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Did you knowthat humans have lived near Nevada 's Swan Lake Nature Study Area since 400 AD?
Did you knowthat Joaquín Camacho , an agitator for the Independence of Colombia , was executed by firing squad when he was 50 years old, blind, and paralyzed?
Did you knowthat over 15,000 men of the battle-hardened 10th and 11th Divisions of the Imperial German Army were demobilised following World War I ?
Did you knowthat Stanisław Patek , dropped from the Russian Empire 's list of attorneys for defending political dissidents , was later involved in the creation of a new Polish legal system ?
Did you knowthat RMS Dunottar Castle transported Winston Churchill , Frederick Russell Burnham , Robert Baden-Powell , and Lord Roberts , among others, to and from Cape Colony , South Africa ?
Did you knowthat in place of execution, Saint Cerbonius was exiled after the bear brought in to kill him instead licked his feet?
Did you knowthat Archbishop Gennady of Novgorod commissioned the first complete Slavic translation of the Bible ?
Did you knowthat an image of Tesslynn O'Cull , a child abuse victim who was murdered by her stepfather at the age of two, was used in the Stop the Abuse poster for Oregon ?
Did you knowthat St. Paul Roman Catholic Church in St. Paul, Oregon is the oldest brick building in the Pacific Northwest ?
Did you knowthat while working for the Department of Justice attorney Jacob Tanzer worked on the case that led to the movie Mississippi Burning ?
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Did you knowthat some species of the catfish genus Cetopsis are only known by a single specimen?
Did you knowthat Hutti Gold Mines Limited , located in the state of Karnataka , is the only company in India that produces gold by mining and extracting it from its ore?
Did you knowthat following the Battle of Waddams Grove members of the Illinois militia returned to Galena with the scalps of two Sauk warriors?
Did you knowthat the Yangzhou riot of 1868 almost led to a Sino - British war because many Chinese believed that English missionaries were stealing children?
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Did you knowthat the New England Seamount chain was once at or above sea level off the Massachusetts coast?
Did you knowthat Robin Starveling , a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , may be a satire of one of Queen Elizabeth's suitors?
Did you knowthat Runme Shaw , philanthropist and founder of the Shaw Organisation , started his Singapore movie business in a makeshift timber cinema known as The Empire in 1927?
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Did you knowthat Henry Wallis ' The Stonebreaker shows a dead labourer who appears to be resting?
Did you knowthat ACS Chemical Biology is the first peer-reviewed scientific journal to publish 3D interactive chemical structures replicating printed figures?
Did you knowthat the Polish Army in France continued to fight in the Battle of France despite Pétain ’s call for armistice and demobilization ?
Did you knowthat Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar , king of Mysore , set up a factory to manufacture Mysore Sandal Soap because World War I prevented any export of sandalwood ?
Did you knowthat Town Creek Indian Mound near Mount Gilead , North Carolina , preserves a ceremonial mound built by the Pee Dee with 563 burials?
Did you knowthat the four catfish species of the genus Pseudolithoxus are only found in the Amazonas and Bolívar states of Venezuela ?
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Did you knowthat even though Jefferson Smith had been shot three times he managed to escape an attack by Native Americans at Blue Mounds Fort ?
Did you knowthat in 2006 , the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency arrested an ex-bodyguard of Kim Jong-il for trading fake aphrodisiacs ?
Did you knowthat Russian émigré Jerzy Bulanow captained the Poland national football team through the 1920s and early 1930s?
Did you knowthat Colonel Johnston de Peyster raised the first U.S. flag over Virginia's Capitol Building since the state's secession in 1861?
Did you knowthat Archbishop Vasily Kalika of Novgorod was not appointed to his post, but was elected by the popular assembly ?
Did you knowthat Albertan politician Joseph Unwin was arrested for producing an official leaflet urging the "extermination" of opposition leader David Milwyn Duggan and Senator William Griesbach ?
Did you knowthat two Italian towns competed over who would receive pieces of Saint Paternian — one ultimately receiving a finger , while the other took the rest?
Did you knowthat Odile Crick sketched the DNA double helix for the 1953 paper in Nature by her husband Francis Crick and James Watson announcing its discovery?
Did you knowthat the 1758 British construction of Fort William in the heart of populous Gobindapur incited the whole colony to migrate  north of Calcutta ?
Did you knowthat folktales claim that 19th century Ethiopian poet Gebre Hanna spread rumors of his own death to trick Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia into sending money for a proper funeral?
Did you knowthat professional wrestler Norvell Austin was part of the first mixed race bad guy tag team in the Southern United States ?
Did you knowthat, when playing the lead in Alexander Nevsky , actor Nikolai Cherkasov wore a replica of the helmet lost by Alexander's father in the Battle of Lipitsa ?
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Did you knowthat Black Entertainment Television comedy series We Got to Do Better , had its name changed from Hot Ghetto Mess amidst allegations of enforcing negative stereotypes of African Americans ?
Did you knowthat the buke shohatto , a Japanese code of conduct for feudal lords , served as the foundation of the baku han system of government?
Did you knowthat the Chester Roman Amphitheatre was the largest amphitheatre in Roman Britain , seating over 8,000 people?
Did you knowthat during the 537 Siege of Rome , the defenders used the statues from the Mausoleum of Hadrian as missiles?
Did you knowthat Wally Tatomir , head equipment manager of the Carolina Hurricanes , holds four patents on ice hockey -related equipment?
Did you knowthat while the majority of Benin 's formal workforce are represented by trade unions , nationwide use of child labour and forced labour continues?
Did you knowthat despite being heavily outnumbered, Chief Black Hawk's forces held off the American militia at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights long enough for many civilians to escape?
Did you knowthat the group who buried the only casualty of the Buffalo Grove massacre were killed the following day?
Did you knowthat John Singleton Copley 's oil-on-canvas The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 is one of Britain’s largest oil paintings ?
Did you knowthat Jacques de Morgan in 1887-89 unearthed 576 ancient graves around Alaverdi and Akhatala, near the Tiflis - Alexandropol railway line?
Did you knowthat The Princess Anne was elected Chancellor of the University of London in preference to Nelson Mandela and Jack Jones in the first contest in the history of the position?
Did you knowthat 19th century cartoonist and artist Edward Jump gained a status of renown in the U.S. states of California and Washington, D.C. for his satirical caricatures?
Did you knowthat the childhood home of Emily Carr , one of Canada's most famous painters , is open to the public today as a museum known as Emily Carr House — and still contains the family Bible ?
Did you knowthat Polish-American journalist and politician Michał Kruszka was at constant odds with the American Catholic Church , with reading his newspaper declared sinful and many lawsuits being filed by both parties?
Did you knowthat Bob Massie set a world record by being the first player to take 16 wickets on his Test debut in 1972?
Did you knowthat Étienne-Gaspard Robert terrified audiences with his pioneering phantasmagoria shows and greatly influenced others with his ballooning feats?
Did you knowthat the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 killed four people and inspired Peter Benchley 's novel Jaws (1974)?
Did you knowthat the pinhole camera model is an ideal camera without lensing aberrations?
Did you knowthat the West End Street Railway fired Cyrus S. Ching in 1901 after he was nearly electrocuted on the job, only to appoint him manager two months later?
Did you knowthat the Russian sailing ship STS Sedov features a glass-domed banquet hall with a stage and a movie theatre ?
Did you knowthat Psalm 83 is cited by the Jehovah's Witnesses as a proof of Jehovah being God's personal name?
Did you knowthat the Boot Monument at Saratoga National Historical Park donated by John Watts de Peyster is the only American war memorial that does not bear the name of its honoree?
Did you knowthat the 10-day battle for the Festung Kolberg in March 1945 was one of the most intense urban battles of the Polish First Army , destroying most of the city?
Did you knowthat it has been suggested that using Incan agriculture technologies (such as the andenes ) again, would solve the malnutrition problems of the modern Andean peoples for many decades?
Did you knowthat Old College , the first building on Northwestern University's campus, stood for over 100 years, despite being built as a temporary structure?
Did you knowthat fetal movement begins as early as seven weeks after conception ?
Did you knowthat the character of Philostrate , the Master of Revels in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , may have been created as a way to poke fun at play censorship ?
Did you knowthat Georgia Governor Carl Sanders declared May 16 , 1964 to be George C. Griffin day, because of his service to Georgia Tech ?
Did you knowthat the Alfathi brand of red meat from Nortura combines the strict Islamic rules concerning food preparation for slaughter with Norwegian cuisine ?
Did you knowthat Congressman Albert Richard Thomas brought the Johnson Space Center to Houston, Texas in 1961?
Did you knowthat the recent treasure recovery by Odyssey Marine Exploration prompted international media attention and controversy with the Spanish government over the rights to the treasure?
Did you knowthat at the age of 10, Megan Zheng became the first Singaporean to win a Golden Horse Award ?
Did you knowthat during the American Civil War John Breckinridge Castleman was sentenced to death for spying, but his execution was suspended by Abraham Lincoln ?
Did you knowthat the genus Prietella includes two threatened species of eyeless, unpigmented catfish adapted to living in caves?
Did you knowthat the Trent Codices are the largest single music manuscript source of the entire 15th century ?
Did you knowthat the Profane Oaths Act 1745 , which criminalised "profane cursing and swearing" in the United Kingdom , was not fully repealed until 1967?
Did you knowthat while anarcho-syndicalists are usually a minority in their respective labor movements , the anarcho-syndicalist General Confederation of Labour was not only the largest but the only union in post- World War I Portugal ?
Did you knowthat any two friends who live together more than three years may be legally considered partners in an adult interdependent relationship in Alberta , just like spouses in a common-law marriage ?
Did you knowthat Gabriel Garcia Márquez based his book News of a Kidnapping on the fight by Colombian politician Alberto Villamizar against kidnappings in that country?
Did you knowthat the Former Singapore Badminton Hall was marked as a historical site by Singapore 's National Heritage Board in 1999, as it held two Thomas Cup tournaments and was the vote counting station for a landmark 1962 referendum ?
Did you knowthat the Makuleke region of Kruger National Park is a natural history area with almost 75% of the diversity of the whole park?
Did you knowthat the April 1920 Polish-Ukrainian agreement became the legal justification of the Kiev Offensive against Bolshevik Russia ?
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Did you knowthat Artabanes was a 6th century Armenian noble who served both the Sassanid Persians and the Eastern Roman Empire , and became involved in a plot against Emperor Justinian I ?
Did you knowthat the famous black-and-white striped shirts of Italian football club Juventus were based on the kit of English Notts County , replacing the club's initial pink and black colours in 1903?
Did you knowthat the Brand Junction shopping centre development in Melbourne , Victoria , is located on land known from 1937 until 1962 as the Janefield Colony for the Treatment of Mental Defectives?
Did you knowthat Thomas Creede printed ten editions of William Shakespeare's plays, several of them poorly-written bad quartos ?
Did you knowthat even though the 1952 steel strike lasted 53 days and cost the U.S. $4 billion in lost economic output, it was settled on nearly the same terms offered by the union at the strike's beginning?
Did you knowthat Polycarp was a fictional Cajun character who hosted a local children's TV program in south Louisiana and lived in the swamp ?
Did you knowthat the proposed underground car park at the northern end of Lal Dighi will be the biggest in Calcutta and is located in a heritage zone?
Did you knowthat the launch of the protected cruiser Chitose in 1898, one of the few ships in the Imperial Japanese Navy built by the United States , was filmed by Thomas Edison ?
Did you knowthat Canada 's syndicalist One Big Union kept itself alive for some time by running an illegal lottery in its weekly bulletin?
Did you knowthat the planned Marina Coastal Expressway is Singapore 's most expensive expressway , and will cost S$ 2.5 billion for the 5- kilometre route?
Did you knowthat United States Indian Agent Felix St. Vrain had his head, hands, feet and heart removed during the St. Vrain massacre ?
Did you knowthat the writer and actor, Henryk Grynberg , is known as the " chronicler of the fate of the Polish Jews "?
Did you knowthat congressman Cyclone Davis earned his moniker after demolishing an opponent in a debate ?
Did you knowthat Dang Hyang Nirartha founded the Hindu priesthood in Bali ?
Did you knowthat the St. Eugene Mine in Moyie, British Columbia produced ten million dollars worth of ore between 1895 and 1905 and was considered to be the most important silver –lead mine in Canada ?
