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Did you knowthat Oregon U.S. District Court Judge William G. East ordered Robert F. Kennedy to explain why the U.S. government should not pay fees to a private attorney who was ordered to defend a criminal defendant?
Did you knowthat Association Footballer Billy Mosforth was a leading exponent of the screw shot, which allows players to bend the ball's trajectory?
Did you knowthat Omaha pioneer real estate agent Byron Reed was one of the greatest collectors of the 19th century , with a collection currently valued at almost $8,000,000?
Did you knowthat despite being unfinished, the Lazaro Cardenas Dam successfully protected the Mexican towns of Gómez Palacio and Torreón from possible flooding triggered by Hurricane Naomi in 1968?
Did you knowthat in 2002 the Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad bought 41½ miles (66.8 km ) of track between Meadville and Corry, Pennsylvania for $ 1?
Did you knowthat the 1982 release of the album Juju Music by the Nigerian band King Sunny Adé and His African Beats has been credited with launching the World Beat movement in the United States?
Did you knowthat the Polish Astronomical and Meteorogical Observatory , located on the peak of Pop Iwan (2022 meters above sea level) in Chornohora , was the highest located permanently inhabited building in interbellum Poland?
Did you knowthat women in Rome were forbidden to drink wine , under penalty of death or divorce ?
Did you knowthat presidential candidate Barack Obama 's chief of staff, Pete Rouse , came to be known as "the 101st Senator" due to his savvy on Capitol Hill ?
Did you knowthat the Tang Dynasty chancellor Zhang Jianzhi , despite a long civil service career, did not become a chancellor until age 79, and a year later took part in overthrowing the only female emperor in Chinese history, Wu Zetian ?
Did you knowthat Paul's walk , the central aisle of Old St Paul's Cathedral , was a grapevine for London gossip and news during the 16th and 17th centuries?
Did you knowthat John William Hansen , a member of International Cricket Council 's Code of Conduct Commission, is a New Zealand High Court justice ?
Did you knowthat before the bobsleigh track in Cortina d'Ampezzo , Italy was shortened to its current configuration in 1981 , it was used as part of the film For Your Eyes Only ?
Did you knowthat Biglow Canyon Wind Farm is the largest planned wind farm in the U.S. state of Oregon ?
Did you knowthat David Suzuki: The Autobiography is actually David Suzuki 's second autobiography ?
Did you knowthat Israeli scholar Charles Liebman pioneered contemporary scholarship on American Orthodox Judaism and argued that "religious extremism is the norm" in Israel?
Did you knowthat Charles R. Brayton , as political boss of Rhode Island , pushed through legislation called the Brayton Act that limited the state's governor to appointing little more than his own private secretary?
Did you knowthat the radio station of North Community High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the official broadcaster for traffic reports in the area?
Did you knowthat German philosopher Leo Frobenius thought that all non-European culture in Africa had to be the result of a white civilization which he called the African Atlantis ?
Did you knowthat Kenneth Summers pastored four Assemblies of God churches before being elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006?
Did you knowthat Charles-Edward Amory Winslow was the founding professor of the Yale School of Public Health and the first editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bacteriology ?
Did you knowthat the Roman fort Longovicium has one of the best preserved ancient aqueducts in Britain ?
Did you knowthat Crispin Sanchez , a pioneer of education and athletics among Mexican Americans in South Texas , turned down an opportunity to play baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals in order to attend college?
Did you knowthat a higher H-point in an automobile design would lead to more legroom in the vehicle?
Did you knowthat numerous wells and springs were dedicated to Saint Quirinus of Neuss , who was invoked against the bubonic plague , smallpox , gout , and a siege of the city of Neuss during the Burgundian Wars ?
Did you knowthat in Medellín v. Texas , the U.S. Supreme Court held that, absent an act of Congress or Constitutional authority, the U.S. President lacks the power to enforce decisions of the International Court of Justice ?
Did you knowthat Robert Mondavi recommended that Christian Moueix establish his Dominus Estate winery in the Napa Valley ?
Did you knowthat Dauer Sportwagen converted Porsche 962C racing cars into street-legal road cars , then converted them back into race cars in order to exploit a rulebook loophole and win the 1994 24 Hours of Le Mans ?
