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Did you knowthat Rev William Cotton , vicar of Frodsham , Cheshire , introduced the skills of beekeeping to New Zealand in the 1840s?
Did you knowthat your biological chronotype characterizes your morningness or eveningness?
Did you knowthat Singapore ’s Sungei Road , formerly a place designated for affluent Europeans and Asians, is now the largest and oldest flea market better known as the Thieves' Market?
Did you knowthat at 24, Wilfred Arthur was the youngest Group Captain in the history of the Royal Australian Air Force ?
Did you knowthat the slang term brass razoo is speculated to have originated from Egyptian or Indian currency?
Did you knowthat the fight scene between Peter Griffin and a giant chicken on Family Guy episode " Blind Ambition " was originally created for the episode " The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire "?
Did you knowthat conservative radio talk show host Moon Griffon , who broadcasts statewide from Monroe , is sometimes known as the Rush Limbaugh of Louisiana ?
Did you knowthat the Raichur Thermal Power Station is the first thermal power plant to be set up in the Indian state of Karnataka and accounts for about 40% of the total power generated in the state?
Did you knowthat tradition states Severus of Barcelona was given the position of Bishop of Barcelona because a pigeon landed on his head?
Did you knowthat Siniloan River in the Philippines is known by tourists for its five waterfalls and clear and easily accessible headwaters ?
Did you knowthat the Valle d'Aosta DOC in the Alps of northwestern Italy is home to the highest elevated vineyards in all of Europe?
Did you knowthat businessman Peter Bynoe oversaw the development of New Comiskey Park , which was instrumental in keeping the Chicago White Sox from leaving the city?
Did you knowthat the Visigothic Reccopolis , founded in Hispania in 578 by King Leovigild , and lost until 1944, was one of only two new cities founded in Western Europe between the 5th and 9th centuries?
Did you knowthat Lavinia Fisher is widely recognised as the first female serial killer in the United States of America ?
Did you knowthat the Articulating Propulsion System with thrust vectoring control allows the Super Dvora Mk III to function in shallow waters at drafts of 1.2 meters?
Did you knowthat the series of unconventional aircraft designed by Jonathan Edward Caldwell may be responsible for reported sightings of flying saucers in the United States throughout the 1950s and 60s?
Did you knowthat upon completion, the thirteen-volume History of Lithuania will be the largest and the most comprehensive academic publication covering Lithuania ’s history ever released?
Did you knowthat in 2007, the Trinity Tigers threw 15 backward passes in 62 seconds to defeat the Millsaps Majors with the longest play in college football history ?
Did you knowthat the Jami al-Tawarikh , a work of Persian literature by Rashid al-Din , was initially commissioned to document the history of the Mongols , but later expanded to cover the history of the entire world as known to Persians from the time of Adam to the 14th century ?
Did you knowthat some U.S. commercial airliners are now being equipped with the Northrop Grumman Guardian anti-missile system to counter terrorist attacks with shoulder-launched missiles ?
Did you knowthat during the Peninsular War , French forces in Extremadura led by Marshal Édouard Mortier took barely an hour to kill 1,000 Spanish soldiers and take 4,000 prisoners in winning the Battle of the Gebora ?
Did you knowthat Praejectus , Bishop of Clermont , was assassinated for his supposed involvement in the earlier death of a lord of Marseilles ?
Did you knowthat Batesian and Müllerian mimicry provided early evidence for the theory of evolution put forward by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace ?
Did you knowthat water absorption is responsible for most of the incoming sunlight and outgoing thermal radiation absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere ?
Did you knowthat the police officer who illegally shot Nathaniel Levi Gaines in 1996 became the third officer from the New York City Police Department to be sentenced for committing a crime while on active duty?
Did you knowthat Khoo Kheng-Hor , a Malaysian author, was appointed as honorary Assistant Superintendent of Police in Singapore , in recognition for his contemporary application of Sun Tzu 's Art of War ?
Did you knowthat David Letterman parodied Werner Erhard in the 1978 Mork & Mindy episode Mork Goes Erk ?
Did you knowthat the American Ceylon Mission founded Asia's first all girls boarding school in 1824 , in Sri Lanka ?
Did you knowthat Juan Bautista Villalpando proposed that the classical orders were derived originally from Solomon's Temple , not from ancient Greek architecture as Vitruvius had written?
