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Did you knowthat My Brother, My Executioner , a 1970s novel by F. Sionil José , is a narrative about two half-brothers with opposing Filipino ideologies?
Did you knowthat Frank Morse once outsourced the research for a speech on globalization to a company in India ?
Did you knowthat the British colonials employed Indian agents called gomasthas to obtain goods from local weavers and fix their prices ?
Did you knowthat American actor Vincent Piazza was coached for a Puerto Rican accent by a woman who usually did the opposite?
Did you knowthat in 1582 Ursula Kemp confessed to using familiar spirits to kill her neighbours and was later hanged for witchcraft ?
Did you knowthat on a 1922 expedition to Everest , Howard Somervell entertained fellow climbers by reading Shakespeare in the tents?
Did you knowthat Quirinus Kuhlmann , a German poet who called himself "son of the Son of God ", was denounced as theologically and politically dangerous, and burnt at the stake for heresy in Moscow in 1689?
Did you knowthat the Militia of the Faith of Jesus Christ was founded to defend the lands of Amaury de Montfort , leader of the Albigensian Crusade ?
Did you knowthat the Tang Dynasty chancellor Yuwen Rong was known in traditional history to have served for 100 days—even though he only served 99 days?
Did you knowthat before the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League adopted its current name, they had already won two Stanley Cups by defeating the Vancouver Millionaires in 1918 and in 1922 ?
Did you knowthat the Palace Hotel in Perth, Western Australia was described at its opening as "one of the most beautiful and elegant hotels in Australasia"?
Did you knowthat Palwankar Shivram , brother of the Dalit cricketers Baloo and Vithal , was a spin bowling all-rounder who represented the All-India cricket team that toured England in 1911?
Did you knowthat the pastor of Burbank 's St. Bellarmine Church was a World War I chaplain who modeled the campus on Monticello and Independence Hall ?
Did you knowthat Douglas Hadow slipped on the descent after the first ascent of the Matterhorn , dragging Lord Francis Douglas , Charles Hudson and Michel Croz to their deaths?
Did you knowthat some species of Vireo , a genus of passerines , bind their nests with spider silk and ornament them with spider eggs?
Did you knowthat Hugh Daily , a pitcher with only one arm, once struck out 19 batters in a Major League Baseball game?
Did you knowthat Bob Kames was given his stage name when an announcer on Armed Forces Radio could not pronounce his real name?
Did you knowthat Section 171 of the Criminal Code of Cyprus , which prohibited homosexual acts between men, was repealed just eight days before a May 29, 1998 deadline set by the Council of Europe ?
Did you knowthat the Order of the Faith and Peace , founded by the Archbishop of Auch c. 1230 for the defence of the peace in Gascony , was patronised by Gaston VII of Béarn ?
Did you knowthat the sound of fingernails scraping chalkboard may not be the world's most unpleasant sound ?
Did you knowthat the palm tree Ptychococcus lepidotus is used in the New Guinea highlands to make bows and arrows ?
Did you knowthat medieval Perpendicular Gothic Somerset Towers typically feature pinnacles , lacy tracery windows and bell openings, gargoyles , arches, buttresses , merlons , and external stair turrets ?
Did you knowthat the American mathematician Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler married a former professor, who was actually a Russian double agent named Sergei Degaev?
Did you knowthat David Powel compiled and published the first printed history of Wales in 1584, which popularized the legend that Prince Madoc discovered America in about 1170?
Did you knowthat Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Sidorenko , a World War II Soviet sniper, destroyed a tank and three tractors, in addition to killing five hundred Wehrmacht soldiers?
Did you knowthat the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company was among the earliest and the last major electric streetcar systems in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Fred Walker boosted sales of his new spread Vegemite , now an Australian cultural icon , by giving away free jars?
Did you knowthat only about 10% of Brazil 's water resources is located in the southeast , the agricultural and industrial heartland of the country, where 73% of the population lives?
Did you knowthat revolution in the Kingdom of Poland , part of the Russian Revolution , included a three-year-long school strike against the russification of the Polish educational system?
Did you knowthat nationalists seek a Greater Nepal that extends into Uttar Pradesh , Himachal Pradesh , Uttarakhand and Sikkim in India ?
Did you knowthat Rondel was the first racing team founded by current McLaren chairman and CEO Ron Dennis ?
Did you knowthat British politician Jock Stallard was expelled from the Labour Party in the 1950s for flying the red flag from St Pancras town hall, but later served as a Labour MP and life peer ?
