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Did you knowthat British Conservative Member of Parliament Cyril Banks was friendly with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser , and left his party over the Suez Crisis ?
Did you knowthat Dr. Chris Hatcher convinced the jury in a capital punishment case without having interviewed the defendant ?
Did you knowthat Joe Shishido transitioned from a moderately successful melodrama actor into a popular villain and then action star after he underwent plastic surgery to severely enlarge his cheeks?
Did you knowthat the New Zealand Journal of Forestry was first published in 1925 with a title in Māori ?
Did you knowthat the first Hawaii showing of From Here to Eternity premiered at the Iao Theater ?
Did you knowthat when former New Mexico Governor Tom Bolack died, his ashes were scattered over his ranch by 16 specially-made fireworks ?
Did you knowthat Wilhelm Koppe , one of the chief Nazi Holocaust perpetrators in occupied Poland , escaped arrest and under false name managed a Bonn chocolate factory for over a decade?
Did you knowthat many works of the Romanian Symbolist poet Traian Demetrescu survived as popular romanzas after their author died from tuberculosis in 1896?
Did you knowthat Darren Heitner was a champion Nintendo video game player aged six and then defeated over 400,000 other students at age ten in a US educational poster contest run by the National Football League ?
Did you knowthat merchant , sugar grower and politician George Raff helped establish the Brisbane government and was the main substantiater of wool trade between Brisbane and London ?
Did you knowthat Gatot Soebroto , who would become a leader in the Indonesian independence movement, was expelled from elementary school for fighting?
Did you knowthat Dudley Ryder , a managing director of Coutts private bank for 40 years, was also a director of English Big Four bank NatWest for 19 years until he succeeded his father as 7th Earl of Harrowby ?
Did you knowthat Edmund Blacket became known as "the Christopher Wren of Sydney " for building four cathedrals, 80 churches and a university?
Did you knowthat the book South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today analyzes the animated television comedy series South Park using philosophical concepts?
Did you knowthat Catherine Pegge from Derbyshire had a son who was named Charles like his heirless and exiled father, Charles II of England ?
Did you knowthat the Christian mission founded by Florence Young on her brothers’ sugar plantation in Queensland led her to make annual trips to the Solomon Islands for twenty years?
Did you knowthat when Dorothy Andrews Elston married Walter Kabis, she became the first, and so far the only, Treasurer of the United States to have her name changed while in office?
Did you knowthat the British General John Reid , second in command in Henry Bouquet's expedition against the western and Ohio Indians , was also a proficient flute -player and a musical composer ?
Did you knowthat before the launch of a satellite , a group of scientists from ISRO's Master Control Facility at Hassan offer prayers to a miniature model of the satellite and donate it to a temple in Dharmasthala ?
Did you knowthat passengers for Lympstone Commando railway station have to pass an armed guard as the only access is through the adjacent Royal Marine Commando Training Centre ?
Did you knowthat the majority of St. Thomas' ciguatera cases are linked to the same species of fish , the bar jack , or Caranx ruber ?
Did you knowthat NBA point guard John Bagley was the first Boston College Eagle to earn Big East Men's Basketball Player of the Year honors?
Did you knowthat Sakina Akhundzadeh is considered the first female playwright and dramatist in Azerbaijani literature ?
Did you knowthat Craigiehall , a country house designed for the Earl of Annandale by Sir William Bruce in 1699, is now the headquarters of the British Army in Scotland ?
Did you knowthat Summit Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota , a well preserved Victorian residential boulevard, is home to three National Historic Landmarks and five other structures on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you knowthat rye and oats used to be crop-mimicking weeds before they became domesticated ?
Did you knowthat Martin Meehan was the first person to be convicted of membership of the Provisional IRA and the last prisoner released following the abolition of internment in Northern Ireland ?
Did you knowthat Madame Tussauds Hong Kong is the oldest permanent wax museum in Asia ?
Did you knowthat Blanca Errázuriz was acquitted of the murder of her ex-husband John de Saulles , due to the testimony of Rudolf Valentino ?
Did you knowthat, according to Shinto tradition, four kami , including the soul of Emperor Meiji , are enshrined at the Hokkaidō Jingū , a Shinto shrine in Sapporo , Japan ?
Did you knowthat in 2004, running back Mike Hart broke Ricky Powers ' Michigan Wolverines freshman rushing record and matched Jon Vaughn , the only other Michigan back with consecutive 200-yard games?
