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Did you knowthat college football coach Bo Schembechler died the day after attending the funeral of his 1971 quarterback Tom Slade and urging the football team to be "as good a Michigan man as Slade"?
Did you knowthat Out of the Blue , a BBC Television series, is set in Manly , near Sydney, Australia ?
Did you knowthat Elm Coulee Oil Field , Montana , is the highest-producing onshore field found in the Continental United States in the past 56 years?
Did you knowthat the cloven hoof is a characteristic of mountain goats , certain kosher foods and in some traditions, the Devil ?
Did you knowthat anarchism once was the strongest current in the Cuban labor movement ?
Did you knowthat alkaptonuria , a rare inborn error of metabolism , is over five times more common in Slovakia than in the rest of the world?
Did you knowthat actress Evelyn Venable , the voice of the Blue Fairy in the animated film Pinocchio , was the original model for the Columbia Pictures logo ?
Did you knowthat Dennis Freeman , as the mayor of tiny Logansport, Louisiana , worked for 16 years to keep the construction of a new bridge over the Sabine River to connect Louisiana and Texas as a high construction priority?
Did you knowthat The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer , a book that analyzes the The Simpsons using philosophical concepts, is the main textbook in some university philosophy courses?
Did you knowthat Jean Pouliot founded both major private TV networks in Quebec , TQS and TVA ?
Did you knowthat Are You There? was widely promoted because of its score by Ruggero Leoncavallo (best known for his opera Pagliacci ), but the first-night audience were incensed when it turned out to have very little music?
Did you knowthat according to Greek mythology , Adonis was slain by a boar at the foot of the waterfall in Apheca in modern-day Lebanon ?
Did you knowthat indigenous peoples of the Russian Far East traditionally worshiped the Raven deity Kutkh as a key figure in creation , as a fertile ancestor of mankind , as a mighty shaman and as a trickster ?
Did you knowthat actor Michael Sellers , son of British actor Peter Sellers , died of the same cause ( heart attack ) and date, albeit twenty-six years later, as his father?
Did you knowthat the original designation for Route 574 in Erie County, New York and its eastern terminus were removed four years apart?
Did you knowthat Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Nellie Quander belonged to one of America's longest and oldest free slave dynasties?
Did you knowthat Medal of Honor recipient Captain Julien Gaujot became so jealous when his brother was given the Medal of Honor that he vowed that he would get one too?
Did you knowthat the history of Nairobi includes the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing that killed 213 and wounded 5,000?
Did you knowthat Graham Perrett , the Australian House of Representatives member for Moreton , was accused of calling his rival, Gary Hardgrave , " racist " during the 2007 election campaign ?
Did you knowthat the first co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908 ?
Did you knowthat pit vipers and some boas and pythons have specialized facial pits for sensing infrared radiation ?
Did you knowthat William Mainwaring argued that possession of holy scripture by British troops might be included in a list of documents liable to incite disaffection ?
Did you knowthat the Mount Sandel Mesolithic site in Coleraine , County Londonderry is the oldest archaeological site in Ireland ?
Did you knowthat Australian basketball player Patrick Mills is only the third Indigenous Australian male to ever play for his country's national team ?
Did you knowthat the tallest commercial building in Salem, Oregon was commissioned by Thomas A. Livesley ?
Did you knowthat Adam, Count of Schwarzenberg reportedly died of fright instilled by his own mercenaries?
Did you knowthat the BAE Systems HERTI is the only fully autonomous UAV to have been certified by the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority ?
Did you knowthat the free surface of a free liquid in zero-g forms a perfect sphere?
Did you knowthat maidams were burial sites of the Ahom Kingdom 's royalty and aristocracy that were similar to the Egyptian pyramids , but much smaller in scale?
Did you knowthat Jonathan Swift called his predecessor " that rascal Dean Jones " because he made such bad property leases whilst Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin ?
Did you knowthat during World War II , Marine Fighting Squadron 215 established four new U.S. Marine Corps records in the South Pacific including having the most ace pilots ?
Did you knowthat The Simpsons ' history began when Matt Groening conceived of the dysfunctional family in the lobby of James L. Brooks 's office?
Did you knowthat in the 1896 Yamagata-Lobanov Agreement negotiations, Japanese Prime Minister Yamagata Aritomo proposed dividing Korea at the 38th parallel , should Japanese and Russian troops occupy the peninsula ?
