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Did you knowthat Mormon abstinence from drinking caffeinated beverages goes back to a 1918 Improvement Era article by Frederick J. Pack ?
Did you knowthat Thalassina anomala , a mud lobster found in Indo-Pacific mangrove swamps , is used in Thailand in powdered form or steeped in alcohol as a remedy for asthma ?
Did you knowthat the Nebraska School for the Deaf became nationally known within the Deaf community for its fight against an anti- American Sign Language state bill endorsed by Alexander Graham Bell ?
Did you knowthat Eastern school whiting caught along the coast of Queensland are frozen whole, shipped to Thailand for processing and then sold in Japan ?
Did you knowthat the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College were given powers of governance after the College charter was signed by George III of the United Kingdom in 1769?
Did you knowthat the first labor investigations by a United States government body were prompted by petitions from the Lowell girls , textile workers in Lowell , Massachusetts , during the mid-nineteenth century?
Did you knowthat Nikolay Kruchina , a top Soviet official, committed suicide by jumping out of his window after learning about the failure of the Soviet coup attempt in August 1991 ?
Did you knowthat Noble Threewitt worked for 75 years training Thoroughbred racehorses before retiring on his 96th birthday ?
Did you knowthat according to the 2R hypothesis , the genomes of modern vertebrates are the result of two rounds of genome duplication hundreds of millions of years ago?
Did you knowthat the banning of the Buddhist flag and the subsequent shootings of nine Buddhists who were protesting the ban on the birthday of Gautama Buddha led to civil unrest which toppled Ngo Dinh Diem 's regime?
Did you knowthat on the death of Governor George Madison , Kentucky lieutenant governor Gabriel Slaughter was refused the title of "governor" by a hostile state legislature and was referred to as "acting governor" for the duration of his three-year administration?
Did you knowthat Edwin Sherbon Hills , a well-known Australian geologist , had at first chosen undergraduate courses with the idea of becoming a chemist and took geology as a suitable ancillary?
Did you knowthat McGregor Lake , a man-made reservoir in Southern Alberta , receives most of its water from canals linked to the Bow River despite being in the Oldman River drainage basin?
Did you knowthat the Markonahalli Dam across the River Shimsha in India had to be partly demolished in order to prevent excess water from flooding the villages?
Did you knowthat Orator Hunt ' s presentation of the first petition in support of women's suffrage was received in Parliament with ribald laughter?
Did you knowthat the Franco-Hova War resulted in the demise of the Merina monarchy of Madagascar ?
Did you knowthat popular Turkish fusion band Yansımalar has recorded an album with Erkan Oğur , the inventor of the first fretless classical guitar?
Did you knowthat in 1995 The Virgin Islands Daily News , with a staff of only 18 full-time reporters and editors, won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service , beating the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Charlotte Observer ?
Did you knowthat Isaac Goodnow , a Free-Stater from New England , helped combine two settlements in Kansas Territory to form a new town named 'Boston', which was later re-named Manhattan ?
Did you knowthat a rock-cut basin may eventually form a circular holed stone, and passing through the hole was considered to have healing properties according to legend ?
Did you knowthat during the World War II amphibious offensive known as the Kerch-Eltigen Operation , the Red Army landed 75,000 men and over 10,000 tons of munitions and material near Kerch in eastern Crimea ?
Did you knowthat Michelle Rocca , longtime girlfriend of singer Van Morrison , was the first woman to appear on one of Morrison's album covers since his then-wife Janet Minto in 1971?
Did you knowthat Duncan Spears Casper , an early Mormon pioneer , was driven from his home twice due to anti Mormon sentiments?
Did you knowthat Iftikhar ad-Daula , Fatimid governor of Jerusalem during the siege of 1099 , surrendered Jerusalem to Raymond of Saint-Gilles in the Tower of David and was then escorted out of the city with his bodyguard?
Did you knowthat the Black Dirt Region of Orange County , New York contains the largest concentration of muck soil in the United States outside of the Florida Everglades ?
Did you knowthat Aretas III commissioned the minting of the first silver Nabataean coins?
Did you knowthat Dick Merrill piloted a transatlantic flight known as the "Ping Pong Flight" because his client, singer Harry Richman , insisted on carrying 41,000 ping pong balls in case of a crash at sea?
Did you knowthat despite declines in production in recent years, Victoria still produces almost 19.5% of Australia 's crude oil ?
