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Did you knowthat the Swedish General and Privy Councillor Magnus Julius De la Gardie arranged regular receptions at his residence, a novelty never heard of in Sweden in the early 1700s?
Did you knowthat choreographer Gillian Lynne took up dance as a child to recover from the violent death of her mother?
Did you knowthat at the Roman festival of Quinquatria in 59 , Emperor Nero invited his mother Agrippina to his villa, as part of his plan to assassinate her?
Did you knowthat Antoni Heda , one of the most successful partisan commanders in Armia Krajowa Polish resistance in World War II , was sentenced to death on 7 consecutive charges by the Polish communists ' government?
Did you knowthat David Ross Boyd , the first president of the University of Oklahoma , planted nearly 10,000 trees on campus during his first 18 months in the post?
Did you knowthat the Kassel glosses , one of the earliest written documents of the Old High German language, form a practical language guide for foreigners and include phrases containing the jocular xenophobic jibe "Romans are stupid, Bavarians are smart" ?
Did you knowthat the Roman festival of hilaria , which allowed anyone to masquerade as any rank, was used in a plot to assassinate Emperor Commodus , by conspirators planning to disguise themselves as members of the Praetorian Guard ?
Did you knowthat by the time U.S. Civil War tokens were deemed illegal tender in 1864 , there were about 25 million in circulation, in over 7,000 varieties?
Did you knowthat Corné Krige and George Gregan , who respectively captained the South Africa and Australia rugby union teams in both the 2002 and 2003 Tri Nations Series , were born in the same hospital in Zambia ?
Did you knowthat former Governor of Guam Bill Daniel provided 400 longhorns and hundreds of horses from his ranch for the John Wayne film The Alamo , in which he also starred?
Did you knowthat the Chilean National Plebiscite of 1980 , which affirmed General Pinochet as president and approved a new constitution for Chile , was marked by irregularities?
Did you knowthat the earliest known Polish language sentence comes from the Book of Henryków , a 13th-century chronicle of a Cistercian abbey ?
Did you knowthat British Labour Party MP Roland Boyes continued in office after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1995, but his condition had deteriorated so much that, upon his retirement in 1997 , he was unaware that his party had gained control after 18 years in opposition?
Did you knowthat one can live, work, and play in Fermont, Quebec without going outside, because the town is bordered on two sides by a long building containing living, shopping, work and recreational facilities all under one roof?
Did you knowthat after Oklahoma Governor Henry S. Johnston was impeached in 1929 , it would be 60 years before another U.S. Governor is impeached?
Did you knowthat May crowning is a traditional Roman Catholic ritual in which the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary is ceremonially crowned to signify her as Queen of Heaven and Mother of God ?
Did you knowthat Rugby union is considered the national sport of Fiji ?
Did you knowthat the Constitution of the People's Republic of Poland abolished the office of the President of Poland , replacing it with the State Council of Poland ?
Did you knowthat the song " Run-Around " by jam band Blues Traveler was first played at the CBGB club in New York City ?
Did you knowthat Taiwan 's non-profit Industrial Technology Research Institute spun off Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company , the world's largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry?
Did you knowthat American tenor Charles Anthony has sung with the Metropolitan Opera for 52 consecutive seasons, which is unparalleled in company history?
Did you knowthat fuel burned by combustion equipment in large industrial plants is channeled to the atmosphere by large vertical pipes or vents called flue gas stacks ?
Did you knowthat the only recorded use of the phrase "We who are about to die salute you" in Ancient Rome was at a naumachia , a theatrical naval spectacular, not said by gladiators as is widely believed?
Did you knowthat the disastrous Battle of Beroia resulted in the disappearance of the nomadic Pecheneg people from eastern Europe ?
Did you knowthat Betsey Stockton , the first unmarried female foreign missionary , was a manumitted slave who established schools in Hawaii and Canada ?
Did you knowthat tissue transglutaminase antibody testing has superseded all older blood tests in the diagnosis of coeliac disease ?
Did you knowthat professional ice hockey player Duncan MacPherson disappeared in 1989 at the age of 23, and was found dead 15 years later on a mountain in Austria ?
Did you knowthat Piscataway Park was created to prevent development and protect the view across the Potomac River from Mount Vernon ?