Did you knowthat the Saraswati River , a distributary of the Bhagirathi in West Bengal , is now dead but was active till around the 16th century AD?
Did you knowthat Gerald Ford 's two greatest regrets in life were losing the starting center job in college to All-American Chuck Bernard and losing a presidential election?
Did you knowthat the 1928 movie Gang War was overshadowed by the short film attached to it, Steamboat Willie , which marked the début of Mickey Mouse ?
Did you knowthat the White Mosque is the oldest mosque in Nazareth ?
Did you knowthat after losing his European Parliament seat, Roger Barton set up a group offering llama -trekking to young people from Sheffield ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Bhangani was the first battle fought by Guru Gobind Singh , the last human Sikh Guru ?
Did you knowthat during the 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike , 21 people were killed and the strike ended only after union leaders were accused of taking bribes ?
Did you knowthat before David Myatt converted to Islam in 1998 and endorsed Islamic terrorism , he had been active in Nazi satanism in the UK since the late 1960s?
Did you knowthat Emperor Nicholas II of Russia was billed 3,250 rubles for Rosebud , the first Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Alexandra Fyodorovna ?
Did you knowthat eradication of infectious diseases can come about through vaccination , quarantine , and even just human behavioral changes, depending on the disease?
Did you knowthat a fossil specimen of Pelagosaurus was found with the remains of a Leptolepis in its stomach?
Did you knowthat Heroes actor David Anders won a Back Stage West Garland Award along with the ensemble cast of The Diary of Anne Frank , for their 2001 production?
Did you knowthat Alpha Kappa Alpha founder, Marie Woolfolk Taylor was one of two African-Americans who assisted the Red Cross during the Great Atlanta Fire ?
Did you knowthat the Swedish military unit Kustjägarna has been working in Kosovo and Bosnia under the UN flag ?
Did you know the Safety Promotion Center , established by Japan Airlines after the worst ever single aircraft accident, displays victims' farewell letters and wreckage to educate employees about safety?
Did you knowthat the arrival of Prussian troops led by Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq prevented a Russian defeat in the 1807 Battle of Eylau ?
Did you knowthat George Hoey still holds Michigan Wolverines football career, and single-season records 40 years after his best season?
Did you knowthat Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens ( The Raging Flame ) was the first plebeian consul of the Roman Republic ?
Did you knowthat most Swiss immigrants to Russia , several thousand in all, left  after the October Revolution in 1917?
Did you knowthat Pete Muldoon allegedly put an Irish curse on the Chicago Blackhawks that prevented them from finishing first for 43 years?
Did you knowthat DNA testing was used to confirm that the unidentified body known as "Baby Grace" was Riley Ann Sawyers ?
Did you knowthat English botanist John Parkinson included a pun on his name in the title of his monumental 1629 work Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris ? (It translates as Park-in-Sun's Terrestrial Paradise .)
Did you knowthat Shamsunnahar Mahmud and Roquia Sakhawat Hussain were Muslim feminists of the Bengal renaissance ?
Did you knowthat Golden Liberty , the political system of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , similar to federation and democracy , became ineffective when faced with the surrounding mon archies ?
Did you knowthat in 1979 University of Michigan tackle Ed Muransky set the all-time record at the traditional pre- Rose Bowl "Beef Bowl" by eating 16 pounds of prime rib?
Did you knowthat the Wanganui Branch railway folded due to competition from trams in New Zealand ?
Did you knowthat Indian schoolteacher D. R. Kaprekar discovered  properties in number theory including a number and a constant named after him?
Did you knowthat Mount Harriet , in the Andaman Islands , is named after Robert Christopher Tytler ' s wife?
Did you knowthat with the Trusty system of prison labor at Mississippi State Penitentiary , the 1,900-inmate prison was staffed and its 16,000 acres of crops farmed with only 150 paid employees?
Did you knowthat Bennie Osler played 17 consecutive rugby union matches for South Africa between 1924 and 1933?
Did you knowthat the German R&B band Soultans signed on with the same record label which wrote some of Elvis Presley 's songs?
Did you knowthat U.S. Representative Dale Alford awarded one of his nominations for cadet at the United States Military Academy to Wesley Clark , who later became NATO commander?
Did you knowthat the strategic bombing campaign used in the 1990 Operation Instant Thunder served as a model for subsequent American military conflicts?
