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Did you knowthat Christina Lake, British Columbia is the first golf course in Canada to offer black sand traps ?
Did you knowthat the 29 species in the fish genus Sillago are so similar they can only be positively identified by the shapes of their swim bladders ?
Did you knowthat Tom Wolfe 's book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers was set at a party hosted by composer Leonard Bernstein in which Manhattan socialites mingled with the Black Panther Party ?
Did you knowthat 64 Cu-ATSM (diacetyl-bis(N4-methylthiosemicarbazone)) , a chemical with a radioactive isotope of copper , has been shown to increase the survival time of tumor-bearing animals with no acute toxicity ?
Did you knowthat papal conclaves from the 14th to 17th centuries attempted to use capitulations to influence the popes they elected in matters from the appointment of cardinal-nephews to papal travel and construction projects?
Did you knowthat Len Waters was the first Australian Aboriginal military pilot , flying P-40 "Kittyhawk" fighter planes during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Anonymous Christian is Karl Rahner 's controversial theological premise used to postulate that people can be saved through Christ even if they explicitly reject Christianity ?
Did you knowthat the Stuart Oil Shale Project , the world’s first application of the Alberta-Taciuk Processor technology on oil shale , was in operation only five years?
Did you knowthat Russia 's Foreign Minister Sergey Sazonov , who brought the country into World War I , was the brother-in-law of Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin ?
Did you knowthat, except in 1987 , the United States presidential candidate who wins the Ames Straw Poll has always gone on to win the Republican Party 's Iowa Caucus ?
Did you knowthat a Cossack community existed in Beijing as early as 1685 ?
Did you knowthat in the Polish-Ottoman War of 1672-1676 , a few years before crippling the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna , the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was forced to sign an unfavorable treaty with the Empire?
Did you knowthat Thomas L. Bromwell is a former Maryland State Senator who, along with his wife, pleaded guilty to public corruption charges?
Did you knowthat poet Sekou Sundiata taught alternative musicians Ani DiFranco and Mike Doughty ?
Did you knowthat the Jiu Valley miners' strike of 1977 was the largest protest movement against the Communist regime in Romania before the Romanian Revolution of 1989 ?
Did you knowthat Silas Rhodes co-founded what would become the School of Visual Arts in order to help returning World War II veterans transition back to civilian life?
Did you knowthat General Augusto Pinochet was once kept under house arrest at a house on the Wentworth Estate , an exclusive residential area surrounding the Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey , England ?
Did you knowthat Catherine Troeh , a Native American activist, often signed her letters "member of the Chinook Tribe Allottee 1865 Quinault reservation" as a reference to 80 acres of land granted to her by the U.S. federal government ?
Did you knowthat Taiwanese alternative musician Deserts Chang wrote her first song at the age of 13 before she learned how to play a musical instrument ?
Did you knowthat the discovery of the dinosauromorph Dromomeron , from the Late Triassic of New Mexico , indicates that dinosaurs did not rapidly replace their close relatives?
Did you knowthat Byzantium under the Komnenoi was the Medieval continuation of the Roman Empire , and played a key role in the history of the Crusades in the Holy Land ?
Did you knowthat Rani Abbakka , who fought the Portuguese in the 16th century, is regarded as the 'first woman freedom fighter of India '?
Did you knowthat David Feldman , philatelist , achieved the world’s record price of 2.5 million Swiss Francs for a single postage stamp , the Treskilling Yellow for which he appeared in the 1996 Guinness Book of World Records ?
Did you knowthat Captain Austin M. Knight was court-martialed for allowing the USS Puritan to sink, but nevertheless became a four-star admiral whose textbook Modern Seamanship was a standard shiphandling reference for over eight decades?
Did you knowthat after reading the Vietnam War memoir When Heaven and Earth Changed Places , Oliver Stone realized that his films Platoon and Born on the Fourth of July lacked a Vietnamese perspective, leading to his directing of Heaven & Earth ?
Did you knowthat John Salminen is an award-winning American watercolorist well known for his realistic urban landscapes ?
Did you knowthat Vikkamabahu was the first Sri Lankan monarch to mount an organised campaign to expel the Chola army which invaded the island in the 12th century?
Did you knowthat pioneer claim clubs were used in the American Old West to protect land claims by settlers against claim jumpers and to promote claim jumping against absentee land owners?
