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Did you knowthat Gaius Pontius , the Samnite general and victor at the Battle of the Caudine Forks , is believed to be an ancestor of the Roman governor of Judea Pontius Pilate ?
Did you knowthat ten days before the ratification of the Peace of Szeged , Vladislaus , King of Hungary , swore an oath which invalidated it and all future treaties with the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you knowthat Eddie Ingram played for the Irish cricket team for 25 years, after making his debut at the age of 17?
Did you knowthat in 2002 Nicaragua had 15 times fewer banks than its Central American counterparts with only six compared to the regional average of 107 per country?
Did you knowthat almost 60% of Belfast 's adult population regularly participate in one or more sports ?
Did you knowthat trade unions in Argentina have traditionally played a strong role in the politics of the nation , with approximately 40% of workers in the formal economy being unionized ?
Did you knowthat the Sabine Free State , a border area between Spanish Texas and American Louisiana but administered by neither for 15 years in the early 19th century, attracted every kind of outlaw known from both sides, as well as settlers, adventurers and political refugees?
Did you knowthat Ira Losco , who led Malta to a second place finish in the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest , sang the official anthem at the opening ceremonies of the 2003 Games of the Small States of Europe ?
Did you knowthat police officers in Croatia are only allowed to use their guns if there is a threat to their life or the lives of other people, or to prevent a crime from being committed for which the maximum prison sentence is five years or more?
Did you knowthat the San Salvador was a galleon of the Spanish Armada whose capture supplied the English with a significant proportion of the gunpowder that they used in the campaign?
Did you knowthat the " Guild of Saint Luke " was the usual name for the painters ' guild in cities of the Low Countries ?
Did you knowthat the cruiseferry M/S Nordlandia (originally M/S Olau Hollandia ) was built to be NATO -compatible, so that she could easily be converted to a troopship ?
Did you knowthat Ivan Bogorov , who published the first Bulgarian newspaper in 1846 in Leipzig , was also an ardent supporter of Bulgarian linguistic purism and was known for his often amusing neologisms ?
Did you knowthat the ocean liner SS Paris , built in 1913, reached such heights of luxury and service that sea gulls purportedly followed it more than any other ship, hoping to feast on scraps of haute cuisine that were thrown overboard?
Did you knowthat the Tooting impact crater on Mars was named after the London suburb of the same name because the discoverer "thought [his] mum and brother would get a kick out of having their home town paired with a land form on Mars"?
Did you knowthat there are fifteen distinct police agencies enforcing law in Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
Did you knowthat Gustavus Blin Wright , a pioneer road builder and entrepreneur in British Columbia , Canada , built the 127-mile-long Old Cariboo Road in 1862–3?
Did you knowthat the 14th century Chinese military treatise of the Huo Long Jing edited by Jiao Yu described the use of cast iron grenades , firearms , fire lance flamethrowers , cannons , land mines , naval mines , rocket launchers , and winged rockets ?
Did you knowthat Bristol Byzantine was an architectural style used for industrial buildings in Bristol between 1850 and 1880?
Did you knowthat the minesweeper USS Threat was transferred to the government of Mexico after being decommissioned by the US Navy and renamed the Francisco Zarco ?
Did you knowthat West Indies cricketer Sir Harold Austin , who captained the team twice on tours to England, later became the Speaker in the Barbados House of Assembly ?
Did you knowthat Horabagrus brachysoma , an endangered species of the genus Horabagrus , has been considered a potential flagship species for media attention to provide a focus for wildlife conservation of inland biodiversity ?
Did you knowthat the 18th century Bow porcelain factory in the district of Bow, London was a short-lived rival of the Chelsea porcelain factory in making the earliest soft-paste porcelain in Great Britain?
Did you knowthat the Turkish tanbur is one of the four musical instruments that make up Turkish classical music 's basic quartet ?
Did you knowthat Otto van Veen was Peter Paul Rubens ' first master , but is now best known for his emblem books ?
Did you knowthat two separate newspapers called the Western Mail have been published in Perth, Western Australia , the first from 1885 to 1955 and the second from 1980 to 1988?
Did you knowthat Władysław Orkan , a Podhale Polish writer and poet of the Young Poland movement, never passed his matura exams?
Did you knowthat Conor McPherson 's The Weir was performed on Broadway in 1998, less than a year after its original opening at The Royal Court Theatre in London ?
Did you knowthat Judge Henry F. Werker ' s rejection of unfair labor practice charges against baseball owners preceded the two-month 1981 Major League Baseball strike , even though his opinion ended by urging the parties to "PLAY BALL"?
Did you knowthat the non-fiction book The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions analyzes cults from an evangelical Christian perspective?
Did you knowthat the name of the Cheers episode The Gift of the Woodi is a reference to O. Henry 's short story The Gift of the Magi ?
Did you knowthat the first Azerbaijani language newspaper , Akinchi was founded in 1875 by Hasan bey Zardabi ?
Did you knowthat Job Charnock landed at Sutanuti on 24 August , 1690 with the objective of establishing the settlement, which is now Calcutta ?
Did you knowthat Lieutenant Peter Bover , whose shooting of a Royal Navy sailor sparked the Nore mutiny of 1797, was exonerated by the mutineers and cheered on returning to his ship?
Did you knowthat the summer 1944 Lublin-Brest Offensive of Soviet Army succeeded in bringing the Soviets to the vicinity of Warsaw , where the Warsaw Uprising began?
Did you knowthat modern nursing was founded by Florence Nightingale at the Selimiye Barracks in Istanbul , Turkey during the Crimean War (1854-1856)?
Did you knowthat the Gideon H. Pond House was built by Gideon Pond , who came to Minnesota to teach farming and Christianity to the Native Americans ?
Did you knowthat the Kipawa River in Quebec , Canada , is being considered for hydroelectric development which would completely divert it?
Did you knowthat Randy Gumpert first pitched for the New York Yankees in 1946, even though it had been eight years since he was on a major league roster?
Did you knowthat consumer protection law in the United Kingdom incorporates directives from the European Union ?
Did you knowthat the Brothers Grimm were amongst the Göttingen Seven , university teachers who protested changes to the constitution of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1837 ?
Did you knowthat when the RMS Titanic was built in Belfast in 1912, the largest shipyard in the world was in Belfast ?
Did you knowthat Vortex I , which took place in Oregon in 1970, remains the only state-sponsored rock festival in United States history?
Did you knowthat Colombian National Police Sub-Intendant John Frank Pinchao was kidnapped by the FARC guerrillas for almost 9 years, until finally escaping in 2007 ?
Did you knowthat a 1973 book on Prem Rawat , Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji? , featured an introduction by American anti- Vietnam War activist Rennie Davis ?
Did you knowthat the satirical magazine The Georgetown Heckler changed its name from The Georgetown Lampoon after being threatened with a lawsuit by the Harvard Lampoon ?
Did you knowthat British architect Sir Colin Wilson , known for designing the new British Library near St Pancras station , donated his collection of modern art to the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester ?
Did you knowthat in the Roman Empire , ten-year celebrations called " decennalia " originated after Augustus refused the lifetime supremacy offered to him?
Did you knowthat although it was not particularly well-known  in Bulgaria until the late 19th century, today Bulgarian beer is one of the country's most popular alcoholic beverages ?
Did you knowthat the Duke of Wellington had not seen Kitty Pakenham for ten years when he proposed marriage to her in 1806?
Did you knowthat the Northeastern United States was struck by a major tornado outbreak on July 10 , 1989 ?
Did you knowthat, like Aphrodite bathing in the sea at Paphos , Hera too renewed her maidenhood annually, in the spring of Kanathos ?
Did you knowthat nutritionist-turned-molecular biologist Thomas H. Jukes was one of the few scientists ever to have a regular column in the journal Nature ?
Did you knowthat John J. Clague won the Logan Medal , the highest award of the Geological Association of Canada , in 2007?
Did you knowthat 5-HT 3 antagonists , effective for treating the nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy , have no effect on motion sickness ?
Did you knowthat the fifth-century Syriac Curetonian Gospels found in Egypt represent a considerably older, independent textual tradition of the four gospels ?
Did you knowthat alpine skier Jean Saubert won one-third of all medals earned by the entire United States Olympic team at the 1964 Winter Olympics ?
Did you knowthat Californian politician Lou Papan received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1996?
Did you knowthat Romulus Whitaker won the Whitley Award for establishing a rainforest research station at Agumbe , India to conserve King Cobras ?
Did you knowthat the House of Gediminas ruled Lithuania from 1285 to 1572?
Did you knowthat Betty Roberts was the first woman to serve on Oregon's Supreme Court ?
Did you knowthat Swearing on the Horns is a Highgate pub tradition that dates back to the 1600s?
Did you knowthat the autobiography of Italian sculptor Raffaello da Montelupo contains the only known contemporary reference to Michelangelo 's natural left-handedness ?
Did you knowthat the Rusty-barred Owl is one of the only two members of the Strix genus of birds to be found in South America ?
Did you knowthat William Moore was the earliest settler of Skagway , the famous gold rush town in the Klondike Gold Rush ?
Did you knowthat the European fascist alliance New European Order split in 1955 due to a dispute over the issue of whether South Tyrol should be Italian or Austrian ?
Did you knowthat at least 36 vases painted by the Athenian Meidias Painter are still in existence more than 2,400 years after they were created?
Did you knowthat Mary Brunner , a member of the " Manson family", was incarcerated after a shootout with police at a robbery?
Did you knowthat Irish writer and trade unionist Brian Behan once took part in a swearing match at the British Museum ?
Did you knowthat unemployment protection in Italy is guaranteed by Italy 's constitution ?
Did you knowthat Superman stops a mad scientist and his army of robots in the 1941 animated short film The Mechanical Monsters ?
Did you knowthat Saskatchewan Highway 58 travels the Missouri Coteau to an important shore bird site on Canada 's second largest saline lake ?
Did you knowthat the Jesus Army , a British Christian outreach organisation, has been condemned by the Cult Information Centre , another British charity ?
Did you knowthat 13 rioters convicted by a jury of their peers were later pardoned for their actions in the Muncy Abolition Riot of 1842 ?
Did you knowthat British art historian Sir Oliver Nicholas Millar GCVO served in the Royal Household for 41 years, becoming the first Director of the Royal Collection in 1987?
Did you knowthat Robert S. Vance was the third American federal judge to be assassinated as the result of his judicial service?
Did you knowthat over four hundred 4000-year-old carved stone balls have been uncovered in archaeological digs in Scotland ?
Did you knowthat the Judaic legal fiction of Prozbul protects both the poor and wealthy from the effects of the Sabbatical Year ?
Did you knowthat Sammy Ellis won 22 games and made the All-Star team for the Cincinnati Reds in 1965 despite allowing the most Earned Runs in the league?
Did you knowthat the 1912 comic strip Polly and Her Pals by Cliff Sterrett was the first American strip to have a female protagonist ?
Did you knowthat the New York Giants of the NFL won the first Super Bowl in their franchise history during their 1986 season ?
Did you knowthat bread and beer were the two basic staples of Ancient Egyptian cuisine ?
Did you knowthat the first computer simulations of galaxy mergers were conducted by Alar Toomre in the 1970s?
Did you knowthat Crotalus tigris has the highest toxicity of venoms among rattlesnakes , even though it has a low venom yield?
Did you knowthat German -born Richard Lieber started the trend of American state parks having inns and charging fees for using the parks, so that citizens would appreciate them more?
Did you knowthat BBC radio presenter Margaret Hubble presented Woman's Hour alongside Marjorie Anderson and Jean Metcalfe in the 1950s?
Did you knowthat major portions of Japanese writer Shōko Ieda ' s 1991 book Yellow Cab , about the eponymous sexual stereotype of Japanese women , were later denounced as "fraudulent" by her research assistant?
Did you knowthat Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia was exiled for life, after marrying a commoner of black ancestry?
Did you knowthat the 1942 animated short film Japoteurs features a scene similar to the one in Superman Returns in which Superman catches an airplane in mid-air?
Did you knowthat Beechy, Saskatchewan , despite only having a population of 243, is home to former provincial Leader of the Opposition and Saskatchewan Party founder Elwin Hermanson ?
Did you knowthat the story of Kamsa and Bar Kamsa is the most famous Jewish legend regarding the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem ?
Did you knowthat the Kraków szopka is a unique Polish Christmas tradition that portrays artistic interpretations of buildings of Kraków along nativity scenes ?
Did you knowthat the biggest walk-through aviary in India is located on the shore of the Karanji Lake in Mysore ?
Did you knowthat Shinozaki Mamoru was credited as the "Japanese Schindler " for saving thousands of Chinese and Eurasians during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore ?
Did you knowthat the Romanian poet Mehmet Niyazi , a major figure in Crimean Tatar literature, was expelled from Crimea three times during his lifetime?
Did you knowthat the Defense Production Administration , a branch of the U.S. government set up to oversee defense production during wartime mobilization , was abolished after only two years?
Did you knowthat the Center Region of Argentina produces 90% of the country's vegetable oil ?
Did you knowthat John Vesey , a 16th-century bishop of Exeter , had a fordkeeper's cottage built along Plants Brook to help provide security for travelers on the Wylde Green Road?
Did you knowthat Pokey Allen , former head coach of the Portland State Vikings football team, appeared in television commercials threatening to have himself shot out of a cannon into the backyards of anyone not buying season tickets?
Did you knowthat after an ultimatum by the Chicago White Stockings to pull his African American players from the active roster , baseball manager Charlie Morton put Moses Fleetwood Walker back on despite having given him time off for injuries?
Did you knowthat Isaac Ironside , a politician in Sheffield , attempted to implement ideas originating from Robert Owen and from Toulmin Smith 's localist theories?
Did you knowthat some of the disused railway stations between Plymouth in Devon and Penzance in Cornwall , England , were closed during the " Beeching Axe " in the 1960s?
Did you knowthat from 1950 to 1953 , the Office of Defense Mobilization was one of the most powerful agencies in the U.S. , controlling almost every facet of the economy?
Did you knowthat Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard created a belief system regarding sexual activity ?
Did you knowthat American thoroughbred race horse Little Current received the 1974 Eclipse Award for Outstanding 3-Year-Old Male Horse despite having his racing career ended mid-season by a bone chip in his leg?
Did you knowthat chief justice Frederick Richard Jordan once decided that the government of New South Wales had "no business" refusing a water irrigation licence just because the applicant was Italian ?
Did you knowthat Bertie Smalls , considered by many as Britain 's first supergrass , avoided jail by informing on his partners-in-crime, despite having led them in an armed bank robbery ?
Did you knowthat the non-fiction book All Gods Children was cited by a report of the American Psychiatric Association , to describe coercive persuasion ?
Did you knowthat Georgian theatre director Kote Marjanishvili 's use of puppetry in his adaptation of Oedipus Rex was inspired by a similar set-up in Edward Gordon Craig 's 1911 adaptation of Hamlet ?
Did you knowthat John Constable did full-size oil sketches before starting all his largest "six-footer" paintings?
Did you knowthat many abandoned flour mills in Mills District, Minneapolis have been converted to museums, parks, theaters, and condominiums ?
Did you knowthat in the Indian Gaarudi Gombe ceremonial dance , dancers are required to wear full-body doll-suits made of bamboo sticks?
Did you knowthat at the age of 70, former English Football League and international soccer referee Pat Partridge took over as linesman in a non-league match he was watching, after the original linesman took over from the injured referee?
Did you knowthat Cameroon 's Western High Plateau has a rainy season that lasts nine months?
Did you knowthat a tiger-haunted jungle was cleared to make way for the wide grassy stretch of the Maidan park of Kolkata ?
Did you knowthat " Anytime You Need " was the first Eurovision Song Contest entry to feature lyrics in Armenian ?
Did you knowthat an average of 90,000 people a month walk, jog, cycle or skate along Florida 's Pinellas Trail ?
Did you knowthat John Martin Scripps was the first Briton in Singapore to be sentenced to death by hanging ?
Did you knowthat the 2800 verses of the Mohanatarangini make it the longest work by Kanaka Dasa , a 16th century saint and one of the foremost names in Kannada literature?
Did you knowthat the ethnically-fueled 1989 Sukhumi riots in the Soviet Union 's Abkhaz ASSR left eighteen dead and almost 450 injured?
Did you knowthat Christopher Buckley 's novel Florence of Arabia was an homage to Fern Holland , one of the first U.S. civilians to be killed in the Iraq War ?
Did you knowthat the Imperial Russian statesman and sociologist Paul von Lilienfeld laid out his theories on organicism when he served as the governor of Courland ?
Did you knowthat the Gaussian Network Model has a wide range of applications from enzymes composed of a single domain , to large macromolecular assemblies , such as ribosomes and viral capsids ?
Did you knowthat Rotylenchulus reniformis , a roundworm found in tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world, is a major parasite of crop plants ?
Did you knowthat Robert Harrill , ironically known as the " Fort Fisher Hermit," received thousands of visitors per year and was once the second most popular tourist attraction in North Carolina ?
Did you knowthat American evolutionary biologist Jack Lester King co-authored a provocative 1969 paper, "Non-Darwinian Evolution", on the neutral theory of molecular evolution ?
Did you knowthat, while the first model of the Atar Volant series was a simple turbojet engine, the third model was a proper coleopter , an aircraft with an annular wing that is able to land and take-off vertically without need of a runway?
Did you knowthat the Defense Production Act played a vital role in the establishment of the American domestic aluminum and titanium processing industries in the 1950s?
Did you knowthat Himalayan Hemlock ( Tsuga dumosa ) was first brought into the United Kingdom in 1838?
Did you knowthat the Hukou F-5F crash in May 2007 involved an F-5/F jet fighter hitting a military base in Taiwan while simulating a low attack, killing four people?
Did you knowthat Joseph Schröter , a 19th century Prussian military doctor , was a noted mycologist who discovered and described many previously unknown species of flora and fungi ?
Did you knowthat Alessandro Striggio 's influential Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno will be performed in June 2007 after being lost for more than 400 years?
Did you knowthat Irish cricketer Scott Huey was the last bowler to dismiss Sir Len Hutton in first-class cricket ?
Did you knowthat Australian author Ion Idriess wrote an average of one book every ten months for 42 years?
Did you knowthat the Haberbusch i Schiele company provided food for the entire city of Warsaw during the Uprising of 1944 ?
Did you knowthat the spring of the Hell-Bourg village spa on Réunion started to fail around 1920, but an attempt to reopen it with dynamite caused the partial destruction of the spa, while the spring was later buried by a landslide?
Did you knowthat the Marcab Confederacy was said by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard to be one of the most powerful galactic civilizations?
Did you knowthat with the publication of Deepnirban in 1876, Swarnakumari Devi became the first woman novelist amongst the Bengali people ?
Did you knowthat the non-fiction book Cults: Faith, Healing and Coercion is cited in the definition of Cults , by the American Psychological Association 's Encyclopedia of Psychology ?
Did you knowthat Polish composer Roman Palester 's involvement with Radio Free Europe in the early 1950s led to communist officials expunging his name from official publications and prohibiting performances of his work?
Did you knowthat Reid Stowe and Soanya Ahmad are attempting to circle the globe multiple times in a 1,000-day, non-stop voyage in a gaff-rigged schooner designed and built by Stowe?
Did you knowthat Clemente Micara was the Vatican ’s first envoy to Czechoslovakia ?
Did you knowthat Estonian nationalist Aili Jõgi , aged 14,  blew up the wooden memorial that preceded the Bronze Soldier in Tallinn in 1946?
Did you knowthat in the 1984 Brown v. Hotel and Restaurant Employees case, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a New Jersey gaming law requiring union leaders to be of good moral character?
Did you knowthat Frederick Bligh Bond enlisted the help of a number of spiritualist mediums to guide his excavations at Glastonbury Abbey ?
Did you knowthat the Six Feet Under episode The Plan has been described as a parody of Werner Erhard 's est and The Forum personal development programs?
Did you knowthat Iowa Stars centre Aaron Gagnon twice lost out on a Western Hockey League award to the Medicine Hat Tigers ' Kris Russell before finally winning an award of his own?
Did you knowthat NFL hall of famer Bud Grant and MLB hall of famer Dave Winfield both played for the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team?
Did you knowthat the land of Haydarpaşa Cemetery , a burial ground in Istanbul , Turkey for British Commonwealth soldiers from three wars, belonged to Suleiman the Magnificent ?
Did you knowthat heavyweight boxer Joe Baksi recorded nine victories in his first year as a professional, including one over future actor Jack Palance ?
Did you knowthat Marie de France 's poem " Chevrefoil ", one of the 12 Lais of Marie de France , recounts an episode from the legend of Tristan and Iseult ?
Did you knowthat the linenfold style of relief carving , popular in Northern Europe from the 14th to 16th centuries, could be made with little carpentry skill and was mass produced in workshops from the later 15th century?
Did you knowthat the once-buried remains of a power canal and flour mills in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota have been unearthed and are now open as Mill Ruins Park to provide historical interpretation in the area?
Did you knowthat the World of Final Fantasy VIII is the second in the Final Fantasy series of console role-playing games to include pre-rendered backgrounds?
Did you knowthat in Greek mythology , Heracles chased off the man-eating birds of Lake Stymphalia by playing castanet -like clappers called " crotala "?
Did you knowthat Tomorrow's Pioneers is a television program for children produced by Hamas ?