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Did you knowthat on the festival celebrated in the month of Toxcatl the Aztecs sacrificed , flayed and ritually cannibalized a young man who had been impersonating the god Tezcatlipoca for an entire year?
Did you knowthat, according to Tirechán 's life of Saint Patrick , King Lóegaire mac Néill refused to be baptised by Patrick, as his father Niall of the Nine Hostages had said that he must be buried in the walls of his fort on the hill of Tara ?
Did you knowthat Senegalese hip hop group Positive Black Soul 's name abbreviation, PBS, is a play on that of the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais , PDS?
Did you knowthat the earliest known athletics competition in Australia took place in Sydney in 1810 ?
Did you knowthat Maharam's Synagogue in Lublin , Poland was burnt down during the Cossack – Muscovite invasion in 1655?
Did you knowthat the Gaiety Girls in shows produced by George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre were so popular that the restaurant where they dined became the centre of nightlife in London during the Victorian era ?
Did you knowthat the 2007 documentary film Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience was based on a collection of writings by U.S. soldiers who have served in Afghanistan and Iraq ?
Did you knowthat Oakmere Hall in Cheshire was built for John and Thomas Johnson of Runcorn but they became bankrupt before it was completed and the house was sold to a Liverpool merchant?
Did you knowthat jazz saxophonist John Coltrane 's song " Ogunde " is based on the Afro-Brazilian folk song "Ogunde Varere", which translates to "Prayer of the Gods"?
Did you knowthat Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd , who founded Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky , appeared on the TV show This is Your Life in 1955 to raise money for the college?
Did you knowthat the ethics guidelines for Israeli broadcasting have been revised four times since their introduction in 1972, and are now four times their original length?
Did you knowthat Garry Lake and the Christian cross are both translated as Hanningajuq in the local Inuktitut language?
Did you knowthat excavations at Chandravalli in the Indian state of Karnataka have unearthed coins of Roman emperor Augustus and Chinese Han emperor Wu Ti ?
Did you knowthat more than half of the United Kingdom 's specialist victim recovery dogs were used during the search for nine-year-old Shannon Matthews ?
Did you knowthat neoclassical Italian sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi portrayed George Washington with a Roman haircut and a toga ?
Did you knowthat Slindon Cricket Team was the winning team recorded on the earliest surviving cricket scoresheet?
Did you knowthat Gran Paradiso National Park is Italy 's oldest national park ?
Did you knowthat quarterback Jack Crabtree of the Oregon Ducks football team was named Most Valuable Player of the 1958 Rose Bowl even though his team lost the game?
Did you knowthat French mycologist René Maire wrote a work on the local flora of the Haute-Saône in the Franche-Comté region of northeastern France when he was only 18 years old?
Did you knowthat several US Navy WWII troop transports , such as USS Hermitage , USS Monticello and USS Lejeune , were former ocean liners that were seized from the enemy?
Did you knowthat the same spectacular mountain, Kriváň , links a Polish rock band , a King of Saxony , and the Slovak national movement from the 19th century?
Did you knowthat the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera , Israel , is named after Hillel Yaffe , a doctor who served nearby Jewish settlements in the early 20th century?
Did you knowthat Maria , the Finnish form of Mary , is the most popular Finnish name used during the modern era?
Did you knowthat Robert D. Knapp 's squadron failed to see any action in World War I because the propellers for their Handley Page O/400 bombers arrived late?
Did you knowthat Lake Piso , a brackish water lake in western Liberia , is the largest in the country?
Did you knowthat the final decades of Visigothic rule in Spain have been labelled " protofeudal " by Spanish historians , but this label has been largely rejected in English historiography ?
Did you knowthat Wesley L. McDonald was the last admiral to hold the Allied Atlantic Command and the U.S. Atlantic Command , and lead the U.S. Atlantic Fleet at the same time?
Did you knowthat after retiring, former Premier League footballer Adrian Whitbread worked in four different clubs as assistant coach for Martin Allen ?
Did you knowthat Jonathan Swift 's " A Description of a City Shower " is considered by many, including Swift himself, to be his best poem ?
Did you knowthat Nurul Izzah Anwar , daughter of Malaysia 's de facto opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim , defeated a three-term minister incumbent in her first contest for a parliament seat in Lembah Pantai ?
Did you knowthat oil tanker MV Transpacific is currently under contract to transport fuel for the U.S. Defense Department for US$ 18,848 a day?