Did you knowthat an elaborate network of coastal batteries was built by British colonial authorities to protect Hobart Town , but it was never used to defend the Tasmanian port from attacks by enemy warships ?
Did you knowthat the 1609 Treaty of Antwerp was influenced by the writings of Hugo Grotius in the Mare Liberum , which was published at the insistence of the Dutch East India Company during the course of the treaty negotiations?
Did you knowthat Mel Tolkin , lead writer for Your Show of Shows , served in the Canadian Army during World War II where he played the glockenspiel in a military orchestra?
Did you knowthat Christie's purchase of the Haunch of Venison caused "shock and disbelief" in the art world ?
Did you knowthat the price of cocoa rose sharply following the June 29, 2007 assassination attempt against Prime Minister Guillaume Soro of Côte d'Ivoire ?
Did you knowthat the Galatasaray S.K. has origins from the Ottoman Empire era?
Did you knowthat Emperor Alexander III of Russia was billed 4,750 rubles for the Renaissance egg , the final Fabergé egg he presented to his empress consort Maria Feodorovna ?
Did you knowthat herpetologist Doris M. Cochran , the Smithsonian Institution 's first female curator, died four days after her retirement?
Did you knowthat the book The Psychology of The Simpsons uses this TV series to analyze topics in psychology including clinical psychology , cognition and Pavlovian conditioning ?
Did you knowthat Elk Knob State Park , a state park in Watauga County , North Carolina , was established due to a grassroots movement to protect Elk Knob from housing development?
Did you knowthat the spintronic manipulation of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond crystals may facilitate the creation and functioning of quantum computers ?
Did you knowthat Kazimierz Pużak , once considered for president of Poland , was one of the leaders of the Polish Secret State arrested by Soviets and sentenced in the Trial of the Sixteen ?
Did you knowthat after their names became known, the first group known as the Four Crowned Martyrs was venerated with the second group of the same name?
Did you knowthat archaeological excavation of Titelberg provides evidence of urbanisation in Celtic Luxembourg long before Roman expansion ?
Did you knowthat coconut charcoal is easy to light, burns longer and generates less smoke and ash than typical hardwood charcoal ?
Did you knowthat the wine industry in Nebraska remained dormant for decades after the local commercial grape industry was destroyed by the Armistice Day Blizzard in 1940, with no new winery opening till 1994?
Did you knowthat eight small Norwegian municipalities were fooled into investing future income from hydropower plants into complicated financial products - now worthless - from Citigroup , in the so-called Terra Securities scandal ?
Did you knowthat although several Michigan Wolverines football wide receivers have eclipsed most of Jack Clancy ' s team records, they all have needed more games to do so?
Did you knowthat the Rothschild Fabergé egg is the most expensive timepiece , Russian object and Fabergé egg ever sold?
Did you knowthat Diodore of Tarsus mentored both the sainted John Chrysostom and the heretical Theodore of Mopsuestia ?
Did you knowthat the Brazillian endemic genus Philcoxia , which may represent another genus of carnivorous plants , was formally described in scientific literature 34 years after the first specimen had been discovered?
Did you knowthat the Platypus Trophy , awarded to the winner of the Civil War college football game between Oregon and Oregon State , was lost for more than 40 years before being found in a closet in 2005?
Did you knowthat Jays Foods changed its name during World War II to avoid being associated with the Japanese ?
Did you knowthat the Toledo, Ohio native football player Jim Detwiler refused a recruiting trip invitation to Ohio State prompting a tonguelashing from Woody Hayes for disloyalty to Ohio?
Did you knowthat the Bishopsgate bombing , mounted at a cost of £3,000 by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1993, caused over £350M in damages and almost led to the financial collapse of Lloyd's of London ?
Did you knowthat it is unclear whether Gungsrong Gungtsen ever ruled Tibet , although he was the only known son of the first Tibetan emperor, Songtsän Gampo ?
Did you knowthat Washington Senators outfielder Elmer Gedeon , who pulled a crew member from a burning wreck, died while piloting a B-26 bomber over France?
Did you knowthat a possible local subsidence forced the Jalangi River , in West Bengal , to flow in a south westerly direction, reverting the earlier trend of rivers in the region flowing in a south easterly direction?
