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Did you knowthat although Ronald Bird was on the staff of Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1934, his first-class debut came twelve years later for their rivals Worcestershire ?
Did you knowthat the earliest bones of the rare Golden Guernsey goat , dating from 2000 BC, were found in dolmens in Guernsey on the Channel Islands off the coast of Normandy ?
Did you knowthat the sale of the Libyan Arabian Cement Co. was the country's first initial public offering of shares and the biggest sale of a Libyan state-owned business?
Did you knowthat nearby town officials caused an uproar when they moved highway markers from the Lincoln Highway in Omaha, Nebraska to their local roadway after the highway was rerouted there in 1930?
Did you knowthat Hugo Award -winning science fiction fan and editor Earl Kemp served a year in prison for publishing an illustrated edition of the Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography ?
Did you knowthat the last surrender of the American Civil War took place aboard the British HMS Donegal after the CSS Shenandoah completed a 9,000 mile voyage specifically to do so?
Did you knowthat plant physiology is the subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology , of plants ?
Did you knowthat a scathing obituary of British author Lord Michael Pratt in The Daily Telegraph called him "an unabashed snob and social interloper on a grand scale", who habitually outstayed his welcome?
Did you knowthat during his tenure as curator at Université Laval , François-Xavier Bélanger built a thousand-specimen strong collection of Canadian birds from the ground up?
Did you knowthat the 22,200 meter Shimizu Tunnel was the world's longest tunnel when it was completed in 1982?
Did you knowthat even though the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly was held in the house of statesman Carsten Anker , he was not present himself?
Did you knowthat Henri II 's Edict of Châteaubriant (1551) assigned the regulation of the French press to the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paris ?
Did you knowthat Bykivnia , a former village, now part of the Ukrainian capital Kiev , was the burial site of thousands of enemies of the Soviet power ?
Did you knowthat the Defense (Emergency) Regulations first enacted in British Mandate Palestine in 1945 were incorporated into Israel 's domestic legislation in 1948 and remain in force to this day?
Did you knowthat long-time University of Oregon track coach Bill Hayward also played lacrosse for the world champion Ottawa Capitals?
Did you knowthat Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka wore a costume made of lit lightbulbs—her 1956 work Electric Dress —to exhibitions?
Did you knowthat a total of 4156 films were submitted to the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival and 349 of those, from 55 countries, were selected?
Did you knowthat an edition of Alpin , a supplement of the Bangladeshi newspaper Prothom Alo , was banned by the caretaker government for publishing a controversial cartoon in relation to the Islamic prophet Muhammad ?
Did you knowthat after Robert William Hughes shot and wounded future Virginia Governor William E. Cameron , he was appointed a federal judge by Ulysses S. Grant ?
Did you knowthat during the siege of Constantinople in 626 AD, 12,000 Byzantine cavalry successfully fought off 80,000 Avars ?
Did you knowthat the Grant Park Music Festival , a Chicago tradition since its 1931 introduction by Anton Cermak , is America's only remaining free, outdoor concert series featuring classical music ?
Did you knowthat China's leadership for the next five years will be unveiled at the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China , which will open on October 15 in the Great Hall of the People ?
Did you knowthat after the defeat of his British Band in the 1832 Black Hawk War , Chief Black Hawk was taken captive and exhibited to large crowds throughout  the United States ?
Did you knowthat Ivor Bulmer-Thomas , having lost his position on the Historic Churches Preservation Trust (for which he denounced the Archbishop of Canterbury as having "held a pistol to my face while the Dean of Gloucester plunged his dagger into my back"), founded his own, more intransigent, committee, the Friends of Friendless Churches ?
Did you knowthat a graffiti artist from the Bronx named PHASE 2 invented the famous "bubble letter" style of graffiti writing when tagging trains on the New York City Subway system in the early 1970s ?
Did you knowthat more than 75% of kraft pulp is bleached without chlorine ?
Did you knowthat Luník IX , a borough in Košice , Slovakia , although originally built for army and police officers, now houses the largest Roma community in Central Europe ?
Did you knowthat Wurzbach Parkway , an unnumbered freeway in San Antonio, Texas , does not connect directly to the city's other freeways?
Did you knowthat by using automatic number plate recognition , a CCTV network known as ANPR , police in the United Kingdom are able to track the movement of cars in  real time and store vehicle movement information  for five years?
