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Did you know that the Soviet Red Army's T-10 heavy tank was originally named IS-10 for Iosif Stalin ( Joseph Stalin ), but was renamed in the climate of de-Stalinization ?
Did you know that the Interactive Urine Communicator is a marketing device used in urinals ?
Did you know that the crews of even the most heavily-armoured tanks try to take advantage of protective terrain in combat , by moving their vehicles into hull-down positions whenever possible?
Did you knowthat the famous Hit Factory recording studio in New York City recently closed down after 12 years of operation?
Did you knowthat Double Gloucester cheese is made from a mixture of milk taken in the morning and evening?
Did you knowthat Rose is the first new episode of Doctor Who to be shown since 1989 ?
Did you knowthat fans in the Dawg Pound at Cleveland Browns Stadium used to throw dog food at opposing players?
Did you knowthat the Florida Lottery's Lotto game was the first single-state lottery in the United States to have a jackpot over US$ 100 million, on the September 14 , 1990 drawing?
Did you knowthat Alonzo C. Mather was awarded a medal in 1883 by the American Humane Society for the humane treatment of the livestock transported in railroad stock cars he designed?
Did you knowthat cardiac surgeon William Mustard developed the Mustard cardiovascular procedure to correct blue baby syndrome ?
Did you knowthat the Common Travel Area which allows Irish and British people to travel without passports between their countries is the result of the lack of any law requiring a passport?
Did you know that Mather Tower, the headquarters building for Mather Stock Car Company built in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois , has the smallest floor size of any of Chicago's skyscrapers ?
Did you knowthat in Operation Saturn , the Red Army drove the Axis Powers out of the Caucasus and back across the Donets River in the winter of 1942 – 1943 ?
Did you knowthat Russian -born Yiddish playwright Peretz Hirshbein tried his hand at farming, both in the Catskills and in Argentina ?
Did you knowthat Dr. Angel Ramos is one of the few deaf Hispanics in the United States to hold a doctorate ?
Did you know that Skeleton Lake in India is named after the remains of approximately 600 people who died there in a sudden hailstorm ?
Did you know that the England football squad for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico contained two players called Gary Stevens ?
Did you know that up to 2 million people may be living in Russian closed cities , which are off-limits to foreigners because they have sensitive military and nuclear industry ?
Did you knowthat actress Peggy McCay , now known for her role on Days of our Lives , first became popular as the heroine on Love of Life in 1951 ?
Did you knowthat in 1969 noted writer Norman Mailer ran for Mayor of New York City advocating New York City secession ?
Did you knowthat Joseph Haines was a well-known London song-and-dance man, comedian , and eccentric in the 17th century ?
Did you knowthat Roman embassies to China are reported in Chinese historical accounts from as early as 166 ?
Did you knowthat United Kingdom corporation tax is charged with reference to accounting periods ?
Did you knowthat Angel Ramos , the founder of the second-largest Spanish speaking television network in the United States , Telemundo , was orphaned at the age of 3?
Did you knowthat Disney characters will regularly appear in 3D on television for the first time in the children's television series Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse ?
Did you knowthat the Panjdeh Incident in 1886 almost led to full-scale war between the British Empire and Imperial Russia ?
Did you knowthat a bass run is an instrumental break in which the main vocal or melody line rests and the bass instruments and line are given the forefront?
Did you knowthat although Admiral Robert Calder arguably saved Britain from invasion in the battle of Cape Finisterre he was court-martialled for his failure to win a more decisive victory?
Did you knowthat Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands appointed the task of guarding the royal palaces to the Koninklijke Marechaussee (Royal Constabulary) in 1908 ?
Did you knowthat Antonín Dvořák 's Cello Concerto in b minor was considered so great that Johannes Brahms , the composer 's mentor who had never written one himself, commented: "Why on earth didn't I know that one could write a cello concerto like this? If I had only known, I would have written one long ago!"?
Did you knowthat the BBC coat of arms was adopted in 1927 and uses heraldic symbols to depict the various qualities of broadcasting ?
Did you knowthat blues-harp , rather than a type of harp , is a style of playing an ordinary diatonic harmonica that originated in the blues in which the in-drawn notes are made primary and the blown notes secondary?
Did you knowthat England football captain Eddie Hapgood was forced by diplomats to give a Nazi salute before a match with Germany in 1938 ?
Did you knowthat tree frogs have been used as barometers because they respond to approaching rain by croaking?
Did you knowthat Stan Mortensen scored a hat-trick in the 1953 FA Cup Final at Wembley , becoming the first player ever to do so?
Did you knowthat the passamezzo antico was a favorite chord progression in sixteenth-century Europe, whose variants later include the passamezzo moderno or Gregory Walker, the American Gregory Walker, and the twelve bar blues ?
Did you knowthat Robert Mardian , the political co-ordinator for the Committee to Re-elect the President , was convicted for his part in the Watergate scandal but later had the conviction overturned because his lawyer had fallen ill?
Did you knowthat with the Secret Treaty of Dover signed between England and France , King Charles II attempted to convert England to Catholicism ?
Did you knowthat a double tonic is a basic chord progression or melodic motion extremely common in African , Asian , and European music consisting of a "regular back-and-forth motion" most commonly between notes a whole tone apart?
Did you knowthat the sled dog Togo is considered one of the heroes commemorated by the Iditarod dog sled race which is currently running across the U.S. state of Alaska ?
Did you knowthat the Bovo-Bukh , a very popular chivalric romances written in Yiddish , was based on the Anglo-Norman romance of Sir Bevis of Hampton , by way of the Italian language romance of Buovo d'Antona ?
Did you knowthat the flightless adzebill was a large predatory bird that lived in New Zealand , and was initially thought to be a kind of moa ?
Did you knowthat Nat Lofthouse was the England football team's highest goalscorer of all-time for eight years?
Did you knowthat parlour music is a term used to describe the unified style common to popular and semi-popular European lite- classical and popular , and folk -like music from 1790 until 1900 ?
Did you knowthat Kyiv Arsenal is one of the oldest and most famous industrial companies of the Ukrainian capital Kiev ?
Did you knowthat the 2004 Dean v. Utica U.S. federal case expanded the First Amendment rights of high school journalists , which had been limited by the Supreme Court 's 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier ruling?
Did you knowthat despite a sight-impairment disability, Carl G. Fisher became a notable American entrepreneur, who helped develop sealed beam headlights, the Lincoln Highway (the first U.S. transcontinental paved roadway), the Indianapolis Motor Speedway , and the resort city of Miami Beach, Florida ?
Did you knowthat Lysa Hora hill in the Ukrainian capital Kiev is both a historical fortress and a mystical "bold mountain" where witches are believed to gather for their sabbaths ?
Did you knowthat Mary Hallaren was the first woman to join the United States Army ?
Did you knowthat in Lebanon , the spice mixture Za'atar is thought to bring physical strength and keep the mind alert?
Did you knowthat Dutch magician Fred Kaps was the only magician to win the magic world championship three times?
Did you knowthat while mine owner Franklin B. Gowen was the president of the Reading Railroad , he was also the special prosecutor in the trial to break up the clandestine Molly Maguires society?
Did you knowthat Barbarossa is an award-winning German-style board game by Klaus Teuber from 1988 in which the players have to sculpt plasticine to earn points ?
Did you knowthat Nils Liedholm is the last surviving member of the famous footballing Gre-No-Li trio?
Did you knowthat NASA inventor and scientist, Dr. Pedro Rodriguez is the son of the renowned Puerto Rican salsa singer, the late Pellin Rodriguez ?
Did you knowthat Italian mathematician Guido Castelnuovo secretly taught geometry to Jewish students during World War II ?
Did you knowthat the UN estimates that 150,000 people died during the Liberian Civil War , with 850,000 refugees fleeing to neighboring countries?
Did you knowthat a Punnett square is a tool in genetics developed by British geneticist Reginald Punnett , and which biologists use to this day to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring?
Did you knowthat the Ochil Hills are a Devonian lava extrusion whose southern fault line is particularly prominent today as an escarpment ?
Did you knowthat balancing the ticket has been an important part of American presidential politics since 1830
Did you knowthat Robert Koldewey led an archeological dig in modern day Iraq which he believed to be the location of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for 18 years ?
Did you knowthat Melissa McIntyre , best known for her role in Degrassi: The Next Generation made her television debut in the 1997 series, Timesweep , in which she played an extraterrestial being ?
Did you knowthat Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev worked on mechanical linkage design for over thirty years which led to his work on Chebyshev polynomials ?
Did you knowthat weatherman Alex Deakin has a masters degree in astrophysics ?
Did you knowthat the Russian avant-garde art collective UNOVIS signed most of their works with a single black square, partly as a homage to a similar work by their leader, Kazimir Malevich ?
Did you knowthat American actress Susan Oliver , after surviving a plane crash that almost ended her life, became the first woman to fly a single-engined aircraft solo from New York City across the Atlantic Ocean ?
Did you knowthat the Windows Template Library is perhaps the only open source library by Microsoft ?
Did you knowthat the two airplanes on the Bar Harbor Airlines fleet that had accidents were numbered N200WP and N300WP respectively?
Did you know that thousands of toads in Hamburg , Germany recently became mysterious exploding toads ?
Did you knowthat a kid hack was a horse-drawn vehicle used for transporting children to school in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States ? This early form of school bus powered by both horses and mules , was usually loaded at the rear to avoid frightening the animals.
Did you knowthat a remand prisoner may be entitled to wear their own clothing, rather than a prison uniform?
Did you knowthat the growing of heirloom plants may help increase the genetic variety of crops?
Did you knowthat the Laotian Rock Rat is a new species of rodent that is unique enough to lead researchers to create a new family of mammals ?
Did you knowthat the International Dance Day has been celebrated on April 29 since 1982 ? It commemorates the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre , the creator of modern ballet .
Did you knowthe USS Kidd (DD-661) , currently a museum ship , was a Fletcher -class destroyer , and the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Rear Adm. Isaac C. Kidd ?
Did you knowthat musical montage ( montage meaning "putting together") is a technique where musical compositions or sound objects are created from collage ?
Did you knowthat the child actor Tommy Rettig , who starred as Jeff Miller in the first four seasons of the Lassie television series , became a noted database software author as an adult?
Did you knowthat Skyfox was one of the first games to popularize the cockpit view for flight action games ?
Did you knowthat Chrissy Snow from the American sitcom Three's Company was actually named " Christmas Snow "?
Did you knowthat Benedict Arnold was an early American politician , who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1829 despite the fact the person he was named after was revealed to be a traitor two weeks before he was born?
Did you knowthat a police officer in the United States may only briefly detain and frisk a person if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in a crime ?
Did you knowthat the song " Delta Dawn " was first sung by Tanya Tucker and turned down by Barbra Streisand before gaining widespread pop success by Helen Reddy ?
Did you knowthat Pal , owned by animal trainers Frank and Rudd Weatherwax , was the name of the first dog to portray Lassie ?
Did you knowthat The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor is a whodunit written in English by German -born sexologist Ernest Borneman when he was not yet 20 years of age?
Did you knowthat the biodiversity of New Zealand is dominated by bird families that flew in from Australia and insects , frogs and plants that were on the island when it broke off from Gondwana ?
Did you knowthat a Sub Inspector or S.I. is the rank of an Indian police officer who is in command of a police station ?
Did you know The Jeff Corwin Experience is an American television show about animals hosted by actor and conservationist Jeff Corwin on Animal Planet ?
Did you knowthat the French footballer Lucien Laurent scored the first ever World Cup goal, against Mexico in 1930 ?
Did you knowthat the Nine Saints were a group of Christians from the Byzantine Empire who took part in converting areas of what is now Eritrea and Ethiopia in the late fifth century AD ?
Did you knowthat Debswana , a joint venture between De Beers and the government of Botswana , is the largest producer of diamonds by value in the world?
Did you knowthat Will Harvey created his first commercial computer game when he was only 15 and still in high school ?
Did you knowthat the internet casino GoldenPalace.com won a bid to name the recently discovered type of New World monkey : the GoldenPalace.com Monkey ?
Did you knowthat actor Philip Ahn was the first child of Korean ancestry to be born in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Boneless Fish is a Japanese frozen food made from fish , which is deboned by hand and then glued to its original shape using a food -grade enzyme ?
Did you knowthe callsign of KFRC in San Francisco, California in the U.S. stood for " K nown F or R adio C learness"? In fact, when the AM radio station signed on with 50 watts in 1924 , it was heard as far away as New Zealand , far exceeding anyone's expectations.
Did you knowthat every British monarch since Queen Victoria has worshipped at Crathie Kirk , a small parish church near Balmoral Castle ?
Did you knowthat Giovanni Bugatti was the longest-serving executioner in the Papal States ?
Did you know Humber College's TVO series Distinguished Artists is the first network television show produced by a college or university ?
Did you knowthat Terri Irwin , co-owner of the Australia Zoo and co-star of The Crocodile Hunter series on television, began caring for injured wildlife as a child and ran her own rehab facility for 5 years before she met Steve Irwin ?
Did you knowthat the MCC beat Warwickshire in the first game of the 2005 English cricket season ?
Did you knowthat Edgar Buchanan was a dentist before becoming an American actor with a long career in both movies and television, and is probably best remembered as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction and Green Acres television sitcoms of the 1960s ?
Did you knowthat Dismal Swamp Canal which runs along the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States ?
Did you knowthat James A. Bland ( 1854 - 1911 ) an African American musician and song writer wrote over 700 songs, including " Carry Me Back to Old Virginny " in 1878 , which was later the official State Song of Virginia from 1940 to 1997?
Did you knowthat Fisher Automobile Company in Indianapolis, Indiana is believed to have been the first automobile dealership in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the Lebanon Correctional Institution and the Warren Correctional Institution are on land once owned by the Shakers ?
Did you know that a physical paradox is thought to be either an artifact of error or incompleteness because reality is assumed to be completely consistent ?
Did you knowthat Mountain Lake , one of only two natural lakes in Virginia , was the filming location for the fictional Kellerman's Resort in New York's Catskill Mountains for the 1987 feature film Dirty Dancing ?
Did you knowthat although England centre forward Geoff Hurst had scored a hat-trick and was therefore entitled to keep the match ball, it was German striker Helmut Haller who took it home after the 1966 World Cup final?
Did you knowthat Caesars Creek State Park has 7,900 acres centered around a 2,800 acre lake created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ?
Did you knowthat Cetartiodactyla is a hypothesis based on DNA that suggests whales and hippos are related?
Did you knowthat " Gigantour ," a six-week heavy metal music festival devised by Megadeth front-man Dave Mustaine , will travel North America in late- July ?
Did you knowthat Ohio 's College Township was given by Congress for the benefit of Miami University ?
Did you knowthat some stationery companies produce scented paper and envelopes specifically for love letters ?
Did you knowthat a smokie is a West African delicacy made by blowtorching the carcass of a sheep or goat without removing its fleece ?
Did you knowthat Reverend John Chilembwe is celebrated as the first Malawian nationalist, and was a martyr for his cause?
Did you knowthat during the Elizabethan era in England , theatres were constructed of wood and were circular in form, open to the elements and with a large portion of the audience standing directly below the stage ?
Did you knowthat " I Want You Back " , the 1969 debut single by The Jackson 5 , was originally intended for both Gladys Knight & the Pips and Diana Ross , and has been sampled by Blackstreet , Jay-Z , and Lil' Romeo ?
Did you knowthat DJ Grand Mixer DXT is credited with inventing turntablism , the rhythmic scratching of a record on a turntable using different velocities to alter the pitch of the note or sound on the recording, making the turntable a fully performable and improvisational instrument?
Did you knowthat Robert Dick Wilson was a leading Bible scholar who was able to read the New Testament in nine different languages while still at Princeton University , and strongly defended the Bible's historical accuracy?
Did you knowthat The Brady Bunch actress Maureen McCormick was one of the many people who voiced the 1960s toy Chatty Cathy ?
Did you knowthat Flying Dog Brewery employs the unusual artwork of Ralph Steadman on its labels, best known for his work as the illustrator of the works of Hunter S. Thompson ?
Did you knowthat Arthur Owens , codenamed SNOW , was a vital double agent who supplied information to German intelligence under the direction of British MI5 during the early years of World War II ?
Did you knowthat Ray Wilson , who was the eldest member of England's victorious 1966 World Cup team, became an undertaker after he retired from football ?
