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Did you knowthat the works of Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski were banned for several years in the People's Republic of Poland , following his criticism of the government ?
Did you knowthat only one percent of the Key West National Wildlife Refuge is above sea level ?
Did you knowthat Christopher and Cosmas were two Japanese men who travelled the world's oceans with the English explorer Thomas Cavendish between 1587 and 1592 ?
Did you knowthat Popeye Village , where the 1980 film Popeye was filmed, is now one of Malta 's most popular tourist attractions?
Did you knowthat a commission as an Admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska gives authority over "all officers , seamen , tadpoles and goldfish " under one's command?
Did you know that the Chartered Society of Designers is the world's largest and oldest chartered body of professional designers , and is unique in having designers of all disciplines?
Did you knowthat the Temple Sanitarium hired the first female anesthesiologist to work in the U.S. , Dr. Claudia Potter, in 1906 ?
Did you knowthat the Ahmedabad Stock Exchange is the second oldest stock exchange in India , and first functioned under a banyan tree ?
Did you knowthat the chrysargyron tax forced some Byzantine families to sell their children into slavery and prostitution ?
Did you knowthat Australian Olympic medal-winning swimmer Gary Chapman died in a fishing accident, after retiring from swimming to pursue this very hobby?
Did you knowthat spoons , eyeglasses , and toothbrushes have been removed from stomachs using endoscopic foreign body retrieval techniques with specialized cameras?
Did you knowthat in the 1930 Polish election , due to government censorship , opposition papers were reduced to using images of Nietzsche , because he resembled dictator Józef Piłsudski ?
Did you knowthat 19th-century German Wilhelm Hasenclever did not live to see the political party he co-founded get its present name, the Social Democratic Party of Germany ?
Did you knowthat the Byzantine Komnenian army was deployed in places as far-ranging as Italy , Hungary , and Egypt , and was instrumental in the Komnenian restoration of the empire?
Did you knowthat NASCAR driver Stephen Leicht , who started racing at age 7, was unable to participate in go-karting for 6 months after rupturing his spleen in an accident at age 11?
Did you knowthat Heraldo Muñoz , former National Supervisor of the People's Stores under Allende , is now Chile's Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations ?
Did you knowthat the film Autism Every Day , though praised by many parents of autistics, has been heavily criticized by people with autism ?
Did you knowthat Pando , an aspen colony , is the oldest known living being at 80,000 years, and the heaviest at six million kilograms (6,000 tonnes)?
Did you knowthat the deployment of Panjandrum , an experimental British weapon devised during World War II , invariably resulted in the random firing of dozens of cordite rockets into the air?
Did you knowthat John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle inspired one of the pioneering works of British satire , and half a century later, fell down the stairs at the coronation of Queen Victoria ?
Did you knowthat if one of the dams of Ukraine 's Dnieper River reservoirs is destroyed, it may cause radioactive contamination of the whole Black Sea area?
Did you knowthat of the 27 U.S. Marines in World War II who threw themselves onto exploding grenades to save others, Richard K. Sorenson was one of only 3 to survive?
Did you knowthat a zayat is a combination rest-house and religious school funded and run by Burmese Theravada Buddhists , as an act of daná (meritorious charity)?
Did you knowthat the remains of Henri Huet and three other noted war photographers , shot down in their helicopter over the Ho Chi Minh trail in 1971, have never been found?
Did you knowthat the EU legal doctrine of state liability was first introduced following the Italian government's failure to properly compensate laid off workers?
Did you knowthat the Grand Chartophylax was considered the right arm of the Patriarch of Constantinople ?
Did you knowthat the scandalous tales of Aristides of Miletus are still being discussed after over two millennia, although not one word of them has survived?
Did you knowthat the endangered cui-ui sucker fish was a staple of the Native American Paiute tribe for over a millennium?
Did you know that William Lee was U.S. President George Washington 's personal servant, and the only one of his slaves freed by Washington in his will?
Did you knowthat Stanisław Warszycki , a wealthy 17th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnate , gave rise to many legends about his cruelty, and several places in Poland claim sightings of his ghost?
Did you knowthat in the Penguins' Rebellion , over 800,000 Chilean high school students demanded education reforms from the government of Michelle Bachelet ?
