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Did you knowthat The Faun , a rare sculpture by Paul Gauguin , displayed for a decade by the Art Institute of Chicago and the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam was actually a fake by British forger Shaun Greenhalgh ?
Did you knowthat according to the Books of Kings , ancient Egyptians captured and burnt down the Canaanite town of Gezer and gave it as a dowry to the Pharaoh 's daughter?
Did you knowthat Baseball Hall of Fame manager John McGraw said that Bill Monroe "was the greatest infielder he had ever seen"?
Did you knowthat the Hennepin , which transported construction aggregate around the Great Lakes early in the 20th century, was the first self-unloading bulk carrier in the world?
Did you knowthat Mohammed Atif Siddique was sentenced to imprisonment after being charged with collecting online files related to the War on Terror and encouraging classmates to watch videos of beheadings ?
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Did you knowthat Quoc An Temple in Huế was founded by a Zen monk from China , whose disciple lineage covers most of the Buddhists in southern Vietnam ?
Did you knowthat Harry Blackmun 's colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court felt his long history of baseball in the Flood v. Kuhn majority opinion was beneath the Court's dignity?
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Did you knowthat former Drexel University president Hollis Godfrey was an advisory member of Woodrow Wilson 's Council of National Defense ?
Did you knowthat a blue line marks where Pogue's Run once ran through downtown Indianapolis ?
Did you knowthat the 1976 Football League Cup win made Tony Book the first to do so as both a player and manager ?
Did you knowthat Hillary Rodham called children's rights a "slogan in need of a definition"?
Did you knowthat in 1261 , Caesar Alexios Strategopoulos reconquered Constantinople from the Latins , thereby restoring the Byzantine Empire ?
Did you knowthat Tran Cao Van 's plot to install Duy Tan as the independent boy Emperor of Vietnam happened only after he bribed the boy's chauffeur into allowing him access?
Did you knowthat Stieg Larsson 's posthumously published Swedish crime novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , was a best-seller critically compared with War and Peace ?
Did you knowthat Bordeaux wine merchants in the Middle Ages , concerned about the competition from nearby regions , prohibited trading access to Bordeaux until most of their wine was sold?
Did you knowthat blind Nguyen Dinh Chieu 's writings praising Vietnamese revolutionary Truong Dinh saw him regarded as the leading revolutionary poet in the south?
Did you knowthat the author Amulya Malladi , an expatriate Indian , said that when she first moved to Denmark that " Danish sounded to me like the buzzing of bees"?
Did you knowthat 13 years after his death in 1875 ,  the future Royal College of Art found a letter from the widow of Richard Burchett , headmaster for over 20 years, asking for a pension?
Did you knowthat the Buddha statue of Long Son Pagoda in Nha Trang , Vietnam is a major vantage point over the city?
Did you knowthat Grits Gresham , the former host of ABC 's The American Sportsman , revealed that Ronald Reagan used a gun to rescue a nurse from a mugging ?
Did you knowthe Trim and Fit weight loss programme targeting obesity in Singaporean schoolchildren resulted in its participants suffering from teasing and stigmatization ?
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Did you knowthat the formulas John Knox and Harlan J. Brothers came up with to calculate e were no more difficult than college-level calculus ?
Did you knowthat uprisings broke out in 1916 over the jailing of Phan Xich Long , who declared himself Emperor of Vietnam and tried to arm his rebels with magic potion that supposedly made them invisible?
Did you knowthat people from County Carlow in Ireland are nicknamed " scallion -eaters" because, in the early 19th century, Carlow town supplied most of the onions in Leinster ?
Did you knowthat Dada artist Marcel Duchamp 's Bottle Rack was mistakenly thrown away as garbage?
Did you knowthat Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner was the first military woman to command an operational naval aviation squadron ?
Did you knowthat the Lithuanian Electricity Organization , a planned energy holding company , will be responsible for building a new nuclear power plant in Ignalina in 2015?
Did you knowthat Hödekin , a house spirit of German folklore , is best known for saving the wife of a man of Hildesheim from committing adultery ?
Did you knowthat the Indiana Medical History Museum is the oldest surviving pathology laboratory in the U.S.?
Did you knowthat the advice of Nguyen Thanh helped to form the partnership between Prince Cuong De and Phan Boi Chau in working against French rule of Vietnam ?
Did you knowthat 7% of electricity in New Zealand is generated by geothermal power ?