Did you knowthat pilot Victor Chapman died after being attacked by German enemies while on flight to carry oranges to a wounded friend?
Did you knowthat Eli H. Janney whittled the prototypes for his railroad coupler design out of wood in 1873 ?
Did you knowthat Adult attention-deficit disorder (AADD) affects an estimated 30% of people who suffered from Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in their childhood ?
Did you knowthat from 1926 to 1940 , the Union Minière du Haut Katanga had a virtual monopoly of the world uranium market?
Did you knowthat on March 4 1839 , William F. Harnden became the first person to send an express freight shipment by rail ?
Did you knowthat Arcadia University changed its name from Beaver College because the latter "too often elicited ridicule in the form of derogatory remarks"?
Did you knowthat the protagonist of Alexandre Dumas ' recently rediscovered last novel The Knight of Sainte-Hermine has a pivotal encounter with the British admiral Horatio Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar ?
Did you knowa coping skill is a behavioral tool used to overcome adversity , disadvantage , or disability without correcting or eliminating the underlying condition?
Did you knowthat Jesus spelled backwards sounds a bit like sausage ?
Did you knowthat the Sedlec Ossuary is a chapel decorated with the bones of 40,000 people?
Did you knowthat A Year in the Merde by Stephen Clarke is a humorous look at the tense Franco-British relations during the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq ?
Did you knowthat the BMT Sea Beach Line has at times hosted the fastest express train service between Manhattan and Coney Island , but now carries only local trains of the New York City Subway , and doesn't even reach Coney Island due to reconstruction?
Did you knowthat the Runyang Bridge and the Jiangyin Suspension Bridge are the two largest suspension bridges in China and the fourth and sixth largest suspension bridges in the world?
Did you knowthat Brancaleon , a 15th century Venetian painter who gained fortune, fame and notoriety in his adopted home of Ethiopia , is an example of early contacts between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa ?
Did you knowthat the short-lived Maryland Constitution of 1864 emancipated the state's slaves and disenfranchised Marylanders who fought for or supported the Confederacy ?
Did you knowthat the 1st century Greek historian Nicolaus of Damascus reported the embassy of holy men from India to the Levant , Athens and Rome during the time of Jesus ?
Did you knowthat Fala , Franklin D. Roosevelt 's beloved Scottish terrier and one of the most famous presidential pets , has a bronze statue in his likeness at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial ?
Did you knowthat Leo Abse (born 1917 ) was a Labour Member of Parliament largely responsible for legalising male homosexual relations in the United Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat Nippon Steel Corporation , the Japanese steelmaking giant, once ventured into mushroom cultivation in an earnest bid to avoid layoffs ?
Did you knowthat Indian -born English cricketer Hugh Bartlett died whilst watching a cricket match at Hove in 1988 ?
Did you knowthat in Greek mythology , Antiope was the only Amazon known to have married?
Did you knowthat the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago built the first nuclear reactor and achieved a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in December 1942?
Did you knowthat backlash from the 1897 Lattimer Massacre in Pennsylvania , an important event in the U.S. history of labor relations , resulted in the addition of some 15,000 new members of United Mine Workers of America union ?
Did you knowthat footballer Antonín Panenka famously scored the winning penalty for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 European Championship final against West Germany by chipping the ball?
Did you knowthat extension conflicts helped give Macintosh computers a reputation for instability before the release of Mac OS X ?
Did you knowthat Australian tennis players Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde , known as The Woodies , are the most successful men's doubles pair in history, winning a record six Wimbledon titles?
Did you knowthat the Iowa Interstate Railroad is being considered for high speed passenger train service between Wyanet, Illinois , and Iowa City ?
Did you knowthat Microphallus is a genus of parasitic trematode , some species of which are notable for the manipulation of the behaviour and growth of their hosts?
Did you knowthat William Bergsma wrote an opera about a dog who turned into a man in 1920s Moscow as the result of a crazy experiment?
Did you know that the feminist Madeleine Pelletier (1874–1939) was the first female psychiatrist in France and that she dressed as a man to protest the oppression of women?
Did you know that the Delaware Basin in Texas contains fossilised coral reefs from the Permian era?