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Did you knowthat shark threat display is an exaggerated swimming style exhibited by some sharks when they perceive they are in danger?
Did you knowthat the Buddhist monk Tetsugen spent twenty years in an attempt to publish the Chinese scriptures of Buddhism in Japan , because he kept giving away the money he collected for the purpose?
Did you knowthat Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña , the grandson of the late Philippine President Sergio Osmeña , was a Vice President of SEROS, Inc and Apex Realty and Developers in California ?
Did you knowthat the his genitive was a briefly lived form for possessive nouns in the 17th century and may have given rise to the use of the apostrophe for genitives in Modern English ?
Did you knowthat electrothermal-chemical technology can now almost double the muzzle energy of a tank gun?
Did you knowthat when first introduced to England there was confusion over whether the Rouen duck was named after the Rhône region, Cardinal de Rohan , the colour roan , or the town Rouen ?
Did you knowthat Blair Cherry was the first high-school football coach in Texas history to lead his team to three consecutive state championships?
Did you knowthat despite operating a charity that has set up four clinics in the city of Kolkata , British doctor Jack Preger has been ordered to leave India on at least one occasion?
Did you knowthat Mandø , a Danish island in the Wadden Sea has about as much land area in mudflat as its considerable arable land?
Did you knowthat the most important source for early Irish history , The Chronicle of Ireland , had to be reconstructed from later, derivative works because no original copies survived?
Did you knowthat the simultaneous invasion of Georgia by the Soviet and Turkish forces threatened to develop into a Soviet-Turkish confrontation in 1921 ?
Did you knowthat the concept of thermal death time started out in food canning , but has also found applications in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries?
Did you knowthat the Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues in Bemidji, Minnesota are the second most photographed statues in the United States , behind only Mount Rushmore ?
Did you know that Peter, the Lord's cat is the only animal to be given an obituary in Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ?
Did you knowthat in the Battle of Seattle (1856) , the native attackers' only common language was Chinook jargon , so the settlers were able to hear and understand the attackers' shouted orders?
Did you knowthat when the Transylvanian shepherd Badea Cârţan was found sleeping at the base of Trajan's Column in Rome in 1896, he was at first jokingly referred to as a Dacian who had fallen off a sculpted panel on the column and come to life?
Did you knowthat at 49, Douglas A. Warner III was the youngest ever CEO of J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc. ?
Did you knowthat Channa , a charioteer of Prince Siddhartha , became a bhikkhu upon his master's attainment of buddhahood ?
Did you knowthat George II of Moscow was responsible for the destruction of the Tatar trade emporium at Zhukotin on the Kama River ?
Did you knowthat the cry For your freedom and ours , one of the unofficial mottos of Poland , has been popularized by Polish soldiers, exiled from the partitioned Poland , who fought in various independence movements all over the world?
Did you knowthat Ole Bull State Park in Pennsylvania is named for the renowned Norwegian violinist who tried to establish a Norwegian colony in the wilderness there in the 1850s?
Did you knowthat Calcot Manor in Gloucestershire sold its principal roof to an American new town that wished to emulate the appearance of a medieval European village ?
Did you knowthat Lyman Run State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of logging operations, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, and a World War II Prisoner of War camp before becoming a state park in 1951?
Did you knowthat the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek and Buffalo Railway , once promoted to connect the Pennsylvania-New York oil fields with New York City , instead became part of the New York Central 's line to the coal mines around Clearfield, Pennsylvania ?
Did you knowthat the Polish capture of Wilno in 1919 set the stage for the future Polish-Soviet and Polish-Lithuanian Wars ?
Did you knowthat Honoré de Balzac once observed that "the heart of Paris today beats between rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin and rue du Faubourg Montmartre "?
Did you knowthat a hurricane-sized cyclonic storm over 1500 kilometres in diameter was spotted near the Martian north pole in 1999 ?
Did you knowthat California Mule Deer have had their population controlled by humans starting in 12,000 BC by indigenous Native Americans ?
Did you knowthat " Splice the mainbrace " is an order given aboard naval ships to allow the crew an extra ration of rum ?
Did you knowthat the small herds of marble cows that can be found in several locations around Texas are the work of Dallas sculptor Harold F. Clayton ?
