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Did you knowthat Lantian Man , who was discovered in China in 1963 , preceded Peking Man by several hundred thousand years?
Did you knowthat The Impressions ' 1967 single " We're a Winner " , written by Curtis Mayfield , was a socially conscious song which became an anthem for the American Civil Rights movement?
Did you knowthat ADMA , a chemical found in human blood, produces adverse effects that may lead to cardiovascular disease , diabetes and erectile dysfunction ?
Did you knowthat the seal emblazoned on the flag of Nashville, Tennessee displays a Native American holding a skull that is believed to be Oconostota , former leading Chief of the Cherokee Nation ?
Did you knowthat the Westfield Brandon is one of five shopping malls in the U.S. state of Florida managed by the Australian Westfield Group ?
Did you knowthat in an engagement on Lake Huron , a small British force captured two American gunboats in the summer of 1814?
Did you knowthat soil conservation was first practiced by the Phoenicians , and today it embraces disciplines such as hydrology , microbiology and soil chemistry research?
Did you knowthat North Berwick Harbour was built in the 12th century as a ferry port for St. Andrews bound pilgrims, while Pagans believe "Satan himself" once worshipped on the Harbour's "Auld Kirk Green"?
Did you knowthat while Aleksandra Pakhmutova composed pieces for the symphony orchestra and a ballet , her fame in the former Soviet Union rests primarily on 400 songs she composed back in the 1960s and 1970s ?
Did you knowthat Deneb is the only character to appear in all four of Quest's video games in the Ogre Battle series?
Did you knowthat in the 26 uses of the Page playoff system in championship curling tournaments, only once has a third- or fourth-placed team won the tournament?
Did you knowthat Sarat Chandra Bose , the brother of Subhash Chandra Bose attempted to obtain independence for a united Bengal with Muslim leader Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1947 ?
Did you knowthat the Washington Hebrew Congregation is a Reform Jewish congregation in the District of Columbia that has operated continuously since its formation on April 25 , 1852 , by twenty-one members?
Did you knowthat the long-running German TV show Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst is the only German television format to have entered the United States , where it is produced by Fox as America's Most Wanted ?
Did you knowthat the Korzhenevskaya Peak in Tajikistan is one of the five " Snow Leopard Peaks " of the former Soviet Union ?
Did you knowthat an estimated 892 Edsel Bermuda station wagons were produced before the model was dropped after a single year of production?
Did you knowthat famous Russian painter Ilya Repin contributed to the Russian connections in Australia by helping to create  the Orthodox Church of Saint Vladimir on Robertson Road in Sydney ?
Did you knowthat Gessius Florus became the Roman procurator of Judea due to his wife's friendship with Emperor Nero 's wife Poppaea ?
Did you knowthat Andrey the Elder , brother of Ivan III , sponsored the construction of the first stone edifices in his capital, Uglich ?
Did you knowthat Historic Jamestowne is a National Historic Site on  Jamestown Island on the James River at Jamestown, Virginia operated by the Colonial National Historical Park of the U.S. National Park Service ?
Did you knowthat the Azerbaijani singer Muslim Magomayev , who sang with great success at La Scala and the Paris Olympia , was not allowed to pursue an international career by the Soviet Ministry of Culture?
Did you knowthat Marcos Daniel is the highest placed Brazilian tennis player on ATP 's ranking despite not winning any official ATP tournament?
Did you knowthat the 1859 McLane-Ocampo Treaty would have given the United States extensive free trade and transit rights across Mexico and the right of military intervention , in exchange for a $ 4 million loan to the Benito Juarez government then fighting a civil war , but was never ratified by Congress ?
Did you knowthat automated CPR machines such as AutoPulse are used to treat cardiac arrest in both humans and animals ?
Did you knowthat in the course of the Crimean War , the British and French Navies undertook three attempts to lay a siege to the town of Taganrog ?
Did you knowthat the official death date of the Soviet statesman Nikolai Bryukhanov (1878-1938) was changed to 1943 as part of Khruschev 's policy to minimize the scope of the Great Purge by falsifying the dates of its victims' deaths?
Did you knowthat diamond magnate Woolf Barnato won the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times, and in 1930 won a race across France in his Bentley against Le Train Bleu ?
Did you knowthat the TV Land Awards have been awarded annually since 2003 by the TV Land network to reward classic television ?
