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Did you know that Harvey Hubbell (1857–1927) invented the electrical power plug ?
Did you know that Gilbert Mabbot (1622–1670) was a pioneering journalist during the English Civil War who also served as an official licenser of the press?
Did you knowthat the Vietnam War protest song " War ," originally recorded by the Temptations , was Motown artist Edwin Starr 's only number-one hit ?
Did you knowthat Temple Beth-El , built in 1876 , is the oldest synagogue in the U.S. state of Florida ?
Did you know that Hampshire County Cricket Club has produced three English national cricket captains in its 141-year history?
Did you know that Paula Ackerman was the first woman to serve as a rabbi in the United States ?
Did you know that British actress Stephanie Beacham played a nun on American sitcom Sister Kate after playing the glamorous Sable Colby on the drama Dynasty ?
Did you know that Kuttanad in Kerala , India , is the country's only region below sea level ?
Did you know that the FTSE 100 -listed company Hays plc dates back to the 1600s , when they owned warehouses and wharves on the River Thames ?
Did you know that the predecessor to the Imperial Russian Navy first sailed during the Second Azov campaign of 1696 under Peter the Great ?
Did you know that Willi Münzenberg ( 1889 – 1940 ) was known as "The Red Millionaire" because he ran a whole network of publishing and business companies, all dedicated to his Workers International Relief organisation and to promoting socialism.
Did you know that silent E is a convention in English spelling added to the ends of words, that makes short vowels long ?
Did you know that until it was looted in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade , the Church of the Holy Apostles was the busiest place of worship in Constantinople ?
Did you know that in the 1977 film That Obscure Object of Desire directed by Luis Buñuel , the leading role of Conchita is played by two actresses and voiced by a third?
Did you know that the 1868 encounter between Kasuga and Kaiyō was the first naval battle between two modern fleets in Japan ?
Did you know that the Chilean football club Cobreloa reached the finals of South America's principal club competition, the Copa Libertadores , in 1981 , only four years after the club's founding?
Did you know that Palwankar Baloo was a Dalit (also called Untouchable ) who helped break down the Indian caste system with his prowess at cricket ?
Did you knowthat in the National Lacrosse League of North America , the Coach of the Year Award is named after the late Les Bartley ?
Did you knowthat Carl Zuckmayer wrote the script for the 1930 movie Der Blaue Engel starring Marlene Dietrich ?
Did you knowthat Quantum praedecessores was a papal bull issued on 1 December 1145 by Pope Eugenius III , calling for a Second Crusade ?
Did you knowthat the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 was a wildfire in Montana which claimed the lives of 13 firefighters ?
Did you knowthat infectious salmon anemia is a viral disease of Atlantic Salmon which affects fish farms in Canada , Norway , and Scotland ?
Did you knowthat the Spinifex people are the last Aboriginal nomadic people in Australia , taking their name from the Spinifex grass that survives in the desert ?
Did you knowthat the history of Swansea includes an epidemic of yellow fever in 1865 , the only outbreak of that disease on the British mainland?
Did you knowthat Ralph Samuelson invented water skiing in 1922 ?
Did you knowthat Infectious Salmon Anaemia is a viral disease of Atlantic Salmon which affects fish farms in Canada , Norway , and Scotland ?
Did you know that the Spinifex People are the last Aboriginal nomadic people in Australia , taking their name from the Spinifex grass that survives in the desert ?
Did you know that the History of Swansea includes an epidemic of yellow fever in 1865 , the only outbreak of that disease on the British mainland?
Did you knowthat only five people have been decorated Hero of Belarus , the highest title that can be bestowed on a citizen of Belarus ?
Did you knowthat Jean Kambanda , prime minister of Rwanda during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide , is the first and only head of government to plead guilty to genocide ?
Did you knowthat Ariwara no Narihira (825–880) was one of six waka poets named in the preface to the great Heian period poetry collection Kokin-wakashu ?
Did you knowthat because Adelaide del Vasto was divorced by King Baldwin I of Jerusalem in 1117 , her son Roger II of Sicily refused to give assistance to the Crusader states during the Second Crusade ?
Did you knowthat the decoration of the 1877 Papal Tiara includes 540 pearls , 68 rubies , 37 emeralds , and many other precious stones ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Bun'ei in 1274 was Mongol emperor Kublai Khan 's first attempt to invade Japan ?
