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Did you knowthat Mikhail Gerasimov used exhumed skulls to reconstruct faces of more than 200 people, including Friedrich Schiller , Ivan the Terrible , and Tamerlane ?
Did you knowthat the rise of ticket prices in the new Covent Garden Theatre led to the so-called Old Price Riots , which lasted for more than two months in 1809 ?
Did you knowthat Thomas Metcalfe served in both houses of the Kentucky General Assembly , in both houses of the U.S. Congress , and as Governor of Kentucky ?
Did you knowthat Jacobus de Teramo wrote a dialogue, in which Lucifer takes Jesus Christ to court, for trespassing in the Harrowing of Hell , with Belial as his lawyer?
Did you knowthat amateur wrestling Olympic gold medalist Robin Reed could pin every member of the 1924 United States Olympic wrestling team, despite being in the second lowest weight class ?
Did you knowthat the Tagish Lake meteorite originally came from a part of the asteroid belt which existed when our solar system was being formed?
Did you knowthat the Russian Field Marshal Ivan Gudovich lost his left eye fighting the Turks in Armenia in 1807 ?
Did you knowthat the Coraopolis Bridge , designed by Theodore Cooper , started life as the third Pittsburgh Sixth Street Bridge and the 400 foot truss sections were floated 12 miles downstream to be reused rather than scrapped?
Did you knowthat a bristlecone pine tree named Prometheus , the oldest tree and oldest non-clonal organism ever known to exist,  was cut down in 1964 by Forest Service personnel for research purposes?
Did you knowthat Shin Sang-ok , a South Korean film director was kidnapped in 1978 under orders from future North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and forced to direct a giant-monster film, Pulgasari ?
Did you knowthat CHIJMES , a historic building complex in Singapore , began life as a Catholic convent in the 1850s and has been gazetted as a national monument ?
Did you knowthat placenta accreta can see the placenta attach itself not only to the muscle of the uterus but also to the bladder or other organs?
Did you knowthat Alfred Hayes , author of the poem "Joe Hill", was also a novelist and an Academy Award -nominated screenwriter whose credits ranged from Italian neorealism to the American TV series Mannix ?
Did you knowthat the former Automobilwerk Eisenach in Thuringia , once part of BMW , was taken over by the Soviet Union in 1945, and resumed production under the BMW logo until 1951 when BMW regained control over its trademark and logo?
Did you knowthat Fort Pocahontas in Virginia was constructed by African-American soldiers of the United States Colored Troops in 1864 and was used for on-location filming of the 2005 motion picture The New World ?
Did you knowthat the Zograf Monastery on the Holy Mountain was burnt down by a Catalan pirate raid in 1275 ?
Did you knowthat the Visiting Forces Agreement allows U.S. soldiers accused in Filipino crimes to stay under U.S. custody until the trial is over?
Did you knowthat the name of the Indo-European thunder god has been reconstructed by etymologists as [[Perkwunos|* Perk w unos ]] ?
Did you knowthat the United States Department of Justice attorney James A. Baker , who has defended Bush administration intelligence policy in Congressional testimony and court cases, is not related to former Secretary of State James A. Baker III ?
Did you knowthat Bridei III ' s victory in the Battle of Dunnichen led to the expulsion of Northumbrians from southern Pictland ?
Did you knowthat the original site of the Heide Museum of Modern Art was an " idyllic refuge of inspiration " for many Australian artists during the 1930s through 1950s ?
Did you knowthat the Battles of Corbridge were important in deciding the fate of the Viking kingdom of York and the Anglo-Saxon earldom of Northumbria ?
Did you knowthat metolazone is a medicine used to treat congestive heart failure and hypertension ?
Did you knowthat the Caucasian Shepherd Dog is generally a low activity dog , seemingly lethargic when not working, but extremely agile and convincing when it feels that its family is threatened?
Did you knowthat the Viking Great Army pillaged and conquered much of England in the late ninth century ?
Did you knowthat, according to tradition, the twisting Solomonic columns of baroque architecture are based on the design of columns taken from Solomon's Temple and brought to Rome by Constantine ?
Did you knowthat the F-34 tank gun was put into service in the T-34 tank by a conspiracy of its makers, and it was only after enthusiastic tank crews had praised its merits in letters from the front that Stalin gave official permission to start its manufacture?
Did you knowthat benshi were the people who narrated Japanese silent films until the 1930's?
Did you knowthat the fourteen nations designated Major non-NATO ally are the only countries outside of NATO to whom the United States government will consider selling depleted uranium anti-tank rounds?
Did you knowthat the Marienberg Abbey in Italy is the highest abbey in Europe at 1,340 meters (4,400 feet), and allegedly suffered from vampire attacks during the Black Death ?
Did you knowthat Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code , enacted into law by all fifty states , governs secured transactions in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the Hutsonville Bridge was a self-anchored suspension bridge that was controversially torn down in 1988, at the insistence of the Indiana Department of Transportation , despite the demolition company offering to donate 100,000 USD to preserve it instead?
Did you knowthat Jeff Hawke , a science fiction comic strip , almost perfectly predicted the date of the first human moon landing more than ten years before?
Did you knowthat El Gobernador , Central Pacific Railroad 's 4-10-0 steam locomotive , had to be shipped from the shops in Sacramento, California in five large subassemblies due to its enormous size?
Did you knowthat the People's Republic of China attempted to promulgate a second round of orthographical reform in 1977 , only to retract it 9 years later amidst mounting opposition and confusion?
Did you knowthat the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang was built in 1982 to commemorate the "victory" of Korea over Japan in the WWII ?
Did you knowthat the German films based on the works of Edgar Wallace are generally considered a distinct subgenre of crime film ?
Did you knowthat Durga Khote was famous for her character roles and was the heroine of the first Marathi talkie ?
Did you knowthat the Russian academician Aleksey Shakhmatov attempted to reconstruct the earliest Slavonic chronicle, supposedly compiled at the court of Yaroslav the Wise in the mid- 11th century ?
Did you knowthat the 17 muscles of the hip work together in complex ways to produce a wide range of movement?
Did you knowthat Ibrahim Hussein Berro was recently identified as the suicide bomber in the 1994 AMIA Bombing in Buenos Aires ?
Did you knowthat Shane Warne Cricket '99 , a Playstation cricket game is endorsed by the Australian bowler , Shane Warne ?
Did you knowthat the phrase " Up to eleven " , inspired by a scene from the 1984 film This is Spinal Tap , was entered into the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary in 2002 with the definition "up to maximum volume"?
Did you knowthat Nicolas des Escuteaux ' s novels are regarded as more adventurous than sentimental, and show the influence of the Renaissance Hispano - Portuguese adventure novel ?
Did you knowthat the phrase The King is dead. Long live the King! was first used following the accession of Charles VII in 1422?
Did you knowthat the Select Vestries Bill is read in the House of Lords at the start of each session of Parliament before a debate on the Queen's Speech , to demonstrate that the House chooses and sets its own business independently of the Crown ?
Did you knowthat Malcolm Perry was the first doctor to attend to President Kennedy and performed a tracheotomy which inadvertently destroyed ballistics evidence key to determining who assassinated the president ?
Did you knowthat Chuck Muncie was a star running back for The University of California during the 1970s, where he broke six school rushing records that stand to this day?
Did you knowthat it is alleged that during the Battle of Ramree Island , crocodiles contributed to the near wiping out of a World War II Japanese garrison?
Did you knowthat in 1912 Arthur Rose Eldred became the first Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America and his descendants are still involved in Scouting ?
Did you knowthat psychological offender profiling was used by British police for the first time in capturing John Duffy , the so-called Railway Killer ?
Did you knowthat while they were part of the hit television war sitcom Dad's Army , Arthur Lowe and Ian Lavender were also acting in the radio series Parsley Sidings ?
Did you knowthat Józef Olszyna-Wilczyński was a high-ranking commander of the Polish Army , a veteran of World War I , Polish-Ukrainian War and the Polish-Soviet War , and was executed by the Soviets during the Polish Defensive War of 1939 ?
Did you knowthat the Virgo Stellar Stream is the proposed name for a stream of stars in the constellation of Virgo which are thought to be the remains of a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that is in the process of merging with the Milky Way ?
Did you knowthat Michael Bates was an Olympic bronze medalist sprinter and a Pro Bowl American football player?
Did you knowthat the founders of the Communist League in Denmark , had departed from the Left Socialists in 1972 even though they had been in majority in that party?
Did you knowthat in Baroque Rome , when the Austrian-born artist-designer Johann Paul Schor was not collaborating with Bernini , he might be called on to design sculptural architecture to be executed in sugar at a banquet?
Did you knowthat the Jinricksha Station is Singapore 's last reminder of the once ubiquitous rickshaw , which was phased out after World War II ?
Did you knowthat a puddle was blamed for the death of a mediæval merchant who drowned while crossing it, believing it to be only shallow, when it was actually deep enough to engulf him and his horse?
Did you knowthat the Bulldozer Exhibition has got its name because the Soviet authorities actually used bulldozers to disperse the spectators and destroy the paintings of the participating Moscow nonconformist artists ?
Did you knowthat Akira Machida is the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan , and that there have been 15 Chief Justices of Japan since 1947?
Did you knowthat Deportivo Táchira Fútbol Club is the Venezuelan soccer club with the most appearances in the Copa Libertadores ?
Did you knowthat Hussein Khan Nakhichevanski was the only Muslim to be appointed General-Adjutant of the Emperor of Russia ?
Did you knowthat the 1927 silent film The Scar of Shame is an early example of a "race movie," in which a feature film was made by a black cast exclusively for black audiences?
Did you knowthat quarterback Bill Kenney is the only player named Mr. Irrelevant (an "award" traditionally given to the last selection of the NFL Draft ) to appear in the Pro Bowl ?
Did you knowthat the history of Judaism in Japan started in 1861 when approximately fifty Jewish families settled in Yokohama ?
Did you knowthat Kishan Shrikanth , age ten, is in the process of directing a Kannada -language feature film , C/o Footpath , which will almost certainly make him the youngest director ever to release a commercial feature film?
Did you knowthat John Crocker , a British corps commander in World War II , served as a both a private and a general in the British Army ?
Did you knowthat prolific designer Adrian created costumes for over 200 films during his career at MGM ?
Did you knowthat Walther Flemming , a German histologist , discovered mitosis (cell division), chromatin and chromosomes , and that this is considered one of the 100 most important scientific discoveries in history?
Did you knowthat The Chesterfield Kings , a veteran garage rock band from Rochester, New York , are currently suing their longtime record label over nonpayment of royalties, and are being represented by a lawyer who played keyboards on several of their albums?
Did you knowthat the history of writing began in the 4th millennium BC out of neolithic proto-writing?
Did you knowthat Chemmeen , a popular Malayalam novel , was made into a colour Cinemascope film , one of the first in Malayalam film industry ?
Did you knowthat the official title of the "Stars on 45 Medley" , which names a total of 11 different songs, makes it the longest-titled song ever to make the Billboard charts in the United States ?
Did you knowthat in 1911 baseball player Ed Konetchy and the St. Louis Cardinals were involved in a train wreck that killed 12 and injured 47, and Konetchy and manager Roger Bresnahan led the rescue effort?
Did you knowthat the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor is a US$1 billion biotechnology initiative that gets its funding from Michigan 's settlement with the tobacco industry ?
Did you knowthat many Russians celebrate the new year twice: once on the January 1 New Year of the Gregorian calendar and again on the Julian calendar Old New Year in mid- January ?
Did you knowthat although Thomas S. Hamblin preferred ballet and opera, he staged low-brow melodrama , farce , and variety acts at the Bowery Theatre ?
Did you knowthat the Martyrologium Hieronymianum , though not written by Saint Jerome himself, was the most widely-used martyrology during the Middle Ages ?
Did you knowthat Gilles Joye , a Renaissance composer, was known for brawling and frequenting brothels —but later became a priest ?
Did you knowthat Dawn Steel was the first woman to head a major Hollywood film studio?
Did you knowthat " truthiness ," a word made by Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report , was selected as the 2005 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society ?
Did you knowthat Yaroslav of Halych's repudiation of his wife led to a popular uprising , in the course of which his favorite concubine was burnt alive ?
Did you knowthat alligation is a practical method for solving arithmetic problems related to mixtures?
Did you knowthat hypostatic abstraction is the name given to the process describing how the proposition "X is Y" is transformed to "X has Y-ness" ?
Did you knowthat the city of Barreiras in Bahia , Brazil remained isolated for nearly a decade in the 1960s when the power plant closed?
Did you knowthat Zhang Mao became the ruler of Former Liang when a magician had his brother (the then-governor) assassinated ?
