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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?
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?
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?
Did you knowthat "Cherry Pie" , the best-known song by the glam metal band Warrant , was a last-minute addition to their 1990 album ?
Did you knowthat the author of the term Third Reich predicted that " Germany might perish because of the Third Reich dream"?
Did you knowthat Iraqi poet Nazik Al-Malaika was the first person to write in free verse in Arabic ?
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 ?
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 ?
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?
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?
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?
Did you knowthat Herb Boxer was the first U.S. -born ice hockey player ever drafted by a National Hockey League team?
Did you knowthat Serranus Clinton Hastings served as chief justice of both the Iowa and California Supreme Courts ?
Did you knowthat O. Rajagopal represented Madhya Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha , despite living in Kerala ?
Did you knowthat the first online-only correspondence law school started operating in 1998 and graduated its first class in 2002?
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 ?
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?
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?
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?
Did you knowthat Peter Cochrane and Les Carlyon were the joint inaugural winners of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History ?
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 ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat Challenge 1934 was the fourth and last FAI International Tourist Plane Contest, a major aviation event in pre-war Europe?
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 ?
Did you knowthat the "helicopter" damselflies of family Pseudostigmatidae specialize in plucking spiders from their webs ?
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 ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat Robert Clark made his own alcoholic drink, "Gut Rot 1916", while stranded on Elephant Island in 1916?
Did you knowthat it may take more than 220 years for eucalyptus trees to form hollows suitable for larger animals?
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?
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 ?
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 ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry is the second oldest continuously operating ferry service in the United States ?
Did you knowthat like other bronzewing pigeons ,  the Common Bronzewing releases a milky substance from its crop to feed its young?
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"?
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?
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?
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 ?
Did you knowthat the Wall Street Journal tracks median home purchase prices of starter homes as part of its real estate index?
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?
Did you knowthat Dr. Joseph Rothrock is known as the "Father of Forestry " in Pennsylvania , and is the namesake for Rothrock State Forest ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat Eric Johnston , president of the MPAA , issued the Waldorf Statement in November 1947, marking the beginning of the Hollywood blacklist ?
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 ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat Mikveh Israel , the first modern Jewish agricultural settlement in the Land of Israel , was founded in 1870 by Charles Netter ?
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?
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?
Did you knowthat Australian rules footballer Tom Lonergan returned to the sport ten months after losing a kidney as the result of an injury?
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 ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat capital punishment in the Vatican City was legal (but not carried out) between 1929 and 1969 ?
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?
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 ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat Lake Ceauru in southwestern Romania does not exist, despite appearing on maps today?
Did you knowthat, along with many other scientific discoveries made during its course, the Morea expedition confirmed the presence of jackals in Greece ?
Did you knowthat weather extremes in Minnesota include temperatures of −60 ° F (−51 ° C ) and 114 °F (46 °C)?
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?
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?
Did you knowthat Czech saint Zdislava Berka ran away from home to live as a hermit when she was only seven years old?
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 ?
Did you knowthat the Lakshminarayana Temple in Hosaholalu, Karnataka state, India is mounted on a platform ( jagati ), a style unique to Hoysala architecture ?
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 ?
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?
Did you knowthat pioneering African American journalist Larry Whiteside was part of an expert panel that chose the Major League Baseball All-Century Team ?
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. ?
Did you knowthat, prior to developing the Elder Scrolls series , Bethesda Softworks was primarily known as a sports game company?
Did you knowthat the Kisima Music Awards recognise talent from across East Africa?
Did you knowthat Jeż Jerzy is a popular Polish comic , a satire on modern life, often making fun of subcultures like skinheads or dresiarze ?
Did you knowthat the initials of former Canadian Football League executive J.I. Albrecht stand for "Just Incredible"?
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 ?
Did you knowthat the USS Sandpiper , originally built as a minesweeping ship , was redesignated a seaplane tender ?
Did you knowthat Omaha, Nebraska 's Little Italy neighborhood was largely the result of two brothers' efforts to help their countrymen?
Did you knowthat Shivappa Nayaka , a king in 17th century Karnataka , India , introduced a unique and variable tax system called Sist ?
Did you knowthat African American Methodist preacher and missionary John Marrant undertook a mission to the Cherokee while he was a teenager?
Did you knowthat sports agent David Falk represented Michael Jordan for the whole of the player's career?
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 ?
Did you knowthat in 1985, Texas Instruments became the first multinational to set up base in Bangalore ?
Did you knowthat E.E. Roberts ' Oak Park, Illinois architecture firm rivaled the studio of fellow architect Frank Lloyd Wright ?
Did you knowthat a man was crushed to death during the construction of the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol ?