Did you knowthat four-time Moscow chess champion Nikolay Grigoriev won ten awards in an endgame study composing tourney in 1935?
Did you knowthat the Ukrainian Marines were from May 1996 until 1998 part of the Ukrainian National Guard, but were transferred to the Navy in 1998 ?
Did you knowthat Juan de Arphe y Villafañe was a renowned engraver, goldsmith , artist, anatomist and author?
Did you knowthat autobiographer Lois Mark Stalvey ' s 1960s anti-racist activism in Omaha, Nebraska was responsible for her husband's job transfer to Philadelphia ?
Did you knowthat the Stiefelgeiss , a breed of goat , became nearly extinct in the 1980s but is making a comeback?
Did you knowthat the leaders of the failed coup in Poland in 1919 were arrested by their intended troops?
Did you knowthat Matthew Ricketts was the first African-American to graduate from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and be elected to the Nebraska Legislature ?
Did you knowthat the photographer duo of Krupakar-Senani were kidnapped by the bandit Veerappan , while filming the movie Wild Dog Diaries in India ?
Did you knowthat the Annie Larsen affair led in 1917 to one of the longest and most expensive trials in America at the time?
Did you knowthat lime was diluted in separated milk instead of water  for Vileišis Palace construction?
Did you knowthat the Danae class cruiser HMS Durban ended her wartime career supporting the Battle of Normandy as a blockship off the Normandy coast in 1944?
Did you knowthat The Most Reverend Whakahuihui Vercoe was the first Bishop of Aotearoa to be elected by its Maori congregation, the first Maori to become Archbishop of New Zealand , and the first Principal Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit ?
Did you knowthat by leading by one more lap in the final NASCAR race of the 1992 season , Alan Kulwicki won the 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship over Bill Elliott ?
Did you knowthat the 1897 Pattern British Infantry Officer's Sword was carried into battle by a young Bernard Montgomery , was used in service against the Dervishes in Sudan , and is still the ceremonial sidearm for many British regiments?
Did you knowthat Samuel Hieronymus Grimm , a Swiss painter, toured England for twenty years leaving 2,662 sketches in the British Library -- including the only known image of the coronation of Edward VI ?
Did you knowthat John Joseph Briggs , the author of a history of the original Melbourne (in Derbyshire ), corresponded regularly with Charles Darwin regarding the fins of a fish?
Did you knowthat the Suevic king Hermeric abdicated his throne due to a prolonged seven-year illness?
Did you knowthat the Yue Hwa Building used to house a popular boutique hotel , and was the tallest building in Singapore 's Chinatown when it was completed in 1936?
Did you knowthat although in present-day India the former princely states and their princes have lost that status, the Raja of Rajnagar still wears his ancestors' tattered royal attire twice a year?
Did you knowthat the Jay Pritzker Pavilion , an outdoor bandshell and great lawn, uses an innovative sound system that recreates an indoor concert hall sound experience?
Did you knowthat the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , today a prominent academic journal in statistics, had as its first work a simple door-to-door survey of occupations in Manchester ?
Did you knowthat the Kallawaya healers travel around South America , often on foot and on ancient Inca trails, in search of traditional herbs ?
Did you knowthat Major Sir Hamish Forbes, 7th Baronet was awarded the MBE (Military Division) for his many escape attempts while a prisoner-of-war in Germany from 1940 to 1945, and was later patron of the Lonach Highlanders ?
Did you knowthat Karl Emil Nygard was the first Communist mayor in the United States?
Did you knowthat a series of miscommunications and withdrawals by Allied forces during the Battle of Kranji allowed the Japanese forces to gain strategic footholds which led to the fall of Singapore in 1942?
Did you knowthat the city of Puerto Suárez in eastern Bolivia is supplied by the Brazilian power grid , not the Bolivian ?
Did you knowthat architect Andreyan Zakharov rebuilt the Admiralty in Saint Petersburg , with symmetrical wings to its central tower, making it a symbol of the city?
Did you knowthat after the November Uprising in partitioned Poland , the government of the Russian Empire offered a bounty for one of the Polish leaders, Jan Czyński ?
Did you knowthat Eastern Orthodox icon expert Father Egon Sendler is highly respected by  many Eastern Orthodox scholars , despite being a Roman Catholic ?
Did you knowthat Yugoslavian boxing champion Marijan Beneš played the violin in his youth, and published a book of poems after the end of his career?