Did you knowthat Douglas Fraser 's lobbying and member mobilization were critical in convincing U.S. Congress to provide $1.2 billion in loans to a near- bankrupt Chrysler in 1979?
Did you knowthat Pierre Galet is considered the "father of modern ampelography "?
Did you knowthat Gregg Nations made his Lost writing debut with the episode " Eggtown " after being the script coordinator for over two seasons?
Did you knowthat the Siege of Candia in the Cretan War (1645-1669) , lasted almost 22 years?
Did you knowthat under the Vijayanagara empire , Kannada literature made major progress due to the development of its native metres ?
Did you knowthat according to TV critic Gareth McLean , none of the Britons featured in the Channel 4 documentary series New Hero of Comedy are "Heroes"?
Did you knowthat the Greater Lynchburg Transit Company doubled its patronage by providing Liberty University 's shuttle bus service?
Did you knowthat naval heroes Peter Tordenskjold and Niels Juel are buried in Copenhagen 's Church of Holmen ?
Did you knowthat Nguyen Quyen , principal of the Tonkin Free School , got his first teaching job by default?
Did you knowthat Jefferson Davis conceded the American Civil War at the Burt-Stark Mansion ?
Did you knowthat Basil W. Duke became the chief consul and lobbyist for the L&N Railroad after the American Civil War , even though he led many efforts in destroying their property during the war?
Did you knowthat a papabile was asked during the papal conclave of 1572 by a representative of King Philip II of Spain to withdraw his candidacy in order to maintain peace in Italy ?
Did you knowthat Anstey Hill Recreation Park in Adelaide, South Australia contains ruins of what was the largest plant nursery in the Southern Hemisphere ?
Did you knowthat the Imperial Russian Navy operated the Satakundskaya Flotilla , a gunboat unit on a Finnish lake during World War I , without ever actually firing a gun?
Did you knowthat construction for the bobsleigh, luge, and track to be used for the 2014 Winter Olympics has been delayed due to high downhill grades and location near a World Heritage Site , including near an endangered species of brown bear ?
Did you knowthat two of North Carolina 's most prominent authors, Thomas Wolfe and O. Henry , are buried near each other in the Riverside Cemetery in the Montford Area Historic District in Asheville ?
Did you knowthat John Duncan , a Scottish Presbyterian theologian and missionary ,  was affectionately known as "Rabbi", due to his knowledge of Hebrew and his passion for the Jewish people?
Did you knowthat softball pitcher Vicki Morrow was named Big Ten Player of the Year in 1987 after winning 26 games, including 18 shutouts, and striking out 446 batters?
Did you knowthat the 1945 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours included peerages for the heads of the British armed services of World War II and the first awards of the newly inaugurated Defence Medal ?
Did you knowthat The Monkees ' 1967 hit " Pleasant Valley Sunday " was named for a street in West Orange, New Jersey , where the song's authors, Gerry Goffin and Carole King , lived?
Did you knowthat a study by the University of Salford concluded that the high density of high-rise buildings in Salford has "a dramatic influence on the region's weather patterns", in particular by encouraging drizzle ?
Did you knowthat the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Central Powers that helped clear Bolshevik forces from Ukraine ?
Did you knowthat Nguyen Than Hien and Nguyen Thuong Hien were among the leaders of the Quang Phuc Hoi , the first anti-colonial revolutionary group to advocate a republic for Vietnam ?
Did you knowthat Sariputra , one the two chief disciples of Gautama Buddha , is frequently featured in the Jatakas alongside Mahamoggallana and the Buddha in their past lives ?
Did you knowthat Frederic A. Godcharles served as a Pennsylvania Representative and Senator , as director of its state library and museum , and wrote twelve volumes on its history ?
Did you knowthat prior to Interstate 410 and the Interstate Highway System , Texas State Highway Loop 13 was the primary loop around San Antonio ?
Did you knowthat since 1967 the state of Tamil Nadu in India has been ruled by Dravidian parties ?
Did you knowthat photos of the rogue wave encountered by the MS Stolt Surf contributed to the growing evidence of their presence in the deep ocean?
Did you knowthat there is a disagreement on whether Hurricane Emilia was a Category 5 hurricane ?
Did you knowthat Jakub Wejher , one of 17th century Poland 's richest magnates , founded the town of Wejherowo ?
