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Did you knowthat Zimbabwe is the only cricket team to not lose its first Test match since Australia won the very first Test in 1877?
Did you knowthat the Stolen Valor Act of 2005 is a law passed by the United States Congress in December 2006 for the purpose of protecting the reputation and honor of US military heroism medals due to the larger number of fake military heroes in the USA?
Did you knowthat the naval base at Key West, Florida was the last U.S. port to berth the USS Maine before an explosion on the ship precipitated the Spanish-American War ?
Did you knowthat Texas politician Maury Maverick, Jr. killed a bill to sentence convicted communists to death by adding a poison pill amendment to sentence suspected communists to life imprisonment ?
Did you knowthat, in addition to the seven-day week , the Javanese calendar incorporates a five-day week, which runs concurrently to produce a repeating cycle of 35 days?
Did you knowthat printmakers would sometimes deliberately change the state of an old master print to exploit the collector's market ?
Did you knowthat Luftwaffe ace Erich Rudorffer flew more than 1000 missions during World War II , and was shot down sixteen times by enemy flak and fighters ?
Did you knowthat controversy arose over the naughty nurse uniforms worn by staff at Arizona 's Heart Attack Grill ?
Did you knowthat the Karr-Koussevitzky bass was given to Gary Karr after Koussevitzky's widow reported seeing his ghost embrace Karr on stage?
Did you knowthat the Austrian -born writer Gregor von Rezzori acted in several movies alongside stars such as Brigitte Bardot , Jeanne Moreau , Marcello Mastroianni or Charles Aznavour ?
Did you knowthat Buster , the dog of British Labour politician Roy Hattersley , earned his owner a criminal record after killing a goose in St. James's Park , London ?
Did you knowthat Walter Hancock designed the first steam-powered bus to travel from London to Brighton ?
Did you knowthat Thoroughbred racehorse Arazi 's victory over Bertrando has been described as the single-most spectacular performance in Breeders' Cup history?
Did you knowthat Communist Romania 's Foreign Minister , Grigore Preoteasa , was killed in an aircraft accident after refusing to wear a seat belt during landing?
Did you knowthat Prince Kitashirakawa Nagahisa was the first member of the Japanese Imperial Family to die during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Pike Island in Minnesota was part of the 100,000 acres (405 km²) purchased from the Dakota Indians in 1805 by Zebulon Pike ?
Did you knowthat the first comprehensive campaign of unionized labor was the subject of the 1979 Academy Award -winning film Norma Rae ?
Did you knowthat as they don't require fans , ejector venturi scrubbers are able to handle exhaust gases more corrosive or sticky than other systems can?
Did you knowthat Pulau Senang was a penal settlement in Singapore but shut down after only three years when a riot broke out in 1963 ?
Did you knowthat of the 64 women in the 39th Canadian Parliament , only one, former New Democratic Party leader Alexa McDonough , represents a riding in Atlantic Canada ?
Did you knowthat a commemorative album was released for the tenth death anniversary of hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur ?
Did you knowthat a subpeak of Derry Cairngorm holds the highest permanent body of water in Great Britain ?
Did you knowthat the Aklanon people of the Philippines trace their heritage to Austronesian -speaking immigrants from the Iron Age ?
Did you knowthat Tryal Rocks is a reef off Western Australia named after the Tryall , the first shipwreck in Australian history ?
Did you knowthat the dust storms raised by the Shamal wind bring most travel in Iraq to a halt for several days?
Did you knowthat Bravlin , an apocryphal overlord of the Rus , was supposedly paralyzed when he entered the church of St. Stephen in Sougdeia ?
Did you knowthat calcific tendonitis causes significant pain when resting on or moving the shoulder ?
Did you knowthat Ottaviano Petrucci 's Harmonice Musices Odhecaton was the first music to be printed using movable type ?
Did you knowthat the Grosvenor Bridge in Chester , England , was the world's largest single-span arch for 30 years?
Did you knowthat the obedience to orders and dogged resistance of the Russian infantry at the Battle of Golymin in 1806 greatly impressed Napoleon and his army?
Did you knowthat the Polish town of Dzierżoniów was the venue of a meeting between Poland , Prussia , Holland and Austria during the Great Turkish War ?
Did you knowthat girdle books were popular fashion items between the 13th and 16th centuries?
