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Did you knowthat Edward Filene , the American entrepreneur who built Filene's department store and Filene's Basement , also founded the 87-million member US credit union system in 1907?
Did you knowthat Holy Cross was the first Roman Catholic church built in Boston ?
Did you knowthat Oregon's Salmon River is the only river in the 48 contiguous U.S. states to be a protected National Wild and Scenic River along its entire length?
Did you knowthat the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers lost 8,000 of its 15,000 members when Jamaica restructured local government services in 1984?
Did you knowthat the Roman emperor Augustus prevented Vedius Pollio from feeding a slave to his lampreys as punishment for breaking a glass?
Did you knowthat Bunocephalus is the most species -rich and widespread genus of the South American banjo catfishes ?
Did you knowthat Minnie D. Craig , the first female speaker of a legislative body in the US , was elected to the North Dakota House of Representatives just three years after gaining suffrage ?
Did you knowthat the 30-mile (50-km) section of Interstate 15 in Arizona through the Virgin River Gorge was the most expensive section of rural freeway by mile?
Did you knowthat when 400 RNs unionized with the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals on July 19 , 2007, it was the largest successful organizing effort among nurses in the state since 2000?
Did you knowthat an Internalnet of Nanochondria could allow someone to exhale a Utility fog , in effect allowing them to breathe out a needed tool?
Did you knowthat South America 's eyeless Micromyzon akamai is the smallest species of banjo catfish ?
Did you knowthe South side of Chicago hosted a Black Renaissance that paralleled the Harlem Renaissance ?
Did you knowthat pitcher Scott Bailes finished the 1997 MLB season with a career-best earned run average of 2.86 despite having not played in the Major Leagues for four seasons?
Did you knowthat the People's Park Complex was the first shopping mall in Singapore to incorporate a large internal atrium , based on the Metabolist Movement of the 1960s?
Did you knowthat Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha , in the city of Hubli , is the only unit in India authorised to manufacture and supply the national flag ?
Did you knowthat Mary Saunderson played several female Shakespearean characters previously portrayed only by men, including Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Ophelia in Hamlet ?
Did you knowthat the Snake River Bridge , in the U.S. state of Washington , was originally built in one location, completely dismantled, and reassembled in its current location?
Did you knowthat Richard I's army of Crusaders encountered Saladin's archers, tarantulas , and heat exhaustion on their march to the Battle of Arsuf ?
Did you knowthat the Longsnout butterflyfish was given three scientific names by two separate scientists when it was first described in 1860 ?
Did you knowthat 141 buildings in Těrlicko were destroyed during the construction of Těrlicko Dam ?
Did you knowthat to finance the musical Jelly's Last Jam , producer Margo Lion used a nude sculpture by Henri Matisse , which she inherited at age 18 when her parents died in a plane crash in Egypt , as collateral?
Did you knowthat metalwork accessories were the clearest indicator of high-ranking persons in early medieval European dress ?
Did you knowthat Sir Ian Anstruther, 8th Baronet held three separate baronetcies ?
Did you knowthat the foam blocks used to lessen the impact of crashes at Flemington Speedway led to the development of the SAFER barrier ?
Did you knowthat before turning to acting, Ulrich Mühe , the star of the Academy Award -winning 2006 film The Lives of Others , was a border guard on the communist side of the Berlin Wall ?
Did you knowthat the impresario Ernesto de Quesada invented an imaginary partner when he founded a classical music management agency in Berlin?
Did you knowthat Around the World is the oldest magazine still published in the Russian language ?
Did you knowthat the introduction of chlorpromazine revolutionized the treatment of schizophrenia in the 1950s ?
Did you knowthat Pearl Bank Apartments was the tallest residential building in Singapore when it was completed in 1976?
Did you knowthat the once flourishing Indian port of Saptagram faded out as a result of river silting ?
Did you knowthat Bahraini runner Tareq Mubarak Taher lost his medals from the 2005 World Youth Championships and the 2006 World Junior Championships because he competed with a falsified age?
Did you knowthat the Chinese government requires any living Buddha who wishes to reincarnate to submit a Reincarnation Application ?
Did you knowthat epidemiologist and science activist Tara C. Smith writes the award-winning science blog Aetiology , rated by a Nature study as the number 7 science blog out of 46 million blogs studied?
Did you knowthat the Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the earliest film studio of " race movies "?
Did you knowthat after his mother's death from diabetes , Giuseppe Moscati began experiments using insulin to treat the disease?
Did you knowthat the 2007 Brooklyn tornado was the strongest tornado on record in New York City and the first in Brooklyn since 1889?
Did you knowthat the song Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday has received more than five million views on YouTube and has generated thousands of covers, remixes, and parodies?
Did you knowthat literary critics credit William Shakespeare's Hamlet as a significant contributor to Sigmund Freud's idea of the Oedipus complex ?
Did you knowthat Jamaican labor leader Helene Davis-Whyte was anti-union before being elected a delegate in her union ?
Did you knowthat Thomas William Bowlby (1818 - 1860), a British correspondent for The Times was captured and imprisoned by the Tartar General Sengge Rinchen whilst on correspondence in Tongzhou , Beijing ?
Did you knowthat the bliaut , a fitted gown with flared sleeves , was an important item of both men's and women's fashion in Europe between 1100 and 1200 ?
Did you knowthat the Assyrian King Sargon II deported more than 100,000 rebels from Babylon as punishment?
Did you knowthat, in his book Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine , Tom Wolfe famously called Jimmy Carter a "Missionary lectern­pounding Amenten-finger C-major chord Sister-Martha-at-the-Yamaha keyboard loblolly piney­woods Baptist"?
Did you knowthat Jay U. Gunter , professor of pathology , devoted his life to astronomy after he retired?
Did you knowthat the Roman province of Dacia ripensis contained eight fortresses developed by Trajan ?
Did you knowthat the Elagabalium was the center of a controversial religious cult established by the Roman emperor Elagabalus ?
Did you knowthat ice hockey player Mark Major attained 355 penalty minutes during the 1997-98 AHL season for the Portland Pirates , where he averaged 4.5 penalty minutes a game and still holds the club record?
Did you knowthat by 1608, performances of William Shakespeare's plays had become popular enough that his playing company was able to act indoors, in the Blackfriars Theatre ?
Did you knowthat the Kannada film Samskara , initially banned by the censor board, won the President 's Gold Medal for the Best Indian Film of 1971?
Did you knowthat Dr. Ashbel Smith , who served as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War , later established a college for African-Americans known today as Prairie View A&M University ?
Did you knowthat the highest mountain in the Far Eastern Fells of the Lake District is High Street , rising up to 828 metres (2,718 ft )?
Did you knowthat Paradise Camp is a documentary explaining how Nazi officials fooled the Red Cross into believing the Jews were being well cared for?
Did you knowthat the commanding officer of American soldier Matthias W. Day wanted to court-martial him for the actions that instead won him the Medal of Honor during the Indian Wars ?
Did you knowthat Somapura Mahavihara , a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bangladesh, was one of the best known Buddhist viharas in South Asia since King Dharmapala erected it in the 8th century?
Did you knowthat Manuel Benito de Castro assumed the Presidency of Cundinamarca , with the condition that he would be allowed to leave Congress at a certain time to feed his dog?
Did you knowthat South Korean actress Jang Jin-young was only the second winner of two Blue Dragon Film Awards for Best Actress, having won in 2001 for Sorum , and again in 2003 for Singles ?
Did you knowthat Elihu Embree published the first newspaper in the United States devoted to abolishing slavery until his death in 1820?
Did you knowthat Feliks Kon started the Polish language section at Radio Moscow , had a Russian ship named in his honor, and the only member of the Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee to die naturally?
Did you knowthat the Finnish company YIT was responsible for the construction of the Finnish National Opera house, the Helsinki Fair Centre and Cirrus , the tallest high-rise building in Finland ?
Did you knowthat the residents of the suburb of Cameron Park in Newcastle , Australia , voted to rename the suburb after a local speedway ?
Did you knowthat Alexander Eugen Conrady abandoned his native Germany in disgust, settled in England, and there designed optical instruments used by the British in World War I ?
Did you knowthat the forthcoming CBS sitcom pilot Worst Week will be the third attempt to adapt the British series The Worst Week of My Life in the United States , having previously been attempted by Fox and NBC ?
Did you knowthat German artist and cartographer Augustin Hirschvogel is the first person known to have used triangulation in surveying ?
Did you knowthat Buttercup Dickerson , who debuted for the 1879 Cincinnati Reds , is credited as the first Italian-American to play Major League Baseball ?
