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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?
Did you knowthat Frank Lloyd Wright 's Hanna-Honeycomb House takes its inspiration from the hexagonal structure of a bee 's honeycomb ?
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 ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat most of Western Australia , South Australia and the Northern Territory have not been divided into cadastral units ?
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?
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 ?
Did you knowthat the 1966 Holman Moody Ford Fairlane was the basis for NASCAR racecars until NASCAR's newly redesigned Car of Tomorrow ?
Did you knowthat Sai Tso Wan Recreation Ground was the first permanent recreational facility in Hong Kong built from a landfill ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat in surgery theory , the Spivak normal bundle is named after Michael Spivak , a mathematician specializing in differential geometry ?
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?
Did you knowthat the recent flooding in Jakarta is considered to be the worst in the last three centuries?
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?
Did you knowthat the Flag of Springfield, Illinois was designed in a contest conceived by poet Vachel Lindsay in 1917 ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat 18th century castrato Giuseppe Millico taught singing to Bourbon princesses and to Emma Hamilton ?
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?
Did you knowthat the London cabinet-makers Ince and Mayhew were rivals of Thomas Chippendale in introducing Neoclassical furniture ?
Did you knowthat Richard Strauss helped the German composer Heinz Tiessen obtain a job at the Berlin State Opera in 1917?
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?
Did you knowthat the English nurse Lucy Osburn was chosen by Florence Nightingale to train Australia's first nurses?
Did you knowthat some American slaveholders forced their slaves to drink an infusion of black haw to prevent abortions ?
Did you knowthat the Russian architect Alexander Zelenko was one of the authors of the linear city urban concept?
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 ?
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 ?
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?
Did you knowthat the Japanese guitar duo Gontiti wrote the soundtrack for the 2004 Hirokazu Koreeda film Nobody Knows ?
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?
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 ?
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 ?
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"?
Did you knowthat early Baroque lutenist Michelagnolo Galilei was the younger brother of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei ?
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?
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 ?
Did you knowthat one submarine volcano located in Banda Sea of Indonesia is called the Emperor of China ?
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 ?
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?
Did you knowthat Demi-Brigades were military formations created by France , to help better organize the French Revolutionary Army ?
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 ?
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?
Did you knowthat William P. Bryant presided over the first criminal trial in what is now the U.S. state of Washington ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport , Connecticut has architectural influences ranging from Byzantine to Romanesque architecture ?
Did you knowthat Gnanendramohan Tagore was the first Asian to be called to the bar in England in 1862 ?
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 ?
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 ?
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?
Did you knowthat two members of the outlaw Banditti of the Prairie were lynched in Ogle County, Illinois on June 27 , 1841 ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat a Secret Council of the Lithuanian Council of Lords dealt with all crucial state affairs in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ?
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 ?
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 ?
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?
Did you knowthat Graeme Park is the only surviving residence of a colonial era Governor of Pennsylvania ?
Did you knowthat Luan Jujie is the only East Asian person to have won an Olympic gold medal in the sport of fencing ?
Did you knowthat Joseph Ingraham , an American sailor who discovered several of the Marquesas Islands , was lost at sea in 1800?
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 ?
Did you knowthat after suppressing the Mytilenean revolt , the Athenian assembly considered executing the entire male population of Mytilene ?
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 ?
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?
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 ?
Did you knowthat the balloon framing method of wall framing became obsolete in the 1940s when it was replaced by the platform framing method?
Did you knowthat the 1960 crash of Capital Airlines Flight 20 marked the third accident in three years involving a Capital Airlines Vickers Viscount ?
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 ?
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?
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. ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat the Pingo National Landmark , in the Northwest Territories , is the only national landmark in Canada protecting pingos ?
Did you knowthat Steve Stanton , Largo, Florida 's city manager since 1993, was fired for pursuing sex reassignment ?
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?
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 ?
Did you knowthat the Indian poet and philosopher Dwijendranath Tagore wrote the book Boxometry about the construction of boxes ?
