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Did you knowthat the inscription on King Ahiram 's sarcophagus housed in the National Museum of Beirut is the earliest known example of alphabetical writing?
Did you knowthat Carl Agar developed new techniques for flying helicopters by flying high in the Canadian Rockies ?
Did you knowthat the Saskatchewan Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure employs 1,476 employees diversified amongst 105 communities, maintaining 198,239 kilometres (123,180.0 mi) of roads and highways?
Did you knowthat American photojournalist Daniel Smith was once kidnapped by members of the Mehdi Army and taken to meet Muqtada al-Sadr ?
Did you knowthat Po-on and the rest of the Rosales Saga novel series by F. Sionil José resemble the story-telling tradition found in the U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos ?
Did you knowthat Lincoln's Lost Speech may have been so provocative that it was intentionally suppressed?
Did you knowthat Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich , cousin of Nicholas II of Russia , was called "the terror of jealous husbands as well as of watchful mothers"?
Did you knowthat the Winchester Bible , the largest surviving 12th-century English Bible , incorporated the skins of 250 calves?
Did you knowthat water privatization in Brazil began under Brazil's post-colonial Empire Pedro II of Brazil ?
Did you knowthat, although he wrote most of his work in Romanian , Romanian poet Panait Cerna is thought to have had a better grasp of his native Bulgarian ?
Did you knowthat founder Maria Weston Chapman was able to persuade Elizabeth Barrett Browning to submit anti-slavery poetry twice to the abolitionist fundraising gift book The Liberty Bell ?
Did you knowthat two US Presidents, Thomas Jefferson and William Henry Harrison , are responsible for the layout of the Old Jeffersonville Historic District ?
Did you knowthat when the YMCA of Berwick was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1883, the majority of the organization's trustees were current executives of Jackson and Woodin Manufacturing Company ?
Did you knowthat Sir John Betjeman wrote of Joan Jackson (née Hunter Dunn) being "Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun"?
Did you knowthat Commodore Cruise Line was the first Florida -based company to operate week-long cruises around the year?
Did you knowthat in his first major league appearance, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jim Nelson struck out Willie Mays and got Willie McCovey to hit into a double play?
Did you knowthat although spoken by less than 18,686 people, the Kulung language has eight dialects and covers the " Mahakulung " ethno - linguistic area?
Did you knowthat Juan Garcia Abrego , in 1995, was the first drug trafficker to be listed on the FBI 's Top Ten Most Wanted List ?
Did you knowthat in 2006 Austrian alpine style mountain climber Christian Stangl went up the northeast ridge route of Everest from Camp III (elev. 6,500 m) to the summit (elev. 8,848 m), alone and without an oxygen tank, in the record time of 16h 42min?
Did you knowthat L. B. Henry of Pineville , overcame a missing forearm at birth to become a plumber - businessman and then a statewide figure in Louisiana parish government ?
Did you knowthat Wilf Hurd , a former member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly , resigned less than a year after being re-elected?
Did you knowthat cyber law author and professor Jonathan Zittrain co-founded StopBadware.org to distribute the task of collecting data about malware to Internet users at large?
Did you knowthat the Main Building of Peace College was first used as a Confederate military hospital and regional headquarters for the Freedmen's Bureau ?
Did you knowthat John Madden has most wins of any Oakland Raiders head coach ?
Did you knowthat despite winning the 1989 World Indoor Championships , West German 400 metres sprinter Helga Arendt failed to reach the final round at the European Championships one year later?
Did you knowthat Stewart White has presented the regional BBC News programme Look East for 24 years?
Did you knowthat Tori Amos got the melody for her song " 1000 Oceans " from a "dark angel" singing to her in a dream?
Did you knowthat at the height of its popularity, New York 's Easter Parade drew crowds of over a million?
Did you knowthat John Dick , the high scorer in the first-ever NCAA men's basketball championship , would later command the U.S. Navy supercarrier USS Saratoga ?
Did you knowthat Lionel Monckton , the most popular musical theatre composer of the Edwardian period , after dropping into obscurity by the end of the 20th century, recently has had two albums of his music released?
Did you knowthat over 25% of Brazil's electricity is generated by a hydroelectric plant at Itaipu on the Paraná River ?
Did you knowthat state senator Larry George sued Senate President Peter Courtney in an attempt to prevent an experimental session of the Oregon Legislature ?