Did you knowthat a report of high school students laughing during Schindler's List inspired a film-maker to create the 2003 documentary Marion's Triumph about a child Holocaust survivor?
Did you knowthat while other nations have marine aviators, only the United States Marine Corps has their own dedicated aviation arm ?
Did you knowthat Anastasius of Alexandria , despite being forbidden to enter the city of Alexandria , helped arrange for the unification of the Coptic Church and the Church of Antioch ?
Did you knowthat Steve Hamilton's A Cold Day in Paradise is the only book to win both the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award and the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award for best first novel?
Did you knowthat Syādvāda is a Jain Doctrine of Postulation which provides the teaching or instruction from which a postulate or axiom is provided to determine the truth of the matter?
Did you knowthat Patriarch Alexander II of Alexandria died trying to escape from the Umayyad government after having been brought before it for refusing to have a lion branded on his hand?
Did you knowthat one of the stories of the Jain teacher Haribhadra relates how he ordered some Buddhist monks to leap into a vat of hot oil for killing his nephew?
Did you knowthat 2004 Pulitzer Prize winner David Leeson was once shot in the face in Panama while covering the 1988 ousting of Manuel Noriega ?
Did you knowthat in the peak days of Iranian migration to Japan , Iran Air flights to Tokyo were fully booked several years in advance?
Did you knowthat Caspar David Friedrich 's Wanderer above the Sea of Fog was one of several of his paintings that were based upon the concept that self-expression was to be bonded with physical and spiritual isolation?
Did you knowthat Andrew Saul heads the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board , which manages the $158 billion Thrift Savings Plan for 3.7 million soldiers and federal employees?
Did you knowthat despite two centuries of exploration nobody has found evidence of the legendary silver mine of Jonathan Swift ?
Did you knowthat the largest score and winning margin between the All Blacks and France at rugby union was a 61–10 victory by the All Blacks at Westpac Stadium in 2007?
Did you knowthat the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy showed religious tolerance towards its Arian , Chalcedonian Christian and Jewish citizens?
Did you knowthat at the 1832 Battle of Apple River Fort , a group of about 25 militia fought off Chief Black Hawk's warriors with the assistance of the nearby settlement's women?
Did you knowthat after Manuel Rodríguez Torices , an agitator for Colombian independence, died in the gallows , his body was shot, beheaded , dismembered , and his head displayed in a metal cage?
Did you knowthat Tekka Mall is the first and largest modern shopping mall in Singapore 's Little India ?
Did you knowthat towns across the United States and Australia have memorials dedicated to the birth of their first white child ?
Did you knowthat The Great Day of His Wrath , an oil-on-canvas by John Martin , is based on Revelation 6:12-17 in the Bible , which vividly describes the end of the world?
Did you knowthat Liang Wern Fook , a pioneer of Singapore 's xinyao movement, has composed over 200 songs?
Did you knowthat the football (soccer) stadium at Tehelné pole , in Bratislava , was the largest in the former Czechoslovakia ?
Did you knowthat the motorcycle racing couple of Jagat and Anita Nanjappa once completed a rally in which Anita sat on the bike's petrol tank to reduce the weight on the flat rear tyre?
Did you knowthat the Romanian crude oil tanker M/T Independenţa burnt for weeks in 1979 after colliding with a freighter?
Did you knowthat Ben Kuroki was the only Japanese-American in the U.S. Army Air Force to serve in combat operations in the Pacific during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Mother Frances Hospital, a part of Trinity Mother Frances Health System , opened a day early in 1937 due to the explosion of a nearby school?
Did you knowthat the band of Potawatomi that carried out the Indian Creek massacre kidnapped and ransomed two teenage girls during the attack?
Did you knowthat the song " See See Rider " was first recorded in 1924 by Ma Rainey and reached the top of the rhythm and blues charts twice in versions by Bea Booze and Chuck Willis ?
Did you knowthat Tommy Sale scored 282 goals during 14 years at the English Football club Stoke City F.C. ?
Did you knowthat Joshua Reynolds ' Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers recently sold for £2.5 million (US $4.4 million) despite the artist's limited success during his lifetime?
Did you knowthat then- President of the United States Franklin Pierce and all of his cabinet attended the second wedding of playwright Anna Cora Mowatt ?
Did you knowthat Alfred Tennyson 's 1847 lyric poem " Tears, Idle Tears " is written such that readers often don't notice its lack of rhyme ?
