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Did you knowthat Chicago Bulls founder Dick Klein rode on a flat bed truck with a live bull to promote his new basketball team?
Did you knowthat 2006 World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold has worked as an agent for actors such as James Gandolfini , Jimmy Fallon , Lucy Liu , and Felicity Huffman ?
Did you knowthat the Rose-Fruited Banksia is so named because its fruiting bodies resemble roses made of wood?
Did you knowthat Jerzy Ziętek , a Silesian Insurrectionist in his youth, later became a Polish communist and an important regional politician from Silesia in the People's Republic of Poland ?
Did you knowthat the Natural Lands Trust is one of the oldest regional land conservation groups in the United States and that the Trust works in the suburban counties near Philadelphia to the Delaware Bay shore of New Jersey to the Poconos ?
Did you knowthat George William Smith not only represented New Zealand in both codes of rugby football but was also a successful athlete winning fourteen national titles as a sprinter and hurdler ?
Did you knowthat the most powerful radio station in Imperial Russia operated from New Holland Island in Saint Petersburg ?
Did you knowthat the manga Astra was originally conceived as a theatrical musical by American comic book artist Jerry Robinson ?
Did you knowthat the popular hymn " Dear Lord and Father of Mankind " is taken from a poem about hallucinogenic drugs by John Greenleaf Whittier ?
Did you knowthat when the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued the decree to construct the Donetsk Metro in 1991 , the completion date was set for 2002, but due to the unstable economic situation of the city, it is still not complete?
Did you knowthat the 1964 Saab Catherina prototype had a targa top that would fit into the luggage compartment?
Did you knowthat the bignose unicornfish can change colours when frightened or asleep to help camouflage itself from predators ?
Did you knowthat the song " Wadde Hadde Dudde Da? " consists of tongue twisters in an artificial German dialect and never answers the question in its title?
Did you knowthat Picasso 's painting The Three Dancers depicts a real love triangle that caused one of Picasso's best friends to commit suicide?
Did you knowthat the Pechenga Monastery , founded in 1533 , was for many centuries the northernmost monastery in the world?
Did you knowthat Charles François Paul Le Normant de Tournehem was appointed directeur général of the Bâtiments du Roi in 1745 through the influence of Madame de Pompadour , who might have been his natural daughter?
Did you knowthat the Château de Saint-Cloud near Paris burned to the ground on 13 October 1870 after being hit by French artillery fire during the siege of Paris ?
Did you knowthat the film crew of actress Revathi 's directorial debut Mitr, My Friend was entirely composed of women?
Did you knowthat Dorothea Mackellar wrote her patriotic Australian poem " My Country ", which contains the line I love a sunburnt country , while she was homesick when travelling in Europe ?
Did you knowthat Daylight Saving Time was first legislated in North America in June 1917 by the former country of Newfoundland ?
Did you knowthat the anchorages for the Lane Avenue Bridge in Columbus, Ohio are two of the largest single pieces of steel ever to be galvanized ?
Did you knowthat the Judicial and Bar Council of the Philippines recommends appointees to the country's courts, without the " advice and consent " of the Commission on Appointments ?
Did you know that Byron K. Lichtenberg and John Glenn were respectively the first and the last Americans to fly as Payload Specialists on board the Space Shuttle ?
Did you knowthat a substantially complete Greek bronze Apoxyomenos , or representation of an athlete , was recovered off the Croatian island of Lošinj in 1999 ?
Did you know that during the Indian Wars , troops stationed at Fort Harker , Kansas in 1867 performed more escorts of wagon trains in one year than troops stationed at any other frontier fort in the post- American Civil War era?
Did you knowthat the song " Reise Nach Jerusalem - Kudüs'e Seyahat " was the first occasion on which the German Eurovision entry was performed partly in Turkish ?
Did you knowthat the controversy over the portrayals of Mormons in popular media includes Arthur Conan Doyle 's very first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet ?
Did you knowthat in Kuwait , the freedom of the press is restricted mostly by self-censorship rather than active government action?
Did you knowthat in June 1995, the Fiji Meteorological Service became responsible for the prediction of tropical cyclones in the southwest Pacific Ocean ?
Did you knowthat the Cockpit Theatre was the first theatre in London 's Drury Lane ?
Did you knowthat Claire's Mouse Lemur is a newly described species of primate that only lives on Nosy Bé, an island near Madagascar ?
Did you knowthat a Wikipedia article was a source for a U.S. House of Representatives bill that was signed into law as the Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building Designation Act ?
Did you knowthat the Indonesian Muslim organization Muhammadiyah has over 29 million members and manages several universities ?
Did you knowthat the USA Hawks are one of two national representative rugby union teams from the United States , and lost 0-98 in their inaugural North America 4 game against Canada West ?
Did you knowthat the Cheraman Juma Masjid , the oldest mosque in India , was originally constructed in traditional Hindu architectural style ?
Did you knowthat Brian Killick 's novel The Heralds follows the exploits of fictional members of the College of Arms as they vie to be the next Garter Principal King of Arms ?
Did you knowthat the Canadian Armed Forces mobilized more than 2,200 soldiers within days to help fight over 800 separate forest fires during Operation PEREGRINE in the summer of 2003 ?
Did you knowthat the song Autostop is the only Eurovision Song Contest entry to have been based on the subject of hitchhiking ?
Did you knowthat the Kashi Vidyapeeth university in Varanasi was founded on Mahatma Gandhi 's principle of Indian self-reliance through the boycott of colonial institutions ?
Did you knowthat of the three breeding roosts in England for the rare Barbastelle bat , the only indoor roost is found in Norfolk 's historic Paston Great Barn ?
Did you knowthat Mitsubishi Motors manufactures a keicar simply named "i" ?
Did you knowthat a noose hanging beside a hole at the Oak Tree Golf Club in Oklahoma was donated symbolically by a frustrated golfer , but was removed because of perceived racist undertones?
Did you knowthat actress Shabana Azmi portrayed the wife of a deaf-mute alcoholic potter in her debut film Ankur ?
Did you knowthat, in his novel War and Peace , Leo Tolstoy described the Battle of Tarutino as little more than a chain of accidents and coincidences?
Did you knowthat the Autobianchi Primula was Fiat's first automobile with the front-wheel drive , transverse engine setup and rack and pinion steering?
Did you knowthat much of what is known about the life of blues legend Blind Willie McTell comes from interviews with his wife, Kate McTell , after his death?
Did you knowthat stadiums such as Sydney 's Telstra Stadium and Paris ' Stade de France use movable seating to change the layout of the playing area to allow for a wider variety of sports?
Did you knowthat Max McGee is a former American Football wide receiver who assisted the Green Bay Packers to five NFL championship wins and scored the first touchdown in Super Bowl history?
Did you knowthat, during the Yalta Conference , Winston Churchill was so impressed with the brandy produced by the Yerevan Brandy Company that he asked Joseph Stalin to send him several cases annually?
Did you knowthat the band Crow originally recorded " Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games With Me) ", which was famously covered by Black Sabbath ?
Did you know that in August 2006, Brigadier General Angela Salinas became the first Hispanic female general officer in United States Marine Corps history?
Did you knowthat the song " Guildo Hat Euch Lieb! " was performed by a band whose name literally translates as " Guildo Horn and the Orthopedic Stockings"?
Did you knowthat between 1977 and 1998, Madame Leprieur from Agon-Coutainville in France sent 80,000 questions to the daily RTL radio show Les Grosses Têtes , making herself famous nationwide?
Did you knowthat Alberta Vaughn was an American film actress who starred in 112 motion pictures before her death in 1992 ?
Did you knowthat Angelica Agurbash , who sang the Belarussian entry at the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest , went through two major strip acts during her three-minute performance?
Did you knowthat when the Château de Choisy was built for the Grande Mademoiselle , Louis XIV 's first cousin, the garden designer André Le Nôtre 's first advice was to "lay low all the woods that are there"?
Did you knowthat Albert Bigelow Paine was the literary executor for Mark Twain , a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee , and a recipient of the title of Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur for his books about Joan of Arc ?
Did you knowthat the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships , the first world skiing championships of the International Ski Federation held outside Europe, took place in Lake Placid in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the Régence style, precursor of the Rococo , had its origins in the interiors designed by Jean Bérain the Elder for Louis, Grand Dauphin at the Château de Meudon ?
Did you knowthat Bénilde Romançon 's superiors at the Christian Brothers ' novitiate were reluctant to take him in because he was short of stature?
Did you knowthat Shangwen Fang received a fine for cruelty to animals after he was tracked down as the source of graphic images that had been posted on the Internet which showed cats being abused?
Did you knowthat there are many examples of unfinished work in the arts, some of which remain incomplete but others have been finished by other people?
Did you knowthat the song " Wir Geben 'Ne Party " is the first Eurovision entry to mention hip-hop music , despite not being in that style?
Did you knowthat during the time of Scandinavism , Hans Christian Andersen wrote a poem called Jeg er en Skandinav which together with the later added melody could have become the National Anthem of a unified Scandinavian nation?
Did you knowthat the Autobianchi Stellina was the first Italian car with a fiberglass body?
Did you knowthat the Château de Bellevue , a small château built near Paris in 1750 as an intimate meeting place for Louis XV and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour , was named for its spectacular views over the Seine ?
Did you knowthat Maulana Mehmud Hasan organised an armed rebellion against the British Raj with Turkish support but was arrested just before his return to India ?
Did you knowthat the Romans completely forgot what the ancient Lapis Niger shrine was dedicated to, and had at least three different stories telling why it was built?
Did you knowthat the sting of the rainforest shrub Dendrocnide moroides can cause severe and prolonged pain and has been reported to kill dogs, horses and humans?
Did you knowthat The Daily Talk , the most widely read news medium in the Liberian capital of Monrovia , is published daily on a blackboard in the center of town?
Did you knowthat Brazilian-born Alberto Cavalcanti directed the 1942 British propaganda war film Went the Day Well?
Did you knowthat Colonel William Nolde was the last official American casualty of the Vietnam War ?
Did you knowthat the expressions "take care of the pence , and the pounds will take care of themselves" and " ways and means " are both attributed to William Lowndes ?
Did you knowthat most buildings of the True Cross Monastery on Kiy Island in the White Sea were designed by Patriarch Nikon ?
Did you knowthat the planned M4 Toll motorway will be the second toll section of the United Kingdom's M4 motorway , despite being under 10 miles from the first?
Did you knowthat Applecrest Farm Orchards is the oldest continuously operating apple orchard in the United States of America ?
Did you knowthat the Mahé River in India was nicknamed the " English Channel " because it separated British-ruled Thalassery from French-ruled Mahé ?
Did you knowthat Samuel M. Rubin popularized the practice of selling popcorn in movie theaters , earning him the nickname "Sam the Popcorn Man"?
Did you knowthat the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme included the world's then-longest fresh-water pipeline when it opened in Western Australia in 1903 ?
Did you knowthat Frederick Lorz was greeted as the winner of the 1904 Summer Olympics marathon but later admitted to having travelled by car for ten miles of the race?
Did you knowthat Muslim scholar Maulvi Abdul Haq is decorated as the Father of Urdu in Pakistan ?
Did you knowthat the Canadian Arctic islands did not become part of Canada until 1880 ?
Did you knowthat Charles Angibaud was the royal apothecary to Louis XIV of France , but left France in 1681 to avoid persecution as a Protestant Huguenot and moved to London , where he was later Master of the Society of Apothecaries ?
Did you knowthat the song " Dschinghis Khan " is a disco -inspired tribute to the Mongol leader Genghis Khan ?
Did you knowthat civilians took refuge in St. La Salle Hall in Manila during World War II , believing that its walls would protect them from anything but a direct hit?
Did you knowthat Claudia Alexander was the last project manager of NASA 's Galileo mission to Jupiter ?
Did you knowthat murdered British schoolgirl Amanda "Milly" Dowler has a charity, an award-winning garden and a sweetpea named after her?
Did you knowthat the English footballer David Layne scored 58 goals in 81 games for Sheffield Wednesday F.C. before he was jailed for his involvement in the British betting scandal of 1964 ?
Did you knowthat, before becoming famous, both Martha Stewart and Lyle Waggoner appeared in ads for Tareyton cigarettes, telling the audience that " Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch! "?
Did you knowthat a group of rock stars formed a supergroup in 1989 called Rock Aid Armenia and re-recorded Deep Purple 's hit song Smoke on the Water to benefit the victims of the 1988 Leninakan Earthquake ?
Did you knowthat the Fair Play Men , a group of squatters in colonial Pennsylvania , made their own Declaration of Independence from Britain on July 4 , 1776 on the banks of Pine Creek ?
Did you knowthat the native fauna of New Guinea does not include any large mammal predators ?
Did you knowthat Central Asian Gypsies , often seen around Russian markets and railway stations in the 1990s were previously mistaken as Tajikistani refugees ?
Did you knowthat Flying University was the secret educational conspiratorial enterprise that existed in Warsaw , Poland , in various forms in the 19th and 20th century to provide education outside of the dominating ideology?
Did you knowthat Monica Coghlan , at the center of the scandal surrounding Lord Jeffrey Archer , was killed in an unrelated car crash a month before the start of the trial that would convict him of perjury and vindicate her?
Did you knowthat the Canaanites are a movement in Hebrew culture that seeks to recover its rootedness in ancient Canaanite civilization?
Did you knowthat early photographer Alexander Gardner was the last person to photograph American President Abraham Lincoln before his assassination —and also photographed the conspirators and their public execution?
Did you knowthat during the filming of the 2002 film The Importance of Being Earnest , the scenes in which Rupert Everett slaps Colin Firth on his rear end and then kisses his cheek were ad libbed , and director Oliver Parker thought Firth's stunned reaction was so humorous that he kept them in the film?
Did you knowthat the song " Zwei Kleine Italiener " references the homesickness experienced by guest workers in Germany during the Wirtschaftswunder ?
Did you knowthat Archibald Hall was the oldest prisoner on the original list of British murderers who were issued with whole life tariffs by the Government?
Did you knowthat Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart was one of the first painters to work in an abstract style for his entire career?
Did you knowthat, according to the Lanercost Chronicle , Richard de Inverkeithing , bishop of Dunkeld , was poisoned by King Alexander III of Scotland so that the king could take the bishop's movable possessions?
Did you knowthat The Varsitarian of the University of Santo Tomas was one of the first student newspapers in the Philippines ?
Did you knowthat animals have delivered mail throughout history, with different postal services using pigeons , reindeer and even cats ?
Did you knowthat within a tomb in the town of Bergamo , Italy there is a statue dedicated to the life of Enrico Rastelli , the world's greatest juggler ?
Did you knowthat 96 tropical cyclones have affected the state of Delaware since 1749?
Did you knowthat Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin is a mixed language based on Malay , Japanese , English and Australian Aboriginal languages ?
Did you knowthat Enrique Angelelli was an Argentine Catholic bishop killed during that country's military junta ?
Did you knowthat the Famous Artists School has perhaps been best known for its Draw me! advertisements on the covers of matchbooks ?
Did you knowthat the parastatal Kenya Railways Corporation will be managed by a private consortium come November 1 , 2006 ?
Did you knowthat Wojciech Bobowski was one of the most important musicians of the Ottoman Empire , and the author of the Bible translation into the Ottoman Turkish language ?
Did you knowthat the treatment of Crohn's disease can include a mouse - human chimeric antibody called infliximab ?
Did you knowthat Suleiman the elephant , named after the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent , became the first elephant to visit Vienna in March 1552?
Did you knowthat Binaca Geetmala was a Radio Ceylon countdown program of hit Indian film songs that was the most listened to radio program in India for portions of its 42-year run?
Did you knowthat the Liaoshen Campaign was a decisive 52-day engagement in the creation of Communist China ?
Did you knowthat the borders of the states and territories of the United States have changed over 90 times since the United States Constitution was adopted by the Philadelphia Convention on 13 July 1787 ?
Did you knowthat West Side Story won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 34th Academy Awards ?
Did you knowthat Harvey Littleton , a former professor at the University of Wisconsin , pioneered the American studio glass movement in the 1960s and is responsible for training many prominent glass artists ?
Did you knowthat the song " Diwanit Bugale " was a French Eurovision entry performed in Breton and the only French entry not performed at least partly in French ?
Did you knowthat British Air Marshal Joubert de la Ferté served as commander-in-chief of RAF Coastal Command on two separate occasions, before and during the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat the French clothing brand Cacharel is named after a small bird that inhabits the Camargue ?
Did you knowthat Joseph Nanven Garba was part of the coup that displaced Yakubu Gowon as the leader of Nigeria , and yet went on to be President of the United Nations General Assembly ?
Did you knowthat the 2006 Kapa O Pango controversy is due to a throat-slitting gesture at the end of the All Blacks traditional haka performance?
Did you knowthat conger cuddling was once described as the "most fun a person could have with a dead fish"?
Did you knowthat the song " Mama Corsica " is the only song in the Corsican language to have been performed at the Eurovision Song Contest , placing 4th in the 1993 edition ?
Did you knowthat overacting can be intentional for some roles, particularly when exaggerating the evil characteristics of a villain , but is often the subject of parody and satire ?
Did you knowthat two-time International Motor Sports Association champion Steve Millen was only able to compete in three of four IROC races in 1995 before he suffered a career ending injury at Road Atlanta ?
Did you knowthat the masseira is a form of agriculture in sand dunes practiced solely in Northern Portugal ?
Did you knowthat U.S. Army surgeon Ben L. Salomon was recommended for the Medal of Honor four times before it was posthumously awarded by George W. Bush in 2002?
Did you knowthat British graphic designer Alan Fletcher designed the logo of 84 dots used by Reuters from 1965 to 1992, the "V&A" logo for the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1989, and the "IoD" logo of the Institute of Directors ?
Did you knowthat the sole surviving portion of the work of 4th-century musical writer Alypius is the chief source of modern knowledge of Greek musical notation ?
Did you knowthat, as a schoolboy, former Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King attended what is now Suddaby Public School ?
Did you knowthat " Comme È Ddoce 'O Mare " was performed in the Neapolitan language , the only time the host country of the Eurovision Song Contest performed in a minority language ?
Did you knowthat Astro Flight, Incorporated of Marina del Rey, California created the world's first practical electric-powered radio controlled model airplane and the world's first full-scale solar-powered airplane?
Did you knowthat Harry Brinkley Bass was awarded two U.S. Navy Crosses within a period of two months for combat actions in World War II and was killed in action two years later?
Did you knowthat the Silver Fish , the highest award in the Girl Guides and scouting movement, can be traced back to November 1909 ?
Did you knowthat Mikołaj Trąba , first primate of Poland , took part in the Battle of Grunwald and might have been a papal candidate during the Council of Constance ?
Did you knowthat the rules of Swedish football played in the late 19th century were a mix of association football rules and the rugby football rules because of a misunderstanding?
Did you knowthat the famous ending to the M*A*S*H episode " Abyssinia, Henry " was kept a secret from the entire cast, with the exception of Alan Alda , until the moment of filming?
Did you knowthat the assassins of former Bangladeshi prime minister Mansur Ali were protected by the Indemnity Act and not arrested or tried for more than 20 years?
Did you knowthat Sheffield Wednesday Ladies F.C. were formed at the Star Inn public house in Rotherham during 1971 following a charity match between men and women at the pub?
Did you knowthat Chickies Rock contains the largest exposed anticline on the East Coast of North America?
Did you knowthat PWS-10 designed in late 1920s was the first Polish fighter to enter serial production?
Did you knowthat the Indian Opinion was founded by Mahatma Gandhi and served as the main vehicle for the Indian civil rights struggle in early- 20th century South Africa ?
Did you knowthat some astrologers claim Earth has a second moon they call Lilith ?
Did you knowthat the small Toyota Publica was available in a range of 2-door body styles , including a pickup truck ?
Did you knowthat Arthur Brooke ' s narrative poem The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet was the chief source for William Shakespeare's famous play Romeo and Juliet ?
Did you knowthat only two prototypes of PWS-33 Wyżeł , a Polish trainer aircraft , were built before the production was interrupted by German invasion of Poland ?
Did you knowthat after France expelled the Vaudois Protestant group living in Piedmont in 1686, the latter fought their way back home during the War of the Grand Alliance ?
Did you knowthat the rhinoceros botfly Gyrostigma rhinocerontis is the largest fly known in Africa ?
Did you knowthat " Miss Lucy Long " was possibly the most popular American song of the antebellum period?
Did you knowthat the village of Naluvedapathy in Tamil Nadu , India remained unscathed by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami because of a record 80,244 casuarina saplings planted on the coast two years earlier?
Did you knowthat Suriname 's worst air disaster was Surinam Airways Flight 764 , which crashed after the pilots ignored repeated warnings that they were flying too low?