Did you knowthat the Gordon Strong Automobile Objective was the first of six Frank Lloyd Wright designs to use spiraling ramps?
Did you know that American film director Jim Fields recently wrote , produced and directed a documentary called Bugeaters ?
Did you knowthat Dermodactylus was the first pterosaur (flying reptile) named from North America ?
Did you knowthat the Sound Effects Choir can imitate the sounds of a car using only the mouth or other body parts?
Did you knowthat Charles E. Peterson is widely considered to be the "godfather" of historic preservation in the United States ?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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 ?
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 ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat many regional cuisines of medieval Europe were heavily influenced by Arab cuisine through contact with Muslim Iberia and Sicily ?
Did you knowthat Lady Una Troubridge introduced the French writer Colette to English readers?
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?
Did you knowthat Sol Spiegelman , a prominent American molecular biologist , is credited with creating the Spiegelman Monster ?
Did you knowthat the oldest known remains of anatomically modern humans in the world were excavated in the Klasies River Caves ?
Did you knowthat Buster Martin , aged 100, is believed to be the United Kingdom 's oldest employee ?
Did you knowthat Siba Singha established Shaktism , a Hindu sect, as the major religion in Assam in the early 18th century?
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 ?
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 ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat a Junkers Ju88 was shot down and crashed on the drive of historic Hestercombe House on 28 March 1944 ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat J.C. Newman Cigar Company , founded in 1895, is America's oldest family-owned premium cigar maker?
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"?
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?
Did you knowthat the Embassy Gulf Service Station in Washington, D.C. was designed to be reminiscent of banks and libraries ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat British banker, Conservative MP , and conservationist Sir John Lindsay Eric Smith founded the Landmark Trust in 1965?
Did you knowthat a part of Rawa River in Silesia is currently so polluted it is officially classified as a sewage channel?
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 ?
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"?
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?
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?
Did you knowthat the German submarine U-777 was sunk in October 1944, less than 7 months after being launched?
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?
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?
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?
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?
Did you knowthat the American mathematician Yudell Luke wrote two books on the probabilities of winning at the card game of cribbage ?
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?
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 ?
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?
Did you knowthat Kiev 's Museum of Western and Oriental Art houses the largest collection of foreign art in Ukraine ?
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 ?
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?
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 ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat in the Old Javanese eulogy of Nagarakretagama , Kertanegara , the last king of the Singhasari kingdom , was deified into three deity forms?
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 ?
Did you knowthat Free French Forces liberated all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy France in November 1940 in the Battle of Gabon ?
Did you knowthat the Church of Scientology attempted to ban the non-fiction book Scientology: The Now Religion in Canadian libraries during 1974 ?
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?
Did you knowthat prominent Russian sculptor Fyodor Kamensky worked as a farmer in Florida ?
Did you knowthat the Monastery of Jesus in Setúbal , Portugal , the first building associated with the Manueline style, was built by Diogo Boitac ?
Did you knowthat "Antietam" is misspelled on the facade of the Civil War Memorial in DeKalb County, Illinois ?
Did you knowthat the majority of Assyrians in Finland live in Oulu , the sixth largest city in the country?
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 ?
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?
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 ?
Did you knowthat Portuguese architect Mateus Fernandes is best known for his Manueline -style work at the Monastery of Batalha ?
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 ?
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?
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 ?
Did you knowthat the mummified fossil of an Edmontosaurus annectens was secured by the American Museum of Natural History for $2,000?
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 ?
Did you knowthat Ousmane Sembène's 1966 Senegalese film Black Girl was one of the first Sub-Saharan African films to receive international acclaim?
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?
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?
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?
Did you knowthat a shop drawing is not created by the architect or the engineer , but by the fabricator ?
Did you knowthat Dr. Colin Skinner , a British molecular biologist , is attempting to walk around the world?
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 ?
Did you knowthat the Stowe Recreation Path received the majority of its funding from selling of pieces of it, as small as an inch ?
Did you knowthat the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie is the oldest continuously operating theater in New York State ?