Did you knowthat actress, writer and producer Michelle Paradise created the television series Exes and Ohs without an agent ?
Did you knowthat Shakadvipi (Bhojaka) is the only division of brahmins whose origins are said to be outside India ?
Did you knowthat Franco Freda , one of the main Italian far right ideologues, has been put to trial for the Piazza Fontana bombing , which was originally believed to have been perpetrated by anarchists?
Did you knowthat before Hannibal crossed the Rhône River with his Carthaginian forces to battle the Gauls , he sent a detachment under Hanno, son of Bomilcar to cross at a different point upriver for an ambush ?
Did you knowthat John Lamb was accused of diverting money from the New York impost to publish the Federal Farmer pamphlets?
Did you knowthat Scott Milanovich was the first pick in the 2001 XFL Draft , the only draft the league ever held?
Did you knowthat Carcross Desert , the "world's smallest desert ", measuring just over one square mile , is in fact not a desert, but a large series of northern sand dunes ?
Did you knowthat Alex Leake was offered a £ 10 bribe by Manchester City player Billy Meredith to throw the final match of the 1904–1905 season?
Did you knowthat the Prussian Nicola Marschall was the designer of the Confederate States of America 's first flag, the Stars & Bars ?
Did you knowthat Space Industries Incorporated was founded in the 1980s in Houston for the purpose of building the first private space station , to be called the Industrial Space Facility?
Did you knowthat a week before Charles Dickens died, he willed his literary journal All the Year Round to his son Charles Dickens, Jr ?
Did you knowthat Jane Storms was the first female war correspondent in American history?
Did you knowthat the Habakkuk Commentary of the Dead Sea scrolls accused the " Wicked Priest " of neglecting to circumcise the "foreskin of his heart"?
Did you knowthat the Egyptian Pyramid of Sahure and surrounding complex contained an estimated 10,000 m 2 of fine relief carving ?
Did you knowthat Admiral Harry D. Felt , a fervent anti-communist who planned for the use of tactical nuclear weapons during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis opposed American military intervention in Vietnam ?
Did you knowthat Jiffs was a derogatory propaganda term employed by military intelligence of British India to denote soldiers of the Indian Army in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II ?
Did you knowthat the Franco-Mongol alliance in the 13th century involved multiple embassies and military collaborations against the common Muslim enemy in the Holy Land ?
Did you knowthat Baron Ijuin Gorō became Fleet Admiral and Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff in the pre-war Imperial Japanese Navy without ever having actually commanded a ship?
Did you knowthat Kentucky governor Charles Scott served as chief of intelligence for George Washington during his later campaigns in the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you knowthat Holbeach House served as the theatre for the final battle of the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot , in which the conspirators undid themselves after they accidentally detonated their gunpowder store?
Did you knowthat Bargil Pixner ' s identification of the biblical location of Bethsaida was based on artifacts found in trenches used by Syria in the Six-Day War ?
Did you knowthat the piaohao and the qianzhuang were financial institutions in ancient China ?
Did you knowthat 12th-century troubadour Raimon Vidal de Bezaudun wrote a grammatical manual for Occitan poetry that influenced Dante Alighieri 's De Vulgari Eloquentia , justifying the use of Italian vernacular ?
Did you knowthat Miran , an ancient oasis town in the Taklamakan Desert in present day Xinjiang , was also a thriving centre of Buddhism on the Silk Road , with many monasteries and stupas ?
Did you knowthat the Phoenix Hotel in Lexington, Kentucky was used as a headquarters by Generals William "Bull" Nelson , Braxton Bragg , and Kirby Smith during the American Civil War ?
Did you knowthat one of the oldest captive alligators in Europe was named Čabulītis , which means sweet and tender creature in Latvian ?
Did you knowthe first and last verses to the song " Hellhound on My Trail " by Robert Johnson are considered to be some of the finest in twelve bar blues ?
Did you knowthat a controversy about whether the real name of the first President of the Nigerian Senate in the Fourth Republic was Evan or Evans Enwerem led to his removal from office?
Did you knowthat Kentucky governor Christopher Greenup was one of Kentucky 's first two Congressmen and was an original trustee of Transylvania University ?
Did you knowthat during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore the Kempeitai East District Branch was the site of interrogation and torture of many civilians and that later the building housed the YMCA ?