Did you knowthat the exploitation film Mom and Dad , grossed an estimated $40-100 million, and is the third highest grossing film of the 1940s?
Did you knowthat Stan McCabe , who once caused a cricket Test to be abandoned in poor visibility due to the danger his hard-hitting posed to the fielding team, died after falling off a cliff?
Did you knowthat Tingmissartoq , Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh 's Lockheed Sirius , was so christened by an Eskimo boy in Greenland , and that its name means "one who flies like a big bird"?
Did you knowthat through Greek trading colonies like Al Mina on the Syrian coast the Phoenician alphabet was transmitted to ancient Greece in the 8th century BCE?
Did you knowthat the Kintner-Withers House ' s Cedar Farm is the only antebellum plantation in the state of Indiana ?
Did you knowthat August Zaleski , president of the Polish government in Exile , refused to leave his office and for almost 20 years was opposed by the Council of Three ?
Did you knowthat William Franklyn was a British actor, perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh... You Know Who" adverts for Schweppes from 1965 to 1973?
Did you knowthat Forward Pass , an American Thoroughbred racehorse , was the only horse in the history of the Kentucky Derby to have been declared the winner as the result of a disqualification?
Did you knowthat Samuel A. Goldblith was able to publish a paper for the journal Science after World War II on malnutrition suffered at POW camps in the Philippines and Japan observed during the war from his own experience as a prisoner in those camps?
Did you knowthat guards on the mail coach had to remain outside for the entire journey and sometimes froze to death?
Did you knowthat Y Clwb Rygbi was the first Welsh language television programme to win a Royal Television Society Sports Award?
Did you knowthat English Anglican clergyman Dr William Dodd was nicknamed the " macaroni parson " as a result of his extravagant lifestyle, and in 1777 became the last person to be hanged at Tyburn for forgery ?
Did you knowthat Tom Hickathrift is the East Anglian equivalent of Jack the Giant Killer ?
Did you knowthat the Golden Barrel is a popularly cultivated cactus from Mexico ?
Did you knowthat the libretto for Howard Hanson 's opera Merry Mount was written without a composer in mind?
Did you knowthat Nestorianism was one of the first forms of Christianity to be introduced in Mongolia ?
Did you know that harpoon reactions are chemical reactions that take place faster than predicted by collision theory because an electron is "thrown" from one molecule towards the other?
Did you knowthat the Qiandao Lake Incident in 1994 caused 32 Taiwanese tourist deaths, and the government of People's Republic of China were ineffective on solving the case, which directly leads to the massive increase of Taiwanese supporters on Taiwan independence ?
Did you knowthat the PDSA Gold Medal is awarded to animals for gallantry and devotion to duty?
Did you knowthat Dallas Smythe , an early researcher of the political economy of communications , earned an FBI file for his volunteerism with the American League for Peace and Democracy ?
Did you knowthat the Air Hogs Stormlauncher is a radio controlled model capable of operation on land, water...and even air?
Did you knowthat while most tornadoes form from supercell thunderstorms , tornadogenesis is a widely varied process, and can even occur under a normal cumulus cloud ?
Did you knowthat William Lyman Underwood worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology without pay from 1899 until his 1929 death to focus on bacteriology research?
Did you knowthat according to legend , Saint Juthwara was beheaded by her stepbrother, Bana, because he believed her to be pregnant ?
Did you knowthat the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) was founded in London in 1946 as a national British academic institution to promote and advance legal research, and is now part of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London ?
Did you knowthat in 2001, Shelby Howard became the youngest driver to compete in an Auto Racing Club of America race at the age of 15?
Did you knowthat John Frush Knox was the only law clerk of the United States Supreme Court ever to write a memoir documenting their time spent in this position?
Did you knowthat Kaka Joginder Singh (alias Dharti Pakad ) contested and lost over 300 elections in his 36 year political career?
Did you knowthat Michał Dymitr Krajewski ' s first book, Podolanka wychowana w stanie natury, życie i przypadki swoje opisująca ("The Podolian Girl: raised in the natural state, describing her life and events"), was responsible for initiating the first literary debate in Poland , and had seven editions in one year?
Did you knowthat Anne Juliana Gonzaga became a Servant of Mary following the death of her husband, Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in 1595, after receiving a vision of the Madonna , to whom her parents had prayed to cure her of a childhood illness?
