie joined the New Zealand Army at age 16, to prove to himself 20 months in hospital hadn't crippled him, and went on to become Colonel?
text: Did you knowthat American federal judge James Alger Fee ruled in 1942 that Minoru Yasui lost his U.S. citizenship after Yasui had worked for the Japanese consulate until the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
text: Did you knowthat the 6th Canadian Infantry Division was raised in 1942 and disbanded in 1945 without having taken part in any World War II fighting?
text: Did you knowthat Dennis Franklin was the first African American quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines football team?
text: Did you knowthat the Lombardy wine region of Franciacorta produces a style of sparkling wine that is more bubbly than frizzante but has less carbon dioxide than most sparkling wines?
text: Did you knowthat scientists have used microbaroms for inverse remote sensing of the upper atmosphere?
text: Did you knowthat the first Earl of Wiltshire was a Breton viscount, Harvey of Léon , who served Stephen of England in the first phase of the civil war called the Anarchy ?
text: Did you knowthat  royal favourites were often compared to mushrooms , as they sprang up overnight, and grew in excrement ?
text: Did you knowthat " Here I Am ", the song chosen for the winner of Australian Idol 2007 to release as a single , has been heavily criticised by both finalists?
text: Did you knowthat William Hopper became the founder Chairman of the Institute for Fiscal Studies with hopes that it would lead to a more rational system of taxation in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat Bob Timberlake , an unsuccessful placekicker for the New York Giants who made only 1 of 15 field goal attempts in his NFL career, was an award-winning quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines before he was drafted in 1965 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mosque of the Rose in Istanbul is so named because on the day of the Fall of Constantinople the building was adorned with garlands of roses ?
text: Did you knowthat the title of Dan Castellaneta 's album of comedy sketches I Am Not Homer is a parody of Leonard Nimoy 's first autobiography I Am Not Spock ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1659 English play The English Moor , noted for its use of blackface make-up, one main character implies that Blacks and Whites are created equal by God?
text: Did you knowthat Project Lauren is the codename for an unannounced British airline that will provide service between the U.S. and continental Europe, bypassing the U.K., and that aircraft have already been acquired?
text: Did you knowthat June Bride , filmed with two versions of a dialog naming the candidates to the 1948 U.S presidency, opened in theaters with the wrong future president?
text: Did you knowthat John Mawe , who studied the mineralogy of Derbyshire , was arrested as a spy in 1805 before publishing accounts of his travels in Brazil ?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Whitaker 's research into the correlation between surface temperature in the Pacific Ocean and rainfall in Australia contributed to the discovery of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation ?
text: Did you knowthat there are more than 40 Community Rail Partnerships supporting local rail lines in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat double-stranded RNA viruses cause everything from gastroenteritis in young children to bluetongue disease in livestock?
text: Did you knowthat in Amgen v Hoechst , the House of Lords affirmed that an incredible similarity between two patents does not constitute patent infringement in the UK ?
text: Did you knowthat as Navy production chief during World War II , electric drive pioneer Samuel Murray Robinson became the first staff officer to attain the rank of four-star admiral in the history of the United States Navy ?
text: Did you knowthat although Adam Freeland has said that his 2003 song We Want Your Soul is about "the destructive side of consumer culture", Target tried to license the song for use in a commercial?
text: Did you knowthat some types of human learning can be described mathematically by Oja's rule , which is commonly used in image processing software?
text: Did you knowthat Filipino film producer Narcisa de Leon did not start her career in the film industry till she was 61 years old?
text: Did you knowthat the Pompallier Mission is New Zealand 's oldest industrial building and printed some of the earliest texts in Māori ?
text: Did you knowthat xenobiotic metabolism is the set of metabolic pathways that detoxify xenobiotics , such as drugs and poisons ?
text: Did you knowthat Emma Cunningham was acquitted of the 1857 murder of her landlord because she falsely claimed to be pregnant by him, and Victorian morality prevented doctors from physically examining her?
text: Did you knowthat a prokaryotic cytoskeleton has been found in prokaryote organisms by recent advances in visualization technology?
text: Did you knowthat Roger Wilmut went on from typing out the episode list of a BBC comedy show to become a Guardian Top 10 author of books about British comedy?
text: Did you knowthat Chambercombe Manor is said to be one of the most haunted buildings in the United Kingdom ?
text: Did you knowthat the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company produced 90 navy tanker ships in two years, from 1943-1945 and employed over 18,000 people while doing so?
text: Did you knowthat noitulovE , a cinema and television advertising campaign for Guinness draught stout , won more awards than any other commercial worldwide in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat James Tennant took over from Sarah Mawe as "Mineralogist to Her Majesty" and he supervised the recutting of the Koh-i-Noor diamond?
text: Did you knowthat the hazardous Welland Canal Bridge 15 featured a bell ringing whenever a ship made contact, warning the crew to check for damage?
text: Did you knowthat Rob Carpenter retired from the National Football League after catching his second touchdown in the 1995 NFL playoffs ?
text: Did you knowthat Mel Rose , the runner-up on the seventh cycle of America's Next Top Model , dropped the " -issa " from her first name because she "didn't need it"?
text: Did you knowthat the subject of sex was central to The Antipodes , an English Renaissance play by Richard Brome , first performed by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Salisbury Court Theatre in 1637?
text: Did you knowthat Colorado Rep. Stella Garza-Hicks dropped out of high school in the ninth grade ?
text: Did you knowthat Bertram Fraser-Reid is a Jamaica-born chemist who founded a non-profit organization to find cures for tropical parasitic diseases like malaria ?
text: Did you knowthat the Champawat tigress and the Tsavo lions had suffered injuries that disabled them from pursuing their natural prey, leading them to become man-eaters ?
text: Did you knowthat the Barack Obama Muslim rumor has been circulating on the Internet since 2004 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Théâtrophone service (1890-1932) allowed the subscribers to listen to opera and theatre performances over the telephone lines?
text: Did you knowthat the T.G. Richards and Company Store is the oldest brick building in Washington ?
text: Did you knowthat during the negotiations in Ostrów in 1392, the principal Polish negotiator, Henry of Masovia , bishop of Płock , fell in love with the sister of his opponent, Vytautas the Great ?
text: Did you knowthat a series of storms in south-east Queensland spawned two of the most powerful tornadoes in recorded Australian history?
text: Did you knowthat Arthur Segal was prevented from exhibiting his art in Germany because of his Jewish background?
text: Did you knowthat the massacre in Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD in the purges of 1937-1938 was investigated in 1943 during the German invasion of Ukraine and used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. activist Kit Bakke went on from being considered a terrorist with a 400-page FBI file to become a nurse for children with cancer?
text: Did you knowthat forest brother Alfred Käärmann hid for 7 years from Soviet officials, spent 15 years in Siberian prison camps , had his passport stamped "annulled" and was banished from Estonia until 1981?
text: Did you knowthat flutist Masakazu Yoshizawa was hired by John Williams to play the shakuhachi for the Jurassic Park soundtrack because the instrument sounded "like a dinosaur 's cry"?
text: Did you knowthat the Allegheny Arsenal explosion on September 17 , 1862 was the single largest civilian disaster during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert G. Pugh and his son, Robert, Jr., were the first father-son team to present oral arguments together before the United States Supreme Court ?
text: Did you knowthat the French chemist Louis Pasteur owned a vineyard in the Jura wine region that is still producing wine today?
text: Did you knowthat Yegor Ligachev is renowned for being Gorbachev's main critic, even though he has repudiated that in many speeches and his memoirs?
text: Did you knowthat the city of Union Valley, Texas , population 226, incorporated in 2007 out of fear of annexation by neighboring cities?
text: Did you knowthat football referees in England officiate at eleven different levels according to ability, activity and age?
text: Did you knowthat Georgia Tech professor Mark Guzdial was the inventor of Swiki , one of the earliest wiki engines?
text: Did you knowthat Gordon K. Douglass qualified for the Canadian national canoe paddling team, but was not allowed to go to the 1936 Olympics because he was American ?
text: Did you knowthat the Telefon Hírmondó was the longest-running telephone newspaper ?
text: Did you knowthat the aphid Brevicoryne brassicae has been called a "walking mustard oil bomb" due to its use of glucosinolates as a chemical defense mechanism against predators ?
text: Did you knowthat the ill-fated Yen Bai mutiny proceeded because a messenger sent to delay the mutiny was intercepted?
text: Did you knowthat 16th-century English diplomat Francis Bryan disgraced himself by throwing eggs and stones at the common people during a mission to Paris ?
text: Did you knowthat the International Olympic Committee has shortlisted five cities — Athens , Bangkok , Moscow , Singapore and Turin — out of nine bids to host the first Youth Olympic Games in 2010 ?
text: Did you knowthat a Catalan wine was secretly added to the classified Bordeaux wine category of the 1979 Gault Millau Wine Olympics and won?
text: Did you knowthat John John Florence was the youngest ever surfer to compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing ?
text: Did you knowthat the Barotse Floodplain is the second largest wetland in Zambia and also one of the most productive areas for raising cattle in the country?
text: Did you knowthat Ashta Lakshmi are a group of Hindu goddesses who preside over eight sources of wealth?
text: Did you knowthat Singapore's 5.4-ton Pegasus is the first helicopter -portable 155mm howitzer with a self-propelled capability?
text: Did you knowthat an Australian chief justice Terence John Higgins dismissed a defamation case alleging "lazy journalism" against an Australian journalist even though he found that the claim wasn't true?
text: Did you knowthat the River Bourne in Kent used to power a dozen mills in its 10 mile length?
text: Did you knowthat stock investor Ronald S. Baron has nonetheless been nicknamed "the Count" since his student days?
text: Did you knowthat the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack was the first bioterrorism attack in the United States , and one of only two confirmed terrorist uses of biological weapons to harm humans?
text: Did you knowthat Rapides-des-Joachims, Quebec has no paved road connection with the rest of Quebec ?
text: Did you knowthat the first McDonald's restaurant in Eastern Europe was opened March 24 1988 in a former family house in Belgrade , constructed by Serbian architect Dimitrije T. Leko in 1893 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mongolian Stock Exchange in Ulaanbaatar , the world's smallest by market capitalisation , is housed in a refurbished children's cinema?
text: Did you knowthat a Cambridge University society has launched high altitude balloons that have taken a picture of the earth's curvature from a height of 32 km?
text: Did you knowthat, while a legislator in Colorado , Dan Gibbs trained as a volunteer firefighter and was deployed to fight the Santiago Fire during the October 2007 California wildfire epidemic ?
text: Did you knowthat the wallet of Scottish curate Arnold Spencer-Smith was found in Captain Scott 's Antarctic hut in 1999, about 83 years after Spencer-Smith died in 1916?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of the Espero Convoy during the Mediterranean Campaign in World War II resulted in such a shortage of ammunition that planned Allied convoys to Malta had to be postponed for two weeks?
text: Did you knowthat Florida has over 20 official state symbols , including a state soil and a state wildflower ?
text: Did you knowthat SantralIstanbul ,  a modern art museum in Istanbul , Turkey , is located in what was the first power station of the Ottoman Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Yasui v. United States and its companion case Hirabayashi v. United States that curfews for a minority group were constitutional during war time?
text: Did you knowthat Rear-Admiral Horace Hood was posthumously knighted following his death in the destruction of HMS Invincible at the Battle of Jutland in 1916?
text: Did you knowthat when Hugh Randall Syme won the George Cross in 1943 for bomb disposal work, he became the most decorated member of the Royal Australian Navy at that time, having already been awarded two George Medals ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. General Omar Bundy , who was awarded the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre for his service in World War I , was a veteran of the Indian War campaigns against Crow and Sioux Indians ?
text: Did you knowthat Austrian film company Wien-Film was given its official mission statement in 1938 by Joseph Goebbels ?
text: Did you knowthat activist Terry Robbins inspired the name of the terrorist organization Weathermen with a Bob Dylan quote?
text: Did you knowthat a Ghostbusters video game is scheduled for late 2008, a quarter-century after the original film ?
text: Did you knowthat painter and stage designer George Sheringham was one of the first recipients of the Royal Designers for Industry distinction?
text: Did you knowthat the earliest Portuguese description of Malaysia , Tomé Pires's Suma Oriental , lay unpublished and presumed lost in an archive until 1944?
text: Did you knowthat tourism in Zimbabwe fell by seventy-five percent in 2000 compared to the previous year?
text: Did you knowthat Indologist Burton Stein was known for questioning the existence of the Chola Dynasty as an empire?
text: Did you knowthat the Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements had a combined cricket team from 1906 to 1961?
text: Did you knowthat Pancha Carrasco became Costa Rica 's first woman in the military by joining the defending forces at the Battle of Rivas ?
text: Did you knowthat after World War II , the Soviets took nearly 100 tons of uranium oxide as reparations from a facility of the company Auergesellschaft , accelerating their development of the atomic bomb by a year?
text: Did you knowthat professor George E. Kimball gave a zero in physical chemistry to Isaac Asimov ?
text: Did you knowthat Virgil Walter Ross animated Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck for decades under Tex Avery and Fritz Freleng and received the highest awards in his profession?
text: Did you knowthat some birds, including flamingos , display homosexual behavior ?
text: Did you knowthat the mythological sea creature Aspidochelone is so massive that it is said to have been mistaken for an island?
text: Did you knowthat Angus Purden , regular presenter of the BBC 's Cash in the Attic , modelled for Giorgio Armani for three years in Milan?
text: Did you knowthat under the leadership of its Ministry of Defense , Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons ?
text: Did you knowthat Arpiar Arpiarian introduced realism to modern Armenian literature ?
text: Did you knowthat John Gouriet organised the "Operation Pony Express" in 1977, where 100,000 films from the strikebound Grunwick laboratory were posted across the United Kingdom , getting around the refusal of the local postal workers to handle them?
text: Did you knowthat the frigate HMNZS Canterbury was decommissioned by the Royal New Zealand Navy , sold to a trust for a symbolic NZ$ 1, and scuttled in the Bay of Islands by a former crewmember?
text: Did you knowthat Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority founder Harriet Josephine Terry wrote the sorority's hymn, "Hail Alpha Kappa Alpha Dear"?
text: Did you knowthat as Burton Abbott was being executed in California 's gas chamber in 1957, the governor was contacting the warden to stay the execution ?
text: Did you knowthat the conflict between Communist Romanian leader Nicolae Ceauşescu and his ideological rival Petre Borilă worsened after Ceauşescu's son Valentin decided to marry Borilă's daughter?
text: Did you knowthat Japanologist Hugh Borton took up his field after being posted to Japan by a Quaker service organization ?
text: Did you knowthat Madison Limestone , a layer of mostly carbonate rocks formed in the Mississippian period , serves as an aquifer and an oil reservoir in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains areas?
text: Did you knowthat one of the first known instances of a composer specifically calling for the use of a bass violin , the predecessor of the modern cello , was in the opera Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi ?
text: Did you knowthat the Carlsberg papyrus is the most complete of the ancient Egyptian medical papyri , containing substantial amounts of artifacts of the original papyrus?
text: Did you knowthat the forthcoming television adaptation of the BBC Radio 2 sitcom Teenage Kicks , originally for BBC Two , has been taken over by ITV ?
text: Did you knowthat the United Issarak Front leader Son Ngoc Minh declared Cambodian independence on June 19 1950 ?
text: Did you knowthat Colorado Sen. Nancy Spence's bill to create a statewide school voucher program was the first to be enacted into law in the U.S. — and then overturned by state courts — after Zelman v. Simmons-Harris ?
text: Did you knowthat a bronze bowl from the Iron Age Glastonbury Lake Village was made from the remnants of two separate vessels, before it was deposited in the peat ?
text: Did you knowthat a report by the Judicial Commission of New South Wales almost led to a New South Wales judge being removed from office because of the time delays in giving decisions?
text: Did you knowthat Nguyen Truong To was called to serve Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam despite having earlier assisted France 's colonization of southern Vietnam ?
text: Did you knowthat Miyazaki Ichisada was known for adding a fourth phase to periodisation  of the history of China and Japan ?
text: Did you knowthat at the time of his death, A. Ronald Walton was estimated to have reviewed more language programs than anyone else in the world?
text: Did you knowthat the Barasoain Church , where three major events in Philippine history took place, became known as the Cradle of Democracy in the East ?
text: Did you knowthat Mary Perkins was the first female optician to be made a Dame Commander of the British Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat fruit as a slang term developed in London with the costermongers and later in Cockney rhyming slang and Polari , with most variations becoming pejorative against gay men who have since reclaimed usages?
text: Did you knowthat the Crowcombe church spire was damaged by lightning in 1724 and the top has been planted in the churchyard ever since?
text: Did you knowthat British art forger Shaun Greenhalgh was a self-taught artist, yet managed to fool the British Museum , the Tate Modern , and Bonhams , Sotheby's and Christie's ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 2000, 2001, and 2002 seasons of the Super 12 , the Highlanders rugby union team went undefeated at their home ground of Carisbrook ?
text: Did you knowthat Colorado state senator John Morse worked as an emergency medical technician , accountant , and police chief before entering the legislature ?
text: Did you knowthat the Korotoa River , a small stream in Bangladesh , was once a large and sacred river?
text: Did you knowthat the term " doomsday cult " can refer to apocalyptic groups that prophesy catastrophe and those that attempt to bring it about?
text: Did you knowthat the ancient Kingdom of Nri was one of the few governments that governed its subjects with a taboo system instead of military power?
text: Did you knowthat a complete backstory was constructed by Mike Leigh for Vinette Robinson 's character in Vera Drake , even though the role was minor?
text: Did you knowthat the frigate HMS Alarm was the first ship of the Royal Navy ever to have a fully copper-sheathed hull?
text: Did you knowthat Robert F. Kennedy 's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King is believed to have prevented riots from breaking out in Indianapolis ?
text: Did you knowthat in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony , when Dorothy Talbye fell into despair with fits of violence in 1638,  she was excommunicated from the church , bound and chained to a post , publicly whipped and finally, after murdering her daughter, hanged ?
text: Did you knowthat the German national rail strike of 2007 is the largest strike in history affecting Deutsche Bahn ?
text: Did you knowthat Adenovirus serotype 14 is an emerging virus , related to the common cold , that has recently caused 10 deaths in the United States , including at least one healthy young adult?
text: Did you knowthat Spencer Campbell regretted producing the year-long fly on the wall series The Living Soap , about students living in a purpose-built house, when some participants started deliberately avoiding the cameras after only a few days?
text: Did you knowthat USS General S. D. Sturgis was the transport ship assigned to deliver officials of the United States , Australia , Canada , Dutch East Indies , China and the Philippines to Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender ceremonies at the end of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Valentyn Rechmedin , a Ukrainian journalist and writer, received the Order of the Red Star after World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat nineteenth century New Zealand gum-diggers retrieved 5,000 tons of kauri resin a year for the varnish trade, and that the gum was Auckland 's main export?
text: Did you knowthat USNS General R. L. Howze held the record for ships assisting the 1954 mass exodus out of North Vietnam with 38 births on board during Operation Passage to Freedom ?
text: Did you knowthat the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal , built along the Susquehanna River in the 1830s, had a wooden bridge with a two-tier towpath to allow mules towing cargoboats in opposite directions to cross the river simultaneously without colliding?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Ropner , who built the first trunk deck ship in 1896, was sued for patent infringement because his design was similar to that of turret deck ships ?
text: Did you knowthat the Chemical Automatics Design Bureau produced the Soviet Union 's only operational nuclear rocket engine ?
text: Did you knowthat although Ernest Wild developed scurvy during the Ross Sea Party Antarctic expedition, and lost part of a toe and part of an ear to frostbite , he survived - but died of typhoid the next year in Malta ?
text: Did you knowthat following his term as Mayor of Boston , Frederick O. Prince advocated and oversaw the construction of the Boston Public Library 's McKim Building in Copley Square ?
text: Did you knowthat Julius Garfinckel , founder of the department store Garfinckel's , died from pneumonia on his 64th birthday?
text: Did you knowthat Wotif.com only allows consumers to organise hotel reservations 28 days in advance?
text: Did you knowthat Indo - Guyanese lawyer and civil rights activist Rudy Narayan could, Michael Mansfield has written, have been the great black barrister of his generation?
text: Did you knowthat Brigadier Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls is the only member of the Coldstream Guards to have won the George Cross , the highest civil decoration of the Commonwealth of Nations ?
text: Did you knowthat Gautam Adani , a school dropout, is the 13th richest person in India ?
text: Did you knowthat El Salvador has the highest geothermal energy production in Central America ?
text: Did you knowthat Frederick Winslow Taylor developed the core of his philosophy of scientific management at Midvale Steel ?
text: Did you knowthat an offer sheet in the National Hockey League requires compensation in the form of future draft picks if a restricted free agent is signed by a different team in the league?
text: Did you knowthat the son of French Admiral Georges René Le Peley de Pléville was released as a prisoner of war because the British Admiralty thanked his peg-legged father for saving a British frigate 10 years earlier?
text: Did you knowthat American academic Jackson Bailey was decorated with the Order of the Sacred Treasure , the highest possible honor given by Japan to a foreigner?