Did you knowthat the 2003 French musical film Not on the Lips had a predominantly enthusiastic reception in France , but caused indignation and incomprehension in Britain ?
Did you knowthat Johnson's Seagrass was the first marine plant listed under the United States Endangered Species Act ?
Did you knowthat a survey in 2001 of the New South Wales - Queensland border in Australia found an error of 200 metres (656 ft ) in the original survey, indicating that the town of Jennings, New South Wales should actually be in Queensland?
Did you knowthat soon after German reunification , the Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant in the former East Germany was shut down due to conflicting technical requirements with the West?
Did you knowthat during his administration, Kentucky governor William J. Fields forbade drinking alcohol and dancing in the Governor's Mansion ?
Did you knowthat University of Oregon athletic director Leo Harris gained the right to use Donald Duck as the school's mascot through an informal handshake deal he made with Walt Disney in 1947?
Did you knowthat 20th century attorney Joseph Scott made so many contributions to civic life in Los Angeles that he earned the nickname "Mr. Los Angeles"?
Did you knowthat in 1835, Warren A. Cowdery , an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement , accused a local Quorum of the Twelve of neglecting their fund-raising activities while serving as Mormon missionaries ?
Did you knowthat the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 , which resulted in 38 deaths, 537 injuries and approximately 1,000 displaced, was the worst riot of the Red Summer of 1919 ?
Did you knowthat influential makeup artist Pat McGrath takes between 30 and 50 bags of tools, materials, and reference books whenever she travels to fashion shows ?
Did you knowthat Héctor López was the first Panamanian-born Major League Baseball player to play in the World Series with the New York Yankees ?
Did you knowthat before the 17th century, it was believed that all organisms grew from miniature versions of themselves that had existed since the beginning of creation ?
Did you knowthat Italian fascist propaganda referred to the Mediterranean Sea as Italian Mare Nostrum , as by 1942 Italy controlled nearly two-thirds of the sea's area?
Did you knowthat William E. McAnulty, Jr. , the first African American to sit on the Kentucky Supreme Court , injured himself playing basketball on Election Day in 1983 with future NBA star Allan Houston ?
Did you knowthat the northernmost miles of pavement of the Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive in Wisconsin were part of the original track circuit for Road America ?
Did you knowthat the 2006 Japanese film Hula Girls is set in the coal mining town of Iwaki in the 1960s when a Hawaiian spa resort was built to resolve the community's faltering fortunes?
Did you knowthat the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the Northwest , a precursor to the modern day Big Ten Conference , survived for only two seasons of college football competition before disbanding?
Did you knowthat Puerto Rican third baseman Félix Torres , who only played three Major League seasons, topped the home run charts in the 1960 Caribbean Series ?
Did you knowthat the automatic tide signalling system at Irvine harbour, North Ayrshire , invented and patented by its harbourmaster Martin Boyd, is probably unique?
Did you knowthat the dialogue Julius Excluded from Heaven , credited to Desiderius Erasmus , involves Pope Julius II trying to convince Peter to allow him into heaven by threats of armed force and excommunication ?
Did you knowthat Tawfiq Canaan , a Palestinian physician and medical pioneer, was also known for his research on Palestinian popular heritage?
Did you knowthat after the British took control of the Mysore Kingdom in the 19th century, they had a strong influence on Kannada literature ?
Did you knowthat the Brazil 's 1838 Balaiada uprising was named after the job of one of its leaders, a basketmaker ?
Did you knowthat Edward A. Halbach was the first official president of the Astronomical League ?
Did you knowthat in his 1915 Kentucky gubernatorial campaign, Augustus O. Stanley advocated a one dollar tax for every dog a person owned?
Did you knowthat Utkala Brahmins are the historical caretakers of the Jagannath Temple in Puri ?
Did you knowthat the Falklands Crisis of 1770 nearly caused a war between Great Britain and Spain ?
Did you knowthat a pub in Old Whittington was the shelter for three men in 1688 who were plotting the replacement of James II of England with a Protestant foreigner?
Did you knowthat 1965 Records was founded by James Endeacott, who also originally discovered The Libertines and The Strokes ?
Did you knowthat Sir Cecil Hunter Rodwell was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal for bravery in the Second Boer War and went on to serve as Governor of Southern Rhodesia ?