Did you knowt Rita Dove selected the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature , co-edited by Nellie Y. McKay with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. , for a time capsule kept by the U.S. National Archives that will be opened in the 22nd century?
Did you knowthat the destination hotel became popular in the 1800s, and their number has expanded to present times, along with the elaborateness of their amenities?
Did you knowthat, subject to the resolution of litigation, Slovenian basketball player Miha Zupan will become the first deaf player to compete in Europe's principal club competition, the Euroleague ?
Did you knowthat Flow my tears by English lutenist John Dowland (1563–1626) is not only his most popular song today, but was also the most widely known English song of the period?
Did you knowthat the Underwood Canning Company went to packing their food products in tin because glass makers in Boston, Massachusetts could not keep up with the company's demands?
Did you knowthat the Rumsfeld Commission is considered by some foreign policy analysts to be the basis for the term " axis of evil ", used by President George W. Bush in his 2002 State of the Union Address ?
Did you knowthat original copies of the Herefordshire Pomona , a 19th century catalogue of apples and pears , command prices of over $ 20,000 when they come up for sale?
Did you knowthat the Thomas Organ Company not only helped invent the market for electronic organs for the home, but also at one time held the manufacturing rights to the Moog synthesizer ?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Bob was the first of a record-tying six hurricanes to hit the United States in 1985 ?
Did you knowthat Indian author and journalist Peary Chand Mitra played a leading role in the Bengal renaissance in the 19th century and became known as the " Dickens of Bengal" due to his clear Bengali prose?
Did you knowthat Slant magazine said the Hilary Duff 2004 song " I Am " was "what Alanis Morissette might sound like if she had a lobotomy "?
Did you knowthat Swedish post-impressionist painter Nils von Dardel died in 1943, shortly after he came to prominence in his native country?
Did you knowthat Picardo Farm , one of two historical farms preserved within Seattle city limits, is the oldest P-Patch allotment garden ?
Did you knowthat the Soviet 76th "K. Y. Voroshilov" Division passed through 7,000 kilometres of former Soviet territory during the Second World War , liberating over 600 towns and cities from Axis occupying forces ?
Did you knowthat artists of the Mission School , a San Francisco-based contemporary art movement, often make artworks from materials such as house paint, spray paint, correction fluid, ballpoint pens, and scrapboard?
Did you know that Ukrainian-language publication and education flourished in Ukraine after the Russian Revolution , despite battles between Ukrainian , Bolshevik , Russian , Polish , German , and Cossack forces, and various anarchist and paramilitary bands?
Did you knowthat the Warrior arcade game is considered to be the first versus fighting game and was released over a decade before the genre became popular?
Did you knowthat Kallol was perhaps, the first conscious literary movement to embrace modernism in Bengali literature ?
Did you knowthat in 1804, the frigate Apollo and forty merchant ships in her convoy were wrecked off Portugal , the result of a single badly adjusted compass?
Did you knowthat General Douglas MacArthur 's staff threatened United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Lawrence with court martial if he confiscated nearly 2,000 cases of food from Japanese -run firms in the Philippines , and that the stores were destroyed during the Battle of Bataan in early 1942?
Did you knowthat the 1960 mystery film Scent of Mystery was the first and only feature-length film to be shown in Smell-O-Vision ?
Did you knowthat Rasik Krishna Mallick , a student at Hindu College , Kolkata , a leading Derozian and journalist, shocked a court in British India in the 1820s when he stated that he did not believe in the sacredness of the Ganges ?
Did you knowthat Henry Ford helped stop construction of a state highway in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in order to gain admission to the exclusive Huron Mountain Club ?
Did you knowthat Joost van Dyk , a 17th century Dutch privateer and occasional pirate and slaver , established the first permanent European settlements in the British Virgin Islands ?
Did you knowthat the Siege of Constantinople by the Rus in 860 is known primarily from the writings of Patriarch Photius , who referred to the invaders as "a swarm of wasps" and compared their attack to "a thunderbolt from heaven"?
Did you knowthat the sculpture Reverence which depicts two whale tails, is not on permanent display near the ocean but on a grassy knoll in an open green field?
Did you knowthat Pontus Hultén was an art collector and pioneering museum director who wanted modern art to be accessible to the public in a user-friendly viewing storehouse?
Did you knowthat in 1943, Prigat , a small and newly created juice manufacturer at the time, sold 775,000 syrup bottles to the British Army in Israel ?
Did you knowthat the large pothole in Archbald Pothole State Park in Pennsylvania formed about 13,000 years ago in the Wisconsin glaciation , but was not discovered until 1884 by a coal miner?
Did you knowthat modern digital sundials display the current time with numerals rather than marking it with position?
Did you know that Gregoria de Jesus was the founder and vice-president of the woman chapter of the Katipunan partisan society during the Philippine Revolution ?
Did you knowthat the Polish community is the only national (or ethnic) minority in the Czech Republic that is linked to a specific geographical area?
Did you knowthat Indian chess player Umakant Sharma was banned from playing competitive chess for 10 years after being caught cheating with a Bluetooth device sewn into his cap?
Did you knowthat retired Spanish road bicycle racer Igor González de Galdeano holds the record for the fastest stage win in the Vuelta a España at an average of 55.17 kph, a feat which earned him the nickname Speedy González ?
Did you knowthat the site of SSAWS , once the world's largest indoor ski slope, now hosts Japan 's first IKEA superstore?
Did you knowthat after the death of New Jersey Representative George N. Seger , a Liberty ship used in World War II was commissioned in his honor?
Did you knowthat John Nyathi Pokela , having served 13 years in prison on Robben Island on charges of sabotage, assumed chairmanship of the Pan Africanist Congress after the previous chairman resigned to make way for him?
Did you knowthat surveying errors in New England created areas known as gores , which are not part of any towns, have few or no inhabitants, and have no self-government?
Did you knowthat Virgin Unite , the independent charitable arm of Richard Branson 's Virgin Group founded in 2004, ran an ad campaign that juxtaposed the seven deadly sins with seven good deeds?
Did you knowthat the Satversme is intended to hold together all other laws in Latvia ?
Did you knowthat the Barker Inlet in South Australia contains one of the southernmost mangrove forests in the world ?
Did you knowthat although Pueblo Revival Style architecture draws its inspiration from the Pueblos and the Spanish missions of New Mexico , it first appeared in California ?
Did you knowthat Trdat the Architect reconstructed the dome of the Hagia Sophia in 989 and built the Cathedral of Ani ?
Did you knowthat the Roman Catholic prelature of Trondheim was founded in 1843 and based on the archbishop diocese abandoned in 1537 with the Reformation on the shrine of St. Olav , one of the most important pilgrim destinations in the Middle Ages ?
Did you knowthat 22-year-old Indian cricketer Vikram Singh , regarded by many as the fastest bowler in India , played only 5 matches for his state before being selected for the national squad against Sri Lanka ?
Did you knowthat Robert Bristow , the British harbour engineer credited for the development of the Indian port of Kochi , also founded the first non white-exclusive club in the state?
Did you knowthat in Star Wars: Storm in the Glass, the Russian parody of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace , a bottle of vodka resides on almost every table shown in the movie?
Did you knowthat Charles S. Joelson resigned from the United States House of Representatives on September 4 , 1969 in order to become a judge in the New Jersey Superior Court ?
Did you knowthat Bryncelyn Brewery in Wales relates the names of all its beers in some way to Buddy Holly ?
Did you knowthat Inuka , a polar bear who is the mascot of the Singapore Zoo , is the first and only polar bear born in the tropics ?
Did you knowthat " James Brown is Dead "  is an electronic dance music reference to James Brown and the widespread sampling of his music ?
Did you knowthat Gordon Canfield is remembered as the "Father of the United States Coast Guard Reserve " because he first introduced and spearheaded the legislation for the reserve component 's creation in 1941 ?
Did you knowthat the Great Trail created by Native Americans connected the Great Lakes region of Canada to New England and the mid-Atlantic and laid the foundation for modern highways ?
Did you knowthat, after having spent much of her 8 years in Communist prisons in complete solitude, and willing herself to memorize events in daily succession, the Romanian artist Lena Constante published her recollections in a diary?
Did you knowthat Grevillea 'Superb' is a cultivated garden plant which flowers during all twelve months of the year?