text: Did you knowthat Galicia started exporting plant cuttings to other European vineyards as early as the 14th century?
text: Did you knowthat playwright Sam Thompson ' s Over the Bridge about Northern Irish sectarian violence became Belfast 's most-seen play despite a prediction it would "offend and affront every section of the public"?
text: Did you knowthat the town of Booleroo Centre , South Australia is home to one of Australia's largest collections of tractors and steam engines ?
text: Did you knowthat Felipe Agoncillo , who topped the highest possible score in a bar exam , was also the outstanding first Filipino diplomat ?
text: Did you knowthat historian Holden Furber was appointed as a social science analyst to the Office of Strategic Services after the United States entered World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat François Denhaut built the world's first flying boat , or seaplane with a hull ?
text: Did you knowthat among the founding members of Philomathes - a clandestine Polish student organization in Imperial University of Vilna in partitioned Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - was Adam Mickiewicz , one of the three national poets of Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat the establishment of Mahendra Pratap 's Provisional Government of India was one of the reasons that the Rowlatt Commission was set up to investigate German and Bolshevik links to nationalist terrorism in British India ?
text: Did you knowthat the author of Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography stated he had to go into hiding after receiving threats related to his yet unpublished book?
text: Did you knowthat during Operation Deep Freeze II in 1956, US Navy Rear Admiral George J. Dufek commanded the first aircraft to land at the South Pole , the C-47 Skytrain “Que Sera Sera”?
text: Did you know Niek Loohuis is now a Dutch First Division football (soccer) player, despite having been declared unfit and removed from FC Twente 's youth academy at age 18?
text: Did you knowthat Nicaragua has the lowest electricity generation, the lowest percentage of population with access to electricity, and the highest dependence on oil for electricity generation in Central America ?
text: Did you knowthat the collision between aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne and destroyer HMAS Voyager is the only event in Australian history to be subject to two Royal Commissions ?
text: Did you knowthat the gardens of the Petit Trianon were once thought to be haunted ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1846 Albert Wilson became the first American merchant to open a store in Astoria, Oregon ?
text: Did you knowthat according to Jainism , the first Purva of ancient knowledge would take a volume of ink equal to an elephant to write, whereas the last would require the ink volume of 2 13 elephants?
text: Did you knowthat attempts to soften the harsh tannic nature of the Tannat wine grape led to the development of the winemaking technique of micro-oxygenation ?
text: Did you knowthat in Rose Macaulay 's novel The Towers of Trebizond (1956) the English traveller Aunt Dot aims to emancipate the women of Turkey by converting them to Anglicanism and popularizing the bathing hat?
text: Did you knowthat Myles Rudge wrote the lyrics to three Top 10 novelty songs in the 1960s, "Hole in the Ground", "Right Said Fred",  and "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam"?
text: Did you knowthat Colorado state representative Amy Stephens wrote an abstinence-based sex education curriculum that was translated into over a dozen languages?
text: Did you knowthat Romanian communist poet Alexandru Toma adapted several works of his Classicist predecessor Mihai Eminescu , removing their pessimistic tone and adding Socialist Realist rhetoric?
text: Did you knowthat in 1656, Judith Catchpole was tried before colonial Maryland 's first all-female jury because a woman's expertise was needed to evaluate the evidence ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf cartoons Sheep Ahoy , A Sheep in the Deep , and Don't Give Up the Sheep were censored by ABC to remove a dynamite stick, a smoke break scene, and a spanking scene respectively?
text: Did you knowthat John Cartier was eulogized by Edmund Burke for his Governorship of Bengal despite losing a third of the population during the 1770 famine ?
text: Did you knowthat Colorado State Senate president pro tem Peter Groff is the highest-ranking African-American elected official in the U.S. state of Colorado ?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Crouch led the Parliamentary campaign on the Crichel Down affair involving his constituency, which forced the resignation of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Sir Thomas Dugdale ?
text: Did you knowthat Westmoreland v. CBS demonstrated that  a public figure cannot win a libel suit in the United States unless reckless and defamatory statements are evidence of actual malice ?
text: Did you knowthat New Zealand rugby union footballer Jimmy Hunter 's 44 tries on the 1905 All Blacks tour is a record that is unlikely to ever to be surpassed?
text: Did you knowthat by providing government assistance to vineyard owners so they could replant and redesign their vineyards, the Flurbereinigung restructuring of the late 20th century had a dramatic impact on the German wine industry?
text: Did you knowthat The Gentleman Usher is the only play in which late 16th-century playwright George Chapman takes a positive view of women?
text: Did you knowthat 7th-century duke Waldalenus traded off with the Church his firstborn son against his wife's miraculous fertility?
text: Did you knowthat Edgar Allan Poe 's 1848 essay Eureka presaged the Big Bang theory and black holes ?
text: Did you knowthat the airdate of " The Beginning of the End ", the fourth season premiere of the television series Lost , means that the season may be interrupted by the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike even if a settlement is reached?
text: Did you knowthat since humidity and the cold climate inhibited its production in the Low Countries, salt was imported from Iberia in the Middle Ages ?
text: Did you knowthat Lord Uxbridge 's leg became a tourist attraction after the Battle of Waterloo ?
text: Did you knowthat the indologist Ernest Bender also published work on the Cherokee language ?
text: Did you knowthat after the Champagne region, the Loire Valley produces more sparkling wine than any other region in France ?
text: Did you knowthat James Blake Miller , made famous in a 2004 photograph during the Second Battle of Fallujah as the " Marlboro Marine ", suffered post-traumatic stress disorder and was discharged exactly one year after his picture made worldwide news?
text: Did you knowthat Lawrence Olson , who was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure , Japan's highest honour for foreigners, for his work on Japanese history , deciphered Japanese messages during World War II for the US Navy ?
text: Did you knowthat Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Nellie Pratt Russell is remembered with a building named in her and her husband's honor at St. Paul's College ?
text: Did you knowthat 1.5 million people logged on to the website of the cheddar cheese Wedginald to watch it mature ?
text: Did you knowthat Greek temples went from small structures of mud and wood (9th century BC) to the classical stone monuments widely known today (6th century BC)?
text: Did you knowthat Calimerius , a 3rd century bishop of Milan , was said to have been killed by being thrown into a well after his relics were found submerged in water?
text: Did you knowthat Seattle, Washington businessman Herman Sarkowsky was a co-founder of both the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trail Blazers ?
text: Did you knowthat Clyde Fastlink , a planned £42m dedicated bus service, is an interim measure for Glasgow 's proposed light rail system?
text: Did you knowthat the Gerald Loeb Award , administered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management , is considered the most prestigious honor in business journalism ?
text: Did you knowthat Michael Varah , son of Chad Varah , achieved an athletics world record as part of a 4×800m relay team, and then spent 35 years working in the Probation Service ?
text: Did you knowthat the establishment of Camp Joe Holt , the first significant act to keep Kentucky from fully seceding to the Confederate States of America , had to be done in Indiana ?
text: Did you knowthat Khanmohammad Ibrahim was the oldest living Indian Test cricketer at the time of his death?
text: Did you knowthat the location of the first mass in the Philippines in 1521 remains a matter of dispute?
text: Did you knowthat Zen Buddhist scholar Philip Yampolsky was the grandson of Franz Boas , the founder of Columbia University 's anthropology department?
text: Did you knowthat Ottomar Pinto has served three non-consecutive times as governor in the history of Roraima , Brazil ?
text: Did you knowthat Canada issues special licence plates available only to war veterans ?
text: Did you knowthat University of Michigan Wolverine Tyrone Wheatley was not only both a Big Ten rushing and scoring champion, but also a Big Ten 110 meter hurdles champion?
text: Did you knowthat in 2002, an officer of the Wellington Free Ambulance was accidentally shot by police during an Armed Offenders Squad training exercise?
text: Did you knowthat Alabama lawyer and Republican Party pioneer John Grenier of Birmingham was self-taught in four foreign languages: French , Spanish , German , and modern Greek ?
text: Did you knowthat Chen Chi-li , late head of Taiwan 's United Bamboo Gang , claimed to have killed dissident journalist Henry Liu out of patriotism, and refused the $ 20,000 payout he was offered?
text: Did you knowthat during the five years of fighting in the Cabanagem revolt in Brazil , it is estimated that the population of Pará was reduced from about 100,000 to 60,000?
text: Did you knowthat Truong Dinh , who led a guerrilla army that fought French colonials in southern Vietnam against the orders of Emperor Tu Duc , was so effective that the French thought Tu Duc had supported him secretly?
text: Did you knowthat Senator Bob Hagedorn introduced legislation to name John Denver 's " Rocky Mountain High " Colorado 's second official state song ?
text: Did you knowthat Donald Stone Macdonald was a Korean studies expert who served as mayor of Kwangju while a member of the US Department of State ?
text: Did you knowthat Isocrates developed a personal hatred for Chares of Athens after his closest pupil, General Timotheos , was impeached for refusing to fight in the Battle of Embata during a storm?
text: Did you knowthat the South Australian wine industry produces more than half of all Australian wines , including the premium Penfolds Grange and many of the mass produced box wines ?
text: Did you knowthat University of Colorado football player Jordon Dizon , one of three finalists for the Dick Butkus Award as America's top collegiate linebacker , attended Waimea High School , the westernmost high school in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sinologist and Confucius expert Herrlee Glessner Creel was a lieutenant colonel in the US Army during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian Bob Marshall won the World Amateur Billiards Championship four times and the Australian championship 21 times in a career spanning 50 years?
text: Did you knowthat in 1953, Polish Air Force pilot Franciszek Jarecki escaped to Denmark with a Soviet MiG-15 , which helped the U.S. Air Force in the Korean War ?
text: Did you knowthat orange snow fell in February of 2007 in western Siberia?
text: Did you knowthat Michael Garcia has introduced legislation to lower the legislative age of candidacy in Colorado from 25 to 21 after being himself elected at age 26?
text: Did you knowthat Sir James Whitehead, 1st Baronet , Lord Mayor of London in 1888-9, replaced the circus -like elements of the Lord Mayor's Show with a State Procession, and was the arbitrator in the London Dock Strike of 1889 ?
text: Did you knowthat sociologist Ralph Larkin published Comprehending Columbine after teaching about the Columbine High School massacre at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice ?
text: Did you knowthat the publishers of Hindustan Ghadar are said to have memorised the names of over a thousand of its subscribers to prevent these being known to British Intelligence?
text: Did you knowthat Thai history scholar Benjamin Batson took up his field while posted in Bangkok as a university maths lecturer?
text: Did you knowthat a replica of the Old Plantation Flats Light built in 2004 contains the first new lens constructed to Fresnel 's patterns in eighty years?
text: Did you knowthat there are three unilingually Swedish municipalities in one province of mainland Finland ?
text: Did you knowthat Felician of Foligno was the first ever bishop to receive the pallium as a symbol of his office?
text: Did you knowthat the cost of transporting crushed stone often exceeds its cost at the quarry ?
text: Did you knowthat Irish actor Paudge Behan is the son of IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice Behan, the widow of playwright Brendan Behan ?
text: Did you knowthat The O.C. 's music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas worked in the music department of over fifty Roger Corman B-movies before her television debut?
text: Did you knowthat research into attitude polarization suggests that when people read research that both supports and contradicts their current views, they come to hold their original attitudes more strongly than before?
text: Did you knowthat Cecil Hobbs began his interest in Southeast Asian history after his career as a missionary in Burma was ended in 1942 by the Japanese invasion ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1708 the Bonnington pavilion in Scotland had a "hall of mirrors" designed to give visitors the illusion that they were standing in the middle of the Corra Linn ?
text: Did you knowthat the parents of Anna Seidel , a German Sinologist and expert on Taoism , risked the death penalty by hiding a Jewish friend during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue caused so many cancellations that Sports Illustrated and its publisher Time Warner had to stop delivery to certain subscribers, such as libraries ?
text: Did you knowthat the skink Chalcides colosii was once considered a subspecies of another species, Chalcides ocellatus (named for its ocelli), despite the fact that C. colosii has no ocelli ?
text: Did you knowthat Rear-Admiral Henry Blagrove , who died in the destruction of HMS Royal Oak in October 1939, was the first Royal Navy flag officer killed in the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat the Oliver Typewriter Company of Chicago , Illinois produced and sold over one million of the first "visible print" typewriters ?
text: Did you knowthat German lawyer Horst Mahler had for his own lawyer the future Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder ?
text: Did you knowthat Oregon 's longest covered bridge is the Office Bridge and is the only one west of the Mississippi River with a sidewalk?
text: Did you knowthat though legend says the mid-way bend in Pittsburgh 's Armstrong Tunnel was a mistake and that the engineer responsible killed himself in shame, the chief engineer, Vernon R. Covell, did not commit suicide?
text: Did you knowthat the antibody class IgE was discovered by the Japanese scientist Kimishige Ishizaka ?
text: Did you knowthat after the death of Ukrainian novelist Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky , a museum was built in his hometown of Vinnytsia , films were made and his son was executed for having counter-revolutionary contacts?
text: Did you knowthat Major Carl Mothander , the leader of Swedish volunteers in the Estonian War of Independence , later wrote books on Estonian politics that were banned in Finland ?
text: Did you knowthat world champion bridge player Paul Soloway earned the most masterpoints in history?
text: Did you knowthat before becoming King of the United Kingdom , Edward VII was a frequent visitor to the luxurious Belle Époque brothel Le Chabanais in Paris and had himself built a special "love seat" there?
text: Did you knowthat South Vietnamese Special Forces under Ngo Dinh Diem , which were used mainly for repressing dissidents, also attacked pagodas during the Buddhist crisis and killed a giant carp that had attracted pilgrims?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. professor of oriental studies Earl H. Pritchard was the first ever recipient of the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal , in recognition of his work on military intelligence in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat actuaries can use the Schuette–Nesbitt formula to calculate the net single premium for life annuities and life insurances ?
text: Did you knowthat the main cargo of the Peggy Stewart , burned in the 1774 Annapolis Tea Party, was not tea but 53 indentured servants ?
text: Did you knowthat former Swansea mayor Percy Morris called for Swansea Castle to be demolished and redeveloped because it was a "shambles"?
text: Did you knowthat ANDRILL is a scientific drilling project in Antarctica to gather information about global warming over the last 65 million years?
text: Did you knowthat British submariner Arthur Hezlet torpedoed the heavy cruiser Ashigara , the largest Japanese warship sunk by the Royal Navy Submarine Service during the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat Trafalgar Square 's original fountains were made from stone quarried near Boddam in Aberdeenshire ?
text: Did you knowthat the membership of the Ghanaian national labor federation Trades Union Congress fell by 58% after a law requiring civil servants to be members was repealed in 1966?
text: Did you knowthat despite British Conservative MP Denis Keegan winning a marginal constituency by over 7,000 votes, he ended his political career after one term, preferring to work for the trade association for television shops?
text: Did you knowthat turret deck ships incurred lower canal tolls because tonnage measurements used to calculate those tolls did not account for the vessels' unique shape?
text: Did you knowthat Field Marshal Sir John Stanier was the first British Chief of the General Staff after the Second World War who had not seen active service?
text: Did you knowthat knopper galls , caused by the eggs laid by gall wasps , develop as a chemically induced distortion of growing acorns on Pedunculate Oak trees?
text: Did you knowthat an operational nuclear reactor and an orbiting satellite are high points in 2007 of science and technology in Colombia ?
text: Did you knowthat strikebreakers are used more frequently in the US than in any other industrialized country ?
text: Did you knowthat adjoining the house where the Cato Street conspirators intended to kill all of the cabinet , was the home of Archbishop of York, Edward Harcourt , who was entertaining the Prince Regent and the Dukes of Cambridge , Cumberland and Wellington ?
text: Did you knowthat Bob Woodward has twice won the Worth Bingham Prize : in 1972 for reports on Watergate and in 1987 for covering covert action in United States foreign policy ?
text: Did you knowthat despite a history of identifying Communist intrigues, British Parliamentarian Percy Daines demanded that Marcus Lipton name his sources or withdraw the claim that Kim Philby was a Soviet spy?
text: Did you knowthat one of the founders of modern Russian psychiatry , Pavel Jacobi , brother of the painter Valery Jacobi , participated in the January Uprising in Poland and volunteered in the Army of the Vosges led by Giuseppe Garibaldi ?
text: Did you knowthat Alexei Mikhailovich was the only Imperial Russian Grand Duke to bear the name and patronymic of a Tsar ?
text: Did you knowthat the coat of arms of Andalusia bears the Pillars of Hercules , the ancient name given to the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar ?
text: Did you knowthat, by joining the Democratic caucus in 2007, Rep. Debbie Stafford became the first Colorado state legislator to switch parties in two decades?
text: Did you knowthat shortly after the Revolution of 1848 , the socialist feminist Jeanne Deroin became the first woman to stand in a national election in France?
text: Did you knowthat the Sanskrit literature scholar Barbara Stoler Miller , whose translation of the Bhagavad Gita helped to popularise Indian literature in the United States , also translated Spanish poetry ?
text: Did you knowthat, although sentenced to death during the Great Purge , Soviet politician Sergey Kavtaradze was set free and reinstated by Joseph Stalin , and was eventually his representative in Iran and Romania ?
text: Did you knowthat Mute Swans ring for lunch at the Bishop's Palace in Wells , UK?
text: Did you knowthat Michael Rowntree was Chairman of Oxfam for six years, and is one of only two people ever to be elected as its Chair Emeritus ?
text: Did you knowthat synthetic analogues of camptothecin , a cytotoxic quinoline alkaloid isolated from the Chinese tree Camptotheca acuminata , are being used as anti-cancer drugs ?
text: Did you knowthat the Doric -style temple in Mote Park near Maidstone in Kent commemorates the review by George III and William Pitt the Younger of a militia formed to repel Napoleon ?
text: Did you knowthat the British motor tanker SS Atheltempler , part of Convoy PQ-18 to aid the Soviet Union in the war against Nazi Germany , was sunk north of Bear Island ?
text: Did you knowthat Alan Entwistle , a leading Hindi language scholar, continued researching for ten years despite a terminal brain tumour ?
text: Did you knowthat The Big Blowdown , a crime novel by American author George Pelecanos , was the recipient of the International Crime Novel of the Year award in France , Germany and Japan ?
text: Did you knowthat the Nurses and Midwives Tribunal of New South Wales can order the suspension or removal of a nurse or midwife from practice?
text: Did you knowthat when immature, the "death angel" fungus, Amanita ocreata , closely resembles an edible mushroom ?
text: Did you knowthat the sweating mushroom is called so from the symptoms of its poisoning ?
text: Did you knowthat Charles Hucker , a leading historian on Imperial China , was awarded the Bronze Star in World War II and wrote plays ?
text: Did you knowthat the Pasig River reverses its flow of water from Manila Bay to Laguna de Bay when there is a high tide during the dry season?
text: Did you knowthat when Barry Cohen sued under the Hyde Amendment ,   the U.S. Government was forced to pay a record-setting $ 2.9 million in legal fees for the "vexatious, frivolous" prosecution of his client?
text: Did you knowthat tariffs imposed by the Austrian Empire on the export of Piedmontese wines to Austrian controlled areas of Italy was one of the underlying sparks of the revolutions of 1848–1849 ?
text: Did you knowthat J. L. Wilkinson was named the manager of the All Nations professional baseball team after the previous manager absconded with the gate proceeds?
text: Did you knowthat Rajo Jack , one of the first African-American racecar drivers , pretended to be Portuguese to avoid racism ?
text: Did you knowthat when analyzing relationships of the harvestmen it is found that they are not true spiders , as often believed, but are in fact more closely related to scorpions ?
text: Did you knowthat the German scientist Günter Wirths was brought to the Soviet Union after World War II , where he later was awarded a Stalin Prize for his contribution to the Soviet atomic bomb project ?
text: Did you knowthat Sisnando Davides , a Mozarab who had previously served Abbadid Seville , was the first Christian governor of Coimbra and Toledo after their reconquest ?
text: Did you knowthat Florida attorney Ellis Rubin claimed his client was driven to nymphomania by the side-effects of Prozac ?
text: Did you knowthat Ramon Zamora , the Filipino film actor popularly dubbed the " Bruce Lee of the Philippines ," won an award imitating Adolf Hitler on the gag show Super Laff-In ?
text: Did you knowthat the history of sherry has been greatly influenced by many of the world's major empires and civilizations including the Phoenicians , Greeks , Romans , Moors , Spanish and English ?
text: Did you knowthat Lauriston Sharp , a professor of anthropology at Cornell University , studied the indigenous culture of four continents?
text: Did you knowthat Gal, Bishop of Clermont was known to be so even-tempered that once a man who had insulted him repented on the spot and threw himself at his feet?
text: Did you knowthat the British composer William Denis Browne chose the grave site on Skyros for his friend, poet Rupert Brooke , just months before he himself was killed in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2007, Phil Collins ' 1981 hit " In the Air Tonight " reached Number 13 in the UK Singles Chart after appearing in Cadbury 's Gorilla advertising campaign ?
