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Did you knowthat in Assa Singh v. Menteri Besar of Johore , the Federal Court of Malaysia found that an unconstitutional violation of a person's constitutional rights may be permitted through grandfathering of pre-independence laws?
Did you knowthat the earliest fossil reef formations that show high biodiversity , containing the earliest corals , form the mid- Ordovician Chazy Formation , reaching from Tennessee to Labrador ?
Did you knowthat Dave Burrell recorded Echo to honor an all-star group Archie Shepp asked him to be a part of during the 1969 Pan-African Music Festival in Algiers ?
Did you knowthat Espiritismo is the Latin American and Caribbean belief that good and evil spirits can affect health , luck and other elements of human life ?
Did you knowthat former New Jersey Representative Edward J. Patten was unanimously cleared by the House Ethics Committee of charges associated with the 1978 Koreagate scandal?
Did you knowthat Bruce Campbell was removed from office as a Circuit Court Judge in the United Kingdom after being convicted of importing whisky and cigarettes without paying customs duty on them?
Did you knowthat sleeve garters were first used in the 19th century and are still worn by poker dealers and barbershop musicians ?
Did you knowthat sonofabitch stew is a cowboy dish made with meats and organs from a freshly killed calf ?
Did you knowthat former New Jersey Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr. ,  co-sponsor of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act , served as the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor ?
Did you knowthat Robert Satloff researched the involvement of Muslims and Arabs both as rescuers and perpetrators during the Holocaust in the course of the Axis occupation of North Africa ?
Did you knowthat David Gross and Alan Kotok built Expensive Tape Recorder , a digital audio program that ran on MIT 's TX-0 computer circa 1960 ?
Did you knowthat the creator of the snack food Pirate's Booty was inspired by the ingredients of another brand's cheese puffs ?
Did you knowthat the Pueblo Clowns were priests in the Kachina religion of the Pueblo Indians ?
Did you knowthat the fast bowling during West Indies ' tour to England in 1984 was so hostile that England Test cricketer Andy Lloyd was struck on the head and hospitalised, despite wearing a helmet , and Paul Terry 's arm was broken?
Did you knowthat Tropical Depression One in June 1992 produced 100-year floods in portions of southwestern Florida ?
Did you knowthat Romanian politician Teohari Georgescu was dismissed from his post as Interior Minister in 1952 after being simultaneously accused of left-wing and right-wing deviationism ?
Did you knowthat the fourth Nordic Football Championship tournament was started in 1937 but did not end until eleven years later as it was interrupted by the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat Jennifer Pike was the youngest person to ever win the BBC Young Musician of the Year award, at twelve years of age?
Did you knowthat Air Marshal Sir Richard Gordon Wakeford flew Catalina flying boats in the Second World War , and was involved in the last sinking of a German U-boat on 8 May 1945 ?
Did you knowthat the National Language Authority in Pakistan is the first autonomous regulatory institution to have internationally standardized the Urdu language code table and Urdu keyboard for typewriters , teleprinters , and computer software ?
Did you knowthat in the Lithuanian calendar , three months are named for birds and two for trees?
Did you knowthat Winnie Winkle by Martin Branner was, in 1920, the first American comic strip to have a working woman as the main character?
Did you knowthat the Volga Tatars believed that the Volga Bulgarian medieval city of Aşlı was founded there by Alexander the Great ?
Did you knowthat A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant had its name changed due to threats of litigation from the Church of Scientology ?
Did you knowthat the official recognition of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Transylvania in the late 18th century was the result of the activity of an Orthodox monk who was canonized two centuries later as Saint Sofronie of Cioara ?
Did you knowthat the Ludlow Amendment was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution requiring a national referendum for declaration of war ?
Did you knowthat despite using sharp needles , bird control spikes do not harm the animals, and are recommended by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ?
Did you knowthat Jim Zumbo was forced out of a 30-year career at Outdoor Life magazine, had his television show pulled from the air, and was dropped from sponsorship by companies including Remington and Cabelas due to a single blog post?
Did you knowthat the Haitian palm , Attalea crassispatha , is so rare that there were only 25 of them left in 1991?
Did you knowthat Belarusian political authorities denounced Mitrofan Dovnar-Zapol'skiy 's book History of Belarus in 1926 as a "Cathechesis of Belarusian National Democratism", banned it and confiscated its manuscript?
Did you knowthat British Member of Parliament George Chetwynd seconded a Private Member's Bill to ban toy weapons because he believed they were an incentive to acquire a "gangster mentality"?
Did you knowthat Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa committed murder , kidnapping , racketeering , and tax evasion during the 1990s, all in an attempt to establish a chain of gas stations in New York City ?
Did you knowthat Derek Gardner became a leading British painter of marine subjects after retiring from a civil engineering career due to deafness ?
Did you knowthat Kobe Bryant 's agent, Rob Pelinka , was the only person to play in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship for both the 1989 champion Michigan and for both of the 1992 and 1993 runners-up known as the Fab Five teams?
Did you knowthat Fort William College , set up for the training of British officials, fostered the development of Indian languages ?
Did you knowthat the lower species diversity among certain mammals of New England compared to mammals of the American West is thought to be due to fewer glacial refugia in the Eastern United States ?
Did you knowthat according to legend, Joseph Stalin remained in Moscow during World War II partly  due to a prophecy from Matryona Nikonova , who he covertly visited while she was hiding from his government?
Did you knowthat Dembei , a fisherman stranded on the Kamchatka Peninsula in 1701 or 1702, is believed to have been the first Japanese person to settle in Russia ?
Did you knowthat when John Horden sent his Cree-language translation of the Bible back to England, the printers returned it with a printing press but no instructions on how to operate it?
Did you knowthat Italian - Swiss entrepreneur Carlo Gatti pioneered the sale of ice cream to the general public in London from 1849, and later ran several music halls ?
Did you knowthat " Nocturne " is the Eurovision Song Contest winner with the fewest words, the Norwegian language original having only 25?
Did you knowthat banking regulations in Russia include significant specifics, such as mandatory deposits placed in special reserve accounts at the Russian Central Bank ?
Did you knowthat on December 20 , 2006 , two members of the Italian Radical Party controversially introduced two homosexual figures to the nativity scene at the Italian Congress?
Did you knowthat fast neutron therapy utilizes neutrons , typically with more than twenty megaelectronvolts , to treat diseases like cancer ?
Did you knowthat the West Indian cricket team lost only two matches during their three-month tour to England in 1980 ?
Did you knowthat Weston State Hospital in West Virginia was designed in accordance with the Kirkbride Plan for mental illness treatment?
Did you knowthat the Port of Redwood City is the only deep-water port in southern San Francisco Bay ?
Did you knowthat Vakıflı is the only ethnic Armenian village in Turkey ?
Did you knowthat the Evangelist portraits of early medieval Gospel Books used compositions taken from the pagan author portraits of the Late Classical period?
Did you knowthat in Tampa , Florida in 1998, Hank Earl Carr successfully unlocked his handcuffs , disarmed a detective, and killed three law enforcement personnel before killing himself ?
Did you knowthat Artin Penik , a Turkish-Armenian , set himself on fire in protest of the attacks against Turks by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA)?
Did you knowthat Bernard de Marigny , a New Orleans playboy and politician, introduced the dice game craps to the United States in the early 1800s?
Did you knowthat the common idiom behind the eight ball is derived from the pocket billiards game of kelly pool ?
Did you knowthat British General Sir Charles Harington was president of the Hurlingham Club for over 25 years?
Did you knowthat in order to accommodate the rock musical Dude , the Broadway Theatre in Manhattan was turned into an arena filled with ramps, runways, catwalks, columns, trapezes, and trapdoors at a cost of US$ 800,000?
Did you knowthat " Black May " was a turning point in the World War II Battle of the Atlantic ?
Did you knowthat Stephen Gilbert was one of only two British artists to join the CoBrA avant-garde art group?
Did you knowthat Chip Berlet 's non-fiction book Clouds Blur the Rainbow: The Other Side of New Alliance Party was referenced in a 1993 United States Federal Court lawsuit involving the FBI ?
Did you knowthat British architect Stephen Gardiner wrote biographies of sculptors Jacob Epstein and Elisabeth Frink , both of whom were family friends?
Did you knowthat the Western Blue-tongued Lizard displays its tongue to frighten off predators?
Did you knowthat Anne-Marie Javouhey , the founder and abbess of a new religious order, was one of the first women to establish missions in Africa ?
Did you knowthat the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope , an annual and televised footrace held at Mount Cameroon , was first held in 1995?
Did you knowthat hundreds of historic tobacco barns in Maryland were rendered obsolete after many farmers took advantage of a 2001 state program offering to buy out tobacco farmers?
Did you knowthat Henry le Chen was put in control of a sheriffdom by King Edward I , despite being a senior royal councillor during the reign of King John , whom Edward deposed?
Did you knowthat Martha , the mother of Simeon Stylites , is said to have only consented to marriage after John the Baptist appeared to her telling her to do so?
Did you knowthat Alan de St Edmund , while in Rome as chaplain to Cardinal Hugh of Evesham , was made Bishop of Caithness after its previous bishop-elect died there while seeking consecration ?
Did you knowthat in 1828, Hillfields became the first suburb of Coventry to be located outside of the city walls marking the beginning of a large expansion for the city?
Did you knowthat cross-country cyclists are more prone to injury than road cyclists but the injuries sustained by the former are less severe on average?
Did you knowthat the spring and village Águas Santas are believed to be named for the spring where Marina of Aguas Santas was beheaded?
Did you knowthat retired District of New Jersey judge William G. Bassler is currently teaching at three New York City area law schools?
Did you knowthat bridges carrying India 's Grand Trunk Road over the Barakar River were washed away in 1913 and 1946?
Did you knowthat the effects of Hurricane Wilma in the Bahamas were generally unexpected and primarily concentrated on the western portion of Grand Bahama Island?
Did you knowthat some weather records include a 57.8° C (136° F ) air temperature in Libya , 3.8 cm (1.5 in) of rain in just one minute in Guadeloupe , and a 47.6 cm (18.75 in) circumference hailstone in Nebraska ?
Did you knowthat the offices of the Labour Leader , the newspaper of the British Independent Labour Party , were raided in 1915, and editor Fenner Brockway was charged with publishing seditious material?
Did you knowthat Canadian water slide manufacturer ProSlide ' s first water coaster driven by linear induction motors opened at Australia 's WhiteWater World in 2006?
Did you knowthat Indian poet Gopalakrishna Adiga is known as the pioneer of Navya literature?
Did you knowthat the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act of 1956 was said by opponents to be part of a Communist, Catholic, Jewish or psychiatric conspiracy to set up concentration camps in Alaska for political prisoners ?
Did you knowthat, after 34 years as Roman Catholic abbot of Coupar Angus , Donald Campbell converted to Protestantism in 1559, and destroyed the icons and altars of his monastery in Scotland ?
Did you knowthat 28 civilians were killed in the Bisho massacre in 1992, when soldiers opened fire on marchers demanding that the bantustan of Ciskei be reincorporated into South Africa ?
Did you knowthat George Crichton 's death in 1544 initiated a decade long quarrel over the position of Bishop of Dunkeld until the appointment of his nephew, Robert Crichton ?
Did you knowthat The Log from the Sea of Cortez documents a trip taken by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts around the Gulf of California , but neither is mentioned by name in the book?
Did you knowthat as part of a publicity stunt , the 1927 Texas Relays held a 89 mile (143 km) running race from San Antonio to Austin ?
Did you knowthat the entire Kannada film industry lead by Dr.Rajkumar participated in the Gokak agitation to demand the first language status of Kannada in the Indian state of Karnataka ?
Did you knowthat German painter Ludwig Thiersch influenced the debate over Byzantine and Western influences in modern Greek art , and painted church frescoes in Greece , Austria , Germany , England , and Russia ?
Did you knowthat Emil Calmanovici , the main financial backer of the Romanian Communist Party in the 1940s, was later imprisoned by Communist authorities and died as a result of force-feeding ?
Did you knowthat the performance of " Romeo " at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 , was the first time that a drag queen or any other sexual minority had been openly visible onstage at Eurovision ?
Did you knowthat 2007 Grammy Award winning single Eyes of the Insane by American thrash band Slayer had two alternative endings filmed for its war-themed music video?
Did you knowthat four artillery submarines were among many uncompleted U-boat projects planned by Nazi Germany ?
Did you knowthat the Hungarian village of Beloiannisz was founded in 1950 by Greek refugees ?
Did you knowthat Robert Adler invented the Space Command ultrasonic television remote control ?
Did you knowthat John McFee and the late Keith Knudsen were the only band members of the country rock group Southern Pacific to stay for its entire eight-year run from 1983 to 1991?
Did you knowthat to save weight while walking 1,000 km along the Camino de Santiago , Canadian fiddler Oliver Schroer packed a sleeping bag and clothes around his violin instead of using a case?
Did you knowthat Oscar -winning executive producer Randy Stone co-founded The Trevor Project , which provided the first 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention hotline aimed at gay and questioning youth in the United States ?
Did you knowthat large-scale Greek settlement in what is today Bulgaria dates to the 7th century BC?
Did you knowthat the novel Raptor Red , by paleontologist Robert T. Bakker , is told from the perspective of an intelligent therapod dinosaur , Utahraptor ?
Did you knowthat Japanese author Kodō Nomura , who patterned his fictional detective Zenigata Heiji after Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes , wrote 383 detective stories set in Edo period Japan ?
Did you knowthat the Potawatomi tribe believed that the natural pond in the backyard of the Chauncey Ellwood House in Sycamore, Illinois was once a watering hole for native buffalo ?
Did you knowthat Professor Józef Łukaszewicz took part in a failed attempt to assassinate Tsar Alexander III of Russia ?
Did you knowthat the Alignment is the only political party in Israel ever to have held a majority of seats in the Knesset ?
Did you knowthat the venomous snake used for murder in Arthur Conan Doyle 's short story " The Adventure of the Speckled Band " is most likely the Indian Cobra or one of its hybrids ?
Did you knowthat according to the framework interpretation of Genesis Chapter One, the first three days of creation are poetically reflected in the last three days of creation?
Did you knowthat the website of the rock magazine Rock Street Journal has a database of over a thousand South Asian rock bands ?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Wilma set records for the lowest recorded pressure and the smallest eye of any Atlantic hurricane ?
Did you knowthat an estimated 20 people died after eating peppermint humbugs that had accidentally been made with arsenic in the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning ?
Did you knowthat although Russian playwright Viktoriya Tokareva's writing style is often compared to that of Anton Chekhov , none of her work has been published in English ?
Did you knowthat the Polish manoeuvre in the Battle of Koziatyn in 1920 is an example of a blitzkrieg -like offensive before the advent of tank warfare ?
Did you knowthat the bulk of Bulgarians in Hungary descend from gardeners and other professionals who settled in the country prior to World War I ?
Did you knowthat Eric Jansson led a pietist sect of Swedish immigrants to Bishop Hill, Illinois in 1846, where they founded a collective religious colony ?
Did you knowthat Dwarkanath Vidyabhusan preferred to close down his weekly newspaper Somprakash rather than sign an undertaking for it?
Did you knowthat John de Ralston , the chaplain of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas , rose to become Bishop of Dunkeld and helped to arrange the marriage of King James II of Scotland to Mary of Gueldres ?
Did you knowthat although the series 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + · · · is ordinarily said to diverge to infinity , there is at least one generally useful method that gives its sum as −1 ?
Did you knowthat Ivan Ray Tannehill ruled out weather balloons as the cause of a rash of UFO sightings, which included the Roswell UFO incident , seen during the summer of 1947?
Did you knowthat a discharge petition can force a bill to be considered by the United States House of Representatives if the leadership tries to suppress it?
Did you knowthat children as young as three were employed to hurry around British coal mines ?
Did you knowthat Robert Coleman , owner of several iron furnaces , was Pennsylvania 's first millionaire ?
Did you knowthat the Vorontsovsky Palace in Ukraine was designed by the English architect Edward Blore ?
Did you knowthat the World War II Italian submarine Cappellini was in all three major Axis navies, before being captured by the U.S. Navy ?
Did you knowthat the Australian Test cricketer "Ranji" Hordern played for Philadelphia while studying dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania ?
Did you knowthat Charles Grant of the British East India Company wanted it to promote Christianity as well as trade in India ?
Did you knowthat the comic strip Happy Hooligan by Frederick Burr Opper is said to be the first comic to consistently use speech balloons , and was the first North American comic to be adapted into a movie ?
Did you knowthat the Russian Fascist Party was the most influential Russian émigré group in Manchukuo in the 1930s?
Did you knowthat the three-day S.S. California strike in 1936 triggered a wave of strikes by merchant seamen and led to the founding of the National Maritime Union ?
Did you knowthat the view that Jesus and John were lovers , considered a blasphemy , evolved during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries?
Did you knowthat the Grand Crimean Central Railway was built to transport artillery ammunition from Balaclava to the Allied troops besiging Sevastopol during the Crimean War ?
Did you knowthat the United States Department of Agriculture expects the boll weevil to be eradicated by 2009 as a result of its Boll Weevil Eradication Program ?
Did you knowthat in penny gaffs , theatrical entertainments enjoyed by the working classes in 19th century England , the plays were often brought to an end by a timekeeper, regardless of what point in the script the actors had reached?
Did you knowthat Nabisco 's bakery in Chicago Lawn was the biggest in the world when it opened in 1941?
Did you knowthat the town of Cheshire, Massachusetts created the Cheshire Mammoth Cheese , a four-foot-wide cheese wheel , to honor Thomas Jefferson following his Presidential electoral victory?
Did you knowthat the term " stay the course " was dropped by United States President George W. Bush two weeks before the 2006 U.S. midterm elections ?
Did you knowthat the unusual configuration of the running track at Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin, Texas – 84 m straights and 118 m curves – has garnered it a reputation as one of the fastest tracks in the world?
Did you knowthat after one group he founded was banned, the neo-Nazi leader Michael Kühnen began a policy of regularly starting up new organizations in order to confuse the authorities?
Did you knowthat the Broadway opening of the musical Wildcat had to be postponed, because the trucks hauling the sets and costumes to New York were stranded as a result of a major blizzard ?
Did you knowthat English theatre director Steven Pimlott directed a wide variety of performances from popular musicals , through avant garde theatre and Shakespeare , to opera ?
Did you knowthat Cornwall Iron Furnace in Pennsylvania is the only intact charcoal-burning iron blast furnace on its original plantation in the western hemisphere ?
Did you knowthat the Romanian Union of Communist Youth underwent a total of four purges, which resulted in the expulsion of tens of thousands of members?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Able of 1951 was the strongest hurricane to form outside of the Atlantic hurricane season ?
Did you knowthat Sulejman Talović , who went on a shooting rampage at a shopping mall in Salt Lake City, Utah , was a refugee from Bosnia and Herzegovina ?
Did you knowthat Peter Böhler and other Moravian followers founded the towns of Bethlehem and Nazareth, Pennsylvania ?
Did you knowthat Wye Valley Brewery ’s Dorothy Goodbody line of beers were all originally supposed to feature Herefordshire -grown hops , but the best-known beer in that line contains hops grown in Ireland ?
Did you knowthat in Islamic law , a mukataba is a contract of manumission according to which the slave buys his freedom from his master?
Did you knowthat Ishmael Beah , a former child soldier from Sierra Leone , was rescued by UNICEF and has written about his ordeal and rehabilitation in his new book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier ?
Did you knowthat Beverley Baxter raised circulation of the Daily Express from under one million to over two million during his four years as editor?
Did you knowthat ice-minus bacteria , a variant of genus Pseudomonas , are useful in agriculture , because they can prevent the formation of ice on crops?
Did you knowthat Ponary massacre lasted for 3 years as 100,000 Jews , Poles and Russians were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators near Vilnius ?
Did you knowthat Joseph Legros , who first performed in 1764, was the principal tenor at the Paris Opéra until his retirement in 1783?
Did you knowthat Archbishop Anthony Forbes Moreton Clavier was ordained as a priest by five different churches in five years?
Did you knowthat New York 's " Timothy's Law " mandated that New York health insurance plans provide coverage for biologically-based mental health conditions comparable to coverage for physical ailments?
Did you knowthat England 's cricket selectors picked " coloured " Basil D'Oliveira to replaced the injured Tom Cartwright for the tour to South Africa in 1968-69, triggering the cancellation of the tour and leading to the exclusion of the South African cricket team from international cricket until apartheid was abolished in 1991?
Did you knowthat Kazimierz Pelczar , a Polish professor of the Stefan Batory University and pioneer of oncological research, was one of the 100,000 victims of the Ponary massacre ?
Did you knowthat M. Athalie Range was the first black since Reconstruction and the first woman to head a state agency in Florida ?