Did you knowthat German sailor Max Reichpietsch , who served on the battleship SMS Friedrich der Große , was executed by firing squad in 1917 for anti-war agitation in the German Navy ?
Did you knowthat in 1967, Mac Hack became the first computer chess program to defeat a person in tournament play?
Did you knowthat during the reign of the English Commonwealth , worshippers at St. Stephen Coleman Street seeking Communion had to first be approved by a committee partly staffed by signatories of Charles I 's death warrant ?
Did you knowthat the purpose of the Assembly of Vizille was to discuss the events of the Day of the Tiles , one of the first revolts that preceded the French Revolution ?
Did you knowthat the compound pterostilbene , which is found in blueberries and grapes , is thought to help prevent cancer , cognitive decline, and diabetes ?
Did you knowthat the Parliament of Malaysia made a retroactive amendment to the Constitution to prevent the case of Loh Kooi Choon v. Government of Malaysia from being subject to Article 5(4) of the Constitution?
Did you knowthat the popular Soviet TV show Goluboy Ogonyok had as guests various prominent Soviet people, including Super workers , Heroes of Socialist Labor and cosmonauts ?
Did you knowthat the 1929 Chicago Cubs outfield composed of Riggs Stephenson , Hack Wilson and Kiki Cuyler was the only complete outfield in Major League Baseball history to each drive in over 100 runs in the same season?
Did you knowthat in the Battle of Zhovti Vody the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth faced 1:10 odds for 18 days before its final defeat by the Cossack - Tatar alliance?
Did you knowthat Sakati syndrome is classified under a group of rare genetic disorders known as Acrocephalopolysyndactyly ?
Did you knowthat Cowans Gap State Park in Pennsylvania was the site of a key road in the French and Indian War , a pioneer farm, a charcoal operation, and a CCC Camp?
Did you knowthat Erin Bode performed with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for three seasons before starting her recording career as a singer ?
Did you knowthat Maltese Jews were forced to pay for the financial damages caused by their absence in the country, after they were expelled from Malta by the 1492 Alhambra decree ?
Did you knowthat Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar was regarded as the "leading Hindu reformer of western India "?
Did you knowthat Lake Chaubunagungamaug is often cited as the longest place name in the United States ?
Did you knowthat New Zealand historian John Dunmore published a cookbook composed from 18th-century ship's logs , including recipes for stewed rat and albatross ?
Did you knowthat the canoe livery business is an important segment of the recreational goods rental industry?
Did you knowthat when John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune opened the first secular girls' school in Calcutta in 1849, outraged bystanders swore at the girls as they were carried to school in covered carriages?
Did you knowthat C. C. Too , a leading exponent of psychological warfare in Malaysia , crafted a campaign to turn public opinion against the communists during the Malayan Emergency ?
Did you knowthat Tantiusques , a graphite mine which John Winthrop the Younger purchased from the Nipmuck tribes in 1644 , became the basis for today's Dixon Ticonderoga pencil company?
Did you knowthat Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Guy Bush gave up Babe Ruth 's last two career home runs on May 25 , 1935 , just five days before Ruth retired?
Did you knowthat the 1952 attack on the Sui-ho Dam knocked out electrical power to North Korea for two weeks during the Korean War ?
Did you knowthat Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny enrolled his entire Cossack army as students to prevent a Kievan school's conversion to a Jesuit Collegium ?
Did you knowthat Money No Enough , which earned over S$ 5.8 million, is Singapore's highest-grossing film to date?
Did you knowthat Madhavan Nair & Anor. v. Public Prosecutor held that the Constitution of Malaysia allows the Royal Malaysian Police to impose prior restraint when granting licences to speak in public?
Did you knowthat the Elizalde was claimed to have the first Spanish automobile model with four-wheel brakes ?
Did you knowthat only one horse in the International Special horse races was born outside the United States ?
Did you knowthat Romanian leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej accused Miron Constantinescu of being a Stalinist only a few years after sidelining him for supporting de-Stalinization ?
Did you knowthat Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon ordered that the Living Museum of the Horse be built, believing he would be reincarnated as a horse?
Did you knowthat 45,000 Romanians living along the border with Yugoslavia were forcibly deported on June 18 , 1951 due to deteriorating relations between the two countries?