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Did you knowthat the Bonn–Oberkassel train ferry was one of six train ferries that commenced operations across the Rhine in Germany in the late 19th century?
Did you knowthat despite having its faculty decimated by Operation Sonderaktion Krakau , the Agricultural University of Kraków continued to hold secret agronomy courses during World War II ?
Did you knowthat one of the most successful weapons of the American Civil War was designed by one of the war's most incompetent generals ?
Did you knowthat Peter of Atroa was accused of exorcising demons by the power of Beelzebub , not the power of Christ ?
Did you knowthat during World War II , Pietro Cardinal Boetto protested against the shelling of Genoa by British warships, claiming that God would assure the triumph of Italy?
Did you knowthat 12th-century Muslim scientist Al-Khazini , who proposed a theory of gravitation long before Isaac Newton , was, in his early life, a slave of the Seljuq Turks ?
Did you knowthat Bob Simpson made a comeback from ten years in international retirement to lead the Australian cricket team at the age of 42 when it was decimated by defections to World Series Cricket ?
Did you knowthat members of the catfish genus Auchenipterichthys are capable of producing sound?
Did you know Summis desiderantes affectibus , a papal bull promulgated by Innocent VIII in 1484 , was re-published as the preface to Malleus Maleficarum ?
Did you knowthat Nicolas Chédeville arranged Antonio Vivaldi 's The Four Seasons for hurdy gurdy or musette , flute , and violin to amuse French aristocrats who liked to pretend to be peasants ?
Did you knowthat a Romantic poem by Alexandru Hrisoverghi is credited with having inspired historic preservation in Moldavia ?
Did you knowthat the village which later became Chickasaw , Alabama was started as a company town by a local shipyard ?
Did you knowthat the Iran-Pakistan barrier is currently being constructed by Iran along its border with Pakistan to stop illegal migration and thwart terror attacks?
Did you knowthat Petrus Marcellinus Felix Liberius served in high public office for almost 60 years under both the Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy and the Eastern Roman Empire , leading a conquest of Spain at the age of 85?
Did you knowthat Wilco 's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was named after an encounter that singer Jeff Tweedy had with a Memorial Day parade ?
Did you knowthat " Salvem el món " was the first punk song performed in the Eurovision Song Contest ?
Did you knowthat although Pope Gregory XVI condemned railroads as "the road to hell," Vatican City includes the world's shortest national railway system ?
Did you knowthat Olivia Newton-John made at least 16 appearances on The Go!! Show , an Australian popular music television series which aired between 1964 to 1967, before she found international success?
Did you knowthat Ain-Ervin Mere , commander of the Estonian Sicherheitspolizei , was sentenced to death in 1961 for organizing the holocaust in Estonia , but died as a free man in England ?
Did you knowthat actor Powers Boothe won a 1980 Emmy Award for his portrayal of Jim Jones in the film Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones ?
Did you knowthat for the jazz album The Meeting , Joseph Jarman returned to the Art Ensemble of Chicago after leaving in 1993 to open a Buddhist dojo in Brooklyn, New York?
Did you knowthat Abraham of Farshut founded a new Monophysite monastery at Farshut after the monks of his old monastery at Pbow almost all accepted the decision of the Council of Chalcedon ?
Did you knowthat the Ghana Navy was established under British Royal Navy command and headed by D. A. Foreman , a retired British officer commissioned as a Ghana naval officer with the rank of Commodore ?
Did you knowthat in 2003, Kimberly Casiano became the first Hispanic woman to serve on the board of one of the Fortune 1000 top five companies when she was appointed to the board of Ford Motor Company ?
Did you knowthat Augusto Genina 's Lo squadrone bianco (1936), released during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War , lionized the Italian colonization of Libya ?
Did you knowthat Bagrichthys macracanthus , the black lancer, is the only species of Bagrichthys , a genus of catfishes , that is traded in the aquarium hobby ?
Did you knowthat the 2005 movie The Interpreter by film director Sydney Pollack was based on real-life conference interpreters from the United Nations Interpretation Service ?
Did you knowthat the George Furbeck House represents the beginning of a three year period of experimentation by Frank Lloyd Wright which resulted in the first Prairie houses ?
Did you knowthat Emil Rieve was elected president of his local union when he was only 22 years old, and president of the Textile Workers Union of America when he was 46?
