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Did you knowthat St. Thomas , the apostle of Jesus Christ , established the Church in India in 52 AD?
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Did you knowthat the only black college to field a NCAA lacrosse team is the Morgan State University Lacrosse Bears?
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Did you knowthat Finnish film director Valentin Vaala was reportedly so disappointed with his first film that he dumped the original camera negatives into the sea?
Did you knowthat over 90% of Lithuanian Jews perished in the first few months of Operation Barbarossa in the Holocaust in Lithuania ?
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Did you knowthat Bess Thomas , a former Australian librarian, became the first female to be given the position of "Chief Librarian" in New South Wales ?
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Did you knowthat the indemnity money paid to the U.S. after the Boxer Rebellion was used to fund a scholarship program which led to the founding of Tsinghua University in Beijing ?
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Did you knowthat Chris Levesque was studying for an exam when the Vancouver Canucks signed him to an emergency one-game National Hockey League contract?
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Did you knowthat Sir William Langhorne, 1st Baronet established the Madras Record Office, the oldest record office of the British East India Company and one of the oldest archival institutions in the world?
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Did you knowthat when Drake University basketball player Adam Emmenecker was named 2008 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, the conference called him "perhaps the most improbable Player of the Year" in its history?
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Did you knowthat Kiz, Utah , now a ghost town , was named for the first woman to settle in the area?
Did you knowthat French comics artist Patrice Killoffer was in 2005 the first foreigner to design stamps for the Swiss Post ?