Did you knowthat the victory of Alexios I Komnenos over the Pechenegs at Levounion marked a resurgence of Byzantine military power after half a century of turmoil?
Did you knowthat Tropical Storm Larry caused five deaths and US$53.6 million in damage when it struck the Tabasco state of Mexico , the first landfall in the state since 1973 ?
Did you knowthat a catholicon was a purported universal remedy taken orally or rectally ?
Did you knowthat a cento is a poetic work composed entirely of verses taken from other authors?
Did you knowthat British architect Ron Herron proposed building massive robotic walking cities in 1964?
Did you knowthat the poem The Absent-Minded Beggar was written to raise money for servicemen's families during the South African War ?
Did you knowthat Yucca Mountain Johnny is a cartoon character created to explain nuclear waste disposal to children, and has attracted controversy, being compared to Joe Camel ?
Did you knowthat Pallister-Killian syndrome is a rare congenital genetic disorder that cannot be detected through prenatal blood tests because it occurs only in the chromosomes of skin cells ?
Did you knowthat the Magdeburg Centuries is a 1300-year history of the Catholic Church , written particularly as a criticism of the papacy ?
Did you knowthat the Anichkov Bridge in Saint Petersburg features one of the city's notable landmarks, The Horse Tamer , a group of four neoclassical bronze sculptures by Baron Peter Klodt ?
Did you knowthat the Antikythera wreck , discovered by Greek sponge divers in 1900 , contained one of the first forms of a mechanised clock ?
Did you knowthat bay mud is a significant estuarine ecological resource, but went unstudied until humans began building high-rise structures near bays ?
Did you knowthat an unknown manuscript of opera libretto by writer Mikhail Bulgakov was found in Isaak Dunayevsky ' s archive after his death in 1955 ?
Did you knowthat missionary Roger Youderian almost returned to the United States one month before he was killed in Operation Auca ?
Did you knowthat the music video for the Fiona Apple song " Not about Love " (2006) features comedian Zach Galifianakis , and was filmed in and around his neighborhood?
Did you knowthat racecar driver Stan Fox barely survived a crash in the 1995 Indy 500 , but later died in a head-on collision on New Zealand 's North Island ?
Did you knowthat KATRIN is an experiment to determine the mass of the neutrino by measuring the energies of electrons given off from the beta decay of tritium ?
Did you knowthat the film BloodSpell , licensed under Creative Commons , is the first feature-length production made using the computer game Neverwinter Nights ?
Did you knowthat Gestrinone , a medication for endometriosis that is banned by the IOC for its anabolic effects, has also been studied as a postcoital contraceptive ?
Did you knowthat the catastrophe was the final resolution of Ancient Greek tragedies , in which one or more main characters usually died?
Did you knowthat the popular German snack Strammer Max takes its name from a slang expression for an erection ?
Did you knowthat Ukrainian Patriarch Mstyslav was enthroned at the age of 92?
Did you knowthat Johannes Rietstap was the founder of modern heraldic theory in The Netherlands ?
Did you knowthat although he was king of the Isubus of Cameroon , Young King William lacked the authority to stop the execution of a man accused of witchcraft ?
Did you knowthat General Tadeusz Jordan-Rozwadowski was one of the architects of the Miracle at Vistula , the decisive battle of the Polish-Soviet War in 1920?
Did you knowthat casting is the regurgitation of fur, feathers, and other undigestible material by hawks , to clean and empty their crops ?
Did you knowthat Chechen military commander Said-Magomed Kakiev has been declared a Hero of the Russian Federation four times, making him one of the most decorated Russian citizens?
Did you knowthat Jane Colden was the first female botanist to describe flora in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the fog which filled the stadium during the 2006 Super 14 Final forced some spectators to leave the match and watch it elsewhere, just to see the players?
Did you knowthat the rostral columns in front of the St. Petersburg Bourse were intended to serve as beacons and are still lit on ceremonial occasions?
Did you knowthat the GayFest of 2005 was the first LGBT pride parade in Romania?
Did you knowthat in the Bezdany train robbery of 1908, led by the future Polish dictator , Józef Piłsudski , the revolutionaries stole over 200,000 rubles ?
Did you knowthat the Caroline Books were a harsh argument against the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 , commissioned by Charlemagne and sent to Pope Adrian I ?
