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Did you knowthat Ildephonsus of Toledo regarded the Nicene Creed as comprising "sufficient knowledge for salvation" and considered it to be a pact ( foedus ) between a believer and God?
Did you knowthat the California aerial firefighting force is operated by the CDF Aviation Management Program ?
Did you knowthat Santanachelys gaffneyi is the earliest known sea turtle ?
Did you knowthat the Australian war memorial at Mont St. Quentin was not replaced for over 30 years after its destruction by the German Army in 1940?
Did you knowthat the calligraphic script of the Ford Motor Company logo is credited to Childe Harold Wills ?
Did you knowthat the Journal of Molecular Evolution , founded in 1971, was the first scientific journal dedicated to this field ?
Did you knowthat Jordan de Exeter , sheriff of Connacht , died fending off a Hebridean pirate raid in 1258?
Did you knowthat Otto Schimek was himself later executed for refusing to join a firing squad executing a Polish family in 1944?
Did you knowthat unlike most plesiosaurs , Leptocleidus once lived in shallow lagoon environments and likely visited brackish and fresh water systems such as the mouths of rivers ?
Did you knowthat Isaac Homer Van Winkle served for 23 years as Oregon Attorney General , the longest of any attorney general in the state’s history?
Did you knowthat the French Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities took almost 50 years to complete from A to Z?
Did you knowthat while the Ukrainian Chortkiv offensive was eventually pushed back by the Polish army , the initial success of this desperate attack by the Ukrainian Galician Army is considered its finest hour in the Polish-Ukrainian War ?
Did you knowthat zaojing , an elaborately ornamented wooden ceiling, shaped like a well and often painted with water plants, was believed by the ancient Chinese to prevent wooden buildings from burning?
Did you knowthat there was a lighthouse on the roof of The Fullerton Hotel Singapore , which could be seen by ships 29 kilometres away?
Did you knowthat, at the age of 21, Henry III 's favorite Anne de Joyeuse enjoyed precedence over all other dukes and peers of France , with the exception of the Capetians ?
Did you knowthat shortly after Appalachian State's 2007 college football upset of Michigan at Michigan , ecstatic Appalachian State students tore down a goalpost at their own stadium 600 miles (1000 km) away?
Did you knowthat westbound trains can arrive unexpectedly on the eastbound track at Bedminster railway station to ease congestion at nearby Bristol Temple Meads ?
Did you knowthat a portion of the money used to purchase land for the publicly owned Noble Woods Park in Hillsboro , Oregon , came from private pledges?
Did you knowthat water vapor is probably present in the tenuous atmosphere of Mercury , being brought to the planet by comets ?
Did you knowthat the German Communist Martin Hoop , who was arrested and murdered by the Nazi regime in 1933, was an undercover agent for the Communists?
Did you knowthat the luxurious Kazanowski Palace in Warsaw , built in the 1620s, was destroyed in the 1650s and never rebuilt?
Did you knowthat Singapore 's DHL Balloon is the world's largest tethered helium balloon ?
Did you knowthat stained glass in Marston Bigot church in Somerset , England is from the abbey of Altenberg in Germany and depicts a scene from the early life of St Bernard ?
Did you knowthat the Shelly was an Israeli cargo vessel that sank after being accidentally rammed by a cruise liner , killing two crewmembers?
Did you knowthat the real objective of the 1732 Treaty of Three Black Eagles , where Prussia , Austria and Russia agreed to support the Portuguese Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém in elections to the Polish throne , was to create a rift between France and Prussia?
Did you knowthat Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi‎ became the first Muslim commander ever to cross the Pyrenees mountain range in 717 ?
Did you knowthat James Dahlman , Omaha, Nebraska 's "perpetual mayor," was regarded as the "wettest mayor in America" after the number of saloons doubled during his term?
Did you knowthat Queen Victoria sanctioned the British South Africa Company to issue the British South Africa Company Medal in honour of the troops who served in the Matabele Wars ?
Did you knowthat Portuguese soldier and explorer Francisco Barreto led an expedition to Monomotapa in search of legendary gold mines, but died along the way from tropical diseases, as did many of his men?
Did you knowthat Emmy -nominated actor Leon Russom has portrayed two different characters in two different branches of the Star Trek franchise?
Did you knowthat  several mountains , a chain of craters , a learned society and a botanical genus are named after Louis Ramond de Carbonnières ?