Did you knowthat New Mexico 's Carson National Forest , named after Kit Carson , contains Anasazi artifacts?
Did you knowthat the global stratotype for the Precambrian - Cambrian boundary is a cliff at Fortune Head , southeastern Newfoundland ?
Did you knowthat Tom Stoppard 's play Rough Crossing is a loose adaptation of Hungarian dramatist Ferenc Molnár 's Play at the Castle ?
Did you knowthat the scarf worn by members of the Young Pioneers , the national youth organization of the Communist Party of China , corresponds to a triangle that is missing from one of its flags?
Did you knowthat the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering of the Pennsylvania State University , founded in 1908, was the first industrial engineering department in the world?
Did you knowthat the Boy Scouts of America 50-Miler Award , given to those who hike or paddle 50 or more miles , is designed to encourage personal fitness , self-reliance , and a practical understanding of conservation ?
Did you knowthat Marcel Boulestin , who appeared on the BBC 's experimental television broadcasts in 1937 was the first television chef ?
Did you knowthat the play Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson explores the disillusionment of former American anti-war activists in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate ?
Did you knowthat Surendranath Banerjea founded the Indian National Association , the first Indian political organization in British-ruled 19th-century India ?
Did you knowthat Langley Park makes Perth the only city in the world where aircraft can land in the central business district ?
Did you knowthat Commander Edwin Taylor Pollock became the first American governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands by beating the commander of the USS Olympia in a race to Saint Thomas ?
Did you knowthat Prasoon Joshi , an award-winning advertising executive is also a lyricist for Bollywood movies?
Did you knowthat the Vanessa Carlton song " A Thousand Miles " became popular amongst U.S. troops serving in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq , and was the most requested song on the radio station BFBS Middle East in April 2003?
Did you knowthat only 6% of Pacific hurricanes make landfall on the United States , and that the state of Arizona is affected by a tropical cyclone only about once every five years?
Did you knowthat Ludwig Fahrenkrog was a German artist who founded one of the first neopagan religious groups, the Germanic Faith-Community , in 1907?
Did you knowthat Gideon Brecher ( 1797 - 1873 ) was a Jewish Austrian physician and writer who wrote what is most likely the first scholarly article on circumcision , Die Beschneidung der Israeliten, etc ., in 1845 ?
Did you knowthat some elements of the Jules Verne adventure story Two Years' Vacation are to be found in William Golding 's Lord of the Flies , written 66 years later?
Did you knowthat Satyajit Ray , the noted Indian film director , also wrote popular fiction , especially detective stories and science fiction in Bengali ?
Did you knowthat a cuttie-stool is the Lowland Scots name for a three legged stool that was thrown by Jenny Geddes at the Dean of St Giles High Kirk , in protest at the introduction of Anglican style prayer books in 1637?
Did you knowthat Beekman Winthrop , the third American Governor of Puerto Rico , was a direct descendant of both John Winthrop , the first Governor of Massachusetts , and John Winthrop, the Younger , the first Governor of Connecticut ?
Did you knowthat Sillustani is a pre- Incan burial ground with burial towers known as chullpas ?
Did you knowthat when the British Army attacked the Agra Fort in 1803 , a cannon ball fired by the artillery struck the Takht-i-Jahangir (throne of Jahangir ), but only caused a superficial crack on one side?
Did you knowthat Parlophone 's "?" trademark, made famous on The Beatles UK records, is actually not the British pound sign, but a Germanic "L" for the Lindstrom in Carl Lindstrom Company ?
Did you knowthat though the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth decreased from 1620s till its end , the number of its provincial governors kept increasing, as the offices of a lost province could not be dissolved?
Did you knowthat Sanford N. McDonnell , the chairman emeritus of McDonnell Douglas Corporation , is also a past national president of the Boy Scouts of America ?
Did you knowthat most knights of the Middle Ages wore chausses as leg protection?
Did you knowthat Tony Saunders was the first player selected in the expansion draft when Major League Baseball added teams in 1997?
Did you knowthat Georgia ’s capital Tbilisi functioned as the center of an Islamic emirate under the Arab rule from 736 to 1122 ?
Did you knowthat historian Doane Robinson conceived of the idea of Mount Rushmore in order to attract greater tourism to South Dakota ?
Did you knowthat the Ronald Reagan Trail is a collection of highways in central Illinois that connect villages and cities that were of importance to former United States President Ronald Reagan ?