Did you knowthat Don White was the first-ever coach of the England national rugby union team ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat Neville Miller is remembered as Louisville, Kentucky 's "flood mayor" for his strong leadership during the Ohio River flood of 1937 ?
Did you knowthat in 1876, Paul Zweifel became the first to demonstrate that the fetus in utero consumes oxygen ?
Did you knowthat, despite its name, the Pygmy Blue Whale reaches lengths of 24 m (79 ft)?
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?
Did you knowthat U.S. Route 322 in New Jersey used to be concurrent with state highways on its entire route?
Did you knowthat after publishing his first book, magistrate James Mudie became so hated in Sydney that he was horsewhipped in the street?
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 ?
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?
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?
Did you knowthat a military coalition from four countries helped the British colonial government to quell the 1915 Singapore Mutiny ?
Did you knowthat the Bucharest school of Jean Alexandre Vaillant contributed to Westernization in Wallachia during the 1830s?
Did you knowthat the Lutheran liturgical calendar includes several biblical personages as “Saint” though it is commonly believed that Lutherans “do not have saints”?
Did you knowthat Puerto Rican singer Tito Gómez once shared vocal duties in Ray Barretto 's band in the 1970s with Rubén Blades ?
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 ?
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?
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 ?
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?
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 ?
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?
Did you knowthat the Charles E. Roberts Stable was converted from a barn into a garage by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1896?
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?
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 ?
Did you knowthat factors affecting the preservation of textiles include ambient heat , light , and humidity , and the presence of pests, airborne chemicals and pollutants?
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?
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?
Did you knowthat, after the wife of liberal journalist Aleksey Suvorin was shot dead by her lover, Suvorin experienced a conversion to virulent conservatism ?
Did you knowthat Rīgas Satiksme is the largest provider of public transport in Riga ?
Did you knowthat riots broke out among Azeris in Iran after a newspaper published a cartoon about a cockroach ?
Did you knowthat the Naniwa class cruisers were the first protected cruisers designed in Japan ?
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 ?
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?
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?
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)?
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 ?
Did you knowthat the 2004 USC Trojans football team went undefeated, becoming the tenth team to win consecutive Associated Press National Championships ?
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?
Did you knowthat the extinct marine reptile Kaganaias is the only ancient aquatic scaled reptile to be found in Asia ?
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 ?
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 ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat John Sebastian Helmcken opposed British Columbia joining Canadian Confederation —until he negotiated the terms himself?
Did you knowthat Kuh Ledesma was the first Philippine singer to receive the Salem Music Awards in London in March 1989?
Did you knowthat the yet unnamed EADS Astrium Space Tourism Project is the first suborbital space tourism project by a major aerospace consortium?
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 ?
Did you knowthat Gigantoraptor , a bird-like dinosaur discovered in Inner Mongolia , is thirty-five times larger than its peacock -sized relative, Caudipteryx ?
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 ?
Did you knowthat Johann Christoph Altnickol , Johann Christian Kittel , and Johann Caspar Vogler were all students of Johann Sebastian Bach ?
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?
Did you knowthat destructive creativity is a social theory that has been used to explain Nazi Germany , and the Enron and Watergate scandals ?
Did you knowthat Ghum is the highest railway station in India at 2,225 m (7,407 ft)?
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?
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 ?
Did you knowthat Mogollon, New Mexico had a reputation as one of the wildest mining towns in the American West ?
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 ?
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?
Did you knowthat the Viagens Interplanetarias series of science fiction stories by L. Sprague de Camp was influenced by Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Martian novels ?
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 ?
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?
Did you knowthat, in Scientology beliefs and practices , KRC ("Knowledge, Responsibility and Control") forms the main ingredients of "cause" or effectiveness in life?
Did you knowthat the tornado that struck Moscow on June 29 , 1904 was the first ever recorded in Central Russia ?
Did you knowthat Judith Quiney , one of William Shakespeare's daughters, was illiterate?
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?
Did you knowthat Jack Hides led what Lieutenant-Governor Hubert Murray described as "the most difficult and dangerous" patrol ever carried out in Papua ?
Did you knowthat Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna left her unfaithful husband and became a nun ?
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?
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?
Did you knowthat Mark Taylor was the first batsman in Test cricket to have made centuries on his debuts against four different opponents?
Did you knowthat over 9,000 animals were killed during the inaugural games of the Flavian Amphitheatre ?
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?
Did you knowthat Swedes have lived in Estonia for more than 700 years, although only a small number are permanently resident there today?
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 ?
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?
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?
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?
Did you knowthat Frederick Rotimi Williams was the first Nigerian to become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria ?