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Did you knowthat Hugh Denis Macrossan was one of Queensland 's shortest serving chief justices , a post also held by his brother and his nephew?
Did you knowthat Catherine O'Flynn 's mystery novel What Was Lost won the First Novel Award at the 2007 Costa Book Awards ?
Did you knowthat R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck wanted to produce Uncle Tupelo 's album March 16–20, 1992 after seeing the band perform a cover version of the Louvin Brothers ' "Great Atomic Power"?
Did you knowthat American mathematician and classical pianist Leonard Gillman received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1953, a decade after completing the required coursework ?
Did you knowthat the captain of the steamboat Natchez would increase his boat's speed by putting bacon and hog fat in its engines, and giving his men whiskey ?
Did you knowthat Pachycheilosuchus , an Early Cretaceous crocodile relative , was less than a meter (3.3 ft ) long and had an armored neck?
Did you knowthat the Hebrew term Illui , meaning genius, refers to Talmud scholars held in the highest regard?
Did you knowthat Traffic in Towns , a 1963 report by the UK Department of Transport , warned of damage to town centres by car traffic, and offered solutions to the problem?
Did you knowthat as part of the redesign of the Grand Staircase in the Truman -era White House , architect Lorenzo Winslow developed a series of maquettes , detailed scale models showing the proposed designs?
Did you knowthat the current Australian prime minister and treasurer both attended Nambour State High School ?
Did you knowthat even as he embarked on a 24-year career in the U.S. Congress , William Alden Smith oversaw construction of the Grand Rapids, Kalkaska and Southeastern Railroad ?
Did you knowthat the Noric language is attested in only two inscriptions, one from Grafenstein , Austria , and the other from Ptuj , Slovenia ?
Did you knowthat New York City 's General Motors Building sold for the record high price of $ 1.4 billion in 2003?
Did you knowthat Hermann Göring's chief art looter, Bruno Lohse , controlled a secret vault of looted paintings, discovered in Zurich in May 2007?
Did you knowthat the Rural City of Marong , a local government in Victoria , Australia , voted itself out of existence in 1994?
Did you knowthat Doris Day rejected an offer to star in the 1957 biopic The Helen Morgan Story with Paul Newman , refusing to portray the sordid story of a character that conflicted with Day's on-screen persona?
Did you knowthat the Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna Kingdom led to all the remaining royal descendants becoming nuns and monks in holy orders?
Did you knowthat Sir Christopher Chancellor was selected to lead the Reuters news agency in 1944, after keeping the agency's reporting from China operating during the seven years following the Japanese invasion ?
Did you knowthat the BBC have used Appreciation Index ratings to gauge reactions of children to their programming?
Did you knowthat the French flying boat Breguet 730 was designed in the 1930s, but didn't enter service in the French Navy until after the end of World War II due to the German occupation of that country?
Did you knowthat, before building the landmark Gandy Bridge , George Gandy was known for building a large successful theatre, originally derided as "Gandy's White Elephant"?
Did you knowthat Bruce Barton , in his bestselling 1925 book, The Man Nobody Knows , portrayed Jesus as "the founder of modern business"?
Did you knowthat despite dropping out of a screenwriting course at university before graduating, Christopher B. Landon went on to write the box office hit film Disturbia ?
Did you knowthat Spanish officer Félix María Calleja del Rey was named "Count of Calderón" after leading his outnumbered forces to victory at the Battle of Calderón Bridge in the Mexican War of Independence ?
Did you knowthat Eric John Underwood spent 30 years researching the effects of sulphur , botulism and the nutritional value of hay on sheep at Avondale Agricultural Research Station ?
Did you knowthat the Maniot pirate , Limberakis Gerakaris , was twice held as a prisoner by the Ottomans and spent the last fourteen years of his life as a Venetian prisoner?
Did you knowthat freestyle swimmer Kim Peyton , a gold medalist at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal , won a gold medal at the 1971 Pan American Games at age 14 and set three U.S. swimming records at ages 9 and 10?
Did you knowthat the influence of Ancient Greece on wine has played a formidable role in the history of nearly every major European wine region and of wine itself ?
Did you knowthat Eric Clapton 's guest appearance playing lead guitar on " While My Guitar Gently Weeps " was uncredited?
Did you knowthat the Anglo-Bavarian Brewery , constructed in Somerset in 1864 and now designated as an historic site, was the first brewery in Britain to produce lager ?