Did you knowthat a Muslim fundamentalist beheaded a statue of the Virgin Mary at St. Augustine 's and carted a statue of Father Serra to a nearby mosque in October 2001?
Did you knowthat Vasyl Krychevsky , a Ukrainian artist , designed the state emblem of the National Republic at the request of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi ?
Did you knowthat Sheenboro, Quebec , started as a trading post on the Ottawa River and has retained its character as a "Little Corner of Ireland "?
Did you knowthat John Percy Farrar recommended George Mallory for inclusion on the 1921 British Reconnaissance Expedition to Mount Everest ?
Did you knowthat the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science , founded in 1853, was edited for 68 years by the Lankester family?
Did you knowthat the Tang Dynasty chancellor Li Linfu , because of his treachery, was described in Chinese idiom as having honey in his mouth and a sword in his belly?
Did you knowthat Anglican archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy will be Australia 's first woman bishop when she is consecrated on 22 May 2008 ?
Did you knowthat in medieval Europe , a town clockkeeper would often be well-paid to monitor and regulate the town clock?
Did you knowthat Charles Inglis , past-president of the Institution of Civil Engineers was expected to die during birth and was hurriedly baptised in his father's drawing room?
Did you knowthat several songs from Michelle Williams 's debut album, Heart to Yours , are tribute to the September 11, 2001 attacks ?
Did you knowthat villagers in the drought-prone Ranibandh area in West Bengal 's Bankura district migrate to neighbouring districts in the harvesting season?
Did you knowthat many of the lines for the Three Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth are copied word for word from the 1577 work Holinshed's Chronicles ?
Did you knowthat Sha'arai Shomayim Cemetery was established by Alabama 's first Jewish congregation and one of the oldest Reform Jewish congregations in the US ?
Did you knowthat Omaha, Nebraska has a history of riots and civil unrest beginning just twenty years after the city was founded?
Did you knowthat Johan Teterisa was recently sentenced to life in prison for waving the banned secessionist flag of the so-called Republic of the South Moluccas in front of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono during a nonviolent protest?
Did you knowthat a proposed strategic road link through Bangladesh and its capital Dhaka will reduce the travel distance between the Indian cities of Agartala and Kolkata from 1,700 kms to 400 kms?
Did you knowthat Fritz Schilgen was the final torchbearer for the first Olympic torch relay at the 1936 Summer Games ?
Did you knowthat the Japanese manga series Soul Eater by Atsushi Okubo has been developed into an animated television series that plans to adopt the source material over fifty-one episodes ?
Did you knowthat the Iraq Veterans for Congress group includes the son of U.S. Congressman and former presidential candidate Duncan Hunter ?
Did you knowthat Mulaut Abattoir provides Islamic-sanctioned slaughtering facilities to local Bruneian farmers and butchers?
Did you knowthat Oregon’s first Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries , O. P. Hoff , was in charge of the first minimum wage law in the U.S. that was enforceable?
Did you knowthat Pullmantur Cruises is the largest Spain -based cruise line ?
Did you knowthat a diary attributed to Jose Enrique de la Peña claims that Davy Crockett surrendered at the Battle of the Alamo and was executed on the orders of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna ?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Cosme in 2007 helped relieve a persistent drought in Hawaii ?
Did you knowthat Cognos Reportnet is compatible with multiple databases including Oracle , SAP , Teradata , Microsoft SQL server , and Sybase ?
Did you knowthat Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln sent the Secret Service and Pinkerton's detectives to find and capture convicted embezzler Capt. Henry W. Howgate ?
Did you knowthat Moti Masjid , built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan , was turned into a gemstone repository during the Sikh rule of Punjab ?
Did you knowthat archbishop Joseph Signay cited the man's poor eyesight to delay Michel-Édouard Méthot 's tonsuring ?
Did you knowthat while James Howard was Mayor of Bedford in 1864, he entertained Giuseppe Garibaldi , who planted a Giant Sequoia that was later struck by lightning ?
Did you knowthat the Rab battalion was a Yugoslav partisans unit of Jewish survivors of Rab concentration camp ?
Did you knowthat George Steiner 's 1975 book on language and translation , After Babel , was the first comprehensive study of the subject?
Did you knowthat the Poughkeepsie Trust Company building  has been described as the Hudson Valley 's first modern skyscraper despite being only six stories high?
Did you knowthat the Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway to Waltham, Quebec was completed in 1888, but not opened until 1894, stopped in 1959, and finally was removed in 1984?
Did you knowthat despite being one of the strongest tropical cyclones to make landfall on Western Australia , Cyclone Glenda caused minimal damage and no deaths?
Did you knowthat broken remains of three medieval high crosses were found in 1874 during the construction of Barnes Hospital in Cheadle, Greater Manchester , but the location of only one is known today?
Did you knowthat the Delhi-Lahore Bus , a symbol of Indo - Pakistani friendship, continued running during the 1999 Kargil War ?
Did you knowthat actor Jason Beghe became best friends with John F. Kennedy, Jr. and David Duchovny when they attended Collegiate School in New York City ?
Did you knowthat Children At Risk , a Houston -based non-profit, publishes a biannual report, Growing Up In Houston , which tracks 130 Quality of Life Indicators?
Did you knowthat the mine countermeasures ship USS Scout used her sonar to locate hazardous sunken debris off the Louisiana coast after Hurricane Katrina ?
Did you knowthat Chillenden Windmill was the last post mill built in Kent , replacing a mill that had blown down in 1868, and that it was itself blown down in 2003?
Did you knowthat Reuben Gaylord , the recognized leader of missionary pioneers in Omaha City , Nebraska Territory , has been called the "father of Congregationalism in Nebraska "?
Did you knowthat many gift books , decorative anthologies published annually just before the holidays to be given as gifts, featured popular authors of the day such as Dickens , Wordsworth and Poe ?
Did you knowthat Poughkeepsie 's Market Street Row includes one of the oldest houses in the city?
Did you knowthat the southern terminus of the first suburb-to-suburb commuter rail in the United States is Wilsonville Station in Oregon ?
Did you knowthat Richard Devlin , the majority leader of the Oregon State Senate , has faced Republican Bob Tiernan three times, in races for two offices?
Did you knowthat despite being dominated by the military elite, the Guatemalan Institutional Democratic Party was ousted from power in 1978 by a military opposition?
Did you knowthat film director Brett Simon taught film history , film theory and video production at the University of California, Berkeley while completing two degrees there?
Did you knowthat the Nez Perce thought they gave nicer gifts to the Lewis and Clark Expedition than they received at a meeting in the Weippe Prairie in 1805?
Did you knowthat John Lavarack was the first person born in Australia to be an Australian State Governor ?
Did you knowthat the exposed bedrock of the Duluth Complex was formed from magma emitted when the North American plate began to split apart in the Midcontinent Rift ?
Did you knowthat even though his predecessor was a Republican , Democrat Kurt Schrader faced no Republican opponent in his 2002 run for the Oregon State Senate ?
Did you knowthat police patrolled Incarnation Church during the 2000 funeral of a Hispanic youth killed by Armenian-Americans ?
Did you knowthat Booksfree is the first online book rental company in the U.S. to offer flat rate rental-by-mail to its customers?
Did you knowthat Joe Shell , the conservative Republican who challenged Richard Nixon for the 1962 California governorship was a champion football halfback in 1939 and 1940?
Did you knowthat Carl Hans Lody was the first German spy to be executed in the United Kingdom during World War I ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Mataquito , part of the Arauco War , was lost by the Mapuche after disaffected local Indians betrayed their location to the Spanish ?
Did you knowthat the Wrawby Junction rail crash involved a locomotive supposedly renumbered after a psychic predicted a locomotive with the original number would be involved in a crash?
Did you knowthat the Tang Chinese government of Emperor Xuanzong achieved considerable savings from reforms implemented by Chancellor Pei Yaoqing ?
Did you knowthat Old Catholic Cemetery was created for Roman Catholics after a yellow fever epidemic struck Mobile, Alabama in the 1830s?
Did you knowthat before working as biomechanist to the Indian cricket team , Ian Frazer helped Australian cricketer Greg Chappell develop a patented cricket training program?
Did you knowthat tourism in Zanzibar is the top income generator for the islands, out-earning the lucrative spice industry?
Did you knowthat Helen Yglesias , best known for writing the 1981 novel Sweetsir , died one day before her 93rd birthday?
Did you knowthat New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain Merv Wallace has been called "the most under-rated cricketer to have worn the silver fern "?
Did you knowthat the Fifteen Guinea Special , one of the last British Rail steam services before the steam ban of 1968, was so called because of the high prices from popular demand for it?
Did you knowthat East German sprinter Sabine Günther won three gold medals in 4 x 100 metres relay at three different European Championships ?
