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Did you knowthat as a result of t'aarof , it is not uncommon for Iranian employees to work unpaid for a week before even discussing wages?
Did you knowthat John Rut sent the first known letter from North America and that it was from St. John's , Newfoundland on August 3 , 1527 ?
Did you knowthat Castorocauda lutrasimilis , a recently described mammal relative that looked like an otter with a beaver 's tail, evolved a semi- aquatic lifestyle 110 million years earlier than any other mammal-like animal?
Did you knowthat James Foster was a Scottish -born Canadian goalie who helped lead Great Britain to its first and only Olympic gold medal in ice hockey in 1936 ?
Did you knowthat the Hood Event was an incident following the US invasion of Iraq where a group of Turkish special forces operating in northern Iraq was captured and interrogated by the US military , later becoming the basis for the 2006 film Valley of the Wolves Iraq ?
Did you knowthat some Australian Aboriginal languages use the aversive case to indicate that an object is feared?
Did you knowthat Vanessa Mendoza , Miss Colombia 2001 , was the first Black woman to win that title?
Did you knowthat " ultra " was a phrase frequently used in 1960s Malaysia and Singapore to describe racial chauvinists ?
Did you knowthat Swiss artist Harald Naegeli spent several months in jail in 1984 for the graffiti he had painted in Zürich from 1977 to 1979 ?
Did you knowthat Television House on Kingsway in London served as the headquarters of Associated-Rediffusion , Independent Television News , the TV Times magazine, Associated TeleVision and Thames Television between 1955 and the early 1970s ?
Did you knowthat Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk was established as the public broadcaster for the British Zone of Germany after World War II ?
Did you knowthat Salleh Abas was sacked as the Lord President of Malaysia for clashing with the government on the independence of the Malaysian judiciary ?
Did you knowthat the battle of Krasnobród of 1939 was one of the last battles of World War II in which cavalry units fought on both sides?
Did you knowthat Vladimir Sukhomlinov , who was the Russian Minister of War at the outbreak of WWI , was relieved of duty amid accusations of espionage on behalf of Germany ?
Did you knowthat the heavyweight champion boxer Thomas King became a successful bookmaker and rower after his retirement from the ring in 1863 ?
Did you knowthat the Chinese regent Sima Daozi (364-403) was described by historians as spending too much of his time drinking and feasting?
Did you knowthat Syed Hussein Alatas is a Malaysian academic who formed two political parties before going on to become Vice-Chancellor of the University of Malaya ?
Did you knowthat the terms of the 1991 Sino-Russian border agreement between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China took over 6 years to implement?
Did you knowthat the National Black Law Students Association was formed to serve the needs and goals of black law students in 1968 and is one of the largest student organizations in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Broadcasting in East Germany was modelled after the Soviet Union 's broadcasting system and East Germany rushed to try to beat West Germany to be first on-air with television ?
Did you knowthat The Silent World , an Academy Award winning documentary film by Jacques Cousteau , was the first film to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color ?
Did you knowthat until the late 1980s , the most accurate tropical cyclone prediction model was purely statistical ?
Did you knowthat the popular music artist Maarja-Liis Ilus has entered the Estonian Eurovision Song Contest pre-selection event Eurolaul a record three times, in 1996 , 1997 and 2004 ?
Did you knowthat French spacing , the typographical practice of adding two (rather than one) spaces after a full stop , is a result of the monospaced fonts used by typewriters ?
Did you knowthat major roads in Hong Kong are numbered from Route 1 to Route 9 under the Hong Kong Strategic Route and Exit Number System ?
Did you knowthat Round the Bend was a children's television programme that was televised for three years on Children's ITV , but was supposedly cancelled as a result of Mary Whitehouse calling it politically incorrect ?
Did you knowthat the Malaysian Industrial Development Authority not only promotes Malaysia to foreign investors, but also handles tasks such as the extension of business visit visas ?
Did you knowthat the Teach First organisation which helps top graduate students teach in some of the most deprived areas in London and was inspired by Teach for America , is now expanding to Manchester and Israel ?
Did you knowthat the main languages of Renaissance in Poland were Polish and Latin , and that the leading Polish poet of that period, Jan Kochanowski , is regarded as a great Slavic poet?
Did you knowthat Jackson Ward is a historically African-American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia where free African-Americans joined freed slaves and their descendants and created a thriving business community known as the "Black Wall Street of America?"
Did you knowthat between 1922 and 1926 , Soviet Russia was the only country in Europe where homosexual relations between consenting adults were legal ?
Did you knowthat Hochtief AG , the company that moved the Abu Simbel temple complex to save it from the Aswan High Dam , also built the Führerbunker , scene of Adolf Hitler 's suicide?
Did you knowthat Alfred the Great 's taking of London in 886 was followed by his treaty with Guthrum , the Viking ruler of East Anglia ?
Did you knowthat Margaret Brundage illustrated most of the covers for the pulp magazine Weird Tales from 1933 to 1939?
Did you knowthat in Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. , the judge ruled that the video game Donkey Kong could be considered a parody of King Kong ?
Did you knowthat a Lombard warlord, Melus of Bari , was routed in 1018 at the site of the famous defeat of the Romans by Hannibal ?
Did you knowthat the Majlis Amanah Rakyat operates several educational institutes and offers several scholarships for the benefit of Bumiputra students in Malaysia ?
Did you knowthat Maj. Henryk Sucharski , one of the commanders of the defence of Westerplatte during the Polish Defensive War of 1939, was allowed to keep his sabre in captivity?
Did you knowthat the Detroit neighborhood of Poletown was controversially razed under eminent domain to allow General Motors to construct their Detroit/Hamtramck Assembly plant?
Did you knowthat the Second Malaysia Plan sought to restructure the socioeconomic state of Malaysia through aggressive affirmative action ?
Did you knowthat Tan Chee Khoon was given the moniker of "Mr. Opposition" due to his outspoken opposition to the government in the Parliament of Malaysia ?
Did you knowthat in Russian Orthodox bell ringing , the bells are never pealed, but only tolled?
Did you knowthat Ernest Rogers Millington , former "Baby" of the British House of Commons , is one of only two living former MPs to have been elected before the 1945 UK general election ?
Did you knowthat the failure of the First Malaysia Plan may have indirectly led to the May 13 Incident of racial rioting ?
Did you knowthat Pigeon Post , winner of the first ever Carnegie Medal for children's literature, is the only Swallows and Amazons book that does not feature some sort of sailing adventure?
Did you knowthat the word " Indonesia " was first used in print by Sam Ratulangi , a high school science teacher who briefly held the post of Governor of Sulawesi and was posthumously awarded the title of National Independence Hero?
Did you knowthat the longest of the Kiev bridges , the 1,543 metres long Paton Bridge over the Dnieper River , constructed in 1953 was the first fully welded steel construction of such length at that time?
Did you knowthat in the Vatha pagan rising of 1046 , Saint Gellert became a martyr after being pushed off a hill in  a cart?
Did you knowthat romanization of Belarusian , the transliteration of Belarusian-language text from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet , is distinct from writing in Łacinka , the historical native Latin alphabet of Belarus ?
Did you knowthat Lewis Adams , a former African American slave in Macon County, Alabama is known for helping found the normal school which later became Tuskegee University ?
Did you knowthat Arbit Choudhury is the first ever business school student comic strip and web comic ?
Did you knowthat the text on Nestor's Cup , one of the oldest known inscriptions in the Greek alphabet (c.740 BCE), is believed to be the result of a humorous drinking-party game?
Did you knowthat John Honeyman was a spy who worked for George Washington and who provided intelligence crucial to the success of Washington's foray against the Hessian troops at Trenton, New Jersey on December 26 , 1776 ?
Did you knowthat the Speaker of Dewan Rakyat has the power to amend written copies of speeches made by members of the house before they are given verbally?
Did you knowthat Antonio Bosio , the first systematic explorer of the Catacombs of Rome was known as the " Columbus of subterranean Rome" ?
Did you knowthat the German KarstadtQuelle AG is the largest department store corporation in Europe with over 100,000 employees?
Did you knowthat before R. L. Stevenson became a successful novelist with Treasure Island in 1883, he was a struggling author of travel narratives who published An Inland Voyage , Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes and Silverado Squatters ?
Did you knowthat the 1st and Ten System creates the yellow line seen on American football telecasts which shows where a team will earn a first down?
Did you knowthat Charles Nqakula , the Minister of Safety and Security of South Africa and chairperson of the SACP underwent military training in Angola , East Germany , and the Soviet Union in order to fight in Umkhonto we Sizwe , the armed wing of the ANC ?
Did you knowthat the Gourd Dance is performed to "cleanse" the dance arena prior to a Native American pow-wow ?
Did you knowthat Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram was the first novel in Tamil ?
Did you knowthat Isabelle Romée was the mother of Joan of Arc and petitioned the Pope before her daughter's conviction for heresy was overturned?
Did you knowthat basketball player Mike Gansey is the only men's player in NCAA Division I shorter than 6 ft. 5 in. to figure in USA's top 50 in field-goal percentage for the 2005-06 season?
Did you knowthat there are as many as two million illegal immigrants in Malaysia , half of whom may be receiving Bumiputra privileges?
Did you knowthat the dress Marilyn Monroe wore on the night she sang Happy Birthday, Mr. President was so tight she had to be sewn into it?
Did you knowthat the UK National Industrial Relations Court was controversial throughout its short life from 1971 to 1974, and was abolished soon after the Labour government of Harold Wilson came to power?
Did you knowthat the Park Ujazdowski , founded in 1893 by Sokrates Starynkiewicz , features the second bridge in the world built of reinforced concrete ?
Did you knowthat Soviet fighter pilot Mikhail Devyataev and nine other POWs took over a German He 111 H22 bomber and escaped from the concentration camp on Usedom island?
Did you knowthat the 1963 Hotel Roosevelt fire was the worst fire Jacksonville, Florida had witnessed since the Great Fire of 1901 ?
Did you knowthat the Old Ford Motor Factory , Ford 's first assembly plant in Southeast Asia and built in 1941, was the site of the historic surrender of the British to the Japanese in World War II , later described by Winston Churchill as the "largest capitulation in British history"?
Did you knowthat the model for the doctor in William Hogarth 's The Harlot's Progress was the often satirized French physician John Misaubin ?
Did you knowthat two out of three most notable monuments by Edward Wittig were destroyed during the World War II , while the third one was not erected until 2001, 60 years after Wittig's death?
Did you knowthat the first fluorescent blacklight paint was invented by Bob Switzer and named Day-Glo ?
Did you knowthat the R-100 Series is a series of fictional mass-produced robots which have featured in every TimeSplitters game created?
Did you knowthat the Dewan Rakyat is prohibited from discussing the repeal of certain articles of the Constitution of Malaysia ?
Did you knowthat scientific transliteration , a method used in linguistics to transliterate Slavic languages from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet , was first standardized over a century ago based on the Croatian alphabet ?
Did you knowthat the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways add about 500 km of new track each year to their network with planned links to Iraq , Pakistan , and Afghanistan ?
Did you knowthat the Ampulex wasp can disable a cockroach's escape reflex , and use the roach to feed its larva ?
Did you knowthat the traditional Russian carnival of Maslenitsa lasts for a week and culminates in the burning of a straw effigy representing winter and all the left-over blintzes ?
Did you knowthat pendatang asing is a pejorative phrase used in Malaysia to imply non-Malays are not welcome?
Did you knowthat Lillian Too , renowned feng shui expert, was once chief executive officer of a bank , and has written over 80 books since her retirement?
Did you knowthat Tristán de Luna y Arellano built the first European settlement within the continental boundaries of the United States at modern-day Pensacola ?
Did you knowthat New York Giants quarterback Phil Simms was the first player to announce "I'm Going to Disney World!" after a Super Bowl ?
Did you knowthat the fictional Anaheim Electronics docking ship La Vie en Rose is so named due to the fact that it opens up like a blooming rose when not docked with a spaceship?
Did you knowthat Teresa Pizarro de Angulo , Miss Colombia 's organizer for more than 40 years, was also Cartagena 's first female farm owner?
Did you knowthat the Ancient Romans played a game called Trigon , which likely involved three players standing in a triangle and passing a hard ball back and forth?
Did you knowthat when the Etruscan bronze Chimera of Arezzo , carefully buried near the city walls of Arezzo some time in Antiquity , was rediscovered in 1553, it was quickly claimed for the collection of Cosimo I de' Medici ?
Did you knowthat among many historic landmarks at the Andrew's Descent in Kiev , there is a medieval Gothic style castle that locals call the "Castle of Richard the Lion Heart " due to the legend the 12th century King of England had visited the building?
Did you knowthat Nikolay Danilevsky was the first writer to present an account of history as a series of distinct civilisations ?
Did you knowthat the name teonanácatl , referring to a sacred mushroom of the Aztecs , translates to "the flesh of God "?
Did you knowthat the Trow Ghyll skeleton , found near Clapham in the West Riding of Yorkshire in August 1947 , was claimed to have been the decomposed remains of a German spy who died during the war ?
Did you knowthat according to UFO religions , aliens exist, and would reveal themselves in the future to enable humans overcome their ecological, spiritual and social problems?
Did you knowthat during the era of Ryukyu Kingdom the noodle soup Okinawa soba could only be eaten by royalty until Okinawa 's annexation by Japan in the late 19th century ?
Did you knowthat Cambridge House on Piccadilly used to be home to Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge and Lord Palmerston , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat the theory of the permanent arms economy is a Marxist theory to explain the long economic boom after World War II ?
Did you knowthat Sonjo , a Bantu language of northern Tanzania , has been spoken for centuries in an isolated enclave in Maasai territory?
Did you knowthat les Brasseries du Cameroun controls 75 percent of the market for beer and soft drinks in Cameroon ?
Did you knowthat Indiana Jones suffers from ophidiophobia , the fear of snakes ?
Did you knowthat in 1876 , Edward Bouchet became the first black American to earn a Ph.D. from an American university ?
Did you knowthat Xianxingzhe , China 's first bipedal humanoid robot was satirized in Japan for having a joint that resembles a "crotch cannon"?
Did you knowthat Howard Thomas created three of the most popular wartime radio programmes for the BBC and discovered Vera Lynn , but was forced to resign from the company?
Did you knowthat a large portion of the vocabulary of the coastal Mozambiquean language Ekoti derives from a past variety of Swahili ?
Did you knowthat Thomas Brownrigg went from being a Midshipman to being Naval Aide de Camp to Queen Elizabeth II to creating Europe's first commercial television company, Associated-Rediffusion ?
Did you knowthat the July 2005 NKF scandal led to a  backlash from the donors to the charity, resulting in the resignation of the board of directors?
Did you knowthat the Philharmonia Hungarica made the first complete recording of Haydn 's symphonies , was an orchestra founded by Hungarian exiles and funded by the West German government during the Cold War ?
Did you knowthat the dachas of the Russian poets Boris Pasternak , Korney Chukovsky , and Bulat Okudzhava in the village of Peredelkino near Moscow are open to the public as memorial houses?
Did you knowthat " La Vie en Rose " is the signature song of French singer Édith Piaf ?
Did you knowthat a Push-Pull Converter is a type of DC to DC converter that uses a transformer to step the voltage of a DC power supply?
Did you knowthat the Chicana artist Yolanda Lopez became famous with the painting "Virgen de Guadalupe", which represents Lopez's personal investigation into Virgen de Guadalupe's status in Mexican society?
Did you knowthat the actions of Australian soldiers at the Battle of Epehy during World War I led to German officers in the area saying that they would not fight Australian troops?
Did you knowthat the L'Arlésienne Suites were composed by Georges Bizet in 1872 to accompany the play of the same name by Alphonse Daudet ?
Did you knowthat Lady Macbeth wore a crown of saucepan lids in the 1933 production of Shakespeare 's play, staged by Theodore Komisarjevsky in Stratford-on-Avon and popularly dubbed "Aluminium Macbeth "?
Did you knowthat Sofia Petrovna , a book by Russian writer Lydia Chukovskaya written in 1939 - 1940 , and published in the West in 1960s , was published in the Soviet Union only in 1988 ?
Did you knowthat only three Super 14 rugby union teams ever won the Super 12 ?
Did you knowthat the Brothertown Indians were the first tribe of Native Americans in the United States to become United States citizens, which caused the tribe to relinquish their tribal sovereignty ?
Did you knowthat Jan Nagórski , Polish pioneer of aviation and the first person to fly an airplane over the Arctic , was presumed dead for 38 years?
Did you knowthat, for the Dutch Old Masters , still lifes were a great opportunity to show one's aptitude in painting textures and surfaces in great detail and with realistic light effects?
Did you knowthat the 1939 cantata " Ballad For Americans " by John La Touche and Earl Robinson was performed that year at both the Republican National Convention and that of the American Communist Party ?
Did you knowthat the Lagonda Straight-6 engine that vaulted Aston Martin to fame in the 1950s was designed by Walter Owen Bentley , who also created the Bentley automobile ?
Did you knowthat Owasippe Scout Reservation , established in 1911, is the oldest continuously operating Boy Scout camp in the United States ?
Did you knowthat parts of California were declared a disaster area when Hurricane Kathleen killed several people and caused millions of dollars in damage due to widespread flooding ?
Did you knowthat Operation Safed Sagar which was launched by the Indian Air Force to aid the Indian Army during the 2 month long Kargil War , was the first time air power was used on such a large scale in Kashmir since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 ?
Did you knowthat Arthur Ransome used his own memories of a frozen Windermere during the Great Freeze of 1895 when he wrote Winter Holiday , his fourth Swallows and Amazons book?
Did you knowthat Jan Stanisław Jankowski , the World War II political leader of the Polish Secret State , was kidnapped by the NKVD and killed in a Soviet prison?
Did you know that commotio cordis is a sudden and unexpected cardiac arrest observed mostly in young people during participation in sports , and that is the most frequent cause of accidental deaths in Little League baseball games?
Did you knowthat Romanian violinist Ion Petre Stoican got his recording contract in Communist-era Romania because he caught an American spy?
Did you knowthat Gongche notation was once popular in transcribing the music of China before the modern jianpu and standard notation ?
Did you knowthat during the Russo-Turkish War, 1828-1829 more Russian soldiers died in hospitals from contagious diseases than fighting on the battlefield?
Did you knowthat the title of the movie I Married a Communist was so unappealing to audiences that their response led the film to be rereleased under the title The Woman on Pier 13 ?
Did you knowthat Mazhar Hussain has scored more runs in one-day international cricket then any other United Arab Emirates batsman ?
Did you knowthat the Podhale rifles are the only soldiers within the Polish Army to wear uniforms based on folk attire?
Did you knowthat in the United Kingdom and Australia a tuck shop is a small food retailer found in schools?
Did you knowthat the Russian victory at Molodi in 1572 put a stop to the northward expansion of the Ottoman Empire into present-day Russia?
Did you knowthat more than 100 gamelan ensembles (a musical performance group of Indonesian origin) have been formed in the U.S. since the first was established at UCLA in 1958 ?
Did you knowthat secret passages have helped people to hide in or flee from a building , or even to enter it without being spotted?
Did you knowthat researchers are studying the waters of Soap Lake in Washington with the hope of learning about life on Mars ?
Did you knowthat the City of London Yeomanry was a regiment of the British Territorial Army which served at various times as a cavalry , infantry , artillery , anti-aircraft , and armoured unit, and now forms a squadron of the Royal Corps of Signals ?
Did you knowthat George Mason University basketball coach Jim Larranaga motivated his players in their 2006 NCAA regional final by telling them their opponents from the University of Connecticut didn't know what conference they were in?
Did you knowthat Jan Andrzej Morsztyn , now recognized as one of the leading poets of Polish baroque , considered his career as a courtier much more important than that of a poet?
Did you knowthat, before he was President of the United States , Herbert Hoover was married at the Royal Presidio Chapel in Monterey, California ?
Did you knowthat Perry Greeley Holden was the first professor of agronomy in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Jean Armand de Lestocq , a French physician , wielded immense influence on the foreign policy of Russia during the early reign of Empress Elizabeth ?
Did you knowthat when Jester Center was built in 1969, it was the largest dormitory in North America , the largest building in Austin, Texas , and the largest building project by the University of Texas at Austin ?
Did you knowthat the Lieven princely family claims descent from Caupo of Turaida , one of the first Livonians to convert to Christianity ?
Did you knowthat we know about Latin profanity from both graffiti at Pompeii , and from the poems of Martial , Catullus , and Horace ?
Did you knowthat the recent Capitol Hill massacre is regarded as the worst mass-killing in Seattle since the 1983 Wah Mee Massacre ?
Did you knowthat the Golden Charter of Bern — the bull that made Berne , Switzerland , an Imperial Free City in 1218 — is now considered to have been forged decades later by the Bernese themselves to confirm the rights they had seized?
Did you knowthat Adwaita , the reportedly 255-year-old Aldabra Giant Tortoise that recently died in Kolkata zoo, was a pet of Robert Clive , the Commander-in-Chief, India of British East India Company ?