Did you knowthat Admiral Louis R. de Steiguer was a legendary disciplinarian and martinet whose funeral instructions directed his former flag secretary to bury him with his hindquarters facing the Pentagon ?
Did you knowthat the period of Colonial Assam began with the Treaty of Yandaboo ?
Did you knowthat the siege of Anatoly Pepelyayev ' s forces in the Pacific port of Ayan in June 1923 was the last military action of the Yakut Revolt and the Russian Civil War ?
Did you knowthat singer Larry Stewart originally moved to Nashville, Tennessee in search of a career in baseball, but instead ended up as the lead singer of country-pop band Restless Heart ?
Did you knowthat the coach in which King Philip II of Portugal travelled from Spain to Portugal in 1619 is preserved at the National Coach Museum in Lisbon ?
Did you knowthat the Irish artist Gerald Davis dressed as Ulysses protagonist Leopold Bloom and led Bloomsday parades?
Did you knowthat Perna viridis , a fast-growing bivalve mussel native to the Asia-Pacific , is an invasive species that harbors deadly toxins and biofouls submerged structures?
Did you knowthat Stanley Evans was sacked after six weeks as a junior minister of food when he said "no other nation feather-beds its agriculture like Britain "?
Did you knowthat Polish partisan Adam Lazarowicz , organizer of an assassination attempt on Nazi official Hans Frank , refused the Order of the Red Star and joined the anti-Soviet resistance ?
Did you knowthat Harry Newbould was the first-ever manager of Derby County F.C. ?
Did you knowthat Polish bishop of Płock Antoni Julian Nowowiejski , murdered by German Nazis in Soldau concentration camp , became one of the 108 Martyrs of World War II ?
Did you knowthat Omaha gained an important place in the history of the First Transcontinental Railroad against the will of President Abraham Lincoln ?
Did you knowthat the ongoing Belgian political crisis has led to popular demands for the partition of Belgium ?
Did you knowthat 17-year-old Emily Benn , granddaughter of veteran politician Tony Benn , is the youngest ever Labour Party parliamentary candidate , and would, if elected, become the youngest British MP since the Reform Act 1832 ?
Did you knowthat the long-defunct firm of E. C. Hazard and Company has been credited with pioneering the U.S. manufacture and distribution of processed canned , jarred and bottled food products?
Did you knowthat the Norman church in Pawlett , Somerset has a stained glass window showing Christ blessing children who are in modern dress and holding a teddy bear and toy boat?
Did you knowthat the kidnapping of Edward Cudahy, Jr. caused a national uproar in 1903 because Cudahy's father, a meatpacking magnate in Omaha, Nebraska , paid the ransom request?
Did you knowthat the Royal Air Force base RAF Honiley was closed in March, 1958 and is now being used by Prodrive Ltd. to build a motor sport facility called "The Fulcrum"?
Did you knowthat the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association is a Christian sect founded by Ruben Ecleo in 1965 on the Philippine island of Dinagat , that is notorious for a 2002 gun  battle with police that left 17 dead?
Did you knowthat the City & South London Railway , opened in 1890, was the world's first major deep tube and electric railway and ran under the Thames from the City of London to Southwark ?
Did you knowthat New Jersey 's Museum of Early Trades and Crafts houses a collection of over 8,000 tools and artifacts used before 1860 that had been collected by Agnes and Edgar Land over a 50-year span?
Did you knowthat Nikolaus Riehl researched the production of uranium in Nazi Germany , nuclear weapons in the Soviet Union , and the civil use of nuclear power in West Germany ?
Did you knowthat Alexander Hamilton's son William S. Hamilton helped recruit Native Americans to join the U.S. against Sauk Chief Black Hawk during the 1832 Black Hawk War ?
Did you knowthat the Ten Great Buildings were constructed in ten months, for the tenth anniversary of the People's Republic of China ?
Did you knowthat neotectonics is the study of geologically recent tectonics , but a clear consensus does not always exist over how far back in time "geologically recent" is?
Did you knowthat in the late 1980s, as many as 50 percent of Argentina 's thermal power plants had to be shut down due to lack of maintenance, causing a supply crisis?
Did you knowthat Max Ernst's 1921 painting The Elephant Celebes combined Surrealism with the collage effects of Dada ?