Did you knowthat rugby union footballer Farah Palmer captained the Black Ferns to three consecutive Women's Rugby World Cup titles?
Did you knowthat Harlow Row was named for and designed by a former mayor of Poughkeepsie ?
Did you knowthat Maseru , the capital of Lesotho , was founded in 1869 as a police camp?
Did you knowthat anti-conscription activist Ivan Toms served as the only physician for approximately 60,000 people in a Cape Flats shanty town during South Africa 's Apartheid era?
Did you knowthat the Hebron glass industry goes back to at least the thirteenth century ?
Did you knowthat current International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation president Robert H. Storey survived a 1966 four-man bobsleigh crash that took the life of one teammate and severely injured another ?
Did you knowthat St. Finbar Church in Burbank , faced with a dwindling flock and changing demographics , was one of the first U.S. parishes to offer Spanish language Mass ?
Did you knowthat British international rally driver Tony Ambrose was given an MG sports car by his father for winning a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford ?
Did you knowthat the Maitreyi Express was launched on Pohela Baisakh in 2008 to revive the railway link between India and Bangladesh that had been closed for 43 years?
Did you knowthat like building a better mouse trap , there is still a challenge for inventors to produce a kinder and more gentle scallop dredge ?
Did you knowthat A. V. Meiyappan produced India 's first dubbed film, Harischandra , in 1944 ?
Did you knowthat Cyclone Gamede in February 2007 was among the wettest tropical cyclones on record , dropping more than 5.5 metres (18 ft) of precipitation in a nine day period on Réunion island?
Did you knowthat John Heisman , namesake of the Heisman Trophy , played for the Brown Bears before eventually transferring to the University of Pennsylvania ?
Did you knowthat the original specimen of the mauve splitting waxcap , a fungus from eastern Australia , found its way from Melbourne to Budapest but disappeared during the First World War ?
Did you knowthat there was an element of eroticism concerning death in Viking culture , and that the dead were often described as being received by a lady?
Did you knowthat the world's largest factory trawler , the 144 metres (472 ft) long Atlantic Dawn , is able to process 350 tonnes of fish a day?
Did you knowthat when St. Andrew's Church in Pasadena was built in the 1920s, it was compared to "a jeweled crown on the head of a Byzantine queen"?
Did you knowthat reputed 25-year-old gangster Nicodemo Scarfo, Jr. was the victim of a notorious mob hit by a gunman wearing a Batman mask on Halloween in 1989?
Did you knowthat Kevin Reiman , a MLS footballer for Real Salt Lake , helped Maryland U. win an NCAA title, then transferred after their addition of Robbie Rogers ?
Did you knowthat the papal election, 1292–1294 was the last election of a pope which did not take the form of a conclave ?
Did you knowthat the Tang Chinese chancellor Zhang Jiuling offered a five-volume historical work that he authored as a birthday gift to Emperor Xuanzong ?
Did you knowthat  neither the far right Lizard Union nor the communist Armia Ludowa , both parts of the Polish resistance in World War II , recognized the Polish Underground State ?
Did you knowthat having moved to South Africa to start his missionary work at age 22, Joseph Gérard died at age 83 in Lesotho without ever returning to his home country of France ?
Did you knowthat Italian Jesuit priest Sabatino de Ursis moved to China in 1607 to assist Matteo Ricci in his astronomical research, and attempted to reform the Chinese calendar ?
Did you knowthat migrants from India form over 40% of the total population of the United Arab Emirates ?
Did you knowthat East German athlete Henry Lauterbach competed on an international level in both high jump and long jump ?
Did you knowthat the Hasbrouck House is an unusually large Romanesque Revival dwelling for a city the size of Poughkeepsie ?
Did you knowthat future ice hockey stars Brett Hull and Dominik Hašek participated in the Calgary Cup , a preview event for the 1988 Winter Olympics ?
Did you knowthat screenwriter Tim Calpin says he picked up most of his writing experience from the television series South Park , despite never being part of the writing staff?
Did you knowthat Egypt had an active national cricket team before World War II , but only one player was a native Egyptian ?
Did you knowthat English cricketer Roger Davis was once struck so hard on the head by a ball that his heart and breathing stopped, and he had to be revived by a doctor from the crowd?
Did you knowthat Jean Follain was a corporate lawyer , magistrate and award-winning author and poet who wrote the poem "Death of the Ferret "?