Did you knowthe United Nations Angola Verification Mission II was a peacekeeping mission that monitored the 1990 ceasefire and 1991 Bicesse Accords?
Did you knowthat in the iconic 1955 Richard Avedon photograph, supermodel Dovima posed wearing a Dior evening dress standing with circus elephants ?
Did you knowthat four EU-Russia Common Spaces were articulated during the Moscow EU - Russia summit in May 2005 ?
Did you knowthat Australian sprinter Stanley Rowley is the only Olympic participant to win medals for two countries at the same Olympic Games ?
Did you knowthat Kanyasulkam , written by Gurajada Apparao in 1892, is the first Telugu play dealing with social issues?
Did you knowthat the Seleucid era was a system of numbering years from the return of Seleucus I Nicator to Babylon in 312 BC ?
Did you knowthat L. V. Prasad had the unique distinction of acting in the first talkies in three different Indian languages: Hindi , Telugu and Tamil ?
Did you knowthat the Mount Victoria Tunnel is 623 metres long and was the first New Zealand tunnel to have air conditioning ?
Did you knowthat the Caribbean Club in Key Largo, Florida was built by former millionaire promoter Carl Graham Fisher as "a poor man's retreat" and became famous as a filming site for the 1947 film Key Largo starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall ?
Did you knowthat the Zagreb mid-air collision over Croatia in 1976 was one of the deadliest mid-air collisions ?
Did you knowthat apart from cellmate George McKnight, U.S. Navy officer George Thomas Coker was the only POW to escape from the " Hanoi Hilton "?
Did you knowthat only six of the 12 Eurozone member states have not yet issued €2 commemorative coins , and only four have no plans to do so by 2006 ?
Did you knowthat New York City authorities asked the Museum of Sex not to locate itself within 500 feet of a church or school?
Did you knowthat the Ramona Valley in San Diego County California is the country's 162nd American Viticultural Area , and only the third such AVA designated in Southern California by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau ?
Did you knowthat the nature of the female orgasm is a field of research for academics studying female sexuality ?
Did you knowthat the All Sky Automated Survey is a Polish astronomical project based in Chile , controlled remotely from Poland through the Internet , and that it has discovered two comets since 1996 with a tiny budget?
Did you knowthat the fighter pilot Aleksandr Kazakov destroyed 32 German and Austro-Hungarian planes during WWI , while his formal tally of 17 is explained by the fact that only planes crashed in the Russian -held territory were officially counted?
Did you knowthat the asteroid 7796 Járacimrman , discovered in 1996 on Kleť Observatory and named after the famous fictitious Czech genius Jára Cimrman , proved to be the lost asteroid that had already been observed in 1973 on Brera- Merate Observatory in northern Italy ?
Did you knowthat the Russian singer Alla Bayanova , who celebrated the 80th anniversary of her stage performance back in 2003 , recently collaborated with Marc Almond on several duets ?
Did you knowthat botanist Edgar Anderson was a founding member of the Society for the Study of Evolution and an active member of the Religious Society of Friends ?
Did you knowthat Chester Racecourse is the oldest horse racing course in the England , built on the site of a blocked harbour in 1533 ?
Did you knowthat after Tony Kiritsis was declared " not guilty by reason of insanity " in 1977, Indiana legislators amended the law to provide for verdicts of "guilty but mentally ill" and "not responsible by reason of insanity"?
Did you knowthat Paul Posluszny , a linebacker for Penn State 's football team, was recently named college football 's best defensive player of the year ?
Did you knowthat Variation and Evolution in Plants is one of the four canonical texts of the modern evolutionary synthesis and that all four texts were compiled following the authors' presentation of the Jesup Lectures at Columbia University ?
Did you knowthat Drayton Hall , built 1738–42, near Charleston, South Carolina , is considered one of the most handsome Neo-Palladian houses in North America ?
Did you knowthat Henry Paget , known as "the dancing Marquess", inherited his peerage at the age of 23 and spent so much on clothes , jewelry and parties that he went bankrupt with debts of £ 544,000 at the age of 28?
Did you knowthat the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division was a Ukrainian military formation in the German armed forces during the World War II and that it fought against the Red Army in Graz , Austria ?
Did you knowthat Aliwalia is the earliest known carnivorous dinosaur , and was huge for its time?
Did you knowthat Rattlesnake James , the last man to be hanged in California , was convicted of drowning his wife after a failed first attempt to kill her with rattlesnake venom ?