Did you knowthat Swedish–Ukrainian relations have long traditions and that the Swedish king Charles XII was named protector of Ukraine in the first Ukrainian constitution of 1710 and that Hetman Pylyp Orlyk lived in Sweden 1716–1720?
Did you knowthat the practices of the Followers of Christ church in Oregon , United States , which include faith healing and forbid medical treatment , prompted a 1999 state law making parents liable if their children are harmed by a lack of treatment?
Did you knowthat Georgia Tech professor Rebecca Grinter supervised a 2005 study which found that iTunes users in the workplace experience " playlist anxiety"?
Did you knowthat Firestar's Quest , a book in the Warriors fantasy novel series, has been translated into Russian ?
Did you knowthat Captain Michael Heck was an American B-52 pilot in the Vietnam War who became a conscientious objector and refused to continue  bombing North Vietnamese targets during the Christmas operation of 1972?
Did you knowthat Acorn Antiques The Musical was directed by Trevor Nunn and opened at the Theatre Royal Haymarket with a three month sell-out run?
Did you knowthat footballer Graham Lewis was nearly prevented from making his début for Belper Town F.C. when the referee and assistant referee failed to spot his name on the team sheet?
Did you knowthat Tony Dungy is the winningest coach, among Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coaches ?
Did you knowthat Thomas Rawson Birks , Cambridge Professor , used science and theology to reason that other stars did not have their own planets ?
Did you knowthat, inspired by Sylvester Stallone 's experience selling the script for Rocky , actor/screenwriter J. P. Davis refused to sell his script for the film Fighting Tommy Riley unless he was guaranteed to play the lead?
Did you knowthat the steamboat Flyer , which by 1930 had covered more miles than any other dedicated inland vessel, had an imperfectly sealed hull , causing it to list to port throughout its working life?
Did you knowthat the Haitian military leader and former slave Lamour Desrances allied with the enemies of Haitian Revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture in the War of the Knives ?
Did you knowthat when Demi Moore appeared nude on the cover of Vanity Fair in the body painting / photograph Demi's Birthday Suit , it commemorated More Demi Moore ' s one-year anniversary?
Did you knowthat Shaw University ’s Leonard Hall housed the first class of four year African-American medical students in the United States ?
Did you knowthat jazz drummer Butch Ballard was hired by Duke Ellington as a backup drummer due to the excessive drinking of his regular drummer Sonny Greer ?
Did you knowthat Evergreen Lutheran High School lost its lease in DuPont, Washington in 1988 and has been looking for another site while sharing land at a local church?
Did you knowthat wine writer André Simon had only two magnums of claret in his cellar when he died in 1970, believing that "a man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar"?
Did you knowthat Hindus believe that god Vishnu falls asleep in the cosmic ocean of milk on the cosmic serpent , for a period of four months on the day of Shayani Ekadashi ?
Did you knowthat Gloria Shayne Baker and Noel Regney co-wrote the Do You Hear What I Hear? Christmas carol as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis ?
Did you knowthat Reginald Turvey, "The Father of the Baháʼís of South Africa ", spent 13 years unaware that there were fellow believers in the Baháʼí Faith in his country?
Did you knowthat before the Second World War , the Synagogue in Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva apart from religious functions, was also used as a lecture hall for Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva ?
Did you knowthat stems and sheaths of Korthalsia palm trees , named after Dutch botanist P. W. Korthals who first collected them from Indonesia , can be made into rope ?
Did you knowthat Native American Thomas Wakeman organized the first Sioux Indian YMCA at Flandreau, Dakota Territory on April 27 1879 ?
Did you knowthat the incompleted Montana -class battleships would have had a heavier broadside than the Yamato -class battleships ?
Did you knowthat it took Midvinterblot , a controversial painting from Sweden , 82 years and a detour to a Japanese collector before it could finally be installed where it was intended to be?
Did you knowthat Captain Frederick Lewis Maitland received the final surrender of Napoleon Bonaparte aboard his ship HMS Bellerophon after the Napoleonic Wars ?
Did you knowthat ITV Network Centre did not want to broadcast the first series of Cold Feet at 9 p.m. because that was a timeslot traditionally reserved for programmes that viewers could do their ironing to?
Did you knowthat the proposed WALLY commuter rail line in southeast Michigan would run over track first laid over one hundred years ago?
Did you knowthat a Carley float was a liferaft fashioned from a large ring of copper tubing surrounded by cork and canvas ?
Did you knowthat Kitty Kielland had to take private landscape painting lessons from Hans Gude because she was a woman?
Did you knowthat Andrei Kravchuk gave up his almost-completed master's degree in Mathematics to study film after Aleksei German offered him a job as a director's assistant?
Did you knowthat Isaac Moores, Sr. served in the Oregon Territorial Legislature , with his son Isaac Moores, Jr. later serving in the Oregon State Legislature ?
Did you knowthat the hero of the Loch Ard disaster, Tom Pearce, lost one of his sons when the Loch Vennachar was wrecked off Kangaroo Island in 1905?
Did you knowthat Richard Nixon credited Tony Mazzocchi with being the primary force behind enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970?
Did you knowthat Theophilus Browne disagreed with his congregations at Cambridge and Warminster and he was paid to leave the Octagon Chapel in Norwich in 1809?
Did you knowthat the oldest steam locomotive in Switzerland is an Engerth locomotive , a form of articulated locomotive ?
Did you knowthat the Tlaxcaltec forces led by Xicotencatl II "The Younger" had nearly defeated the army of Hernán Cortés when he was ordered to ally with them instead?
Did you knowthat the founder of Byzantine studies in Germany is Hieronymus Wolf who, approximately 100 years after the fall of Byzantium , began to edit and translate Byzantine literature ?
Did you knowthat the influence of wine critic Robert Finigan declined when he panned the 1982 Bordeaux vintage , which Robert Parker described as one of greatest of the century?
Did you knowthat East Smithfield was given to the Knighten Guild by King Edgar , after they each performed three combats—one above the ground, one below, and one on water?
Did you knowthat the sinking of the ferry Greycliffe with the loss of 40 lives in 1927 was the deadliest shipping accident ever in Sydney Harbour , Australia ?
Did you knowthat the Przemyśl fortress was the site of one of the largest sieges of the First World War , the Siege of Przemyśl ?
Did you knowthat the Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism is a Muslim advocacy group which monitors media coverage of Islam and Muslims in the U.K. ?
Did you knowthat Jeremy Doner was the first student at Harvard University to write a screenplay as a creative thesis?
Did you knowthat according to Inca mythology , lunar eclipses are caused by animals attacking Mama Quilla , the goddess of the moon ?
Did you knowthat American four-star admiral Lynde D. McCormick became NATO 's first Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic despite opposition from British prime minister Winston Churchill ?
Did you knowthat the Roman Baths of Strand Lane were featured in David Copperfield ?
Did you knowthat Chen Chi-mai received the flag of the World Games and officially made Kaohsiung the host city of World Games 2009 ?
Did you knowthat production of the cervelat , the Swiss national sausage , is set to cease in 2008, causing a public upset in Switzerland ?
Did you knowthat Polish Countess Delfina Potocka served as muse to both Romantic poet Count Zygmunt Krasiński and composer Frédéric Chopin —who both wrote works in her honor?
Did you knowthat the title of the film Woman Is the Future of Man comes from a line in a poem by Louis Aragon that the director Hong Sang-soo saw printed on a French postcard?
Did you knowthat John Blackner , who wrote a history of Nottingham in 1815, explained why the anti-industrial group was called Luddites ; a group he may have been a member of?
Did you knowthat when the commander of the German forces in the Dodecanese came to surrender aboard HMS Kimberley , he did so aboard a captured British Motor Launch ?
Did you knowthat the Occupational Safety and Health Act went into effect in the United States on April 28 , 1971 , the same day as Workers' Memorial Day ?
Did you knowthat William M. Bass , a forensic anthropologist at the University of Tennessee , established the " Original Body Farm " in 1971 to study decomposition in cadavers ?
Did you knowthat Oregon State athletic director Percy Locey claimed that the Philadelphia Athletics stole John Leovich from the college, yet he ended up playing only one major league game?
Did you knowthat the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union called off a merger with the United Mine Workers just two hours before the unions planned to announce the agreement?
Did you knowthat one of Kentucky 's first two judges , James John Floyd , was once a privateer ?
Did you knowthat Drew Goddard described writing the fourth-season episode titled " The Shape of Things to Come " as possibly his best experience while working on the television show Lost ?
Did you knowthat a replica of the château from the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beauregard was constructed for the Guggenheim family on Long Island , New York ?