Did you knowthat The Land of the Settlers is a five-part documentary series made by Chaim Yavin , dubbed " Israel's Walter Cronkite ", and was so controversial that his station refused to air it?
Did you knowthat Fort Greble was built so fast that there was no time to construct proper earthen magazines for artillery , and three years later company quarters had to be demolished to add them?
Did you knowthat the seeds of Prunus mahaleb , a spice, contain coumarin ?
Did you knowthat one of the most influential people in Polish-French relations was Napoleon Bonaparte , still considered a hero in Poland and mentioned in the Polish national anthem ?
Did you knowthat Fancy Farm, Kentucky is recognized as the home of the world's largest picnic?
Did you knowthat British general Frederick Barton Maurice was forced to resign after writing a letter accusing David Lloyd George of misrepresenting the strength of British forces during the Spring Offensive ?
Did you knowthat Samson was made by Academy Award winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda and blends the Biblical tale of Samson with his Holocaust coming-of-age story?
Did you knowthat on January 27 , 1987 83 workers of a shrimp farm in Kokkadichcholai, Sri Lanka were shot , allegedly by Special Task Force officers?
Did you knowthat pioneer James Harrod established the first permanent European settlement in the U.S. state of Kentucky on June 16 , 1774 ?
Did you knowthat construction of 'Tagore Castle' in Pathuriaghata , a Calcutta neighbourhood, was modelled on that of an English castle, a departure in the way of building residences in India?
Did you knowthat Artine Artinian was used as a fictional character by two of the most prominent American writers of the 20th century?
Did you knowthat the Baptist Foundation of Arizona (BFA) filed for the largest bankruptcy of a religious organization in U.S. history after its 600 million dollar fraud went undetected by the same Big Five firm that audited Enron ?
Did you knowthat the Gestapo and NKVD convened four conferences discussing the elimination of the Polish resistance movement ?
Did you knowthat after Hugo Chávez's September 2006 speech to the United Nations , gas stations operated by the United Refining Company starting removing Citgo signs from their buildings?
Did you knowthat the saint Hermagoras of Aquileia gave his name to the Austrian city and district of Hermagor ?
Did you knowthat the Southern right whales off the coast of Argentina 'sail' by raising their flukes and catching the wind?
Did you knowthat Shalom Yoran , a Jewish partisan during World War II and the author of The Defiant: A True Story of Jewish Vengeance and Survival , played a major role in developing Israeli Aircraft Industries ?
Did you know Glassworts are plants named to indicate that their ashes contain an alkali that is important in making glass ?
Did you knowthat Marcin Czechowic , a 16th-century Polish theologian , frequently changed his religious views as far as from Catholicism to Arianism ?
Did you knowthat Smederevo fortress survived for over 500 years without much damage, then was devastated in a single explosion during World War II ?
Did you knowthat, in addition to having a passion for opera, dramatic soprano Othalie Graham enjoys music by Prince and Jamaican reggae musician Jimmy Cliff ?
Did you knowthat Dode Criss is considered by historian Bill James to be the first player to be used as a baseball pinch hitter regularly?
Did you knowthat the comprehensive metabolic panel is a suite of 14 blood tests routinely administered to screen for many different diseases?
Did you knowthat Captain William Walter Kouts located the son of the Medal of Honor recipient who died while saving Kouts during World War II after over sixty years of searching?
Did you knowthat famous Mexican poet and politician Guillermo Prieto saved the life of President Benito Juárez by interposing himself between the guns of rebellious guardsmen and the president?
Did you knowthat Quebec City 's Clarendon Hotel originally hosted the Queen's Printers for Canada?
Did you knowthat the title of Mary Wollstonecraft 's conduct book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters alludes to John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education , one of its primary philosophical influences?
Did you knowthat the Group C Nissan R90Cs won the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship three times, the 1000km Suzuka twice, and the 24 Hours of Daytona once in their four years of competition?
Did you knowthat silver coins in the 10th-century Viking Harrogate Hoard , recovered intact in Yorkshire , January 2007, came from as far as Afghanistan ?
Did you knowthat Chin Gee Hee (1844–1929) was a successful labor contractor in the United States and later a railroad entrepreneur in his native China ?
Did you knowthat Lowell Observatory staff resisted building the telescope used to discover the dwarf planet Pluto until trustee Roger Putnam ordered them to do so?
Did you knowthat Chilean cricketer John Jackson was once on the opposing side to his brother Alfred in an international match against Argentina ?