Did you knowthat Robin Williams ' A Night at the Met won a Grammy for Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical?
Did you knowthat Richard Butler and his father were 31st and 23rd Premiers of South Australia , respectively?
Did you knowthat although there are 75 West Indian women who have played one-day international cricket , only 54 of them have represented the West Indies?
Did you knowthat the same visual hallucinations of geometric patterns , known as form constants , are seen in near-death experiences , synesthesia , and drug-enduced hallucinatory visions?
Did you knowthat Ampelosaurus was a European dinosaur that bore spikes on its back up to 20 cm long?
Did you knowthat as part of Fukubukuro , a New Year's custom in Japan , merchants offer bags of merchandise for prices much lower than the normal value of the items inside?
Did you knowthat the first Australian national sporting team to wear the now traditional green and gold team colours were the Australian cricket team that toured England in 1899 ?
Did you knowthat Estela Ruiz claims to have seen and spoken with the Blessed Virgin Mary in South Phoenix, Arizona continually from 1988 to 1998 ?
Did you knowthat Alice Nelson and Sam the Butcher were engaged to be married in the final season of the sitcom The Brady Bunch ?
Did you knowthat Space.com is a space and astronomy news website launched in 1999 by CNN anchor Lou Dobbs ?
Did you knowthat James McClinton was the first African American mayor of Topeka, Kansas , appointed by the city council in December 2003 , but that the electorate of the city passed a referendum the following year to strip the office of political power?
Did you knowthat the Miranzai Valley is a fertile mountain valley in the Kohat district of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan ?
Did you knowthat the Cowboy Trail is the longest rails to trails conversion project in the United States ?
Did you knowthat James Sadleir was expelled from the British House of Commons in 1857 after helping his brother take £288,000 from the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank, fled from justice, and ended up murdered in Geneva ?
Did you knowthat Teatro Campesino or "farmworkers theater" began perfoming in 1965 on flat bed trucks in the fields with the United Farm Workers in Delano, California and still puts on performances today?
Did you knowthat The Squirrels , Seattle -based practitioners of the "Frankenstein method of song arrangement", recorded a " Stars on 45 "-style medley of songs from The Wizard of Oz , which was among the 142 7-inch records that British DJ John Peel set aside in a box to grab if his house ever caught fire?
Did you knowthat a quadrature phase booster is a specialised form of transformer used to control the flow of electric power on electricity transmission networks ?
Did you knowthat Earl Morrall was named the NFL's Most Valuable Player in 1968 , after replacing the injured Johnny Unitas , and led the Colts into Super Bowl III ?
Did you knowthat Soviet biologist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was renowned for his expertise at artificially inseminating mares?
Did you knowthat some scientists , in response to the popular idiom dismissing the possibility, have conducted experiments to compare apples and oranges ?
Did you knowthat by the time American football player Nat Moore retired in 1986 , he had broken almost every receiving record of the Miami Dolphins ?
Did you knowthat Go.com partnered with Goto.com in 2001 , even though a judge had ordered Go.com to pay Goto.com $ 21.5 million earlier for having a similar logo?
Did you knowthat a dead-rubber is a term used in sporting parlance to describe a match in a series where the series result has already been decided by earlier matches?
Did you knowthat the real name of the G.I. Joe character Dusty is Ronald W. Tadur ?
Did you knowthat on January 8 1956 , five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States were speared to death after attempting to reach the Huaorani people of Ecuador in " Operation Auca "?
Did you knowthat the Cormorant is a project for a submarine launched aircraft currently under development at Lockheed Martin 's Skunk works research facility?
Did you knowthat a count room is a room that is designed and equipped for the purpose of counting large volumes of currency ?
Did you knowthat the shooting of the government critic Archbishop Óscar Romero on March 24 , 1980 was one of the causes of the El Salvador Civil War , in which 75,000 people died?
Did you knowthat the song " Deep in the Heart of Texas " was first recorded by Perry Como in 1941 ?
Did you knowthat Erich Kempka was a chauffeur of Adolf Hitler and was called to testify at the Nuremberg trials ?
Did you knowthat Islam in Poland traces its history to the 13th century , with the advent of Tartar settlers?
Did you knowthat the development of molecular biology was made possible due to the convergence between biochemistry and genetics ?