Did you knowthat Te Kopuru once had the largest sawmill in New Zealand ?
Did you knowthat writer - director Zoe Cassavetes appeared in her late father 's film Minnie and Moskowitz at the age of one?
Did you knowthat Salem First United Methodist Church is the tallest building in Salem, Oregon and is also the oldest Methodist church west of the Rocky Mountains ?
Did you knowthat A Walk to Beautiful , a film about five Ethiopian women with childbirth injuries , was picked by the International Documentary Association as the best feature documentary of 2007 ?
Did you knowthat " Spieprzaj dziadu! " ( Polish for "Piss off, old man!"), said by current Polish President Lech Kaczynski , has become one of the most famous phrases in modern Poland ?
Did you knowthat English writer Anne Brontë is buried in Scarborough , and not in Haworth with all her family?
Did you knowthat Cumberland was a short-lived rugby league team in the inaugural NSW premiership season in 1908?
Did you knowthat the Mitchell Recreation Area near Bly , Oregon , is the only location in the continental U.S. where Americans were killed during World War II as a direct result of enemy action?
Did you knowthat Honoré de Balzac 's novel Louis Lambert contains many autobiographical elements relating to his time at an Oratorian school in Vendôme ?
Did you knowthat only one of the twenty-six tunnels on the Blue Ridge Parkway is in Virginia ?
Did you knowthat Knut Rød , a Norwegian police inspector who arranged the deportation of over 500 Jews to Auschwitz in 1942, was acquitted after the war although no one denied he did it?
Did you knowthat St John the Evangelist's Church in the village of Sandiway , Cheshire , was designed by John Douglas who had been born in the village and who was lord of the manor of Sandiway?
Did you knowthat the town of Gratiot, Wisconsin is named after French–American U.S. Indian Agent Henry Gratiot ?
Did you knowthat most of the land that makes up the Santiam State Forest today was acquired by Oregon authorities because of delinquent taxes or purchases at minimal costs prior to foreclosure during the Great Depression ?
Did you knowthat Dennis Letts , who began acting at the age of fifty, made his Broadway theater debut in December 2007 in August: Osage County , which was written by his son, Tracy Letts ?
Did you knowthat the 2007 Texas Longhorns football suspensions involved seven players, including one of the highest-ranking recruits for the Texas Longhorns college football team?
Did you knowthat Nazi Germany's animal protection laws were the first in the world to place the wolf under protection?
Did you knowthat after having over 912 million barrels of oil pumped out since the late 19th century, the Coalinga Oil Field , the eighth-largest oil field in California , is close to exhaustion?
Did you knowthat Norwegian Parliament member Kjell Bondevik was the uncle of Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik ?
Did you knowthat mole rats home through their large burrows using the Earth's magnetic field ?
Did you knowthat Messina , Italy , known as Messene during the Sicilian Wars , was sacked by the Carthaginians in 397 BC in retaliation for the attack on Motya by Dionysius I of Syracuse ?
Did you knowthat Grey's Anatomy writer Gabrielle Stanton appeared as the character "Gabrielle" in the 1998 film Free Enterprise ?
Did you knowthat the palm Actinorhytis calapparia is widely cultivated in Southeast Asia and Malesia , where local villagers attribute it magical or medicinal powers?
Did you knowthat Paul Simon 's ballad " Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War " portrays Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte as a secret admirer of doo-wop music ?
Did you knowthat Naulakha pavilion , situated in Lahore Fort , was the inspiration behind Rudyard Kipling 's novel The Naulakha and his house Naulakha ?
Did you knowthat the 2003 Insight Bowl , won by California 52–49 on a last-second field goal, was the second-highest-scoring regulation-length college football bowl game in history?
Did you knowthat Polish novelist Bolesław Prus 's tomb at Warsaw 's Powązki Cemetery was designed by his nephew, the sculptor Stanisław Jackowski ?
Did you knowthat the RMS Sylvania was built for the transatlantic trade but spent only the first 10 years of her 46-year career in that role?
Did you knowthat the Sydenham Hill Wood and the adjacent Dulwich Wood in South London form the largest remaining tract of The King's Wood ?
Did you knowthat Ismat ad-Din Khatun was the wife of two important medieval Muslim princes, Nur ad-Din and Saladin ?
Did you knowthat the Edinburgh Phrenological Society started its own journal to promote phrenology in 1824, after the Royal Medical Society refused to publish the results of a debate about the subject?
Did you knowthat Ólchobar mac Cináeda , king of Munster and abbot of Emly , may be the "king of the Irish" who sent an embassy to Charles the Bald announcing Irish victories over the Vikings in 848?
Did you knowthat garden plant Grevillea 'Peaches and Cream' , a hybrid of G. banksii from humid subtropical Queensland and G. bipinnatifida from the Mediterranean climate of Western Australia , tolerates the climates of both its parents?
Did you knowthat the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Shop was owned by the same family for over 140 years, and served two American presidents and Robert E. Lee ?
Did you knowthat Gaffney Ridge, an undersea ridge in the South China Sea , was named for Paul G. Gaffney II , President of Monmouth University and a former United States Navy Vice Admiral ?
Did you knowthat the original arcade cabinet of the shooter game The Typing of the Dead used two QWERTY keyboards?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Shaizar in 1111, between King Baldwin I of Jerusalem 's Crusader army and a Seljuk army led by Mawdud bin Altuntash of Mosul , ended in a tactical draw?
Did you knowthat the edible mushroom Boletus barrowsii is popular with maggots , who often beat mushroomers to their goal?
Did you knowthat according to Ukrainian folklore , the girl who finds Chervona Ruta , " Red Rue " in Ukrainian , on Ivan Kupala Day , will be happy in love?
Did you knowthat British Columbians will get a second chance to vote on replacing the winner-takes-all election system with a single-transferable-vote system?
Did you knowthat the Telugu film Amma Cheppindi was inspired by the science fiction story Flowers for Algernon ?
Did you knowthat American football head coach Skip Holtz is the son of the famed college football coach Lou Holtz ?
Did you knowthat novelist Joseph Conrad was strongly influenced by his uncle and mentor Tadeusz Bobrowski , who is himself remembered in Poland as a notable memoirist ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court case Radovich v. National Football League , which held professional football subject to antitrust law, began with a brief drafted on the back of a napkin ?
Did you knowthat Funny Car drag racing pioneer Jack Chrisman set a class record at 188 mph , only to have the engine blow up two weeks later and the car burn to the ground?
Did you knowthat L. Ron Hubbard , the founder of Scientology , wrote the story for the 1938 Columbia movie serial The Secret of Treasure Island ?
Did you knowthat Keewassee , a Potowatomi warrior, attempted to destroy a dam built by settler William Davis and was severely beaten with a hickory rod when caught?
Did you knowthat Marzieh Meshkini 's 2000 film The Day I Became a Woman depicts three stages in the lives of Iranian women, focusing on a nine-year-old girl, a married woman, and an elderly widow?
Did you knowthat Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy won the 2007 Rookie of the Year Award by a near-unanimous vote despite missing almost a third of his first season in the NBA due to injuries?
Did you knowthat rumored use of lard or tallow , offensive for religious reasons, to lubricate paper cartridges was one of the causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ?
Did you knowthat John Knatchbull was the first person to plead moral insanity in Australia ?
Did you knowthat over 120,000 cubic yards of asbestos -containing sediment from an active, slow moving landslide is deposited into Swift Creek , Washington each year?
Did you knowthat critics from the Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly have described " The Other Woman " as the worst episode yet of the fourth season of the television show Lost ?
Did you knowthat Kashmir Singh , an Indian spy , was released last week after 35 years of captivity in Pakistan ?
Did you knowthat the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims uses 70,000 fiber optic lights to represent the number of people killed by the atomic bomb ?
Did you knowthat film composer Mateo Messina has written a benefit symphony concert for the Seattle Children's Hospital each year for the past decade?
Did you knowthat George Stanhope , Dean of Canterbury , helped organise the building of fifty new churches to replace those lost in the Great Fire of London ?
Did you knowthat the wood of Myoporum sandwicense , a shrub -like plant known as "bastard sandalwood ", was used by the early Hawaiians as log frames for thatched houses and torches for night fishing?
Did you knowthat gothic Trinity College Kirk , a 1460 memorial to King James II of Scotland , was demolished in 1848 to make way for Edinburgh's Waverley Station ?
Did you knowthat Epigraphia Carnatica , compiled by Benjamin L. Rice , contains a study of about 9000 inscriptions found in the Old Mysore region of India ?