Did you knowthat writer Charles Hamilton 's estate complained to the BBC that the character played by Peter Stephens in The Celestial Toymaker too closely resembled Hamilton's Billy Bunter ?
Did you knowthat the Joint Communique in 1963 to end South Vietnam 's Buddhist crisis broke down in one day, after a scuffle between Buddhists and police?
Did you knowthat the hiring of Tom Jurich by the University of Louisville was dubbed "the most significant day in the recent history of college sports in Kentucky "?
Did you knowthat Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama was buried in St. Francis Church in India ?
Did you knowthat the Swedish American Line was the first transatlantic shipping company to operate a diesel-engined ocean liner ?
Did you knowthat Indiana 's White River Park were the first state games to feature regional qualifiers instead of tryouts?
Did you knowthat David Owen Dodd was a 17-year-old boy hanged as a Confederate spy in the American Civil War ?
Did you knowthat more than one million people in China invested in the Yilishen Tianxi Group Ponzi scheme , which involved breeding ants to be used as ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine ?
Did you knowthat the upcoming Paramount Pictures film G.I. Joe , based on the toy line , had its development delayed because of the Iraq War ?
Did you knowthat Lithuanian supermarkets offered cheaper beer, chocolate and soap to those who voted in the 2003 Lithuanian European Union membership referendum ?
Did you knowthat the origins of Cabernet Sauvignon were likely an accidental crossing of Cabernet franc and Sauvignon blanc ?
Did you knowthat the Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742 between the Anglicans and the Quakers of Philadelphia was caused by their inability to agree on who would supervise the election?
Did you knowthat John Story , the first Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford , was elected to parliament , gaoled , exiled , re-elected , kidnapped , put in the Tower , tortured , hanged, drawn and quartered , and finally beatified ?
Did you knowthat Ben Chapman , the actor who portrayed the Gill-man in Creature from the Black Lagoon , was a veteran of the Korean War ?
Did you knowthat springs are the main source of water supply in rural Rwanda ?
Did you knowthat the Ferry County Carousel in Republic, Washington has 24 jumping horses with colors ranging from Appaloosa to Red Sorrel ?
Did you knowthat psychoanalytic literary critics blame Volumnia , a character in Shakespeare 's play Coriolanus , for her son Coriolanus' aggressive behavior?
Did you knowthat the relatively advanced age and poor health of Pope Paul III contributed to his successful election to the papacy in 1534?
Did you knowthat the trial of Satanta and Big Tree was the first time Native American war chiefs were tried for acts committed during a war party?
Did you knowthat Frederick Law Olmsted planned for The Dorchesterway to extend his Emerald Necklace park system all the way to Boston Harbor ?
Did you knowthat at 1,328 feet (405 m) above sea level, Brockway Mountain Drive in Michigan 's Upper Peninsula is the most elevated road between the Rockies and Alleghenies ?
Did you knowthat, despite being blinded and dismissed for attempting to depose Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos , General Alexios Philanthropenos was later recalled to service?
Did you knowthat Kinkri Devi waged a war on illegal mining and quarrying in her native Indian state of Himachal Pradesh despite her illiteracy?
Did you knowthat Nina Bang was one of the world's first female government ministers?
Did you knowthat British MP Peter Thomas was the first Conservative politician to serve as Secretary of State for Wales and the first Welshman to become party chairman ?
Did you knowthat the country music group Carter's Chord comprises three sisters, whose parents were in Waylon Jennings ' band The Waylors?
Did you knowthat Kochi in Kerala , India is the only place where Chinese fishing nets are used outside of China ?
Did you knowthat the final section of the Chemins de Fer du Calvados was closed by damage from the 1944 D-Day ?
Did you knowthat the cutter HMS Entreprenante was the smallest British warship at the Battle of Trafalgar ?
Did you knowthat Morarji Desai is India 's only Finance Minister to have tabled the Union budget twice on his birthday?
Did you knowthat the First Presbyterian Church of Chester , New York, has worshipped in three different buildings, all in different locations, in its history?
Did you knowthat Douglas Barton Osborne Savile showed that the coevolution of rust fungi and their host plants could be used as an aid to plant taxonomy ?
Did you knowthat the US Supreme Court ruled a defendant has a fundamental right not to be tried in court if he lacks a rational and factual understanding of the charges against him?
