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Did you knowthat the plant Erigenia bulbosa is known as " harbinger of spring " because it is one of the first plants to bloom in the hardwood forests of eastern North America each year?
Did you knowthat Zhuangzi Tests His Wife , the first feature film in Hong Kong cinema , was the first ever Chinese film to be shown abroad?
Did you knowthat The Irish Famine debunks myths about the Irish Potato Famine , including one claiming that the country remained a net exporter of food during the famine?
Did you knowthat, at a congress in May 1921, all Socialist Party of Romania delegates who supported Bolshevik guidelines were arrested 24 hours after a vote on affiliation to the Comintern ?
Did you knowthat 1971's Out of the Darkness was the first Thai science fiction film?
Did you knowthat 1939's Indramalati , directed by the Assam poet Jyoti Prasad Agarwala , was the second ever Assamese language film?
Did you knowthat the efforts of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources have restored Indiana 's total forestland acreage to more than double its turn-of-the-20th-century level?
Did you knowthat on July 1 , 1940 , Romanian military units attacked a Jewish funeral in the town of Dorohoi , killing 53 people according to official sources, but more than 165 people according to Jewish sources?
Did you knowthat 18th-century operatic star Anna Maria Strada was known as "the Pig" on account of her ugliness?
Did you knowthat a promotional video by the band The Bastard Fairies was described as "child abuse" on the talk show The O'Reilly Factor ?
Did you knowthat over 53,000 Puerto Ricans served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Singaporean citizenship was first granted in 1957, when Singapore was a self-governing colony of the United Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat the steel strike of 1959 led to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history?
Did you knowthat in the 2001 Grand National , only two horses managed to complete the whole course without stopping?
Did you knowthat Canadian scientist Bill Mathews was a pioneer in the study of subglacial eruptions and volcano-ice interactions in North America ?
Did you knowthe Huguenot Hubert Le Sueur cast the giant equestrian sculpture of Charles I in Charing Cross , London in 1633?
Did you knowthat Yoshiaki Yamashita , a pioneer of judo in the United States , was the first person to have been awarded 10- dan grading in Kodokan judo ?
Did you knowthat the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus , founded in Australia in 1990, was the first organisation of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere ?
Did you knowthat Blackadder II , the second series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder , contains many tongue-in-cheek references to the plays of William Shakespeare ?
Did you knowthat the opening sequence to the 1983 Thai film Gunman was shot by the director, Chatrichalerm Yukol , while riding on the back of a motorcycle?
Did you knowthat because of its system of ravines , Toronto has been described as " San Francisco turned upside down"?
Did you knowthat the Roman Catholic Church objected to the English translations in the Tyndale Bible , believing them to be purposeful mistranslations to promote anticlericalism and heretical views?
Did you knowthat the Texas State University labor historian Gregg Andrews is also a folk musician who performs under the stage name "Doctor G"?
Did you knowthat Irish poet John Keegan Casey was released from prison on the condition he leave for Australia , but instead he stayed in Dublin in disguise?
Did you knowthat Norwegian -born merchant seaman Harry Lundeberg became a labor leader in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Dimitrie Gerota , who is considered to be Romania 's first radiologist , was forced to abandon this field after his hand had to be amputated as a result of radiodermatitis ?
Did you knowthat the retired United States Air Force lieutenant general Nicholas Kehoe became the President and CEO of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society in 2003 after 34 years of military service?
Did you knowthat the Alexander Suvorov cruise ship stayed afloat despite its crash into a girder of an Ulyanovsk railway bridge that led to 177 deaths, and is still in working order today?
Did you knowthat a Vihara is an Indian Buddhist cave monastery that takes its name from the Sanskrit word for "a secluded place in which to walk"?
Did you knowthat the Balık sisters from Turkey claim to be the only identical twins who are both professional opera singers?
Did you knowthat the 1935 film Joymati , produced and directed by the noted Assam poet Jyotiprasad Agarwala , was the first-ever Assamese language film?
Did you knowthat five states have declared independence during the territorial history of Mexico , and all but Texas returned to Mexico ?
Did you knowthat in Ovid 's Metamorphoses , the love between Acis and Galatea ended when a jealous suitor, the Cyclops Polyphemus , killed Acis with a boulder?
Did you knowthat Jamaican actress and singer Amru Sani appeared on the same 1956 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show as Elvis Presley ?
Did you knowthat Carla Thorneycroft married Conservative Party politician Peter Thorneycroft in 1949, after their respective first marriages had both been dissolved and almost 20 years after the two were first engaged?
Did you knowthat Indian copper plate inscriptions play an important role in the reconstruction of India 's elusive history?
Did you knowthat the first railway locomotive in China was in service for only 15 months between 1876 and 1877 before being purchased and deliberately destroyed by the ruling Qing Dynasty ?
Did you knowthat the Presidential Palace in Kaunas was used as a movie theater during the Soviet rule of Lithuania ?
Did you knowthat the eyespots of green algae and euglenids are the simplest and most common "eyes" found in nature?
Did you knowthat Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia claimed to have a tumor to hide the fact she was pregnant with the illegitimate child of her lover?
Did you knowthat Operation Queen was a joint British - American operation during World War II at the western front between Aachen and the Rur river in November 1944?
Did you knowthat according to the controversial Hockney-Falco thesis , the rise of realism in Renaissance art, such as Jan Van Eyck 's Arnolfini Portrait , was largely due to the use of curved mirrors and other optical aids?
Did you knowthat, in mythology , iron is often associated with blood , or used as a protective or lucky charm ?
Did you knowthat Yogesh K. Gandhi and his Gandhi Memorial International Foundation were investigated by the United States Senate and Department of Justice for contributions to the Democratic National Committee ?
Did you knowthat Japanese producer Genjiro Arato exhibited his 1980 film Zigeunerweisen across Japan in a specially-built inflatable mobile dome after exhibitors refused to screen it, and the film went on to win 4 Japanese Academy Awards ?
Did you knowthat the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum recorded over 1,200 violations of human rights in Zimbabwe by the law enforcement agencies from 2001 to September 2006?
Did you knowthat Edward Alleyn had to form a partnership with twelve others to meet the £1,000 cost to rebuild the Fortune Playhouse in London after it burned down in 1621 ?
Did you knowthat Sir Norman Hulbert claimed that That Was The Week That Was infringed Parliamentary privilege in 1963 when it named 13 MPs who had not spoken in the chamber of the House of Commons since they were elected in 1959 ?
Did you knowthat the musical Foxy was a total flop in Dawson City in 1962, costing its producers their $400,000 investment, but was revived on Broadway in  1964?
Did you knowthat Bandung in Indonesia was dubbed the " Paris of Java " ( Parijs van Java ) in the 1920s due to the European ambience of Braga Street ?
Did you knowthat more than six thousand Japanese people settled in North Korea voluntarily in the 1960s, accompanying ethnic Korean spouses returning under a repatriation campaign supported by the Japanese and North Korean governments?
Did you knowthat Chester Wilmot , the Australian War correspondent and military historian of the Second World War , was killed in an air crash in 1954?
Did you knowthat Ashoka's Major Rock Edict was the first and most impressive of Ashoka 's edicts, and is the only one remaining unaltered in its original location?
Did you knowthat the Percival Petrel , a twin-engine, low-wing monoplane with a tailwheel undercarriage , was used as a British communications aircraft in World War II ?
Did you knowthat Bodawpaya , an 18th - 19th century king of Burma , fathered 120 children?
Did you knowthat TIME magazine's Gerald Loeb Award -winning article " The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power " highlights the suicide of Noah Lottick ?
Did you knowthat, after a heavy bomb raid on the city of Heilbronn , raining fragments of the blast were lodged in cattle in the surrounding countryside, and that this meant days of slaughtering for veterinarians ?
Did you knowthat World Vision , an international charity organization, have developed various famine events that spread across the globe, notably the 30 Hour Famine ?
Did you knowthat Hilda Hewlett was the first British female aviator to earn a pilot's licence?
Did you knowthat Peter Knowles ,  a popular English football player,  voluntarily ended his football career at the age of 24, after becoming a Jehovah's Witness ?
Did you knowthat an inquiry into Sidhom Bishay ' s execution for his refusal to convert to Islam and renounce Christianity resulted in the dismissal of a judge and a governor?
Did you knowthat ABC-TV 's Broadcast Standards and Practices department placed a gagging order on the song " Jihad " by American thrash band Slayer during its live U.S. network broadcast?
Did you knowthat Katsuhiko Nakajima , a Japanese professional wrestler , represented as a freelancer by Kensuke Office , is the youngest junior heavyweight champion in history ?
Did you knowthat the citadel that once stood on the mountain of Tâmpa in Transylvania was never captured by an enemy force?
Did you knowthat the paintings of the Giant's Causeway by Irish artist Susanna Drury were so detailed that the authors of the French Encyclopédie used an engraving of one as a reference, and included it in a supplementary volume?
Did you knowthat Vodka Belt , an informal term for the territory where vodka is the most popular alcoholic beverage , wages a vodka war in support for vodka's traditional ingredients?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Katrina in 1981 caused two deaths?
Did you knowthat the charity song " The Magnificent " became a protest anthem of the Serbian anti- Milošević resistance ?
Did you knowthat the pen-name of the Kannada poet , Karnataka Ratna and Jnanpith Award winner Kuvempu , was derived from his full name " Ku ppalli Ven katappa Pu ttappa", Kuppalli being his native place?
Did you knowthat following its industrialization , Bridgeport , Connecticut became a manufacturing center producing such goods as the famous Bridgeport milling machine, brass fittings, carriages , sewing machines , saddles, and ammunition ?
Did you knowthat tradition indicates Nicasius of Rheims completed saying his prayer at his execution after he had been beheaded?
Did you knowthat the 1989 secret files scandal in Switzerland resulted from the revelation that police had been engaged in illegal surveillance ?
Did you knowthat during the 72 day session of the First State Duma in 1906 , a total of 391 requests about illegal actions of the Russian government were filed, but only two laws were passed?
Did you knowthat the Phyllodon , a small herbivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic found in present-day Portugal, may have been closely related to North American dinosaurs?
Did you knowthat in 1990, it was revealed that a stay-behind army backed by NATO had been active in Switzerland throughout the Cold War , preparing for a possible Soviet invasion?
Did you knowthat Fort Senneville , built in 1671 near Montreal , included the most fortified windmill in New France , along with a machicolation and other castle -like features?
Did you knowthat the 1957 film La Anam was selected as one of the best Egyptian films in history by the Egyptian Film Association in 1996?
Did you knowthat the Kalka-Shimla Railway track, a narrow gauge rail track in Himachal Pradesh ,  has a length of 96 kilometres , passing through 102 tunnels and crossing 864 bridges ?
Did you knowthat copies of the 1982 biopic Will: G. Gordon Liddy , about a Watergate co-conspirator, are stored in the Nixon Presidential Materials collection at the U.S. National Archives ?
Did you knowthat bergamottin , a chemical found in grapefruit , is believed to be responsible for drug interactions known as the " grapefruit juice effect "?
Did you knowthat aussieBum , an Australian swimwear manufacturer, was founded by Sean Ashby in 2001 when he couldn't find the "Aussie cozzie" style of swimwear he grew up with?
Did you knowthat Piers Corbyn claims that he can predict the weather a year in advance by observing solar activity ?
Did you knowthat Otto Orseolo became Doge of Venice in 1006 at the age of 16, the youngest in history?
Did you knowthat Shenxiu, one of the most influential Chan Buddhist masters of his day, is known as the “loser” in modern Zen circles?
Did you knowthat the F-111 fighter , the B-1 bomber , the Space Shuttle , and the Boeing fleet of commercial airliners were all tested at the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel ?
Did you knowthat Danish painter Carl-Henning Pedersen was known as the " Scandinavian Chagall "?
Did you knowthat the island sub-species of the Tomtit are much larger than their mainland relatives?
Did you knowthat when builders told Lou Henry Hoover , who designed her own house , that some of her architectural ideas weren't done, she responded, "Well, it's time someone did"?
Did you knowthat the gravestone of Abraham von Franckenberg , a 17th century mystic, is covered with as yet undeciphered mystical symbols?
Did you knowthat Billy Walkabout is thought to have been the most highly decorated Native American in the Vietnam War ?
Did you knowthat during the 1690 Battle of Québec , a group of French paddled a canoe up to the English flagship and under a hail of musket shots managed to return its ensign to the city unscathed?
Did you knowthat forensic scientist Paul Kirk , who is known for his work on the Sam Sheppard case, worked to isolate fissionable plutonium on the Manhattan Project ?
Did you knowthat a 1934 survey of Japanese language education in the United States found only thirteen professors in the whole country fluent in Japanese ?
Did you knowthat silent film star Norma Talmadge started a famous Hollywood tradition when she accidentally stepped into wet cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater ?
Did you knowthat the Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur , Géraud Réveilhac ordered artillery to shell his own troops in order to force them to attack?
Did you knowthat until 1947 in Spain , Eurosia was the patron saint of demonic possession ?
Did you knowthat Julius Fromm invented the latex condom in 1914 and marketed his invention under the name Fromms Act until he was forced to sell his business under Nazi rule ?
Did you knowthat VolgaGES in Russia is the largest hydroelectric station in Europe as it produces 2541 MW?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Navy 's Submarine Escape Immersion Equipment , a combined whole-body dry suit and one-man life raft , allows submariners to escape from depths of up to 600 feet (180 meters)?
Did you knowthat Ralph "Petey" Greene overcame a drug addiction and prison sentence to become an Emmy Award -winning radio and television talk show host and a guest at the White House ?
Did you knowthat the French torpedo boat La Combattante ferried General de Gaulle and other Free French leaders across the English Channel from Portsmouth to Courseulles in Normandy on 14 July 1944 ?
Did you knowthat the Romanian mathematician Simion Stoilow was ambassador to France and a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference in 1946, just prior to serving as founding director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy ?
Did you knowthat Procter & Gamble discontinued its praised "demi-couture" Rochas fashion brand in 2006, 81 years after it was founded?
Did you knowthat Fyodor Schechtel , the architect of Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal in Moscow , Russia , was expelled from his classes at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1878 for "bad attendance"?
Did you knowthat German Luftwaffe fighter ace Walther Dahl shot down 128 enemy aircraft in the Second World War , including a USAAF B-17 that he rammed in 1944?
Did you knowthat the Billboard top 10 live DVD War at the Warfield by American thrash metal band Slayer features one of the last shows drummer Paul Bostaph played with the group?
Did you knowthat Karaköy , part of ancient Galata , and an important commercial and transport center at the Golden Horn , was the birthplace of André Chénier , a French poet beheaded during the French Revolution ?
Did you knowthat Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young , owner of the Yung See San Fong House in Los Gatos, California , didn't want it to be a bungalow , but a "bungahigh"?
Did you knowthat Steve Crowley , a Marine Security Guard , was posthumously promoted to the rank of Sergeant after he was killed in the 1979 U.S. Embassy Burning in Islamabad , Pakistan ?
Did you knowthat the forty-six Recreational Demonstration Areas , built as model parks near urban areas in the United States during the Great Depression , later became national and state parks , and in one case, Camp David ?
Did you knowthat Giorgio Francia of Italy became the first non- German to win the German Formula Three Championship , by winning the title in the year 1974 ?
Did you knowthat the ancient Greek city of Cyme in Asia Minor was the largest and most important of the twelve cities of the Aeolians ?
Did you knowthat unlike other Young Bengal members, Hara Chandra Ghosh refrained from involvement in religion and social reformation?
Did you knowthat the 1983 rock and roll comedy film Get Crazy was a tribute to the famed Fillmore East theater, where director Allan Arkush once worked as an usher?
Did you knowthat the Lupeni Strike of 1929 in Romania was originally blamed on Hungarian propagandists and Comintern activists?
Did you knowthat at the time of his martyrdom in 202 , Saint Charalampus was 113 years old?
Did you knowthat despite having no prior experience as a professional actress, Teresa Cheung was nominated for Best Actress in the 2004 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for her performance in Colour Blossoms ?
Did you knowthat German toymaker Richard Steiff 's invention of a toy bear received highest honors at the 1904 Saint Louis World's Fair ?
Did you knowthat more is known about Neaira , a hetaera who lived during the 4th century BC in ancient Greece , than any other prostitute in classical antiquity ?
Did you knowthat taxi driver David Wilkie was killed during the UK miners' strike in 1984, when two striking coal miners dropped a 46 lb concrete block on his taxicab , which was carrying a working miner?
Did you knowthat the Bienwald is a large forested area in the southern Pfalz region of Germany , near the towns of Kandel and Wörth am Rhein ?
Did you knowthat "urban Indian " activist Bernie Whitebear was the brother of groundbreaking health care administrator Luana Reyes and of sculptor, curator and memoirist Lawney Reyes ?
Did you knowthat the Romanian Proclamation of Timişoara unsuccessfully called for lustration to be applied to former Communist Party officials?
Did you knowthat the award-winning Chinese film Cell Phone , with its box office profit of over ¥ 50 million, was the highest-grossing film made in China in 2003 ?
Did you knowthat WildlifeDirect was established in 2006 to support wildlife protection in Africa via the use of weblogs ?
Did you knowthat the Halmidi inscription , an Indian inscription , found near the tiny village of Halmidi , in Karnataka , India , is the oldest known inscription in the Kannada language ?
Did you knowthat a small Allied rearguard at the strategic pass of Thermopylae held off German forces invading Greece in 1941 at the most recent Battle of Thermopylae ?
Did you knowthat the case of Angela Carder , a cancer patient who was forced to undergo a caesarean section in 1987, established the rights of pregnant women to determine their own health care in the United States ?
Did you knowthat George Ormerod , an English antiquary and historian , was responsible for organising the restoration of the Saxon crosses in Sandbach in Cheshire in 1816?
Did you knowthe coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States outside of Alaska is -70 °F (-57 °C ) at Rogers Pass, Montana ?
Did you knowthat Walter Arthur Berendsohn , who successfully nominated Nelly Sachs and Willy Brandt for their respective Nobel Prizes , wrote Die humanistische Front , the seminal book on German exile literature?
Did you knowthat Nikita Balieff , a vaudeville performer, writer, impresario , and director, named his theater "Chauve-Souris" ( bat ) after a bat flew up out of the basement door and landed on his hat?
Did you knowthat Mandritsa is known as the only Albanian village in Bulgaria ?
Did you knowthat Matild Manukyan , a wealthy Turkish businesswoman of Armenian origin, made her fortune as a brothel owner?
Did you knowthat a 2005 compendium of The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate , held annually at the University of Chicago since 1946, included contributions by Nobel Prize winners Milton Friedman and Leon M. Lederman ?
Did you knowthat the Barbarigo was a World War II Italian submarine that mysteriously disappeared in 1943?
Did you knowthat the Downtown Historic District of San Jose , California , an area of just one square block , contains buildings of six different architectural styles ?
Did you knowthat Anthony Baldinucci , a Jesuit priest , often carried a cross and wore heavy chains while walking barefoot into towns where he was conducting missions ?
Did you knowthat when the Dovre Railway was inaugurated in 1921, the train returning with the prominent guests crashed in the Nidareid train disaster , killing six people?
Did you knowthat " E depois do adeus " was one of two songs played on Portuguese radio to signal the beginning of the Carnation Revolution in 1974 ?
Did you knowthat during a 90-minute period on January 30 , 1996 , three commuters fell into the gap at the Long Island Rail Road station at Syosset due to icy platform conditions?
Did you knowthat Harry Kent worked both as a manufacturer of munitions and as a pub landlord whilst managing Watford F.C. ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has several programs aimed at conserving the habitat of the mission blue butterfly ?
Did you knowthat during his Eastern journey Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovitch of Russia visited Egypt , India , China and Japan travelling a distance of more than 51,000 km (31,500 mi)?
Did you knowthat Scieno Sitter , a content-control software package created by the Church of Scientology , was referred to in the 2006 fictional film The Bridge ?
Did you knowthat Larry Blakeney , the current head coach of the Troy Trojans football team, is one of only two men to take a college football team from Division II to Division I -AA and then Division I-A?
Did you knowthat the main tennis court at the Stade de Roland Garros , the home of the French Open in Paris , was renamed in honour of Philippe Chatrier , a former Davis Cup player and president of the International Tennis Federation from 1977 to 1991?
Did you knowthat Brigadier Sir Otho Prior-Palmer , a British Conservative Member of Parliament , accused a Labour MP of "never [having] done a damned day's work in his life", and claimed that Labour sent someone to stop Spitfire construction?
Did you knowthat Australian cricketer Karen Rolton has scored the most runs for the Australian women's cricket team in women's Test cricket ?
Did you knowthat the Romanian Communist ideologue Iosif Chişinevschi distanced himself from his Jewish origins and publicly supported the persecution of Jews?