Did you knowthat the American Loyalist surveyor Augustus Jones fled to Canada, where he raised families by a Mohawk wife and a Mississauga mistress?
Did you knowthat Padfield in Derbyshire belonged to William the Conqueror , but was given away by his heirs, firstly Henry I , then Henry II and then Henry VIII ?
Did you knowthat Russian musician Vassily Vassilievich Andreyev is considered the father of the academic folk instrument movement in Eastern Europe?
Did you knowthat the Australian common Leaf curling spider is unusual in that pairs cohabit in the same leaf, though at opposite ends, even before mating at maturity?
Did you knowthat Arthur A. Denny , one of Seattle 's founders and a lifelong teetotaler , had customers buy their liquor from sea captains so he could stay out of the transactions?
Did you knowthat Soviet scholars coined the term ‘ democratic satire ’ to describe the three-century old Russian tale of Frol Skobeev ?
Did you knowthat the Indiana state constitution specifically states that Indianapolis' Military Park can never be sold?
Did you knowthat Nalknad Palace in the Indian state of Karnataka was the final refuge of Chikka Veerarajendra , the last king of Kodagu ?
Did you knowthat David Beckham and Victoria Adams were given a replica of Cheshire 's Rookery Hall as a cake at their engagement party?
Did you knowthat 16 people died when the top two floors of the Northridge Meadows Apartments on Reseda Boulevard collapsed in the 1994 Northridge Earthquake ?
Did you knowthat despite his complete lack of mountaineering experience, the English adventurer Maurice Wilson reached an elevation of 22,700 feet (7,450 m) on his doomed solo attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1934?
Did you knowthat American late model dirt track racer Scott Bloomquist races at selected high money events instead of in national touring series?
Did you knowthat Canterbury Music Hall , which opened in 1852, was the first purpose-built tavern music hall ?
Did you knowthat Vietnamese -born artist and photographer Binh Danh has created leaf images called chlorophyll prints, using the negatives of photographs ?
Did you knowthat Bishop George Algernon West , the Lord Bishop of Rangoon 1935–1954, became for two months the Bishop of Atlanta , Georgia while the Japanese occupied Burma ?
Did you knowthat the author of The Strange Death of Tory England advises UK Conservatives to learn from the conservatism of the socialist George Orwell ?
Did you knowthat Western Brook Pond , a landlocked fjord in Gros Morne National Park on the island of Newfoundland , was the site of a 30 m (98 ft) tsunami in the early 20th century?
Did you knowthat the water managed by the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company of London was once described by a microbiologist as "the most disgusting I have ever examined"?
Did you knowthat Union Army Paymaster General Benjamin Brice changed the recruitment of deputy paymasters from being political nominees to ones who passed examinations?
Did you knowthat the Yokohama Museum of Art has Pablo Picasso , Paul Cézanne , Salvador Dalí and Henri Matisse represented in its collection?
Did you knowthat Endel Puusepp became a Hero of the Soviet Union after flying a Soviet delegation over the front line from Moscow to Washington and back to negotiate the opening of the Western Front ?
Did you knowthat the Willamette Collegian , the college newspaper of Willamette University in Oregon , was named an all-star publication by the National Pacemaker Awards a record 16 times in a row?
Did you knowthat Eugenio Perez was the Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives when the Philippines became independent from the United States in 1946 ?
Did you knowthat Arthur Sullivan 's Boer War Te Deum was written to celebrate the expected British victory in the Boer War , but because the war dragged on for almost two more years, both Sullivan and Queen Victoria had died before the piece premiered?
Did you knowthat the 1951 film Where No Vultures Fly is a fictionalised account of the work of the conservationist Mervyn Cowie ?
Did you knowthat before Danish director Bille August made his Oscar -winning Pelle the Conqueror , he had great domestic success with the children's television series and movie Busters verden ?
Did you knowthat part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 was rushed through, which enabled the Russian government to allow Matisse 's painting of The Dance into the UK ?
Did you knowthat the book Description of Africa by the Muslim slave Joannes Leo Africanus was an important source of information on the North African Islamic civilization during the European Renaissance ?
Did you knowthat in his easy re-election in the 2004 North Dakota gubernatorial election John Hoeven was endorsed by the state teachers' union , which normally supports Democrats ?
Did you knowthat Broad Clyst railway station attracted residential development in the immediate area and even today the area around the former station is known as "Broadclyst Station"?