Did you know that Russian opera in the 18th century was dominated by Italian composers and singers ?
Did you know that HMS Prince Albert was the first Royal Navy warship to have her main armament mounted in turrets ?
Did you know that a carmen was a spell or incantation among the Ancient Romans , of which the oldest surviving examples are the Carmen Arvale and the Carmen Saliare ?
Did you know that Gabriel Fauré declared that his Requiem was "composed for nothing...for fun, if I may be permitted to say so"?
Did you knowthat Super Robot Wars: Original Generation , a strategy game featuring characters from major mecha animes, was originally never planned to be released in the United States due to licensing complications?
Did you knowthat children sometimes stopped the Parenzana train by greasing rails with figs ?
Did you knowthat principles governing the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) date back to the diet of Ancient Greece ?
Did you knowthat the second subtitle of title III of the USA PATRIOT Act largely modifies the Bank Secrecy Act in an effort to make it harder for money launderers to operate, and to make it easier for law enforcement and regulatory agencies to police money laundering operations?
Did you knowthat a carcass was a kind of artillery shell fired from a mortar or cannon to burn down enemy defences ?
Did you knowthat Major General Dan Harel was the Israeli commander in charge of the Gaza pull-out during the summer of 2005?
Did you knowthat starting in 1893, Krupp armour quickly replaced Harvey armor as the primary form of protection used on capital ships ?
Did you knowthat the true identity and current whereabouts of Philip Staufen , also known as "Mr. Nobody", who wandered into a Toronto hospital in 1999 and was diagnosed with amnesia , are still unknown despite an international search?
Did you knowthat the Crusade cycle is an Old French cycle of chansons de geste concerning the First Crusade and its aftermath?
Did you knowthat the Canadian government rescued six U.S. diplomats during the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran in a covert operation named the Canadian caper ?
Did you knowthat a bridge-playing robot managed to defeat two reigning European bridge champions?
Did you knowthat Indian revolutionary Manmath Nath Gupta was tried for participating in the Kakori train robbery but was not hanged because he was a teenager?
Did you knowthat the National Library of Mexico has a 1498 edition of Dante 's Divine Comedy ?
Did you knowthat Mount Burbidge in Namadgi National Park was named for Australian botanist Nancy Tyson Burbidge , who was instrumental in lobbying for the foundation of the park?
Did you knowthat Charles St. Clair was both a Scottish Peer and a York Herald of Arms , and was consequently able to attend the State Opening of Parliament in either capacity?
Did you knowthat informal cricket games often replace the original cricket ball with a tape covered tennis ball known as the tape ball ?
Did you knowthat Obaysch became the first living hippopotamus in England since prehistoric times when he joined the London Zoo in 1850 ?
Did you knowthat 9 of Indiana 's 12 native bat species have been observed in the National Natural Landmark Wyandotte Caves ?
Did you knowthat the collectible miniatures game Gamoja involves twin character pieces that are either good or evil?
Did you knowthat Baba Kanshi Ram wore only black clothes from 1931 to 1943 in support of Indian independence , which earned him the sobriquet of Siahposh General or General in Black ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Wuhan was the largest ground battle of the Far East theatre of World War II ?
Did you knowthat the family Caponiidae is unique among spiders because its members usually have two eyes ?
Did you knowthat Calyute was an Indigenous Australian resistance leader who led a raid on Shenton’s Mill in Western Australia in 1834 for a half-tonne of flour ?
Did you knowthat Chindonya are elaborately-costumed Japanese street musicians who advertise for shops and other establishments?
Did you knowthat akuaba are dolls, traditionally carried on the backs of Ghanian women who want to conceive ?
Did you knowthat YouthBank UK is a national grant scheme in the United Kingdom , operated completely by young people to provide financial support for community projects?
Did you knowthat Zarafa was a giraffe presented to Charles X of France from Mehmet Ali Pasha , the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt in 1826 , to encourage the King of France to end his support for the Greeks in their fight for independence ?
Did you knowthat virtual reality has been used to create three-dimensional simulated environments for rehabilitation ?
Did you knowthat Gordon K. Bush Airport was built to serve Ohio University and serves as the base for its department of aviation ?
Did you knowthat New Australia was a utopian settlement founded in Paraguay in 1893 by former members of the Australian labour movement ?
Did you knowthat American Jackson Haines is considered the father of modern figure skating ?
Did you knowthat Kolachal , India was the location of a battle in 1741 where an Indian kingdom defeated a European naval force for possibly the first time in Indian history ?
Did you know that the Chapleau Crown Game Preserve in northern Ontario , Canada is the largest game preserve in the world?
Did you knowthat Colóquios dos simples e drogas da India was a scientific text published in Goa in 1563 that included the first published verses by Luís de Camões , Portugal 's national poet?
Did you knowthat the National Art Gallery of Bulgaria occupies the Neo-Baroque 19th-century edifice of the former royal palace?
Did you knowthat the 2004 Texas Longhorn football team made college football history by being the first team to ever win the Rose Bowl Game as time ran off the clock?
Did you knowthat the British Army was the last major military to exclusively adopt a semi-automatic handgun (the Browning Hi-Power ) as their service pistol , retaining the Webley Mk IV , Enfield No 2 Mk I , and Smith & Wesson "Victory" Model revolvers in official service until 1963?
Did you know that hearing loss is a common occurrence in cases involving craniofacial syndromes ?
Did you knowthat Eastern National , a non-profit organization that started with only $147 of donations, created the national park passport stamp program, which has sold over 1.3 million copies since 1986?
Did you knowthat former Australian Olympic swimming coach Forbes Carlile is the only person to have coached and later competed at the Olympic Games ?
Did you knowthat drug-eluting stents are often coated with chemotherapy compounds, to prevent blockage by tissue when placed into arteries?
Did you knowthat the 1960 Summer Olympics champion heavyweight weightlifter Yury Vlasov was a candidate in the Russian presidential election, 1996 but received only 0.02% of the vote?
Did you knowthat Tropical Storm Bilis caused 625 deaths and $2.5 billion (2006 USD ) in damage to the Philippines , mainland China , and Taiwan , making it the most damaging storm of the 2006 Pacific typhoon season so far?
Did you knowthat the narrow, steep-sided Vall de Boí in Spain contains nine extant First Romanesque churches, making it the densest concentration of Romanesque architecture in Europe?
Did you know that during the American Civil War , Pennsylvania provided over 360,000 soldiers who served in the Union Army , more than any other Northern state except New York ?
Did you knowthat the Pactum Warmundi established autonomous Venetian communes within the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem ?
Did you knowthat Dorothy was the longest-running musical stage production ever until the 20th century , with an initial run of 931 performances?
Did you knowthat the wart-biter bush-cricket ( Decticus verrucivorus ) obtained both its English and scientific names from a Swedish practice of using the cricket to bite warts from the skin?
Did you knowthat during the Siege of Florence , Michelangelo was placed in command of the city's fortification ?
Did you know that Christopher Maude Chavasse was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire , a Bishop of Rochester , and an Olympic athlete ?
Did you knowthat there has been criticism of Pokémon due to the similarity between the original Jynx character design and blackface images?
Did you knowthat Clara the rhinoceros , the fifth living rhinoceros to be seen in Europe in modern times, became famous during a seventeen year tour of Europe from 1741 to 1758 ?
Did you knowthat the dispute regarding the distribution of the Zira and Firozpur administrative districts to India was settled as part of an agreement between the governments of India and Pakistan in 1960 , thirteen years after partition ?
Did you knowthat the first simulated patient was trained to act as if he had paraplegia and multiple sclerosis , in order to teach medical trainees ?
Did you knowthat life chances is a probabilistic concept introduced by sociologist Max Weber to determine the likely outcomes of an individual's life, on the basis of certain underlying factors?
Did you knowthat Catherine the Great named the Pella Palace after the birthplace of Alexander the Great , hoping that it would become the favorite lodging of her own grandson Alexander ?
Did you know that España Boulevard , the main street of Sampaloc , Manila , is notorious for its waist-deep floods during the Philippine typhoon season ?
Did you knowthat Indian trade unionist Dutta Samant led an estimated 200,000 workers on a year-long strike in 1982 , causing the exodus of the textile mill industry from Mumbai ?
Did you knowthat Subroto Mukerjee , the first Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force , died of choking in a Tokyo restaurant?
Did you knowthat pretelescopic astronomy was practiced nearly two millennia prior to the introduction of the telescope ?