Did you knowthat Tussey Mountain in Pennsylvania has been designated as an Important Bird Area , as it is home to several raptor species during their spring migration ?
Did you knowthat one of only five extant Rafetus swinhoei soft-shelled turtles is thought by residents of Hanoi , Vietnam to be the magical Golden Turtle God named Kim Qui ?
Did you knowthat spray towers remove pollutants from exhaust gases by channeling them through a series of chemical sprays?
Did you knowthat Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi created the paramilitary Islamic Legion primarily associated with the seven year Libyan-Chadian War ?
Did you knowthat Sacisaurus was named for a one-legged Brazilian elf , as the first skeleton was found missing a leg?
Did you knowthat Boris Grekov was a Soviet historian who set out to debunk Mikhail Grushevsky 's theory that Kievan Rus was a predecessor state of Ukraine rather than of Russia and Belarus ?
Did you knowthat Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa of Japan was head of the Northern Alliance whilst serving as a Buddhist priest?
Did you knowthat Copeland Creek was significantly degraded by cattle overgrazing in the 19th century, but restoration efforts have reversed that trend?
Did you knowthat Russian Indologist Gerasim Lebedev was the founder of the first European-style drama theatre in India and also the first printing house in Europe equipped with Indic scripts of Bengali and Devanagari ?
Did you know that Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting is the nephew of former player Greg Campbell ?
Did you knowthat eleven Pacific hurricanes have had their names retired , due to the damage they caused and other reasons?
Did you knowthat Herbert Gutman co-founded the "new labor history" school of thought , which focuses on the effects that ordinary people have had on the history of labor ?
Did you knowthat Major General John Paton commanded the rear party during the evacuation of Anzac Cove in World War I and was one of the last Australian soldiers to leave the beach?
Did you knowthat Bhai Gurdas was the original scribe of the Guru Granth Sahib , the holy book of Sikhism ?
Did you knowthat the Romanian politician Constantin Argetoianu , who organized repression of the Communist Party and announced the group's effective termination in 1922, spent his final years as a political prisoner of the Communist regime ?
Did you knowthat History Line: 1914-1918 , a turn-based strategy computer game from 1993, adapted the software engine of the science-fiction Battle Isle series to portray the First World War ?
Did you knowthat the illustrated children's book Hot House Flowers , an allegory for illegal immigration , was written by a Brooklyn criminal court judge ?
Did you knowthat the nature reserve Rejvíz in the Czech Republic is covered with a peat bog including two moss lakes of glacial origin?
Did you knowthat Rosa Bonheur Memorial Park was the first pet cemetery to also allow people to be buried alongside their pets?
Did you knowthat the performance of " I See A Star " at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 involved one singer playing a barrel organ with a collection of puppets on it?
Did you knowthat Natural Bridge State Park holds the largest natural arch in Wisconsin ?
Did you knowthat after World War I , Istanbul was occupied by the Triple Entente in the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you knowthat B&H Photo Video in New York City employs so many Satmar Hasidim , there is daily bus service to the store from Kiryas Joel , a Satmar enclave in Orange County, New York ?
Did you knowthat U.S. soldier Louis R. Rocco single-handedly carried three comrades out of a burning helicopter under enemy fire, despite having burned hands, a broken wrist and a fractured hip?
Did you knowthat the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary , a national monument in Singapore , was given by Sultan Ibrahim of Johor in Malaysia ?
Did you knowthat actress Frances Gifford played the lead role of Nyoka in the 1941 movie serial Jungle Girl ?
Did you knowthat more hurricanes have struck the Baja California peninsula than anywhere else in Mexico ?
Did you knowthat The Compleat Housewife was the first cookbook to be published in the United States ?
Did you knowthat 198 people were killed in an insurgent uprising in Mosul during the Iraq War ?
Did you knowthat coral within tropical oceans is being used as a tropical cyclone observation to date past hurricanes, by looking for concentrations of the oxygen isotope O-18 ?
Did you knowthat Yakut linguist Semyon Novgorodov adopted the International Phonetic Alphabet for the modern written Yakut language ?
Did you knowthat the Coleman Bridge in Singapore was the second bridge built across the Singapore River , and the first built in masonry ?
Did you knowthat Xavier William Proenza has been announced as the next director of the National Hurricane Center ?
Did you knowthat, in the ninth century , the fort at Novye Duboviki on the Volkhov River shielded Novgorod from potential attacks by Viking raiders?