Did you knowthat Paul Worley , a Grammy Award -winning country music record producer and guitarist, got his start in the 1970s playing guitar for Janie Fricke and Eddy Raven ?
Did you knowthat the Canal de Marseille , built in 1849, is an 80 kilometres (50 mi) canal which runs through Provence to bring water from the Durance to Marseille , in France ?
Did you knowthat David O. Selznick acquired the rights to make 1957's A Farewell to Arms from Warner Bros. by trading the foreign rights to remake A Star Is Born that Selznick owned and Warner needed?
Did you knowthat Ric Williamson , the departed chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission advocated toll roads , including the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor , to increase his state's highway capacity?
Did you knowthat The Hazel Scott Show was the first U.S. network television series to be hosted by a black woman?
Did you knowthat despite multiple transfers of ownership, after 123 years trains still haul paper products over the White River Railroad 's line?
Did you knowthat Tabasco sauce heir John Avery McIlhenny stepped down as president of his family's company to serve in Theodore Roosevelt 's Rough Riders volunteer cavalry regiment in 1898?
Did you knowthat Englishman Christopher Merret wrote the first description of the méthode champenoise used to make sparkling wine , long before it was documented in the Champagne region of France ?
Did you knowthat Sara Gagliardi has introduced legislation in the Colorado House of Representatives to allow residents of that state to opt out from receiving junk mail ?
Did you knowthat Rastafarian Papa Noel Dyer , known as "the man who walked to Ethiopia " from England , actually hitchhiked ?
Did you knowthat some fish diseases are caused by carnivorous algae feeding on living prey?
Did you knowthat Alpine Club president Edward Lisle Strutt called the north face of the Eiger "an obsession for the mentally deranged of almost every nation"?
Did you knowthat although American law requires proof of a defendant 's " guilty mind " as an element of the crime , it is not concerned with motive ?
Did you knowthat Sir Condor Laucke was a member of the Parliament of South Australia and a President of the Australian Senate before serving as Lieutenant Governor of South Australia?
Did you knowthat no commercial boat has beaten the steamboat Robert E. Lee's 1870 speed record between New Orleans and St. Louis of 90 hours and 14 minutes to this day?
Did you knowthat a shell stitch is a crochet motif often used for decorative borders?
Did you knowthat before he died, Dr William Oliver gave his coachman £100, 10 sacks of flour and a recipe for a type of biscuit named after its inventor that is still eaten today?
Did you knowthat Canada and the Soviet Union were disqualified from the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships following the Punch-up in Piestany , costing Canada a potential gold medal?
Did you knowthat a pig named King Neptune helped raise $ 19 million in war bonds between 1942 and 1946?
Did you knowthat despite not being the most favored version of the three Mazda AZ-550 concept cars unveiled at the 1989 Tokyo Motor Show , the "Type A" ended up being selected for production?
Did you knowthat the Tuanku Ja'afar Cup was a cricket tournament contested by the national sides of Hong Kong , Malaysia , Singapore and Thailand from 1991-2004, and was won by Hong Kong in 9 of the 14 competitions?
Did you knowthat French physician Edme Castaing is thought to have been the first person to commit murder using morphine , 18 years after it was discovered?
Did you knowthat Nicholas de Balmyle , former Chancellor of Scotland , became Bishop of Dunblane in 1307 when he was likely in his 70s, but nevertheless lived on to hold the position for at least another 12 years?
Did you knowthat the Cascade Locks and Canal , completed in 1896 to allow the steamboats of the Columbia River to bypass the Cascades Rapids , were submerged in 1938, when the Bonneville Dam was constructed?
Did you knowafter years of studying airflow at supersonic speeds, Adolf Busemann suggested that aerodynamicists, who had forgotten his swept wing work until they got together again during Operation Paperclip , need to become ' pipe fitters '?
Did you knowthat Earl Bakken who invented the wearable cardiac pacemaker and co-founded Medtronic also created The Bakken , the world's only library and museum devoted to electricity in life?
Did you knowthat the Hoornbeek Store Complex in Napanoch, New York reflects the transition from the Federal style to Greek Revival in American architecture ?
Did you knowthat the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Wheeler that the Constitution alone did not give the government of the United States the authority to prosecute kidnappers ?
Did you knowthat Tom Wolfe left Farrar, Straus and Giroux , his publisher for 42 years and 13 books, to make a deal with Little, Brown and Company for his forthcoming novel Back to Blood ?
