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Did you knowthat virtuoso double bassist and composer Frantisek Kotzwara asked a prostitute to cut off his testicles and died from erotic asphyxiation ?
Did you knowthat Rocco Petrone was the first non-German administrator of NASA 's Marshall Space Flight Center ?
Did you knowthat in addition to their use on early sailing ships, early trains had " crow's nests " as well?
Did you knowthat Ichikawa Danjūrō V , one of the most famous and successful Kabuki actors, was briefly forced out of the theater after being accused of misappropriating funds?
Did you know that Islam Khan was the founder of the modern city of Dhaka and the first Mughal general to subjugate Bengal ?
Did you knowthat studies in phage ecology indicate that viruses may be the most abundant organisms on Earth ?
Did you knowthat the first British fighter pilot to die in World War II was killed in a friendly fire incident known as the Battle of Barking Creek ?
Did you knowthat American engineer Elmer William Engstrom was involved in the development of television by RCA in the 1930s?
Did you knowthat line source is a mathematical construct used to analyze roadway air and noise pollution , but was not developed as a meaningful tool until 1970 when major U.S. laws spurred extensive environmental modelling ?
Did you knowthat 6Q0B44E , a recently discovered satellite of Earth , is thought to be a large piece of space debris ?
Did you knowthat Iranshah Âtash Bahrâm in Udvada , a town in Gujarat , India , is the holiest fire temple for the Parsi community?
Did you knowthat the stump speech of the blackface minstrel show was a precursor to modern stand-up comedy ?
Did you knowthat a feature story is an article in a newspaper , a magazine , or a news website that is not meant to report breaking news , but rather to take an in-depth look at the background events, persons or circumstances behind a news story?
Did you knowthat the fictional Document 12-571-3570 was a hoax that purported to describe sex experiments done in space ?
Did you knowthat Vikram Seth 's A Suitable Boy is the longest single-volume novel ever published in English?
Did you knowthat, as a consequence of the Russo-Polish War from 1654 to 1667, the cities of Kiev , Chernigov , and Smolensk were ceded to Russia ?
Did you knowthat anti- gay protests following the selection of the song Samo Ljubezen by drag-group Sestre in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest led to criticism of Slovenia in the European Parliament ?
Did you knowthat Merv Wood , a single sculls gold medallist and the only person to twice be Australian flagbearer at the Summer Olympics , later became the Police Commissioner of New South Wales ?
Did you knowthat the Svinsky Monastery later changed its name to Svensky, in order to avoid connotation to the word " swine "?
Did you know that the Israeli band Ping pong were disendorsed by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority as the representative in the 2000 Eurovision after waving the Flag of Syria in their song " Sameyakh "?
Did you know that Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor will become the first Malaysian in space when he launches on board Soyuz TMA-11 towards the International Space Station in September 2007?
Did you knowthat Chiques Creek in Pennsylvania , named for the Lenape word Chiquesalunga (meaning place of crayfish ), has 13 variant names according to the USGS ?
Did you knowthat the 1672 treatise Loimologia is a rare first-hand account of the Great Plague of London , written by one of the few physicians to remain in the city during the plague?
Did you knowthat Willi Ninja ' s distinctive dance style was an inspiration for Madonna 's 1990 song " Vogue "?
Did you knowthat aluminium alloys developed by Russian metallurgist Igor Gorynin are claimed to have the highest specific strength of all known weldable metallic materials?
Did you knowthat Mauryan Emperor Ashoka had to stop the execution of his future spiritual adviser Moggaliputta-Tissa for touching his  right hand?
Did you knowthat Virginia Congressman, John Floyd argued for settlement of the Oregon Territory twenty-eight years before it became an official United States territory?
Did you knowthat Estonian Margus Hunt won two gold medals at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics , setting a world junior record in discus throw and a national junior record in shot put ?
Did you know that Dhaka , the capital of Bangladesh was also known as Jahangir Nagar ?
Did you knowthat the Allied Bombing of Bucharest in World War II damaged the University of Bucharest and uprooted trees at the Botanical Garden of Bucharest ?
Did you knowthat nearly 20,000 people visited a shrine in Bangalore in 2002 to see the Miracle Chapati , a flat unleaved piece of bread with the likeness of Jesus on it?
Did you knowthat Bobby Pearce won the single sculls at the 1928 Summer Olympics despite stopping mid-race for a passing flock of ducks?