Did you knowthat Howard Greer designed costumes for the Katharine Hepburn films Christopher Strong and Bringing Up Baby ?
Did you knowthat Andrew Michael Dasburg's three "daringly experimental" Cubist pieces at the 1913 Armory Show introduced many Americans to modern art ?
Did you knowthat the Lwów dialect was one of the first dialects of the Polish language to be properly classified?
Did you knowthat the human mouth is colonized by bacteroides and spirochetes around puberty ?
Did you knowthat Judge Henry Stump of Baltimore 's circuit court was the only jurist in the history of Maryland to be removed from the bench by the Maryland General Assembly ?
Did you knowthat BBC journalist Leonard Miall worked on psychological warfare in New York and San Francisco with the Political Warfare Executive during World War II ?
Did you knowthat granular cheese is produced by repeatedly stirring and draining a mixture of curds and whey ?
Did you knowthat Prema Karanth is the first woman to direct a Kannada film?
Did you knowthat the astronomical observatory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica is named after physicist Martin A. Pomerantz ?
Did you knowthat a T-54 tank of the Polish Army killed seven children watching on the sidewalk during a military parade in Szczecin in 1962?
Did you knowthat Shaukat Usmani was a candidate for the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1929 UK general election while imprisoned in India ?
Did you knowthat Node Magazine , a hypertext version of William Gibson 's Spook Country , is a fictional magazine named after a fictional magazine in the novel?
Did you knowthat the First International Syndicalist Congress in 1913 was compared to " Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark " because the world's largest syndicalist organization was absent?
Did you knowthat Sir John Port , patron of Oxford University , was involved in the trials of two saints and a Queen ?
Did you knowthat though it started as a block party in 1975, Capital Pride in Washington, D.C. , is now the fourth-largest gay pride parade and festival in the United States ?
Did you knowthat William Couper is considered one of the first prominent entomologists in Canada ?
Did you knowthat Shoyna , on a peninsula of Russia 's Nenets Autonomous Okrug , is more than half buried by sand dunes caused by permafrost and trawling?
Did you knowthat the foundation of the largest dam in Iraq is subject to so much erosion that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has warned about the risk of a collapse that would kill up to 500,000 people?
Did you knowthat BBC cameraman Charles de Jaeger got the idea for the Panorama April Fools report on the Swiss spaghetti harvest from a phrase used by one of his school teachers in Vienna?
Did you knowthat the Treaty of Reichenbach signaled both Prussia's first retreat from the policies of Frederick the Great , as well as the beginning of its decline?
Did you knowthat an explanation for the derivation of Aughanduff , a townland in Armagh , is that it means ford of the ox or Áth an Daimh in Irish ?
Did you knowthat Song Hye-rang is a North Korean defector who looked after Kim Jong-nam , the child of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Beard v. Banks that it is not unconstitutional to deny newspapers to violent prison inmates, who can use them to start fires and make weapons ?
Did you knowthat the Australian lamington cake is believed to have been named after Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington , the then- Governor of Queensland ?
Did you knowthat during the Lithuanian press ban from 1864 to 1904, it was illegal in Lithuania to print, import, distribute, or possess any publications that were written in the Lithuanian language using the Latin alphabet ?
Did you knowthat Chef Morou Ouattara opened his own restaurant after he lost his job as Signatures Restaurant 's executive chef in the fallout of the Jack Abramoff scandals ?
Did you knowthat RAOC officer George Styles was awarded the George Cross in 1972 for defusing booby-trapped bombs planted by terrorists in Northern Ireland , including two bombs left at the Europa Hotel in Belfast within a matter of days?
Did you knowthat the programmable metallization cell is one of many contenders aiming to become a Flash RAM replacement?
Did you knowthat in the year 2004, both the Tamil and Telugu language versions of the Kannada novel Parva won the Sahitya Akademi of India 's translation award?
Did you knowthat a church was built in memory of Parkin Jeffcock who led a rescue during the Oaks colliery explosions which killed over 350?
Did you knowthat the paddle-wheel cyclogyro aircraft design refuses to die after almost a century of failed attempts to build one?
Did you knowthat Powderfinger 's " Living Type " was about Charles Manson 's cult victims, not about love or menstruation as had been speculated by some lyrical analysts?
Did you knowthat Luzerne County Commissioner, former professional athlete and University of Michigan Wolverine offensive lineman , Greg Skrepenak , was inducted into the Pennsylvania State Sports Hall of Fame?
Did you knowthat Edward Abbott was the first judge to sit in a permanent civil court in the Australian State of Tasmania?
Did you knowthat Bartolomé Calvo became President of the Granadine Confederation after his predecessor's term ended and no new president had been elected?
Did you knowthat during the Italian War of 1542–1546 , the population of Toulon , France was expelled to make room for an Ottoman naval base?
Did you knowthat Olegarius , Archbishop of Tarragona , became a canon priest when he was only ten years old?
Did you knowthat John Phillips was one of the first judges appointed to the Victorian Court of Appeal and that his nickname was "Equity Jack"?
Did you knowthat an aircraft which misses the arrestor cables on an aircraft carrier and needs to accelerate away is referred to as a bolter ?
Did you knowthat the exploits of the 6th century Roman general John Troglita are the subject of one of the last epic poems of Antiquity, the Iohannis by Flavius Cresconius Corippus ?
Did you knowthat Julia Ward Howe , author of " The Battle Hymn of the Republic " and champion of emancipation and women's suffrage , was also a founder of the Women's Rest Tour Association of Boston ?
Did you knowthat Michael Jordan's Restaurant in Chicago received as many as 7,000 telephone calls per day during its first few months of operation?
Did you knowthat Hare Field was the first all-weather high school football field in Oregon ?
Did you knowthat founder Beulah Burke organized and was the first regional director of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated's Midwestern region?
Did you knowthat Sardarji jokes are the most popular ethnic jokes in India ?
Did you knowthat John Fowler won the 1858 prize of the Royal Agricultural Society for mechanical cultivation using winches and a steam engine ?
Did you knowthat Sagittarius B2 is a giant molecular cloud near the Galactic Center where half of all known interstellar molecules were first discovered?
Did you knowthat there are seven dialectal groups of the Polish language , each primarily associated with a certain geographical region?
Did you knowthat the annual Global Peace and Unity conference held at the ExCeL Exhibition Centre in London is the largest Muslim event in Europe ?
Did you knowthat Teimuraz I , a Georgian monarch of the Bagrationi Dynasty , was also an accomplished poet whose literary works includes original Georgian poems as well as translations and adaptations from Persian literature ?
Did you knowthat only after five years since its founding in 1991, Reel Affirmations became the fourth-largest LGBT film festival in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Alex Niño quit medical school at the University of Manila in 1959 to pursue his childhood goal of becoming a comic book artist?
Did you knowthat A. Roswell Thompson , a taxi operator and a figure in the Ku Klux Klan , ran for governor of Louisiana in 1959, 32 years before David Duke waged his more publicized race in 1991?
Did you knowthat Jehovah's Witnesses in Canada were persecuted in the early to mid-20th century, and that their religion was banned during World War II under the War Measures Act as a result of their refusal to serve in the military?
Did you knowthat Buryat Mongolian Buddhist Agvan Dorzhiev was a tutor and debating partner of the teenage Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama ?
Did you knowthat Peter Birkhäuser was so moved by a moth trapped by a window that he painted its picture, and later analysed his thoughts and corresponded with Carl Jung ?
Did you knowthat in 1921, future four-star admiral Louis M. Nulton tried to save the battlecruiser USS Constitution from being scrapped by illegally transferring funds from the construction and repair of other warships?
Did you knowthat the 1994 Guinness television advertisement Anticipation used jump cutting techniques to make an actor appear to be performing a physically impossible dance ?
Did you knowthat the Comoedienhaus theater , built in 1782 , the first theater of performing arts in Frankfurt, Germany , played host to concerts by Mozart , Schiller and Goethe , among others?
Did you knowthat in numerical analysis , the error of an approximation of a function u {\displaystyle \textstyle u} by a polynomial of order at most m − 1 {\displaystyle \textstyle m-1} in terms of derivatives of u {\displaystyle \textstyle u} of order m {\displaystyle \textstyle m} is bound by the Bramble-Hilbert lemma ?
Did you knowthat the United Church of Christ in Blooming Grove, New York was a Presbyterian congregation until its pastor was tried for heresy ?
Did you knowthat popularity of German Minority , a party of the German minority in Poland , has been steadily declining since its establishment?
Did you knowthat Clímaco Calderón was President of Colombia for only one day?