Did you knowthat the European White Elm is distinguished from other European elms by its long flower stems?
Did you knowthat the Free French corvette Aconit was awarded the Ordre de la Libération for her service in World War II ?
Did you knowthat the incorrect climatological theory that " rain follows the plow " was promoted in the 1870s to justify the settlement of the arid Great Plains of the American West?
Did you know that the Humboldt Squid is a large, aggressive predatory squid which can grow to 2 m long and weigh 40 kg?
Did you know that Götz von Berlichingen , a knight of the Holy Roman Empire , wore a prosthetic hand made of iron after losing his hand in the siege of Landshut in 1508 ?
Did you know that the Swabian War of 1499 was fought between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the emperor Maximilian I and his Swabian League ?
Did you knowthat a freak decompression accident on board the oil rig Byford Dolphin in 1983 literally caused a man to explode ?
Did you knowthat Scottish cyclist Robert Millar finished fourth in the 1984 Tour de France , the best ever finish by a British cyclist?
Did you knowthat Marcus Loew , whose family's poverty forced him to give up on schooling and go to work at age nine, became the owner of the largest chain of movie theaters in the United States and the founder of MGM Studios ?
Did you knowthat when Theodora Comnena married King Baldwin III of Jerusalem in 1158 , her dowry was 100,000 hyperpyra ?
Did you knowthat the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea destroys enough rice to feed more than 60 million people annually, and that its spores were prepared as an anti-plant biological weapon during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Buzzie Bavasi was the general manager of the Brooklyn & Los Angeles Dodgers for eighteen years, helping the team win their first four World Series championships?
Did you knowthat the first witches persecuted by the Inquisition believed in Madonna Oriente , the Moon goddess ?
Did you knowthat Elsie Tanner was a core character on the British soap opera Coronation Street for over twenty years?
Did you knowthat in 1945 , entrepreneur Leonard Shoen founded U-Haul , first American cargo trailer-rental company?
Did you knowthat Dutch maritime painter Simon de Vlieger was influential in the move away from the monochrome grisaille to a more colourful style of sea painting?
Did you knowthat Malin Space Science Systems is a San Diego , California company that operates the camera on the Mars Global Surveyor ?
Did you knowthat Video-Enhanced Grave Markers turn headstones into talking video displays for the deceased?
Did you knowthat Brooklyn Brewery hired Milton Glaser , best known as the creator of the logo for the I Love New York campaign, to create their company logo?
Did you knowthat Josiah Belden was a member of the first party to use the California Trail , and the first mayor of San Jose, California ?
Did you knowthat Project Exile was a program of prosecuting illegal gun offenses in federal court, helping reduce gun violence in Richmond, Virginia ?
Did you knowthat the Plague of Athens devastated ancient Athens in 430 BC , perhaps leading ultimately to the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War ?
Did you knowthat Showmen's Rest in Forest Park, Illinois is a 750 plot section of Woodlawn Cemetery where members of a circus troupe were interred following the Hammond circus train wreck in 1918 ?
Did you knowthat Sarah Brady became an advocate of gun control and led actions to reduce gun violence after her husband White House Press Secretary James Brady sustained a disabling head wound during the Reagan assassination attempt in 1981 ?
Did you know that Project Aqua was a proposed hydroelectric scheme for the lower Waitaki River in New Zealand that would have diverted up to 77% of the river's flow into a separate canal ?
Did you know that different stages of the fish parasite Myxobolus cerebralis were originally thought to be three different organisms in two different classes ?
Did you know that Jack Clement discovered and recorded future Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer Jerry Lee Lewis for Sun Records while Sam Phillips was away on a trip?
Did you knowthat the Slovenian folk instrument bird-scaring rattle is used to drive birds from vineyards ?
Did you knowthat the astronomer Tycho Brahe calculated products quickly using Prosthaphaeresis , a 17th century algorithm exploiting trigonometric identities?
Did you knowthat John Ritter made one of his first film appearances in the 1972 horror film The Other ?
Did you knowthat by passing as a man, Isobel Gunn became in 1806 the first woman of European descent employed by the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land ?
Did you knowthat Fred Gipson was an American author best remembered for creating a fictional dog featured in a book and the classic 1957 movie Old Yeller ?
Did you knowthat the English politician Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun fought a duel with James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton in Hyde Park on November 15 1712 which resulted in the deaths of both men?