Did you knowthat the Polish historian and survivor of the Nazi German Operation Sonderaktion Krakau Stanisław Kutrzeba joined an underground university in defiance of Nazi edicts?
Did you knowthat in 2005 , during D1 Grand Prix 's end of season US vs Japan event at Irwindale Speedway , U.S. drifting driver, Vaughn Gittin, Jr. became the first to break the all- Japanese stranglehold?
Did you knowthat centenarian Nittoor Srinivasa Rau , was the first chief of the Central Vigilance Commission of India and also the first to translate Mahatama Gandhi's autobiography to Kannada ?
Did you knowthat although the Youguo Temple collapsed in 1847 when the Yellow River flooded, its Iron Pagoda has survived six floods and remained intact for almost 1,000 years?
Did you knowthat Fred Astaire , Marlon Brando and Nick Nolte were all born to German-American families in Omaha , Nebraska ?
Did you knowthat the medieval village of Babington in Somerset , England was destroyed around 1705 to make way for a new Manor House ?
Did you knowthat the largest sea turtles ever to have swum the oceans belonged to the family Protostegidae ?
Did you knowthat former basketball player Jim Krebs wrote a humorous article for Sports Illustrated about surviving a plane crash during his third season in the NBA ?
Did you knowthat model Albert Reed , selected to appear in September 2007 on the United States television show Dancing with the Stars , admits that he cannot dance?
Did you knowthat Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801–1822) was the first university student ever to self-identify as Estonian , thus contributing to the Estonian National Awakening ?
Did you knowthat as part of Smirnoff vodka 's Sea advertising campaign , parent company Diageo toured England with an installation capable of making saline or polluted water potable?
Did you knowthat Scots' Dike was constructed by the English and the Scots in 1552 to mark the division of the Debatable Lands and thereby settle the exact boundary between the kingdoms of Scotland and England ?
Did you knowthat Rachel Plummer wrote the first book about being a slave to the Comanche Native Americans ?
Did you knowthat Father Hyacinth (Jacek) Gulski had such a gift for singing that he was nicknamed the "Polish Nightingale "?
Did you knowthat the short-lived Industrial Syndicalist Education League was both the first and the largest syndicalist organisation ever in the United Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat American folklorist Helen Hartness Flanders recorded, transcribed and catalogued traditional ballads from New England at a time when people were ceasing to sing them?
Did you knowthat the use of turtle excluder devices has decreased the number of sea turtles accidentally killed by shrimp fishermen by 97%?
Did you knowthat photographer Hans Namuth took over 500 black and white images of abstract expressionist artist Jackson Pollock at work in his studio in 1950?
Did you knowthat Henry III of France took to calling Catherine of Cleves "the mistress of Saint-Mégrin", in reference to a young nobleman killed by her illustrious husband ?
Did you knowthat the Hypothenemus hampei , a small coleopter insect native to Africa , is recognized for being the most harmful pest to coffee crops worldwide?
Did you knowthat the Lobel's Maple is one of very few trees that grow with a narrow, erect crown, known as a fastigiate form, naturally?
Did you knowthat aeronautics engineer Paul Moller plans to sell the M200G Volantor , a flying saucer -style aircraft, in the United States by early 2008?
Did you knowthat the Hughes Brothers became the first sibling duo allowed by the DGA since Jerry and David Zucker to take co-credit as directors for their 1993 film Menace II Society ?
Did you knowthat Graham Linehan , co-creator of Father Ted , made his directorial debut with the comedy horror short film Hello Friend ?
Did you knowthat when a rival took over an estate belonging to Sir Walter Clarges , Clarges used his position as a Member of Parliament to send the interloper to jail?
Did you knowthat the United States Youth Council received more than 90 percent of its funds from the Central Intelligence Agency ?
Did you knowthat the first HMS Ark Royal was sunk in 1636 when she struck her own anchor and stove in her hull whilst underway?
Did you knowthat Benjamin Aaron helped negotiate the first contract between a county and its public employee union in California history in 1968?
Did you knowthat Coptic architectural monuments in Christian Cairo include the Hanging Church , one of the oldest in Egypt ?
Did you knowthat Olga D. González-Sanabria , a Puerto Rican scientist and inventor , is the highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center ?
Did you knowthat three Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross for their role in the Battle of Mont St. Quentin , a battle that the commander of the British Fourth Army , General Henry Rawlinson , considered Australia's greatest military achievement of the war ?