Did you knowthat Bhadda Kundalakesa attained arahantship faster than any other Buddhist nun ?
Did you knowthat bugged conversations with surgeon - crime boss Giuseppe Guttadauro revealed how the Mafia funded the 2001 election campaign of Sicilian President Salvatore Cuffaro ?
Did you knowthat the opening session of the Estonian Constituent Assembly on April 23 1919 is considered the birth of the Estonian Parliament ?
Did you knowthat according to a Dakota Indian legend, the Great Spirit divided Barn Bluff between two rival villages of Minnesota , with the remaining portion moving to Winona and became Sugar Loaf ?
Did you knowthat Credonia Mwerinde founded the doomsday cult , the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God , with Joseph Kibweteere ?
Did you knowthat in the United Kingdom , speed limits imposed by variable-message signs are advisories only, and there are no legal sanctions for drivers who exceed them?
Did you knowthat razor manufacturer Thiers Issard produces a singing razor whose blade produces a resonant tone when plucked?
Did you knowthat fingerboards are reduced scale model figures of skateboards that  are featured in videos and used as 3-D visual aids for skateboarders to understand potential tricks and maneuvers?
Did you knowthat Ronald Reagan 's autobiography , An American Life , reached number eight on The New York Times ' bestsellers list?
Did you knowthat the Iron Range and Huron Bay Railroad never operated a single train , despite completing a 42-mile (68 km) line and its own ore dock at a cost of over two million dollars?
Did you knowthat a poll of 1000 respondents conducted in 2006 indicated that 26% of Americans say the United States " should not be involved " with the United Nations ?
Did you knowthat former Chicago Blackhawks player Al Suomi was offered a contract to play with a local St. Louis, Missouri hockey team at the age of 93?
Did you knowthat Colorado state representative Spencer Swalm spent time as a Christian missionary in Bolivia ?
Did you knowthat Aimé Guibert, owner and winemaker of Mas de Daumas Gassac , was featured in the documentary Mondovino stating that "wine is dead"?
Did you knowthat Empress Dowager Wu of Tang China had Wu Youji ’s wife secretly killed in 690 CE so that he could marry her widowed daughter, the Princess Taiping ?
Did you knowthat eight human skeletons linked to suspected serial killer Daniel Conahan triggered the largest excavation of human remains in Florida history?
Did you knowthat William Stewart Simkins , later professor emeritus at the University of Texas School of Law , may have fired the first shot of the US Civil War ?
Did you knowthat the day Wu Zetian , China's only female Emperor , was overthrown in 705 CE, Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong were killed and their heads were hung at an entrance to the capital ?
Did you knowthat the 5th-century baptistery of the Cathedral of Saint-Léonce , one of France 's oldest Christian structures , was concealed after reconstructions in the 13th century and re-discovered in 1925?
Did you knowthat the Hurricane Creek mine disaster , which killed 38 men in 1970, occurred exactly a year after passage of the first federal legislation regulating mine safety?
Did you knowthat besides Bartter syndrome , endocrinologist Frederic Bartter also identified the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone ?
Did you knowthat Azizul Huque gave up his Knighthood after the Calcutta Riots in 1946 ?
Did you knowthat Laurent de Premierfait was the first French translator of Giovanni Boccaccio 's material, which was done only for personal financial gain?
Did you knowthat Pratap Singh was the last ruler of Thanjavur to be officially referred to by the English East India Company as " His Majesty "?
Did you knowthat New Mexico State Road 4 forms the core of Jemez Mountain Trail National Scenic Byway , with trails to Puebloan ruins, a 10,199-foot mountain , and a 70-foot waterfall from roadside turnouts?
Did you knowthat articulation begins with the junction produced by creating a joint and is defined by the degree joints are seen as a "distinct break" from each other, in contrast to joints that seem fluid and continuous with the whole?
Did you knowthat Namibia Commercial Aviation has used the former presidential aircraft of Yugoslavia and Zambia for passenger flights?
Did you knowthat Al Javery , deferred from serving in World War II due to varicose veins , led all Major League Baseball pitchers in 1943 with 303 innings pitched ?
Did you knowthat Empress Dowager Wu of Tang China was so fond of Feng Xiaobao , she had him undertake tonsure to become a Buddhist monk in order to facilitate his entering and exiting her palace?