Did you knowthat James Vaupel has set up an international database to study supercentenarians ?
Did you knowthat popular 1950s game show Down You Go is one of the only U.S. television series to air on all four networks of television's Golden Age : ABC , NBC , CBS and DuMont ?
Did you knowthat in the Sandeshkhali region of West Bengal more than 100 women get trafficked to red-light areas in Mumbai and Pune each year?
Did you knowthat you stole the cookie from the cookie jar ?
Did you knowthat the Spanish shepherd Diego Marín Aguilera attempted flight in a manned glider on May 15, 1793 after jumping from a castle at Coruña del Conde ?
Did you knowthat the England national football team is to train on the football pitch of the Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College , as it is the only one identical to one in Russia on which they are due to play in October 2007?
Did you knowthat the 1881 Warsaw pogrom was caused by panic after pickpockets raised a false fire warning, resulting in 29 deaths by stampede ?
Did you knowthat the founders of the Kingdom of Mysore may have been descendents of the Hoysala Dynasty or fugitives from the Vijayanagara Empire court?
Did you knowthat the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy is responsible for America 's Strategic Petroleum Reserve ?
Did you knowthat the upcoming British film Hippie Hippie Shake by Beeban Kidron , which follows the 1971 obscenity trial of the Australian editor Richard Neville of satirical magazine Oz , was in development hell for nearly ten years?
Did you knowthat despite being organised on St. Andrew's Day , the first official international football match did not result in a home win?
Did you knowthat because of its karez well system , an ancient water system using gravity , Turfan became a prosperous Silk Road oasis city located in the second deepest depression in the world?
Did you knowthat Rancho Los Encinos near Los Angeles was founded in  1797, and raised cattle , sheep and wheat , and was a stagecoach stop, before becoming a real estate subdivision with Los Encinos State Historic Park at its heart?
Did you knowthat Jan Roskam wrote his book on airplane war stories, based on his own experiences, to remind aircraft engineers of the consequences of their mistakes?
Did you knowthat its central location as a transportation hub for the United States led to the branding of Omaha, Nebraska as  the "Gateway City of the West"?
Did you knowthat huge numbers of otakus made pilgrimages to Washinomiya Shrine after it was featured in the popular anime and manga series Lucky ☆ Star ?
Did you knowthat Tom Wolfe 's 1989 criticism of contemporary American literature, " Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast " , began a feud with authors John Updike and John Irving that has continued ever since?
Did you knowthat Samuel Pegge , a Derbyshire antiquarian , published a book compiled by Richard II 's cooks called Forme of Cury ?
Did you knowthat hackers and rogue administrators often seek to eliminate evidence of their unauthorized activities by manipulating the Microsoft Windows Security Log ?
Did you knowthat the Chicago City Council revoked the McCarthy Building 's Chicago Landmark status to make way for the controversial redevelopment of Chicago 's Block 37 in the Chicago Loop ?
Did you knowthat the Beasts of Satan were a heavy metal band and suspected satanic cult in Italy that committed three notorious ritual murders before being arrested?
Did you knowthat Mikołaj Hussowczyk ' s  book The Song about Bison is considered to be the first large fiction work about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ?
Did you knowthat the first public toilets in England were invented by George Jennings for the Great Exhibition of 1851?
Did you knowthat Prof. Fuller Albright (1900-1969) made numerous discoveries in endocrinology (hormonal medicine), including the link between menopause and osteoporosis ?
Did you knowthat the Sun Ning Railway Company , South China 's first significant railway, was dismantled in December 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War to deny its use by the Japanese military?
Did you knowthat the planned South Beach complex in Singapore will incorporate four conservation buildings, where the first National Service enlistment was held in 1967?
Did you knowthat when Nebraska completed construction of its stretch of Interstate 80 in 1974 , it became the first state in the U.S. to complete its mainline interstate system ?
Did you knowthat the German children's series Bibi Blocksberg has been criticised because it can give a negative view of politics to children?
Did you knowthat Tanjong Katong Primary School has the most diverse student population among all government-operated schools in Singapore , as its students come from 39 countries?
Did you knowthat the winnings from the 1975 Yellow Sam betting coup were paid out in the form of over a hundred sacks of IR£ 1 notes ?