Did you knowthat the Peace of Rueil , signed 11 March 1649 between the court party and the party of the Parlement of Paris , brought to an end the first phase of France's first revolution, the Fronde ?
Did you knowthat Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was riding in a Gräf & Stift automobile at the time of his assasination ?
Did you knowthat when the Menier company built the first mass production plant for chocolate in 1830, it was the largest chocolate manufacturing company in the world?
Did you knowthat Semaphore, South Australia , the home of Australia's largest carousel , is also the birthplace of renowned aviator Sir Ross Smith ?
Did you knowthat, when translating Shakespeare into Russian , Mikhail Lozinsky attempted to convey the antiquated English language used by Shakespeare?
Did you knowthat " A-Ba-Ni-Bi ", Israel 's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 , was performed partly in the Hebrew equivalent of Pig Latin ?
Did you knowthat the De La Salle University-Manila College of Engineering was established in 1947 with the aim of providing young men with knowledge of science and technology to help rehabilitate the Philippines , which had been devastated during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Easter Posey was the first American woman to be killed in the line of duty in World War II ?
Did you knowthat the small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome is a rare complication of bariatric surgery for obesity ?
Did you knowthat the Northeast Flag Replacement in 1928 ended the Chinese Warlord Era , in which Zhang Xueliang announced the replacement of all flags in Manchuria with the Nationalist Government 's flag, thus nominally reuniting China?
Did you knowthat Brian Boitano narrowly won the Battle of the Brians , a 1988 Winter Olympics figure skating rivalry between two elite skaters named Brian?
Did you knowthat former Queensland House of Assembly member Tom Veivers was an Australian test cricketer ?
Did you knowthat Pope Pius XII's cousin, Ernesto Pacelli , was a financial adviser to Pope Leo XIII , Pope Pius X , and Pope Benedict XV ?
Did you knowthat the world's record auction price for a single piece of silver was achieved by a silver tureen made by the Parisian silversmith Thomas Germain in 1733, sold in November 1996 for US$ 10,287,500, triple the former record?
Did you knowthat the MacRobertson International Croquet Shield is the premier croquet teams event in the world and the 2006 series will be held in Australia in November?
Did you knowthat Sir Macpherson Robertson was an Australian philanthropist, entrepreneur and founder of confectionery company MacRobertson's which invented the Freddo Frog chocolate bar?
Did you knowthat developmental biologist PZ Myers , who writes about evolution , cephalopods , politics , and atheism , is the top-ranked science blogger according to the journal Nature ?
Did you knowthat the Council of Lithuania declared the independence of Lithuania by signing an Act of Independence on February 16, 1918?
Did you knowthat cyclist Gerald Ciolek became the youngest ever German National Cycling Champion, aged just 18 in 2005?
Did you knowthat in 1996 Andy Campbell, a ranger serving as Tunnel Mill Scout Reservation 's caretaker, was shot to death by a wandering drunk who trespassed onto the property, the first such incident in the history of Scouting?
Did you knowthat the first television set made entirely in Poland , the Belweder , cost 7000 złoty at the time when the average monthly salary ranged from 1 to 2 thousand?
Did you knowthat Ey Sham was the first entry in the Eurovision Song Contest from a country outside of geographical Europe ?
Did you knowthat Muhammad had engaged as a diplomat for a time during his call to Islam ?
Did you knowthat the town of Rawalsar in Himachal Pradesh , India is sacred to three major religions -- Hinduism , Sikhism and Buddhism ?
Did you knowthat the Old Fashioned , possibly the first drink to be called a cocktail , was invented at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1880s?
Did you knowthat Barbadian cricketer Sir Clyde Walcott became the first non-English and non-white chairman of the International Cricket Council in 1993 ?
Did you knowthat the history of communication was dependent on the acquisition of the FOXP2 gene in humans , which facilitated the development of speech 200,000 years ago?
Did you knowthat on Mother's Day , May 14 , 2006 , the Louisville Slugger Company produced more than 400 pink baseball bats for game use by more than 50 professional baseball players ?
Did you knowthat Hector Monro , Conservative and Unionist Party Member of Parliament for Dumfries for 33 years, was described by a Labour Party opponent as "the last of the decent Tories "?
Did you knowthat the Stoneman serial murders of thirteen homeless people in the summer of 1989 in Kolkata remain unsolved?
Did you knowthat the 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter is the latest of a four decade long series of massacres that has eliminated 97 percent of the Chadian elephant population of 300,000?
Did you knowthat many people enjoy singing in the shower because the bathroom acts as an echo chamber to enrich the sound of the singer's voice ?
Did you knowthat public displeasure with " The Voice " , Ireland 's fourth Eurovision victory in five years, led to the introduction of televoting ?
Did you knowthat the 13th century romance Perlesvaus features a strikingly different portrayal of the Arthurian legend than most texts, including a scene in which Sir Kay murders King Arthur and Guinevere 's son?
Did you knowthat the father and two brothers of Pakistani cricketer Wasim Raja also played first-class cricket ?
Did you knowthat five months before his death, William Edington was offered the post of Archbishop of Canterbury , but turned it down?
Did you knowthat Mahinda , a 3rd century monk who brought Buddhism to Sri Lanka , was the son of the Mauryan Emperor Asoka ?
Did you knowthat bin bugs are being attached to wheelie bins in England to monitor the amount of domestic waste produced by each household?
Did you knowthat the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer is used by the European Space Agency to determine the chemical composition of a planet 's atmosphere?
Did you knowthat the building housing the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Shimla , Himachal Pradesh was originally built as a home for Lord Dufferin , Viceroy of India ?
Did you knowthat former major league baseball pitcher Terry Forster recorded a novelty song called "Fat Is In" after he was referred to as a "fat tub of goo" on Late Night With David Letterman ?
Did you know that the largest Lithuanian encyclopedia was published in the United States by the immigrant community when Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union ?
Did you knowthat Homer Mensch , the double bassist who played the theme for Jaws , originally wanted to be a tennis player?
Did you knowthat the Arch of the Centuries of the University of Santo Tomas at Manila was disassembled from the University's original campus at Intramuros , carried piece-by-piece, and was re-erected at the current campus at Sampaloc ?
Did you knowthat the Cellular Jail in the Andaman Islands in India had a forked structure and derived its name from the fact that it comprised only of isolated cells?
Did you knowthat " Ricky's Hand ", the second single by British New Wave musician Fad Gadget , featured a Black & Decker electric drill as one of its 'instruments'?
Did you knowthat the little-known Dominickers of Holmes County, Florida , were said to be descendants of a pre- Civil War plantation owner's widow and one of her black slaves?
Did you knowthat the National Protection War led to the death of Yuan Shikai , which led to the beginning of the Warlord Era in China?
Did you knowthat Punjabi film-star Yograj Singh was a former Test cricketer and father of current Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh ?
Did you knowthat biological therapy for inflammatory bowel disease has changed the manner in which doctors treat Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis ?
Did you knowthat the P'urhépecha language isolate of Mexico is one of only two Mesoamerican languages not to have a phonemic glottal stop and that it has more than 160 affixes , 13 tenses and 6 modes ?
Did you knowthat the 2000 Black Coaches Association Classic was postponed by an electrical storm during which lightning struck ESPN broadcaster Lee Corso 's rental car?
Did you knowthat during Operation Cedar Falls in the Vietnam War , American and South Vietnamese troops captured 3,700 tons of rice , enough to feed 13,000 troops for a full year?
Did you knowthat Indian-American teenager Gaurav Raja memorized 10,980 digits of pi in 2006 to break the North American pi memorization record?
Did you knowthat the Australian Federal Division of Macarthur is considered to be a bellwether as it has been held by the ruling political party in every election since 1949 ?
Did you knowthat at the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico , the Tarascan state was the second only to the Aztec empire in size and population ?
Did you knowthat Polish politician and Sejm member, Joanna Senyszyn , gained media attention due to her distinctive, high-pitched voice ?
Did you knowthat Ian Craig , the youngest ever Australian test cricketer and captain, later became the managing director of Boots pharmaceutical company?
Did you knowthat the original tunnel built to connect the Kalka-Shimla Railway at Barog , Himachal Pradesh was abandoned as the two constructed ends did not meet?
Did you knowthat in 1995 , André Dallaire attempted to assassinate the Prime Minister of Canada , Jean Chrétien after breaking into his residence at 24 Sussex Drive ?
Did you knowthat at the height of the Cold War , U.S. President Ronald Reagan committed a microphone gaffe when he joked that he had signed legislation to bomb Russia ?
Did you knowthat despite not being backed by the FDA , full-body scans are performed in the United States to screen for disease in healthy people?
Did you knowthat the manufacturer of the Trojan car claimed that driving it was cheaper than walking?
Did you knowthat Australian cricket captain Brian Booth also represented Australia at the 1956 Summer Olympics in hockey ?
Did you knowthat the Dhammapada describes an ascetic named Jambuka who had the practice of standing on one leg and eating his own excrement?
Did you knowthat portions of Chicago 's Devon Avenue have been renamed in honor of Golda Meir , Mahatma Gandhi , Muhammad Ali Jinnah , and Sheik Mujib ?
Did you knowthat Providence, Ohio became a ghost town in the mid-nineteenth century after suffering both a catastrophic fire and a cholera epidemic?
Did you knowthat the Rhodes blood libel — the accusation that the Jews of Rhodes ritually  murdered a Christian boy in 1840 — enjoyed active support from the consuls of several European countries?
Did you knowthat in 1994 , a wild Bottlenose dolphin in Brazil named Tião killed one man and seriously injured a second after they had been harassing the animal?
Did you knowthat temperance leader William E. "Pussyfoot" Johnson lost his right eye after he was captured by a mob of medical students and paraded through the streets of London ?
Did you knowthat Daniel Pearl returned as cinematographer for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , nearly thirty years after filming the original ?
Did you knowthat Metop-A is the first polar orbiting meteorological satellite launched by Europe , and is the second largest Earth observation satellite built in Europe, after ENVISAT ?
Did you knowthat during the Mexican-American War , a revolt by the Californio and Mexican residents of Los Angeles forced American Marines to surrender Fort Moore ?
Did you knowthat the McLean County Courthouse and Square in Bloomington, Illinois , a Registered Historic Place , is home to multiple historic buildings built from the 1850s to the 1920s, including the old county courthouse, constructed in 1903?
Did you knowthat the early musical influences of Austrian jazz - fusion guitarist Alex Machacek , who has been praised by legends like John McLaughlin , included heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden and KISS ?
Did you knowthat the Valley Forge Pilgrimage , held every year since 1913, is the oldest annual Scouting event in the United States ?
Did you knowthat, despite the name, Mrs. Chippy , the ship's cat on Shackleton 's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was actually male?
Did you know that Matthew Robinson , older brother of Baseball Hall of Fame member Jackie Robinson , was a world-class sprinter and won a silver medal in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin ?
Did you knowthat the outside of the Great Western Hospital in Swindon is covered in 7600 m² (9090 sq yd ) of cream-coloured precast concrete cladding panels, each weighing around 14 tonnes ?
Did you knowthat Hood Mountain in California has high canopy mixed oak forests , pygmy forests and expanses of rock outcrop , and also has a vulnerable plant species named for it?
Did you knowthat Peotone Mill , a windmill built in 1871 , was donated to the village of Peotone , Illinois in 1982 after being idle for nearly a century , and was registered on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in the same year?
Did you knowthat Scottish socialist John McGovern was the treasurer of the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation , but later became an Independent Labour Party Member of Parliament ?
Did you knowthat the history of the late Roman and early Byzantine empires published by British historian Arnold Hugh Martin Jones in 1964 is still considered the definitive narrative of that period?
Did you knowthat the Black Book , a dissident manuscript, was written by Sudanese in a covert cell , who later helped form the rebel Justice and Equality Movement ?
Did you knowthat Milt Gross , writer of comics that used Yiddish -inflected English , also wrote a 1930 "silent" graphic novel He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and Not a Word in It — No Music, Too ?
Did you knowthat RAF Wing Commander George Salaman was the last Englishman to be imprisoned in the Tower of London when he impersonated a Luftwaffe officer to entrap the imprisoned Rudolf Hess ?
Did you knowthat the Peoria State Hospital grounds are said to be haunted by the ghost of "Old Book" who possessed the form of a graveyard elm tree?
Did you knowthat the Count d'Orsay 's poodle inspired Edwin Landseer to paint Laying Down The Law ?
Did you knowthat Domenico Pino , an Italian General of Division in Napoleon 's Grande Armée , married a ballerina and sold the villa in Como that she inherited from her rich first husband to Caroline of Brunswick ?