Did you knowthat Ermita are all namesakes for a character, a place , and a novel by Filipino author F. Sionil José ?
Did you knowthat the asymmetrical monoplane BV 141 is one of many military aircraft designed by Richard Vogt ?
Did you knowthat Max Weber argued that the increasing rationalization of human life traps individuals in an "iron cage" of rule-based, rational control?
Did you knowthat Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish , founder of the Mazdaznan religion, claimed to have been sent as a child to a secret society of Zarathustrians ?
Did you knowthat Royal Brunei Catering , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Royal Brunei Airlines , was named as Best Regional Caterer 1995/1996 by Singapore Airlines ?
Did you knowthat Pei Guangting , a chancellor of the Tang Dynasty , traced his ancestry to officials serving several dynasties, including the Han Dynasty ?
Did you knowthat Abraham Esau was the head of the physics section of the Reich Research Council , Nazi Germany 's centralized planning institution for almost all basic and applied research?
Did you knowthat although the 1996 Tropical Storm Arthur made landfall in North Carolina , total damage amounted to only $1 million?
Did you knowthat former Anglican clergyman and Liberal Party life peer Tim Beaumont was the only Green Party representative in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1999 until his death in 2008 ?
Did you knowthat Alojzy Ehrlich ate rolls and a Polish sausage while playing a table tennis match in which neither he nor his opponent scored for over an hour?
Did you knowthat rumors of the beating of a teenage shoplifter set off a race riot in 1935 in Harlem , New York ?
Did you knowthat despite the recorded influence of American Sign Language , Filipino Sign Language has a history that can be traced from the works of European missionaries in the Philippines as early as the 1600s?
Did you knowthat William Whitaker introduced orange groves to Florida ?
Did you knowthat besides being the first president of the International Luge Federation , Bert Isatitsch was also a special education teacher ?
Did you knowthat Palwankar Vithal became the first Dalit cricketer to captain the Hindus team in the Bombay Quadrangular cricket competition, a milestone in the Hindu society 's struggle against caste discrimination ?
Did you knowthat Lualhati Bautista ’s Tagalog novel, Bata, Bata… Pa’no Ka Ginawa? became a film starring Vilma Santos , an actress turned first female governor of Batangas of the Philippines ?
Did you knowthat Gilbert Patten , the author of the Frank Merriwell dime novels , managed a semi- professional baseball team in Camden, Maine during the 1890–1891 season?
Did you knowthat although it is used in aquaculture , there are only two known cases of Palometa being traded as aquarium fish over a five-year period?
Did you knowthat George Rea was the first paid president of the "New York Curb Exchange," now known as the American Stock Exchange ?
Did you knowthat Ingmar Bergman 's film The Virgin Spring is based on the medieval Swedish ballad " Töres dotter i Wänge " ?
Did you knowthat pioneer Omaha physician George L. Miller served as president of the Nebraska State Historical Society after being labeled a "raving maniac " by the press ?
Did you knowthat Su Huan-chih is the second member of the Democratic Progressive Party to ever hold the position as Tainan County magistrate?
Did you knowthat although the damages by Hurricane Dennis in Mississippi in 2002 were mostly minor, 41 counties in the state were declared federal disaster areas ?
Did you knowthat a subsidiary of Royal Brunei Airlines operates restaurants in Brunei including two halal Chinese restaurants?
Did you knowthat in order to cut costs, Olau Line re-flagged their cruiseferry Olau Hollandia to Luxembourg in January 1993, but were forced to revert the ship to German flag only a month later?
Did you knowthat Ronnie Thompson , the first Republican to have served as mayor of Macon, Georgia in the 20th century, also had a career as a singer of gospel and country music ?
Did you knowthat Brad Avakian , Oregon 's recently appointed Labor Commissioner , previously worked as a civil rights attorney, and was honored by two unions during his time in the Oregon Legislative Assembly ?
Did you knowthat although the Czech Republic village of Blevice has a Jewish cemetery it has no matching community?
Did you knowthat František Kriegel was the only political leader of Czechoslovakia deported to Moscow in 1968 who refused to sign the Moscow Protocol dictated by Brezhnev ?
Did you knowthat Fabian de la Rosa was not only mentor to the Filipino painters Fernando and Pablo Amorsolo , but a leading painter in his own right?
Did you knowthat the chief purpose of the military order the Militia of Jesus Christ was to combat heresy?