Did you knowthat French painter Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was ordered to destroy her royal portraits after the French Revolution ?
Did you knowthat admiral Michiel de Ruyter saved the United Provinces from invasion in the two Battles of Schooneveld in June 1673 ?
Did you knowthat 11 of the 13 members of the Hong Kong cricket team died when their steamship, SS Bokhara , was lost in a typhoon in 1892 ?
Did you knowthat Reverend Mother Superior Dolores Hart is the only nun to be an Academy Award -voting member of  the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ?
Did you knowthat Hollywood producer William Goetz 's racehorse "Your Host" won the 1950 Santa Anita Derby ?
Did you knowthat time discipline is the set of social and economic rules, conventions, customs, and expectations about time and its measurement?
Did you knowthat Zara Yaqob was the first Emperor of Ethiopia ( 1434 – 1468 ) to send a diplomatic mission to Europe ?
Did you knowthat in Hindu mythology , Meenakshi was born with three breasts , fish-eyes and a smell of fish ?
Did you knowthat the composer Zbigniew Preisner wrote the title music for the monumental BBC documentary People's Century , which spans 26 parts?
Did you knowthat English explorer James Knight died on an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage in 1719 ?
Did you knowthat Joseph Cornelius O’Rourke , an Irish Count born in Estonia , became a Russian Lieutenant General, and was honoured with a statue in Belgrade for his victory over the Ottoman Empire in 1810?
Did you knowthat American golfer Tony Lema died when the plane he was travelling in crashed into a golf course ?
Did you knowthat the Truro murders are among the earliest reported serial killings in Australia ?
Did you knowthat Sabine Ehrenfeld , the Overstock.com spokesmodel , is fluent in German , French , English , and Italian and that she is an experienced pilot and equestrian ?
Did you know that two widely-used maps of China's historical placenames independently published in Taiwan and China during the 1980s are both called Historical Atlas of China ?
Did you knowthat in 1990 , Czech and Slovak politicians "fought" the Hyphen War , a political battle over whether " Czechoslovakia " should be spelled with a hyphen ?
Did you knowThat the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center located in Ponce, Puerto Rico , is the oldest astronomical observatory in the Caribbean?
Did you knowthat the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee is the largest non-casino hotel in the world?
Did you knowthat the late Shana Alexander was the first female columnist for Life magazine?
Did you knowthat the Waterloo Vase is a massive marble urn , 15 feet (4.6 metres ) high and weighing 15 tons (13.6 metric tons ), which was commissioned by French leader Napoleon but ultimately became an ornament in the British monarch 's Buckingham Palace Gardens ?
Did you knowthat, in addition to hearing the landmark Napster and Bernstein cases, U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel vacated the World War II -era conviction of Japanese American Fred Korematsu ?
Did you knowthat French Army soldiers killed between 15,000 and 45,000 Algerian civilians in the Setif massacre of May 8 , 1945 , the same day as V-E day in Europe ?
Did you knowthat the 1984 Murray Head hit " One Night In Bangkok ," from the musical Chess , gained newfound popularity in 2005 due to a remix by the dance act Vinylshakerz ?
Did you knowthat the Canadian postage stamp of Acadian Deportation 1755-2005 encorporates a stamp of Grand Pré, Nova Scotia , from 1930 ?
Did you knowthat the Turin Papyrus , prepared about 1160 BC for Ramesses IV 's quarrying expedition to Wadi Hammamat near the Red Sea , is the earliest known geologic map ?
Did you knowthat actor and amateur racing-car driver Skipp Sudduth performed almost all the high-speed driving done by his character in the movie Ronin ?
Did you knowthat in 1911 , Charles Rosher , working for David Horsley 's production company, became Hollywood's first full-time cameraman ?
Did you knowthat Nickajack was the name of a proposed neutral state made up of Unionist areas of North Alabama and East Tennessee in the period leading up to the American Civil War ?
Did you know that in the United States , a federal court can be classified as either an Article I or Article III tribunal ?
Did you knowthat jockey Kent Desormeaux and his horse Real Quiet missed thoroughbred horse racing immortality by a few inches?
Did you knowthat Norwegian football commentator Bjørge Lillelien famously taunted Margaret Thatcher after Norway 's victory over England in 1981 ?
Did you knowthat Love Israel , a cult in northern Washington , filed for bankruptcy and then sold their commune to the Union for Reform Judaism to become their 13th summer camp?