Did you knowthat although enterprising citizens were said to have dragged a flatboat up Spring Creek to establish Bellefonte, Pennsylvania as the head of navigation and the county seat in 1800, the Bald Eagle and Spring Creek Navigation canal did not reach the town until 1848?
Did you knowthat the sixteen eight-million-year-old cypresses found in Northern Hungary in 2007 had been preserved without being fossilized ?
Did you knowthat fox tossing was a popular blood sport in parts of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries?
Did you knowthat Patrick Nash helped change the city charter, which called for a special election in the case of death of the Chicago Mayor , so that the Chicago City Council could appoint Edward Joseph Kelly ?
Did you knowthat Sir T. L. Yang was the first ethnic Chinese to become Chief Justice of Hong Kong under British colonial rule?
Did you knowthat the gulf sturgeon , a subspecies of the Atlantic sturgeon , fasts for eight to nine months each year?
Did you knowthat the United States threatened privately to cut off aid to Ngo Dinh Diem 's Catholic regime as a result of chemical attacks on Buddhist protestors in Huế , Vietnam in 1963?
Did you knowthat Alexander Novikov , double Hero of the Soviet Union and pioneering commander of the Soviet Air Force , was used to frame Marshal Zhukov , then thrown in prison by Joseph Stalin ?
Did you knowthat the bootleg album The Lost Paris Tapes contains the last known recording by Jim Morrison ?
Did you knowthat the Bank of the Holy Spirit , founded by Pope Paul V in 1605, was the first national bank in Europe?
Did you knowthat during World War II , Shepton Mallet , the oldest operating prison in Britain , was used as the protective storage of important government documents including the Magna Carta and Domesday Book ?
Did you knowthat Presbyterian minister Robert Jefferson Breckinridge is known as the father of the public school system in Kentucky ?
Did you knowthat the Suevic king Rechiar was the first Germanic monarch to convert to Nicene Christianity , the first to mint his own coins, and the only to ever ally with the peasant rebels called the bagaudae ?
Did you knowthat the Native American Old Connecticut Path from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Connecticut River across from Hartford , was the very first of the American trails that led west from the Atlantic seacoast settlement, towards the interior?
Did you knowthat the citizens of Perugia compelled the surrender of the citadel of Gérard du Puy , the cardinal-nephew of Pope Gregory XI , during the War of the Eight Saints with a trebuchet nicknamed the cacciaprete ("priest chaser")?
Did you knowthat in 1995-1997 a Centers for Disease Control program identified over a hundred patients likely suffering from life threatening infections new in the history of emerging infectious diseases ?
Did you knowthat in late 1992, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior banned the neo-Nazi groups German Alternative (DA), Nationalist Front (NF), German Comradeship Alliance (DKB), and the National Offensive (NO) all within a month?
Did you knowthat in 2005 John Carroll , the editor of the Los Angeles Times , chose to resign rather than continue reducing the number of journalists at the paper?
Did you knowthat the Wendish Crusade of 1147 was a largely unsuccessful campaign of Saxons and Danes against the Polabian Slavs concurrent to the Second Crusade ?
Did you knowthat Pope Martin V objected to the wording of the inscription on the tomb of Antipope John XXIII in the Florence Baptistry because he thought it implied John had died as pope?
Did you knowthat electrocardiogram technicians responsible for recording ECGs in hospitals reduce medical errors in the emergency reporting of ECGs?
Did you knowthat despite being open for only two years, the Naomi Institute earned a reputation as one of the leading educational institutions in pioneer Nebraska ?
Did you knowthat many of the carnatic musicians of the Mysore Kingdom were also trained in Western classical music ?
Did you knowthat the small population of Estonian Ruhnu sheep is thought to descend from animals left on Ruhnu Island by Swedes ?
Did you knowthat over 70,000 Dark-eyed Juncos have been counted in a single day at the Bird Observatory in Prince Edward County , Ontario , Canada ?
Did you knowthat in 1847, the German engineer Gustav Schleicher , who later became a veteran of the Confederate Army , founded a commune in Texas to prove the truth of communist ideals?
Did you knowthat the Peshtigo Fire Museum features an intact tabernacle , one of the few items to survive the deadliest natural fire in United States history ?
Did you knowthat the first company union in the United States was created by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. , in response to the bad publicity generated by the Ludlow massacre ?
Did you knowthat the Hal Far Fighter Flight , a British fighter unit formed during the siege of Malta , is the source of the myth that only three aircraft formed the entire fighter cover for Malta in June 1940?
Did you knowthat the pieces of dougong , an ancient Chinese structural element of interlocking wooden brackets , are cut to fit so perfectly that no glue or fasteners are needed?
Did you knowthat Miriam Rodon-Naveira , a Puerto Rican scientist , was the first Hispanic woman to hold the Deputy Directorship for the Environmental Sciences Division in the National Exposure Research Laboratory ?
Did you knowthat the participants of the Channel 4 programme Dumped were not told that they would be living on a landfill site for three weeks?
Did you knowthat romance novelist Nancy Warren wrote real-life NASCAR driver Carl Edwards into two of her novels?
Did you knowthat citrus fruits white sapote , hercules' club and rue are all members of the family Rutaceae ?
Did you knowthat in 2007, the first Australian outbreak of equine influenza caused a nationwide ban on horse racing ?
Did you knowthat MinnPost plans a non-profit Minneapolis-Saint Paul online newspaper that readers who wish for hard copies can print on demand ?
Did you knowthat the Toronto Magnetic Observatory had to be moved as the University of Toronto 's electric lighting was interfering with observations?
Did you knowthat WikiPilipinas is the first online encyclopedia based in the Philippines ?
Did you knowthat Omaha, Nebraska is the original home of the Reuben sandwich , Omaha Steaks and ConAgra Foods ?
Did you knowthat the apparent disparagement of Singapore as a " little red dot " by former Indonesian President B.J. Habibie has come to be used by Singaporeans with pride?
Did you knowthat four of the thirty-eight IRA members that escaped from Maze Prison in 1983 were caught hiding in a river near the prison using reeds to breathe?
Did you knowthat Gord Bamford , a country music singer , was one of only two Canadian artists invited to perform at the Global Artist Party at the 2007 CMA Music Festival ?
Did you knowthat though the Indian rivers , Tunga and Bhadra originate at Gangamoola , they flow separately for more than 145 km (90 mi)?
Did you knowthat controversy arose over the ABC television network's licensing and production of a doll based on fictional rapist Todd Manning ?
Did you knowthat the Treatise of Garcia of Toledo was written as a satire against Pope Urban II and Bernard, Archbishop of Toledo in the eleventh century?
Did you knowthat Christine Langan distracted a man from jumping off of a multi-storey car park by speaking to him in a Manchester accent until the police arrived?
Did you knowthat at the time of Roman rule in Palestine , the village of Um ar-Rehan , now located in the Barta'a enclave of the Seam Zone , held a hundred houses, a road system and a Roman bathhouse?
Did you knowthat Turkish record label Kalan Müzik was suspended for a song with the word " Kurdistan " in it?
Did you knowthat zoologist Georgina Sweet was the first woman to receive a DSc from the University of Melbourne and the first female recipient of the David Syme Research Prize ?
Did you knowthat in Estonia , a digital signature is considered legally equivalent to a manual signature through the successful Estonian ID card project?
Did you knowthat John Hunt Morgan 's beloved mare , Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial , as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini , believed " No hero should bestride a mare! "?
Did you knowthat Daphne Pearson was the first woman awarded the George Cross for acts of bravery during World War II ?
Did you knowthat the computer-player of the 1979 video game Video Chess could take up to ten hours to decide a move?
Did you knowthat David Fung performed Rachmaninoff 's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Sydney Symphony in the Sydney Opera House at only 19 years of age?
Did you knowthat New Zealand 's North Island Robin was originally thought to be a subspecies of the New Zealand Robin , but mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis has shown that the two lineages split prior to the Pleistocene ?
Did you knowthat the territorial governor of Montana Preston Leslie pardoned a prostitute convicted of grand larceny because the penitentiary was not equipped to accommodate women?
Did you knowthat Hasan Saltık , called "The Anthropologist of Folk Music " by Time magazine, was saved from a three-year jail term because the prosecutor was a fan?
Did you knowthat National Medal of Science recipient Evelyn M. Witkin ' s interest in mutagenesis led her to discover mechanisms of bacterial DNA repair ?
Did you knowthat Victor-Alphonse Huard styled himself the "disciple" of Léon Abel Provancher ?
Did you knowthat the Iroise Sea on the Atlantic Ocean is France 's first marine park ?