Did you knowthat the Norwegian black / death metal band Cor Scorpii cites inspiration from classical composers such as Prokofiev , Grieg , Rachmaninov , and Satie ?
Did you knowthat the SS Blairspey was hit by at least three torpedoes from two different U-boats , but still managed to reach port because her cargo of timber kept her afloat?
Did you knowthat Opération 14 juillet , a French mission to rescue Ingrid Betancourt from FARC guerrillas, was launched without the knowledge of the French president ?
Did you knowthat Gregory XV was acclaimed as the new pope in the papal conclave of 1621 even though Cardinal Robert Bellarmine had received the most votes in the ballot?
Did you knowthat Levi Todd , the grandfather of Mary Todd Lincoln , wrote the first and last contemporary accounts of the Battle of Blue Licks , one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you knowthat only two days before Payment on Demand was scheduled to open at Radio City Music Hall , RKO executive Howard Hughes called the director and the two leads into the studio to film a new ending?
Did you knowthat the Draco Dwarf spheroidal galaxy is one of the faintest companions of the Milky Way and the most dark matter dominated object known?
Did you knowthat the Church of Scientology purchased Castle Kyalami , formerly a tourist attraction near Johannesburg , to serve as an advanced Scientology spiritual retreat in South Africa ?
Did you knowthat Theodorus van Capellen was appointed a vice-admiral in the Dutch navy in 1814 even though he had previously been cashiered and sentenced to banishment for life for his role in a mutiny ?
Did you knowthat the medieval Swedish ballad " Stolt Herr Alf " contains an unusual name for the Norse god Odin ?
Did you knowthat the Pentecostal Union of Romania has experienced rapid growth in recent years due to conversions and high birthrates, with some families having up to 18 children?
Did you knowthat 17th-century actress Julia Glover was sold in marriage by her father for £1,000?
Did you knowthat Heitsi-eibib is a life-death-rebirth figure in the Khoikhoi mythology and as a result, his funeral cairns can be found in many locations in southern Africa?
Did you knowthat after Norman Rockwell 's Four Freedoms were published in the Saturday Evening Post ,  25 million people bought posters of them?
Did you knowthat Haraprasad Shastri discovered the Charyapada , poems written in the earliest-known precursor to the Indo-Aryan languages ?
Did you knowthat Polish war correspondent Melchior Wańkowicz was charged with " slandering the People's Republic of Poland ", for criticizing the state in a private letter?
Did you knowthat Unabomber for President was a 1996 write-in campaign to elect Theodore Kaczynski as President of the United States ?
Did you knowthat two people, including a 15-year-old boy, were killed during the 2008 Egyptian general strike ?
Did you knowthat the brother of Australian rugby player Dean Mumm was assistant coach to the Fijian rugby team , whilst their grandfather played for the All Blacks ?
Did you knowthat a novel human polyomavirus is associated with Merkel cell carcinoma , a rare and highly aggressive form of skin cancer ?
Did you knowthat Thaba Bosigo , a Basotho stronghold in Lesotho , was the only fortress to remain impregnable during the Free State–Basotho Wars ?
Did you knowthat political opponents of Kentucky governor Thomas Metcalfe nicknamed him "Old Stone Hammer" because they felt his previous work as a stonemason was a background unbecoming a governor?
Did you knowthat the SS Assyrian started life as a German merchant ship in the First World War and ended it as British merchant in the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat despite being called the " Aladdin's Castle of George Francis Train ," the Cozzens House Hotel in Omaha operated for only four years before sitting empty for several more?
Did you knowthat 39% of Israeli schoolchildren watch the educational television program Bli Sodot in their classroom?
Did you knowthat the Adipose in the Doctor Who episode " Partners in Crime " were based on a stuffed toy that writer Russell T Davies owned?
Did you knowthat the Ligonier Valley Railroad 's reliance on verbal orders resulted in a head-on collision between a freight train and a train carrying partygoers?
Did you knowthat Jessie Vasey was helping Australian war widows before she became one herself when her husband, George , died in an air crash?
Did you knowthat the Samnite gladiator type likely went out of fashion in Ancient Rome when the people of Samnium , whom it was intended to mock, became assimilated into the Roman Empire ?
Did you knowthat Irish computer programmer Gavin Walsh owns the world's largest collection of Sex Pistols records and memorabilia ?
Did you knowthat the use of multiple strains of rhizobacteria as composite microbial inoculants has been shown to benefit the cultivation of crops such as rice and barley ?
Did you knowthat the Birhor people are a tribal forest people, traditionally nomadic , living primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand ?
Did you knowthat the Blank family , the maternal ancestors of Vladimir Lenin , were relatives to Nazi field marshal Walter Model , archeologist Ernst Curtius , and President of Germany Richard von Weizsäcker ?
Did you knowthat Charles Starr and Bruce Starr were the first father and son to serve at the same time in the Oregon State Senate ?
Did you knowthat William Thomas Havard , who was bishop of two Welsh dioceses ( St Asaph , then St David's ), once represented Wales in an international rugby union match?
Did you knowthat, with an estimated 308,000 members as of 2005, the Bahá'í community in Kenya constitutes 1% of the country's population?
Did you knowthat Naats'ihch'oh National Park Reserve takes its name from a Dene phrase meaning  "stands like a porcupine "?
Did you knowthat despite peaking at 38 in the UK Albums Chart , seven-year-old child singer Connie Talbot 's debut album Over the Rainbow was rated gold in Britain shortly after its release?
Did you knowthat the Spanish -introduced limestone house of the Ivatans was designed to withstand typhoons?
Did you knowthat English printer Thomas Adams published John Dowland 's The Third and Last Booke of Songes or Aires out of his shop in St. Paul's Churchyard ?
Did you knowthat the Mill Mountain Zoo is host to three endangered species: the Red Panda , Snow Leopard and White-naped Crane ?
Did you knowthat Black Grace , an internationally-touring New Zealand contemporary-dance company, melds Maori and Pacific Islander indigenous dance with modern dance and hip hop ?
Did you knowthat "the light arises in the East", an apparently pro- Soviet slogan coined by Romanian writer Mihail Sadoveanu in 1945, is seen by some as a coded warning to his fellow Freemasons about communization ?
Did you knowthat the discovery of Lazarussuchus showed that choristoderes , a type of aquatic reptile, had not gone extinct in the Eocene , but persisted for millions of years after?
Did you knowthat in 1989, the Popular Front of Moldova was initially backed by a range of ethnic groups, but quickly lost support from Russian speakers and Gagauz ?
Did you knowthat Australian veterinary student Barry Larkin carried a fake Olympic Flame in the 1956 Summer Olympics as a protest, because he thought the flame was given too much reverence?
Did you knowthat film producer Neil Kopp stood in as a location scout , location manager , assistant director and grip while filming Old Joy ?
Did you knowthat the second-largest mobile operator in Slovenia , Si.mobil , was one of the first worldwide to offer EDGE ?
Did you knowthat Jeremy Dalton was suspended , and later expelled, from the British Columbia Liberal Party caucus in the provincial legislature ?
Did you knowthat the Emperor of Russia , Alexander III bought the art of Ukrainian realist painter Volodymyr Orlovsky ?
Did you knowthat twenty out of the thirty five merchant ships of convoy SC-7 were sunk by German U-boats ?
Did you knowthat Canadian band Article One took their name from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights after hearing about it on U2 's Vertigo Tour ?
Did you knowthat Josiah Failing became the fourth mayor of Portland, Oregon less than three years after moving there from New York City ?
Did you knowthat actress Anna Kendrick was nominated for a Tony Award at the age of twelve, making her the youngest-ever Tony nominee as of 2008?
Did you knowthat, on D-Day , attorney and U.S. Army Ranger Leonard Lomell managed to destroy five concealed, long-range German guns pointed at the landing beaches even though he had been wounded by machine gun fire?
Did you knowthat the Taipei Metro C301 cars were built in the former Otis plant in Yonkers, New York , which was the first elevator factory in the world?
Did you knowthat the Biographicon aspires to be an online directory of biographies for "all the people of the world"?
Did you knowthat after becoming Bishop of Brechin at the instigation of the Earl of Argyll , Alexander Campbell of Carco , still only a minor , handed most of his bishopric's lands over to the earl?
Did you knowthat the 1937 Western fiction book Buckskin Brigades was Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard 's first published novel ?
Did you knowthat Emperor Xuanzong of Tang , impressed with Zhang Jiazhen but forgetting his name, almost made Zhang Qiqiu chancellor instead of Zhang Jiazhen?
Did you knowthat the Shoshone was the first of only two steamboats to be brought down through Hells Canyon , North America's deepest gorge , to the lower Snake River ?