Did you knowthat in the PlayStation 2 live action adventure game 0 Story , two Japanese female actresses kiss while one is possessed by the player's ghost?
Did you knowthat the 1988 Chiado district fire caused more damage to the city of Lisbon than any catastrophe since the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake ?
Did you knowthat after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the population of the neighboring Hyde Park Township exceeded that of the devastated Chicago ?
Did you knowthat Eddy Brown , an English football player who had originally planned to take Holy Orders , was well known for his goal celebrations as early as the 1950s?
Did you knowthat in Tum Teav , a classic 19th century Cambodian tragedy, a novice monk named Tum sleeps with an adolescent girl named Teav and then is killed after kissing her at her wedding?
Did you knowthat a catfish of the genus Helogenes is known to jump out of the stream during rotenone fishing by locals, and jump back afterwards?
Did you knowthat the Wimbledon and Sutton Railway was opened in 1930, more than 20 years after the original plans were drawn up?
Did you knowthat the origin of the Azerbaijanis has been traced to indigenous Caucasians from more than a millennium ago?
Did you knowthat the Australian town of Thangool, Queensland produces over 60% of the Australian market for squab ?
Did you knowthat Sarangapani Temple is named after Sarang, the bow of Rama ?
Did you knowthat approval in 1963 by Bishop Hermann Volk of Mainz resulted in a former Lutheran minister with two children becoming a Roman Catholic priest?
Did you knowthat the bagarius , a carnivorous catfish that lives on eating other fish , breeds in rivers prior to the beginning of the annual flood season in southeast Asia?
Did you knowthat 1900 was the only year in the history of Baltimore City College that no public commencement was held because the students made fun of the professors in the school's yearbook?
Did you knowthat Somerset County Cricket Club player Peter Denning was known for an unorthodox shot called the Chewton carve?
Did you knowthat architects Eggers & Higgins took over construction of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial after the death of John Russell Pope , despite protests that their appointment was "un-Jeffersonian"?
Did you knowthat Pyongyang 's Central Zoo was accused of staging death matches between caged animals for the filming of a so-called nature documentary ?
Did you knowthat Loai al-Saqa was denied entry to his own trial for wearing a copy of a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's uniform ?
Did you knowthat Nicolás Zúñiga y Miranda considered himself the President of Mexico for two decades, despite losing in each of the ten elections he entered?
Did you knowthat Rico J. Puno , a popular Filipino pop singer, launched his career by incorporating Tagalog lyrics into the American song The Way We Were , among others?
Did you knowthat the Olson Hotel in Ainsworth, British Columbia had a two-story outhouse ?
Did you knowthat the Karrinyup Shopping Centre was the first mall in Western Australia to implement a complete ban on smoking ?
Did you knowthat yak racing is a spectator sport held at many traditional festivals in Tibet and Mongolia ?
Did you knowthat Boden Fortress not only served to protect northern Sweden from enemy attacks, but was also used to store some 280 tonnes of the Swedish gold reserve ?
Did you knowthat Bhudev Mukhopadhyay taught at Hindu , Muslim and Christian schools?
Did you knowthat Maes Titianus penetrated farther along the Silk Road than any other Westerner in Antiquity , reaching the Stone Tower of Tashkurgan in the Pamirs ?
Did you knowthat catfish of the genus Dekeyseria can rapidly change their colouration to fit their mood or their surroundings?
Did you knowthat Singapore 's Middle Road is home to over 21 Hainanese clan and sub-clan associations?
Did you knowthat, prior to the introduction of regulation seamen's uniforms in the Royal Navy , the commanding officer of HMS Harlequin once paid for his entire crew to dress as harlequins ?
Did you knowthat madame Anna Wilson , the "Queen of the Underworld" in early Omaha, Nebraska , bequeathed her 25-room brothel mansion to the city to use as an emergency hospital upon her death?
Did you knowthat Jewish mandarin Zhao Yingcheng helped rebuild Kaifeng 's synagogue after its destruction in 1646?
Did you knowthat the government of Korkai, an important industrial center of ancient Tamil country , employed convicts as pearl divers ?
Did you knowthat, believing himself to be George Washington , the 19th-century phrenologist Frederick Coombs petitioned Congress to give him the Washington Monument ?
Did you knowthat the Trumpeter Swans introduced into the Wye Marsh in the 1980s were the first seen in Ontario since 1884?