Did you knowthat Marin Dwarf Flax ( Hesperolinon congestum ) is a wildflower whose few small colonies are threatened by transmission line maintenance and new trail systems?
Did you knowthat Prince Arisugawa Taruhito ' s engagement to Princess Kazu-no-Miya Chikako of Japan was cancelled by the Tokugawa bakufu so that the princess could marry Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi , for political reasons?
Did you knowthat the Society of Friends of Science , first Polish scientific organization , founded in 1800, originated from the Thursday's dinners custom held by the last king of Poland , Stanisław August Poniatowski ?
Did you knowthat while the fungus Apophysomyces is safe to handle, even a small amount entering the bloodstream can lead to a fatal mucormycosis infection?
Did you knowthat the land around the Scottish mountain Canisp was purchased by a group of local residents for nearly £ 3m?
Did you knowthat the death of Joseph Quinn prompted Bellevue Hospital of New York City to make significant improvements to its ambulance system?
Did you knowthat controversy has arisen over whether Norway 's Lysaker Station should be curved or straight?
Did you knowthat the Met's new opera The First Emperor by Tan Dun has been in development for ten years?
Did you knowthat in 2005 the Constitutional Court of Spain ruled that Spanish courts may hear cases regarding genocide in which there were no Spanish victims, thereby reversing a decision of the country's Supreme Court ?
Did you knowthat a fossilized delta in Eberswalde crater provides strong evidence for flowing water on Mars ?
Did you knowthat the Montgomery Worsted Mills , a Registered Historic Place in Montgomery , New York , now earn most of their money by generating hydroelectric power from the nearby Wallkill River , rather than the manufacture of textiles ?
Did you knowthat the Caterham CSR is one of the lightest production cars, but lacks modern safety features , making it unsafe in collisions ?
Did you knowthat Singapore Dreaming bagged Singapore its first IFFPA-recognised award at an international feature film festival ?
Did you knowthat Itzik Manger , a Yiddish poet , is best known for his radical revisions of Biblical material?
Did you knowthat Chris Phatswe committed suicide by crashing his Air Botswana plane into two other planes belonging to the airline, effectively crippling operations?
Did you knowthat the phrase "Goody Two-Shoes" comes from a 1765 children's story ?
Did you knowthat George Temple-Poole designed many of the first permanent structures in the shanty towns built during Western Australia 's gold rush ?
Did you knowthat Jacques Lacan 's theory of a mirror stage , where an infant first recognizes its self in a mirror, was inspired by the work of psychologist Henri Wallon ?
Did you knowthat Les Wallace is the only left-handed BDO World Darts Champion ?
Did you knowthat the gates to Norwood Jewish Orphanage in London were destroyed to allow fire engines easier access to the grounds?
Did you knowthat Igor Britanov captained the Soviet submarine K-219 when it sank northeast of Bermuda during the Cold War ?
Did you knowthat a swinging column at Haghartsin Monastery in Armenia was used to hide riches?
Did you knowthat archaeological digs have greatly expanded knowledge of the history of Swindon , uncovering artefacts from separate Roman , Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the area?
Did you knowthat until 2006, it was not known that the 1980 Pulitzer Prize -winning image Firing Squad in Iran was taken by Jahangir Razmi ?
Did you knowthat the 2006 Boise State University football team returned more starters from 2005 than any other team in NCAA Division I-A football ?
Did you knowthat Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida is only one of two schools left in the United States named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan ?
Did you knowthat in Arthurian legend , Brangaine inadvertently sets the romance of Tristan and Iseult in motion by failing to protect the love potion entrusted to her?
Did you knowthat Philipp Jenninger resigned as President of the Bundestag after his speech commemorating Kristallnacht caused a political scandal?
Did you knowthat five USAAF airmen were awarded the Medal of Honor following Operation Tidal Wave , a low-level bombing of Romanian oil refineries on 1 August 1943 ?
Did you knowthat during his lifetime, Radu Irimescu worked as a German naval officer, Romanian Air Force pilot, banker, businessman, government minister, and diplomat to the United States ?
Did you knowthat Indian wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik learnt to play cricket in Kuwait ?
Did you knowthat nobody buried in a safety coffin is known to have taken advantage of its features?
Did you know that Rice Creek in Minnesota was named for Henry Rice , one of the first two U.S. Senators to represent the state?