Did you knowthat in 1978 , the nitrate- base film vaults of both the US National Archives and George Eastman House autoignited ?
Did you knowthat the Vietnamese "poet of love" Xuân Diệu wrote a poem about the love affair between the French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine , fueling speculations that he himself was homosexual ?
Did you knowthat the Washoe Theater in Anaconda, Montana was the last Art Deco theater constructed in the United States?
Did you knowthat Alonso Manso was the first bishop to arrive in the New World and also the first Inquisitor General of the Indies?
Did you knowthat the history of Berne , the Swiss capital , begins not with her founding in 1191 , but with the Helvetian oppidum Brenodor that Caesar conquered in the Gallic Wars ?
Did you knowthat Sir Henry Segrave's accomplishments inspired the Segrave Trophy , which is awarded to the British subject who accomplishes the most outstanding demonstration of the possibilities of transport by land, sea, air or water?
Did you knowthat the boojum phenomenon in superfluidity physics is named after an imaginary monster in a poem by Lewis Carroll ?
Did you knowthat in 1977 , K. Leroy Irvis of Pennsylvania became the first Black American to serve as a speaker of the house in any state legislature in the United States ?
Did you knowthat The Falling Man is a photograph by Richard Drew depicting a man who had jumped from the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York ?
Did you knowthat the eminent Russian culinary writer William Pokhlebkin was in fact a notable expert in the history of diplomacy , but also the author of A History of Vodka , and that his name was thought to be a pen name ?
Did you knowthat Doe Lang , who performed on Broadway and appeared in TV soaps, also authored best-selling self-help books and is the president of an image consulting firm?
Did you knowthat Edwin Maher was the first non-Chinese television journalist to be a news anchor on China's state-run China Central Television ?
Did you knowthat the plot of the award-winning Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Inner Light " is similar to that of the Japanese folktale The Dream of Akinosuke ?
Did you knowthat University of Texas at Austin professor Jonathan Sessler developed molecules called " texaphyrins ," used to treat neoplastic and cardiovascular disease and named after their resemblance to the state flag of Texas ?
Did you knowthat a recent cricket match saw the record for highest team total for a single innings in One-day Internationals broken by both the teams, and has been called the greatest ODI match ever by much of the cricket media?
Did you knowthat the prosauropod dinosaur Efraasia was misidentified at least four times before being recognized as a separate genus ?
Did you knowthat Hakeem Olajuwon was the last player to be named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA men's basketball tournament while playing for a team that failed to win the title, earning the honor in the 1983 tournament ?
Did you knowthat the Daytona Beach Road Course was the site of fifteen world land speed records , and the course was instrumental in the formation of NASCAR ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Krasny Bor was a World War II battle in which neutral Spain assisted Germany with an all volunteer infantry division?
Did you knowthat Apple Computer 's PowerBook 5300 got the nickname "HindenBook" after the Lithium ion batteries used in the original design were shown to burst into flames under certain circumstances?
Did you knowthat the Great Rose Bowl Hoax was a 1961 prank by students at the California Institute of Technology that was broadcast by NBC to an estimated 30 million viewers in the United States ?
Did you knowthat cosmonauts such as Grigori Nelyubov , dismissed from the Soviet space program , were airbrushed out of official photographs, leading to early Cold War speculation of failed missions even when the actual reasons for dismissal were sometimes mundane?
Did you knowthat during the Gothic War in the 4th century , the Goths killed a Roman Emperor , destroyed a Roman army and laid waste large tracts of the Roman Balkans ?
Did you knowthat the Wissenschaft des Judentums or "the scientific investigation of Judaism", was a 19th century movement by Jewish philosophers in Berlin premised on using scientific methods to analyze the origins of Jewish traditions?
Did you knowthat a house was held to be haunted by poltergeists as a matter of law in the 1991 New York case Stambovsky v. Ackley , making the Nyack, New York house the only legally haunted house in the United States?
Did you knowthat the British Rail flying saucer was an unbuilt nuclear fusion powered space craft , proposed and patented in the 1970s by British Rail ?
Did you knowthat Norway 's first regional theatre , the Hålogaland Teater , used to be housed in a disused margarine factory in the Arctic Circle town of Tromsø ?