Did you knowthat the psychiatric hospital of Denmark 's Capital Region treats about 35,000 patients with mental disorders every year, which is about 40% of the nation's total?
Did you knowthat French geography professor Henri Enjalbert theorized that Albania , the Ionian islands and southern Dalmatia were the only European regions with grapevines following the last Ice Age ?
Did you knowthat in 1909, New Zealand gifted a new battlecruiser to Britain ?
Did you knowthat disappointment is one of two primary emotions involved in decision-making ?
Did you knowthat the railcar that ran on the Shimoga-Talaguppa railway in India had to be reversed on a turntable , so that it could start its return journey?
Did you knowthat synchronized swimmer Ruth Pickett Thompson received the AIAW 's 1979 and 1980 Broderick Awards ?
Did you knowthat Douglas Henshall and Daniel Craig were originally considered for the roles of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair in 2003 film The Deal ?
Did you knowthat the Memorial Tunnel along the West Virginia Turnpike was the first tunnel in the U.S. to have closed-circuit television monitoring?
Did you knowthat Bradford City Football Club blamed their FA Cup exit in the 1919–20 season on a pre-game trip to Fry's chocolate works ?
Did you knowthat swimmer Ann Colloton , the University of Michigan 's Female Athlete of the Decade for the 1980s, was inducted into the school's Hall of Honor in February 2008?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Pogue's Run was done to prevent Democrats from rising against the American Civil War in Indiana ?
Did you knowthat opera singer Rosemary Kuhlmann was an assistant to the international vice-president of PepsiCo for 16 years from the age of 56, despite intending to stay for only four months?
Did you knowthat the United Breweries ' chairman Vijay Mallya , named his Bangalore Royal Challengers , an Indian Premier League cricket team, after his liquor brand?
Did you knowthat the black locust trees planted in 1767 when Cornelius Wynkoop's house was built along Main Street in Stone Ridge, New York , are part of its historic character?
Did you knowthat 32 is a desirable score in darts because it is divisible by 2 many times ?
Did you knowthat after sinking the British ocean liner SS Dwinsk in June 1918, the German submarine U-151 remained in the area and used the survivors in seven lifeboats as a lure in order to try to sink additional Allied ships?
Did you knowthat the Israeli documentary Paper Dolls followed the lives of five health care providers from the Philippines who perform as drag queens ?
Did you knowthat Willis Adcock , a Canadian-American chemist , helped create the first atomic bomb , the silicon transistor , and the integrated circuit ?
Did you knowthat replacing firewood with coal as the main fuel in early modern England led to many problems for the local glass industry ?
Did you knowthat four-star admiral Maurice E. Curts was replaced as commander-in-chief of the United States Pacific Fleet after only two weeks?
Did you knowthat wine writer Alexis Lichine developed a separate ranking of Bordeaux wine estates, including both Left and Right Banks , while advocating a revision of the original 1855 classification ?
Did you knowthat Sir Yuet-Keung Kan is Hong Kong 's longest serving Justice of Peace ?
Did you knowthat the ghost town of Ajax, Utah was centered on an 11,000 square foot (1,000 m²) department store lying entirely underground?
Did you knowthat William Henry Emerson was the first dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology ?
Did you knowthat after suing to gain Marc Hall permission to take his boyfriend to a Catholic high school 's prom , David Corbett was appointed Canadian Superior Justice?
Did you knowthat Libris Mortis , a comprehensive overview of undead within the Dungeons & Dragons universe, details the use of mummies and vampire spawn as player characters ?
Did you knowthat six-year-old Antonietta Meo could soon become the youngest saint not a martyr canonized by the Roman Catholic Church ?
Did you knowthat four Indiana counties gave land to create Whitewater Memorial State Park as a memorial to fallen American soldiers of World War II ?
Did you knowthat Château Pape Clément , first planted in 1300 by the future Pope Clement V , is the oldest wine estate in Bordeaux ?
Did you knowthat according to Christianity Today , the Born Again Movement and its spinoff new religious groups have nearly twice the size of the government-sanctioned Christian church in China ?
Did you knowthat James Redfern 's statues for Bristol Cathedral are now on a Yorkshire church because they were too " papist "?
Did you knowthat speed limits on Guam Highway 1 may differ depending on which side of the road you are on?
Did you knowthat after a year as Assistant Secretary to the Treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt , James H. Douglas, Jr. left the government and founded a committee opposing Roosevelt's monetary policies?