Did you knowthat the 1751 revolt of Pima Indians in the Spanish colonial province of Sonora (in modern-day Arizona ) was directly preceded by a revolt of Seri Indians ?
Did you knowthat some bacteria and parasitic protozoa escape extreme conditions like desiccation and unavailability of food by forming microbial cysts ?
Did you knowthat 12% of the world's gold supply, 78% of the world's platinum , and over 15.8 million karats of diamonds come from mining in South Africa ?
Did you knowthat Knut Arild Hareide became Norwegian Minister of the Environment in 2004 at the age of thirty-one, only to step down from national politics three years later?
Did you knowthat Tom Wolfe 's 1975 book The Painted Word , which criticized modern and conceptual art , was so reviled by the art establishment that multiple reviewers compared the book to watching pornography?
Did you knowthat the United States Customs and Border Patrol may search all travelers' possessions, including in some cases, personal files on their laptops, without a warrant or even suspicion under the border search exception ?
Did you knowthat the ancient people known as the Oeselians , who lived on the Estonian island of Saaremaa , carried out raids against the Scandinavian Vikings ?
Did you knowthat K. Chidananda Gowda , the former Vice-chancellor of the Kuvempu University in India , is the son-in-law of the Kannada playwright Kuvempu , the university's namesake?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Karen in September 2007 was only classified as a hurricane two months after the storm dissipated?
Did you knowthat the rebel Uganda People's Army formed in 1987 in response to massive cattle raiding carried out by the Karamojong of eastern Uganda ?
Did you knowthat former Michigan Wolverines football player Dan Dworsky designed Crisler Arena , the home of Michigan Wolverines basketball?
Did you knowthat remnants of ancient amphorae indicate wine from Tuscany was exported to southern Italy and France as early as the 7th century BC ?
Did you knowthat in the 1806 George Sweeney Trial , the murderer of a founding father of the United States , George Wythe , went free because testimony from black witnesses against a white man was not allowed?
Did you knowthat Chalan Beel , a wetland in Bangladesh , is getting vastly reduced in size with fast silting up caused by the inflow of 47 rivers and waterways?
Did you knowthat Iordan Chimet , who opposed the Communist regime in Romania and authored fairy tales with subversive messages, was also one of the first professional copywriters in his country?
Did you knowthat Dick Rifenburg was a Michigan high school state champion in basketball and track & field , but was drafted to play professional American football ?
Did you knowthat Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour is a computer-generated film that presents in 3-D a theoretical reconstruction of the ancient Khirbet Qumran site?
Did you knowthat the first Trk receptor , which regulates synaptic strength and plasticity in neurons , was originally identified as part of a fusion gene with the cytoskeletal protein tropomyosin , forming an oncogene in colon and thyroid cancers ?
Did you knowthat in the wake of the Yen Bai mutiny of Vietnamese soldiers in the French colonial army , large numbers of Vietnamese troops who had served in France were sacked because it was felt that overseas travel made them more inclined to rebel?
Did you knowthat the specifications for the U.S. Navy's World War II icebreakers were so imposing that Western Pipe & Steel was the only shipbuilder to submit a bid ?
Did you knowthat Dashiin Byambasüren was the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Mongolia ?
Did you knowthat a statue originally created in 1815 for The Alameda Gibraltar Botanic Gardens was carved from the bowsprit of the Spanish ship San Juan Nepomuceno , taken at the Battle of Trafalgar ?
Did you knowthat the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway was the first operating interurban railroad in the state of Michigan ?
Did you knowthat Julius Franks was the first African-American Michigan Wolverines football player to earn All-American honors?
Did you knowthat seven followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh were convicted for being part of a 1985 assassination plot to murder the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon ?
Did you knowthat the original plan for John Keane ' s painting of Mo Mowlam to include Gerry Adams , John Hume and David Trimble (key figures in the Good Friday Agreement ), failed after four years of negotiation?
Did you knowthat the Lincoln Snacks Company , a manufacturer of caramelized popcorn , was founded, in part, by a subsidiary of Sandoz Laboratories, the company that invented LSD ?
Did you knowthat the Indian novelist M. K. Indira started writing novels only after the age of forty-five?
Did you knowthat American football guard Dean Dingman was only the third true freshman to start on the Michigan Wolverines football offensive line ?
Did you knowthat the Catalan lords Arnau Mir de Tost and his son-in-law Raymond IV of Pallars Jussà shared a scribe, Vidal, who helped introduce the use of written "conventions" for the feudal restructuring of western Catalonia?