text: Did you knowthat after Anthony Kemp returned to England where he was questioned about his involvement in the overthrow of William Bligh as Governor of New South Wales , he again went south and became known as the "father of Tasmania "?
text: Did you knowthat Bonawentura Niemojowski , a Polish politician during the Congress Poland period, became one of the most vocal supporters of the November Uprising against the Russian Empire and a leader of the revolutionary Polish government ?
text: Did you knowthat Wendy Kaminer 's critique of the self-help movement, I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional , was highlighted among The New York Times ' "Notable Books of the Year 1992"?
text: Did you knowthat Peire d'Alvernhe is the only troubadour in whose works appear the Occitan phrase for " courtly love "?
text: Did you knowthat Gerard of Lunel became widely venerated after it was reported snakes carried bread to him and his brother while they were trapped by a flood in a cave?
text: Did you knowthat Anglican clergyman Chad Varah founded the Samaritans , the world's first crisis hotline , in 1953, at a time when he was also writing for the Eagle comic ?
text: Did you knowthat famous tenor Antonio Giuglini used to jaywalk through traffic on London 's Brompton Road while flying his kite ?
text: Did you knowthat Julia Evangeline Brooks , an incorporator of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, was a dean of girls at Danbury High School?
text: Did you knowthat Sir Rowland Whitehead, 5th Baronet was a Briton born in Kenya , a banker engaged with charities , a hyperpolyglot who wrote about cybernetics , and a church warden who skydived ?
text: Did you knowthat the civil rights of Panama 's Chinese minority , today the largest in Central America, were curtailed from 1903 until they received full citizenship under the constitution passed in 1946?
text: Did you knowthat despite having only $300,000 to the incumbent's $4 million in campaign funds, Greg Ballard won the 2007 mayoral election in Indianapolis , one of the biggest electoral upsets in Indiana history?
text: Did you knowthat Jerrold Wexler helped save a transaction to purchase the Denver Nuggets , helped save Goldblatt's from bankruptcy and led the Drake Hotel to a National Register of Historic Places listing?
text: Did you knowthat Serhii Vasylkivsky was the first painter after Taras Shevchenko to draw upon Ukrainian historical and ethnographic themes?
text: Did you knowthat 1992 was the only year the American Society of Journalists and Authors presented the Conscience-in-Media Award to more than one journalist ?
text: Did you knowthat the McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in Alanya is run by Georgetown University as the only independent study program in Turkey ?
text: Did you knowthat Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Sarah Meriweather Nutter visited Grover Cleveland 's grave, and cut a portion of ivy to plant at Howard University ?
text: Did you knowthat global warming has had a positive effect on the Tasmanian wine industry allowing it to grow grapes more successfully than what would otherwise be possible?
text: Did you knowthat Ève Curie did not receive a Nobel Prize , unlike her parents Marie and Pierre , her sister Irène , and, on behalf of UNICEF , her husband Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr. ?
text: Did you knowthat Bangalore Gayana Samaja , which celebrated its centenary in 2005 , is one of the oldest cultural organisations in Bangalore ?
text: Did you knowthat Gerald Long , an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate , is believed to be the only Long family member to have held significant public office in Louisiana outside the Democratic Party ?
text: Did you knowthat after Robert de Ferrers, the 6th Earl of Derby was pardoned for his part in a civil war against King Edward I , he rebelled again?
text: Did you knowthat the veneration of Saints Felinus and Gratian , which has a weak historical foundation, has been alleged to have been created to further the interests of Perugia ?
text: Did you knowthat Susan Hadden , an Internet affairs advisor to Al Gore , was killed by bandits while visiting Angkor Wat ?
text: Did you knowthat wine from the Greek island of Chios , prized in both classical Greece and ancient Rome , was according to mythology the first red wine ?
text: Did you knowthat Gun Hill Road in the Bronx was proposed to become the Gun Hill Crosstown Expressway?
text: Did you knowthat Ethel Jones Mowbray was a founder of the first African-American sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha ?
text: Did you knowthat Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva , Count of Paço d'Arcos served as the governor of various colonies as far as India , Timor , Macao and Mozambique in the Portuguese Empire ?
text: Did you knowthat "Professor Dull is anything but", referring to the historian of Han China Jack Dull , was a conventional joke on the campus of the University of Washington ?
text: Did you knowthat although it was destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Legion in the 1948 War , the moshav Atarot is now the site of Jerusalem's largest industrial park ?
text: Did you knowthat the militants of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang were given training in Yunnan in China by the Kuomintang , but then went on to engage in robbery on KMT territory?
text: Did you knowthat Jerome Avenue is one of three streets in the Bronx with a whole subway line following it?
text: Did you knowthat East 233rd Street was part of the former New York State Route 22 ?
text: Did you knowthat the assassination of Bazin , a French labor recruiter in Vietnam , was the first attack by the revolutionary Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1882 impresario Alfred Schulz-Curtius organized the first performance ever in the UK of Wagner's 's epic operatic Ring Cycle ?
text: Did you knowthat the famous Roman " first growth " wine Falernian was made from the Aglianico grape which is still being used to make wine today?
text: Did you knowthat King Richard I of England was killed while beseiging the small castle of Château de Chalus-Chabrol , which was under the control of Aimar V of Limoges ?
text: Did you knowthat British cricketer Michael Spurway was thought to be the oldest surviving county cricket player at the time of his death, and the last living person to have played county cricket in the 1920s ?
text: Did you knowthat when Mark DeSantis lost the 2007 Pittsburgh mayoral election to Luke Ravenstahl by thirty percentage points, it was the best performance by a Republican Party candidate in Pittsburgh in over thirty years?
text: Did you knowthat actress Ethel Jackson remarried with the lawyer who had obtained her divorce the same month?
text: Did you knowthat Don Durdan was selected as the most valuable player of college football 's Rose Bowl in 1942, and six years later, won a professional basketball championship with the Portland Indians ?
text: Did you knowthat Flemish Baroque painting (1585–1700) saw many pieces created as collaborations between independent masters, such as Rubens with Jan Brueghel the Elder and Frans Snyders ?
text: Did you knowthat science historians have done so much work related to Charles Darwin that this area of research is often called the Darwin Industry ?
text: Did you knowthat there are over 90 mash-ups of the Kersal Massive 's demo song?
text: Did you knowthat the expressions ' top dog ' and ' underdog ' may originate with the two sawyers in a saw pit ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2003, thousands of dead cod mysteriously washed up on the shores of Smith Sound, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador with their internal organs frozen solid?
text: Did you knowthat the firm formed by John Brogden to build Manchester Victoria station and various railroads to the rapidly expanding Manchester in mid-19th century began as a contractor to undertake the sweeping, cleansing and watering of the city?
text: Did you knowthat Les Parrott , a professor of clinical psychology , a motivational speaker , and a Nazarene minister , co-created, along with his wife, the eHarmony Marriage program?
text: Did you knowthat the resort town Arniston, Western Cape near Cape Agulhas , the southern-most tip of Africa , was named after Arniston , an East Indiaman that shipwrecked in the vicinity in 1815?
text: Did you knowthat Saint Terence was proclaimed the patron saint of Pesaro for appearing in times of crisis, lifting a siege of the Italian town by French troops ?
text: Did you knowthat the car combat video game Grudge Warriors was the first PlayStation title by Take-Two Interactive not requiring payment of a licensing fee to Sony ?
text: Did you knowthat the All-American Wistert brothers Albert , Alvin and Whitey wore number 11 and played offensive tackle as University of Michigan Wolverines before being named to the College Football Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you knowthat the half-brother of William the Conqueror , Bishop Odo of Bayeux , was successfully tried for defrauding the Archbishop of Canterbury of church property a decade after the Norman Conquest of England ?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. soldiers considered the silver chevrons awarded for non-combat service in World War I a badge of shame ?
text: Did you knowthat despite $ 170m spent on security, Australian comedy group The Chaser managed to enter the restricted zone of the 2007 APEC Summit in a fake motorcade?
text: Did you knowthat in 1982, Maurice Couve de Murville was plucked from obscurity as the Roman Catholic chaplain at Cambridge University to become the seventh Archbishop of Birmingham ?
text: Did you knowthat the PowerShot TX1 by Canon is their first attempt at a hybrid digital camera that offers both advanced ultra zoom photography and advanced HDTV movie capture?
text: Did you knowthat in 2007, Arlene Holt Baker became the first African American AFL-CIO officer?
text: Did you knowthat Monosolenium tenerum is a species of weed that is threatened with habitat loss in Japan ?
text: Did you knowthat Lucas Horenbout was "King's Painter" to King Henry VIII and the founder of the English tradition of the portrait miniature , painting Henry and several of his wives ?
text: Did you knowthat Agatha Christie 's longest book was her autobiography ?
text: Did you knowthat on November 3 2007 , Navy beat Notre Dame after losing for 43 consecutive years, ending college football 's longest bilateral streak?
text: Did you knowthat the leader of the Tran Cao rebellion , a peasant revolt against the Le Dynasty in Vietnam in 1516, claimed to be a reincarnation of the Hindu deity Indra ?
text: Did you knowthat the White House has an official position called Chief Floral Designer ?
text: Did you knowthat despite being made from the same grape variety and less than 10 miles apart, the Barbaresco and the Barolo are two distinctly different Italian wines ?
text: Did you knowthat cricket writer Gerald Howat won the Cricket Society 's golden jubilee award for his biography of Learie Constantine ?
text: Did you knowthat on June 14 , 1835 , USRC Ingham became the first United States warship to engage a Mexican ship in combat?
text: Did you knowthat nobody knows the meaning of "Delmo", the subtitle given by Rachmaninoff to his 1899 composition Morceau de Fantaisie in G minor ?
text: Did you knowthat millionaire's daughter Rose Dugdale joined an IRA active service unit and took part in the first helicopter bombing raid on the British Isles in 1974?
text: Did you knowthat the famous quote "No man who hates dogs and children can be all bad" generally attributed to Leo Rosten was actually first used in 1930 by future war correspondent Byron Darnton ?
text: Did you knowthat the most famous archeological finding of Bronze and Iron Age Poland is the Biskupin fortified lake settlement?
text: Did you knowthat the Port of Geelong , located on the shores of Corio Bay in Geelong , Victoria , Australia , is the sixth largest in Australia by tonnage ?
text: Did you knowthat Security Advisory Opinions , which can take more than 120 days to resolve, are the source of long delays in issuing United States visas ?
text: Did you knowthat Singaporean Teresa Hsu , a 110-year old social worker who teaches yoga and selfless service to the needy, was named 'Hero for Today' by the Chinese edition of the Reader's Digest ?
text: Did you knowthat Tui bei tu , a banned 7th century prophecy book about China which has been compared to the work of Nostradamus , became a bestseller in the 1990s?
text: Did you knowthat the Palestinian Fedayeen campaign against Israel was one of the causes of the 1956 Suez Crisis ?
text: Did you knowthat the Reverend Sir Frederick Ouseley founded his £30,000 1856 church near the small village of Middleton on the Hill ?
text: Did you knowthat during the 1991 NFL season , Cris Dishman had a seven game stretch where he forced at least one turnover in each game?
text: Did you knowthat the Stillwell Avenue /Surf Avenue intersection in New York City is the site of the world's largest subway station ?
text: Did you knowthat a lift attached to the side of the viaduct at Calstock railway station was used to lower railway trucks to the quays on the River Tamar 113 feet below?
text: Did you knowthat according to the book The World Without Us radioactive waste, bronze statues, and Mount Rushmore will be the longest lasting evidence of human presence on Earth?
text: Did you knowthat 10TP was a Polish tank design, which advanced the Polish armor programme but came too late to provide the Polish Army with tanks of sufficient number and quality before the German invasion of Poland in 1939?
text: Did you knowthat Marrack Goulding , a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations , was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1997 to 2006?
text: Did you knowthat Cornelius, Oregon is named after pioneer Thomas R. Cornelius , who served in the both the Territorial and State legislatures ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ferranti Argus was developed to control the Bristol Bloodhound missile, but went on to be Ferranti 's most successful industrial control computer?
text: Did you knowthat Thai filmmaker Aditya Assarat writes his scripts in English and then translates them to the Thai language ?
text: Did you knowthat Bolivia-Chile relations have been strained due to a border dispute unresolved since the 19th century?
text: Did you knowthat the transport ship USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg is scheduled to be sunk in 2008 to form an artificial reef off the Florida Keys ?
text: Did you knowthat there is no statutory body in India to investigate academic misconducts such as scientific plagiarism ?
text: Did you knowthat Acme Tackle Company 's Little Cleo fishing lure was deemed by Field & Stream Magazine to be one of the 50 greatest lures of all time?
text: Did you knowthat IKB Deutsche Industriebank was the first European bank to announce substantial losses from the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis ?
text: Did you knowthat the 13th century Venetian troubadour Bertolome Zorzi composed songs while a prisoner of war for seven years in Genoa ?
text: Did you knowthat Marcela de Agoncillo , who made the first Philippine flag , was married to the first Filipino diplomat ?
text: Did you knowthe Provisional IRA attack on Derryard checkpoint was carried out by a flying column of volunteers , created in an attempt to avoid infiltration by informers ?
text: Did you knowthat the Bushy-tailed Woodrat is the original "pack rat" due to its strong affinity for shiny objects such as coins and spoons?
text: Did you knowthat French conductor Louis Antoine Jullien received thirty-six given names at his baptism?
text: Did you knowthat the harvesting of wine grapes can happen every month of the calendar year somewhere in the world?
text: Did you knowthat Horace King was the architect of dozens of bridges in the Southern United States in the 1800s , despite being a slave?
text: Did you knowthat the Swiss Federal Police in 2005 noted a slight increase of far-right extremist activism , rising by some 100 to 1,800 involved individuals (0.02% of the total population)?
text: Did you knowthat Kirsten Sheridan , director of the new movie August Rush , got her start in film portraying the younger sister of Irish artist Christy Brown ( Daniel Day-Lewis ) in her father Jim Sheridan 's 1989 film, My Left Foot ?
text: Did you knowthat Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett was born in the United States to a Scottish father, educated in England and eventually became the Australian Chief of the Air Staff ?
text: Did you knowthat the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis began in the home of Harriet G. Walker and her husband T. B. Walker ?
text: Did you knowthat Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard and his seven siblings all had first names beginning with the letter " M "?
text: Did you knowthat China supported the Zimbabwe African National Union 's fight against British rule in the country and recognized it right from independence day on April 18, 1980?
text: Did you knowthat the history of Rioja wine has been greatly influenced by the Bordeaux wine industry with many Riojan bodegas benefiting from the influx of Bordeaux winemakers into the region following the phylloxera epidemic of the 1860s ?
text: Did you knowthat visitors to the House of the Binns in Scotland can see the table where General Tam Dayell is supposed to have played cards with Satan?
text: Did you knowthat Elijah White 's only two children drowned in separate instances in Oregon Country during 1838?
text: Did you knowthat the principles of learning pioneered by Edward Thorndike nearly a century ago are still widely used in practical instruction?
text: Did you knowthat rabbi Balfour Brickner was selected as one of the 50 sexiest New Yorkers at age 77?
text: Did you knowthat Australian rock band Small Mercies first encountered their producer, Matt Wallace, when he left a message on their MySpace ?
text: Did you knowthat although the first specimen of the smallmouth scad , a tropical fish endemic to northern Australia , was already taken in 1984 and deposited in the Queensland Museum , it was not officially named till 1987?
text: Did you knowthat when English composer Sir Edward Elgar died in 1934, he left more than 130 pages of sketches for a third symphony ?
text: Did you knowthat in Sell v. United States , the Supreme Court decided a dentist was unconstitutionally jailed for eight years without trial for refusing to be medicated with psychiatric drugs ?
text: Did you knowthat Julian Howard Ashton , a prominent figure of media and art in Britain and Australia in the 19th and 20th century, won the Sydney sesquicentenary prize for landscape drawings for his art work?
text: Did you knowthat the Nachtigall Battalion of the German army consisting of Ukrainian volunteers actively participated in the murder of around 4,000 Jews of Lviv in July 1941?
text: Did you knowthat Buganda , the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda , maintained a fleet of large outrigger canoes , which allowed commandos to raid any shore on Lake Victoria ?
text: Did you knowthat measuring the oxidizable carbon ratio is a way to determine the age of charcoal samples up to 35,000 years old?
text: Did you knowthat the Pitsa panels from 530 BCE are the only surviving examples of ancient Greek panel painting , the most important art style of Ancient Greek art ?
text: Did you knowthat Billy the pygmy hippo was the pet of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge , outlived him by 23 years, and sired 18 children all named Gumdrop?
text: Did you knowthat Canada was the first Western country to recognize Ukraine 's independence in 1991?
text: Did you knowthat in 1918, the National Federation of Federal Employees became the first labor union in the United States to win the legal right to represent federal employees?
text: Did you knowthat Apaliunas , a Luwian deity of Wilusa ( Troy ) attested among gods in a treaty inscription, ca. 1280 BCE, is a likely precursor of Apollo of Greek mythology ?
text: Did you knowthat the Apocalypse of Zerubbabel is a seventh-century Hebrew apocalypse in which the angel Metatron revealed to Zerubbabel that the Messiah would appear in 1058 ?
text: Did you knowthat Scouting in displaced persons camps was very active during and after World War II and that Scout groups provided postal delivery in Displaced Persons camps ?
text: Did you knowthat vaudeville performer Birdie Reeve was billed as the "World's Fastest Typist" in the 1920s , typing 200 words a minute using just two fingers of each hand?
text: Did you knowthat Slovak collaborationist Ferdinand Durčanský was both dismissed by the Nazis as pro-Jewish and later condemned to death for complicity in the murder of Jews?
text: Did you knowthat Simon Sainsbury , who had given funds to establish the Judge Business School in the old Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge , also gave paintings worth £100 million to the Tate and National Gallery ?
text: Did you knowthat the Fightmaster Cup is the first and only international golfing tournament for one-handers?
text: Did you knowthat runemaster Ulf of Borresta was a successful Viking who returned from England thrice with a share of the Danegeld ?
text: Did you knowthat Series III of the Sri Lanka Navy 's Ultra Fast Attack Craft is the fastest of its class of patrol boats in the South Asian region, with a maximum speed of 53 knots ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2006, only 79% of the population in Peru had access to electricity , well below the 94.6% average for Latin America ?
text: Did you knowthat the Knightly Order of Vitéz , formed by Miklós Horthy , the Regent of Hungary , for distinguished World War I veterans, was originally established by Imre Thököly , Prince of Transylvania , during an anti- Habsburg uprising in the late 17th century?
text: Did you knowthat a small silicon disc containing goodwill messages from 73 countries was left on the Moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts?
text: Did you knowthat for his part in the Bangladesh Liberation War , Dutch Australian commando officer William Ouderland is the only foreign recipient of Bir Pratik , Bangladesh's fourth highest gallantry award?
text: Did you knowthat the Þingalið was a standing army of 3,000 elite Viking warriors, whose main purpose was to defend England against other Vikings?
text: Did you knowthat the Berlin Committee was formed during World War I by Indian nationalists to foment a revolution against the British Raj ?
text: Did you knowthat the Catholic Church denied the German - Nicaraguan Enrique Gottel burial in a Managua cemetery because he was a Freemason ?
text: Did you knowthat Excello Records did not release south Louisiana black Creole musician King Karl's 1958 rock and roll ballad " This Should Go On Forever " until it had already become a national hit for Karl's hometown friend, Cajun swamp pop musician Rod Bernard ?
text: Did you knowthat NHS Together , a group of unions which support Britain's National Health Service , are supported by celebrities such as football (soccer) player Geoff Hurst , adventurer Ranulph Fiennes , actress Tamsin Greig and comedian Arthur Smith ?
text: Did you knowthat the highly toxic all-white toadstool Amanita virosa , one of several species known as the destroying angel , can be confused with the common mushroom when young?
text: Did you knowthat milestone home runs by Barry Bonds have caused crowd mêlées , necessitating police escorts, and that special baseballs were issued to avoid counterfeiting ?
text: Did you knowthat the Texan schooner Zavala was the first steamship -of-war in North America ?
text: Did you knowthat the Gothic king Radagaisus abandoned his forces and tried escaping after a counterattack by the Roman army in 406?
text: Did you knowthat Rev William Cotton , vicar of Frodsham , Cheshire , introduced the skills of beekeeping to New Zealand in the 1840s?
text: Did you knowthat your biological chronotype characterizes your morningness or eveningness?
text: Did you knowthat Singapore ’s Sungei Road , formerly a place designated for affluent Europeans and Asians, is now the largest and oldest flea market better known as the Thieves' Market?
text: Did you knowthat at 24, Wilfred Arthur was the youngest Group Captain in the history of the Royal Australian Air Force ?
text: Did you knowthat the slang term brass razoo is speculated to have originated from Egyptian or Indian currency?
text: Did you knowthat the fight scene between Peter Griffin and a giant chicken on Family Guy episode " Blind Ambition " was originally created for the episode " The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire "?