Did you knowthat The Star of Poland , the biggest balloon in the world, burned in 1938 during an attempt to beat the high- altitude world record?
Did you knowthat tennis pro Martina Navratilova lived with vaudeville actress Frances Dewey Wormser and her husband when she arrived in the United States in the 1970s?
Did you knowthat the production of visual art in Cambodia nearly ceased during the Khmer Rouge period ?
Did you knowthat Mitch Daniels became the first Republican Governor in 16 years in the 2004 Indiana gubernatorial election ?
Did you knowthat Italian-American aerospace engineer Enea Bossi, Sr. designed a pioneering human-powered aircraft and the first aircraft used by the NYPD ?
Did you knowthat the biggest tax investigation in modern Germany currently targets hundreds of individuals for possible tax evasion by moving assets to Liechtenstein ?
Did you knowthat Paul Feyerabend 's autobiography Killing Time contains descriptions of his careers as an officer in the Wehrmacht , an operatic tenor , and a philosopher of science ?
Did you knowthat the Cottonmouth jack is so named because of its pure white tongue and mouth?
Did you knowthat the Israel Prize was set up in 1953 at the initiative of Israeli Minister of Education Ben-Zion Dinur , who then went on to win the prize in 1958, and again in 1973?
Did you knowthat Summerlin Parkway , a freeway in Las Vegas , was initially constructed by the Summerlin homeowners' association ?
Did you knowthat Romanian avant-garde writer and classical violinist Grigore Cugler publicly criticized Communist Party politician Ana Pauker and resigned his diplomatic post, living the rest of his life in Peru ?
Did you knowthat American novel After This by Alice McDermott was included in the New York Times ' 100 Most Notable Books of the Year?
Did you knowthat Thomas Tilling , whose company grew into a major bus operator in Britain by the first half of the 20th century, entered the transport business with a horse and carriage in 1846?
Did you knowthat scholarly journal Anarchist Studies was attacked by Stewart Home as a "sad and reactionary 'academic' journal" incapable of engaging in critical debate?
Did you knowthat Hiram Straight was the foreman of the jury in Oregon City, Oregon , that sentenced five Native Americans to hang for the Whitman Massacre ?
Did you knowthat proteins are often broken down into smaller fragments by in-gel digestion before they are analysed by mass spectrometry ?
Did you knowthat in 1922 , Erich von Stroheim 's silent film Foolish Wives was the most expensive ever produced?
Did you knowthat when 74-year old Irish politician Pól Ó Foighil was told he was too old to be an election candidate, he challenged the younger man to twenty press ups ?
Did you knowthat Bhushan Steel , the largest manufacturer of auto-grade steel in India , is expanding its capacity to 12 million tonnes annually?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Hernan was the second of three Category 5 Pacific hurricanes in the 2002 hurricane season ?
Did you knowthat in 1916, footballer Bob Benson volunteered to replace an absent Arsenal team-mate just before a game, only to collapse and die during the match?
Did you knowthat the centerfire revolver cartridge .44 Russian , despite its name, was developed by an American handgun manufacturer, Smith & Wesson ?
Did you knowthat the East Timor political party Association for the Integration of Timor into Indonesia quickly changed its name to Timorese Popular Democratic Association to improve public relations ?
Did you knowthat in More Demi Moore , Demi Moore appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair eight-months pregnant and wearing only a diamond ring ?
Did you knowthat the first book on Buddhism in Dutch was written in 1879?
Did you knowthat future four-star admiral Frank H. Brumby was accused of technical incompetence by the Naval Court of Inquiry investigating the accidental sinking of the submarine S-4 ?
Did you knowthat Clark State Forest was Indiana 's largest Civilian Conservation Corps cantonment ?
Did you knowthat the ghost town of Melmont, Washington was only populated for twenty years?
Did you knowthat the award-winning Turkish restaurant Changa in Istanbul is being supervised by the Kiwi chef Peter Gordon ?
Did you knowthat forced labor of Hungarians in the Soviet Union was dubbed malenkij robot ( corrupted Russian for "a little work") in Hungary ?
Did you knowthat a dispatcher training simulator is a computer-based training system which simulates the behaviour of an electrical power grid ?
Did you knowthat before his 40th birthday Gus Stager swam for an NCAA championship team and coached three high school championship teams, four NCAA championship teams, and the 1960 U.S. Olympic team?