Did you knowthat the Ladies' Confederate Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky was described by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as "the most perfect thing of its kind in the South"?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Dombås was a German attempt during the 1940 Norwegian Campaign at using Fallschirmjägers to cut rail and road links in central Norway ?
Did you knowthat Leo Laliman , while accredited for the solution to the Great French Wine Blight , was thought by many people to have introduced the pest which caused the blight ?
Did you knowthat former The Daily Telegraph obituaries editor Hugh Massingberd reshaped the style of the British obituary from a reverential recital of biographical data to a cunningly witty yet deadpan narrative on the decedent 's life?
Did you knowthat actor Loren Dean won a Theatre World Award in 1989 for his Off Broadway debut in the play Amulets Against the Dragon Forces ?
Did you knowthat of the vast Silva Carbonaria , "the charcoal forest" that stretched from south of Brussels to the Rhine in Merovingian days, 44.21 km² still remains in the Forêt de Soignes/Zoniënwoud ?
Did you knowthat in parts of the Kerala Backwaters the paddy fields are at a lower level than the water in canals, held back by dikes ?
Did you knowthat 19th century magician and vaudeville star Anton Zamloch was accused, and then exonerated, of having "bewitched" a woman's wedding ring from her gloved hand?
Did you knowthat in the 1783 Peace of Paris , the Dutch Republic granted to Great Britain unobstructed navigation rights in the eastern seas?
Did you knowthat Australian poet and writer, Dame Mary Gilmore recorded her childhood memories of  the dispossession of the Wiradjuri people and the destruction of native habitat by European settlers around Wagga Wagga ?
Did you knowthat in 1957, Art Houtteman was called "a pitcher of considerable promise" by Hal Lebovitz despite playing in his 12th and final Major League season that year?
Did you knowthat the Workers and Peasants Party leader K.N. Joglekar successfully moved a resolution that the Indian National Congress should demand full independence for India ?
Did you knowthat the 1980s oil glut caused the world price of oil, which had peaked during the 1979 energy crisis at over US$35 per barrel, to dip below US$15 in the early 1980s?
Did you knowthat a former principal of Tubman Elementary School in Washington, D.C. received a national award for her work which included a discipline program featuring a due process system for punishment referrals?
Did you knowthat Humphrey Chetham founded Chetham's Library , the oldest public library in the English -speaking world?
Did you knowthat Tiefland , Leni Riefenstahl ’s last full-feature film ,  made it into the Guiness Book of World Records on account of its long production time?
Did you knowthat Reeve Aleutian Airways was started with a down payment of $3,000 on one DC-3 aircraft , and that Robert Campbell Reeve , the founder, earned enough money in 53 days to purchase the aircraft outright and buy another three aircraft?
Did you knowthat the sitcom pilot Free Agents is likely to become the third show from Channel 4's Comedy Showcase to be given a full series?
Did you knowthat the East End Historic District in Newburgh, New York , has the most contributing properties of any Registered Historic District in the state?
Did you knowthat the site of Endymion 's cave, where Selene 's beloved sleeps forever, a sanctuary on the slopes of Latmus , still exists in Aydin Province , southwestern Turkey ?
Did you knowthat two local Christians stopped by the dedication ceremony for Spring Glen Synagogue 's Torah scrolls and presented the congregation with a Bible ?
Did you knowthat the BMW R1150GS motorcycle was used by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on their 2004 Long Way Round ride from London to New York ?
Did you knowthat the Wellsville, Addison and Galeton Railroad was also known as "The Sole Leather Line"?
Did you knowthat football midfielder Evan Berger was nominated for an informal Australia Day award by his local council for representing Australia in the national under-20 team ?
Did you knowthat the unofficial representative of Soviet Russia in the USA , Ludwig Martens , created an illegal Soviet Bureau that established links with more than one thousand American firms including J.P. Morgan banks?
Did you knowthat although Were Ilu served as an organizing point for the Ethiopian army at the beginning of the First Italo-Abyssinian War , as late as 1962 this settlement was connected to nearby towns by only trails ?
Did you knowthat the drowning of Edwin, son of Edward the Elder , half-brother of King Athelstan of England , in 933 was described as an execution and a suicide by medieval English historians ?
Did you knowthat after losing the Battle of Toba-Fushimi in Japan's 1868 Boshin War , Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu took refuge on the USS Iroquois rather than spend the night in Osaka Castle ?