text: Did you knowthat conservative radio talk show host Moon Griffon , who broadcasts statewide from Monroe , is sometimes known as the Rush Limbaugh of Louisiana ?
text: Did you knowthat the Raichur Thermal Power Station is the first thermal power plant to be set up in the Indian state of Karnataka and accounts for about 40% of the total power generated in the state?
text: Did you knowthat tradition states Severus of Barcelona was given the position of Bishop of Barcelona because a pigeon landed on his head?
text: Did you knowthat Siniloan River in the Philippines is known by tourists for its five waterfalls and clear and easily accessible headwaters ?
text: Did you knowthat the Valle d'Aosta DOC in the Alps of northwestern Italy is home to the highest elevated vineyards in all of Europe?
text: Did you knowthat businessman Peter Bynoe oversaw the development of New Comiskey Park , which was instrumental in keeping the Chicago White Sox from leaving the city?
text: Did you knowthat the Visigothic Reccopolis , founded in Hispania in 578 by King Leovigild , and lost until 1944, was one of only two new cities founded in Western Europe between the 5th and 9th centuries?
text: Did you knowthat Lavinia Fisher is widely recognised as the first female serial killer in the United States of America ?
text: Did you knowthat the Articulating Propulsion System with thrust vectoring control allows the Super Dvora Mk III to function in shallow waters at drafts of 1.2 meters?
text: Did you knowthat the series of unconventional aircraft designed by Jonathan Edward Caldwell may be responsible for reported sightings of flying saucers in the United States throughout the 1950s and 60s?
text: Did you knowthat upon completion, the thirteen-volume History of Lithuania will be the largest and the most comprehensive academic publication covering Lithuania ’s history ever released?
text: Did you knowthat in 2007, the Trinity Tigers threw 15 backward passes in 62 seconds to defeat the Millsaps Majors with the longest play in college football history ?
text: Did you knowthat the Jami al-Tawarikh , a work of Persian literature by Rashid al-Din , was initially commissioned to document the history of the Mongols , but later expanded to cover the history of the entire world as known to Persians from the time of Adam to the 14th century ?
text: Did you knowthat some U.S. commercial airliners are now being equipped with the Northrop Grumman Guardian anti-missile system to counter terrorist attacks with shoulder-launched missiles ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Peninsular War , French forces in Extremadura led by Marshal Édouard Mortier took barely an hour to kill 1,000 Spanish soldiers and take 4,000 prisoners in winning the Battle of the Gebora ?
text: Did you knowthat Praejectus , Bishop of Clermont , was assassinated for his supposed involvement in the earlier death of a lord of Marseilles ?
text: Did you knowthat Batesian and Müllerian mimicry provided early evidence for the theory of evolution put forward by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace ?
text: Did you knowthat water absorption is responsible for most of the incoming sunlight and outgoing thermal radiation absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere ?
text: Did you knowthat the police officer who illegally shot Nathaniel Levi Gaines in 1996 became the third officer from the New York City Police Department to be sentenced for committing a crime while on active duty?
text: Did you knowthat Khoo Kheng-Hor , a Malaysian author, was appointed as honorary Assistant Superintendent of Police in Singapore , in recognition for his contemporary application of Sun Tzu 's Art of War ?
text: Did you knowthat David Letterman parodied Werner Erhard in the 1978 Mork & Mindy episode Mork Goes Erk ?
text: Did you knowthat the American Ceylon Mission founded Asia's first all girls boarding school in 1824 , in Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you knowthat Juan Bautista Villalpando proposed that the classical orders were derived originally from Solomon's Temple , not from ancient Greek architecture as Vitruvius had written?
text: Did you knowthat Howard Greer designed costumes for the Katharine Hepburn films Christopher Strong and Bringing Up Baby ?
text: Did you knowthat Andrew Michael Dasburg's three "daringly experimental" Cubist pieces at the 1913 Armory Show introduced many Americans to modern art ?
text: Did you knowthat the Lwów dialect was one of the first dialects of the Polish language to be properly classified?
text: Did you knowthat the human mouth is colonized by bacteroides and spirochetes around puberty ?
text: Did you knowthat Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore 's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly ?
text: Did you knowthat BBC journalist Leonard Miall worked on psychological warfare in New York and San Francisco with the Political Warfare Executive during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat granular cheese is produced by repeatedly stirring and draining a mixture of curds and whey ?
text: Did you knowthat Prema Karanth is the first woman to direct a Kannada film?
text: Did you knowthat the astronomical observatory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica is named after physicist Martin A. Pomerantz ?
text: Did you knowthat a T-54 tank of the Polish Army killed seven children watching on the sidewalk during a military parade in Szczecin in 1962?
text: Did you knowthat Shaukat Usmani was a candidate for the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1929 UK general election while imprisoned in India ?
text: Did you knowthat Node Magazine , a hypertext version of William Gibson 's Spook Country , is a fictional magazine named after a fictional magazine in the novel?
text: Did you knowthat the First International Syndicalist Congress in 1913 was compared to " Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark " because the world's largest syndicalist organization was absent?
text: Did you knowthat Sir John Port , patron of Oxford University , was involved in the trials of two saints and a Queen ?
text: Did you knowthat though it started as a block party in 1975, Capital Pride in Washington, D.C. , is now the fourth-largest gay pride parade and festival in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat William Couper is considered one of the first prominent entomologists in Canada ?
text: Did you knowthat Shoyna , on a peninsula of Russia 's Nenets Autonomous Okrug , is more than half buried by sand dunes caused by permafrost and trawling?
text: Did you knowthat the foundation of the largest dam in Iraq is subject to so much erosion that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has warned about the risk of a collapse that would kill up to 500,000 people?
text: Did you knowthat BBC cameraman Charles de Jaeger got the idea for the Panorama April Fools report on the Swiss spaghetti harvest from a phrase used by one of his school teachers in Vienna?
text: Did you knowthat the Treaty of Reichenbach signaled both Prussia's first retreat from the policies of Frederick the Great , as well as the beginning of its decline?
text: Did you knowthat an explanation for the derivation of Aughanduff , a townland in Armagh , is that it means ford of the ox or Áth an Daimh in Irish ?
text: Did you knowthat Song Hye-rang is a North Korean defector who looked after Kim Jong-nam , the child of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Beard v. Banks that it is not unconstitutional to deny newspapers to violent prison inmates, who can use them to start fires and make weapons ?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian lamington cake is believed to have been named after Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington , the then- Governor of Queensland ?
text: Did you knowthat during the Lithuanian press ban from 1864 to 1904, it was illegal in Lithuania to print, import, distribute, or possess any publications that were written in the Lithuanian language using the Latin alphabet ?
text: Did you knowthat Chef Morou Ouattara opened his own restaurant after he lost his job as Signatures Restaurant 's executive chef in the fallout of the Jack Abramoff scandals ?
text: Did you knowthat RAOC officer George Styles was awarded the George Cross in 1972 for defusing booby-trapped bombs planted by terrorists in Northern Ireland , including two bombs left at the Europa Hotel in Belfast within a matter of days?
text: Did you knowthat the programmable metallization cell is one of many contenders aiming to become a Flash RAM replacement?
text: Did you knowthat in the year 2004, both the Tamil and Telugu language versions of the Kannada novel Parva won the Sahitya Akademi of India 's translation award?
text: Did you knowthat a church was built in memory of Parkin Jeffcock who led a rescue during the Oaks colliery explosions which killed over 350?
text: Did you knowthat the paddle-wheel cyclogyro aircraft design refuses to die after almost a century of failed attempts to build one?
text: Did you knowthat Powderfinger 's " Living Type " was about Charles Manson 's cult victims, not about love or menstruation as had been speculated by some lyrical analysts?
text: Did you knowthat Luzerne County Commissioner, former professional athlete and University of Michigan Wolverine offensive lineman , Greg Skrepenak , was inducted into the Pennsylvania State Sports Hall of Fame?
text: Did you knowthat Edward Abbott was the first judge to sit in a permanent civil court in the Australian State of Tasmania?
text: Did you knowthat Bartolomé Calvo became President of the Granadine Confederation after his predecessor's term ended and no new president had been elected?
text: Did you knowthat during the Italian War of 1542–1546 , the population of Toulon , France was expelled to make room for an Ottoman naval base?
text: Did you knowthat Olegarius , Archbishop of Tarragona , became a canon priest when he was only ten years old?
text: Did you knowthat John Phillips was one of the first judges appointed to the Victorian Court of Appeal and that his nickname was "Equity Jack"?
text: Did you knowthat an aircraft which misses the arrestor cables on an aircraft carrier and needs to accelerate away is referred to as a bolter ?
text: Did you knowthat the exploits of the 6th century Roman general John Troglita are the subject of one of the last epic poems of Antiquity, the Iohannis by Flavius Cresconius Corippus ?
text: Did you knowthat Julia Ward Howe , author of " The Battle Hymn of the Republic " and champion of emancipation and women's suffrage , was also a founder of the Women's Rest Tour Association of Boston ?
text: Did you knowthat Michael Jordan's Restaurant in Chicago received as many as 7,000 telephone calls per day during its first few months of operation?
text: Did you knowthat Hare Field was the first all-weather high school football field in Oregon ?
text: Did you knowthat founder Beulah Burke organized and was the first regional director of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated's Midwestern region?
text: Did you knowthat Sardarji jokes are the most popular ethnic jokes in India ?
text: Did you knowthat John Fowler won the 1858 prize of the Royal Agricultural Society for mechanical cultivation using winches and a steam engine ?
text: Did you knowthat Sagittarius B2 is a giant molecular cloud near the Galactic Center where half of all known interstellar molecules were first discovered?
text: Did you knowthat there are seven dialectal groups of the Polish language , each primarily associated with a certain geographical region?
text: Did you knowthat the annual Global Peace and Unity conference held at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in London is the largest Muslim event in Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat Teimuraz I , a Georgian monarch of the Bagrationi Dynasty , was also an accomplished poet whose literary works includes original Georgian poems as well as translations and adaptations from Persian literature ?
text: Did you knowthat only after five years since its founding in 1991, Reel Affirmations became the fourth-largest LGBT film festival in the United States ?
text: Did you knowthat Alex Niño quit medical school at the University of Manila in 1959 to pursue his childhood goal of becoming a comic book artist?
text: Did you knowthat A. Roswell Thompson , a taxi operator and a figure in the Ku Klux Klan , ran for governor of Louisiana in 1959, 32 years before David Duke waged his more publicized race in 1991?
text: Did you knowthat Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada were persecuted in the early to mid-20th century, and that their religion was banned during World War II under the War Measures Act as a result of their refusal to serve in the military?
text: Did you knowthat Buryat Mongolian Buddhist Agvan Dorzhiev was a tutor and debating partner of the teenage Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama ?
text: Did you knowthat Peter Birkhäuser was so moved by a moth trapped by a window that he painted its picture, and later analysed his thoughts and corresponded with Carl Jung ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1921, future four-star admiral Louis M. Nulton tried to save the battlecruiser USS Constitution from being scrapped by illegally transferring funds from the construction and repair of other warships?
text: Did you knowthat the 1994 Guinness television advertisement Anticipation used jump cutting techniques to make an actor appear to be performing a physically impossible dance ?
text: Did you knowthat the Comoedienhaus theater , built in 1782 , the first theater of performing arts in Frankfurt, Germany , played host to concerts by Mozart , Schiller and Goethe , among others?
text: Did you knowthat in numerical analysis , the error of an approximation of a function u {\displaystyle \textstyle u} by a polynomial of order at most m − 1 {\displaystyle \textstyle m-1} in terms of derivatives of u {\displaystyle \textstyle u} of order m {\displaystyle \textstyle m} is bound by the Bramble-Hilbert lemma ?
text: Did you knowthat the United Church of Christ in Blooming Grove, New York was a Presbyterian congregation until its pastor was tried for heresy ?
text: Did you knowthat popularity of German Minority , a party of the German minority in Poland , has been steadily declining since its establishment?
text: Did you knowthat Clímaco Calderón was President of Colombia for only one day?
text: Did you knowthat Bhadda Kundalakesa attained arahantship faster than any other Buddhist nun ?
text: Did you knowthat bugged conversations with surgeon - crime boss Giuseppe Guttadauro revealed how the Mafia funded the 2001 election campaign of Sicilian President Salvatore Cuffaro ?
text: Did you knowthat the opening session of the Estonian Constituent Assembly on April 23 1919 is considered the birth of the Estonian Parliament ?
text: Did you knowthat according to a Dakota Indian legend, the Great Spirit divided Barn Bluff between two rival villages of Minnesota , with the remaining portion moving to Winona and became Sugar Loaf ?
text: Did you knowthat Credonia Mwerinde founded the doomsday cult , the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God , with Joseph Kibweteere ?
text: Did you knowthat in the United Kingdom , speed limits imposed by variable-message signs are advisories only, and there are no legal sanctions for drivers who exceed them?
text: Did you knowthat razor manufacturer Thiers Issard produces a singing razor whose blade produces a resonant tone when plucked?
text: Did you knowthat fingerboards are reduced scale model figures of skateboards that  are featured in videos and used as 3-D visual aids for skateboarders to understand potential tricks and maneuvers?
text: Did you knowthat Ronald Reagan 's autobiography , An American Life , reached number eight on The New York Times ' bestsellers list?
text: Did you knowthat the Iron Range and Huron Bay Railroad never operated a single train , despite completing a 42-mile (68 km) line and its own ore dock at a cost of over two million dollars?
text: Did you knowthat a poll of 1000 respondents conducted in 2006 indicated that 26% of Americans say the United States " should not be involved " with the United Nations ?
text: Did you knowthat former Chicago Blackhawks player Al Suomi was offered a contract to play with a local St. Louis, Missouri hockey team at the age of 93?
text: Did you knowthat Colorado state representative Spencer Swalm spent time as a Christian missionary in Bolivia ?
text: Did you knowthat Aimé Guibert, owner and winemaker of Mas de Daumas Gassac , was featured in the documentary Mondovino stating that "wine is dead"?
text: Did you knowthat Empress Dowager Wu of Tang China had Wu Youji ’s wife secretly killed in 690 CE so that he could marry her widowed daughter, the Princess Taiping ?
text: Did you knowthat eight human skeletons linked to suspected serial killer Daniel Conahan triggered the largest excavation of human remains in Florida history?
text: Did you knowthat William Stewart Simkins , later professor emeritus at the University of Texas School of Law , may have fired the first shot of the US Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat the day Wu Zetian , China's only female Emperor , was overthrown in 705 CE, Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong were killed and their heads were hung at an entrance to the capital ?
text: Did you knowthat the 5th-century baptistery of the Cathedral of Saint-Léonce , one of France 's oldest Christian structures , was concealed after reconstructions in the 13th century and re-discovered in 1925?
text: Did you knowthat the Hurricane Creek mine disaster , which killed 38 men in 1970, occurred exactly a year after passage of the first federal legislation regulating mine safety?
text: Did you knowthat besides Bartter syndrome , endocrinologist Frederic Bartter also identified the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone ?
text: Did you knowthat Azizul Huque gave up his Knighthood after the Calcutta Riots in 1946 ?
text: Did you knowthat Laurent de Premierfait was the first French translator of Giovanni Boccaccio 's material, which was done only for personal financial gain?
text: Did you knowthat Pratap Singh was the last ruler of Thanjavur to be officially referred to by the English East India Company as " His Majesty "?
text: Did you knowthat New Mexico State Road 4 forms the core of Jemez Mountain Trail National Scenic Byway , with trails to Puebloan ruins, a 10,199-foot mountain , and a 70-foot waterfall from roadside turnouts?
text: Did you knowthat articulation begins with the junction produced by creating a joint and is defined by the degree joints are seen as a "distinct break" from each other, in contrast to joints that seem fluid and continuous with the whole?
text: Did you knowthat Namibia Commercial Aviation has used the former presidential aircraft of Yugoslavia and Zambia for passenger flights?
text: Did you knowthat Al Javery , deferred from serving in World War II due to varicose veins , led all Major League Baseball pitchers in 1943 with 303 innings pitched ?
text: Did you knowthat Empress Dowager Wu of Tang China was so fond of Feng Xiaobao , she had him undertake tonsure to become a Buddhist monk in order to facilitate his entering and exiting her palace?
text: Did you knowthat consuming excess carotenoids may lead to their deposition in the stratum corneum and a yellow to yellow-orange discoloration of the skin in a medical condition known as carotenoderma ?
text: Did you knowthat, at the time of his death, 111-year-old veteran Mark Matthews was seen as a symbol for the Buffalo Soldiers ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ramesseum medical papyri contained an contraceptive formula and a method to predict the likelihood of a newborn's survival?
text: Did you knowthat the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion was the first tank destroyer battalion of the United States Army to see combat in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Section 121 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act in U.S. law is named the “ Megan Nicole Kanka and Alexandra Nicole Zapp Community Notification Program”, after two victims of violent crimes?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Szkłów in 1654 occurred during a solar eclipse ?
text: Did you knowthat after screenwriter Chuck Tatham 's brother and writing partner Jamie quit their first job and returned to their hometown, Chuck went on to be nominated for two Emmys ?
text: Did you knowthat William Cunningham became Michigan's first All-American based on his performance in an 1898 game against Chicago that inspired Louis Elbel to write the school's fight song, The Victors ?
text: Did you knowthat The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz explains the counterintuitive result that consumers are often more frustrated and anxious with more shopping choices rather than fewer?
text: Did you knowthat New Harmony's Atheneum is named after the ancient Greek temple to the goddess Athena , the Athenaion?
text: Did you knowthat the ancient Chinese text Huangdi Yinfujing , attributed to the mythical emperor Huangdi in the 3rd century BCE , may have been a forgery from the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE)?
text: Did you knowthat Judges Cave and Regicides Trail in West Rock Ridge , Connecticut , USA were named for two judges who hid in the area in 1660 after signing the death warrant of the King Charles I ?
text: Did you knowthat some members of the Nazi SS became eligible for their 25-year SS Long Service Awards well before their completion of 25 years of service?
text: Did you knowthat the country music band Pearl River was hired as a backing band for Bryan White , a singer who previously sold T-shirts for the band?
text: Did you knowthat the current Foreign Minister of Albania , Lulzim Basha , used to work for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and helped prepare the file against Slobodan Milosevic ?
text: Did you knowthat Wichita, Kansas mayor Russell Jump was, at the time of his death at the age of 105, recognized as one of the longest lived individuals to have held public office?
text: Did you knowthat television director Michael Lange ' s Jewish heritage landed him a non-speaking role as a rabbi in the episode " The Chrismukkah Bar-Mitzvahkkah " of The O.C. , a show for which he had previously directed?
text: Did you knowthat the Celts and Illyrians introduced winemaking to Slovenia long before it was commonly practiced in France , Germany and Spain ?
text: Did you knowthat in March 2007, Agnes Devanadera ' became the 41st and first woman Solicitor General of the Philippines ?
text: Did you knowthat television director and editor Norman Buckley 's older sister Betty landed him his first editing job on Tender Mercies , a film she featured in?
text: Did you knowthat the Peshwa general Chimnaji Appa built the Vajreshwari temple to thank the goddess Vajreshwari for the conquest of the Bassein Fort in 1739?
text: Did you knowthat the Toyota 7 was the first sports prototype racing car built by Toyota Motor Corporation , debuting at the 1968 Japanese Grand Prix ?
text: Did you knowthat Haridas Mundhra got the Indian government in 1956 to invest $10 million in his sinking firms, a scandal which further exposed the rift between Feroze Gandhi and his wife Indira Gandhi , daughter of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru ?
text: Did you knowthat Gustave Ferbert quit his job as head football coach at the University of Michigan in 1900 to prospect for gold in the Klondike Gold Rush and returned home in 1909 as a millionaire?
text: Did you knowthat the Tigmamanukan , a Philippine mythological bird , can be a good or bad omen depending on the direction of its flight?
text: Did you knowthat the role of Osmin in the German opera The Abduction from the Seraglio was tailor-made by Mozart for his friend Ludwig Fischer ?
text: Did you knowthat in the history of commercial tobacco in the United States , an African slave named Stephan changed the process of curing tobacco by using charcoal taken from a local blacksmith ’s fire rather than the usual logwood ?
text: Did you knowthat the Australian Test cricketer Colin McCool bowled his leg spin deliveries with a round arm action so pronounced that his arm was almost parallel to the pitch ?
text: Did you knowthat the Deperdussin Monocoque was the first aircraft to fly faster than 100 miles per hour?
text: Did you knowthat American artist Sybil Gibson started painting in 1963, aged 55, using the medium of powdered tempera paints on brown paper grocery bags?
text: Did you knowthat footballer Roy Cheetham was the first Manchester City player to be used as a substitute ?
text: Did you knowthat Jimmie Lewallen turned down an offer to buy into NASCAR because "it would never amount to anything"?
text: Did you knowthat the town of Orlová in the Czech Republic was named for the eagle that, legend has it, caused the premature birth of Kazimierz, son of Duke Mieszko and his wife, Ludmiła, on the spot where the town was founded?