Did you knowthat " I Love to Singa , " an Al Jolson song written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg , is also the title of a popular 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon ?
Did you knowthat, after being defrocked as a Church of England priest, Harold Davidson became a seaside entertainer and was killed in 1937 by a lion when he trod on its tail?
Did you knowthat distinguished recipients of the Grawemeyer Award for music composition have included Witold Lutosławski , György Ligeti , Pierre Boulez and John Adams ?
Did you knowthat Jesuit priest John Nobili founded Santa Clara University in 1851 ?
Did you knowthat both the Silver Jubilee and Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II fell on the official Queen's Birthday holiday?
Did you knowthat Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton was the first African American to sign a contract to play in the National Basketball Association ?
Did you knowthat Packet Storm is a non-profit organization comprised of computer security professionals whose goal is to provide the information necessary to secure computer networks ?
Did you knowthat prosector's wart is a skin lesion caused by contamination with tuberculosis of a diseased cadaver during its preparation for autopsy by a prosector , a preparator of dissections ?
Did you knowthat Roza Robota was hanged for her role in the Sonderkommando revolt?
Did you knowthat American statesman John Milledge named Athens, Georgia , the city surrounding the University of Georgia , after Athens , Greece , the city of Plato 's Academy ?
Did you knowthat the light cruiser Oyodo of the Imperial Japanese Navy was Admiral Jisaburo Ozawa 's flagship after the aircraft carrier Zuikaku was sunk during WWII 's Battle of Leyte Gulf ?
Did you knowthat Bend It Like Beckham was a crowd favorite at the ninth Pyongyang Film Festival in 2004 ?
Did you knowthat Swiss cyclist Hugo Koblet , a Tour de France winner and the first non- Italian to win the Giro d'Italia , died at age 39 under mysterious circumstances?
Did you knowthat for actress KaDee Strickland's role in The Grudge , she was inspired by Jane Fonda 's Academy Award -winning performance in the 1971 film Klute ?
Did you knowthat the Blondie song " Call Me " was only the third song from a soundtrack to be the highest-selling single in the United States ?
Did you knowthat classical compounds make up much of the technical and scientific lexicon of Western European languages?
Did you knowthat whole grains are often more expensive than refined grains because their higher oil content is susceptible to oxidation , complicating processing, storage, and transport?
Did you knowthat unlike many of the Bee Gees ' singles , which were recorded in Miami, Florida , " Stayin' Alive " was recorded at the Chateau d'Herouville in Paris ?
Did you knowthat in the computer game Crush, Crumble and Chomp! the player controls a disaster movie monster and destroys cities?
Did you knowthat the Minnesota State Constitution initially had two versions: one signed by Republicans and the other by Democrats ?
Did you knowthat Captain Henry Trollope ( 1756 – 1839 ) of the Royal Navy , commanding the frigate Glatton , defeated a French squadron that outnumbered him six to one?
Did you knowthat no Punch and Judy performer can consider himself a Professor until he has swallowed his swazzle at least twice?
Did you knowthat the 1318 Mamluk Qala'un Mosque was considered the most glamorous mosque in Cairo until its wooden dome collapsed in the 16th century ?
Did you knowthat chromoblastomycosis is a fungal skin infection that can be caught from a thorn or splinter ?
Did you knowthat Alan Mullery became the first England association football player to be sent off in a full international match during the 1968 European Championship semi-final against Yugoslavia ?
Did you knowthat Samuel Green was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin ?
Did you knowthat Philip of Poitou , Bishop of Durham from 1197 to 1208 , quarrelled so fiercely with his monks that he tried to burn them out of a church, and later excommunicated the entire chapter?
Did you knowthat singer Maureen McGovern was a secretary before she was signed to perform the Academy Award -winning song " The Morning After "?
Did you knowthat the 1868 Aboriginal cricket tour of England predated, by 12 years, the first tour of England by white Australians ?
Did you know that Xihoumen Bridge , a suspension bridge planned for the Zhoushan Archipelago in China will be the third largest suspension bridge in the world when completed?
Did you knowthat after Peter the Great 's reform of the Russian military, serf recruits, and their children born after the recruitment, were liberated, with the boys being sent to specially created garrison schools ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. children's television series Romper Room aired for over 40 years?