Did you knowthat the costume for the fairy Carabosse in the 1921 ballet The Sleeping Princess was designed to have the silhouette of a rat?
Did you knowthat Dr. Matthew Lukwiya convinced nurses who refused to treat patients during an 2000 Ebola outbreak in northern Uganda to return to work?
Did you knowthat the Native American Sheshequin Path along Lycoming Creek , Pennsylvania was prone to such bad weather that an evil spirit was believed to reside there?
Did you knowthat forces of the Russian and Austrian Empires attempted to defeat an isolated French division in the Battle of Dürenstein on 11 November 1805 , three weeks after the Battle of Ulm and three weeks before the Battle of Austerlitz ?
Did you knowthat Ostap Veresai , a 19th-century blind Ukrainian kobzar , performed at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg , Russia ?
Did you knowthat a Congreve clock uses a rolling ball rather than a pendulum to regulate the time?
Did you know that the first printed and illustrated travel-book published in the West included a 5-ft (1.6 m) long fold-out view of Venice in woodcut by Erhard Reuwich ?
Did you knowthat the right to petition in the United States required the 1844 rescinding of a gag rule prohibiting discussion of abolitionist petitions in the House of Representatives ?
Did you knowthat after the Battle of Palashi in 1757, Nabakrishna Deb organised a Durga Puja where Lord Clive offered thanksgiving ?
Did you knowthat the history of rapid transit began when the London Underground started operations in 1863 ?
Did you knowthat the crude oil found in Naftalan, Azerbaijan has been used for centuries in therapeutic baths?
Did you knowthat the theme of the Kyffhäuser Monument suggests a connection between the Holy Roman and German Empires ?
Did you knowthat Abbott Lawrence Rotch established the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory , which maintains the longest-running meteorological record of any observation site in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Sabeena Saleem is the first mother to compete alongside her daughter at the Asian Games in Indian bowling history?
Did you know that the Starshade is a coronagraph designed to aid a space telescope by blocking bright light from stars by a factor of as much as 10 billion?
Did you knowthat the HurriQuake nail is around twice as wind resistant as traditional nails and can increase a home's earthquake resistance by up to 50%?
Did you knowthat the Khooni Darwaza (literally Gateway of Blood) is a 16th century monument in Delhi , India that was named for the various incidents of bloodshed associated with it?
Did you knowthat the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment , launched in 1975 , was one of the first demonstrations that showed the potential of satellite technology as an effective mass communication media?
Did you knowthat Hasnoor Hussein was investigated over allegations of sedition concerning his statements on the Malaysian social contract ?
Did you know that Maurice , the abbot of Inchaffray who blessed the Scottish army at the Battle of Bannockburn , later became Bishop of Dunblane ?
Did you knowthat the British Royal House of Stuart were descended from members of the Scottish Clan Stuart ?
Did you knowthat Ruth Gruber was the first journalist to enter the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ?
Did you knowthat John Baldwin named the city of Berea, Ohio after a verse in the Bible , and was only granted the naming rights after a coin flip ?
Did you knowthat in 1943 British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 was shot down by German Junkers Ju 88s , killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was an attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill ?
Did you knowthat American World War II veteran Alejandro R. Ruiz was awarded the Medal of Honor for single-handedly assaulting and demolishing an enemy machine-gun pillbox ?
Did you knowthat Abe Tadaaki was one of the highest-ranking Japanese officials to remain in office after his colleagues followed Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu into death in 1651 ?
Did you knowthat the Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts houses a Hinoki Cypress Tree that is over 250 years old?
Did you knowthat the first artistic billiards world tournament only used ivory balls?
Did you knowthat Ka Lae on the island of Hawaii is the southernmost point in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the pioneer American airman Lowell Smith participated in the first mid- air refueling , the first aerial circumnavigation and held 16 records for military aircraft in speed, endurance and distance?
Did you knowthat the Playhouse Square Center , in downtown Cleveland, Ohio , is the second largest theater complex in the United States?
Did you knowthat Hermann Klaatsch was one of the first scientists to advocate a clear division between religion and physical anthropology ?
Did you knowthat the world's first all-electronic television receiver was demonstrated on Christmas Day , 1926 by the Japanese researcher Kenjiro Takayanagi ?