text: Did you knowthat the ANAK Society , Georgia Tech 's oldest secret society , claims to have covertly protected the university's first African American students during Georgia Tech's racial integration in the 1960s?
text: Did you knowthat despite his never having been emperor , Li Chengqi was posthumously honoured as such by the Tang Chinese Emperor Xuanzong ?
text: Did you knowthat during his U.S. Air Force career, Colorado state representative Kent Lambert oversaw military support for the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster investigation at Air Force Space Command ?
text: Did you knowthat signs of spring trending to earlier arrivals are evidence of season creep ?
text: Did you knowthat the All-American football player John Maulbetsch was known as the "Featherweight Fullback " because he weighed only 155 pounds (70 kg) and ate two pies a day for dinner during his playing career?
text: Did you knowthat the Rhone Rangers , winemakers who promote the use of grapes from the Rhône Valley in France , were a driving force behind Syrah 's increased popularity among Californian wines ?
text: Did you knowthat Section 44 of the Australian Constitution has been interpreted as meaning that persons with dual citizenship are ineligible to run for the Australian parliament ?
text: Did you knowthat the projected Russian hypersonic aircraft Ayaks was supposed to use novel "magneto-plasmo-chemical engines" capable of working in the mesosphere ?
text: Did you knowthat Vannimais were feudal divisions of Sri Lanka ?
text: Did you knowthat Ilha dos Marinheiros , the largest and most fertile island in the lagoon Lagoa dos Patos , produces about 80% of the vegetables consumed in Rio Grande , Brazil ?
text: Did you knowthat Psalms 134 and 135 are usually chanted during the Polyeleos , a festive portion of the Matins or All-night vigil services in some Eastern Christian Churches , but Psalm 44 is chanted instead on feasts of the Theotokos in Greece ?
text: Did you knowthat John Cort , founder of Broadway 's Cort Theatre, first made his name by booking variety entertainment in the bawdy box houses of Seattle , Washington , USA?
text: Did you knowthat irritable hip is the most common cause of limp and sudden pain in and around the hip in children aged three to ten?
text: Did you knowthat the Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. not only houses the headquarters of the United States Department of Commerce , but is also the site of the Population Clock , National Aquarium , and White House Visitor Center ?
text: Did you knowthat paramilitary loyalist Tommy Herron declared war on the British Army , but called it off after two days?
text: Did you knowthat Utricularia inflata is one of the few invasive species of carnivorous plant ?
text: Did you knowthat Shruti Haasan , the daughter of Indian actors Kamal Haasan and Sarika , is a singer turned model who is now also venturing into acting?
text: Did you knowthat the producer of White Zinfandel originally wanted to name the wine after the old rosé style Oeil de Perdrix ?
text: Did you knowthat rugby union footballer Robert Wilson Shaw was so influential in Scotland 's Triple Crown winning victory over England in 1938 that the match became known as "Wilson Shaw's match"?
text: Did you knowthat the Theatre on Terazije is a Broadway-style theatre in Belgrade where the Serbian version of Chicago , Kiss Me, Kate , A Chorus Line and other musicals are performed?
text: Did you knowthat Oregon State University ’s Wave Research Laboratory has the world’s largest tsunami simulator?
text: Did you knowthat the 17th chief of the Clan Maclachlan was killed by a cannonball while leading his Jacobite clansmen at the Battle of Culloden in 1746?
text: Did you knowthat during the French and Indian War Henry Timberlake was an emissary to the Overhill Cherokee whose journals became a primary source for later studies of eighteenth-century Cherokee ?
text: Did you knowthat in the landmark case Riggins v. Nevada , the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a mentally ill person cannot be forced to take antipsychotic medication while on trial merely to maintain his competency during trial ?
text: Did you knowthat the philosophical question of temporal finitism has never been fully settled?
text: Did you knowthat 67 Australian , Canadian , and New Zealand Article XV squadrons were formed during World War II from graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ?
text: Did you knowthat Portugal was taken to court over its failure to implement EU directives regarding its water supply and sanitation systems?
text: Did you knowthat one of the earliest references to Indian wine was the writings of Chanakya in the 4th century BCE commenting on its prevalence in the court of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya ?
text: Did you knowthat John Considine , pioneering American vaudeville impresario , once shot and killed a former chief of police of Seattle who had come gunning for him?
text: Did you knowthat without adequate scouting , Russian forces advanced blindly into the Battle of Lubar in 1658 during the Russo-Polish War , and were soundly defeated by a Polish army much larger than expected?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Collen resigned over a discrepancy about his résumé a day after becoming Vanderbilt University 's women's basketball head coach, but his résumé was correct?
text: Did you knowthat the Near-Earth object and Mars-crosser asteroid 2007 WD5 is estimated to have a 1-in-75 chance of colliding with Mars ?
text: Did you knowthat the 2001 single by Mylène Farmer , C'est une belle journée , was released in April , 2002 after the success of the album , Les Mots , rather than its scheduled date of release?
text: Did you knowthat although tall waterhemp is considered a weed in 40 U.S. states , it does not appear on the federal noxious weed list or any state lists?
text: Did you knowthat each title of the thirteen episodes of the 2007 Japanese animated television series Blue Drop: Tenshitachi no Gikyoku is the name of a flower seen in that episode?
text: Did you knowthat in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongol Empire had an alliance with the Armenians against their common enemy, the Muslim Mamluks ?
text: Did you knowthat the city of West Sacramento, California is converting the former State Route 275 freeway into a surface road by replacing interchanges with at-grade intersections ?
text: Did you knowthat Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello , a Nigerian Senator from the People's Democratic Party , is the daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo ?
text: Did you knowthat there are two separate churches dedicated to St Werburgh in the village of Warburton, Greater Manchester ?
text: Did you knowthat Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy violated a news embargo to break the story of the surrender of the Germans in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the modern Croatian intelligence community emerged as an integral force in Croatia 's war for independence , spying on rival Yugoslav republics?
text: Did you knowthat before becoming the Judge Advocate General of the United States Navy , Thomas Leigh Gatch was awarded two Navy Crosses ?
text: Did you knowthat most of Manchester 's Grade I listed buildings are Victorian, because of Manchester's growth during the Industrial Revolution?
text: Did you knowthat the Rowan County War resulted in 20 deaths, talk of dissolving Rowan County, Kentucky , and the founding of what would become Morehead State University ?
text: Did you knowthat the Italian winery Vini Lunardelli produced a controversial "historical line" of wine bottles featuring images of Che Guevara , Adolf Hitler , Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin on their labels ?
text: Did you knowthat when St Hilary's Church in Wallasey , England burnt down in 1857, a new church was built separately, leaving the tower of the old medieval church as a free-standing edifice?
text: Did you knowthat in the cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies , coffee became the alternative to tea after the enactment of the Tea Act of 1773 ?
text: Did you knowthat netball in New Zealand is the most popular women's sport in the country, led by its high-profile national team, the Silver Ferns ?
text: Did you knowthat Marine Attack Squadron 233 was the only squadron of the U.S. Marine Corps to have three commanders killed during the course of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Svinøy island of Norway is so exposed to the wind and high seas that supply boats to the island's lighthouse could not dock but had to be lifted up by a crane ?
text: Did you knowthat English botanist John Ralfs amassed a collection 3,137 microscopic slides , which he left in his will to the British Museum ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Chudniv in 1660 was the largest Polish victory over the Russians until the Battle of Warsaw in 1920 ?
text: Did you knowthat many churchgoers in the 1920s believed that Ronald Reagan 's mother, Nelle Wilson Reagan , had the gift to heal due to her strong belief in the power of prayer ?
text: Did you knowthat the four years between the two no ball decisions for throwing by cricketer Harold Cotton is the longest span during which a player was no-balled in major cricket in Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat as well as serving as the assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health, Kent R. Hill has also published books and served as the president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy ?
text: Did you knowthat John Warren Davis , a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit , was indicted for receiving a bribe from film producer William Fox ?
text: Did you knowthat German-American football center Adolph F. "Germany" Schulz is credited for developing the "roving center" technique, which became the basis for the linebacker position?
text: Did you knowthat according to literary critics, The Queen and Concubine , a 17th-century tragicomic stage play written by Richard Brome , is a critique of royal tyranny and courtly sycophancy in England at the time?
text: Did you knowthat during the Spanish Civil War Solidaridad Obrera , published by an anarchist labor union, was Spain's highest-circulation newspaper?
text: Did you knowthat the Brooklyn Hospital Center is the oldest hospital of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City ?
text: Did you knowthat the Abbey of Condat , founded in the 420s in the Jura Mountains by Romanus and Lupicinus , predated even Montecassino as one of the earliest monasteries in the West?
text: Did you knowthat, after failing to hail a cab on New Year's Eve in Denver , state representative Jerry Frangas sponsored legislation to deregulate Colorado 's taxicab industry?
text: Did you knowthat although Louisiana per Perry v. Louisiana forbids the forced medication of a death row inmate to make him competent for execution , some states allow it?
text: Did you knowthat the well known white wine region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia also makes red wine from grapes like Merlot , Cabernet Sauvignon and Pignolo ?
text: Did you knowthat indigenous Australian cricketer Jack Marsh was called for illegally throwing instead of bowling an Australian record seventeen times in one innings?
text: Did you knowthat in the 17th century, south-London prostitutes , nicknamed ' Winchester Geese' after the Bishop whose land they worked on, were buried in a special, unconsecrated graveyard called Cross Bones ?
text: Did you knowthat people with patent foramen ovale , an atrial septal defect , are more likely to suffer from migraine headaches?
text: Did you knowthat the Laetare Medal , an award for an American Catholic who has made an outstanding contribution to society , was first given to the historian John Gilmary Shea in 1883?
text: Did you knowthat The Entrepreneur , the first video game created by famed game designer Peter Molyneux , sold only two copies?
text: Did you knowthat Ava Helen Pauling , an American human rights activist and wife of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling , was a three-time national vice president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom ?
text: Did you knowthat Powderfinger 's D.A.F. was named after its chord progression , rather than its subject matter like most popular songs?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Lloyd Racing's custom-built 956 GTi was structurally stronger than the standard 956's built by Porsche thanks to the introduction of aluminium composite honeycomb in the chassis construction?
text: Did you knowthat the skin of the Austrian white wine grape Zierfandler turns red just before it is ready to harvest ?
text: Did you knowthat the Nobel laureate physicist Theodor W. Hänsch works at the faculty of the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics ?
text: Did you knowthat the 18th century publisher Ralph Griffiths erected a sign outside his shop warning dunces that his Monthly Review would have no mercy in exposing and shaming dull authors?
text: Did you knowthat Shanhua , a township in Taiwan , is also known as Bakaloan and Tevoran?
text: Did you knowthat after scoring the highest score for the Federated Malay States cricket team in 1933, Cyril Reed was playing against them for the Straits Settlements the following year?
text: Did you knowthat spinning cones are sometimes used to lower the alcohol level of wine made from grapes with a high sugar content?
text: Did you knowthat according to the Christmas Price Index it will cost your true love US$78,100 to buy you all those gifts this year?
text: Did you knowthat to clear a jammed gun on the armored cruiser USS Brooklyn , Medal of Honor recipient Harry L. MacNeal crawled along its barrel during the Battle of Santiago de Cuba ?
text: Did you knowthat wine made from the Italian grape Schioppettino was served at weddings in 1282 and the grape is still being grown today?
text: Did you knowthat development of the 2008 film Dragonball began in 2002, when 20th Century Fox acquired the rights?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1971 film Lawman , American actor Robert Ryan played the role of the sheriff under the name Cotton Ryan?
text: Did you knowthat Franz Kafka 's 1917 " Jackals and Arabs " has been read as variously a Zionist critique of Western Jewry, a European critique of Jewish-Arab relations, and a paean to Nietzsche 's On the Genealogy of Morality ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1971, the Indian Claims Commission ordered US$ 74,856.50 to be paid to the Lower Skagit tribe to pay for land lost as a result of the Point Elliott Treaty ?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Pitcher was the only cricketer in Australia history to be no balled for throwing in his debut match?
text: Did you knowthat, with Christine Scanlan 's appointment to the Colorado House of Representatives , the state house's Democratic caucus became majority-female?
text: Did you knowthat the Zoological Garden of Hamburg built the world's largest primate house in 1915, only to see most of the monkeys starve to death during World War I and the zoo go bankrupt in 1920?
text: Did you knowthat when the Duke of Austria , Leopold III , established reign over the Italian city of Trieste one of his stipulations was that the city supply him each year with 100 urns of the region's best Ribolla wine?
text: Did you knowthat before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Jackson v. Indiana , an incompetent criminal defendant could be involuntarily confined indefinitely (as if given a life sentence ) without a trial or a conviction ?
text: Did you knowthat Ron DeGregorio was elected in 2003 as the fourth president of USA Hockey since 1937 ?
text: Did you knowthat Viktor Pynzenyk , Ukraine's Minister of Finance , is also a professor of economics at Lviv University ?
text: Did you knowthat the British shipping company Ellerman Lines lost 60 out of its 105-strong fleet of merchant vessels during the Second World War ?
text: Did you knowthat cricketer Barry Fisher had a metal pin surgically inserted into his shoulder to prevent injury while bowling , although he still suffered from persistent shoulder problems?
text: Did you knowthat Soma Cruz , the protagonist of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow , the third installment of the Castlevania video game series on the Game Boy Advance , is the reincarnation of the series' premier villain, Dracula ?
text: Did you knowthat the SAPPHIRE information network helped prevent epidemics in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina , using Semantic Web technologies?
text: Did you knowthat after serving as a border guard , Saint Claudius of Besançon became, successively, a priest , monk , abbot , bishop , and then an abbot again, in the 7th century ?
text: Did you knowthat there is currently significant controversy on college and university rankings like those used for business school rankings because some of the methodologies are deemed misleading?
text: Did you knowthat Luv Ya Blue was the term given to a 1970s movement by fans of the Houston Oilers that featured fight songs , pom-pons and other gimmicks more reminiscent of college football than the NFL ?
text: Did you knowthat Hector Munro Macdonald graduated as fourth Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1889?
text: Did you knowthat " Clash of the Choirs " was a quick reality talent contest miniseries between celebrity -led amateur choirs that was criticized for a lack of tension and actual judges ?
text: Did you knowthat, upon exhumation , the 10th century saint Rasso was found to be 2 meters (6' 6") tall, although, given that his grave was 2 and a half meters, he had earlier been thought to be even taller?
text: Did you knowthat Frank Parr , an English chess player, won the Hastings Premier during his first and only appearance at the tournament in 1939/1940?
text: Did you knowthat Christopher Erhardt was a product planner for companies such as Teledyne , and is now working on a doctoral dissertation on video game players' demographic considerations?
text: Did you knowthat the Zionist leader Leo Motzkin organized the Jewish delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and led agitations against the Nazi Party ?
text: Did you knowthat Stanley Green , the "Protein Man", walked up and down Oxford Street in London every day for 25 years, sometimes in green overalls to protect himself from spit , warning passers-by about the dangers of too much protein — and sitting ?
text: Did you knowthat The Enchanter is the last work of fiction written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian but was first published in English after his death ?
text: Did you knowthat the writer and diplomat Maurice Francis Egan introduced President Theodore Roosevelt to William Butler Yeats at a White House lunch?
text: Did you knowthat the Little War was the smallest and least successful of the three conflicts in the Cuban War of Independence ?
text: Did you knowthat Clifford Last , a son of the author of the Housewife, 49 diaries, migrated from Britain to Australia after the war and became a noted abstract sculptor ?
text: Did you knowthat Glenn Vaad was elected to seats on his local town board , school board , sanitation board, and county commission before winning election to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat after sinking the SS City of Cairo , Kapitän zur See Karl-Friedrich Merten gave the survivors directions to the nearest land, and parted with the words "Goodnight, and sorry for sinking you"?
text: Did you knowthat Cornelius Shea , the founding president of the Teamsters , spent more than five years in Sing Sing prison for slashing and stabbing his mistress 27 times?
text: Did you knowthat when the old All Saints Church, Marple was replaced by a new church 30 metres away in 1880, the tower from the old church was retained and is now used as a free-standing bell-tower?
text: Did you knowthat as Oregon State University athletic director, Percy Locey agreed to play the 1942 Rose Bowl at the opposing team's home field due to the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
text: Did you knowthat Ron Halcombe was the first player to be called for throwing in major Australian cricket by three different umpires ?
text: Did you knowthat the pun riddle “What do you call a spicy missile? A hot shot!” was generated by computer as part of computational humor research?
text: Did you knowthat Libya was the first country to purchase the Palmaria , an Italian -made self-propelled 155mm howitzer , ordering 210 units in 1982?
text: Did you know Robert Hett Chapman was the second president of the The University of North Carolina and instituted the first Bible study classes at the university?
text: Did you knowthat the Creusot steam hammer , with its massive 100 ton hammer and 750 ton anvil, was the world's largest steam hammer on its completion in 1877 and is the largest surviving steam hammer today?
text: Did you knowthat Mount Urpín is home to 35 endangered animal species, despite its proximity to downtown Banská Bystrica ?
text: Did you knowthat theatre director David Warren landed a directing role on Desperate Housewives after giving the show's creator, Marc Cherry , his first acting job twenty years prior?
text: Did you knowthat HMCS Esquimalt was the last Royal Canadian Navy warship lost to enemy action in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Jack Blott , an All-American football center for the Michigan Wolverines , had a Major League Baseball career with the Cincinnati Reds lasting only two games?
text: Did you knowthat, as of December 2007, more than half of registered players of rugby union in Belgium are teenagers and pre-teens ?
text: Did you knowthat recreational parachutist Jacques-André Istel wrote a children's book claiming that the center of the world is located in Felicity, California , a town he founded?
text: Did you knowthat Nationalism and Culture , the magnum opus of German anarchist Rudolf Rocker , was lauded by three Nobel Prize laureates?
text: Did you knowthat the energy elasticity of India in 2005 was 0.80?
text: Did you knowthat the first act of Paul John Hallinan as Archbishop of Atlanta , an office he assumed in 1962, was to order the desegregation of all Catholic schools and institutions in the Archdiocese of Atlanta ?
text: Did you knowthat the L class destroyer HMS Legion rescued 1,560 crew members of the torpedoed aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal ?
text: Did you knowthat cricketer Ian Meckiff was chaired off the ground by angry spectators as a hero after he was sanctioned for illegal bowling ?
text: Did you knowthat two of the four judges depicted in The Bench , a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth , were half asleep in court ?
text: Did you knowthat the Army Cyclist Corps , which operated the bicycle infantry of the British Army , only existed for four years?
text: Did you knowthat after placing fifth in the original Judgment of Paris wine tasting , the 1971 Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon made by Paul Draper of Ridge Vineyards won the 2006 rematch ?
text: Did you knowthat Kurt Vonnegut 's short story 2BR02B is mentioned in his later book God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater , where it is attributed to Vonnegut's fictional alter ego Kilgore Trout ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1957 accident on the Saint-Paul ramps claimed twenty-seven lives, making it among Réunion 's deadliest road accidents?
text: Did you knowthat No. 112 Squadron RAF was the first unit from any air force to use the "Shark Mouth" logo on P-40 fighter planes ?
text: Did you knowthat pole splitting is a frequency compensation technique that can be used to improve the step response of an electronic amplifier ?
text: Did you knowthat " Majulah Singapura ", the national anthem of Singapore , was originally a theme song for events held by Singapore's City Council during colonial times?
text: Did you knowthat the Invasion of Minorca, 1781 , by Spanish and French forces succeeded, after more than five months, because the British defenders had no fresh vegetables ?
text: Did you knowthat the conventional name of the Darius Painter , an Apulian red-figure vase painter , is derived from his name vase , which carries the depiction of Darius the Great of Persia ?
text: Did you knowthat the community of West Union, Oregon , has the oldest Baptist church west of the Rocky Mountains ?
text: Did you knowthat actor Ben Kingsley has been cast in the lead role of the upcoming film reportedly inspired by the life of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh , Guru of Sex ?
text: Did you knowthat French winemakers in Jurançon once promoted their white Manseng wines with the slogan "Manseng means Jurançon means Sex " ?
text: Did you knowthat the phrase dental hygiene is credited to Alfred Fones who founded the first dental hygiene school and whose cousin was the first qualified dental hygienist ?
text: Did you knowthat Peter Baume , Chancellor of the Australian National University from 1994 to 2006, was elected to the Australian Senate for the Liberal Party of Australia in the 1974 federal election ?
text: Did you knowthat the permanent headquarters of the United States Department of Justice was built 65 years after the creation of the department—and 146 years after the creation of the post of Attorney General ?
text: Did you knowthat German-born anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker 's book Pioneers of American Freedom traces the origins of American anarchism back to Thomas Paine , Thomas Jefferson , and Abraham Lincoln ?
text: Did you knowthat the star Alpha Persei is also known by the traditional name of Mirfak , Arabic for ' elbow ', and the name Hinali'i , commemorating a tsunami in Hawaiian folklore ?
text: Did you knowthat George Orwell spent a month in September 1931 living rough in a Hopper hut ?