Did you knowthat Dr. Acacio Gabriel Viegas was credited with the discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Mumbai in 1896 , and later became the president of the Bombay Municipal Corporation ?
Did you knowthat the 1985 film Into the Night is largely responsible for launching Michelle Pfeiffer to stardom?
Did you know that the race car driver Kurt Mollekens won three Formula Ford titles in 1992 ?
Did you knowthat MTV Canada will be converted into a digital television station called Razer , now that it is owned by CHUM Limited ?
Did you knowthat the virtual economy of massively multiplayer online games sometimes attracts virtual crime , which is punishable by real laws in some countries?
Did you knowthat James Glynn , captain of the USS Preble , was the first American to negotiate successfully with Sakoku ("closed country") Japan , in 1848 ?
Did you knowthat Cherrapunji in India is the wettest place in the world?
Did you knowthat there are 17 candidates running in the June 14 Ohio second congressional district election to replace representative Rob Portman ?
Did you knowthat Mick Mills was made captain of the England national football team which started the 1982 World Cup because Kevin Keegan was unable to play through injury?
Did you knowthat 1980s horror movie actress Ellie Cornell nearly broke out of her typecasting by appearing in the 1992 film A League of Their Own , but had to drop out because she became pregnant ?
Did you knowthat American country music singer Mindy McCready was once engaged to actor Dean Cain ?
Did you knowthat Valerius Anshelm (1475–c. 1546), a Swiss chronicler , wrote a history of Berne from the Burgundy Wars to 1536 that  remained buried in the municipal archives of the city for 80 years?
Did you knowthat Saki 's short story " Sredni Vashtar " plays an important role in Raymond Postgate 's 1940 mystery novel Verdict of Twelve ?
Did you knowthat Kermit Roosevelt III , author of the 2005 legal thriller In the Shadow of the Law , is the great-great-grandson of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt ?
Did you knowthat there are parts of Canadian airspace where compasses are not useful because they are too close to the magnetic north pole ?
Did you knowthat Bono Manso , the capital of Bono state , was an ancient Akan trading town in present-day Ghana , which was frequented by caravans from Djenné as part of the Trans-Saharan trade ?
Did you knowthat the 1960s singing duo Paul & Paula inspired such pairings as Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell ?
Did you knowthat the Brimstone Moth has a variable life cycle of either one generation a year or two generations every three years?
Did you knowthat the bending of starlight around the Sun during the solar eclipse of 1919 was a testimony to the predictive power of Albert Einstein 's theory of general relativity ?
Did you knowthat Niccolò Da Conti (1395–1469) was a Venetian merchant who traveled around the Indian Ocean for 25 years in the early 15th century , and was made to relate an account of his travels as a penance for converting to Islam ?
Did you knowthat Firpo Marberry was the first relief pitcher in Major League Baseball to record 100 saves in his career?
Did you knowthat Bruce Webster was so burned out from writing the computer game SunDog: Frozen Legacy for the Apple II , that he gave up programming for four years?
Did you knowthat Jack-Jack Attack is the first Pixar short not to be given a theatrical release?
Did you knowthat Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) signed an agreement in 1963 with Japanese company NEC which gave the latter partial ownership of PTV's network?
Did you knowthat in the music video for the Crazy Frog song " Axel F ", the frog's genitalia have been censored for broadcasting?
Did you knowthat former England footballer Mick Channon is now a successful horse trainer ?
Did you knowthat Chinese BASIC is the name given to several Chinese versions of the BASIC programming language ?
Did you knowthat the Terik language of Kenya is classified as endangered by UNESCO because the Terik people have increasingly become assimilated to the Nandi people in recent decades?
Did you knowthat facial symmetry is correlated with health , physical attractiveness , and beauty , and is a factor in interpersonal attraction ?
Did you knowthat a sideman is a professional musician who is hired to perform or record with a group of which he is not formally a member?
Did you knowthat MOMO syndrome is a very rare genetic disorder characterised by m acrosomia , o besity , m acrocephaly and o cular abnormalities ?
Did you knowthat the reality television series Dr. 90210 got its name from the zip code for part of the Los Angeles suburb of Beverly Hills ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. airlifted 22,325 tons of military supplies to Israel for use in the Yom Kippur War under Operation Nickel Grass ?
Did you knowthat David Penhaligon ( 1944 – 1986 ) was a promising Liberal Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom but was killed in a car crash at the age of 42?