Did you knowthat in the 1850s the American architect Gamaliel King and his partner John Kellum erected in New York some of the first fully cast iron-fronted buildings in the world?
Did you knowthat David Lloyd George , British Prime Minister during World War I , later said "It would be hard to point to anyone who did more to win the war than Kenneth Bingham Quinan "?
Did you knowthat the first lieutenant Adolf Opálka , together with six fellow combatants, resisted 800 enemy soldiers for more than seven hours in the Church of St. Cyril and St. Methodious in Prague on 28 June 1942 ?
Did you knowthat Turkish serial killer Özgür Dengiz broke into fits of laughter when discussing his cannibalism ?
Did you knowthat Jarrett Irons was the second freshman to lead the Michigan Wolverines football team in tackles?
Did you knowthat football player Eddy de Neve scored all four goals for the Netherlands against Belgium on April 30 , 1905 , the first match of the Dutch national team ever?
Did you knowthat the Silver Centenary biplane , built in Beverley, Western Australia in 1930 , received its airworthiness certificate 77 years after its first flight?
Did you knowthat Genesis 's rock epic " Get 'Em Out by Friday " is a criticism of the United Kingdom 's council housing system?
Did you knowthat a daughter of Philip Johnston , the first colonel of the New Jersey militia to die in battle during the Revolutionary War married the son of Nathaniel Scudder , the last colonel of the New Jersey militia to so die?
Did you knowthat Irish indie rock band Ham Sandwich were encouraged by U2 frontman Bono to change their name in 2006?
Did you knowthat football (soccer) player Law Adam of Grasshopper-Club Zürich played for Switzerland against Austria in 1929 , but played for his native Netherlands against Switzerland a year later?
Did you knowthat according to legend, Christian martyr Saint Getulius and his associates were clubbed to death after they had been thrown into flames but emerged unharmed?
Did you knowthat Wayne Townsend cast the tie-breaking vote in 1977 in the Indiana State Senate for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment making Indiana the last state to approve the failed measure?
Did you knowthat George Lilja once played a Michigan Wolverines football game wearing another player's jersey , confusing many of his fans?
Did you knowthat the first sobering-up station in the world was invented by Jaroslav Skála in 1951 in Czechoslovakia ?
Did you knowthat the Dugway sheep incident and Operation CHASE increased public sentiment against the United States Army Chemical Corps during the late 1960s and early 1970s?
Did you knowthat Kazakh dissident Rashid Nugmanov ' s directorial debut, Igla , was one of the first films to break the taboo against talking about drug addiction in the former Soviet Union and initiated the " Kazakh New Wave" cinema movement?
Did you knowthat when American football center Rod Payne broke his right wrist during a Michigan Wolverines football game, he started snapping the ball with his left hand?
Did you knowthat Ricord's Iguana ( Cyclura ricordi ) of Hispaniola is the only known species of rock iguana to coexist with the Rhinoceros Iguana ( Cyclura cornuta )?
Did you knowthat Simonsbath on Exmoor is the largest parish in Somerset covering 56 square miles (145.0 km 2 ) but only has 75 houses?
Did you knowthat after the American defeat at the Battle of Canyon Creek the soldiers of Samuel D. Sturgis were forced to slaughter and eat their tired horses ?
Did you knowthat Rev. Robert Shields maintained a diary chronicling every five minutes of his life for 25 years from 1972 until 1997, and only slept two hours at a time so he could record his dreams?
Did you knowthat HMS Drake was so ill-prepared for action against John Paul Jones 's Ranger that musket balls had to be passed round in a hat during the North Channel naval duel , 24 April 1778 ?
Did you knowthat Chuvash dragons of Turkic myth are said to assume human form and to visit men and women at night in order to have sexual intercourse with them?
Did you knowthat Hall of Fame jockey Tod Sloan was the "Yankee Doodle" in the George M. Cohan Broadway musical " Little Johnny Jones " and the basis for Ernest Hemingway's short story " My Old Man "?
Did you knowthat the Hoba meteorite is the largest known meteorite ever found on earth ?
Did you knowthat Leif J. Sverdrup was a immigrant from Norway to the United States who became a civil engineer and led the project to build the 17 mile-long Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel , named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World after completion in 1964?