Did you knowthat, partly as a result of the Estonian national awakening , the Estonians had the second highest literacy rate in the Russian Empire ?
Did you knowthat Archaeopotamus is the oldest well-identified genus of hippos , having lived 7.5 million to 1.8 million years ago?
Did you knowthat Australian pop singer Lynne Randell was the first Australian recording artist to shoot a colour music video for her 1967 hit "Ciao Baby"?
Did you knowthat Tsar Alexis of Russia wrote a detailed instruction to his falconers ?
Did you knowthat after criticising the Australian Cricket Board , its captain Bill Lawry was sacked without being informed, and only learned of his fate on the radio?
Did you knowthat Prussian uprisings refer to several uprisings of Prussians , one of the Baltic tribes , against the Teutonic Knights , in the 13th century during the Northern Crusades ?
Did you knowthat Church of Scientology private investigator Eugene Martin Ingram was charged with impersonating a police officer , in Hillsborough County, Florida ?
Did you knowthat Gia Long , the first Emperor of Vietnam 's Nguyen Dynasty unified the country for the first time in its modern state with French military assistance from his friend and Catholic priest Pigneau de Behaine ?
Did you knowthat composer Takanori Arisawa won three JASRAC International Awards for most international royalties , due to the worldwide popularity of the Sailor Moon anime soundtrack?
Did you knowthat when the first Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island was elected, there were only five qualified voters in the three-member district of Victoria ?
Did you knowthat the 1892 Thomas Gale House was one of at least eight "bootleg houses" designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in breach of his contract with architect Louis Sullivan ?
Did you knowthat Bona of Pisa , after seeing a vision of James, son of Zebedee , became a leader of pilgrimages to his shrine at Santiago de Compostella ?
Did you knowthat Robert Burnaby is the namesake of at least eleven places in British Columbia , including a city , a lake , and a hill ?
Did you knowthat Sylvia Seegrist was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences for killing three people in 1985 in a Pennsylvania shopping mall , even though she had a history of paranoid schizophrenia ?
Did you knowthat Richard Petty won the 1979 Daytona 500 by passing race leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough who were involved in a fight in the infield?
Did you knowthat Maria Bertilla Boscardin , who was rejected by one religious order for her slowness, became a nurse and was eventually canonized a saint in the presence of several of her earlier patients?
Did you knowthat Chicago theater -owner Tony DeSantis survived two near-fatal explosions in his life?
Did you knowthat one of the largest slave escape attempts in American history occurred in Kentucky in August 1848 ?
Did you knowthat Pinirampus pirinampu , a species of migratory catfish , is one of the most important fishery resources in certain reservoirs in its native range ?
Did you knowthat since his capture, Hassan Ghul has been labelled everything from a simple mail courier to top lieutenant of figures ranging from Osama bin Laden to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to al-Zarqawi ?
Did you knowthat some areas of the Finnish Lakeland have up to 1,000 lakes per 100 km²?
Did you knowthat Lorenz Christoph Mizler founded a musical society whose members included Georg Philipp Telemann , George Frideric Handel , and Johann Sebastian Bach ?
Did you knowthat the city of Quneitra in Syria was captured on the last day of the Six-Day War , was later destroyed and never rebuilt, and is today preserved as a memorial to the Arab-Israeli wars ?
Did you knowthat zuclopenthixol is a medication that can be given every two weeks to treat people suffering from schizophrenia who are unable to take tablets daily?
Did you knowthat Melbourne rock band The Strangers appeared on weekly television for nine years straight?
Did you knowthat the first private radio station in India was Akashvani which was set up in 1935 in Mysore , Karnataka ?
Did you knowthat Virginia Lamp Thomas , wife of United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas , collected résumés for appointments in the George W. Bush Administration while working at the Heritage Foundation ?
Did you knowthat, in connection with the 7th-century Turkic conquest of Aghvania , the invaders were reported "to suck the children's blood like milk"?
Did you knowthat during the G-8 Summit in Germany on June 7-8, Russian president Vladimir Putin offered to deploy elements of an American anti-misssile shield in Qabala Radiolocation Station in Azerbaijan instead of Poland and the Czech Republic ?
Did you knowthat Matt Wieters , the fifth pick in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft , was the third player in Georgia Tech history to earn first-team All-America honors twice?
Did you knowthat the Caves of Nerja were discovered in 1959, and opened as a tourist attraction a year later?
Did you knowthat western-style Japanese painter Kawabata Ryushi was so impressed with the Japanese art collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston that he switched to the Japanese-style Nihonga genre?
Did you knowthat Australian soldier Ringer Edwards survived 63 hours of crucifixion by Japanese soldiers during World War II ?
Did you knowthat the Wiseman hypothesis proposes the accounts of the book of Genesis were written hundreds to thousands of years before Moses , and that Genesis names the authors?
Did you knowthat Erica Larson , a chemist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory , won the Pikes Peak mountain marathon five times in six years between 1999 and 2004, more than any other woman in the event's history?
Did you knowthat worm charming, grunting, and fiddling competitions are held around the world?
Did you knowthat Europe's largest sewage treatment plant is in Psyttaleia , Greece ?
Did you knowthat the performance of La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina in Warsaw in 1628 was the earliest performance of an Italian opera outside of Italy ?
Did you knowthat Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana , and Cyprien Ntaryamira , the Hutu president of Burundi were assassinated by two surface-to-air missiles ?
Did you knowthat poor performance in the twilight of the career of Graham McKenzie , Australia 's leading pace bowler of the 1960s, led to mistaken fears that he had contracted hepatitis ?
Did you knowthat Charles Wilfred Orr wrote more settings of A. E. Housman 's poetry than any other composer ?
Did you knowthat religion in the Western Ganga Dynasty included influences from Jainism and the Hindu sects Shaivism , Vedic Brahminism and Vaishnavism ?
Did you knowthat Scottish clergyman Alexander Edward was deprived of his parish after the establishment of Presbyterianism , and later became an architect ?
Did you knowthat males of the endangered South Andean Deer have a distinctive black "face mask" that forms an elongated heart-shape?
Did you knowthat the Andrew O. Anderson House in DeKalb, Illinois , a design by architect John S. Van Bergen , has long been mistaken for a Frank Lloyd Wright building?
Did you knowthat Deborah Lawrie became the first female pilot with an Australian airline after winning a landmark sex discrimination case against Ansett Airlines ?
Did you knowthat Ernest Austin set the whole of John Bunyan 's The Pilgrim's Progress for solo organ , at a length of nearly three hours?
Did you knowthat in order to stem a population decline a "dollar block" promotion was held in the Australian town of Jandowae, Queensland where 38 parcels of land were sold for one dollar each?
Did you knowthat World War II historian Janusz Piekałkiewicz fled Poland in 1956, relying on mountaineering and secret resistance routes?
Did you knowthat Dutch amateur football club IJsselmeervogels received the Dutch Sports Team of the Year Award in 1975, for reaching the semi-final of the KNVB Cup ?
Did you knowthat 2006 Winter Olympics speedskating champion, Shani Davis ', welcome-home celebration was held at the Harold Washington Cultural Center ?
Did you knowthat the Orange Mill Historic District between Newburgh and Gardnertown , New York , features the only remaining 19th-century gunpowder mill complex in the state?
Did you knowthat Oleh Lysheha , educated at Lviv University , was the first Ukrainian poet to receive the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation ?
Did you knowthat Henry Pering Pellew Crease was appointed British Columbia 's first Attorney General by Governor (and ex- HBC Chief Factor) Sir James Douglas ?
Did you knowthe crash of Aero Flight 311 , which claimed the lives of all 25 people on board, was the worst aviation accident ever to occur in Finland ?
Did you knowthat, in 1999, General Abdulsalami Abubakar was responsible for converting Nigeria 's government system from military rule to democracy?
Did you knowthat Shakespeare's religion is speculated by many scholars to have been Catholic ?
Did you knowthat B. V. Karanth trained alongside Dr. Rajkumar under Gubbi Veeranna , one of the pioneers of Kannada theater?
Did you knowthat Slabsides , John Burroughs ' historic log cabin in West Park , New York , is only open to the public two days every year?
Did you knowthat Neil Harvey once helped the Australian cricket team win a Test by deliberately throwing away his wicket when Pakistan attempted to thwart a victory by time wasting?
Did you knowthat a massive mudflow destroyed two-thirds of the Valley of Geysers on June 3 , 2007 ?
Did you knowthat Ronald Reagan is the only American President to have his diaries published into a best selling book ?
Did you knowthat Gasparo Berti 's experiment in atmospheric pressure and vacuums led to the invention of the barometer ?
Did you knowthat William A. Brady is the only person to have managed two undisputed heavyweight champion boxers?
Did you knowthat the Australian Harvey family includes the leading Australian batsman of the 1950s Neil Harvey as well as his grandnephew Robert Harvey , who won consecutive Brownlow Medals as the best player in Australian Football ?
Did you knowthat the Sicilian revolt caused so many slaves to leave mainland Rome that the Vestal Virgins prayed for the desertion to stop?
Did you knowthat the Aberfeldy Distillery closed for two years during World War I , because they could not get barley ?
Did you knowthat Paul Philippoteaux was a noted painter of cycloramas , cylindrical paintings over 100 yards long, whose effect was so realistic they have been likened to IMAX movies?
Did you knowthat Kung Fu Jimmy Chow is a cartoon parody that has the appearance of a dubbed Japanese anime ?
Did you knowthat nearly one in every twelve suicides by firearm is a multiple gunshot suicide ?
Did you knowthat the first Western abbot of Singapore 's Buddhist Poh Ern Shih Temple was an American ?
Did you knowthat in a few of the international cricket matches played by India in the 1990s, more than half of the players in the Indian team belonged to the state of Karnataka ?
Did you knowthat Lake Taupo 's Hatepe eruption around 180 AD devastated much of New Zealand's North Island and turned the skies red over China and Rome?
Did you knowthat the Soviet MT-55 bridge layer tanks were  modified by the Czechoslovakians using their gap measuring mechanism and infrared equipment and renamed as the MT-55A?
Did you knowthat German composer Christian Geist died of the bubonic plague in 1711 , along with his wife and children?
Did you knowthat the New York Giants , an NFL American football team, were founded in 1925 by a bookmaker with an investment of US$ 500, and their estimated value has increased to nearly $900 million?
Did you knowthat the father of cricketer Peter Burge had to resign from Queensland 's selection committee when his son was being discussed for selection?
Did you knowthat French Minister of Marine Jean-Marie Charles Abrial fought in both World Wars and was imprisoned on accusations of collaboration with the Nazis ?
Did you knowthat Robert Kotei , then Ghana 's high jump record holder, once successfully foiled a military coup against the NRC government , only to be executed years later after a successful coup against his own SMC government ?
Did you knowthat famed Swiss cartographer Eduard Imhof lived in a Tibetan monastery while he recorded the height and location of the highest peak outside of the Himalayas , Minya Konka ?
Did you knowthat the catfish of the genus Batasio are found in fast-flowing hillstreams throughout South and mainland Southeast Asia ?
Did you knowthat for Lee Ritenour 's first album, First Course , he drafted his friends, including Dave Grusin , Frank Rosolino and Tom Scott , from Dante's and the Baked Potato club in Studio City ?
Did you knowthat the recently released diary of teenaged Polish Holocaust victim Rutka Laskier has been compared to the diary of Anne Frank ?
Did you knowthat giant vegetables are entered in competitions around the world, with seeds being traded over the Internet ?
Did you knowthat Germerius is said to have been given as much land as the shadow of his cloak could cover (about a six miles radius) by Clovis I in exchange for his prayers ?
Did you knowthat footballer George Wynn was Manchester City 's leading goalscorer in three consecutive seasons?
Did you knowthat the repertoire of the Australian passerine , the Red-capped Robin includes "tinkle" and "blurt" calls?
Did you knowthat Mahalo.com is a human-powered search engine whose lead investor Sequoia Capital helped start both Yahoo! and Google ?
Did you knowthat, after playing the solo for the disastrous premiere of Elgar's Cello Concerto , the English cellist Felix Salmond never taught the piece to his students, even though he taught cello in America for 18 years?
Did you knowthat, dating back to 1682 , Connecticut has suffered more than 100 tornadoes , including the sixth most damaging in United States history and one which killed up to 34 people?
Did you knowthat the bombing of Zurich in World War II led to court martial proceedings with Jimmy Stewart as presiding officer?
Did you knowthat Mammes of Caesarea is said to have been breast-fed by his father?
Did you knowthat Manson Family member Paul Watkins gave testimony to the Los Angeles District Attorney which helped explain Helter Skelter ?
Did you knowthat Donald Johanos , music director and conductor of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra , was given an award by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 1991 for "adventuresome programming of contemporary music"?
Did you knowthat pachamanca is a Peruvian dish which has its origins in Inca cuisine ?
Did you knowthat some species of fish undergo a genetically programmed sex change during their development ?
Did you knowthat the disinvestment from South Africa campaign in the late 1980s was a key factor pressuring the South African Government to embark on the negotiations which ultimately led to the dismantling of apartheid ?
Did you knowthat Bidhannagar College , a government college in Kolkata , West Bengal , India , had to move out of its old premises because of student overpopulation?
Did you knowthat the house of University President Marion L. Brittain was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you knowthat Rhode Island ratified the United States Constitution more than a year after the new government had started operating?
Did you knowthat all five species of the catfish genus Epactionotus are endemic to limited geographic areas in Brazil and Argentina ?
Did you knowthat between 1952 and 1976 members of the Soviet Armed Forces sports society won more than a hundred gold medals at Summer Olympics ?
Did you knowthat Cecilia Krieger , who translated the work of Sierpinski into English, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics in Canada?
Did you knowthat the Foedus Cassianum , named after the negotiator, Spurius Cassius , was the first of many foederati signed by Rome?
Did you knowthat Government Sanskrit College was the first college of the ancient city of Benares , established in 1791 ?
Did you knowthat the Squander Bug was a propaganda character created to encourage saving in the United Kingdom during World War II ?
Did you knowthat the rape case involving a party at De Anza College has drawn national criticism and focus on the Santa Clara County District Attorney 's office?
Did you knowthat after taxiing past the smoldering wreckage of Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402 , BOAC flight 911 also crashed, with 188 total lives lost in less than a day?
Did you knowthat Norm O'Neill ' s maiden Test century helped the Australian cricket team win its only Test on Pakistani soil for 39 years?
Did you knowthat a Three-Year Plan succeeded in rebuilding the economy of Poland from World War II devastation?
Did you knowthat the energy lobby contributed 19 million dollars to United States political campaigns in the 2006 election cycle ?
Did you knowthat the only written version of the Arthurian ballad " King Arthur and King Cornwall " was torn up and used to start fires?
Did you knowthat Ujjayanta Palace was rebuilt in downtown Agartala , India after being destroyed by an earthquake in 1897?
Did you knowthat Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time , a 1939 painting by Salvador Dalí , is believed to be a criticism of the sexualisation of child stars by Hollywood ?
Did you knowthat the Aranthalawa Massacre , by the Tamil Tigers , resulted in the deaths of 30 young novice monks , their mentor , and four other civilians ?
Did you knowthat the test for enrollment at Germany 's Helmut Schmidt University involves not an intelligence test, but military training and troop procedures?
Did you knowthat before police duty belts , British female police officers had to apply for permission to carry handcuffs ?
Did you knowthat sexual size dimorphism in the Brown Songlark is among the most pronounced in any bird , with males as much as 2.3 times heavier than females?
Did you knowthat the number of North Koreans in Russia has increased due to a decline in the North Korean economy ?
Did you knowthat the Finnish-Novgorodian Wars only ended with the Swedish conquest of Finland in 1249, resulting in the Swedish-Novgorodian Wars ?
Did you knowthat the bear Wojtek was an officially enlisted soldier of the Polish II Corps and a participant in the Battle of Monte Cassino ?
Did you knowthat Samuel Azu Crabbe was named and fired as Chief Justice of Ghana in a decree specifically made for the purpose by the Supreme Military Council that had appointed him four years earlier?
Did you knowthat Gerlachovský štít , Slovakia 's highest mountain, has been renamed seven times due to regime changes ?
Did you knowthat in the 1950s Dr. Leonidas Berry started the Berry Plan to provide medical counseling clinics for young drug addicts in Chicago ?
Did you knowthat the Australian town of Great Western, Victoria is home to a series of labyrinthine tunnels ("drives"), originally made by miners searching for gold and now used to store sparkling wine while it is resting and settling?
Did you knowthat Elsa Eschelsson , the first woman both to finish a doctorate in Law and to teach in a university in Sweden , was denied the right to serve even as acting professor because of her sex?
Did you knowthat the 1902 British Home Championship football tournament was won by Scotland in a replay after the deciding match was marred by the deaths of 25 spectators when a stand collapsed at Ibrox Park ?
Did you knowthat Józef Franczak , last of the cursed soldiers , was a Polish resistance fighter for 24 out of 45 years of his life?