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Did you knowthat underwater panthers were creatures appearing in the mythology of a number of Native American traditions, which combined the features of mountain lions or lynx with those of snakes , and were believed to inhabit the deepest parts of lakes and rivers?
Did you knowthat the dinosaur Lufengosaurus , whose remains were found in China , was the first dinosaur to appear on a commemorative postage stamp , in 1958?
Did you knowthat, as a result of track switchbacks on either side of a mountain pass, all trains of the Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad crossed over the U.S. continental divide running backwards?
Did you knowthat Wayne Boden , a Canadian serial killer and rapist , was the first man to be convicted with the help of forensic odontological evidence in North America ?
Did you knowthat Red Man , one of the leading U.S. brands of chewing tobacco , has been especially successful in marketing itself with rural sporting events?
Did you knowthat Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty was an Indian meteorologist who was a pioneer of remote sensing technologies in India ?
Did you knowthat Eric Schopler's research into autism led to the foundation of the TEACCH program?
Did you knowthat The Boke of Chyldren by Thomas Phaire , published in 1545, was the first book on paediatrics written in the English language ?
Did you knowthat Philippe de Montebello , Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York , is famous for his heavy French accent and even gives readings of French poetry at the museum?
Did you knowthat Pachirisu is a fictitious Electric Squirrel Pokémon that can shock opponents?
Did you knowthat Egushawa , principal chief of the Ottawas , was one of the most influential Native Americans of the Great Lakes region in the late eighteenth century?
Did you knowthat the COMILOG Cableway , built to transport manganese ore mined in Gabon , was the world's longest cable car at over 75 km ?
Did you knowthat U.S. Army General James Harbord , who commanded the United States Marine Corps ' 4th Marine Brigade at the Battle of Belleau Wood during World War I ,  was President of RCA in the 1920s when it formed NBC and RKO Pictures ?
Did you knowthat " Everybody Knows ", a song by Leonard Cohen and collaborator Sharon Robinson was described as a "bleak prophecy about the end of the world as we know it"?
Did you knowthat Raymond Monvoisin was a French painter and Legion of Honor recipient invited by the Chilean government to establish an Academy of Painting in Santiago , and who also dabbled in mining and ranching?
Did you knowthat Onesimos Nesib , who translated the Bible into Oromo , was accused of blasphemy for delivering sermons in his native language and not Amharic , the language of the local Orthodox priests?
Did you knowthat, according to Guinness World Records , carbon subnitride burns with the hottest flame of any chemical, at 5260 K (4987 °C, 9008 °F)?
Did you knowthat Roy Smeck ' s virtuoso ukulele performance in the 1926 sound film "His Pastimes" sealed his reputation as "Wizard of the Strings"?
Did you knowthat the Christii fly primarily lives under the bark of smaller branches and twigs of dead aspen trees?
Did you knowthat Russian poet and dissident Vadim Delaunay was a descendant of the last governor of the Bastille , marquis Bernard-René de Launay ?
Did you knowthat the Banksia series Spicigerae is a taxonomic series of Banksia characterized by cylindrical inflorescences ?
Did you knowthat South African trade union legislation uses the term " conscientious objector " to refer to workers who do not want to join unions on the basis of personal beliefs?
Did you knowthat Drei Chinesen mit dem Kontrabass is one of the most popular German children's songs?
Did you knowthat in 1935, English cricketer Betty Snowball scored 189 runs against New Zealand in the fourth ever women's Test match , setting a world record that was not beaten for over 50 years?
Did you knowthat during the Beslan school hostage crisis 74-year-old school teacher Yanis Kanidis refused to leave his students and ultimately died to save their lives?
Did you knowthat the Christmas carol " Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella " was originally written as dance music for French nobility ?
Did you know that Lost and Found in Translation , an episode of Power Rangers: Dino Thunder , marks the first use of footage of Japanese Super Sentai actors in a Power Rangers series?
Did you knowthat on arrival at Buckingham Palace , all 3,000 guests to the Children's Party at the Palace received a hamper with snacks put together by Jamie Oliver ?
Did you knowthat Nicole Manske of Speed Channel and auto racer Danica Patrick were on the same cheerleading squad at their high school in Rockton, Illinois ?
Did you knowthat Margherita Gonzaga d'Este ran her own balletto delle donne in the late 16th century, comprised entirely of women who frequently cross-dressed ?
Did you knowthat Hispanics have participated in every conflict in which the United States has been involved, and over forty Hispanics have been awarded the Medal of Honor ?
Did you knowthat Other Songs , an award winning novel by Jacek Dukaj , a Polish science fiction writer, describes a unique world in which the ideas of Aristotle and Hegel replace the laws of physics ?
Did you knowthat Olympic pair skating champions Andrée Brunet and Pierre Brunet refused to defend their title at the 1936 Winter Olympics because Nazi Germany was hosting the Games?
Did you knowthat SS Rajputana , a P&O liner traveling between Plymouth , England and Lahore , British India , was converted into a cruiser and eventually sunk by a German U-boat west of Iceland ?
Did you knowthat at the end of his 13-match first class cricket career, John Howarth had a batting average of 0.00,  setting a new world record and leading to him being dubbed one of cricket's worst batsmen ?
Did you knowthat although the presence of Armenians in Bulgaria dates to the Early Middle Ages , their large-scale emigration to the country only began in the 19th century?
Did you knowthat P57 , a steroidal glycoside isolated from the African cactiform Hoodia gordonii , is believed to be the active chemical constituent responsible for the appetite suppressant activity of Hoodia extracts?
Did you knowthat some historians claim that Russian engineer Fyodor Pirotsky built the world's first electric tramway ?
Did you knowthat in 2003 Erin Crocker became the first woman to qualify for the Knoxville Nationals sprint car race?
Did you knowthat in the Battle of Węgierska Górka , four unfinished and undermanned Polish bunkers held out against an assault of an entire German division for two days and two nights?
Did you knowthat British paediatrician June Lloyd, Baroness Lloyd of Highbury is commemorated in the coat of arms of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health , as a supporter holding a staff of Aesculapius entwined with a double helix rather than the traditional snake ?
Did you knowthat the Bangladesh Nazrul Sena , founded upon the philosophy of Kazi Nazrul Islam , pioneered the introduction of computer science and multimedia education for children at the kindergarten level in Bangladesh ?
Did you knowthat the pellets regurgitated by some predatory bird species have been found to contain bird bands once attached to their prey?
Did you know that the WWE Video Library has an archive of over 75,000 hours of footage dating back more than fifty years, representing a very significant portion of the visual history of modern professional wrestling ?
Did you know that Luís Alves de Lima e Silva was a Brazilian military hero praised for his victories in the War of the Triple Alliance , and that his birthday is celebrated annually as Dia do Soldado ?
Did you knowthat in 1883, Southern Pacific Railroad tried to block the California Southern Railroad from installing a level junction across their tracks in Colton, California , by moving a locomotive slowly back and forth at the intersection point?
Did you knowthat after Harry Ashmore won the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus vetoed a resolution to rename Toad Suck Ferry to Ashmore Landing on the grounds that the name change would defame a well known landing?
Did you knowthat the fish Echiodon rendahli has a portion of its intestine protruding from its belly, so that while living inside sponges it can defecate outside its shelter without being exposed to outside dangers?
Did you knowthat Ogyu Sorai is considered to be one of the most influential Confucian philosophers in Japan during the Tokugawa period ?
Did you knowthat there is a pattern to the names of the class of medications called " monoclonal antibodies "?
Did you knowthat there have been at least fifteen deaths at the Welsh cave Porth yr Ogof in the last twenty years, all but one in the seven- metre -deep Resurgance Pool?
Did you knowthat in musique mesurée Renaissance composers attempted to bring back the musical traditions of Ancient Greece through the use of ancient meters and musical modes ?
Did you knowthat by using measurements of the flux of solar neutrinos within the framework of the Standard Solar Model physicists have estimated the temperature of the core of the sun to within 1%?
Did you knowthat Texas produces the most helium in the United States , all of which is won from the Cliffside gas field near Amarillo ?
Did you knowthat the 144 km long Salso River , named for its saline content, is the longest river in Sicily ?
Did you knowthat the CornerShot is a gun that can shoot around corners?
Did you knowthat the American Meat Institute and the Federal Meat Inspection Act celebrate their hundredth anniversary this year?
Did you knowthat The Mystery of Al Capone's Vault was a live television special in which Al Capone 's secret vault was opened and shown to only contain a bottle of moonshine ?
Did you knowthat Piotr Włostowic , a 12th century voivode of the Kingdom of Poland , managed to break the alliance between Władysław II the Exile and Rus' princes while blinded, muted and exiled?
Did you knowthat the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange , New Jersey , is the only zoo in the world that has a pair of Malaysian "black dragon" monitor lizards on display?
Did you knowthat the Worek Plan , a submarine operation by the Polish Navy in the early days of the Polish September Campaign , was a failure as the submarines did not manage to sink a single German vessel ?
Did you knowthat the Kiev tram was the first electric tramway in the Russian Empire , and the second one in Europe , after the Berlin Straßenbahn ?
Did you knowthat Saint Gilbert of Dornoch was the last Scot to appear in the Calendar of Saints ?
Did you knowthat the number of Jewish partisans during World War II exceeded 20,000?
Did you knowthat Russian composer Boris Sobinov was abducted from the Berlin American Zone by the NKVD and condemned to ten years in prison in the Soviet Union ?
Did you knowthat Wogan Philipps was the only member of the Communist Party of Great Britain to sit in the House of Lords ?
Did you knowthat prior to the 1916 college football season, John R. Bender and Hall-of-Famer Zora G. Clevenger in effect traded jobs as head coach at Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee ?
Did you knowthat Ash Lawn-Highland , the former home of U.S. President James Monroe , has been transformed into a 535- acre working farm , museum , and site for the performing arts ?
Did you knowthat the Chamber of Nationalities is a now-defunct chamber of the bicameral parliament of Myanmar ?
Did you knowthat Yuktibhasa , written by Indian astronomer Jyeshtadeva , is considered to be the first mathematical treatise on calculus ?
Did you knowthat the satirical German radio programme The Gerd Show reached no. 1 in Germany's 2002 Christmas single charts with a parody of " The Ketchup Song " which attacked Gerhard Schröder 's tax policies?
Did you knowthat the River Banksia ( Banksia seminuda ) was originally considered a subspecies of the Swamp Banksia ( Banksia littoralis ), as they share many similar characteristics?
Did you knowthat homes in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Beverly Park average 20,000-30,000 ft² , and that the homeowners association requires all dwellings to be larger than 5,000 ft²?
Did you knowthat the Grodno Sejm of 1793, the last Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , passed the Second Partition of Poland with deputies bribed or coerced by the Russian Empire 's army?
Did you know that That Summer Day is the first television drama for children about the bombings of the London public transport system on July 7 , 2005 ?
Did you knowthat the Florida mangroves are vital to an estimated 75 percent of the game fish and 90 percent of the commercial fish species in South Florida ?
Did you knowthat openly gay novelist Gordon Merrick ' s book The Lord Won't Mind spent 16 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list in 1970 , at a time when most authors would not write about homosexual themes for a mass audience?
Did you knowthat there is a long history of animals in sport , ranging from common horse racing and fox hunting events to the more unusual rabbit show jumping and camel wrestling competitions?
Did you knowthat the T-18 tank , first produced in 1928, was the first tank designed and built in the Soviet Union , and that its design was based on the French Renault FT-17 of the First World War ?
Did you knowthat the Palmeral of Elche is the largest plantation of palm trees in Europe, with date palms covering over 3.5 square kilometres in and around the Spanish city of Elche ?
Did you knowthat loans made by Seattle brothel -owner Lou Graham saved some of the city's most prestigious families from bankruptcy after the Panic of 1893 ?
Did you knowthat composer Veniamin Fleishman was killed early in WWII before he could complete his opera Rothschild's Violin , but that his teacher Dmitri Shostakovich rescued his sketches from besieged Leningrad , and completed the opera?
Did you knowthat the Directive Principles in India , which are guidelines for the government while framing laws and policies , were inspired by the Irish nationalist movement ?
Did you know that William T. Perkins, Jr. , a United States Marine who covered an exploding hand grenade with his body, is the only combat photographer to be awarded the Medal of Honor ?
Did you knowthat the starting point for the History of Australia is usually taken to be the first undisputed sighting of Australia by the Dutch in 1606, although many researchers alleged that other sightings took place a hundred years earlier?
Did you knowthat administrative law in mainland China has been used unsuccessfully by Chinese dissidents to sue the Communist Party of China ?
Did you knowthat Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman , elected the first Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in 2006, was the first woman to give birth while serving as a British Member of Parliament in the 1970s, and is reported to have been the first woman to breast feed at the Palace of Westminster ?
Did you knowthat the Esopus Wars led to the creation of the boundaries of Native American lands in 17th century New York ?
Did you knowthat the Polaris Music Prize is awarded annually to the best Canadian album , regardless of genre, sales, or record label?
Did you knowthat Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge supports the largest surviving population of the endangered Fender's blue Butterfly which feeds upon the threatened Kincaid's lupine ?
Did you knowthat Thai boxer Pongsaklek Wonjongkam holds the flyweight division records for fastest knockout (34 seconds) and consecutive title defenses (15)?
Did you knowthat rainwater tanks may be made from polyethylene , concrete , or galvanised steel , but not from clear plastic, because it would allow in sunlight, leading to algal blooms?
Did you knowthat the Abbey of Fontenay , near Dijon in France , was founded by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in 1118 and is one of the oldest and most complete Cistercian abbeys in Europe ?
Did you knowthat the Canadian judicial decision Re Burley (1865), was made in colonial times, and is still cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in extradition cases over a century later?
Did you knowthat the Presidential office of India operates from The Retreat at Mashobra in Himachal Pradesh , India at least once every year?
Did you knowthat, in 2007, Joyland Amusement Park plans to install The Greezed Lightnin' , a Schwarzkopf Shuttle Looper purchased from Astroworld in Houston, Texas ?
Did you know that French poet and novelist Louis Pergaud was a pacifist who was killed in action during World War I in 1915 ?
Did you knowthat the alloy hepatizon was highly valuable in classical antiquity , and was named due to its similarity to the colour of liver ?
Did you knowthat the first performance of Glinka 's opera A Life for the Tsar ( 1836 ) was conducted by Catterino Cavos , who composed an opera on the same subject 20 years before Glinka?
Did you knowthat " Hippias Major ", one of Plato 's dialogues dating back to the 4th century BCE , employed the plot device we now refer to as a " cliffhanger "?
Did you knowthat The Entrance Bridge was the site of a 1955 accident when the Number 11 Red Bus 's brakes failed, whereupon it crashed through a wooden retaining wall and landed in The Entrance Channel ?
Did you knowthat Austrian figure skater Herma Szabo practiced on the first artificial ice rink ever made, and went on to win five world championships ?
Did you knowthat the Oklahoma Aquarium has the world's largest collection of antique fishing tackle, with over 20,000 pieces?
Did you knowthat the Treaty of Viterbo transferred power over the Latin Empire from the last reigning monarch to the Angevin rulers of Sicily ?
Did you knowthat Perfect Imperfection , a 2004 science fiction novel by Polish writer Jacek Dukaj , raises the issues of technological singularity , transhumanism and the anthropic principle , and presents a unique model of human evolution ?
Did you knowthat Torre HSBC , home of the headquarters of HSBC Mexico , is expected to become the first building in Latin America to receive a LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council ?
Did you knowthat Saco Bay on the Maine coast was named in 1525 by the Spanish cartographer Esteban Gómez for the resemblance of its southern pool to the outline of a sack ?
Did you knowthat Information International, Inc. (Triple-I) used the Super Foonly , the world's fastest PDP-10 , to render 3D animation for the 1982 film Tron ?
Did you knowthat in the early 1900s, the Spruce Flats Bog in Forbes State Forest , Pennsylvania underwent a forced reversal from forest to bog, and is now slowly returning to a forest?
Did you knowthat U.S. diplomat Norman Armour disguised himself as a Norwegian courier to help a Russian princess —his future wife—escape the country after the collapse of the Russian Empire ?
Did you knowthat parasocial interaction is a one-sided social relationship between the audience and the performers ?
Did you knowthat Japanese designer Kenzo Takada developed his love for fashion by reading his sisters' magazines as a child?
Did you knowthat during the German occupation of Luxembourg in World War I , over 1% of the Luxembourgian population died fighting for France , even though Luxembourg remained officially neutral ?
Did you knowthat in 1908 Nikolai Panin became Russia 's first Olympic champion by winning the figure skating special figures event, the only year in which it was an Olympic event?
Did you knowthat student development theories are tools used by scholars and teachers in understanding how students gain knowledge ?
Did you knowthat the Pernambucan Revolt of 1817 was a conflict to establish independence for the current Brazilian state of Pernambuco from Portugal ?
Did you knowthat West Liberty Foods provides Subway restaurant franchises with over one million pounds of meat per week?
Did you knowthat Henryk Iwański , member of Armia Krajowa Polish resistance in WWII , commanded several incursions into the Warsaw Ghetto in support of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters ?
Did you knowthat Lord Neaves , a judge on the supreme court of Scotland , was quoted by Darwin on evolution , but attributed the concept of evolution to Lord Monboddo , not Darwin ?
Did you knowthat Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens created the album Flamenco A Go-Go after seeing flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía play live, and that the album spans many genres including dance , flamenco , blues and rock ?
Did you knowthat several months after Vasili III of Russia divorced his wife, Solomonia Saburova , on account of her barrenness, she is believed to have given birth to a son, who became the Cossack robber Kudeyar ?
Did you knowthat, in the 1970s, Peter Rawlinson was expected to become the first Roman Catholic Lord Chancellor since Thomas More in 1532?
Did you knowthat hollowed-out books have been used in bombings , for smuggling , and for covertly photographing people?
Did you knowthat Celia Rosser , Australian botanical illustrator has the Banksia species Banksia rosserae and the cultivar Banksia canei 'Celia Rosser'  named in her honour?
Did you knowthat both Denmark and Spain have plans to change their succession laws from male primogeniture to equal primogeniture, leaving Luxembourg and the United Kingdom as the only monarchies in the European Union not to have equal primogeniture?
Did you knowthat a Navy shower is a method of showering that conserves both water and energy?
Did you knowthat the highest scoring word in Scrabble is OXYPHENBUTAZONE , which uses a bingo , and can theoretically score 1778 in one go?
Did you knowthat the rulers of Yogyakarta brought female bedhaya dancers with them into battle?
Did you knowthat Michał Boym was one of the first Westerners to explore China and an author of many scholarly publications about the Far East ?
Did you knowthat the Confederation of the Equator was a short-lived state established in northeastern Brazil during her struggle for independence from Portugal ?
Did you knowthat there have been several proposals for space advertising projects, including a giant, 1km² billboard visible from Earth ?
Did you knowthat during the Battle of Beecher Island in 1868, 51 U.S. soldiers held out against some 700 Arapaho Indians and their allies for 9 days, surviving on nothing but muddy water and meat from their own fallen horses?
Did you knowthat the New Shepard is a commercial space tourism vehicle designed and assembled by Blue Origin which will start subscale flight testing in 2006?
Did you know that NASCAR driver-turned-broadcaster Phil Parsons is the (16 years) younger brother of 1973 Winston Cup champion Benny Parsons ?
Did you knowthat the Palace of Tau in Reims , France , is named after its shape, which resembles the letter T ( tau , in the Greek alphabet )?
Did you knowthat Bennie Owen introduced the forward pass to the southwestern United States as head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners football team?
Did you knowthat an increasing number of countries are looking to regulate fast food advertising to try to reduce childhood obesity ?
Did you knowthat the symphony said to have been written in 1809 by Ukrainian landowner Mykola Ovsianiko-Kulikovsky was later proven to be a hoax ?
Did you knowthat a total of 19 tropical cyclones worldwide have been named Alice , making this one of the three most frequently used tropical cyclone names ?
Did you knowthat Anthony Marreco was Junior Counsel in the British Delegation at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg , and was later a founding director of Amnesty International ?
Did you knowthat Church Hill Tunnel in Richmond, Virginia contains a steam locomotive and ten flat cars trapped in a collapse in October 1925 which were never recovered?
Did you knowthat habitual con artist Amy Bock impersonated a man in early- 20th century New Zealand in order to marry and defraud her landlady's daughter?
Did you knowthat the isolated population of Citrine Forktails on the Azores is the only population of dragonflies anywhere in the world known to reproduce by parthenogenesis ?
Did you knowthat the Israeli entry for the 1987 Eurovision Shir Habatlanim , meaning The Bums' song led to a resignation threat by the Israeli culture minister?
Did you knowthat the Talbot Samba supermini car was the last Talbot passenger car ever made?