text: Did you knowthat the Champagne house Cattier resurrected its dormant de Brignac brand and it is now known for its distinctive, golden pewter bottles?
text: Did you knowthat the first time that racing promoter Bob Barkhimer went to a midget car race , he wondered what racing had to do with " circus midgets " (little people)?
text: Did you knowthat Polish General Jerzy Wołkowicki was not murdered by the Soviets in the Katyn Massacre probably due to his heroic past in the Russian Imperial Navy ?
text: Did you knowthat Richard A. La Vay was a Republican in the Maryland House of Delegates for Montgomery County, Maryland and once shared his district with Mark K. Shriver , son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver ?
text: Did you knowthat over 200 towns and cities in Brazil are served with a sewer system known as condominial sewerage ?
text: Did you knowthat James B. Craig , an All-American football halfback and quarterback , was the brother of Ralph Craig , a sprinter and gold medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics ?
text: Did you knowthat the Hungarian politician and Nazi collaborator Andor Jaross was also president of the football (soccer) club Ferencvárosi TC ?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Foucha v. Louisiana that a person found not guilty by reason of insanity cannot be committed to a mental institution if he has no mental illness ?
text: Did you knowthat Victorian winemakers sought to capitalize on the French phylloxera epidemic by making enough wine to satisfy the entire British market, but were thwarted when the insect infected their own vineyards?
text: Did you knowthat drunken trees result from permafrost thawing?
text: Did you knowthat Jeanette Lee managed both The Cranberries and Pulp while signing The Strokes and The Libertines to her Rough Trade label ?
text: Did you knowthat some Tibetans once thought Britain’s Queen Victoria was a reincarnation of Palden Lhamo , the wrathful deity considered to be the principal Protectress of Tibet?
text: Did you knowthat the Royal Danish egg is one of eight Fabergé eggs that are currently missing?
text: Did you knowthat Robert Adley became on December 10 , 2007 , the newest Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate , just fifty-six days after he was easily reelected as a Democrat in the October 20 jungle primary ?
text: Did you knowthat William Ohnesorge , Party member of the Third Reich , heavily participated in research toward a German atomic bomb while acting as President of the Reichspost , the German postal service?
text: Did you knowthat St Mary's Church in Cheadle , Greater Manchester , England , a Grade I listed building , was built in the 16th century and houses a stone cross dating to the 11th century?
text: Did you knowthat Hallie Ford made the largest donation in the history of Willamette University in 2006, and the largest donation ever to a cultural group in Oregon in 2007?
text: Did you knowthat glacial periods , commonly referred to as ice ages , are actually cold intervals within an ice age?
text: Did you knowthat Ann C. Noble , inventor of the "Aroma Wheel", was the first woman hired as a faculty member of the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology ?
text: Did you knowthat Rudyard Kipling wrote a short story about a group of World War I soldiers who were committed Janeites , that is, fans of Jane Austen novels?
text: Did you knowthat three of the four batters faced by Mike Palagyi in his one Major League game were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame ?
text: Did you knowthat Champagne has been featured prominently in popular culture from James Bond to hip hop ?
text: Did you knowthat Keeley Hawes voices the character of Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Underworld , the eighth video game in the Tomb Raider series , as she did in Anniversary and Legend ?
text: Did you knowthat the town of Rogersville, Tennessee was founded in 1789 by Irish-born pioneer Joseph Rogers and his father-in-law Thomas Amis?
text: Did you knowthat the highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. state of Georgia is 112 °F (44 °C), while the lowest ever recorded is -17 °F (-27 °C)?
text: Did you knowthat one of the birth places of punk in the 1970s was a clothing store in Chelsea, London called Acme Attractions ?
text: Did you knowthat Paul Feyerabend 's theory of epistemological anarchism in the philosophy of science led him to be labeled the "worst enemy of science" by his detractors?
text: Did you knowthat the very first news article on what became known as AIDS appeared in the New York Native , a now defunct gay newspaper in New York City ?
text: Did you knowthat Luigi Sturzo , a Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Italian People's Party (1919–1926) , collaborated with the OSS while in exile in the United States?
text: Did you knowthat the Stelo ( plural : Steloj ) was a monetary unit in the Esperanto movement from 1945 to 1993?
text: Did you knowthat former Michigan Wolverines rushing leader and teammate of Russell Davis , Harlan Huckleby only scored 13 touchdowns in six National Football League seasons , but three were in a single game?
text: Did you knowthat the semantron , intended for summoning Eastern Orthodox Christians to worship, has been used as a deadly weapon in church brawls?
text: Did you knowthat Paul Casanova drove in the winning run in what is considered the longest night game in Major League Baseball history at 6 hours, 38 minutes?
text: Did you knowthat korovai is a traditional Ukrainian wedding bread, baked from wheat flour and decorated with braids ?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish side tried to keep the Suwałki Agreement limited in scope so that it would not interfere with the planned Żeligowski's Mutiny ?
text: Did you knowthat in 2002, hundreds of former mobsters incarcerated in eight jails across Italy , supposedly having no way to contact one another, joined a hunger strike to protest against article 41-bis of the Italian Penitentiary Act?
text: Did you knowthat naturalist Jonathan Couch wrote the four-volume A History of the Fishes of the British Islands , with his own coloured illustrations depicting the vivid natural colours of the different species ?
text: Did you knowthat John Turner was the first person to be ordered deported from the United States for violation of the 1903 Anarchist Exclusion Act ?
text: Did you knowthat the first mill for splitting iron into rods and nails , and the first paper mill in the UK, were situated on the River Darent in Kent ?
text: Did you knowthat Dallas Cowboy running back Tony Boles once stole Emmit Smith 's Nissan Pathfinder for two days when assigned rookie initiation car washing duties?
text: Did you knowthat about one million animals are used every year in Europe in toxicology testing ?
text: Did you knowthat Dove 's Evolution is the first entry to win two Grand Prix awards at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival ?
text: Did you knowthat County Route 91 in Onondaga County, New York is signed as County Route 57 for New York State Route 57 , the route it replaced?
text: Did you knowthat the Brown mussel Perna perna aggregates in such large amounts that it is able to sink navigational buoys ?
text: Did you knowthat Rear Admiral Evelyn J. Fields is the first woman and first African American to be the director of the Office of NOAA Corps Operations and the NOAA Commissioned Corps?
text: Did you knowthat Ken Schrader became the first driver to win in all of NASCAR 's three largest series when he won a Craftsman Truck Series race at Saugus Speedway ?
text: Did you knowthat Armenian composer and musician Ara Gevorgyan composed the music for Russian prima ballerina Anastasia Volochkova 's "Golden cage" ballet dedicated to the Bolshoi Theater ?
text: Did you knowthe Amarna Princess , an ancient Egyptian statuette, bought by Bolton Museum for £440,000 and displayed at the Hayward Gallery in an exhibition opened by the Queen , was actually a fake by British forger Shaun Greenhalgh ?
text: Did you knowthat the International Association for Plant Taxonomy organizes international symposia on problems of plant systematics ?
text: Did you knowthat 12 of the 23 medals awarded to Egypt at the Olympics so far were given to competitors in combat sports such as wrestling , boxing , judo and taekwondo ?
text: Did you knowthat Google's Knol project is widely seen as an attempt to compete with Wikipedia?
text: Did you knowthat Jeanne Labuda , a Democratic member of the Colorado House of Representatives elected in 2006, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia ?
text: Did you knowthat Colombia and India established diplomatic relations on January 19 , 1959 ?
text: Did you knowthat, though records from the era are sketchy, press accounts reported that All-American football player Frank Steketee once kicked a 100-yard punt ?
text: Did you knowthat after selecting the wine to make their Grand vin many Bordeaux estates like Château Margaux will use the remaining cuvee to make a second wine ?
text: Did you knowthat the historian and geographer Robin Donkin served in Egypt and Jordan as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery ?
text: Did you knowthat the liwan , a long narrow-fronted hall or vaulted portal often open to the outside, has been a feature of Levantine homes for more than 2,000 years?
text: Did you knowthat a Belgian , Robert Goffin , was the first person to write a serious book on the indigenous American art-form, jazz ?
text: Did you knowthat All-American footballer Merv Pregulman , the Green Bay Packers ' first pick in the 1944 NFL Draft, nearly died in a kamikaze attack on his ship before ever playing a pro football game?
text: Did you knowthat artifacts discovered at Mound Bottom , Tennessee show that the site was part of a vast Native American trading network extending to the Great Lakes , the Gulf of Mexico , and the Appalachian Mountains during the Mississippian era ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph Finegan , an attorney , politician, and railroad builder, was the commander of Confederate forces at the Battle of Olustee , fought in 1864 during the American Civil War ?
text: Did you knowthat meetings of the Committee of Public Safety , the de facto executive government during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution , were convened at the Pavillon de Flore in Paris ' Palais du Louvre ?
text: Did you knowthat during her first year in the Colorado General Assembly , Democratic legislator Claire Levy sponsored three successful bills regarding energy efficiency standards?
text: Did you knowthat the Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youths , a Greek Resistance organization, set a bomb that destroyed the headquarters of the pro- Nazi ESPO organization in the very centre of occupied Athens ?
text: Did you knowthat the Tribal class destroyer HMS Tartar received the nickname 'Lucky Tartar' due to her numerous escapes from dangerous situations in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat the titles of the thirteen episodes of the Japanese animated television series Gunslinger Girl were given in Italian as well as Japanese ?
text: Did you knowthat drag racer Bob Glidden was the top qualifier in 23 straight National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) events, including every event in the 1987 season?
text: Did you knowthat during the mid- 20th century , wine from Algeria , Morocco and Tunisia accounted for nearly two-thirds of all internationally traded wine?
text: Did you knowthat the Daguin machine was a cancelling machine first used in post offices in Paris in 1884?
text: Did you knowthat in Hindu mythology , after Lakshmindara, son of Chand Sadagar , died of snakebite on his wedding night, his bride Behula accompanied his corpse on a raft floating in a river?
text: Did you knowthat the title of psychiatrist Hervey M. Cleckley 's book The Mask of Sanity refers to the mask of sincerity , generosity , and trustworthiness the psychopath wears to disguise his inability to feel emotion for others?
text: Did you knowthat the fleet of the Royal Naval Patrol Service , also known as  " Harry Tate 's Navy" or " Churchill 's Pirates", consisted of hundreds of requisitioned trawler‎s , whalers , drifters , paddle steamers , yachts , tugs and the like?
text: Did you knowthat dealkalizing glass enhances its resistance to corrosion ?
text: Did you knowthat in return for reinforcements against the Lombards , Cunimund offered Emperor Justin II the city of Sirmium on two separate occasions?
text: Did you knowthat  the New Orleans Saints first-round draft picks have included Reggie Bush and Archie Manning ?
text: Did you knowthat Romanian princess Catherine Caradja was nicknamed the "Angel of Ploieşti " for her humanitarian deeds by American and British airmen who were taken prisoner during the bombing of Romania in World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat Ernst Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué , a Prussian general and confidant of Frederick the Great , was wounded thrice in the Battle of Landeshut , fought in 1760 during the Seven Years' War ?
text: Did you knowthat " bunchers " are criminals involved in kidnapping pets from residences, trapping stray animals illegally, and selling them to laboratories for animal testing purposes?
text: Did you knowthat John Rogers , who helped to prepare a version of the Hebrew Bible , also helped to introduce the man engine , an important reform in Cornish mining?
text: Did you knowthat there was once an estuarine valley with a rich abundance of New Zealand flounders near Waipatiki , Hawke's Bay , New Zealand , but it became a stream system after an earthquake in 1931 ?
text: Did you knowthat The Australian Golf Club , arguably the oldest in Australia, held its 17th Australian Open between the 13th – 16th December 2007, after holding the inaugural edition in 1904 ?
text: Did you knowthat department store chain Sakowitz was purchased by shopping mall developing firm L. J. Hooker in 1988, so that a location could be opened at Cincinnati 's Forest Fair Mall ?
text: Did you knowthat Judeopolonia was a proposed buffer state between the Russian and German Empires with a projected population of 30 million Jews , Poles , Ukrainians , Belarusians , Lithuanians , Latvians , and Baltic Germans ?
text: Did you knowthat Generalissimo Francisco Franco lifted the exile of Francisco Vidal y Barraquer , a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church , only after reaching a concordat with the Vatican ?
text: Did you knowthat The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco , a 1959 album by jazz band The Cannonball Adderley Quintet , reached the bestseller charts with 50,000 copies sold by May 1960?
text: Did you knowthat the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben across Ontario from Montreal to Lake Nipissing , a depression formed by ancient faults, is a failed arm of the ancestor of the Atlantic Ocean?
text: Did you knowthat Snyder Middleswarth Natural Area lost its status as a Pennsylvania state park in the 1990s despite being a National Natural Landmark and Snyder County's only state park?
text: Did you knowthat discards are the portion of a catch of fish which is not retained on board during commercial fishing operations and is returned, often dead or dying, to the sea?
text: Did you knowthat though only one melody for every ten songs has been preserved among the work of the troubadours , a remarkable three-quarters of Berenguier de Palazol's surviving poems have melodies?
text: Did you knowthat the U.S. Defense Department issued archaeology awareness playing cards to educate soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan on the importance of respecting ancient monuments?
text: Did you knowthat the twelve episodes of the Tsukihime, Lunar Legend anime were developed by the Tsukihime Production Committee, which included companies such as Geneon Entertainment , Movic , Tokyo Broadcasting System , and J.C. Staff ?
text: Did you knowthat the highly prolific Carignan wine grape is one of the leading culprits of France's wine lake and that the European Union has resorted to paying farmers to uproot their Carignan vines to help alleviate the problem?
text: Did you knowthat the molecular weight of a polymer can be determined from data on its intrinsic viscosity using the Mark-Houwink equation ?
text: Did you knowthat Elizabeth Woodville was the first English royal mistress to become the English queen consort ?
text: Did you knowthat Zeta Orionis , or Alnitak , 'the girdle', in Arabic , is the brightest O-type blue supergiant and one of the hottest bright stars in the sky?
text: Did you knowthat social activists opine that the extension of the Kolkata Metro on pillars on the bed of Adi Ganga will destroy the waterway?
text: Did you knowthat once economic advisor to Margaret Thatcher , Christopher Story went on to publish independent intelligence magazines that are considered important reading by many international top agencies?
text: Did you knowthat Ralph Millet , who brought the first Saab cars to the United States, discussed production of Saabs in the U.S. in the 1950s, but that the idea was only resurrected with the U.S. production of a Saab in the 2006 model year?
text: Did you knowthat the preface of a book written by Saint Goeznovius is an important document in establishing a historical basis for the mythical British king , King Arthur ?
text: Did you knowthat the tropical spiderwort ( Commelina benghalensis ) is a noxious weed in the United States , but used as a remedy against leprosy in Pakistan ?
text: Did you knowthat Terry Pitt died after choking on nicotine -replacement chewing gum in the back of a taxi in Birmingham , England ?
text: Did you knowthat unmatched dye lots can frustrate weeks of labor for a knitter or crocheter ?
text: Did you knowthat Warren Storm pioneered a South Louisiana musical genre known as swamp pop ?
text: Did you knowthat Qaqun , a Palestinian village depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War , had been continuously inhabited by Arabs since as early as the Mamluk period ?
text: Did you knowthat at the time, the 1947 Sydney hailstorm , which hospitalised at least 350 people, was the most severe storm to strike the city since records began in 1792 ?
text: Did you knowthat retired Major General Charles D. Metcalf is the current Director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force , the world’s oldest and largest military aviation museum ?
text: Did you knowthat Luo Binwang wrote a sharply worded accusation against Empress Wu Zetian , China's only female emperor , that impressed her so much that after his death she collected his writings and published them?
text: Did you knowthat after the fall of Napoleon in France , some 200 Bonapartists fled to the United States and attempted to establish an agricultural settlement to grow wine grapes and olive trees in the Alabama wilderness?
text: Did you knowthat George K. Gay 's house was the first brick house in Oregon and served as the boundary marker between Yamhill and Polk counties?
text: Did you knowthat until recently many Chilean wines labeled Merlot and Sauvignon blanc were really made from Carménère and Sauvignon vert ?
text: Did you knowthat Madeline L'Engle ran writers' workshops and retreats every January at Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, New York ?
text: Did you knowthat Marsha Looper , a Republican state legislator elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006 by a 2-to-1 margin, is also a systems engineer , real estate broker , and rancher ?
text: Did you knowthat Georgiana Harcourt , a 19th century English correspondent and translator, was the daughter of Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt , the Archbishop of York ?
text: Did you knowthat Richard Nolte was appointed as U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Republic for three weeks in 1967 but never served due to the outbreak of the Six-Day War ?
text: Did you knowthat Liberian park Sapo National Park contains the second-largest tropical rainforest in West Africa after Taï National Park in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire ?
text: Did you knowthat British comedians Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie made one of their earliest television appearances in their 1983 television pilot The Crystal Cube , a show the BBC hated?
text: Did you knowthat the Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity Associations might be returned $ 2.33 billion in compensation if the Libyans convicted of the Pan AM and UTA plane bombings are cleared?
text: Did you knowthat the Madaba Map is a large Byzantine mosaic from circa 550 CE that depicts the topography of Jerusalem and surrounding areas in great detail?
text: Did you knowthat a symbolic April 1995 boat trip—celebrating the foundation of the Mekong River Commission —was unable to cross the Mekong River because China was filling the reservoir of its Manwan Dam?
text: Did you knowthat future four-star admiral John H. Sides , father of the United States Navy 's guided-missile program, risked his career by participating in the Revolt of the Admirals ?
text: Did you knowthat the Smith Point Light at the mouth of the Potomac River was preceded by four other lighthouses and three lightships at the same site?
text: Did you knowthat during the Samanid dynasty , commentary on Persian poetry took the form of either slander or excessive praise, usually through sophistry or exaggeration of trivial errors in a rival's poetry?
text: Did you knowthat the California wine industry accounts for nearly 90% of all U.S. production , and if California were a country it would be the world's fourth largest wine producer?
text: Did you knowthat Ebrulf left his position as a Merovingian courtier to become a hermit?
text: Did you knowthat the National Assembly , Germany 's legislature from 1919 to 1920, convened in Weimar to remind the World War I Allies of Germany's cultural history such as the Weimar residents Goethe and Schiller ?
text: Did you knowthat Aline was an ordinary woman who lived in 1st century AD Egypt, and whose name and portrait were preserved in her grave?
text: Did you knowthat Country-Western singer, songwriter and actor Jimmy Wakely had his own series of DC Comics comic books, billing him as "Hollywood's Sensational Cowboy Star!"?
text: Did you knowthat the Duchess of Marlborough egg is the only Fabergé egg to have been commissioned by an American ?
text: Did you knowthat Chinese-American author Laurence Yep 's fantasy novel Dragon of the Lost Sea was originally conceived as a picture book adaptation of a folktale involving the Monkey King , a popular Chinese mythical character?
text: Did you knowthat Otto Magnus von Stackelberg , Russian ambassador to Poland , can be considered an unofficial but de facto ruler of Poland ?
text: Did you knowthat 20 year old tobacco store clerk Eddie Kolb was allowed to pitch the last regular season baseball game for the 1899 Cleveland Spiders in exchange for a box of cigars?
text: Did you knowthat buildings in Kuala Lumpur have Mughal , Tudor , Neo-Gothic or Spanish architectural styles modified  to use local resources and for the climate of Malaysia ?
text: Did you knowthat Muhtar Kent , named to assume the post of CEO of the Coca-Cola Company on July 1 , 2008 , is the son of a Turkish diplomat , who risked his life to save Jews in France during the Holocaust ?
text: Did you knowthat Chris Harris was the first basketballer from England to play in the NBA ?
text: Did you knowthat John Pitre ' s 1965 visionary art painting, A New Dawn, which was valued at $ 1.7 million in 1997, was offered in trade for a £ 1 million house in London in 2004?
text: Did you knowthat Chase Austin was the first African American racecar driver to race in the NASCAR Busch Series ?
text: Did you knowthat " I Am Your Gummy Bear " , a silly novelty song whose video features a "jolly and jiggly" lime green cartoon gummi bear and a 30-second video clip in eight languages, is an internet meme ?
text: Did you knowthat Princess Stéphanie of Monaco ’s song " Ouragan " was a number one hit in France ?
text: Did you knowthat boats crammed with people from both India and Bangladesh , flying the flags of their respective countries, converge on the Ichamati River , the international border, to immerse the idols after Durga Puja ?
text: Did you knowthat Philip Pullman 's novel Clockwork was adapted into an opera for children?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Wolfe 's 1981 book From Bauhaus to Our House blames the influence of International style European architects for creating many buildings that nobody likes?
text: Did you knowthat Mexican actress Pina Pellicer played the lover of Marlon Brando in One Eyed Jacks , the only movie Brando directed ?
text: Did you knowthat the oasis town of Iferouane in northern Niger was the site of the first attack carried out by the Niger Movement for Justice , which marked the beginning of the Second Tuareg Rebellion ?