Did you knowthat the Santa Fe courthouse ghost , the video of which got more than 80,000 hits on YouTube , appeared to be a bug ?
Did you knowthat Colne Cricket Club is the oldest club in the Lancashire League ?
Did you knowthat curling is the provincial sport of Saskatchewan ?
Did you knowthat W.N.T. Beckett was presented the Royal Victorian Order for services to the British Royal Family during a cruise?
Did you knowthat Dax Holdren and Stein Metzger never won a domestic AVP event as partners despite winning silver at the 2003 Beach Volleyball World Championships ?
Did you knowthat Mozart never finished his composition for voice and piano to celebrate the Great Siege of Gibraltar during the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you knowthat lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia is a syndrome secondary to autoimmune and other lymphoproliferative disorders ?
Did you knowthat although Plunketts Creek in Pennsylvania was named for a suspected Loyalist during the American Revolution , by 1838 his name was so controversial that Plunketts Creek Township was named for the creek instead?
Did you knowthat the Jack of the President of Poland was originally intended only for usage on naval vessels in the presence of the commander-in-chief?
Did you knowthat 24 Royal Marines cadets aged 10 to 13 were killed when a double-decker bus ploughed into their marching column in the 1951 Gillingham bus disaster , setting a new British record of fatalities in a road accident?
Did you knowthat the Sangam poems , an important source of ancient Tamil history , were composed by a total of 473 poets over a period of a few centuries?
Did you knowthat the title of ‘ Raja ’ was bestowed on Subodh Chandra Mullick by the people after he donated Rs. 100,000 in 1906 for the National Council of Education which later became Jadavpur University ?
Did you knowthat Timothy Christian School was forced to move from Cicero, Illinois to enroll African American students?
Did you knowthat Buffalo Grove was the first settlement in Ogle County , Illinois ?
Did you knowthat some rocks at the Kupgal neolithic site , near Bellary , India , produce gong -like musical tones when struck with boulders ?
Did you knowthat Joe Hauser was the first player ever to hit 60 or more home runs in a season twice in a professional baseball career?
Did you knowthat the 457 visa is the most common way for employers to temporarily sponsor skilled overseas workers to come to Australia ?
Did you knowthat Constantine Possiet was the first Russian minister to support the project of a Trans-Siberian Railway ?
Did you knowthat legend has it that Benjamin I of Alexandria was escorted to heaven by Athanasius of Alexandria , Severus of Antioch , and Theodosius I ?
Did you knowthat Coluccio Salutati , Chancellor of Florence during the War of the Eight Saints , disseminated Republican propaganda throughout the Papal States ?
Did you knowthat snail races usually start with the words "Ready, Steady, Slow!"
Did you knowthat the 1979 arrest of Raymond Lee Harvey and Osvaldo Ortiz for being part of an alleged plot to assassinate President Jimmy Carter drew parallels to the name of Lee Harvey Oswald ?
Did you knowthat Uncle Tupelo singers Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy got into several physical altercations during the promotional tour for Anodyne ?
Did you knowthat the first tamaya , built in 1599 in the Toyokuni Shrine in Kyoto for Toyotomi Hideyoshi , was destroyed by the Tokugawa ?
Did you knowthat Protestant and Orthodox minorities in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth gained significant concessions from the Catholics during the election sejm of 1632 ?
Did you knowthat in 1989, the Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo was the first race car to overcome Porsche 's seven-year dominance of the IMSA GT Championship 's GTP category?
Did you knowthat the trolley believed to have been used in the film A Streetcar Named Desire is housed at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum ?
Did you knowthat in his rookie year, Major league baseball pitcher Matt Kilroy set a record of 513 strikeouts , which still stands 121 years later?
Did you knowthat Japanese writer Makoto Oda wrote a book on his travels through Europe and Asia on a budget of a dollar a day?
Did you knowthat Michelle Morgan , a child abuse victim murdered by her stepmother at age four, was featured on an episode of Cold Case Files ?
Did you knowthat Vitalian of Capua refused to return to his post as bishop after being thrown into the Garigliano River in a leather bag?
Did you knowthat at 34 months, Georgia Brown became the youngest ever female member of Mensa ?
Did you knowthat the Polish Home Army planned an uprising in Krakow in 1944 to complement the Warsaw Uprising ?
Did you knowthat Marion Harris was the first widely known white singer to sing jazz and blues songs?