Did you knowthat traditional artisans in one village in the Bagmundi area of Purulia district in West Bengal make the masks used in Chhau dance ?
Did you knowthat a curse supposedly placed on Írgalach mac Conaing by Saint Adomnán for the killing of Niall mac Cernaig Sotal was said to be linked to Conaing's death in battle a year later?
Did you knowthat Katie Sierra was accused of treason and suspended from high school in October 2001 for attempting to start an anarchist club?
Did you knowthat Germany still held 1.2 million Russian prisoners of war in December 1918, nine months after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk obliged it to release them?
Did you knowthat " The Unicorn and the Wasp " will be the first comedic episode in the science fiction television series Doctor Who since the 1966 serial The Gunfighters ?
Did you knowthat the number of recognized species of palm trees in the genus Hydriastele has jumped from 9 to 48 in the last four years?
Did you knowthat bad advice from Flaithbertach mac Inmainén , abbot of Scattery Island and chief adviser to King Cormac mac Cuilennáin , is said to have caused a war in which Cormac and many others died?
Did you knowthat The Curse of Steptoe , a 2008 television play based upon the making of the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son , gained the highest audience figures to date for BBC Four ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Beaune-la-Rolande resulted in the death of the French impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille whilst leading his unit in the attack?
Did you knowthat although he is famous for inventing the Crampton locomotive , Thomas Crampton was also responsible for the world's first international submarine telegraph cable ?
Did you knowthat scriptwriter Richard Baer 's writing credits for television included twenty-three episodes of Bewitched and five episodes of The Munsters ?
Did you knowthat in February 1944, the retreating forces of Nazi Germany razed the Gdov Kremlin almost entirely with only its walls remaining?
Did you knowthat Leon Greenman was reportedly the only Englishman sent to Auschwitz ?
Did you knowthat Carl Størmer , "the acknowledged authority" on aurorae and the motion of charged particles in the magnetosphere , began his academic career inventing formulae for π ?
Did you knowthat Quite Interesting Limited provides the research for UK TV programme QI and The Museum of Curiosity ?
Did you knowthat the Somers Hamlet Historic District in Westchester County, New York includes the Elephant Hotel , considered the birthplace of the American circus ?
Did you knowthat after Edward Phelan was acquitted of murder, indicted on perjury charges and killed by companions in self-defense , one of the largest lakes in Saint Paul, Minnesota was named after him?
Did you knowthat apart from blowflies , some flesh-eating beetles can also be used by forensic entomologists in determining the time of death of a corpse ?
Did you knowthat Artie Wilson , who hit .402 in 1948 with the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues , is often considered the last professional major league baseball player to bat over .400 for a season?
Did you knowthat the Palestinian town of Jifna , believed to be the biblical Gophna , was a Roman regional capital and considered the second most important town in Iudaea after Jerusalem ?
Did you knowthat photographer Stewart Shining has shot photos for the covers of both the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and the People Magazine Most Beautiful People issue?
Did you knowthat the Church of St James the Great, Haydock , Merseyside was built with timber framing because its flexibility would provide greater protection against possible mining subsidence ?
Did you knowthat the presence of certain insects in a corpse may be indicators of elder or child abuse ?
Did you knowthat photographer Raphael Mazzucco has had images on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in each of the last four years?
Did you knowthat Invicta was the steam locomotive built by Robert Stephenson and Company after building the Rocket ?
Did you knowthat in the 1934 film Evergreen the actress Jessie Matthews played both mother and daughter?
Did you knowthat drag racer Al Hofmann had to get a friend to come over to start his first Funny Car ?
Did you knowthat Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified by Song Chinese investigator Song Ci documents some of the earliest work in forensic entomology ?
Did you knowthat the earliest full-length portrait of Elizabeth I by Tudor court painter Steven van der Meulen , was auctioned by Sotheby's in 2007 for £2.6 million, more than twice its expected maximum?
Did you knowthat Children and Youth Sports Schools , which originated in the Soviet Union , continue in Russia , and form the basis of the modern system in the People's Republic of China ?
Did you knowthat the Nokomis Community Library , named for Nokomis in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's The Song of Hiawatha , is the only library in the Minneapolis Public Library System to be named for a fictional character?