Did you knowthat Princess Margaret of Prussia had her jewels stolen by American soldiers in the aftermath of World War II ?
Did you knowthat Jacqueline Audry was the first commercially successful woman film director of post-war France ?
Did you knowthat his son's infection with polio in 1930 led electrical engineer Reinhold Rudenberg to develop an electron microscope as a tool to study the poliovirus ?
Did you knowthat Jewish American surfer Doc Paskowitz helped bring surf boards to Gaza to help promote peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ?
Did you knowthat Dutch topologist Johannes De Groot is the academic grandfather , great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather of his namesake via four different paths of academic supervision?
Did you knowthat, between 1945 and 1947, correspondent John Roderick spent seven months living with Mao Zedong and other Chinese Communist leaders in the caves of Yan'an ?
Did you knowthat Dory Dean of the 1876 Cincinnati Reds was the first pitcher to include turning his back to the hitter in his delivery before pitching the ball?
Did you knowthat Rev. Thomas Dyche is credited with writing the first book in English published in Asia ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Sugar Point was the last major battle fought between Native Americans and the United States Army ?
Did you knowthat Cyclone Jokwe killed 16 people in Mozambique and left at least 55,000 homeless?
Did you knowthat the Alabama-Huntsville Chargers ice hockey team is the only Division I collegiate hockey team located south of the Mason-Dixon Line ?
Did you knowthat kimchi bokkeumbap is a Korean fried rice made with kimchi and any available ingredients?
Did you knowthat Quilceda Creek Vintners Cabernet Sauvignon is the first American wine from outside California to earn perfect 100-point score reviews from wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. in The Wine Advocate ?
Did you knowthat a horreum was a type of public warehouse used in Ancient Rome to store foodstuffs such as grain and olive oil ?
Did you knowthat despite writing a full action-and-dialogue screenplay for his film Raising Victor Vargas , Peter Sollett never showed the actors a script, so as to encourage authenticity through improvisation when filming?
Did you knowthat the Chronicle of Man claimed William Russell to have been the first Bishop of the Isles consecrated by the pope , even though he was not consecrated by the pope, and even if he had been, he would not have been the first?
Did you knowthat the Danville 97s minor league baseball team name of 97s was selected as a tribute to the victims of the Wreck of the Old 97 train accident?
Did you knowthat Banaag at Sikat , a novel by Lope K. Santos , was once considered the “Bible of Filipino laborers”?
Did you knowthat the name of Lake Burrumbeet , a large but shallow eutrophic lake in Victoria , Australia , derives from the local aboriginal word burrumbidj , meaning "muddy or dirty water"?
Did you knowthat The Guardian newspaper was founded 189 years ago in Manchester , England as a direct response to the Peterloo Massacre ?
Did you knowthat Adrianne Calvo is the youngest chef to have cooked for the United Nations ?
Did you knowthat in 1998, the Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni , the first comprehensive Hopi language dictionary, was almost prevented from being published for fear of having non-Hopis learning the language?
Did you knowthat real-life medical cases in the book The Medical Detectives , by Berton Roueché , inspired many of the medical mysteries on the television show House ?
Did you knowthat Johanne Sørensen became the first Bahá'í in Denmark in 1925, and the only Bahá'í in her country till 1947?
Did you knowthat Moseley Wanderers represented Great Britain and Ireland at Rugby Union in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris , winning the Silver medal despite losing their only game?
Did you knowthat the US National Park Service is funding improvements to county road H-58 , the main access road to the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan ?
Did you knowthat the Madras Bank, India 's oldest Western-style banking institution, was established in 1683 by William Gyfford , the Agent of Madras at the time?
Did you knowthat despite its bitter taste, the heart of the palm tree Plectocomiopsis geminiflora is a delicacy in Borneo ?
Did you knowthat Pullen Memorial Baptist Church is the first Baptist church in the Southern United States to have chosen an openly gay lead cleric ?
Did you knowthat Titanium La Portada is expected to briefly become the tallest skyscraper in Chile , before being overtaken by Torre Gran Costanera of the Costanera Center complex?
Did you knowthat Beinn an Tuirc windfarm in Scotland is trying to repel Golden Eagles from their turbines by reintroducing Mountain Hares ?
Did you knowthat New York writer and socialite Anthony Haden-Guest is both son of the 4th Baron Haden-Guest and the brother-in-law of actress Jamie Lee Curtis ?