Did you knowthat Duxton Hill in Singapore used to be a notorious slum area with brothels , opium and gambling dens, but now belongs to a conservation area known as Tanjong Pagar ?
Did you knowthat Tropical Storm Bertha , the second tropical storm of the 2002 Atlantic hurricane season , was one of only 3 tropical cyclones to make landfall on both Louisiana and Texas , with the others being Allison (2001) and Fern (1971) ?
Did you knowthat jury nullification became a recognised part of Scots law after Carnegie of Finhaven was found not guilty in his 1728 trial of murdering Charles Lyon, 6th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne ?
Did you knowthat in the 1970s, Tatar painter Baqi Urmançe painted Islamic calligraphy in the Soviet Union , something which was prohibited?
Did you knowthat the Tent City of Persepolis of the 2,500 year celebration of Iran's monarchy was inspired by the 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold meeting between Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England ?
Did you knowthat The Cenotaph was Singapore 's first major war memorial built in memory of the people who gave their lives in World War I , and was unveiled by the young Prince Edward of Wales , later King Edward VIII ?
Did you knowthat purple drank is a mix of codeine -containing cough syrup and soda that was popularized by Southern rap songs, and was implicated in the overdose of a popular rap producer ?
Did you knowthat Roald Dahl Plass , a plaza in Cardiff Bay , has been used as the setting for both Doctor Who and its spin-off Torchwood ?
Did you know that the Longfin Bannerfish can clean parasites off other fish?
Did you knowthat Ming Hsieh , whose parents were persecuted under the Cultural Revolution , began learning electrical engineering from his father and went on to develop biometric technology that made him one of the richest people in the world?
Did you knowthat National Park Seminary , in Forest Glen, Maryland , opened in 1894 as a finishing school, and that its architecturally whimsical campus was annexed by Walter Reed Army Hospital in 1942?
Did you knowthat ocular ischemic syndrome , due to arterial hypoperfusion , could be an early warning sign of impending stroke ?
Did you knowthat the Råbjerg Mile , a giant sand dune, drifts across Jutland , Denmark at a rate of up to 18 metres a year?
Did you knowthat The Pizza Tapes contain the only known version of Jerry Garcia performing Amazing Grace which was only played after Tony Rice 's wife requested it?
Did you know that a reservation , in international law , lets a State avoid or modify an obligation in a signed treaty ?
Did you know that the USMC Sergeant Major Gilbert "Hashmark" Johnson received his nickname because of wearing on the sleeve of his uniform three diagonal stripes (hashmarks), indicating successful previous enlistments?
Did you know that Orsten , fossil -bearing lagerstätten in Sweden and elsewhere, are called "stinking stones" from organic content that has been preserved since the Cambrian Period?
Did you know that Mars ' south polar ice cap may be melting due to regional climate change ?
Did you know that Queen Anula of Sri Lanka is believed to have been the first female monarch in Asia ?
Did you know that the Old Stone Church is a historic Presbyterian church located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio , and is the oldest building on Public Square ?
Did you know that speed skater Joey Cheek was the first person to officially play the online game Darfur is Dying ?
Did you know that a body part involved in a seizure can be paralyzed for minutes to days in an event known as Todd's paresis ?
Did you know that a crow-stepped gable is a roof slope design arising in the Middle Ages which was decorative, but also facilitated access to chimneys for maintenance?
Did you know that the Alba Bible , one of the earliest translations of the Old Testament into a Romance language , was commissioned with the express intent of promoting tolerance between Christians and Jews ?
Did you knowthat Communist Romania 's first Finance Minister, Vasile Luca , arrested in 1952 for having opposed the devaluation of the Romanian leu , was rehabilitated five years after his death in prison?
Did you knowthat Shō Shōken wrote the first history of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in 1650 ?
Did you knowthat Albert Tillman was the co-founder of the National Association of Underwater Instructors and developed the first university-level recreation and leisure studies program in the United States ?
Did you know that pop singer Jasmine Trias is a descendant of Mariano Trias , the Vice President of the Tejeros Convention ?
Did you know that in 1971, a Damascus school founded by Ozar Hatorah , a Jewish religious education organisation, was named by Syria as having the highest grades in the country?
Did you know that wealthy ship-owner Henry Hayman Toulmin gave away his 1860s U.K. shipping empire because none of his three sons were interested in following in their father's footsteps?