Did you knowthat several Turkic nomads of the Kipchak clan settled in Georgia in 1118 and served in the Georgian military ranks for nearly two centuries?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Felix in 1995 was a moderately powerful hurricane that, despite not making landfall, caused severe beach erosion and 8 deaths along the East Coast of the United States ?
Did you knowthat folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham 's most famous book, 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey , is named after a ghost that Windham believed haunted her home?
Did you knowthat William Burnet , Governor of New Jersey and New York , obtained his position of governorship by trading his job as comptroller of the customs with Robert Hunter ?
Did you knowthat over 5,000 Rosenwald Schools in the United States were built primarily for the education of African Americans with funds donated by Julius Rosenwald , who was part-owner of Sears, Roebuck and Company ?
Did you knowthat January 26th , which in 1950 became the Republic Day of India , was also the day of the promulgation of Purna Swaraj Declaration in 1930 ?
Did you know that the Soviet ideologue and foreign minister Dmitri Shepilov denounced jazz and rock music as "wild cave-men orgies" and the "explosion of basic instincts and sexual urges"?
Did you know that the name Japanese War Tuba was a name applied to the acoustic locators used by Japan during World War II ?
Did you know that Richard Ingoldesby , Governor of New Jersey , caused the defeat of a bill to raise 200 men for an invasion of Canada in order to remove the Quakers from all public offices in New Jersey?
Did you knowthat the race movie , a genre of films produced for black audiences and featuring black casts, was very popular among African Americans in the United States between 1915 and 1945 ?
Did you knowthat the aluminum smelting plant in Tursunzade is the largest aluminum manufacturing plant in Central Asia ?
Did you knowthat the oldest written constitution of a Greek city was discovered in an inscription at Dreros in Crete ?
Did you knowthat the Council of Nablus , held in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1120 , established punishments for adultery , bigamy , homosexuality , and sexual relations with Muslims ?
Did you knowthat the compound 4-ethylphenol , produced by the spoilage yeast Brettanomyces , can make wine smell like band-aids ?
Did you knowthat jazz singer Ilse Huizinga is known in the Netherlands as the First Lady of Jazz ?
Did you knowthat the Pickens County Courthouse in Carrollton, Alabama is famous for the ghostly image of a murdered man's face that can be seen in one of its windows?
Did you knowthat the Afghan Church in Mumbai was built to commemorate the dead of the First Afghan War of 1838 ?
Did you knowthat the Ancient Greeks credited Broteas , the ugly son of Tantalus , with an ancient rock-cut cliff-face carving of the Great Mother of the Gods in modern Turkey ?
Did you knowthat Jerry Reuss was one of a few players in Major League Baseball history to play in four different decades?
Did you knowthat Super typhoon Nancy is one of the eight typhoons to receive a special name from the Japan Meteorological Agency ?
Did you knowthat the recently discovered deep-sea decapod Kiwa hirsuta was dubbed the yeti crab by its discoverers on account of its hairy appearance?
Did you knowthat Matvei Muranov was one of the few Old Bolsheviks to survive the Great Purge ?
Did you knowthat Stephanie von Hohenlohe , a Jew , was a close friend of Hitler and according to a MI6 report, perhaps the only woman who could exercise influence on him?
Did you knowthat the docu-drama The Road to Guantanamo , depicting the incarceration of three British detainees at Guantanamo Bay , is the first film to be released simultaneously in theatres, on DVD and on the Internet?
Did you knowthat the early contact lens pioneer August Müller demonstrated his technique for grinding scleral lenses by correcting his own severe myopia ?
Did you knowthat Ramy Brooks , a competitor in the 1,049 mi 2006 Iditarod dog sled race across Alaska , is one of the few Native Alaskans competing in the event?
Did you knowthat at its first years Kiev Zoo had to move its animals into the food storage of the main Kiev railway station for the winter?
Did you knowthat an agent of the Malaysian Special Branch so successfully infiltrated the Malayan Communist Party that he was in turn ordered by them to infiltrate the Special Branch?
Did you knowthat Tom Cousineau was drafted first overall in the 1979 NFL Draft by the Buffalo Bills , but never played a game with them?
Did you knowthat Bonnybridge , forming part of the "Falkirk Triangle" in Scotland , is considered by many UFO enthusiasts to be world's number one UFO hotspot, with around 300 sightings every year?