Did you knowthat Ernst Kitzinger , a historian of Byzantine art , was forced to leave Germany in 1934 and England in 1940 because he was Jewish and German respectively?
Did you knowthat the capture and forced march of Daniel M. Frost's militia through St. Louis, Missouri during the US Civil War ignited a citywide riot ?
Did you knowthat Bangsa Malaysia , a policy seeking to create a unified national identity for all citizens of Malaysia , has been criticised as being 'nebulous' and overstepping the Constitution ?
Did you knowthat West Ham Stadium in London holds the record for the lowest ever attendance of a football match in The Football League , despite its capacity of 120,000?
Did you knowthat fear of being buried alive was so widespread in 19th century that safety coffins were invented to give the prematurely buried a chance for escape?
Did you knowthat a methanol reformer can replace a hydrogen -gas tank in a fuel cell vehicle by catalytically producing fuel from the poisonous liquid?
Did you knowthat after being stripped of his aristocratic title after World War II , Prince Takeda Tsuneyoshi of Japan retired to raise racehorses on his estate?
Did you knowthat the Eskaya tribe are the object of international archeological studies considering their distinct culture, language and alphabet not found elsewhere in the world?
Did you knowthat the Poniatowski Bridge in Warsaw was destroyed in both World Wars ?
Did you knowthat Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service was created in 1971 due to controversy surrounding the flooding of Lake Pedder in 1970?
Did you knowthat American actor David Holt was reduced to starring in the drugs-scare melodrama "She Shoulda Said 'No'!" at age twenty-two, after being touted at the age 7 as the male Shirley Temple ?
Did you knowthat the first gay mass-market paperback focused on situational homosexuality and male rape in prison ?
Did you knowthat in 1994, Horace Dove-Edwin became the first medalist in athletics for Sierra Leone , but lost it due to a positive doping test ?
Did you knowthat, in the 1950s, Romanian linguist Iorgu Iordan was in charge of expelling opponents of the Communist regime from the University of Bucharest ?
Did you knowthat the 2004 Christmas Eve Snowstorm was the most significant snow event for southern Texas since 1895 with a maximum of 1.5 inches of accumulated snow?
Did you knowthat Ralph Fasanella was pumping gas for money in 1972 when featured on the cover of New York Magazine as "...the best primitive painter since Grandma Moses "?
Did you knowthat, although Kievan Rus was heavily defeated in the Rus'-Byzantine War (1043) , hostilities ended with the marriage of Vsevolod I of Kiev to Constantine IX 's daughter?
Did you knowthat in 1937 a Soviet station became the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean ?
Did you know that the Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan houses the only SR-71B Blackbird in existence?
Did you knowthat Bantcho Bantchevsky committed suicide during a nationally-broadcast performance from the Metropolitan Opera ?
Did you knowthat Nicholas Mukomberanwa was a police officer in Harare , Zimbabwe , before turning to sculpture full-time?
Did you knowthat the oldest modern human remains in Europe have been discovered in Peştera cu Oase in south-western Romania ?
Did you knowthat many countries afford journalists the right to protect their sources ?
Did you know that Harrison Thyng was one of only six US Air Force pilots to be recognized as an ace in two wars?
Did you knowthat the Police Act 1964 gave the British Home Secretary the power to enact compulsory amalgamation of police forces in England and Wales ?
Did you knowthat controversy has arisen over the interpretation of Robert Baden-Powell 's opinions on religion in Scouting ?
Did you know that Mary Jones walked 25 miles across the Welsh countryside to buy a copy of the Bible , unintentionally inspiring the creation of the British and Foreign Bible Society ?
Did you knowthat the Thing of all Swedes and the Disting market were held to coincide with Dísablót , a pre-Christian Swedish sacrificial holiday ?
Did you knowthat the town of Scone was the coronation site of Kings of Scotland for several centuries?
Did you knowthat in Homer 's Iliad , the charioteer Meriones is described as being a "peer of murderous Mars "?
Did you knowthat in the Sso rite of the Beti of Cameroon , one initiate was designated the ritual butt of the other candidates' jokes?
Did you know that at Masa , an elite New York City restaurant, no menus are available, because the chef , Masa Takayama, cooks whatever he wants?
Did you know that the earthquake-proof designs of the Nagoya TV , Tsutenkaku , the Sapporo TV , the Beppu , and the Tokyo Towers were all engineered by Tachu Naito ?