Did you knowthat Swedish chemist Gustaf Erik Pasch invented the safety match ?
Did you knowthat U.S. President Ronald Reagan lived in an apartment on the second floor of the H.C. Pitney Variety Store from 1919 to 1920?
Did you knowthat in mid-1939 almost 5000 Poles volunteered as living torpedoes ?
Did you knowthat the William H. Roberts House is the only property in Pecatonica, Illinois listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you knowthat Canada's first female columnist wrote under the pseudonym Faith Fenton so she could retain her day job as a teacher ?
Did you knowthat Kumortuli neighbourhood of Calcutta supplies images of Goddess Durga to Indian communities in about 90 countries?
Did you knowthat Chen Wen Hsi was the first Singaporean artist to be conferred an honorary doctorate by the National University of Singapore ?
Did you knowthat the 2005 docudrama The Burnt Theatre is set in Cambodia 's Suramet National Theatre, which was destroyed by a fire in 1994?
Did you knowthat the Robert Weber Round Barn is one of 31 round barns constructed in a four-county area centered on Stephenson County, Illinois ?
Did you knowthat the city of Piteşti was the original site of Seventh-day Adventist activities in Romania ?
Did you knowthat the spy Aldrich Ames handed over U.S. secrets to the Soviets at the Brickskeller saloon near Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. ?
Did you knowthat the Palacio de los Capitanes Generales was commissioned by the Governor of Havana but took so long to build that another five Governors had come and gone before it was completed?
Did you knowthat the Jews in Pagan Armenia were deported from Palestine to Armenia by Tigranes the Great ?
Did you knowthat the Evelyn tables , acquired by John Evelyn in Padua in 1646, are thought to be the oldest anatomical preparations in Europe ?
Did you knowthat an effigy mound in the shape of a turtle is located in the Beattie Park Mound Group in downtown Rockford, Illinois ?
Did you knowthat Saionji Kinmochi , the 11th Prime Minister of Japan , was a member of the Saionji family , a line of court nobles stretching back to the 12th century?
Did you knowthat the capital city Chang'an during the Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) had 111 Buddhist monasteries and 41 Daoist abbeys within its walls?
Did you knowthat Russian poet Dmitri Prigov wrote approximately 36,000 poems with much of his work distributed as samizdat ?
Did you knowthat Wilhelm von Pressel designed the first railroad in Turkey ?
Did you knowthat Kobayashi Kiyochika , the last great ukiyo-e artist, extensively studied photography and Western-style painting, the two forms which heralded the demise of his art?
Did you knowthat several of the Orkney islands ' highest points are named "Ward Hill" due to the many old warning beacons in the area?
Did you knowthat under the First Organic Laws of Oregon , the de facto constitution of the Provisional Government , women could get married at the age of 14?
Did you knowthat the 2007 Super 14 Final between the Bulls and the Sharks was the first all- South African final in Super rugby history?
Did you knowthat the assassination of Ottoman sultan Osman II came about in part due to the military reforms made following his defeat at the Battle of Khotyn in 1621?
Did you knowthat Chao Tzee Cheng , a Singaporean forensic pathologist , performed over 25,000 autopsies ?
Did you knowthat in one Indonesian legend, Prince Panji 's vanished bride disguised herself as a man and became king of Bali ?
Did you knowthat Academy Award -winning American singer Barbra Streisand filled in a tooth gap with Aspergum when she started out in theater?
Did you knowthat the nickname Ned arose from an instance of rebracketing , as children interpreted the term of endearment "mine Ed" as "my Ned"?
Did you knowthat the vigilante actions of the Omaha Claim Club , including many founding fathers of Omaha, Nebraska , were later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Baker v. Morton ?
Did you knowthat York radiate groundsel ( Senecio eboracensis ) is a hybrid plant species thought to have evolved suddenly within the last 300 years?
Did you know St Peter's Church, Plemstall in Cheshire , England , is built on the site of a hermitage occupied by Plegmund who was later the Archbishop of Canterbury ?
Did you knowthat John Wylde (1781-1859) at one time filled the post of Deputy Judge Advocate of New South Wales , where he effectively had to simultaneously perform the roles of committing magistrate, public prosecutor and judge?
Did you know8,909,200 pounds of cast iron were used to build the United States Capitol dome ?
Did you knowthat the Mosque of Kefeli in Istanbul was used jointly as a church by Roman Catholic and Armenian believers before becoming a mosque ?