Did you knowthat W. H. Auden 's poem " In Praise of Limestone " has been called topographic , sui generis , and a "postmodern pastoral "?
Did you knowthat the Silpathorn Award is given to significant living Thai contemporary artists and that the name of the award means "upholder of art"?
Did you knowthat Catholic priest Cornelius Loos was forced to recant his view in 1593 that witch trials in early modern Europe were not required as witchcraft didn't exist?
Did you knowthat Joseph "Blueskin" Blake , accomplice of notorious 18th century thief Jack Sheppard , grievously wounded the self-styled "Thief-Taker General" Jonathan Wild outside the courtroom where he was subsequently convicted of burglary and sentenced to death, hastening Wild's fall from power?
Did you knowthat children up to the age of five can find it difficult to distinguish between television programmes and toy advertising campaigns ?
Did you knowthat prior to the development of binoculars , bird collections , collections consisting of birds and parts of their anatomy , were the dominant method of bird observation and study among ornithologists ?
Did you knowthat a picture of Mary Ann Bevan , "the ugliest woman in the world", featured on a birthday card until a complaint led to its withdrawal?
Did you knowthat Sholakia , a tiny town in Bangladesh , draws 300,000 Muslims for Eid prayers every year on Eid ul-Fitr ?
Did you knowthat Sooriyakanda mass grave is alleged to contain 300 bodies of school children but only few were recovered?
Did you knowthat Kazys Lozoraitis was independent Lithuania 's first ambassador to the Holy See and to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta ?
Did you knowthat the Second Manifesto , a 1904 declaration made by Joseph F. Smith , the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , confirmed that the church was opposed to plural marriage ?
Did you knowthe oldest stud farm in India , Kunigal stud farm , was used by Tipu Sultan for breeding horses for cavalry regiments to fight the British?
Did you knowthat the Polish Resettlement Corps was tasked with organizing the 250,000 members of the Polish Armed Forces in the West , over half of whom eventually chose to settle in the UK instead of returning to communist Poland ?
Did you knowthat in 1973, Margaret Thatcher temporarily saved the Strand Grammar School , famous for its contribution of young men to the British Civil Service , from closure?
Did you knowthat after publishing his National Book Award -winning Invisible Man in 1952, Ralph Ellison continued writing for a further 42 years without ever finishing his second novel, Three Days Before the Shooting ?
Did you knowthat Father Boleslaus Goral was one of the key persons in the "news war" between the Milwaukee Archdiocese and Michał Kruszka ?
Did you knowthat Den , a fictional character in the Battle Angel Alita , is actually a giant remote-controlled slave unit run from a transmitter embedded in the chest of one of the story's main characters ?
Did you knowthat in 1967, a group of Latin American writers including Mexican Carlos Fuentes started a series of biographies depicting caudillos , which became the basis of the Dictator Novel genre?
Did you knowthat Charles Chilton was the first person to be awarded a D.Sc. degree in New Zealand ?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Georges had the strongest effects on the Dominican Republic of any hurricane since Hurricane David in 1979?
Did you knowthat North Dakota's location in the Upper Midwest allows it to experience some of the most extreme weather in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the name Flying fox refers to bats as well as a freshwater algae-eating aquarium fish ?
Did you knowthat Frank Rosenfelt , CEO of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1972 until 1982, was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge and received a Purple Heart for his injuries?
Did you knowthat after spending seven years traveling across the Saskatchewan District , Rev. Robert Rundle was allowed to establish a mission in 1847, only to be forced to leave a year later due to health issues?
Did you knowthat the Chinese high fin banded shark ( Myxocyprinus asiaticus ) has 20 other common names in the aquarium trade?
Did you knowthat the 13th-century troubadour Guilhem Figueira was a strong critic of the contemporary Papacy , going so far in his sirventes contra Roma as to consign Rome to hell ?
Did you knowthat the Minnesota Twins made Joe Nathan their closing pitcher for the 2004 Major League Baseball season , despite the fact that Nathan only had converted one save in five opportunities?
Did you knowthat the leader of the Dick Cheney protests at Brigham Young University refused an offer to appear on The Daily Show , out of a concern that the show would poke fun at the university?
Did you knowthat Kuryer Polski was the first daily Polish language newspaper in the USA ?
Did you knowthat members of Sub-Carpathian Reformed Church were persecuted by communists in the Soviet Union and were sent to Gulag labour camps in Siberia ?
