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Did you knowthat the 2007 main event World Series of Poker bracelet , awarded on July 17 , 2007 , is made with 136 grams of 18-carat white gold set with 120 diamonds?
Did you knowthat after seeing the documentary, S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine , former Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan was moved to admit the existence of the S-21 torture center in Phnom Penh after years of publicly denying it?
Did you knowthat the United States Army formed 106 tank destroyer battalions in World War II , all of which were disbanded by 1946?
Did you knowthat Besalú was an independent county from 988 to 1111, when Ramon Berenguer III inherited it, annexing it to the County of Barcelona ?
Did you knowthat the hostility of English alchemist Thomas Charnock ' s neighbours forced him to barricade himself in his cottage?
Did you knowthat the Shuguang spacecraft was designed by the People's Republic of China with the goal of achieving a manned space flight in 1973?
Did you knowthat the unimportance and consequent emptiness of Kalikata afforded the British room to settle there and establish Calcutta ?
Did you knowthat the 1993 film Heaven & Earth , directed by Oliver Stone , was  based on the life of the Global Village Foundation initiator Le Ly Hayslip , who had a cameo appearance in the film?
Did you knowthat Josephus's Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades is actually the work of Hippolytus of Rome , but was considered Josephus 's by his translator William Whiston ?
Did you knowthat the Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard ferry , Sankaty , set fire to the famous whaler Charles W. Morgan before being commissioned as a minelayer by the Royal Canadian Navy ?
Did you knowthat the Galaxy Zoo is an online astronomy project that allows members of the public to help classify previously unseen images of galaxies ?
Did you knowthat the Roman merchants who traded with ancient Tamil country , used the monsoon winds to reduce the travel time between Egypt and India to forty days?
Did you knowthat the San Rafael Wilderness was the first U.S. Primitive Area to be reclassified as wilderness after the passage of the 1964 Wilderness Act ?
Did you knowthat although in 1939 the Polish Army had an elaborate plan for defence against the Soviet invasion , it couldn't implement it when the invasion began due to being committed against an earlier German invasion ?
Did you knowthat William W. Powers State Recreation Area 's Wolf Lake co-hosted a BioBlitz by over 150 scientists who unofficially counted 1,815 species in a day?
Did you knowthat infanticide is committed by animals as diverse as gray langurs , pigs , jacanas and water bugs ?
Did you knowthat Union Army color bearer Thomas J. Higgins received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Vicksburg during the US Civil War at the request of his Confederate captors?
Did you knowthat the 1975 U.S. Supreme Court case NLRB v. J. Weingarten, Inc. allowed all workers in unionized workplaces to have a union representative present during management inquiries that might result in discipline?
Did you knowthat there is a 14 foot (4.3 m ) tall miniature Stick style house on the grounds of the Ellwood House in DeKalb, Illinois ?
Did you knowthat John Hill , former Texas Attorney General , was prominent in shutting down the Chicken Ranch known as the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ?
Did you knowthat the Christian Specht Building is the only existing building with a cast iron facade known in Nebraska today, and one of the few ever built there?
Did you knowthat in 1920 , KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first radio station to broadcast Major League Baseball on the radio ?
Did you knowthat Juliana Anicia commissioned the largest church of pre- Justinian Constantinople ?
Did you knowthat 18th century brothel-keeper Jane Douglas sold condoms in silken bags to her customers?
Did you knowthat the critically endangered totoaba , a member of the drum family which weighs up to 100 kg , is found only in the northern end of the Sea of Cortez ?
Did you knowthat nineteenth-century ventriloquist Alexandre Vattemare originally studied to be a physician, but was refused a diploma after making cadavers seem to speak during surgical exercises?
Did you knowthat the first chancellor of the University of Houston , Andrew Davis Bruce , was a former lieutenant general in the US Army and the founder of Fort Hood ?
Did you knowthat the first railway in Germany , the Bayerische Ludwigsbahn , was originally mostly horse-hauled because of the high cost of importing coal from Saxony ?
Did you knowthat Vanvoorstia bennettiana is the only protist on the IUCN 's Red List ?
Did you knowthat though musicologist Knud Jeppesen wrote that without voice crossing "no real polyphony is possible," many counterpoint exercises prohibit it?
Did you knowthat all of the publications of 17th century Milanese historian Gregorio Leti were listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ?
Did you knowthat during engineering work in 1979, the collapse of the Penmanshiel Tunnel severed the main railway line between London and Edinburgh for five months?
Did you knowthat the American neurophysiologist Ralph W. Gerard developed an intracellular recording microelectrode , that revolutionized research in neurobiology ?
Did you knowthat the architect Hans Price was responsible for the distinctive look of buildings in Weston-super-Mare , England , during the Victorian era ?
Did you knowthat the modern-day role of women in the Philippines is similar to their social status during pre-colonial times ?
Did you knowthat despite over a hundred years of scientific study, fierce debate still rages about how arthropods ' heads are constructed ?
Did you knowthat the Australian native Dagger Hakea is an effective plant for sheltering small birds such as the Superb Fairy-wren , especially in the natural landscaping style of gardening ?
Did you knowthat the Union Station in Omaha, Nebraska was the first Art Deco style train station in the United States ?
Did you knowthat besides taking the athletes' oath , Paul Aste also competed on the bobsleigh track that he designed for the 1964 Winter Olympics ?
Did you knowthat Charles Sargeant Jagger sculpted three World War I memorials, all in London ?
Did you knowthat John Little , established in 1845, is the oldest department store in Singapore ?
Did you knowthat General Ulysses S. Grant's Civil War dispatch boat Monohansett was a chartered Martha's Vineyard ferry?
Did you knowthat Pelton's Rose Gentian was recently discovered by a retired mechanic and is only found in a single county in Arkansas ?
Did you knowthat an unnamed hurricane in 1975 attained hurricane status further north than any other Pacific hurricane before dissipating near Alaska ?
Did you knowthat the Poker Players Alliance hired former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato to help overturn the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act that makes it illegal for financial institutes to deal with online gambling sites?
Did you knowthat Father Joseph Le Caron , the first European to see Lake Huron , also assisted at the first Catholic mass in Quebec and performed the first Christian marriage in Canada?
Did you knowthat the naval history of China goes back as far as the Spring and Autumn Period ( 722 BC - 481 BC )?
Did you knowthat English missionary Andrew White , the "Apostle of Maryland ", celebrated the first Catholic mass in the original Thirteen Colonies on March 25 , 1634 on St. Clement's Island ?
Did you knowthat those opposed to the construction of the Stroudwater Navigation used poetry to support their cause?
Did you knowthat fear of retaliatory terminations is a leading obstacle to union organizers in their efforts to unionize a workplace?
Did you knowthat the demolition of the Jobbers Canyon Historic District in Omaha, Nebraska represents the largest loss of buildings on the National Register of Historic Places to date?
Did you knowthat in three days of nearly non-stop negotiations, Nathan Feinsinger mediated an end to a 1947 pineapple workers' strike which threatened the entire Hawaiian economy?
Did you knowthat girls received the right to inherit the Danish throne as the result of a referendum in 1953?
Did you knowthat Marcin Dunin , primate of Poland , was once interned and arrested by the Prussian authorities?
Did you knowthat Anna Mae Winburn led the International Sweethearts of Rhythm , the only integrated, all-female big band of the 1940s?
Did you knowthat the first Baptist baptism in Ukraine took place in 1864 on the river Inhul of today's Kirovohrad Oblast ?
Did you knowthat the First cabinet Gerhardsen in 1945 featured the first female Norwegian Government minister , Kirsten Hansteen ?
Did you knowthat at the 25th CMA Music Festival in 1996, country music artist Garth Brooks signed autographs for 23 hours and 10 minutes without taking a single break?
Did you knowthat the Danish land laws referendum of 1963 is the only referendum in the history of Denmark to have been held by a minority of parliament ?
Did you knowthat the Israeli four-door Jeep Wrangler -based AIL Storm was produced before Jeep 's own model?
Did you knowthat the Mayfair Club , the real life underground gambling hall loosely depicted in the movie Rounders , was in the mid-80's the training grounds for five poker players who have since won 20 World Series of Poker titles?
Did you knowthat French Jesuit Pierre Nicolas d'Incarville introduced the Tree of Heaven ( Ailanthus altissima ) and Pagoda Tree ( Styphnolobium japonicum ) to Europe?
Did you knowthat Lorenzo M. Tañada was the longest-serving senator in Philippine history ?
Did you knowthat the Narasinganavar family residing in the Indian state of Karnataka is one of the largest undivided families in the world?
Did you knowthat the United States superhero film John Hancock went through four directors before succeeding in being made with director Peter Berg ?
Did you knowthat The New 7th Storey Hotel , a budget hotel catering to backpackers in Singapore , is actually nine storeys high and was the tallest building in the Beach Road area in the 1950s ?
Did you knowthat George W. Taylor assisted unions by mediating more than 2,000 strikes , but also helped draft New York 's Taylor Law —which banned strikes by public employees?
Did you knowthat Ossubtus xinguense is an endangered species of fish that has an unusual downturned mouth which gives the appearance of a beak ?
Did you knowthat Australian bishop Sydney James Kirkby , who presided at the synod to elect the successor of Archbishop John Charles Wright , actively worked to not be given the job himself?
Did you knowthat the wimple piranha is a specialized predator whose diet consists primarily of fish scales ?
Did you knowthat the Pali Lookout in Hawaii was originally the site of the bloody Battle of Nu'uanu , where 400 warriors were driven over a cliff by Kamehameha I ?
Did you knowthat the Hungarian-born Jew Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln was successively a Presbyterian missionary in Canada , a British Member of Parliament , an international double agent, a German right-wing politician, and a Buddhist abbot in China ?
Did you knowthat in a Danish referendum in 1916 64.2% of the voters were in favour of selling the Danish West Indian Islands to the United States ?
Did you knowthat despite only being eight inches tall, the Tiny Hawk , a raptor found throughout much of the central neotropics , successfully hunts hummingbirds ?
Did you knowthat Emma Crawford was described as "the principal benefactress" of the Anglican Diocese of Brisbane for her work in establishing several religious schools?
Did you knowthat the Augustinian monk Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro was instrumental in persuading King Robert of Naples to make Petrarch the first poet laureate since antiquity?
Did you knowthat Polish I Corps in Russia , originally intended to fight for the Triple Entente against the Central Powers , was forced to ally itself with the German Ober Ost forces?
Did you knowthat Lapland's Sjisjka railway stop was built in part because it was the only place in the country where the letters SJ occurred in the name twice?
Did you knowthat Delta Sigma Theta Sorority founder Myra Hemmings starred, co-produced and co-directed the 1941 film Go Down, Death! The Story Of Jesus and the Devil ?
Did you knowthat, at one time, Eliza Marsden Hassall's school produced roughly three-quarters of Australia 's foreign missionaries ?
Did you knowthat the German historian Albert Brackmann argued that the Poles should be pushed farther eastwards, into Ukraine ?
Did you knowthat advertising executive Lois Wyse came up with the slogan "With a name like Smucker's , it has to be good!"?
Did you knowthat Michael Dadap , the popular Filipino guitarist, is married to the eldest sister of American cellist Yo-Yo Ma ?
Did you knowthat after the Battle of Deir ez-Zor in World War II , most Syrian troops avoided capture by changing into civilian clothes?
Did you knowthat the Kallanai dam, built by Karikala Chola to support agriculture in ancient Tamil country , is considered the oldest water-regulation structure still in use?
Did you knowthat the papal election of 1061 , the first carried out solely by cardinal bishops , resulted in a war between Pope Alexander II and Antipope Honorius II ?
Did you knowthat the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile's French neoclassical building was built to commemorate the centenary of the independence of Chile ?
Did you knowthat the site of a crashed JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft is now marked with a sculpture of a crumpled paper aeroplane ?
Did you knowthat the Craigflower Manor and Schoolhouse are among the oldest Canadian buildings of their type?
Did you knowthat, owing to Henry Babson's selective breeding work, thousands of Arabian horses today have "Babson-influenced" bloodlines ?
Did you knowthat the Australian White-naped Honeyeater derives its Latin epithet lunatus from the crescent-shaped markings on its nape ?
Did you knowthat the Hibbs Bridge on the Snicker's Gap Turnpike , which partly replaced the first toll road in the United States , still carries traffic, and is being rebuilt in its original state?
Did you knowthat the village of Montgomery , New York , was originally named Ward's Bridge ?
Did you knowthat the "Amerikansky Golland" class submarines ordered by the Imperial Russian Navy also served in the Soviet and United States navies?
Did you knowthat Roman Catholic priest Paul Couturier helped establish the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ?
Did you knowthat, in addition to horror fiction , Edgar Allan Poe wrote an essay on interior decorating called The Philosophy of Furniture ?
Did you knowthat Raeapteek in Tallinn , Estonia is one of the oldest continuously running pharmacies in Europe?
Did you knowthat brewer and politician Michael Thomas Bass introduced legislation into the British House of Commons to ban organ grinders as nuisances?
Did you knowthat Gunnhild, "Mother-of-Kings" , the wife and queen of Erik Bloodaxe of Norway , was rumored to be a witch ?
Did you knowthat after the HMS Tyger wrecked in 1742, the crew survived 56 days on a desert island and another 56 days sailing to Jamaica in small boats, at a loss of only 11 out of 281 men?
Did you knowthat Benjamin Pearse , later an influential provincial politician in British Columbia , came to Vancouver Island working for Hudson's Bay Company ?
Did you knowthat musician Ian Craig Marsh , once of pop groups The Human League and Heaven 17 , began his career in a band called "Musical Vomit"?
Did you knowthat global mining magnate Charles W. Engelhard, Jr. was the inspiration behind the character Auric Goldfinger in author Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger ?
Did you knowthat Danny Barcelona was a Filipino American self-taught drummer for Louis Armstrong ’s All-Stars jazz band?
Did you knowthat Indian youth Meraj Khalid Noor was used for political campaigning in Muslim-dominated areas of Bihar as he resembled Osama Bin Laden ?
Did you knowthat the prosperous Caspian Sea port of Abaskun disappeared from records in the 13th century ?
Did you knowthat the Code of Ur-Nammu is the world's oldest extant example of a legal code ?
Did you knowthat the Pennsylvania Ministerium was the first Lutheran church body in North America ?
Did you knowthat Rabanus Maurus 's attribution of the Liber Pontificalis to Saint Jerome was the prevailing view throughout the Middle Ages ?
Did you knowthat no piece of goldwork embroidery has ever actually used pure gold ?
Did you knowthat the racially charged Escambia High School riots , which reached a climax in 1976, continued in various forms for five years?
Did you knowthat despite being dissolved as a kibbutz in the 1980s, Ir Ovot continues to host Christian volunteers working on its Solomonic / First Temple period archaeologic site?
Did you knowthat the musical piece composed by Will Schaefer for the United States Bicentennial earned him a Pulitzer Prize nomination?
Did you knowthat Observatory Hill, Darjeeling , the site of Darjeeling 's oldest Buddhist monastery is now home to a Hindu temple?
Did you knowthat Lee Choon Seng , a Singaporean philanthropist built a Buddhist temple with the intention of liberating the spirits of those killed during the 1942 Battle of Pasir Panjang ?
Did you knowthat the 1922 Swatow Typhoon killed 50,000 people in Swatow (now Shantou , China ), out of a total population of 65,000?
Did you knowthat in three years during World War II , the U.S. Army prisoner of war camp called Camp Atlanta had more occupants than the nearby town of Atlanta, Nebraska has had in its entire existence?
Did you knowthat auto racing icon Dan Gurney tricked competitors into installing his Gurney flap upside down?
Did you knowthat voice exchange , the preeminent compositional technique of the medieval Notre Dame school , died out in art music but remains a characteristic feature of rounds ?
Did you knowthat as many ballots were cast in four days electing Chris Young and Hideki Okajima in the All-Star Final Vote as in ten weeks electing the 2007 Major League Baseball All-Star Game starting lineup ?
Did you knowthat although no fossils of the extinct Malagasy Hippopotamus have been dated within the last 1,000 years, villagers in Madagascar described a similar creature still alive as recently as 1976?
Did you knowthat the SS Suevic of the White Star Line ran into rocks off the coast of England while steaming at full speed in dense fog at night in 1907 but everyone on board survived?
Did you knowthat before he became Pope Urban IV , Jacques Pantaléon mediated the Treaty of Christburg between the pagan Prussians and the Teutonic Knights ?
Did you knowthat Dungeons & Dragons , an album by Midnight Syndicate , is the only official soundtrack to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game ?
Did you knowthat although Paul MacGillivray ' s main interest was natural history , he was also the president of the Medical Society of Victoria and a member of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria?
Did you knowthat Miss Pittsburgh was the first plane to deliver airmail between Pittsburgh and Cleveland ?
Did you knowthat the Blue-faced Honeyeater of eastern and northern Australia is also known as the "Bananabird" for its fondness for that fruit?
Did you knowthat cross stitches are part of the embroidery traditions of the Balkans , Middle East , Afghanistan , Colonial America and Victorian England ?
Did you knowthat the 1646 Union of Uzhhorod was brokered by the Basilian monastic order on the model of the earlier Union of Brest ?
Did you knowthat the television drama Hill Street Blues imitated the visual style of The Police Tapes , a low-budget documentary about a police precinct in the South Bronx ?
Did you knowthat Rob Mazurek's avant-garde Chicago Underground projects began as a workshop at local jazz club The Green Mill ?
Did you knowthat, during the Basque witch trials , 1,384 children voluntarily reported themselves and denounced their "accomplices"?
Did you knowthat the versorium , the world's first electrical device, was invented in 1600 by one of Queen Elizabeth I 's physicians?
Did you knowthat the smallest papal election since the expansion of suffrage to all cardinals was undertaken by only six cardinal electors ?
Did you knowthat many Japanese POWs continued to toil in Siberian labor camps ten years after the end of World War II ?
Did you knowthat St. Stephen's is the last remaining Bulfinch -designed church in Boston ?
Did you know the transition from Renaissance to Baroque in instrumental music occurred partly as a result of deliberate actions taken by the Florentine Camerata ?
Did you knowthat Abraham Klausner was the first rabbi at the Dachau concentration camp after it was liberated?
Did you knowthat Y. G. Parameshwara was the first blind Indian to qualify as a doctor?
Did you knowthat the town of Santikhiri in northern Thailand has been home to a "lost division" of the Republic of China Army since 1961?
Did you knowthat the church of St John the Divine, Kennington suffered severe bomb damage in 1941 during World War II but was restored and re-opened in 1959?
Did you knowthat although Lloyd Hunter played trumpet and led a big band for 38 years, he only recorded once, for the race record label Vocalion ?
Did you knowthat airman Timothy Tovell smuggled a French orphan adopted by his squadron as a mascot back to Australia in an empty sack of oats ?
Did you knowthat the fifteenth and sixteenth-century Hochstetter family were for a time on a par with the Fugger and the Welser controlling metal ores in Bohemia , Slovakia , Hungary and Tyrol ?
Did you knowthat the Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic is the largest African American parade in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Estonia joined World War II in 1940 , after the Soviet Union blockaded the country, a Finnish airliner was shot down and three diplomatic couriers were killed ?
Did you knowthat though students and educators agree on the importance of student engagement in learning , there is little consensus on a working definition?
Did you knowthat the short film 5 Men and a Limo showcases the world's five most prolific English language film trailer voiceover artists narrating a shared limousine ride?
Did you knowthat a portion of Connecticut Route 108 was part of an early highway system in the town of Stratford, Connecticut ?
Did you knowthat Halsey Ives was involved in six world's fairs , directed the art departments of two of them, and was the first director of the Saint Louis Art Museum ?
Did you knowthat Claude Pompidou was responsible for choosing much of the art for the Centre Georges Pompidou , named after her husband ?
Did you knowthat Vibhuti Narayan Singh was the last king of the ancient city Benares ?
Did you knowthat Angola gained its independence from Portugal through the Alvor Agreement ?
Did you knowthat the first family-run Hawaiian language preschool , or Pūnana leo ( Hawaiian : "nest of voices"), was opened illegally?
Did you knowthat the Luxtorpeda , looking more like a cross between a rail bus and a limousine than a train, was the fastest and most luxurious train in interbellum Poland ?
Did you knowthat Salazar 's associate Fernando Santos Costa was appointed Deputy Minister of War while holding only the junior rank of captain ?
Did you knowthat 4th century martyr Emygdius is said to have carried his own severed head away after being decapitated?
Did you knowthat former professional boxer Giichi Nishihara was the writer - director of such Japanese cult pink films of the 1960s and 1970s as Abnormal Reaction: Ecstasy and Grotesque Perverted Slaughter ?
Did you knowthat Birtles Shorrock Goble , the founders and original singers/songwriters of Little River Band , are legally prevented from using that band name?
Did you knowthat only two of the fourteen French cardinals were in Italy at the start of the papal conclave, 1549-1550 because a clause of the Concordat of Bologna allowed the pope to redistribute their benefices if they died in Rome ?
Did you knowthat in 1942 survivors of the British submarine P36 were shipwrecked again less than six weeks later when the submarine HMS Olympus hit a mine off Malta ?
Did you knowthat the First National Bank of Omaha , founded by Herman Kountze , is a privately held company in its sixth generation of family ownership?