Did you knowthat the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall houses the remains of victims of the Nanking Massacre in a building shaped like a coffin ?
Did you knowthat over 60.1% of Colombian families are below the poverty threshold ?
Did you knowthat the Greek submarine Delfin was the second submarine to enter service in the Greek navy?
Did you knowthat the entire population of Exuma Island Iguanas on Leaf Cay in the Bahamas was translocated to Pasture Cay in 2002 in an effort to protect the species?
Did you knowthat the freshwater weed Azolla may have grown in the Arctic Ocean with enough vigour to plunge the world into an ice age ?
Did you knowthat North American helitack crews are airlifted into remote areas to "attack" wildland fires before they get out of control?
Did you knowthat in the USSR , people such as Nikolai Yezhov and Leon Trotsky were removed from photos to erase them from Soviet history?
Did you knowthat sky anchors combine a gas balloon for buoyancy and a superpressure balloon for ballast?
Did you knowthat lignosulfonates , wood pulp byproducts, are used to make concrete , tanned leather , and even artificial vanillin ?
Did you knowthat Polish painter and politician Henryk Józewski protected Ukrainian leader Symon Petliura from extradition to Soviet Union by hiding him in his flat?
Did you knowthat a translocation mutation in chromosome 11 may result in mantle cell lymphoma ?
Did you knowthat though Alfred Balfour was a British MP for 14 years, he made only a single speech in the House of Commons ?
Did you knowthat English civil engineer James Trubshaw's straightening method used on Wybunbury 's St Chad's tower in 1832 was later used to stabilise the Leaning Tower of Pisa ?
Did you knowthat the mother of PIRA prisoner Jackie McMullan chained herself to railings outside 10 Downing Street in London ?
Did you knowthat the Solomon Islands Christian Association came out of a meeting of church representatives that included the future first Prime Minister and first Governor-General ?
Did you knowthat the rules for a scrum in rugby union were changed in 2007 to try to reduce the number of serious neck injuries to players?
Did you knowthat the extinct crocodile -like Prionosuchus is the largest amphibian known to have existed?
Did you knowthat Admiral Clarence S. Williams , commander in chief of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet , directed a 1926 military intervention to protect foreign nationals in Shanghai at the start of the Chinese Civil War ?
Did you knowthat the Coat of arms of Asturias bears the Victory Cross , a Christian cross carried by King Pelagius of Asturias of Spain at the Battle of Covadonga ?
Did you knowthat Leonid Hurwicz , winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economics at the age of ninety, is the oldest recipient of any Nobel Prize in any category?
Did you knowthat there is space for an additional 15,000 names to be added to the British Armed Forces Memorial ?
Did you knowthat the Sapporo Factory in Japan , a building complex with a shopping mall , offices, a multiplex movie theatre and a Meissen porcelain museum , was originally constructed as a brewery ?
Did you knowthat when British diplomat Sir Alan Campbell became ambassador to Ethiopia , he noticed people kneeling down in reverence as his car drove to the palace of Emperor Haile Selassie ?
Did you knowthat missionary Don Richardson discovered that aborigines of Western New Guinea have a concept called the Peace Child which is very similar to the incarnation of Jesus ?
Did you knowthat from 1747 to 1831, present-day Iraq was ruled by Georgian Mamluks ?
Did you knowthat Los Angeles considered changing the name of the geographic region known as San Fernando Valley in 2002 to San Angeles , the same name used for the fictional city in the 1993 movie Demolition Man ?
Did you knowthat the Solomon Islander Peter Ambuofa , who had converted to Christianity while working on a sugar plantation in Queensland , was left to starve by his own relatives when he returned home?
Did you knowthat in 2004, a California Senate committee passed a youth suffrage constitutional amendment called Training Wheels for Citizenship to give 14-year-olds one-quarter of a vote and 16-year-olds one-half of a vote in state elections?
Did you knowthat low energy ion scattering causes various phenomena at a material's surface, that are used to explore its structure and composition ?
Did you knowthat the accuracy of Al Gore 's An Inconvenient Truth was challenged  in the English High Court of Justice case Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills ?
Did you knowthat United States Presidential candidate Ron Paul has won a total of fifteen Republican straw polls , placing him second among all candidates yet remains near the bottom of statewide polls ?
Did you knowthat early Indian Christians were Nestorians until the arrival of Portuguese in the 16th century introducing Roman Catholicism to the country ?
Did you knowthat Thomas de Dundee , later Bishop of Ross , was one of three men from the small Scottish burgh of Dundee studying Roman law at the University of Bologna at the same time in the later 13th century?
Did you knowthat the Yorkshire Museum paid £2.5 million pounds for an item found in Yorkshire using a metal detector ?
Did you knowthat Mormon settlers on the 1879 San Juan Expedition to establish a colony in what is now southeastern Utah spent several months widening a " Hole-in-the-Rock " for the passage of wagons?
Did you knowthat the development of the Lockheed XF-104 , a single-engine, high-performance, supersonic interceptor aircraft prototype , earned aircraft engineer Kelly Johnson his first Collier Trophy in 1958?
Did you knowthat Elizabeth F. Ellet was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to and survived the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you knowthat the Sauk and the British Army defeated the U.S. Army at Campbell's Island during the War of 1812 ?
Did you knowthat at Bougon , a prehistoric burial mound in France , archeologists found the skull of a man who had undergone three trepanations during his lifetime?
Did you knowthat St Lawrence's Church , a listed building in Stoak , Cheshire , England , has a Tudor hammerbeam roof , a Jacobean altar , a Georgian pulpit , an Elizabethan chalice and chairs from the time of Charles II ?
Did you knowthat in Bigby v. Dretke , the defendant put a gun to the judge's head, but the judge testified the assault did not bias him, and refused to recuse himself?
Did you knowthat the automatic tire chain system OnSpot was created in 1977 by a Swedish inventor who mounted it onto a local milk delivery truck ?
Did you knowthat Pat "Gravy" Patterson , the head coach of the Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 1990 , was the winningest baseball coach in the state's history ?
Did you knowthat Kenneth Lockwood , one of the first six British prisoners at Colditz in 1940, remained a POW until the castle was liberated in April 1945?
Did you knowthat Nigerian businessman Alhassan Dantata was the wealthiest person in West Africa at the time of his death in 1955?
Did you knowthat A Gift to Young Housewives , a Russian cookbook condemned under communism , contained nearly 4,000 recipes in some editions?
Did you knowthat former Belfast City Councillor Pat McGeown was a Provisional IRA volunteer referred to as the "11th hunger striker" in the 1981 Irish hunger strike ?
Did you knowthat in 1959, Barksdale Hamlett , the U.S. commandant in Berlin , threatened to forcefully prevent the East German government from flying its new flag over elevated railway stations in West Berlin ?
Did you knowthat a galdr was an incantation that Viking men chanted in falsetto ?
Did you knowthat the New Caledonia cricket team have lost every international they have ever played, including the only known loss by more than 500 runs ?
Did you knowthat four member states of the European Union have de jure opt-outs and do not participate fully in all common policies?
Did you knowthat the wine -producing region of Blackwood Valley is named after the longest continually flowing river in Western Australia ?
Did you knowthat Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story Never Bet the Devil Your Head spoofs moral tales and Transcendentalism ?
Did you knowthat on September 29 , 1968 a global horizontal sounding technique superpressure balloon became the first balloon to fly for a full year?
Did you knowthat John Grant's moated manor near Stratford-on-Avon was chosen for storing weapons for the rebellion that was to follow the Gunpowder plot ?
Did you knowthat Japanese matinée idol Akira Kobayashi wore a gash across his face and large, Brezhnevian eyebrows for his role in the Seijun Suzuki yakuza film Kanto Wanderer ?
Did you knowthat former Portland mayor Frank Ivancie was defeated in his run for re-election by a local tavern owner with no prior political experience ?
Did you knowthat Negombo Tamil identity survives primarily in just one village called Udappu in Sri Lanka ?
Did you knowthat Eliza Jumel married former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr in 1833, only to divorce him three years later?
Did you knowthat the former Iraqi Air Force commander, politician and ambassador Hardan al-Tikriti was assassinated on Saddam Hussein 's orders in 1971?
Did you knowthat Wiley W. Hilburn was in 1962 among the youngest editorial writers for major daily newspapers in the U.S. ?
Did you knowthat the Red-chested Goshawk (Accipiter toussenelii) , a hawk of West Africa , was named after French journalist Alphonse Toussenel ?
Did you knowthat the murder of Michael Francke while he was at work became the basis of the movie Without Evidence ?
Did you knowthat students at the four ancient universities of Scotland are no longer afforded a traditional Meal Monday holiday, but manual staff at the University of St Andrews still are?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a mental illness is a mitigating factor in death penalty cases , but the Supreme Court of California in one case ruled that mental illness is an aggravating factor ?
Did you knowthat Horace Engdahl , permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy , said that The Four-Gated City is Nobel laureate Doris Lessing 's most important work?
Did you knowthat everything biologists know about the Small-eyed whiting (Sillago microps) came from studies conducted on two specimens found at a market in Taipei in 1985?
Did you knowthat Dr. Edward Smith showed that muscles did not get their energy from proteins but from fats and carbohydrates ?
Did you knowthat Scotland Yard introduced the murder bag forensics kit after a police officer was reported to have scooped chunks of flesh from a murder victim into a bucket with his bare hands?
Did you knowthat the Douglas County Courthouse in Omaha, Nebraska was almost destroyed by mob violence only five years after it was built?
Did you knowthat although Brian Elliott was drafted second-last in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft , he recently played a regular-season game for the Ottawa Senators ?
Did you knowthat Bernt Carlsson , the last United Nations Commissioner for Namibia , died in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing in 1988, while travelling to the signing ceremony of the Namibian independence agreement in New York ?
Did you knowthat rayon fibers used to make clothes come from trees pulped using the sulfite process ?
Did you knowthat the Portuguese football champion has been one of S.L. Benfica , F.C. Porto or Sporting Clube de Portugal on 78 out of 86 occasions?
Did you knowthat by the end of 19th century, there were an estimated two thousand English language schools in the Kingdom of Mysore ?
Did you knowthat Lady Isle , a small Scottish island in the Firth of Clyde , is Britain's first seabird reserve?
Did you knowthat Shyampukur was the site of one of the two tents Jamshetji Framji Madan set up to screen films when he entered the ‘ bioscope ’ scene in Kolkata in 1902?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1963 that a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to "effective" legal counsel , but " effective " was not defined until Wiggins v. Smith in 2003?
Did you knowthat Swami Vipulananda was the founding Professor of Tamil at both University of Ceylon and Annamalai University ?
Did you knowthat the Folly Theatre , which specialised in burlesque and opéra bouffe , was originally the residence for Catholic priests of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in London ?
Did you knowthat 120,000 people participated in the 2005 Siyum HaShas , celebrating their completion of the eleventh 7½-year Daf Yomi study cycle, in which one folio of the 2,711-page Babylonian Talmud is studied each day?
Did you knowthat Gopal Chandra Bhattacharya has won the Ananda Purashkar and the Rabindra Puraskar , prestigious awards for Bengali literature , for his writing on insects and popular science ?
Did you knowthat Second World War bomber pilot "Micky" Martin broke the speed record flying from England to Cape Town ?
Did you knowthat a baby Indian Rhinoceros at the San Diego Wild Animal Park was named Ecko after fashion designer Marc Ecko donated funds to launch a campaign by the International Rhino Foundation ?
Did you knowthat United States v. Binion upheld the conviction of a defendant who was found guilty of obstruction of justice for feigning madness in a competence-to-stand-trial evaluation ?
Did you knowthat the Schuster Building in Louisville, Kentucky was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as a "significant example" of Colonial Revival architecture?
Did you knowthat the medieval Noraduz cemetery contains the largest cluster of khachkars ( stone crosses ) in Armenia?
Did you knowthat Russell Adam Burnham , the U.S. Army Soldier of the Year in 2003, became the U.S. Army Medical Command NCO of the Year in 2007?
Did you knowthat bromopyruvic acid , a simple inexpensive chemical, is being studied as a potential treatment for cancer?
Did you knowthat Rod Millen lost the 34 hour long Baja 1000 off-road race across the desert by 33 seconds, which is considered to be a photo finish ?
Did you knowthat Aramaean treaty-making in the first millenium BCE, as documented in the Sefire inscriptions, included loyalty oaths that invoked magical rites with curses to befall any violators?
Did you knowthat the Kerguelen Shag , a species of cormorant of the Kerguelen Islands , is the smallest species amongst Blue-Eyed Shags ?
Did you knowthat the Mahāvyutpatti is the first substantial bilingual dictionary known?
Did you knowthat Princess Vera Konstantinovna was the last surviving member of the Romanov family who could remember Imperial Russia ?