text: Did you knowthat RAAF Beaufort squadrons fighting in New Guinea under the command of Group Captain Val Hancock were so short of ammunition in 1945 that they used captured Japanese ordnance to augment their bomb loads?
text: Did you knowthat shoots of the Almond Willow are used extensively for basket-making ?
text: Did you knowthat newly named U.S. Naval Academy head football coach Ken Niumatalolo is believed to be the first Pacific Islander American to be head coach at a major college football program?
text: Did you knowthat before the Bagratids unified Georgia , Caucasian Iberia was ruled by a succession of princes under the influence of the Byzantines , the Persians and the Muslim Caliphate from the 6th to the 9th centuries?
text: Did you knowthat the non-fiction book Getting It: The psychology of est was the first book to analyze Werner Erhard 's Erhard Seminars Training from a psychological point of view?
text: Did you knowthat English football referee Gary Willard once had to be given a police safety escort off the pitch after sending off three home team players in a single game?
text: Did you knowthat there is no such bird as a woofen-poof ?
text: Did you knowthat the Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary has been criticized by adherents of the King-James-Only Movement for convincing some Independent Baptist groups to adopt modern Bible translations ?
text: Did you knowthat as a result of his role in the Peasants' War , the German Renaissance painter Jerg Ratgeb was executed by being torn apart by four horses?
text: Did you knowthat only eight of the planned 296 miles of the Indiana Central Canal were built, due to Indiana being bankrupted by the Panic of 1837 ?
text: Did you knowthat twice named All-American football tackle Robert "Brick" Wahl later became CEO of a Fortune 500 irrigation equipment company?
text: Did you knowthat Julian Rotter developed the locus of control theory, which has been widely used in the psychology of personality ?
text: Did you knowthat in chemical kinetics , Lindemann mechanisms have been used to model gas phase decomposition reactions?
text: Did you knowthat Lawrence Turner , who presented a Parliamentary petition calling for W. S. Gilbert 's copyright on the libretti of Gilbert and Sullivan operas to be extended indefinitely, was the grandson of comic actor George Grossmith who starred in them?
text: Did you knowthat hatchlings of the Cape Fear Shiner , a critically endangered minnow endemic to central North Carolina , feed off of their egg yolk for five days after they hatch?
text: Did you knoweven though the United States Housing Act of 1949 called for building more housing, some projects saw more housing units destroyed than built?
text: Did you knowthat the Polish rock band Czerwone Gitary reached the heights of its popularity in the 1960s, and was known as the Polish Beatles ?
text: Did you knowthat kings of the House of Alpin ruled Pictland and the kingdom of Alba , in modern Scotland , beginning with Cináed mac Ailpín in the 840s and ending with the death of Máel Coluim mac Cináeda in 1034?
text: Did you knowthat shortly after Captain William Day received the first gun salute to an American fighting vessel in a European port, at Brest, France , in July 1777 , he sailed home and effectively vanished from history?
text: Did you knowthat Vietnamese winemakers are trying to cultivate grapes such as Cabernet Sauvignon on land that till recently was still covered with landmines from the Vietnam War ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1607, Spanish priest and professor of music at the University of Salamanca Sebastián de Vivanco published 18 versions of the Song of Mary in the same book?
text: Did you knowthat ice hockey player Fred Higginbotham died of a spinal cord injury sustained during an accident when riding a pony ?
text: Did you knowthat the European Parliament is currently housed in Espace Léopold in Brussels , Belgium ?
text: Did you knowthat in polymer chemistry , the value of the kinetic chain length of a polymer can describe the polymer's chain mobility , glass transition temperature , and elastic modulus ?
text: Did you knowthat Ryan Holle is serving a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole for letting his roommate borrow his car that was then used in a crime ?
text: Did you knowthat the development of a hydrosalpinx was first recognized in the 17th century as a cause of female infertility by Dutch physician Regnier de Graaf ?
text: Did you knowthat Mike Vranos , a man considered by some to be the most powerful man on Wall Street in the early 1990s, was known for breaking up business meetings to issue armwrestling challenges?
text: Did you knowthat several prehistoric standing stones and natural stone features in Scotland are called Carlin stones , possibly from the term cailleach meaning "old hag" or " witch "?
text: Did you knowthat 78 soldiers of the Soviet 25th Rifle Division were awarded the title, Hero of the Soviet Union , the highest honorary title and the superior degree of distinction of that nation ?
text: Did you knowthat Claudia Blum de Barberi is a Colombian politician and psychologist , who became the first woman to ever be elected President of the Congress of Colombia ?
text: Did you knowthat every World Chess Champion before Garry Kasparov except Bobby Fischer played at the Hastings International Chess Congress ?
text: Did you knowthat U-boat commander Reinhard Hardegen deliberately placed his submarine in danger during the sinking of the SS Gulfamerica by refusing to risk hitting civilians onshore?
text: Did you knowthat under the Sino - Portuguese Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau , Communist China would guarantee complete autonomy and democratic self-government in Macau up to 2049 ?
text: Did you knowthat the Fabergé invoice for the Karelian Birch egg addressed the abdicated Nicholas II of Russia as "Mr. Romanov Nikolai Aleksandrovich" instead of the previous "Tsar of all the Russias"?
text: Did you knowthat college football running back Butch Woolfolk was named MVP of both the Rose Bowl and the Bluebonnet Bowl in the same year?
text: Did you knowthat the Chilean wine grape Pais is believed to have descended from the "common black grape" that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés brought to Mexico in 1520?
text: Did you knowthat Jaroslav Jiřík became the first player from an Eastern Bloc nation to play in the National Hockey League when he appeared in three games with the St. Louis Blues in 1970 ?
text: Did you knowthat the French Committee of National Liberation formed by Gens. Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle officially became the provisional government of France after its liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944?
text: Did you knowthat Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury , as the first Health Minister of Bangladesh , worked to eradicate mosquitoes from that country?
text: Did you knowthat when yellow crystals of mosesite , a very rare mineral found in deposits of mercury , are heated to 186 °C (367 °F), they become isotropic ?
text: Did you knowthat Joseph R. Bodwell , the 40th governor of Maine , worked on the farm and also as a shoemaker when he was a child ?
text: Did you knowthat systematic mapping of the Michelangelo quadrangle on Mercury has revealed the presence of four nearly obliterated multi-ring impact basins , possibly the oldest features in the mapped areas of the planet?
text: Did you knowthat a team of Canadians assembled to play for the new Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team in England were sent home without playing a game due to the outbreak of World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat crystals of Paulingite , a rare zeolite mineral found in vesicles in the basaltic rocks from the Columbia River , form a perfect clear rhombic dodecahedron ?
text: Did you knowthat scarps , ridges , and troughs , such as the 650 km (400 mi) long and 2 km (1.2 mi) high Discovery Rupes cutting through the Rameau crater , are common features in the Discovery quadrangle on the planet Mercury ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1578 the 3rd Dalai Lama converted the Mongol leader Altan Khan , who persuaded Mongols to convert, built Mongolia 's first monastery, and within 50 years most Mongols were Buddhist ?
text: Did you knowthat the visual novel Myself ; Yourself was adapted into an animated television series consisting of thirteen episodes ?
text: Did you knowthat a nutating disc engine is a novel internal combustion engine comprising fundamentally only one moving part?
text: Did you knowthat Jamie Morris of the Washington Redskins , originally considered too short to be a running back , holds the NFL record for the most rushing attempts in a game with 45?
text: Did you knowthat the Beethoven crater in the Beethoven quadrangle on Mercury is the eleventh largest named impact crater in the Solar System ?
text: Did you knowthat before penning Number Ones for Kenny Chesney and Rascal Flatts , country music songwriter Neil Thrasher charted a country single in 1997 as half of the duo Thrasher Shiver ?
text: Did you knowthat the Zentrale Stelle (Central Office) was established in 1958 by the West German government to investigate war crimes committed outside Germany by Nazi forces ?
text: Did you knowthat Montgomery Ward president Robert J. Thorne was an unpaid assistant to the Quartermaster General during World War I , and won the Distinguished Service Medal for reorganizing the U.S. Army 's supply system?
text: Did you knowthat the bells of St Giles Church in Wormshill , England were restored in 1995 after a collection started in 1944 with only ten shillings ?
text: Did you knowthat when Frankish Crusaders ran out of food after the Siege of Maarat in 1098, they proceeded to massacre the city's Saracen inhabitants and eat them ?
text: Did you knowthat in Steve Morrison ' s first year as Brother Rice defensive coordinator they won a MHSAA football championship and in his first year as Western Michigan linebacker coach one of his linebackers led the nation in sacks ?
text: Did you knowthat recent studies estimated that 34% of total electricity consumption in the Dominican Republic was not paid for, as poor service and high prices have induced theft through illegal connections and non-payment of electricity bills?
text: Did you knowthat Shaun Alexander , the 2005 NFL MVP Award winner, was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the 2000 NFL Draft ?
text: Did you knowthat Fernandina's Flicker (Colaptes fernandinae) , a woodpecker endemic to Cuba , is threatened by habitat loss and now there are fewer than 800 left in the world?
text: Did you knowthat the amorphous phosphate mineral santabarbaraite was named after the Italian mining district Santa Barbara where it was discovered in 2003, but its name also honors Saint Barbara , the patron saint of miners ?
text: Did you knowthat the Transcontinental Motor Convoys inspired Dwight D. Eisenhower to support the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1994 Intelligence Services Act revamped the Apartheid-era security agencies of South Africa and ensured the future preservation of civil liberties ?
text: Did you knowthat the Caloris Basin on Mercury , one of the largest impact basins in the Solar System , is surrounded by a series of geological formations believed to have been produced by the basin's ejecta ?
text: Did you knowthat former United States Border Patrol Agent Jose Compean is  the focus of a 130,000 name petition seeking to free him from prison?
text: Did you knowthat in 1886, Wilhelm Steinitz won the first official World Chess Championship ?
text: Did you knowthat the Odriíst National Union was a 1960s Peruvian political party based on a cult of personality focussed on former President Manuel A. Odría ?
text: Did you knowthat British historian Plantagenet Somerset Fry refused treatment for bowel cancer and suffocated himself with a plastic bag ?
text: Did you knowthat the Anarchist Exclusion Acts forbade anyone holding anarchist views to enter the United States?
text: Did you knowthat former Governor Samuel Cony served twice as a member of the Maine House of Representatives —first as a Democrat , and nearly 30 years later as a Republican ?
text: Did you knowthat Colura zoophaga , a species of liverwort native to Kenya , traps ciliates in microscopic structures formed by fusion of the leaf edges, but scientists do not know whether it is a carnivorous plant ?
text: Did you knowthat José Ortega Spottorno established the now-bestselling Spanish newspaper El Pais to advance liberal values at a time when the country was undergoing a painful transition from fascism to democracy ?
text: Did you knowthat jerrygibbsite ((Mn,Zn) 9 (SiO 4 ) 4 (OH) 2 ) is a rare mineral of which there are only five known samples in the world?
text: Did you knowthat the first volume of printed strips from the furry " Slice-of-life " webcomic A Doemain of Our Own won the 2006 Ursa Major Award for "Best Anthropomorphic Other Literary Work"?
text: Did you knowthat the suffering caused by 19th century floods and famines in Mymensingh District , presently in Bangladesh , led to the sale of human beings for around the price of a maund of rice ?
text: Did you knowthat the US Coast Guard cutters Seneca and Ossipee endured a collective total of five torpedo near misses in World War One ?
text: Did you knowthat Simone Ortega has received prizes from both France and her native Spain for her bestselling range of cookery books, one of which has been updated 48 times and sold millions of copies in Spanish and English?
text: Did you knowthat although Howard Johnson became an opponent of animal cruelty, he had earlier called for the British army to deploy flamethrowers to eliminate the seaweed breeding grounds for a type of fly ?
text: Did you knowthat Paul Hornung , a NFL Hall of Famer , was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the first round of the 1957 NFL Draft ?
text: Did you knowthat the south pole of the planet Mercury is located in the Bach quadrangle ?
text: Did you knowthat the stagecoach line running between Kelton, Utah and several gold mines in Idaho and Montana was robbed more often than any other stage line in the Old West ?
text: Did you knowthat The Prodigal Son by Arthur Sullivan was the first sacred music setting of this story from the Gospel of Luke ?
text: Did you knowthat serial killer Nannie Doss was given the moniker "The Jolly Black Widow" after confessing to the murder of four of her five husbands?
text: Did you knowthat when the Nazis began requiring all Jews in the occupied Netherlands to wear the yellow badge , Dutch Christian Casper ten Boom voluntarily wore one also?
text: Did you knowthat the planet Mars appears red primarily because of a ubiquitous layer of dust containing nanophase ferric oxides ?
text: Did you knowthat Żeligowski's Mutiny , which resulted in the creation of the Republic of Central Lithuania in late 1920, was in fact staged and carried out with the knowledge of Polish leader Józef Piłsudski ?
text: Did you knowthat Glafira Dorosh is the only recipient of a Soviet Order for a culinary recipe?
text: Did you knowthat Portland General Electric CEO Peggy Y. Fowler is blind in one eye?
text: Did you knowthat Yoky Matsuoka , a neuroscience and robotics researcher, was once the 21st ranked tennis player in Japan?
text: Did you knowthat Augustine Podmore Williams , a British mariner who urged his fellow-officers to abandon a crowded vessel in stormy seas in 1880, served as the inspiration for Joseph Conrad 's fictional character Lord Jim ?
text: Did you knowthat after the Fall of Constantinople , the Ottomans demolished the Column of Justinian to symbolize their capture of the city?
text: Did you knowthat Italian aerodynamicist Antonio Ferri took to the hills in 1943 with a trunk load of scientific documents to turn over to the Allies ?
text: Did you knowthat despite being Porsche 's primary factory-backed competitor in the World Endurance Championship from 1983 to 1986, the Lancia LC2 won only two races?
text: Did you knowthat the work of Cornificia , a Roman poet of the first century BC , was read for centuries, but has since been lost entirely?
text: Did you knowthat snocross riders travel up to 130 feet (40 meters) off jumps before they touch the ground?
text: Did you knowthat in 1759 , François Thurot ' s ship set out to create a diversion from an invasion of Britain only to learn, after months of storms and starvation, that the invasion fleet had been defeated before it even left France?
text: Did you knowthat Congolese dancer and choreographer Faustin Linyekula is the winner of the 2007 Principal Award of the Prince Claus Foundation ?
text: Did you knowthat India 's Red and White Bravery Awards were renamed the Godfrey Phillips National Bravery Awards after protests claimed it provided surrogate advertising for Red and White brand cigarettes ?
text: Did you knowthat Garland Rivers was the only true freshman to earn a varsity letter on the 1983 Michigan Wolverines football team?
text: Did you knowthat despite the torpedoed Soviet merchant SS Stalingrad sinking in under four minutes, 66 of her crew still managed to survive?
text: Did you knowthat Bradford Kelleher started the Metropolitan Museum of Art 's gift shop ?
text: Did you knowthat the spread of Christianity in Asia is believed to have reached China during the Tang Dynasty , where it was known as the Luminous Religion ?
text: Did you knowthat Clarence Williams had 646 rushing yards and 102 receiving yards without scoring a touchdown during the 1998 NCAA college football season ?
text: Did you knowthat the most recent of the six different methods of total synthesis of the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel , a drug originally derived from the rare Pacific Yew , was developed at the Tokyo University of Science in 1999?
text: Did you knowthat one egg laid in a clutch of two by the White-breasted Robin of Western Australia is much paler than the other?
text: Did you knowthat the first major anti-nuclear demonstrations in Germany took place in 1975 in opposition to the construction of a proposed nuclear power station in Wyhl ?
text: Did you knowthat Dave Murray , a Canadian alpine skier and member of the Crazy Canucks , was ranked third in the world in downhill skiing in 1979?
text: Did you knowthat the dominant feature in the Shakespeare quadrangle is the 1300-km wide Caloris Planitia , the largest and best preserved impact basin on Mercury observed by the spacecraft Mariner 10 ?
text: Did you knowthat surface plasmons are the basis of a spectrography technique known as surface plasmon resonance ?
text: Did you knowthat St Barnabas Church , one of the few Grade II*-listed churches in the city of Brighton and Hove , was dismissed by its architect John Loughborough Pearson as "one of my cheap editions"?
text: Did you knowthat the Tolstoj crater , a 400-km (240 mile) wide impact crater on the planet Mercury has an extensive, and remarkably well-preserved, radially-lineated ejecta blanket?
text: Did you knowthat Eduardo Serra Rexach is the only person to have held public office with all three governing parties of democratic Spain ?
text: Did you knowthat Aloysius C. Galvin , a former president of the University of Scranton , served aboard a U.S. Navy submarine chaser in the Aleutian Islands during World War II ?
text: Did you knowthat ornithologist Charles Foster Batchelder ' s last words to one of his friends were "Glad to have known you"?
text: Did you knowthat Operation Resurrection was the planned take-over of Paris in May 1958 by French Army paratroopers and armored units to overthrow the French government and facilitate the return of Charles de Gaulle to power?
text: Did you knowthat Russell Walter Fox , a former chief judge of the Australian Capital Territory , wrote what is considered in Australia as the most extensive environmental report on uranium mining ?
text: Did you knowthat Edward Barrett played rugby union for England , and cricket for the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States ?
text: Did you knowthat each time Eric Kattus caught more than three receptions in a game during his Michigan Wolverines football career, at least one of them was a touchdown ?
text: Did you knowthat 1933 Michigan Wolverines football All-Americans Ted Petoskey and Whitey Wistert debuted for the Major League Baseball Cincinnati Reds two days apart in September 1934?
text: Did you knowthat Anthony Browne was the first British illustrator to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award ?
text: Did you knowthat the Sussex Railroad was the last independently operated New Jersey railroad to be incorporated into the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad system?
text: Did you knowthat the nursing pin had its original design patterned after the Maltese cross of the Knights Hospitaller and the Order of Saint Lazarus ?
text: Did you knowthat ridges and escarpments in the Victoria quadrangle of the planet Mercury have been associated with the stresses caused by the sun slowing Mercury's rotation through tidal forces ?
text: Did you knowthat Tetsuya Ota won a lawsuit against race organizers of the now infamous 1998 JGTC race at Fuji Speedway , despite signing a pledge not to seek compensation?
text: Did you knowthat Dominic de la Calzada is the patron saint of civil engineers because he built a causeway to aid pilgrims on the Way of St. James ?
text: Did you knowthat undefeated national champion 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team rushing leader and Hula Bowl MVP Chris Howard was released after fumbling five times in the preseason of the 1998 NFL season ?
text: Did you knowthat Jack Womack 's novel Let's Put the Future Behind Us emerged from a failed Soviet - American film project of William Gibson that was to star the late rockstar Victor Tsoi ?
text: Did you knowthat surface science studies show that Stranski-Krastanov growth is one of three primary ways in which thin films grow on crystals ?
text: Did you knowthat though the Steel Military Egg and the Order of St. George Egg were relatively modest designs in the spirit of World War I austerity, the two Fabergé eggs made for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia were still priced at more than 13,000 rubles ?
text: Did you knowthat former Hampshire wicketkeeper Adi Aymes went on to manage football club Fleet Town F.C. , and is the current fitness coach of Havant and Waterlooville ?
text: Did you knowthat both former German Federal Minister of Labor Norbert Blüm and former Secretary of State of France Alain Vivien have been recognized with the Leipzig Human Rights Award ?
text: Did you knowthat Webb Miller , whose reporting of the Salt Satyagraha raid on the Dharasana Salt Works was credited for helping turn world opinion against British colonial rule in India , was kidnapped by Morton Salt co-founder Mark Morton ?
text: Did you knowthat the first major effort to study the climate of the Arctic was undertaken during the First International Polar Year in 1882-83?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1947 college football rankings, southern voters refused to vote for the integrated Michigan Wolverines football team with black stars such as Gene Derricotte ?
text: Did you knowthat Qadas was one of seven Metawali villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war ?
text: Did you knowthat according to legend, the relics of Saints Ferreolus and Ferrutio were discovered in 370 by a military tribune whose dog chased a fox into a cave near present-day Besançon , France ?
text: Did you knowthat gender-bending party promoter Andre J. appeared on the November 2007 cover of French Vogue wearing a women’s neoprene trench coat and ankle boots?
text: Did you knowthat due to both lengthening seasons and freshmen eligibility, college football statistical leaders such as Michigan Wolverines football receiving or passing leaders are controversial?
text: Did you knowthat the Stourbridge fair , first held in 1211 in Cambridge , England , was once the largest fair in Europe ?
text: Did you knowthat the dinosaur fossil Dakota is so well-preserved it has caused researchers to revise their estimates of the appearance, size, and speed of a whole group of dinosaurs known as hadrosaurs ?
text: Did you knowthat the north pole of the planet Mercury is located in the Borealis quadrangle ?
text: Did you knowthat of 36 merchant vessels that set out in June 1942 as part of Britain 's disastrous Convoy PQ-17 , 27 never returned including SS Pan Kraft ?