Did you knowthat All-American end Ed Frutig was the main pass receiver for Heisman Trophy winner Tom Harmon from 1938-1940?
Did you knowthat Bury Castle in Greater Manchester was razed to the ground in 1485, 16 years after it was built, because its owner supported the losing side in the Wars of the Roses ?
Did you knowthat the Louisville and Portland Canal , opened in 1830, was the first major improvement completed on a major river of the United States ?
Did you knowthat former Red Army Faction terrorist Stefan Wisniewski escaped from a reform school seven times in one year in his youth?
Did you knowthat the Paw Paw Railroad was the shortest common carrier railroad in Michigan ?
Did you knowthat Joseph Lazarow , then mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey , shook over 11,000 hands in one day to break Theodore Roosevelt 's record of 8,513?
Did you knowthat the 2002 Pi Glilot bombing in Tel Aviv was a failed terror attack at a gas depot that could have killed thousands ?
Did you knowthat in 1908 Eulabee Dix painted the last portrait from life of Mark Twain ?
Did you knowthat the Labour Kisan Party of Hindustan organised India 's first May Day celebrations in 1923?
Did you knowthat after being ousted as mayor of Georgetown, Colorado , Koleen Brooks posed topless for Playboy ?
Did you knowthat fishes from the genus Alepes are characterised by a curve in their lateral line ?
Did you knowthat the anarcho-syndicalist Argentine Workers' Federation was the country's first national labor confederation ?
Did you knowthat E. S. Kennedy – a founding member of London 's Alpine Club – proposed a modification to the mountaineering ice axe based on the American backwoodsman's axe ?
Did you knowthat actor Noah Bean says he was so shy as a child that his school asked his parents if there was something wrong at home?
Did you knowthat with a rapidly declining birth rate , Japan 's elderly, with the world's highest proportion at 20% of the population, is expected to double to 40% of residents by 2055 ?
Did you knowthat although Hillary Clinton has fewer delegates than John Edwards to the state convention of the 2008 Iowa Democratic Caucuses , she would receive one more to the national convention?
Did you knowthat Storm 91C of 2006 has been classified a tropical , subtropical , and extratropical cyclone ?
Did you knowthat the actors in the film Planet of Dinosaurs had to sign partial payment deferments on their contracts, because most of the budget was spent on stop motion dinosaurs ?
Did you knowthat the kitchen of the Conde-Charlotte House was originally constructed in 1822 to be the first courthouse and jail of Mobile, Alabama ?
Did you knowthat George the Hagiorite from Georgia who became Saint George to the Georgian Orthodox Church had his biography written in 1084 by a disciple who was called George ?
Did you knowthat before brick became available as a building material , churches in medieval Northern Europe were commonly built with glacial erratics and rubble ?
Did you knowthat in only his second Major League start, Dick Selma threw a New York Mets franchise record 13 strikeouts in a 10-inning shutout victory?
Did you knowthat Bombardment of Algiers , an oil-on-canvas by Thomas Luny , depicts the titular battle in which over 1000 Christians were liberated from slavery in Algeria ?
Did you knowthat Job Charnock landed at Jorabagan , Sutanuti ghat in 1690, which is believed by many to be the starting point of the metropolitan growth of Kolkata ?
Did you knowthat painter Herman Rose was noted for his Impressionistic portraits, created by painting large numbers of small blurry squares to create his highly detailed images of cityscapes ?
Did you knowthat Vorpostenboot , the patrol boats that the Kriegsmarine used in World War II , were in fact modified fishing ships?
Did you knowthat the Japanese role-playing game Night Wizard! was adapted into an animated television series consisting of thirteen episodes ?
Did you knowthat Bunscoill Ghaelgagh is the only primary school that teaches only in the Manx language ?
Did you knowthat the Little Guilin in Singapore is given its name because of its resemblance to the scenery in Guilin , China ?
Did you knowthat Winston's Hiccup refers to the huge zigzag in Jordan ’s eastern border with Saudi Arabia , supposedly because Winston Churchill hiccuped as he drew the boundary of Transjordan after a generous and lengthy lunch?
Did you knowthat the Sturmtrupp-Pfadfinder , founded in 1926, was the first coed Scout association in Germany, and that they had strong ties to Scouts in the United States, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Scandinavia?