Did you knowthat Richard Rougier , son of novelist Georgette Heyer , became a British High Court judge ?
Did you knowthat HMAS Stalwart was the largest Australian designed and constructed naval vessel?
Did you knowthat the case of Rice v. Collins concerned a juror who may have  " rolled her eyes " under questioning?
Did you knowthat Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Paget was also an MP for Carnarvon despite his active navy career?
Did you knowthat, in 1987, Bolaji Akinyemi proposed the development of nuclear weapons by Nigeria ?
Did you knowthat John L. Fugh was the first Chinese American to be Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army ?
Did you knowthat Gavin Kaysen was undone at the Bocuse d'Or cooking competition because a dishwasher ate part of his entry?
Did you knowthat Joe Robertson , Dean of Oregon Health and Science University , lives on a houseboat ?
Did you knowthat The Legendary Buster Smith was the only solo album by Charlie Parker 's mentor Buster Smith ?
Did you knowthat it was Frances Seymour, the Duchess of Somerset who interceded with Queen Caroline to obtain a pardon for the poet and murderer Richard Savage ?
Did you knowthat royal fish , such as whales and sturgeons , are property of the Queen when found on the shores of the United Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat the " negro of Banyoles " was a human piece of taxidermy which prompted debate by the United Nations ?
Did you knowthat most trains stop before reaching the platform at Coombe railway station in Cornwall , UK , and then reverse away?
Did you knowthat the Minority Treaties of 1919-1921, designed to protect ethnic minorities , were not implemented on the victorious allies of World War I ?
Did you knowthat the construction of Tellico Dam on Little Tennessee River in 1979 put several 18th century Overhill Cherokee towns underwater?
Did you knowthat Ian Smith ' s 24 international tries , scored for Scotland in rugby union between 1924 and 1933, was an international record until 1987?
Did you knowthat the Ukrainian pogroms in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917 were falsely attributed by the communists to Symon Petlura , despite his efforts to save Jews ?
Did you knowthat criteria of truth are standards and rules used to judge the accuracy of statements and claims?
Did you knowthat the Hearst Medical Papyrus , considered to be an authentic ancient Egyptian document for more than a century, may be an almost perfect fake?
Did you knowthat two male lovers of German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder committed suicide?
Did you knowthat Jehovah's Witnesses have had an impact on civil liberties in the United States, winning 47 cases involving religious beliefs brought by them before the U.S. Supreme Court ?
Did you knowthat Ellen Hammer is regarded as one of the first Americans to study the history of Vietnam ?
Did you knowthat Nanda , the half-sister of Gautama Buddha , went on to be the foremost nun in the practice of jhana ?
Did you knowthat Belinda Dann , a member of Australia's Stolen Generation , died just months after being reunited with her family, who had been searching for her for over a century?
Did you knowthat 27 years passed between the discovery of Ravenel's stinkhorn and the publication of its scientific description?
Did you knowthat Le Naturaliste Canadien is the oldest French-language academic journal in North America?
Did you knowthat one of the television advertisements from the Good things come to those who wait Guinness advertising campaign was voted the "Best ad of all time" by the British public?
Did you knowthat the award for European Parliament 's newly established cinema prize, Lux , consists of subtitling the winning film in the 23 official EU languages and an original language adaptation for the deaf and hard of hearing?
Did you knowthat due to backlash from the trial of John Hinckley, Jr. , under US law an expert witness can no longer testify on legal issues such as the insanity defense ?
Did you knowthat Captain Clack Stone led the intense defense of Apple River Fort against 150-200 Sauk and Fox warriors, which resulted in only one death at the fort?
Did you knowthat the Whitman-Walker Clinic adopted oral testing for HIV in 1993, before most major AIDS clinics in the US?
Did you knowthat PlumpJack Winery was the first winery in the Napa Valley to use screwcaps as a wine closures on Cabernet Sauvignon wines sold for over USD $100 per bottle ?
Did you knowthat after being suspended for life from the Ontario Hockey League , Marc Laforge still played professionally for two National Hockey League teams?
Did you knowthat when Richard Fort won a seat in the 1950 general election , he became the third person with the same name to represent Clitheroe in the British House of Commons ?
Did you knowthat in Tennard v. Dretke , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it a cruel and unusual punishment to ignore the defendant 's mental retardation in sentencing the death penalty ?