Did you knowthat Sabantuy is a Tatar summer festival which features such contests as Tatar wrestling , horse racing, race-in-sack, pillar-climbing, egg-in-spoon-in-mouth-racing, and finding a coin in a bowl of sour milk?
Did you knowthat a Roman man once received the surname of "Tricongius" for his ability to drink three congii of wine (9.8 litres ; 2.6 gallons ) in one sitting in a feat that he once performed before Emperor Tiberius ?
Did you knowthat Akira Endo received the 2006 Japan Prize for his discovery of the popular statin drugs, used to treat high cholesterol ?
Did you knowthat when NASCAR driver David Gilliland won his first career Busch Series race in 2006 , driving for an unsponsored part-time team, commentator Hermie Sadler called it "the biggest upset in Busch Series history"?
Did you knowthat in 2003, the Cuban town of San Antonio de Los Baños had no water for 2 days while a 100-year old aqueduct supplying the city was being repaired?
Did you knowthat Ah Meng , a Sumatran Orangutan and tourism icon of Singapore , had breakfast with celebrities including the Duke of Edinburgh and pop star Michael Jackson ?
Did you knowthat hydrological transport models are computer simulations analyzing the movement of water pollution in rivers, and have played a role in aiding endangered species ?
Did you knowthat the breakfast room at Tullgarn Palace in Sweden is furnished like a south German Bierstube , possibly reflecting the fact that King Gustav V 's queen consort came from Baden ?
Did you knowthat Franciszek Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki , creator of the National Bank of Poland and author of many economic reforms in Congress Poland , also laid foundations for the industrialization of the city of Łódź ?
Did you knowthat the Swedish term yrast , meaning "dizziest", is used in nuclear physics to refer to nuclear states of high angular momentum ?
Did you knowthat J. Dringwell Rymbai had to discontinue his education due to poverty, but became the head master of a school and eventually the Chief Minister of Meghalaya ?
Did you knowthat Roman Emperor Trajan was heavily criticized for giving extravagant donations, called congiaria , to every citizen?
Did you knowthat Captain William Reynolds , a veteran of the American Civil War , formally claimed the Midway Atoll for the United States in 1867 due to its abundance of guano ?
Did you knowthat Ashta Pradhan , a council formed by Shivaji in 1674 to help him in administration, was one of the first instances of ministerial delegation in India ?
Did you knowthat the name of the Azeri settlement Ramana , with natural gas vents where Zoroastrians still hold fire rites, might, according to conjecture, be derived from Roma , the Latin word for Rome?
Did you knowthat Joseph Krumgold was the first author to win the Newbery Medal twice?
Did you knowthat Czech basketball player George Zidek is the younger of the only father-and-son pair to have each played in European club basketball title games?
Did you knowthat Governor James B. A. Robertson called out the Oklahoma National Guard in order to restore law and order during the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 ?
Did you knowthat Union for Active Struggle was a secret paramilitary organization dedicated to reclaiming Polish independence , with support by Austria-Hungary against the Russian Empire ?
Did you knowthat the Kutiyapi is a two-stringed, fretted boat- lute with beeswax frets ?
Did you knowthat Russian composer Ella Adayevskaya took her pseudonym from the notes played by the kettledrum in Mikhail Glinka 's opera Ruslan and Ludmila ?
Did you knowthat the Kell antigen system is a group of antigens on the human red blood cell surface that are important determinants of blood type and targets for autoimmune or alloimmune diseases that destroy red blood cells?
Did you knowthat Ann Hasseltine Judson was the first Protestant to translate a scripture into Siamese , and legitimized the missionary calling for Christian women ?
Did you knowthat the Motown recording " Do You Love Me " by The Contours became a Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 hit twice; once in 1962 and again in 1987 ?
Did you knowthat American sculptor Luis Jiménez , known for his large Southwestern and Hispanic polychromed fiberglass sculptures, was killed when a large piece of his work fell on him?
Did you knowthat the A8(M) motorway is the shortest motorway in Northern Ireland at only one mile long, and has no junctions with any other roads along its entire length?
Did you knowthat the Lviv tram , opened on May 5 , 1880 in Galicia (then part of Austria-Hungary ), is one of the last urban transit systems in the former Soviet Union to still use grooved rail ?
Did you knowthat people protested outside NASCAR 's headquarters after African-American driver Bobby Norfleet was not allowed to qualify for a 2000 Craftsman Truck Series race at Pikes Peak International Raceway ?
Did you knowthat Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini , said to be Christopher Wren 's favourite decorative painter , nevertheless did not secure the commission to paint the dome of Wren's St Paul's Cathedral , finished in 1708?
Did you knowthat one of the shotguns used by the all-male pep squad RUF/NEKS of the University of Oklahoma during football games is displayed in the Smithsonian Institution ?
Did you knowthat Tarquin the Proud modified the Roman festival of Compitalia to include the sacrifice of children's heads, but upon his expulsion , Brutus substituted heads of garlic and poppies instead?
Did you knowthat Aleksandra Piłsudska , a Polish revolutionary and second wife of dictator Józef Piłsudski , helped plan the Bezdany train raid ?
Did you knowthat Russian playwright Yakov Knyazhnin was once thought to have been tortured to death after presenting a libertarian play to Catherine the Great ?
Did you knowthat future High Court judge Sir John Vinelott sat by during an argument in a Karl Popper lecture as his mentor, Ludwig Wittgenstein , brandished a red hot poker before storming out?
Did you knowthat the French West India Company was so successful at recovering commerce from the Dutch in the West Indies , that the company became obsolete after only 9 years in operation?
Did you knowthat during the 976 - 9 civil war in the Byzantine Empire , military support provided by Georgian prince David III of Tao was crucial to Emperor Basil II 's continued reign?
Did you knowthat three trophies are given to the winner of the annual Red River Shootout , one of college football 's oldest rivalry games , played between the Texas Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners ?
Did you knowthat Boyle Roche , an 18th-century Irish politician famous for his risible use of mixed metaphors and malapropisms , was a member of the same family as Diana, Princess of Wales ?
Did you knowthat the 1040- foot -long Starrucca Viaduct in Lanesboro, Pennsylvania was the largest and most expensive stone railway viaduct when built in 1848, and is still in use by the Norfolk Southern Railway ?
Did you knowthat German tailor Franz Muller committed the first murder on a British train, in 1864?
Did you knowthat the Namibian city of Otjimbingwe was the capital city before the modern capital, Windhoek , replaced it in 1892?
Did you knowthat the Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band played a record-setting 10-hour drum roll in 1934?
Did you knowthat the British Levant Company avoided a fatal mistake of other chartered companies by paying their consuls and ambassadors a pension , so that they would not impose taxes on merchants for personal gain?
Did you knowthat Henryk Woliński , Polish resistance Armia Krajowa member, was responsible for the creation of Żegota and saving the lives of thousands of Polish Jews in WWII ?
Did you knowthat Yoshioka-Kaitei Station , located 149.5 metres below sea level within the Seikan Tunnel , is the deepest underground station in Japan ?
Did you knowthat tradition traces Clan Drummond , a Scottish clan from Stirlingshire , to Hungarian origins?
Did you knowthat because straw -processing was very important to the town, Twistringen ' s 750 th anniversary was celebrated by building the world's largest straw hat , at over 5 m (16 ft) wide?
Did you knowthat CRISM is a spectrometer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter , and will be used to find minerals on the surface of Mars ?
Did you knowthat Portuguese jurist João das Regras aided John I of Portugal by refuting the arguments of pretenders to the throne during the 1383–1385 Crisis ?
Did you knowthat Microsoft chose Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee Chris Economaki to author the auto racing history portion of its Encarta encyclopedia?
Did you knowthat Hewlett Packard 's popular LaserJet 4 range of printers included the LaserJet 4LC, the first printer designed exclusively for the Chinese market?
Did you knowthat the Malay word Merdeka has been used in both Singapore and Malaysia to describe the campaigns for self-government and independence in both countries?
Did you knowthat the Dover Straits earthquake of 1580 raised tsunamis in the English Channel , flooding Calais and Boulogne ?
Did you knowthat science fiction and fantasy in Poland traces its origins to the Polish Enlightenment , and that many of its writers are translated into foreign languages —with the notable exception of English ?
Did you knowthat Szinva Terrace , the newest public square in Miskolc , Hungary , features a small artificial waterfall built into the wall bordering the Szinva stream?
Did you knowthat the coat of arms of Greenland depicts a polar bear raising its left forepaw, breaking with the heraldic tradition of showing the right forepaw raised, because polar bears are left-handed?
Did you knowthat Chicago composer Margaret Bonds wrote her first work, the Marquette Street Blues , at the age of five?
Did you knowthat the last male-line descendant of Alexander III of Russia , Count George Brasov , died in a road accident whilst exiled in France at the age of 20?
Did you knowthat Epiphanius 's most important work, the Panarion , is ironically the only surviving source of information on several early Christian sects that he sought to eliminate with his writing?
Did you knowthat Francesca Caccini 's La liberazione di Ruggiero , which premiered in 1625 , was the first opera written by a woman?
Did you knowthat with the coming of Tropical Storm Henri , parts of Red Clay Creek in Delaware experienced a 500-year flood ?
Did you knowthat the Russian Party of Revolutionary Communism was dissolved in 1920 after a decision of the 2nd Comintern congress, which ordered there could only be one communist party in each country?
Did you knowthat the proposed Atlantica trade bloc would economically tie New England in the U.S. to the Atlantic Provinces of Canada ?
Did you knowthat polyphenol antioxidants are a class of over 4,000 nutritionally -derived chemicals linked to immune system and cardiovascular health, due to their cellular role of oxidative species scavenging ?
Did you knowthat Chile 's current Interior Minister , Andrés Zaldívar , was also a senator and cabinet member in pre- Pinochet democratic Chile, a prominent democracy activist, and member of the successful opposition to the subsequent military regime ?
Did you knowthat Typhoon Patsy ( 1970 ) was the deadliest tropical cyclone to strike Manila since the establishment of the Philippine Weather Bureau in 1865 ?
Did you knowthat although the Constitution of Singapore had been revised in 1958 to implement self-government for the then British colony of Singapore ,  self-government was only officially achieved with the Singapore general election of 1959 ?
Did you knowthat English architect Richard Roach Jewell designed many of the important public buildings in Perth, Western Australia during the latter half of the 19th century?
Did you knowthat Charles N. Haskell was the first governor of Oklahoma , and he played a crucial role in drafting the Oklahoma Constitution ?
Did you knowthat the Isted Lion , an important Danish war monument, was located in Berlin for almost 70 years, but was returned to Denmark on the orders of General Dwight D. Eisenhower ?
Did you knowthat John Roberts was an Australian businessman who founded the construction company Multiplex , which is currently building the new Wembley Stadium in London ?
Did you knowthat Ewale a Mbedi may have been the first Duala leader to trade with Europeans in Cameroon ?
Did you knowthat offspring of the Blue Wildebeest can stand seven minutes after birth and run with the herd at two hours old?
Did you knowthat the fruit of the colocynth is such a violent laxative that it was even used by pregnant women to induce abortion ?
Did you knowthat U.S. Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient Jay R. Vargas , one of four brothers who were decorated war veterans , requested that his medal be engraved with his mother's name instead of his own?
Did you knowthat the blind cave beetle Anophthalmus hitleri is threatened by poaching due to its curious name, which is a dedication to Adolf Hitler ?
Did you knowthat M. E. Clifton James posed as Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery as part of an Allied deception plan called Operation Copperhead in 1944, and then went on to play himself in a 1958 biopic called I Was Monty's Double ?
Did you knowthat Jean-Baptiste Le Blond , chief architect of Saint Petersburg from 1716 until his death, introduced the distinctions between state apartments and private apartments into French architectural practice?
Did you knowthat in Japan, the Simpsons are better known for appearing in C.C. Lemon commercials than for their television show?
Did you knowthat Perth Gaol was built in the 1850s to house convict labour, but by 1891, it was a geological museum?
Did you knowthat the native ornate plainchant of Benevento , Beneventan chant , co-existed with Gregorian chant for over a century before it was abolished by papal decree?
Did you knowthat the music video for the song " Vindaloo " was a direct parody of that of " Bitter Sweet Symphony " by The Verve , which was in turn a mocking recreation of the music video for " Unfinished Sympathy " by Massive Attack ?
Did you knowthat Aleksander Krzyżanowski , commander of Polish resistance in the Vilnius region, was arrested by the Soviets after his unit helped them liberate Vilnius from the Germans ?
Did you knowthat the Christian sect of Collegiants was formed in 1619 to defy the Synod of Dort , which had forced Holland to dismiss liberal ministers ?
Did you knowthat according to the U.S. NIH , elective c-section and natural birth have "similar degrees of risk" for most women?
Did you knowthat the Neo-Baroque equestrian Monument to Nicholas I (1859) is the only statue of a 19th-century tsar in Saint Petersburg that was not demolished or relocated during the Soviet era ?
Did you knowthat American country musician Cowboy Copas's private plane crashed in Tennessee in 1963, killing him and everyone onboard, including fellow country music star Patsy Cline ?
Did you knowthat the Diademed Sifaka is an athletic lemur whose small groups defend a rainforest territory of up to 125 acres by scent marking ?
Did you knowthat Britain 's regulations on bread sales, as originated from the Assize of Bread and Ale ( 1266 ), were enforced for six centuries?
Did you knowthat a type of reflex hammer was popularized as a medical instrument after two neurologists brawled in Vienna ?
Did you knowthat web notes were an experimental attempt by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing to find a cheaper alternative to intaglio printing , but ultimately failed due to quality issues?
Did you knowthat the prosecution of writer and poet Perihan Magden for urging defiance of mandatory military service has complicated Turkey 's negotiations for membership in the European Union ?
Did you knowthat Indian classical dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai was married to Vikram Sarabhai , considered the Father of the Indian space program ?
Did you knowthat the Railsback curve shows that on a normally- tuned piano , low- octave notes will be lower and high-octave notes higher than expected, due to inharmonicity ?
Did you knowthat Saugumas , a Nazi -controlled Lithuanian secret police of the 1940s, was modelled after the infamous Gestapo ?
Did you knowthat ANTARES , a neutrino telescope under construction in the Mediterranean Sea , will find neutrinos from outer space by looking downward, into the Earth ?
Did you knowthat Coldplay 's A Rush of Blood to the Head Tour featured frontman Chris Martin performing songs after inhaling a helium balloon?
Did you knowthat Szeged 's public transport company is one of only four city transport companies that operate tram service in Hungary ?
Did you knowthat Maraba Coffee , the first Rwandan coffee to gain Fairtrade status , is used to make the only coffee beer sold in the British Isles ?
Did you knowthat the legendary Tamil stage and film artiste K. B. Sundarambal was also a political activist, and the first film personality to enter an Indian state legislature?
Did you knowthat economist Barbara Ward , an early advocate of sustainable development , was the first woman ever to address a synod of Roman Catholic bishops ?
Did you knowthat climacteric years , occuring septennially , were considered critical and dangerous moments in an Ancient Greek 's life?
Did you knowthat New York Times theater critic Howard Taubman said, "it is the destiny of the theatre nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing"?
Did you knowthat due to protests and financial problems, the Saint Petersburg Dam was one of the Soviet Union 's most notorious long-term construction projects?
Did you knowthat shortly after Capt. William Swift was given command of the maiden voyage of USS Connecticut , it was recalled to port because of a bout of typhoid , and then run aground near Culebra, Puerto Rico ?
Did you knowthat Super Typhoon Kate of the 1970 Pacific typhoon season , which struck the Philippines less than a week after Super Typhoon Joan , was at the time the deadliest typhoon ever to strike the Philippines?
Did you knowthat 18th-century professional portrait painter Tilly Kettle was the first British painter to work in India ?
Did you knowthat, at the time of its construction in 1838 , the Moscow Triumphal Gate in Saint Petersburg was the largest cast-iron structure in the world?
Did you knowthat British pianist Antony Peebles has performed in concerts in 128 different countries around the world?
Did you knowthat the DSSAM Model is a computer simulation used to study water quality of the Truckee River , and assisted in conservation of two endangered species ?
Did you knowthat Abner Kneeland became the last person in the U.S. jailed for blasphemy , in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Kneeland ?
Did you knowthat cledonism was an ancient form of divination by listening to the chance words of passers-by, an example of which appears in the Odyssey ?
Did you knowthat in almost 100 years of existence, Ireland King of Arms granted only three coats of arms ?
Did you knowthat a client was an Ancient Roman who traded his vote for protection, in a similar way to the activities of modern organized crime ?
Did you knowthat if U.S. -based PacifiCorp decommissions the Condit Hydroelectric Project in 2008, Condit Dam will be the largest dam ever removed for environmental reasons?
Did you knowthat former movie actress Vera Ralston personally insulted Adolf Hitler in the 1936 Winter Olympics , and won a silver medal?
Did you knowthat a circumferentor was an important tool to surveyors for mapping the North American frontier ?