Did you knowthat Sir James Hutchison , known as the " Pimpernel of the Maquis " for his liaison work with the French Resistance , was so well known to the Gestapo that he had plastic surgery before being parachuted into France after D-Day?
Did you knowthat despite its northern location, the Ahr produces more red wine from grapes like Pinot noir than any other wine region in Germany ?
Did you knowthat Pearson's Candy Company , a Saint Paul, Minnesota confectioner , once produced the Seven Up Bar and the Chicken Dinner Bar?
Did you knowthat upon his 1915 arrest from the lines of the 12th Cavalry at Meerut , Vishnu Ganesh Pingle is said to have had enough explosives to blow up an entire regiment?
Did you knowthat Ælfwynn became the second woman to rule the Mercians when her mother Æthelflæd died in 918 , but was deposed by King Edward the Elder and sent into exile in December of that year?
Did you knowthat when Rudolf Rocker became the editor of the short-lived Yiddish anarchist newspaper Dos Fraye Vort , he did not speak Yiddish?
Did you knowthat the amino acid glutamine can be broken down to produce glutamate , aspartate , carbon dioxide , pyruvate , lactate , alanine and citrate ?
Did you knowthat James Duncan helped co-found both the American Federation of Labor and the International Labor Organization ?
Did you knowthat the Warsaw Armoured Motorized Brigade of the Polish Army during the German invasion in 1939, was commanded by Stefan Rowecki , who later became the first commander of the Polish resistance Armia Krajowa ?
Did you knowthat during the American Civil War, Indiana , a Northern state, saw one township secede from the Union?
Did you knowthat the West India Fruit and Steamship Company ' s ferries carried cars and rail freight between the United States and Cuba until the American embargo on trade with Cuba ?
Did you knowthat children 's TV show Supernormal was developed by the creators of the controversial internet cartoon Happy Tree Friends ?
Did you knowthat the 1951 Polish-Soviet territorial exchange was one of the biggest border corrections in Europe after 1945?
Did you knowthat although South African rugby union player Werner Greeff scored only four tries , one of them was named his country's try of the year in 2002?
Did you knowthat the Canadian Order of Military Merit has three different classes?
Did you knowthat Siam Park , a water park under construction in Adeje , Tenerife , will have the world's largest collection of Thai buildings outside Thailand ?
Did you knowthat, despite being added to California's state highway system in 1933, the portion of State Route 190 over the Sierra Nevada remains unconstructed?
Did you knowthat in addition to the 22 suspects listed by the Los Angeles District Attorney in the notorious unsolved Black Dahlia case of 1947, about 60 people confessed to the crime?
Did you knowthat the Genoese troubadour Simon Doria was podestà of both Savona and Albenga ?
Did you knowthat New Zealand rugby union footballer Ali Williams did not start playing until he was aged 17, but earned three international caps before he was 22?
Did you knowthat John "Jack" Frost , the highest-scoring South African Air Force ace of World War II , went missing in action, and his body and plane have never been found?
Did you knowthat the 49th Hutsul Rifle Regiment of the Polish Army destroyed a large part of the SS Germania Regiment, in a night bayonet attack during the Polish September Campaign ?
Did you knowthat Czech figure skater Petr Barna was the first to successfully land a quadruple jump in Olympic competition, at the 1992 games ?
Did you knowthat in Greek mythology , Dorus is the name of the son of Hellen who was the eponymous founder of the Dorians ?
Did you knowthat Colorado state representative Cherylin Peniston won two Fulbright Scholarships while a public school teacher?
Did you knowthat coach Harry Kipke had to travel to the home of All-American Maynard Morrison in 1930 to seek his father's permission to switch Morrison from a fullback to a center ?
Did you knowthat the Roman emperor Probus may have introduced Syrah vines to the Côte-Rôtie wine region with cuttings from the Sicilian province of Syracuse ?
Did you knowthat the first major international chess tournament took place in London in 1851?
Did you knowthat California State Route 174 , which includes a historic 1924 bridge, was not designated a State Scenic Highway due to opposition by residents concerned about their property rights ?
Did you knowthat Helen Abbott Michael , originally trained as a pianist , became a plant chemist and earned her MD after a chance purchase of Helmholtz's Treatise on Physiological Optics on a trip to Europe?
Did you knowthat Yvon Pedneault is the only person to have worked full-time for all three Montreal daily papers, as well as every television station that has carried Montreal Canadiens games?