text: Did you knowthat Red Kellett , former President and General Manager of the Baltimore Colts , was never a professional football player, but an infielder for the Boston Red Sox baseball club in his playing days?
text: Did you knowthat college football coach Bo Schembechler died the day after attending the funeral of his 1971 quarterback Tom Slade and urging the football team to be "as good a Michigan man as Slade"?
text: Did you knowthat Out of the Blue , a BBC Television series, is set in Manly , near Sydney, Australia ?
text: Did you knowthat Elm Coulee Oil Field , Montana , is the highest-producing onshore field found in the Continental United States in the past 56 years?
text: Did you knowthat the cloven hoof is a characteristic of mountain goats , certain kosher foods and in some traditions, the Devil ?
text: Did you knowthat anarchism once was the strongest current in the Cuban labor movement ?
text: Did you knowthat alkaptonuria , a rare inborn error of metabolism , is over five times more common in Slovakia than in the rest of the world?
text: Did you knowthat actress Evelyn Venable , the voice of the Blue Fairy in the animated film Pinocchio , was the original model for the Columbia Pictures logo ?
text: Did you knowthat Dennis Freeman , as the mayor of tiny Logansport, Louisiana , worked for 16 years to keep the construction of a new bridge over the Sabine River to connect Louisiana and Texas as a high construction priority?
text: Did you knowthat The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer , a book that analyzes the The Simpsons using philosophical concepts, is the main textbook in some university philosophy courses?
text: Did you knowthat Jean Pouliot founded both major private TV networks in Quebec , TQS and TVA ?
text: Did you knowthat Are You There? was widely promoted because of its score by Ruggero Leoncavallo (best known for his opera Pagliacci ), but the first-night audience were incensed when it turned out to have very little music?
text: Did you knowthat according to Greek mythology , Adonis was slain by a boar at the foot of the waterfall in Apheca in modern-day Lebanon ?
text: Did you knowthat indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East traditionally worshiped the Raven deity Kutkh as a key figure in creation , as a fertile ancestor of mankind , as a mighty shaman and as a trickster ?
text: Did you knowthat actor Michael Sellers , son of British actor Peter Sellers , died of the same cause ( heart attack ) and date, albeit twenty-six years later, as his father?
text: Did you knowthat the original designation for Route 574 in Erie County, New York and its eastern terminus were removed four years apart?
text: Did you knowthat Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Nellie Quander belonged to one of America's longest and oldest free slave dynasties?
text: Did you knowthat Medal of Honor recipient Captain Julien Gaujot became so jealous when his brother was given the Medal of Honor that he vowed that he would get one too?
text: Did you knowthat the history of Nairobi includes the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing that killed 213 and wounded 5,000?
text: Did you knowthat Graham Perrett , the Australian House of Representatives member for Moreton , was accused of calling his rival, Gary Hardgrave , " racist " during the 2007 election campaign ?
text: Did you knowthat the first co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908 ?
text: Did you knowthat pit vipers and some boas and pythons have specialized facial pits for sensing infrared radiation ?
text: Did you knowthat William Mainwaring argued that possession of holy scripture by British troops might be included in a list of documents liable to incite disaffection ?
text: Did you knowthat the Mount Sandel Mesolithic site in Coleraine , County Londonderry is the oldest archaeological site in Ireland ?
text: Did you knowthat Australian basketball player Patrick Mills is only the third Indigenous Australian male to ever play for his country's national team ?
text: Did you knowthat the tallest commercial building in Salem, Oregon was commissioned by Thomas A. Livesley ?
text: Did you knowthat Adam, Count of Schwarzenberg reportedly died of fright instilled by his own mercenaries?
text: Did you knowthat the BAE Systems HERTI is the only fully autonomous UAV to have been certified by the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority ?
text: Did you knowthat the free surface of a free liquid in zero-g forms a perfect sphere?
text: Did you knowthat maidams were burial sites of the Ahom Kingdom 's royalty and aristocracy that were similar to the Egyptian pyramids , but much smaller in scale?
text: Did you knowthat Jonathan Swift called his predecessor " that rascal Dean Jones " because he made such bad property leases whilst Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin ?
text: Did you knowthat during World War II , Marine Fighting Squadron 215 established four new U.S. Marine Corps records in the South Pacific including having the most ace pilots ?
text: Did you knowthat The Simpsons ' history began when Matt Groening conceived of the dysfunctional family in the lobby of James L. Brooks 's office?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1896 Yamagata-Lobanov Agreement negotiations, Japanese Prime Minister Yamagata Aritomo proposed dividing Korea at the 38th parallel , should Japanese and Russian troops occupy the peninsula ?
text: Did you knowthat the Saraswati River , a distributary of the Bhagirathi in West Bengal , is now dead but was active till around the 16th century AD?
text: Did you knowthat Gerald Ford 's two greatest regrets in life were losing the starting center job in college to All-American Chuck Bernard and losing a presidential election?
text: Did you knowthat the 1928 movie Gang War was overshadowed by the short film attached to it, Steamboat Willie , which marked the début of Mickey Mouse ?
text: Did you knowthat the White Mosque is the oldest mosque in Nazareth ?
text: Did you knowthat after losing his European Parliament seat, Roger Barton set up a group offering llama -trekking to young people from Sheffield ?
text: Did you knowthat the Battle of Bhangani was the first battle fought by Guru Gobind Singh , the last human Sikh Guru ?
text: Did you knowthat during the 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike , 21 people were killed and the strike ended only after union leaders were accused of taking bribes ?
text: Did you knowthat before David Myatt converted to Islam in 1998 and endorsed Islamic terrorism , he had been active in Nazi satanism in the UK since the late 1960s?
text: Did you knowthat Emperor Nicholas II of Russia was billed 3,250 rubles for Rosebud , the first Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Alexandra Fyodorovna ?
text: Did you knowthat eradication of infectious diseases can come about through vaccination , quarantine , and even just human behavioral changes, depending on the disease?
text: Did you knowthat a fossil specimen of Pelagosaurus was found with the remains of a Leptolepis in its stomach?
text: Did you knowthat Heroes actor David Anders won a Back Stage West Garland Award along with the ensemble cast of The Diary of Anne Frank , for their 2001 production?
text: Did you knowthat Alpha Kappa Alpha founder, Marie Woolfolk Taylor was one of two African-Americans who assisted the Red Cross during the Great Atlanta Fire ?
text: Did you knowthat the Swedish military unit Kustjägarna has been working in Kosovo and Bosnia under the UN flag ?
text: Did you know the Safety Promotion Center , established by Japan Airlines after the worst ever single aircraft accident, displays victims' farewell letters and wreckage to educate employees about safety?
text: Did you knowthat the arrival of Prussian troops led by Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq prevented a Russian defeat in the 1807 Battle of Eylau ?
text: Did you knowthat George Hoey still holds Michigan Wolverines football career, and single-season records 40 years after his best season?
text: Did you knowthat Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens ( The Raging Flame ) was the first plebeian consul of the Roman Republic ?
text: Did you knowthat most Swiss immigrants to Russia , several thousand in all, left  after the October Revolution in 1917?
text: Did you knowthat Pete Muldoon allegedly put an Irish curse on the Chicago Blackhawks that prevented them from finishing first for 43 years?
text: Did you knowthat DNA testing was used to confirm that the unidentified body known as "Baby Grace" was Riley Ann Sawyers ?
text: Did you knowthat English botanist John Parkinson included a pun on his name in the title of his monumental 1629 work Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris ? (It translates as Park-in-Sun's Terrestrial Paradise .)
text: Did you knowthat Shamsunnahar Mahmud and Roquia Sakhawat Hussain were Muslim feminists of the Bengal renaissance ?
text: Did you knowthat Golden Liberty , the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , similar to federation and democracy , became ineffective when faced with the surrounding mon archies ?
text: Did you knowthat in 1979 University of Michigan tackle Ed Muransky set the all-time record at the traditional pre- Rose Bowl "Beef Bowl" by eating 16 pounds of prime rib?
text: Did you knowthat the Wanganui Branch railway folded due to competition from trams in New Zealand ?
text: Did you knowthat Indian schoolteacher D. R. Kaprekar discovered  properties in number theory including a number and a constant named after him?
text: Did you knowthat Mount Harriet , in the Andaman Islands , is named after Robert Christopher Tytler ' s wife?
text: Did you knowthat with the Trusty system of prison labor at Mississippi State Penitentiary , the 1,900-inmate prison was staffed and its 16,000 acres of crops farmed with only 150 paid employees?
text: Did you knowthat Bennie Osler played 17 consecutive rugby union matches for South Africa between 1924 and 1933?
text: Did you knowthat the German R&B band Soultans signed on with the same record label which wrote some of Elvis Presley 's songs?
text: Did you knowthat U.S. Representative Dale Alford awarded one of his nominations for cadet at the United States Military Academy to Wesley Clark , who later became NATO commander?
text: Did you knowthat the strategic bombing campaign used in the 1990 Operation Instant Thunder served as a model for subsequent American military conflicts?
text: Did you knowthat an elaborate network of coastal batteries was built by British colonial authorities to protect Hobart Town , but it was never used to defend the Tasmanian port from attacks by enemy warships ?
text: Did you knowthat the 1609 Treaty of Antwerp was influenced by the writings of Hugo Grotius in the Mare Liberum , which was published at the insistence of the Dutch East India Company during the course of the treaty negotiations?
text: Did you knowthat Mel Tolkin , lead writer for Your Show of Shows , served in the Canadian Army during World War II where he played the glockenspiel in a military orchestra?
text: Did you knowthat Christie's purchase of the Haunch of Venison caused "shock and disbelief" in the art world ?
text: Did you knowthat the price of cocoa rose sharply following the June 29, 2007 assassination attempt against Prime Minister Guillaume Soro of Côte d'Ivoire ?
text: Did you knowthat the Galatasaray S.K. has origins from the Ottoman Empire era?
text: Did you knowthat Emperor Alexander III of Russia was billed 4,750 rubles for the Renaissance egg , the final Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Maria Feodorovna ?
text: Did you knowthat herpetologist Doris M. Cochran , the Smithsonian Institution 's first female curator, died four days after her retirement?
text: Did you knowthat the book The Psychology of The Simpsons uses this TV series to analyze topics in psychology including clinical psychology , cognition and Pavlovian conditioning ?
text: Did you knowthat Elk Knob State Park , a state park in Watauga County , North Carolina , was established due to a grassroots movement to protect Elk Knob from housing development?
text: Did you knowthat the spintronic manipulation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond crystals may facilitate the creation and functioning of quantum computers ?
text: Did you knowthat Kazimierz Pużak , once considered for president of Poland , was one of the leaders of the Polish Secret State arrested by Soviets and sentenced in the Trial of the Sixteen ?
text: Did you knowthat after their names became known, the first group known as the Four Crowned Martyrs was venerated with the second group of the same name?
text: Did you knowthat archaeological excavation of Titelberg provides evidence of urbanisation in Celtic Luxembourg long before Roman expansion ?
text: Did you knowthat coconut charcoal is easy to light, burns longer and generates less smoke and ash than typical hardwood charcoal ?
text: Did you knowthat the wine industry in Nebraska remained dormant for decades after the local commercial grape industry was destroyed by the Armistice Day Blizzard in 1940, with no new winery opening till 1994?
text: Did you knowthat eight small Norwegian municipalities were fooled into investing future income from hydropower plants into complicated financial products - now worthless - from Citigroup , in the so-called Terra Securities scandal ?
text: Did you knowthat although several Michigan Wolverines football wide receivers have eclipsed most of Jack Clancy ' s team records, they all have needed more games to do so?
text: Did you knowthat the Rothschild Fabergé egg is the most expensive timepiece , Russian object and Fabergé egg ever sold?
text: Did you knowthat Diodore of Tarsus mentored both the sainted John Chrysostom and the heretical Theodore of Mopsuestia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Brazillian endemic genus Philcoxia , which may represent another genus of carnivorous plants , was formally described in scientific literature 34 years after the first specimen had been discovered?
text: Did you knowthat the Platypus Trophy , awarded to the winner of the Civil War college football game between Oregon and Oregon State , was lost for more than 40 years before being found in a closet in 2005?
text: Did you knowthat Jays Foods changed its name during World War II to avoid being associated with the Japanese ?
text: Did you knowthat the Toledo, Ohio native football player Jim Detwiler refused a recruiting trip invitation to Ohio State prompting a tonguelashing from Woody Hayes for disloyalty to Ohio?
text: Did you knowthat the Bishopsgate bombing , mounted at a cost of £3,000 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1993, caused over £350M in damages and almost led to the financial collapse of Lloyd's of London ?
text: Did you knowthat it is unclear whether Gungsrong Gungtsen ever ruled Tibet , although he was the only known son of the first Tibetan emperor, Songtsän Gampo ?
text: Did you knowthat Washington Senators outfielder Elmer Gedeon , who pulled a crew member from a burning wreck, died while piloting a B-26 bomber over France?
text: Did you knowthat a possible local subsidence forced the Jalangi River , in West Bengal , to flow in a south westerly direction, reverting the earlier trend of rivers in the region flowing in a south easterly direction?
text: Did you knowthat the 1751 revolt of Pima Indians in the Spanish colonial province of Sonora (in modern-day Arizona ) was directly preceded by a revolt of Seri Indians ?
text: Did you knowthat some bacteria and parasitic protozoa escape extreme conditions like desiccation and unavailability of food by forming microbial cysts ?
text: Did you knowthat 12% of the world's gold supply, 78% of the world's platinum , and over 15.8 million karats of diamonds come from mining in South Africa ?
text: Did you knowthat Knut Arild Hareide became Norwegian Minister of the Environment in 2004 at the age of thirty-one, only to step down from national politics three years later?
text: Did you knowthat Tom Wolfe 's 1975 book The Painted Word , which criticized modern and conceptual art , was so reviled by the art establishment that multiple reviewers compared the book to watching pornography?
text: Did you knowthat the United States Customs and Border Patrol may search all travelers' possessions, including in some cases, personal files on their laptops, without a warrant or even suspicion under the border search exception ?
text: Did you knowthat the ancient people known as the Oeselians , who lived on the Estonian island of Saaremaa , carried out raids against the Scandinavian Vikings ?
text: Did you knowthat K. Chidananda Gowda , the former Vice-chancellor of the Kuvempu University in India , is the son-in-law of the Kannada playwright Kuvempu , the university's namesake?
text: Did you knowthat Hurricane Karen in September 2007 was only classified as a hurricane two months after the storm dissipated?
text: Did you knowthat the rebel Uganda People's Army formed in 1987 in response to massive cattle raiding carried out by the Karamojong of eastern Uganda ?
text: Did you knowthat former Michigan Wolverines football player Dan Dworsky designed Crisler Arena , the home of Michigan Wolverines basketball?
text: Did you knowthat remnants of ancient amphorae indicate wine from Tuscany was exported to southern Italy and France as early as the 7th century BC ?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1806 George Sweeney Trial , the murderer of a founding father of the United States , George Wythe , went free because testimony from black witnesses against a white man was not allowed?
text: Did you knowthat Chalan Beel , a wetland in Bangladesh , is getting vastly reduced in size with fast silting up caused by the inflow of 47 rivers and waterways?
text: Did you knowthat Iordan Chimet , who opposed the Communist regime in Romania and authored fairy tales with subversive messages, was also one of the first professional copywriters in his country?
text: Did you knowthat Dick Rifenburg was a Michigan high school state champion in basketball and track & field , but was drafted to play professional American football ?
text: Did you knowthat Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour is a computer-generated film that presents in 3-D a theoretical reconstruction of the ancient Khirbet Qumran site?
text: Did you knowthat the first Trk receptor , which regulates synaptic strength and plasticity in neurons , was originally identified as part of a fusion gene with the cytoskeletal protein tropomyosin , forming an oncogene in colon and thyroid cancers ?
text: Did you knowthat in the wake of the Yen Bai mutiny of Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army , large numbers of Vietnamese troops who had served in France were sacked because it was felt that overseas travel made them more inclined to rebel?
text: Did you knowthat the specifications for the U.S. Navy's World War II icebreakers were so imposing that Western Pipe & Steel was the only shipbuilder to submit a bid ?
text: Did you knowthat Dashiin Byambasüren was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Mongolia ?
text: Did you knowthat a statue originally created in 1815 for The Alameda Gibraltar Botanic Gardens was carved from the bowsprit of the Spanish ship San Juan Nepomuceno , taken at the Battle of Trafalgar ?
text: Did you knowthat the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway was the first operating interurban railroad in the state of Michigan ?
text: Did you knowthat Julius Franks was the first African-American Michigan Wolverines football player to earn All-American honors?
text: Did you knowthat seven followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh were convicted for being part of a 1985 assassination plot to murder the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon ?
text: Did you knowthat the original plan for John Keane ' s painting of Mo Mowlam to include Gerry Adams , John Hume and David Trimble (key figures in the Good Friday Agreement ), failed after four years of negotiation?
text: Did you knowthat the Lincoln Snacks Company , a manufacturer of caramelized popcorn , was founded, in part, by a subsidiary of Sandoz Laboratories, the company that invented LSD ?
text: Did you knowthat the Indian novelist M. K. Indira started writing novels only after the age of forty-five?
text: Did you knowthat American football guard Dean Dingman was only the third true freshman to start on the Michigan Wolverines football offensive line ?
text: Did you knowthat the Catalan lords Arnau Mir de Tost and his son-in-law Raymond IV of Pallars Jussà shared a scribe, Vidal, who helped introduce the use of written "conventions" for the feudal restructuring of western Catalonia?
text: Did you knowthat in the 1850s the American architect Gamaliel King and his partner John Kellum erected in New York some of the first fully cast iron-fronted buildings in the world?
text: Did you knowthat David Lloyd George , British Prime Minister during World War I , later said "It would be hard to point to anyone who did more to win the war than Kenneth Bingham Quinan "?
text: Did you knowthat the first lieutenant Adolf Opálka , together with six fellow combatants, resisted 800 enemy soldiers for more than seven hours in the Church of St. Cyril and St. Methodious in Prague on 28 June 1942 ?
text: Did you knowthat Turkish serial killer Özgür Dengiz broke into fits of laughter when discussing his cannibalism ?
text: Did you knowthat Jarrett Irons was the second freshman to lead the Michigan Wolverines football team in tackles?
text: Did you knowthat football player Eddy de Neve scored all four goals for the Netherlands against Belgium on April 30 , 1905 , the first match of the Dutch national team ever?
text: Did you knowthat the Silver Centenary biplane , built in Beverley, Western Australia in 1930 , received its airworthiness certificate 77 years after its first flight?
text: Did you knowthat Genesis 's rock epic " Get 'Em Out by Friday " is a criticism of the United Kingdom 's council housing system?
text: Did you knowthat a daughter of Philip Johnston , the first colonel of the New Jersey militia to die in battle during the Revolutionary War married the son of Nathaniel Scudder , the last colonel of the New Jersey militia to so die?
text: Did you knowthat Irish indie rock band Ham Sandwich were encouraged by U2 frontman Bono to change their name in 2006?
text: Did you knowthat football (soccer) player Law Adam of Grasshopper-Club Zürich played for Switzerland against Austria in 1929 , but played for his native Netherlands against Switzerland a year later?
text: Did you knowthat according to legend, Christian martyr Saint Getulius and his associates were clubbed to death after they had been thrown into flames but emerged unharmed?
text: Did you knowthat Wayne Townsend cast the tie-breaking vote in 1977 in the Indiana State Senate for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment making Indiana the last state to approve the failed measure?
text: Did you knowthat George Lilja once played a Michigan Wolverines football game wearing another player's jersey , confusing many of his fans?
text: Did you knowthat the first sobering-up station in the world was invented by Jaroslav Skála in 1951 in Czechoslovakia ?
text: Did you knowthat the Dugway sheep incident and Operation CHASE increased public sentiment against the United States Army Chemical Corps during the late 1960s and early 1970s?
text: Did you knowthat Kazakh dissident Rashid Nugmanov ' s directorial debut, Igla , was one of the first films to break the taboo against talking about drug addiction in the former Soviet Union and initiated the " Kazakh New Wave" cinema movement?
text: Did you knowthat when American football center Rod Payne broke his right wrist during a Michigan Wolverines football game, he started snapping the ball with his left hand?
text: Did you knowthat Ricord's Iguana ( Cyclura ricordi ) of Hispaniola is the only known species of rock iguana to coexist with the Rhinoceros Iguana ( Cyclura cornuta )?
text: Did you knowthat Simonsbath on Exmoor is the largest parish in Somerset covering 56 square miles (145.0 km 2 ) but only has 75 houses?
text: Did you knowthat after the American defeat at the Battle of Canyon Creek the soldiers of Samuel D. Sturgis were forced to slaughter and eat their tired horses ?
text: Did you knowthat Rev. Robert Shields maintained a diary chronicling every five minutes of his life for 25 years from 1972 until 1997, and only slept two hours at a time so he could record his dreams?
text: Did you knowthat HMS Drake was so ill-prepared for action against John Paul Jones 's Ranger that musket balls had to be passed round in a hat during the North Channel naval duel , 24 April 1778 ?