Did you knowthat despite being appointed to the usually profitable post of comptroller to Prince Charles in 1616, John Vaughan, 1st Earl of Carbery later claimed that serving the Prince had cost him £20,000?
Did you knowthat the steam locomotive thought for many years to be Timothy Hackworth's Bradyll may, in fact, be Thomas Richardson's Nelson ?
Did you knowthat journalist Néstor Mata was the sole survivor of the 1957 Cebu Douglas C-47 crash which killed Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others?
Did you knowthat the French once had an outpost called La Belle, where Louisville now stands?
Did you knowthat John Orloff was inspired to write his own screenplay when his wife, working for the HBO network, continually brought home "awful" scripts?
Did you knowthat when the 1987 America's Cup was raced off Fremantle, Western Australia it was the first time for 132 years that the regatta had not been hosted by the New York Yacht Club ?
Did you knowthat activist Michael Mansell convinced Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi to recognise an Aboriginal Australian passport to draw world attention to the issue of Aboriginal land rights?
Did you knowthat the St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Raleigh , North Carolina , founded in 1884, was the first independent African-American church in Raleigh?
Did you knowthat Merril Sandoval did not reveal to his family that he had served as a Navajo Code Talker in the United States Marines during World War II until records of the unit were declassified in 1968?
Did you knowthat the Lackham campus of Wiltshire College created a "virtual farm" in 2005 to avoid limitations to practical teaching caused by foot and mouth disease ?
Did you knowthat the Confederate States of America bought fast steamboats from Edward Harland 's company Harland & Wolff during the American Civil War so they could outrun the Union blockade ?
Did you knowthat the Polish interbellum organization Maritime and Colonial League‎ promoted Polish colonies and settlements in Africa and South America ?
Did you knowthat John Jacobs was expelled from the Weatherman organization after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion for advocating the "military error" of violent revolution?
Did you knowthat Israel 's future Prime Minister , Yitzhak Shamir , and its future President of the Supreme Court , Meir Shamgar , were both interned in Africa by British Mandate authorities for membership in Lehi and Irgun ?
Did you knowthat Erkki Karu founded both Suomi-Filmi and Suomen Filmiteollisuus , the two largest film production companies during the 'Golden Age' of Finnish cinema ?
Did you knowthat U.S. Route 12 was extended into Washington in 1967, taking over most of the routing of U.S. Route 410 ?
Did you knowthat Laurence Fox was cast in the British TV detective drama Lewis after his co-star Kevin Whately caught the last 10 minutes of a film he was in?
Did you knowthat video sharing website YouTube has held two YouTube Awards , which honor the best videos on the site, as voted by the YouTube community?
Did you knowthat the petioles of some species of Eugeissona palm trees can be used as darts in blowgun hunting?
Did you knowthat Home of Truth, Utah was a religious utopian community in the 1930s whose leader claimed to receive divine revelations through her typewriter ?
Did you knowthat 2006 novel Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead , was featured among The New York Times ' 100 Most Notable Books of The Year?
Did you knowthat a rock edict of Emperor Ashoka found at Maski in the Indian State of Karnataka in 1915, was the first one to refer him by the name Asoka ?
Did you knowthat the Stalingrad Madonna was flown out on the last transport plane to leave the trapped Sixth Army during the Battle of Stalingrad ?
Did you knowthat a spite house is a house built to annoy and aggravate someone, usually a neighbor?
Did you knowthat the discovery of antennae swords at Kallur in the Indian state of Karnataka , was the first instance of the Copper Hoard culture being found in South India ?
Did you knowthat systems art is an art movement from the 1960s influenced by systems theory , which reflects on natural systems, social systems and social signs of the art world itself?
Did you knowthat the oldest known lemon squeezers were found in Kütahya , Turkey and date to the first quarter of the 18th century?
Did you knowthat Sinnott Memorial Observation Station is a sheltered viewpoint built into the caldera cliff 900 feet (270 m) above Crater Lake in Oregon ?
Did you knowthat the voter turnout of the 2006 DPP chairmanship election in Taiwan was only 19.96%?
Did you knowthat Saint Foutin was a syncretic amalgam of the first bishop of Lyon , France and pre- Christian Gaulish phallic worship ?
Did you knowthat the Russian composers Peter Tchaikovsky , Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , and Serge Rachmaninoff used Ukrainian folk melodies in their works?