Did you knowthat consuming excess carotenoids may lead to their deposition in the stratum corneum and a yellow to yellow-orange discoloration of the skin in a medical condition known as carotenoderma ?
Did you knowthat, at the time of his death, 111-year-old veteran Mark Matthews was seen as a symbol for the Buffalo Soldiers ?
Did you knowthat the Ramesseum medical papyri contained an contraceptive formula and a method to predict the likelihood of a newborn's survival?
Did you knowthat the 601st Tank Destroyer Battalion was the first tank destroyer battalion of the United States Army to see combat in World War II ?
Did you knowthat Section 121 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act in U.S. law is named the “ Megan Nicole Kanka and Alexandra Nicole Zapp Community Notification Program”, after two victims of violent crimes?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Szkłów in 1654 occurred during a solar eclipse ?
Did you knowthat after screenwriter Chuck Tatham 's brother and writing partner Jamie quit their first job and returned to their hometown, Chuck went on to be nominated for two Emmys ?
Did you knowthat William Cunningham became Michigan's first All-American based on his performance in an 1898 game against Chicago that inspired Louis Elbel to write the school's fight song, The Victors ?
Did you knowthat The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less by Barry Schwartz explains the counterintuitive result that consumers are often more frustrated and anxious with more shopping choices rather than fewer?
Did you knowthat New Harmony's Atheneum is named after the ancient Greek temple to the goddess Athena , the Athenaion?
Did you knowthat the ancient Chinese text Huangdi Yinfujing , attributed to the mythical emperor Huangdi in the 3rd century BCE , may have been a forgery from the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE)?
Did you knowthat Judges Cave and Regicides Trail in West Rock Ridge , Connecticut , USA were named for two judges who hid in the area in 1660 after signing the death warrant of the King Charles I ?
Did you knowthat some members of the Nazi SS became eligible for their 25-year SS Long Service Awards well before their completion of 25 years of service?
Did you knowthat the country music band Pearl River was hired as a backing band for Bryan White , a singer who previously sold T-shirts for the band?
Did you knowthat the current Foreign Minister of Albania , Lulzim Basha , used to work for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and helped prepare the file against Slobodan Milosevic ?
Did you knowthat Wichita, Kansas mayor Russell Jump was, at the time of his death at the age of 105, recognized as one of the longest lived individuals to have held public office?
Did you knowthat television director Michael Lange ' s Jewish heritage landed him a non-speaking role as a rabbi in the episode " The Chrismukkah Bar-Mitzvahkkah " of The O.C. , a show for which he had previously directed?
Did you knowthat the Celts and Illyrians introduced winemaking to Slovenia long before it was commonly practiced in France , Germany and Spain ?
Did you knowthat in March 2007, Agnes Devanadera ' became the 41st and first woman Solicitor General of the Philippines ?
Did you knowthat television director and editor Norman Buckley 's older sister Betty landed him his first editing job on Tender Mercies , a film she featured in?
Did you knowthat the Peshwa general Chimnaji Appa built the Vajreshwari temple to thank the goddess Vajreshwari for the conquest of the Bassein Fort in 1739?
Did you knowthat the Toyota 7 was the first sports prototype racing car built by Toyota Motor Corporation , debuting at the 1968 Japanese Grand Prix ?
Did you knowthat Haridas Mundhra got the Indian government in 1956 to invest $10 million in his sinking firms, a scandal which further exposed the rift between Feroze Gandhi and his wife Indira Gandhi , daughter of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru ?
Did you knowthat Gustave Ferbert quit his job as head football coach at the University of Michigan in 1900 to prospect for gold in the Klondike Gold Rush and returned home in 1909 as a millionaire?
Did you knowthat the Tigmamanukan , a Philippine mythological bird , can be a good or bad omen depending on the direction of its flight?
Did you knowthat the role of Osmin in the German opera The Abduction from the Seraglio was tailor-made by Mozart for his friend Ludwig Fischer ?
Did you knowthat in the history of commercial tobacco in the United States , an African slave named Stephan changed the process of curing tobacco by using charcoal taken from a local blacksmith ’s fire rather than the usual logwood ?
Did you knowthat the Australian Test cricketer Colin McCool bowled his leg spin deliveries with a round arm action so pronounced that his arm was almost parallel to the pitch ?
Did you knowthat the Deperdussin Monocoque was the first aircraft to fly faster than 100 miles per hour?