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Did you knowthat the Kiva Koffeehouse in the Canyons of the Escalante was designed by Bradshaw Bowman, the inventor of Bomanite , on property his family has owned since homesteading it in the 1860s ?
Did you knowthat James Wayne "Jim" Tucker of suburban New Orleans will in 2008 become the first Republican Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives since Reconstruction ?
Did you knowthat Betzy Kjelsberg , a Norwegian member of the international feminist movement , founded or co-founded six women's rights associations and organizations?
Did you knowthat Jim Hermiston , a member of the Aberdeen FC "Hall of Fame" , was cited for bravery after intervening in a bank robbery in Brisbane in 1999?
Did you knowthat Asit Kumar Haldar was the first Indian fellow at the Royal Society of Arts ?
Did you knowthat the Bristol Packers American football team won every game in its debut season, but failed to win any in its final year?
Did you knowthat Robert L. Howard received his Congressional Medal of Honor while part of a Hatchet Force operating near the Laos – Cambodia border during the Vietnam War in 1968 ?
Did you knowthat the Lachine massacre , in which Iroquois warriors destroyed a New France settlement on Montreal Island , was instigated by English forces in New York following the declaration of King William's War ?
Did you knowthat the field of DNA nanotechnology has used the unique molecular recognition properties of DNA to construct two-dimensional lattices, nanomechanical devices , computers , polyhedra, and even a smiley face out of DNA?
Did you knowthat Henry Lomb became a co-founder of the Bausch & Lomb Company when he loaned $60 to his friend John Jacob Bausch ?
Did you knowthat in 1846, Albert Tirrell became the first to successfully use sleepwalking as a defense for murder and arson in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Frank Rennie joined the New Zealand Army at age 16, to prove to himself 20 months in hospital hadn't crippled him, and went on to become Colonel?
Did you knowthat American federal judge James Alger Fee ruled in 1942 that Minoru Yasui lost his U.S. citizenship after Yasui had worked for the Japanese consulate until the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
Did you knowthat the 6th Canadian Infantry Division was raised in 1942 and disbanded in 1945 without having taken part in any World War II fighting?
Did you knowthat Dennis Franklin was the first African American quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines football team?
Did you knowthat the Lombardy wine region of Franciacorta produces a style of sparkling wine that is more bubbly than frizzante but has less carbon dioxide than most sparkling wines?
Did you knowthat scientists have used microbaroms for inverse remote sensing of the upper atmosphere?
Did you knowthat the first Earl of Wiltshire was a Breton viscount, Harvey of Léon , who served Stephen of England in the first phase of the civil war called the Anarchy ?
Did you knowthat  royal favourites were often compared to mushrooms , as they sprang up overnight, and grew in excrement ?
Did you knowthat " Here I Am ", the song chosen for the winner of Australian Idol 2007 to release as a single , has been heavily criticised by both finalists?
Did you knowthat William Hopper became the founder Chairman of the Institute for Fiscal Studies with hopes that it would lead to a more rational system of taxation in the United Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat Bob Timberlake , an unsuccessful placekicker for the New York Giants who made only 1 of 15 field goal attempts in his NFL career, was an award-winning quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines before he was drafted in 1965 ?
Did you knowthat the Mosque of the Rose in Istanbul is so named because on the day of the Fall of Constantinople the building was adorned with garlands of roses ?
Did you knowthat the title of Dan Castellaneta 's album of comedy sketches I Am Not Homer is a parody of Leonard Nimoy 's first autobiography I Am Not Spock ?
Did you knowthat in the 1659 English play The English Moor , noted for its use of blackface make-up, one main character implies that Blacks and Whites are created equal by God?
Did you knowthat Project Lauren is the codename for an unannounced British airline that will provide service between the U.S. and continental Europe, bypassing the U.K., and that aircraft have already been acquired?
Did you knowthat June Bride , filmed with two versions of a dialog naming the candidates to the 1948 U.S presidency, opened in theaters with the wrong future president?
Did you knowthat John Mawe , who studied the mineralogy of Derbyshire , was arrested as a spy in 1805 before publishing accounts of his travels in Brazil ?
Did you knowthat Richard Whitaker 's research into the correlation between surface temperature in the Pacific Ocean and rainfall in Australia contributed to the discovery of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation ?