Did you knowthat George J. Adams led an ill-fated effort to establish a U.S. colony in Palestine ?
Did you knowthat British MP Arthur Allen became Sir Stafford Cripps ' assistant right after defeating Cripps' nephew in an election?
Did you knowthat technology from 18th-century France and China was used to improve the economy of Mysore kingdom ?
Did you knowthat the city of Sapporo has the only beer museum in Japan ?
Did you knowthat in eighteen years, baritone William Walker performed over 360 times at New York's Metropolitan Opera ?
Did you knowthat one of the first discoveries of atmospheric neutrinos was made at India 's Kolar Gold Fields ?
Did you knowthat bibliographers determined that Edward Allde had printed early editions of William Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet by comparing damaged type used in his other works?
Did you knowthat in 1956, The New York Times ran a front-page story featuring Winston H. Bostick ' s " plasma gun "?
Did you knowthat Louis Pienaar was the last Administrator-General of South West Africa before Namibian independence was declared in 1990?
Did you knowthat despite sweeping the elimination round of the 2007 UAAP men's basketball tournament , the University of the East was still beaten by De La Salle University-Manila 2-0 in the finals series?
Did you knowthat according to the U.S. landmark court case Rennie v. Klein , an involuntarily committed mental patient has a constitutional right to refuse psychiatric medication ?
Did you knowthat c. 300 , Egyptian alchemist Agathodaimon produced arsenic trioxide , an amphoteric oxide which he described as a 'fiery poison '?
Did you knowthat the killing of a gay Marvel superhero by Wolverine led to the creation of the novel Hero , whose protagonist is a gay teenager?
Did you knowthat a three-horse omnibus plied briefly between Dharmatala , a  neighbourhood in Kolkata , and Barrackpore in November 1830?
Did you knowthat the Kaiparowits Plateau in Utah contains fine details of bones , teeth , eggshells , and even tracks of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs and other animals?
Did you knowthat Central Asia plus Japan is an ongoing dialogue between Japan and the Central Asian republics to promote regional cooperation?
Did you knowthat Chicago City Council alderman Toni Preckwinkle has dissented against Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley more often than any other alderman in council votes?
Did you knowthat Saint Olaf's Church in Novgorod was a church especially for Vikings who stayed in Novgorod , Russia ?
Did you knowthat only twenty Marines have received the Marine Corps Brevet Medal ?
Did you knowthat Wildenstein Index Numbers are used to chronologically index works of art by specific artists ?
Did you knowthat the Łódź insurrection was one of the largest disturbances of the Russian Revolution of 1905 ?
Did you knowthat an American Revolution -era cannonball fired at Saint Paul's Church in Norfolk, Virginia was later reinserted into its wall?
Did you knowthat in 1975, British historian Marcus Binney founded a lobby group for the preservation of endangered historic buildings?
Did you knowthat the fire tower on Hunter Mountain in the Catskills is the highest in New York ?
Did you knowthat Polish-American historian Jerzy Jan Lerski was a member of the cichociemni , a Polish elite commando unit, during WWII ?
Did you knowthat Amsterdam has a concentric belt of canals around it?
Did you knowthat Jesse Bankston was fired as director of the Department of Hospitals for refusing to release the Louisiana Governor from involuntary commitment to a mental institution ?
Did you knowthat Wang Wanxing is the only person to have been released from a Chinese Ankang asylum to a Western country?
Did you knowthat itinerant minister Adam Payne was decapitated by a band of Potawatomi during the 1832 Black Hawk War ?
Did you knowthat the town of Sant'Oreste , Italy grew up around the site at which Saint Orestes was said to have been buried alive during the reign of Nero ?
Did you knowthat Zdzisław Peszkowski , one of the few Polish Army officers who survived the Katyn massacre , became a priest and preached forgiveness for the massacre's perpetrators?
Did you knowthat Patrick Ivuti 's photo finish victory in the 2007 Chicago Marathon , one of the five major marathons , was his first marathon victory?
Did you knowthat in 1988 , North Carolina politician Wendell H. Murphy was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine ?
Did you knowthat literary magazine Mundo Nuevo had to be abandoned by its founder because of a CIA scandal?
Did you knowthat Daniel Theron formed a military bicycle corps for the Boer Army, leading British Frederick Roberts to put a £ 1,000 reward on his head?