Did you knowthat the Rani people , a West Slavic tribe inhabiting the island of Rugia , maintained their native paganism , its ritual, temple, and priesthood, well into the twelfth century?
Did you knowthat Flight Lieutenant Wallace McIntosh was recognised as the most successful air gunner in RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War , having shot down eight German aircraft , including three during one mission?
Did you knowthat the 14 remaining children of the Jewish Orphanage in Oslo , Norway were evacuated to Sweden by the Norwegian resistance movement in November of 1942?
Did you knowthat the uniformly fine quality of surviving Roman copies of Lysippean bronze Hermes Fastening his Sandal indicates that it stood high in Roman esteem?
Did you knowthat the German neo-Nazi German Alternative party was banned in 1992 after the group was associated with an arson attack on an asylum seeker refuge?
Did you knowthat Vice-Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch lost the sight in one eye when his submarine , HMS Splendid , was sunk in 1943?
Did you knowthat in the folklore of the Celts , a fairy path is a route taken by these supernatural beings, usually in a straight line and between sites of traditional significance, such as Stone Age monuments?
Did you knowthat in 1989, some 300,000 people created a 300 mile human chain stretching from Lviv to Kiev on the 71st anniversary of the Act Zluky ?
Did you knowthat the South American rubber boom ceased in 1912 when plantations in Malaysia , Sri Lanka , and tropical Africa grown from seed smuggled out of Brazil 36 years earlier began producing rubber ?
Did you knowthat Illinois State Senator John H. Addams was the primary influence on his daughter Jane Addams ' social activism ?
Did you knowthat the Treaty of Kyakhta between the Russian and Qing Empires was negotiated by a Bosnian Serb from Dubrovnik , Sava Vladislavich ?
Did you knowthat during the First Battle of Ypres , Edward Bulfin organized an impromptu formation of six battalions , later known as "Bulfin's force," that was instrumental in stopping the German advance?
Did you knowthat the Indian Congress of 1893 drew more than 500 Native Americans representing 35 tribes to Omaha, Nebraska ?
Did you knowthat Fr. Thiruchelvam Nihal Jim Brown barely escaped the April 2006 St. Phillip Neri church bombing only to disappear a week later?
Did you knowthat the site of the hermitage of Ginés de la Jara retained its reputation for holiness even during Spain's Moorish occupation?
Did you knowthat the popular YouTube star Christine Gambito attributes her nickname Happyslip to her Filipino mother's mispronunciation of half slip ?
Did you knowthat Jakub Karol Parnas , a prominent Polish – Soviet biochemist , despite having collaborated with the Soviet regime since its invasion of Poland , fell victim to a Stalinist purge in 1949?
Did you knowthat British surgeon Richard Partridge apprehended the London Burkers gang of body snatchers , alerting the authorities while claiming to be getting change for a £50 note?
Did you knowthat a 300-page iPhone bill became the subject of a viral video by blogger Justine Ezarik viewed more than 3 million times?
Did you knowthat Waddams Grove was the first settlement in Stephenson County , Illinois ?
Did you knowthat Malcolm X , James Brown , and the current President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva all worked as shoeshiners when they were young?
Did you knowthat the medieval kingdom of Alania controlled the most practicable route through the Greater Caucasus ?
Did you knowthat Oswald Tesimond , involved in the Gunpowder Plot , escaped severe punishment by stowing away on a cargo ship ferrying dead pigs to Calais ?
Did you knowthat German leaders of the World Confederation of Labour were sentenced to Nazi concentration camps in the 1930s for their political opposition to the growth of authoritarian governments in Europe?
Did you knowthat Downtown Omaha is home to 31 historic buildings, two historic districts , and the site of the largest loss of historic buildings ever from the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you knowthat the S.S. Christopher Columbus , the only whaleback passenger liner ever built, carried 1.8 million passengers to and from the World's Columbian Exposition in a single season?
Did you knowthat the Romanian politician and socialite Pantazi Ghica was identified as the "black-faced, hunchbacked and greedy" person depicted, alongside other liberals , in one of Mihai Eminescu 's most famous poems?
Did you knowthat when Democratic congressman A. Jeff McLemore opposed President Woodrow Wilson over the United States' entry into World War I , the Texas legislature redrew the state's congressional districts in 1917 to force him to run against another incumbent?