Did you knowthat Harriot Stanton Blatch helped revive the American women's suffrage movement in the early 20th century, by involving working class women?
Did you knowthat University Park at MIT includes the building in which Fig Newtons were originally made?
Did you knowthat at least 36 tropical cyclones have affected South America since 1588 ?
Did you knowthat former Major League Baseball catcher Mackey Sasser was known for his difficulty throwing the ball back to the pitcher when he was behind the home plate ?
Did you knowthat Ram Shastri , a celebrated 18th-century judge in the Maratha Empire , created judicial history in India by sentencing the incumbent Peshwa ( de facto ruler) to death on a charge of murder?
Did you knowthat although the last game in the Battle Isle series was released in 2001, there is an open source project, Advanced Strategic Command , to recreate the series?
Did you knowthat the Greeks introduced wine to Romania around 3,000 years ago?
Did you knowthat The War Illustrated was a WWI magazine first published eighteen days after the United Kingdom declared war on Germany ?
Did you knowthat the Polish lake Morskie Oko was once called "Fish Lake" due to its natural stock of fish , which are uncommon in lakes and ponds of the Tatra Mountains ?
Did you knowthat Charles Gascoigne developed the carronade while manager of the Carron Company in Scotland , but emigrated to avoid his creditors and spent the last 20 years of his life organising the production of iron and cannon for the Russian Empire ?
Did you knowthat, at the pinnacle of its power, the Avar Khanate exacted tribute from the rulers of Azerbaijan and Georgia ?
Did you knowthat Dove Cottage was a home of the English poet William Wordsworth for 8½ years of "plain living, but high thinking"?
Did you knowthat Jogendra Nath Mandal was a Hindu politician who served as the first Minister for Law and Labour of the Muslim state of Pakistan ?
Did you knowthat Dana International was the first transsexual to win the Eurovision Song Contest in 1998 with the song " Diva "?
Did you knowthat due to legal restrictions, the first scheduled electric tram service in Saint Petersburg ran not on city streets, but rather on ice covering the Neva River during winter season?
Did you knowthat John Fortescue attempted to restrict King James I 's power by limiting the appointment of Scottish people, and as a result was dismissed from his position as Chancellor of the Exchequer ?
Did you knowthat the Communist Consolidation group was formed by Indian revolutionary prisoners at the Andaman Cellular Jail in 1935?
Did you knowthat from the 6th to 12th centuries, a large part of Dagestan was dominated by the Christian kingdom of Sarir ?
Did you knowthat the first professional football team, The Zulus , was established in Sheffield , England in 1879?
Did you knowthat although the Polish-Romanian Alliance , an important alliance of the 1920s, was still in force when the Second World War began, it had little impact on the German invasion of Poland in 1939 ?
Did you knowthat the fossilised remains of lions have been found at Crook Peak in Somerset , England ?
Did you knowthat Captain Humbert Roque Versace was the first Army P.O.W. in Southeast Asia to receive the Medal of Honor for actions in captivity?
Did you knowthat Paris has held six BIE -sanctioned world's expositions , but the most recent was in 1937?
Did you knowthat the makers of Winston cigarettes responded to qualms about the incorrect grammar present in the ad campaign " Winston tastes good like a cigarette should " with a completely new campaign, noting the error?
Did you knowthat the 1990 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships was the only World Championship to permit bodychecking in women's ice hockey ?
Did you knowthat the Dictionary of Western Australians and the related Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians are two biographical dictionaries which contain biographical details of over 20,000 individuals?
Did you know that the Zigong Dinosaur Museum in Zigong , Sichuan Province, China , established in 1987, was the first specialized dinosaur museum to open to the public in Asia ?
Did you know that the James J. Hill House in Saint Paul, Minnesota , built in 1891 by railroad magnate James J. Hill , has 36,000 square feet of living area and is the largest residence in Minnesota?
Did you knowthat The Colgate Comedy Hour was a musical variety television show that ran on the NBC television network from November 1950 to December 1956, and was the first NTSC color television broadcast?
Did you knowthat Horseshoe Bend, Shirehampton , a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Bristol , contains the largest population of True Service-trees in England ?
Did you knowthat Silvestre S. Herrera is the only living person authorized to wear both the U.S. Medal of Honor and Mexico 's equivalent "Premier Merito Militar"?