Did you knowthat the Kaipara Harbour of Northland , New Zealand , was named at a hāngi on the Pouto Peninsula , at which the para fern ( Marattia salicina ) was served?
Did you knowthat Pope Pius XII Church policies after World War II involved global reconstruction of war-damaged Catholic institutions?
Did you knowthat in 999, Bishop Bernard of Gaeta had to seek help from an aide of the Emperor Otto III to force the diocese's slaves to work?
Did you knowthat Alex , the Stroh's dog that would fetch and pour beer, died of cancer?
Did you knowthat the South Carolina secessionists had to relocate from their original meeting site at Columbia 's First Baptist Church , due to a smallpox outbreak?
Did you knowthat the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations required all 241 UK work-related deaths in 2006/7 to be reported — even if the victims take a year to die?
Did you knowthat current Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister and ambassador to the OAS Jorge Valero , a vocal spokesman for the Chavez government, fell out with his brother Hidalgo, an anti-Chavez activist?
Did you knowthat the Calhoun Beach Club building in Minneapolis, Minnesota has served as a social club, a TV studio , a hotel , apartments , a home for the elderly, and most recently as a sports and social club?
Did you knowthat the Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Act 2007 will allow social security information to be passed to the BBC ?
Did you knowthat the insect hormone bursicon hastens the tanning of the cuticle and hardens it?
Did you knowthat Operation Himmler was a Nazi Germany false flag operation, intended to create an appearance that the German invasion of Poland was a defensive war provoked by a Polish attack on Germany?
Did you knowthat Maturinus was the patron saint of jesters , comic actors, and clowns during the Middle Ages ?
Did you knowthat a papillary fibroelastoma , typically involving one of the valves of the heart , is the third most common type of primary tumors of the heart ?
Did you knowthat the Eve of Destruction , named after a protest song and on display at the U.S. Army Transportation Museum , is the only surviving example of a Vietnam era gun truck ?
Did you knowthat Swami Rama Tirtha was one of the first Hindu swamis to teach Vedanta in the West?
Did you knowthat whilst both Richard Kirkby and George Walton were present at the Action of August 1702 , Walton went on to be an Admiral , whilst Kirkby was executed for cowardice?
Did you knowthat under the 2002 Andean Trade Preference and Drug Eradication Act the United States eliminated tariffs on 6,300 products from Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador , and Peru ?
Did you knowthat the Kannada writer Kirtinath Kurtakoti died of cardiac arrest just hours after his wife's death?
Did you knowthat the Murat Centre is the only Shrine temple with a French name, and is the largest Shrine temple in North America ?
Did you knowthat television writer Josh Senter rarely watched television until he was fourteen because of his parents' fundamental Christian beliefs?
Did you knowthat the Wärtsilä Turku shipyard in Finland built five state-of-the-art cruiseferries for the Black Sea Shipping Company, Soviet Union , in 1975–1976?
Did you knowthat Karol Szajnocha , one of Poland 's leading 19th century historians, was self-taught as he was expelled from university?
Did you knowthat retreating glaciers of the Himalayas produce vast and long-lived supraglacial lakes , many kilometres in diameter and scores of metres deep?
Did you knowthat the proposed Doncaster railway line, Melbourne , first planned in 1890, would cost around ten times as much to build now as the A$ 41 million estimated in 1972 when the route was decided?
Did you knowthat Scottish nurse and serial killer Colin Norris is thought to have killed his four geriatric victims because he had "a real dislike of elderly patients"?
Did you knowthat most urban water service providers in Peru can be considered bankrupt as water bills are often not paid?
Did you knowthat Mrs Sherwood 's evangelical story The History of Little Henry and his Bearer was in print for 70 years after its publication in 1814 and was translated into eight languages?
Did you knowthat after being paralyzed in a car accident in 1964, Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996 for her services to disabled people?
Did you knowthat Banduan and Manbazar in West Bengal , India , are located in an area of violent political activities by Maoists ?
Did you knowthat Cornelio Villareal and Jose Laurel, Jr. were the last two Speakers of the House of Representatives before the Philippine Congress was abolished by Ferdinand Marcos in 1972?
Did you knowthat the discovery of gold by Custer's 1874 Expedition triggered the gold rush that precipitated the Black Hills War ?
Did you knowthat the Town Hall in Słupsk , Poland , was built on land reclaimed from a lake?