Did you knowthat " The Fires of Pompeii " is the first Doctor Who episode since the television show 's revival where the cast filmed abroad?
Did you knowthat AT&T engineer Otto Zobel helped to establish that electronic noise cannot be completely eliminated from radio and cable transmissions?
Did you knowthat Louis XIV of France employed a native Chinese librarian , Arcadio Huang , to organize the royal library 's collection of Chinese books?
Did you knowthat coal mining in Nigeria , for which the Nigerian Coal Corporation had a monopoly until 1999, peaked in the 1950s, then suffered from the use of oil and the Nigerian Civil War afterwards?
Did you knowthat Thomas R. Kimball gutted the central part of the Burlington Headquarters Building in Omaha to make it resemble the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad headquarters in Chicago ?
Did you knowthat when Gui de Cavalhon besieged Castelnaudary in the fall of 1220 he requested assistance from friend and fellow troubadour , Bertran Folcon d'Avignon , in a poem?
Did you knowthat river miles measure distances along a river from its mouth and are used to reference locations and to name islands?
Did you knowthat the Rev. Teddy Boston was immortalized as "the Fat Clergyman" in The Railway Series of children's books by the Rev. W. V. Awdry ?
Did you knowthat Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino was the largest naval shipbuilding firm of the Austro-Hungarian Empire ?
Did you knowthat although Norman Rockwell felt Freedom of Speech and Freedom to Worship were the most successful of his Four Freedoms painting series, Freedom from Want has had the most enduring success?
Did you knowthat Muhamed , a German horse , seemed to extract cube roots and tap out the answer with his hooves ?
Did you knowthat in 1933 , Ed Walsh (Jr.) , son of Hall of Famer Ed Walsh , stopped Joe DiMaggio 's minor league record 61 game hitting streak?
Did you knowthat the headquarters for Crater Lake National Park are in the Munson Valley Historic District near the summit of the Cascades where average annual snowfall is 533 inches (1,354 cm)?
Did you knowthat mutations in the FLNB gene cause boomerang dysplasia , a lethal congenital disorder in which the limbs' long bones malform into the shape of a boomerang ?
Did you knowthat incendiary ammunition may be used against tanks , as it can penetrate armor and spread phosphorus through the compartment, burning the crew and depleting their oxygen ?
Did you knowthat filming on The Office episode " Dinner Party " was interrupted for over four months due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike ?
Did you knowthat the 1943 Greater East Asia Conference praised Pan-Asianism and condemned Western colonialism but did not produce plans for the region's development?
Did you knowthat George Francis Train promoted Columbus, Nebraska as "the new center of the Union and quite probably the future capital of the U.S.A." in order to sell Credit Foncier land there?
Did you knowthat in the 1830s, anticipating construction of the Long Island Rail Road , land developer Ambrose George purchased a large tract of land between Bethpage and Hardscrabble in Suffolk County?
Did you knowthat, besides smuggling and distributing Colombian cocaine and Mexican and Southeast Asian heroin , Sinaloa Cartel produces its own opium and marijuana ?
Did you knowthat the 2008 Hillsong United album The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One was released as a USB flash drive containing the MP3 files of the songs, embedded into a rubber wristband?
Did you knowthat Which Moped with Chrome-plated Handlebars at the Back of the Yard? , a comedic novella by Georges Perec , has an index of rhetorical devices used, including anadiplosis and metalepsis ?
Did you knowthat Spanish artifacts excavated at Citico , Tennessee suggest that the historic Native American site may have been the village of "Satapo" visited by the Juan Pardo expedition in 1567?
Did you knowthat the automated tank cleaning machine used to clean oil tankers after discharging cargo was patented by Arthur Butterworth in 1920?
Did you knowthat lumpenbourgeoisie , a neologism formed from lumpenproletariat and bourgeoisie , is used to describe colonial and neocolonial elites in Latin America ?
Did you knowthat Hemerdon Mine in Devon , England is one of the world's largest sources of tungsten and tin , but has not been mined since World War II ?
Did you knowthat Camling is an ancient and endangered Kiranti language , spoken by only about 10,000 people in eastern Nepal , Bhutan and India ?
Did you knowthat the polska —the Swedish word for Polish —is the signature music and dance form in Swedish folk music ?
Did you knowthat Jewish screenwriter Barry Levy has taught Hebrew at Temple Israel California in between writing jobs?