Did you knowthat there are more than 40 Community Rail Partnerships supporting local rail lines in the United Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat double-stranded RNA viruses cause everything from gastroenteritis in young children to bluetongue disease in livestock?
Did you knowthat in Amgen v Hoechst , the House of Lords affirmed that an incredible similarity between two patents does not constitute patent infringement in the UK ?
Did you knowthat as Navy production chief during World War II , electric drive pioneer Samuel Murray Robinson became the first staff officer to attain the rank of four-star admiral in the history of the United States Navy ?
Did you knowthat although Adam Freeland has said that his 2003 song We Want Your Soul is about "the destructive side of consumer culture", Target tried to license the song for use in a commercial?
Did you knowthat some types of human learning can be described mathematically by Oja's rule , which is commonly used in image processing software?
Did you knowthat Filipino film producer Narcisa de Leon did not start her career in the film industry till she was 61 years old?
Did you knowthat the Pompallier Mission is New Zealand 's oldest industrial building and printed some of the earliest texts in Māori ?
Did you knowthat xenobiotic metabolism is the set of metabolic pathways that detoxify xenobiotics , such as drugs and poisons ?
Did you knowthat Emma Cunningham was acquitted of the 1857 murder of her landlord because she falsely claimed to be pregnant by him, and Victorian morality prevented doctors from physically examining her?
Did you knowthat a prokaryotic cytoskeleton has been found in prokaryote organisms by recent advances in visualization technology?
Did you knowthat Roger Wilmut went on from typing out the episode list of a BBC comedy show to become a Guardian Top 10 author of books about British comedy?
Did you knowthat Chambercombe Manor is said to be one of the most haunted buildings in the United Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company produced 90 navy tanker ships in two years, from 1943-1945 and employed over 18,000 people while doing so?
Did you knowthat noitulovE , a cinema and television advertising campaign for Guinness draught stout , won more awards than any other commercial worldwide in 2006?
Did you knowthat James Tennant took over from Sarah Mawe as "Mineralogist to Her Majesty" and he supervised the recutting of the Koh-i-Noor diamond?
Did you knowthat the hazardous Welland Canal Bridge 15 featured a bell ringing whenever a ship made contact, warning the crew to check for damage?
Did you knowthat Rob Carpenter retired from the National Football League after catching his second touchdown in the 1995 NFL playoffs ?
Did you knowthat Mel Rose , the runner-up on the seventh cycle of America's Next Top Model , dropped the " -issa " from her first name because she "didn't need it"?
Did you knowthat the subject of sex was central to The Antipodes , an English Renaissance play by Richard Brome , first performed by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Salisbury Court Theatre in 1637?
Did you knowthat Colorado Rep. Stella Garza-Hicks dropped out of high school in the ninth grade ?
Did you knowthat Bertram Fraser-Reid is a Jamaica-born chemist who founded a non-profit organization to find cures for tropical parasitic diseases like malaria ?
Did you knowthat the Champawat tigress and the Tsavo lions had suffered injuries that disabled them from pursuing their natural prey, leading them to become man-eaters ?
Did you knowthat the Barack Obama Muslim rumor has been circulating on the Internet since 2004 ?
Did you knowthat the Théâtrophone service (1890-1932) allowed the subscribers to listen to opera and theatre performances over the telephone lines?
Did you knowthat the T.G. Richards and Company Store is the oldest brick building in Washington ?
Did you knowthat during the negotiations in Ostrów in 1392, the principal Polish negotiator, Henry of Masovia , bishop of Płock , fell in love with the sister of his opponent, Vytautas the Great ?
Did you knowthat a series of storms in south-east Queensland spawned two of the most powerful tornadoes in recorded Australian history?
Did you knowthat Arthur Segal was prevented from exhibiting his art in Germany because of his Jewish background?
Did you knowthat the massacre in Vinnytsia by the Soviet secret police NKVD in the purges of 1937-1938 was investigated in 1943 during the German invasion of Ukraine and used in the propaganda war against the Soviet Union?
Did you knowthat U.S. activist Kit Bakke went on from being considered a terrorist with a 400-page FBI file to become a nurse for children with cancer?
Did you knowthat forest brother Alfred Käärmann hid for 7 years from Soviet officials, spent 15 years in Siberian prison camps , had his passport stamped "annulled" and was banished from Estonia until 1981?
Did you knowthat flutist Masakazu Yoshizawa was hired by John Williams to play the shakuhachi for the Jurassic Park soundtrack because the instrument sounded "like a dinosaur 's cry"?
Did you knowthat the Allegheny Arsenal explosion on September 17 , 1862 was the single largest civilian disaster during the American Civil War ?
Did you knowthat Robert G. Pugh and his son, Robert, Jr., were the first father-son team to present oral arguments together before the United States Supreme Court ?
Did you knowthat the French chemist Louis Pasteur owned a vineyard in the Jura wine region that is still producing wine today?
Did you knowthat Yegor Ligachev is renowned for being Gorbachev's main critic, even though he has repudiated that in many speeches and his memoirs?
Did you knowthat the city of Union Valley, Texas , population 226, incorporated in 2007 out of fear of annexation by neighboring cities?
Did you knowthat football referees in England officiate at eleven different levels according to ability, activity and age?
Did you knowthat Georgia Tech professor Mark Guzdial was the inventor of Swiki , one of the earliest wiki engines?
Did you knowthat Gordon K. Douglass qualified for the Canadian national canoe paddling team, but was not allowed to go to the 1936 Olympics because he was American ?
Did you knowthat the Telefon Hírmondó was the longest-running telephone newspaper ?
Did you knowthat the aphid Brevicoryne brassicae has been called a "walking mustard oil bomb" due to its use of glucosinolates as a chemical defense mechanism against predators ?
Did you knowthat the ill-fated Yen Bai mutiny proceeded because a messenger sent to delay the mutiny was intercepted?
Did you knowthat 16th-century English diplomat Francis Bryan disgraced himself by throwing eggs and stones at the common people during a mission to Paris ?
Did you knowthat the International Olympic Committee has shortlisted five cities — Athens , Bangkok , Moscow , Singapore and Turin — out of nine bids to host the first Youth Olympic Games in 2010 ?
Did you knowthat a Catalan wine was secretly added to the classified Bordeaux wine category of the 1979 Gault Millau Wine Olympics and won?
Did you knowthat John John Florence was the youngest ever surfer to compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing ?
Did you knowthat the Barotse Floodplain is the second largest wetland in Zambia and also one of the most productive areas for raising cattle in the country?
Did you knowthat Ashta Lakshmi are a group of Hindu goddesses who preside over eight sources of wealth?
Did you knowthat Singapore's 5.4-ton Pegasus is the first helicopter -portable 155mm howitzer with a self-propelled capability?
Did you knowthat an Australian chief justice Terence John Higgins dismissed a defamation case alleging "lazy journalism" against an Australian journalist even though he found that the claim wasn't true?
Did you knowthat the River Bourne in Kent used to power a dozen mills in its 10 mile length?
Did you knowthat stock investor Ronald S. Baron has nonetheless been nicknamed "the Count" since his student days?
Did you knowthat the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack was the first bioterrorism attack in the United States , and one of only two confirmed terrorist uses of biological weapons to harm humans?
Did you knowthat Rapides-des-Joachims, Quebec has no paved road connection with the rest of Quebec ?
Did you knowthat the first McDonald's restaurant in Eastern Europe was opened March 24 1988 in a former family house in Belgrade , constructed by Serbian architect Dimitrije T. Leko in 1893 ?
Did you knowthat the Mongolian Stock Exchange in Ulaanbaatar , the world's smallest by market capitalisation , is housed in a refurbished children's cinema?
Did you knowthat a Cambridge University society has launched high altitude balloons that have taken a picture of the earth's curvature from a height of 32 km?
Did you knowthat, while a legislator in Colorado , Dan Gibbs trained as a volunteer firefighter and was deployed to fight the Santiago Fire during the October 2007 California wildfire epidemic ?
Did you knowthat the wallet of Scottish curate Arnold Spencer-Smith was found in Captain Scott 's Antarctic hut in 1999, about 83 years after Spencer-Smith died in 1916?
Did you knowthat the Battle of the Espero Convoy during the Mediterranean Campaign in World War II resulted in such a shortage of ammunition that planned Allied convoys to Malta had to be postponed for two weeks?
Did you knowthat Florida has over 20 official state symbols , including a state soil and a state wildflower ?
Did you knowthat SantralIstanbul ,  a modern art museum in Istanbul , Turkey , is located in what was the first power station of the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you knowthat the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Yasui v. United States and its companion case Hirabayashi v. United States that curfews for a minority group were constitutional during war time?
Did you knowthat Rear-Admiral Horace Hood was posthumously knighted following his death in the destruction of HMS Invincible at the Battle of Jutland in 1916?
Did you knowthat when Hugh Randall Syme won the George Cross in 1943 for bomb disposal work, he became the most decorated member of the Royal Australian Navy at that time, having already been awarded two George Medals ?
Did you knowthat U.S. General Omar Bundy , who was awarded the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre for his service in World War I , was a veteran of the Indian War campaigns against Crow and Sioux Indians ?
Did you knowthat Austrian film company Wien-Film was given its official mission statement in 1938 by Joseph Goebbels ?
Did you knowthat activist Terry Robbins inspired the name of the terrorist organization Weathermen with a Bob Dylan quote?
Did you knowthat a Ghostbusters video game is scheduled for late 2008, a quarter-century after the original film ?
Did you knowthat painter and stage designer George Sheringham was one of the first recipients of the Royal Designers for Industry distinction?
Did you knowthat the earliest Portuguese description of Malaysia , Tomé Pires's Suma Oriental , lay unpublished and presumed lost in an archive until 1944?
Did you knowthat tourism in Zimbabwe fell by seventy-five percent in 2000 compared to the previous year?
Did you knowthat Indologist Burton Stein was known for questioning the existence of the Chola Dynasty as an empire?
Did you knowthat the Federated Malay States and the Straits Settlements had a combined cricket team from 1906 to 1961?
Did you knowthat Pancha Carrasco became Costa Rica 's first woman in the military by joining the defending forces at the Battle of Rivas ?
Did you knowthat after World War II , the Soviets took nearly 100 tons of uranium oxide as reparations from a facility of the company Auergesellschaft , accelerating their development of the atomic bomb by a year?
Did you knowthat professor George E. Kimball gave a zero in physical chemistry to Isaac Asimov ?
Did you knowthat Virgil Walter Ross animated Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck for decades under Tex Avery and Fritz Freleng and received the highest awards in his profession?
Did you knowthat some birds, including flamingos , display homosexual behavior ?
Did you knowthat the mythological sea creature Aspidochelone is so massive that it is said to have been mistaken for an island?
Did you knowthat Angus Purden , regular presenter of the BBC 's Cash in the Attic , modelled for Giorgio Armani for three years in Milan?
Did you knowthat under the leadership of its Ministry of Defense , Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons ?
Did you knowthat Arpiar Arpiarian introduced realism to modern Armenian literature ?
Did you knowthat John Gouriet organised the "Operation Pony Express" in 1977, where 100,000 films from the strikebound Grunwick laboratory were posted across the United Kingdom , getting around the refusal of the local postal workers to handle them?
Did you knowthat the frigate HMNZS Canterbury was decommissioned by the Royal New Zealand Navy , sold to a trust for a symbolic NZ$ 1, and scuttled in the Bay of Islands by a former crewmember?
Did you knowthat Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority founder Harriet Josephine Terry wrote the sorority's hymn, "Hail Alpha Kappa Alpha Dear"?
Did you knowthat as Burton Abbott was being executed in California 's gas chamber in 1957, the governor was contacting the warden to stay the execution ?
Did you knowthat the conflict between Communist Romanian leader Nicolae Ceauşescu and his ideological rival Petre Borilă worsened after Ceauşescu's son Valentin decided to marry Borilă's daughter?
Did you knowthat Japanologist Hugh Borton took up his field after being posted to Japan by a Quaker service organization ?
Did you knowthat Madison Limestone , a layer of mostly carbonate rocks formed in the Mississippian period , serves as an aquifer and an oil reservoir in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains areas?
Did you knowthat one of the first known instances of a composer specifically calling for the use of a bass violin , the predecessor of the modern cello , was in the opera Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi ?
Did you knowthat the Carlsberg papyrus is the most complete of the ancient Egyptian medical papyri , containing substantial amounts of artifacts of the original papyrus?
Did you knowthat the forthcoming television adaptation of the BBC Radio 2 sitcom Teenage Kicks , originally for BBC Two , has been taken over by ITV ?
Did you knowthat the United Issarak Front leader Son Ngoc Minh declared Cambodian independence on June 19 1950 ?
Did you knowthat Colorado Sen. Nancy Spence's bill to create a statewide school voucher program was the first to be enacted into law in the U.S. — and then overturned by state courts — after Zelman v. Simmons-Harris ?
Did you knowthat a bronze bowl from the Iron Age Glastonbury Lake Village was made from the remnants of two separate vessels, before it was deposited in the peat ?
Did you knowthat a report by the Judicial Commission of New South Wales almost led to a New South Wales judge being removed from office because of the time delays in giving decisions?
Did you knowthat Nguyen Truong To was called to serve Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam despite having earlier assisted France 's colonization of southern Vietnam ?
Did you knowthat Miyazaki Ichisada was known for adding a fourth phase to periodisation  of the history of China and Japan ?
Did you knowthat at the time of his death, A. Ronald Walton was estimated to have reviewed more language programs than anyone else in the world?
Did you knowthat the Barasoain Church , where three major events in Philippine history took place, became known as the Cradle of Democracy in the East ?
Did you knowthat Mary Perkins was the first female optician to be made a Dame Commander of the British Empire ?
Did you knowthat fruit as a slang term developed in London with the costermongers and later in Cockney rhyming slang and Polari , with most variations becoming pejorative against gay men who have since reclaimed usages?
Did you knowthat the Crowcombe church spire was damaged by lightning in 1724 and the top has been planted in the churchyard ever since?
Did you knowthat British art forger Shaun Greenhalgh was a self-taught artist, yet managed to fool the British Museum , the Tate Modern , and Bonhams , Sotheby's and Christie's ?
Did you knowthat in the 2000, 2001, and 2002 seasons of the Super 12 , the Highlanders rugby union team went undefeated at their home ground of Carisbrook ?
Did you knowthat Colorado state senator John Morse worked as an emergency medical technician , accountant , and police chief before entering the legislature ?
Did you knowthat the Korotoa River , a small stream in Bangladesh , was once a large and sacred river?
Did you knowthat the term " doomsday cult " can refer to apocalyptic groups that prophesy catastrophe and those that attempt to bring it about?
Did you knowthat the ancient Kingdom of Nri was one of the few governments that governed its subjects with a taboo system instead of military power?
Did you knowthat a complete backstory was constructed by Mike Leigh for Vinette Robinson 's character in Vera Drake , even though the role was minor?
Did you knowthat the frigate HMS Alarm was the first ship of the Royal Navy ever to have a fully copper-sheathed hull?
Did you knowthat Robert F. Kennedy 's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King is believed to have prevented riots from breaking out in Indianapolis ?
Did you knowthat in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony , when Dorothy Talbye fell into despair with fits of violence in 1638,  she was excommunicated from the church , bound and chained to a post , publicly whipped and finally, after murdering her daughter, hanged ?
Did you knowthat the German national rail strike of 2007 is the largest strike in history affecting Deutsche Bahn ?
Did you knowthat Adenovirus serotype 14 is an emerging virus , related to the common cold , that has recently caused 10 deaths in the United States , including at least one healthy young adult?
Did you knowthat Spencer Campbell regretted producing the year-long fly on the wall series The Living Soap , about students living in a purpose-built house, when some participants started deliberately avoiding the cameras after only a few days?
Did you knowthat USS General S. D. Sturgis was the transport ship assigned to deliver officials of the United States , Australia , Canada , Dutch East Indies , China and the Philippines to Tokyo Bay for the Japanese surrender ceremonies at the end of World War II ?
Did you knowthat Valentyn Rechmedin , a Ukrainian journalist and writer, received the Order of the Red Star after World War II ?
Did you knowthat nineteenth century New Zealand gum-diggers retrieved 5,000 tons of kauri resin a year for the varnish trade, and that the gum was Auckland 's main export?
Did you knowthat USNS General R. L. Howze held the record for ships assisting the 1954 mass exodus out of North Vietnam with 38 births on board during Operation Passage to Freedom ?
Did you knowthat the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal , built along the Susquehanna River in the 1830s, had a wooden bridge with a two-tier towpath to allow mules towing cargoboats in opposite directions to cross the river simultaneously without colliding?
Did you knowthat Robert Ropner , who built the first trunk deck ship in 1896, was sued for patent infringement because his design was similar to that of turret deck ships ?
Did you knowthat the Chemical Automatics Design Bureau produced the Soviet Union 's only operational nuclear rocket engine ?