Did you knowthat British soldier and poet Patrick Hore-Ruthven met his wife while rusticated from Cambridge for biting a policeman's nose?
Did you knowthat in the Smolensk War , the Russian Tsardom and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth tried various Western military innovations and strategies for the first time?
Did you knowthat the elephants Castor and Pollux were shot for food during the Siege of Paris in 1870 and their trunks sold as a delicacy?
Did you knowthat Ardencaple Castle is used as a navigational aid for shipping on the Firth of Clyde ?
Did you knowthat Mary Wollstonecraft was born the same year that Voltaire 's Candide and Adam Smith 's The Theory of Moral Sentiments were published?
Did you knowthat Oregon Supreme Court justice George Van Hoomissen wrote the decisions in its most cited case and the overturning of a voter approved ballot measure ?
Did you knowthat Edward Kozłowski , the second Polish-American bishop , died after just a year in office?
Did you knowthat the urban villages found in some of China's major cities are inner city slums with Chinese characteristics?
Did you knowthat Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope was killed by the opening shots of the Battle of Magersfontein ?
Did you knowthat El Güegüense , a theatrical play written anonymously in the 16th century , is regarded as the first literary work of Nicaragua ?
Did you knowthat the pitch notation developed by Hermann von Helmholtz for his work on acoustics and is one of two main systems for describing musical pitch?
Did you knowthat the Banner of Poland , despite its 1000-year old history, is not an official national symbol ?
Did you knowthat the former head of the Royal Australian Navy , George Francis Hyde , was the first Australian naval officer to become an honorary aide-de-camp to King George V ?
Did you knowthat the Swiss Vetterli rifles , a series of Winchester -derived repeating rifles , were Europe's most advanced service rifles at the time of their introduction in 1869?
Did you knowthat the Greek frigate Hellas , the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy , was burned by the Admiral Andreas Miaoulis during a civil war in 1831?
Did you knowthat through 1981, Arizona 's silver mining industry had produced a cumulative total of 490 million troy ounces of silver ?
Did you knowthat two people died outside of San Francisco 's Pier 26 during the 1934 Bloody Thursday Riots ?
Did you knowthat novelist Amelia Barr 's most successful body of work is called the "Cherry Croft novels", after the summer house where she wrote them?
Did you knowthat Oppa may have been both Bishop of Seville and King of the Visigoths at the time of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania ?
Did you knowthat Tranby House is the oldest surviving brick building in Perth , Australia ?
Did you knowthat Francis Julius LeMoyne built the first crematory in the United States and was its third crematee?
Did you knowthat Bob Case named the cyclone known as The Perfect Storm ?
Did you knowthat the RevoPower motorized bicycle kit was inspired by a visit to a bicycle taxi manufacturer?
Did you knowthat in 1904, H. Chandler Egan won the U.S. Amateur golf championship , and was a member of both the U.S. college  championship and the gold medal -winning United States Olympic golf teams ?
Did you knowthat Filipino Ilustrados originally demanded that the Philippines become a province of Spain instead of independence ?
Did you knowthat Major Derek Cooper and his wife, Pamela , assisted with refugee relief efforts from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 to the Siege of Beirut in 1982 , and established the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians in 1984?
Did you knowthat novelist Wilhelm Stepper-Tristis actively supported the Hungarian Soviet Republic , lived part of his life as a vagabond , and probably died in a Nazi concentration camp ?
Did you knowthat Catholic bishop and Visigothic political leader Masona built the first hospital in Spain and endowed it with farms to provide its patients with food?
Did you knowthat it has not rained at the Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning since they began performing a virgin ritual ?
Did you knowthat the 850-ton Belle Tout lighthouse was pushed 17 metres (56 feet) away from a cliff face to save it from coastal erosion ?
Did you knowthat the first reference to toilet paper was made in the year 589 AD by the Chinese scholar Yan Zhitui ?
Did you knowthat the Beyoncé song " Suga Mama " features a sample of the song "Searching for Soul" by funk band Jake Wade and the Soul Searchers ?
Did you knowthat Soviet diplomat Pyotr Voykov was assassinated in Warsaw for his part in the killing of Tsar Nicholas II and his family?
Did you knowthat high levels of ultraviolet colors on the neck of a male Platysaurus broadleyi , a type of lizard in the Cordylidae family, indicate dominance over other males?