Did you knowthat Augie Hiebert not only built Alaska 's first television station , KTVA , but also founded the state's first FM radio station , KNIK-FM ?
Did you knowthat the Norwegian roller coaster Speed Monster features a unique loop around an escalator ?
Did you knowthat Mark Knight , a political cartoonist for the Herald Sun , created Leuk the Duck, a mascot for charity named after leukemia ?
Did you knowthat in Chinua Achebe 's novel Arrow of God , an African chief's refusal to allow his villagers to harvest yams causes them to convert to Christianity?
Did you knowthat research has shown the 80-plus miles of trails in Omaha , Nebraska increase homeowners' perceptions of the value of their houses ?
Did you knowthat, although only a junior officer, Akiyama Saneyuki developed the basic strategy for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Russo-Japanese War based on his firsthand observations of the U.S. Navy in the Spanish-American War ?
Did you knowthat the engravings of French Renaissance artist Jean Duvet exhibit horror vacui , or a fear of leaving space unfilled?
Did you know Benjamin Stephenson's indentured servants made over 100,000 bricks during the construction of his house in Edwardsville, Illinois ?
Did you knowthat Peter Adolf Thiessen , who received a Stalin Prize for his work on the Soviet atomic bomb project , had joined the Nazi Party as early as 1925?
Did you knowthat South African anti- conscription activist Nan Cross once climbed a tank at a weapons exhibition and attached stickers to it reading: " Arms are for hugging , not killing "?
Did you knowthat the 2002 ITC Inferno , a fire that destroyed a six-storey business complex, claimed sixty lives, and injured more than a hundred in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam , was started by poor welding ?
Did you knowthat after Oregon's Point Adams Lighthouse changed colors to reduce confusion, it caused a ship to run aground in 1881?
Did you knowthat the success of the Lifeline Express in providing medical services to remote places in India has seen similar projects being initiated in other countries including China , Zimbabwe , and Bangladesh ?
Did you knowthat Giuseppe Maggiolini , a cabinet-maker from late 18th century Milan , also made marquetry flooring for royal villas in Lombardy ?
Did you knowthat Dick Mann was the first motorcycle rider to win AMA's career Grand Slam by winning on short track , mile, half mile, Tourist Trophy, and road racing race tracks ?
Did you knowthat the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo had its origins in a humble Jesuit mission known today as Pátio do Colégio ?
Did you knowthat Locust Grove , Samuel F. B. Morse 's home near Poughkeepsie , was the first Hudson Valley estate to be designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark ?
Did you knowthat Spanish art critic Juan Eduardo Cirlot , of the Dau al Set school, gained international fame for his Dictionary of Symbols ?
Did you knowthat Mzoli's , a popular Cape Town eatery, nightclub and tourist attraction, in the township of Gugulethu , South Africa , started off as a butcher's shop operating from a garage?
Did you knowthat the Mindoro stripe-faced fruit bat is only the second species in its genus and the 26th endemic bat species from the Philippines to be described?
Did you knowthat the gorge in China 's Flaming Mountains ,  near the ruins of  the once busy oasis city  of Gaochang ,  was an important pass on the ancient trade route , the Silk Road , skirting the deadly Taklamakan Desert ?
Did you knowthat Justice Hans Raj Khanna was the lone dissenter when the Supreme Court of India ruled that those arrested during India 's repressive Emergency period from 1975 to 1977 would have no rights to habeas corpus ?
Did you knowthat the AMP NHL Winter Classic is scheduled to be the first regular-season outdoor National Hockey League game in the United States?
Did you knowthat Pierre Monatte was one of the few French trade-unionists and members of the French Left to oppose the Union sacrée national bloc during World War I ?
Did you knowthat Oregon's Three Arch Rocks National Wildlife Refuge was the first National Wildlife Refuge established west of the Mississippi River and will be a hundred years old next month?
Did you knowthat Otton de Grandson participated in three separate military expeditions to the Holy Land : the Ninth Crusade (1270–1272), the Siege of Acre (1291), and a Templar - Hospitaller offensive in Cilicia (1298)?
Did you knowthat at the peak of the 1979 student protests in Nepal , radicals tried to humiliate moderate student leaders by painting their faces black, garlanding them with shoes, and parading them on a push-cart through the streets of Kathmandu ?
Did you knowthat partially as a result of the mythical " bomber gap " between the USA and USSR, the USAF built an enormous fleet of over 2,500 jet bombers to deter what turned out to be only twenty Soviet aircraft?
Did you knowthat Mysore Paints and Varnish Limited is the only company in India authorised to manufacture the indelible ink which is used in elections to prevent fraudulent voting?
Did you knowthat the appearance of an outline of monkeys on a tree in Singapore drew large crowds as devotees believed that the images are a manifestation of the Monkey God and Hanuman ?
Did you knowthat the last chief of Clan MacQuarrie sold off his clan lands in Scotland and joined the British Army , at age 68, and fought in the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you knowthat the Leopoldov Prison in Slovakia was once the largest prison in the Kingdom of Hungary ?
Did you knowthat Stamford House in Singapore , at first an office building, was for a time in the early 20th century an annex of Raffles Hotel due to a shortage of hotel rooms?
Did you knowthat Linda Chavez-Thompson was the first woman, colored person , and Hispanic elected an officer of the AFL-CIO ?
Did you knowthat the hearing for the Nanoor massacre case has stalled because of the defendants ' repeated failure to appear in court ?
Did you knowthat missionary Josiah Parrish drove the first spike for the Oregon and California Railroad , and had a land dispute reach the U. S. Supreme Court ?
Did you knowthat Alfred D. Jones , the original surveyor of Des Moines, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska , was known for delivering mail from his stovepipe hat as the first postmaster of Omaha?
Did you knowthat medieval Liubice , the capital of Prince Henry of the Obotrites , was the predecessor to Lübeck , Germany ?
Did you knowthat the Pentapolis of North Africa is believed to be the birthplace of Saint Mark the Evangelist ?
Did you knowthat poet, film producer and journalist Pritish Nandy is credited with opening India 's first cyber cafe in 1996?
Did you knowthat around a third of New Zealanders claim no religious affiliation , including the leaders of both main political parties ?
Did you knowthat the boulevards in Omaha, Nebraska are part of a 1889 system designed by Horace Cleveland that Omaha city planners are currently starting to reutilize to guide suburban street design?
Did you knowthat the Katsuyama Eiheiji Line was forced to transfer operation companies because of two head-to-head train collisions within a year?
Did you knowthat after Evelyn Waugh brought a priest to anoint him on his deathbed, lapsed Catholic Hubert Duggan was reconciled to the church, an event Waugh fictionalised in Brideshead Revisited ?
Did you knowthat to further the career of future Naval Minister Takarabe Takeshi ,  close friend Takeo Hirose asked Admiral Yamamoto Gonnohyoe , father of Takeshi's betrothed, to veto the marriage?
Did you knowthat Samuel Parker was a lawmaker in the Provisional , Territorial , and State governments of Oregon ?
Did you knowthat Turkish-German professional boxer Hülya Şahin , the undefeated junior flyweight world champion, is the only female member of her club Universum?
Did you knowthat Philippe de Champaigne's 1662 painting Ex-Voto was a votive offering in gratitude for the miraculous cure of his daughter?
Did you knowthat 12,000-year-old Paleo-Indian artifacts , including a rare fluted point , have been found in a quarry near Goshen, New York ?
Did you knowthat Australian amateur astronomer Gregg Thompson has been acknowledged by supernova hunters for publishing comparison charts of the brightest galaxies ?
Did you knowthat architect John M. Van Osdel drafted the plans for the first architect-designed house in Chicago, formed Chicago 's first architectural firm and ensured passage of Chicago's first building codes ?
Did you knowthat the death of Eugene Ejike Obiora , a naturalized Norwegian citizen,  was  caused by positional asphyxiation when he was placed in a chokehold , then handcuffed on his stomach during arrest ?
Did you knowthat Florence Boulevard in Omaha, Nebraska was originally called the "Prettiest Mile in Omaha Boulevard" when it was designed by Horace Cleveland in 1892?
Did you knowthat 18-year-old online poker phenom, Annette_15 , became the youngest person to ever win a World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event?
Did you knowthat of the nine children born of Martina, Heraclius ' wife and niece, four died in infancy, one had a twisted neck and another was deaf & dumb?
Did you knowthat Fort Runyon , built to defend Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War , was almost the same size, shape, and in almost the same place as the Pentagon , built 80 years later?
Did you knowan inscribed tombstone of a political dissident , Tan Chay Wa , sparked off a court case in Singapore which eventually made international news in 1983?
Did you knowthat Warsaw 's Carmelite Church was the site of Fryderyk Chopin 's first job?
Did you knowthat Spec Keene ' s Willamette University football team was stranded in Honolulu for two weeks following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor ?
Did you knowthat Roosevelt Raceway , the first night-time harness racing track, saw the first mobile starting gate ?
Did you knowthat wolf collars with long spikes, now widely adopted by the BDSM community, were originally used to protect dogs from wolf attacks?
Did you knowthat the Ghurni clay dolls of West Bengal have been inaugurated by Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev ?
Did you knowthat every Byzantine Emperor under the Angeloi dynasty was overthrown in a violent coup d'état?
Did you knowthat the area known as the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield has been inhabited by at least five Native American tribes?
Did you knowthat Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas , one of the founders of the Party of National Progress , was accused of book smuggling during the Lithuanian press ban?
Did you knowthat despite being hit by two torpedoes that broke her in half, only one life was lost in the sinking of the Liberty ship SS James B. Stephens ?
Did you knowthat Piłsudski's Mound , built in 1937, is the youngest and largest of the four mounds of Kraków ?
Did you knowthat the Newton Food Centre is promoted by the Singapore Tourism Board for sampling Singaporean cuisine , despite allegations of overpricing and mediocre food quality by locals?
Did you knowthat scientists are concerned that the Bangali River in northern Bangladesh may merge with the Jamuna River and cause a loss of 100,000 hectares of land in the region?
Did you knowthat Carnegie Medal -winning children’s author Berlie Doherty has written the libretti for three operas ?
Did you knowthat the James Bruce Round Barn was designed with a distinctive single hip roof style because of the inability of many carpenters to build a self-supporting roof?
Did you knowthat director Zhang Yuan 's 1999 film, Seventeen Years was the first Chinese film allowed to film inside a Chinese prison?
Did you knowthat the 371-acre Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge provides nesting for 1.2 million seabirds —more than California and Washington combined?
Did you knowthat the Pyramid of Senusret I was built in single-cell units instead of all at once, as was the norm?
Did you knowthat Major League Baseball pitcher Sam Zoldak ' s only home run in his major league career did not count after the game was cancelled because of rain?
Did you knowthat Welshman Sir Gore Ouseley arranged for Azerbaijan to become part of the Russian Empire in 1814?
Did you knowthat former Italian Prime Minister Mario Scelba was known as the "Iron Sicilian"?
Did you knowthat Lucas Bols is the oldest extant Dutch distillery ?
Did you knowthat Duleep Singh , the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire , was the first member of the Sikh diaspora ?
Did you knowthat Fox Point State Park , a Delaware State Park which opened in 1995 along the Delaware River , was built atop a hazardous waste site?
Did you knowthat zero is even ?
Did you knowthat the rare Northern colletes bee was recently found to be thriving in the unique machair seaside habitat of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland ?
Did you knowthat Alexandru Papana competed in bobsleigh for Romania at two Winter Olympics and later was involved in test flying the P-61 Black Widow ?
Did you knowthat in Greek mythology , Arion (or Areion) was an extremely swift immortal horse that could talk?
Did you knowthat the railways of Jamaica were the first built outside of Europe and continental North America and the first in a British colony ?
Did you knowthat cryptologist Harry Hinsley 's realisation that German weather ships were the Achilles' heel of the Enigma code led to the capture of the Lauenburg ?
Did you knowthat Theodosios (Hanna) of Sebastia is the second Palestinian Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem ?
Did you knowthat Lois DeBerry is the first African-American woman speaker pro tempore of the Tennessee House of Representatives ?
Did you knowthat the planetary nebula luminosity function is an accurate standard candle ( luminosity measurement ) outside Earth 's home galaxy , the Milky Way , despite an average error factor of two for distance estimates to planetary nebulae within this galaxy ?
Did you knowthat Swan and Maclaren is the oldest architectural firm in Singapore ?
Did you knowthat the Fama-DFA Prize is named after University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor Eugene Fama , a financial economist whose publications are the foundation of efficient market theory ?
Did you knowthat Rachel Carson was so disappointed in the Oscar-winning film adaptation of her 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us that she never again sold film rights to her work?
Did you knowthat the Crown Colony-class light cruiser HMS Nigeria made one of the earliest captures of German Enigma material ?