Did you knowthat Bhulabhai Desai negotiated a secret power-sharing deal with Liaquat Ali Khan in 1945 that would have prevented the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan ?
Did you knowthat the Renaissance composer Cornelis Verdonck wrote the only known motet written to be performed on the back of an elephant ?
Did you knowthat while the female and male sexual organs of Congdon silktassel are on separate plants, it is the pendant male catkins that are more showy?
Did you knowthat an Indo-Corinthian capital is a Buddhist adaption of the Greek Corinthian capital, often incorporating images of the Buddha ?
Did you knowthat the German hip-hop crew Fünf Sterne Deluxe made their 1999 comeback with the single "Ja Ja..., deine Mudder", a German take on the dozens ?
Did you know that Stony Clove Notch , a pass in the Catskill Mountains , was once so narrow that it could only be traversed by people walking in single file ?
Did you knowthe Siege of Compiègne was Joan of Arc's final military action?
Did you knowthat botanist Tomitaro Makino , despite dropping out of grammar school, named over 2500 plants and is known as the "Father of Japanese Botany"?
Did you knowthat until 1988 , a woman could apply for and receive an Australian Passport in her future married name, before she was actually married?
Did you knowthat the Italian scholar Girolamo Maggi wrote and illustrated two detailed treatises , from memory, while chained in a dungeon in Istanbul ?
Did you knowthat a fall of red rain in Kerala in 2001 might have contained microbes of extraterrestrial origin?
Did you knowthat the Mexican actress Leticia Palma ' s dispute with Jorge Negrete led to the end of a career described as "one of the most interesting presences" of the cinema of Mexico ?
Did you knowthat Hieronymus Bosch paintings helped inspire the Surrealist movement ?
Did you knowthat Blanton C. Winship , a veteran of Spanish-American War and World War I survived an assassination attempt while he was Governor of Puerto Rico in 1938?
Did you knowthat Tran Duc Thao , a Vietnamese philosopher , attempted to reconcile Marxist philosophy 's dialectical materialism with Husserlian phenomenology ?
Did you knowthat gastric lymphoma is the most common lymphoma affecting the gastrointestinal tract ?
Did you knowthat Mustelus hacat is a species of smooth-hound shark discovered in 2003 in the Sea of Cortez , off the coast of Mexico ?
Did you knowthat the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas was formed in December 20 , 1895 , when the Missionary District of Northern Texas was granted diocesan status and that it now includes more than seventy parishes and schools in the diocese?
Did you knowthat in Islam , Tahrif is the charge that Jewish and Christian holy books have been subject to change, alteration or forgery ?
Did you knowthat Clarence L. "Biggie" Munn was Michigan State University 's most successful football coach with a winning percentage of 85.7 over seven years, including a 28-game winning streak from October 14 , 1950 through October 17 , 1953 ?
Did you knowthat the English Canal was a partially completed canal project started in 1864 that would connect the iron ore fields in northern Sweden with the Gulf of Bothnia ?
Did you knowthat The Exile , the first African American talking film , was a semi-autobiographical film about a Black rancher in South Dakota , with elements of interracial romance and some nightclub scenes set in Chicago ?
Did you knowthat Jatin Das , an Indian freedom fighter , died after sixty three days of hunger strike demanding rights for prisoners and undertrials in Lahore jail in 1929 ?
Did you knowthat The Observatory , a Singaporean space rock band released their first album packaged as a diary , complete with torn pages and paperclipped photos?
Did you knowthat NKVD official Yakov Blumkin organised and personally took part in an expedition to find the Shambhala , a mystical kingdom hidden in the Himalayas ?
Did you knowthat the Sanssouci Picture Gallery is the oldest extant museum built for a German ruler?
Did you knowthat Public Square in Cleveland, Ohio became lit with electric street lights as early as 1879 ?
Did you knowthat Rough Castle Fort is the best preserved Roman fort along the Antonine Wall ?
Did you knowthat the S500 was the first production car from Honda ?
Did you knowthat the endangered subspecies California Clapper Rail , a chicken -sized bird that rarely flies, has chicks that can swim when they are just two hours old?
Did you knowthat the 1934 jazz standard " Stars Fell on Alabama " was inspired by the Leonid meteor shower that was observed in Alabama a century earlier, in 1833 ?
Did you knowthat S. R. Rao led the excavations of Dwaraka — the mythical city of Krishna submerged in the Arabian Sea ?