Did you knowthat the dwarf pygmy goby ( Pandaka pygmaea ), a freshwater fish from  the Philippines , is the smallest fish in the world?
Did you knowthat Stirling Moss is the only racing driver who was given a distinctive caricature design (wearing a helmet ), differing from the usual design, by Autosport 's cartoonist Jim Bamber in 1998?
Did you knowthat in 2007, British forces serving in Basra , Iraq were accused of using killer badgers as a weapon?
Did you knowthat What to Expect When You're Expecting has been called "the Bible of American pregnancy " and consistently tops the New York Times Best Seller list in the paperback advice category?
Did you knowthat Karnataka is home to the largest concentration of Siddhis (a tribe of African descent) in India ?
Did you knowthat after the Hospital Real de Todos os Santos was destroyed in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake , its remains were demolished to create a public square ?
Did you knowthat for special effects in the 2001 Cambodian film , The Snake King's Child , live snakes were glued to a cap worn by the lead actress?
Did you knowthat on the same day Arbroath beat Bon Accord 36-0 in the Scottish Cup that 18 miles away in Dundee, Dundee Harp had beaten Aberdeen Rovers 35-0?
Did you knowthat the known writings of Caius, Presbyter of Rome exist only in fragments, many of which were preserved in the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea ?
Did you knowthat Pakistani artist Anwar Shemza changed his name so it would match that of his studio in Lahore ?
Did you knowthat the auto racing division of Sigma Automotive (later known as SARD ) became the first Japanese team to compete in the 1973 24 Hours of Le Mans ?
Did you knowthat family lawyer Harry Fain played a significant role in the introduction of no-fault divorce law in California in 1970?
Did you knowthat the fruit of the apple dumpling was one of the first bushfoods to be commonly eaten by Europeans in Australia ?
Did you knowthat the Timucua Indians of the St. Johns culture left many large shell middens , including one estimated to be 75 feet high, even though shellfish were a minor part of their diet?
Did you knowthat Sabarna Roy Choudhury sold to the British, for Rs. 1,300, the land rights of Sutanuti , Kalikata and Gobindapur , that ultimately merged to become Calcutta ?
Did you knowthat the construction of the Édifice Price was originally so criticized that it caused an ordinance prohibiting buildings exceeding 65 feet in Old Québec ?
Did you knowthat the former imperial vineyard at Abrau-Durso is known for a brand of Russian wine marketed as the Soviet Champagne ?
Did you knowthat Arundinaria appalachiana is one of only three bamboos native to temperate North America ?
Did you knowthat Ian Pont is the only professional cricketer to have played a professional baseball game?
Did you knowthat due to safety concerns , a number of U.S. states require air ambulance services to be accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems ?
Did you knowthat the Chinese philosopher Wang Chong ( 27 - 97 AD) accurately described the water cycle in meteorology ?
Did you knowthat Alexander Pope was expelled from Twyford School for writing a poem that poked fun at one of his school masters?
Did you knowthat the Klaus Advanced Computing Building is named for Chris Klaus , who donated $ 15 million to his alma mater, Georgia Tech , when he was just 26?
Did you knowthat Gundoin was the first Duke of Alsace , a duchy which existed as part of the Frankish Empire from the 630s ?
Did you knowthat Shardha Ram Phillauri , a Punjabi , wrote the first Hindi novel ?
Did you knowthat Rice People , a 1994 drama film by director Rithy Panh , was the first Cambodian film to be submitted for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ?
Did you knowthat Megaloprepus caerulatus , a giant damselfly with a wingspan of up to 19 centimeters (7.5 inches), breeds in water-filled tree holes ?
Did you knowthat Choke , an upcoming film adaptation of the 2001 novel by Chuck Palahniuk , will be the author's first film adaptation since Fight Club ?
Did you knowthat Édouard Richard , a two-term member of the Canadian House of Commons and Acadian historian , practiced law with future Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier ?
Did you knowthat the Dima Halim Daoga and the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland broke ties because of competing separatist ideologies ?
Did you knowthat World War II Imperial Japanese Navy light cruiser Kuma was torpedoed by a Royal Navy submarine while engaged in anti-submarine warfare training?
Did you knowthat Song Du-yul , a professor of philosophy and sociology at the University of Münster in Germany , was the only South Korean to attend the 1994 funeral of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung ?