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Did you knowthat a trio of pet Mexican Spinytailed Iguanas released on Gasparilla Island , Florida by a resident in the 1970s has led to a current population explosion of over 12,000 lizards ?
Did you knowthat the Soviet 16th 'Lithuanian' Rifle Division had more enlisted Jews than any other division in the Red Army ?
Did you knowthat Lilstock church only holds one service a year, and the last marriage held there was in 1834?
Did you knowthat Ben Finney , one of the Polynesian Voyaging Society founders who designed, built, and sailed the Hokulea on its first voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti , wrote his thesis on surfing for his M.A. degree?
Did you knowthat the ticket lottery site for the December 2007 Ahmet Ertegün Tribute Concert featuring Led Zeppelin , crashed due to over a billion page views of fans seeking to purchase the 20,000 tickets on sale?
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Did you knowthat the testament of Bolesław III Krzywousty , High Duke of Poland , in 1138, led to the fragmentation of Poland which lasted for 200 years?
Did you knowthat the Soviet 383rd Rifle Division was originally comprised completely of miners from the Ukrainian Donets Basin ?
Did you knowthat the Caltech hacker who used a remote control to alter the scoreboard at the 1984 Rose Bowl received college credit for the prank?
Did you knowthat radio broadcaster Scruff Connors hosted a continuous 36-hour program to raise funds for cancer research in 1980?
Did you knowthat the marketing campaign for the reality television series Paranormal State featured the first commercial use of directional audio in a billboard?
Did you knowthat only 42 players have scored five or more goals in an NHL game since the league started in 1917?
Did you knowthat Hilf al-Fudul was a 7th-century alliance created by various Meccans , most notably Muhammad , to establish fair commercial dealing?
Did you knowthat the 1929 film The Surprise of a Knight is the earliest known gay , hardcore pornographic film in American cinematic history ?
Did you knowthat the Byzantine Empire and the Mongol Empire formed an alliance in 1263, and 4,000 Mongol soldiers were dispatched in 1282 to help defend Constantinople ?
Did you knowthat, according to the martyrology , the early 4th century Christian martyr Aedesius of Alexandria was tortured and drowned for striking a judge who had been forcing consecrated virgins to work in brothels ?
Did you knowthat the Midwestern United States territory band leader Nat Towles ' fear of losing his best musicians kept him from striving for national prominence in the 1930s and 40s?
Did you knowthat Oxford economist Włodzimierz Brus could not return to his homeland, Poland , in the 1990s, because his wife Helena Wolińska faced charges for her involvement in the execution of General Fieldorf ?
Did you knowthat the thirteen episodes of the Rental Magica anime were shown in a nonlinear order, meaning that the order the episodes were aired in is different from the episodes' chronological order?
Did you knowthat although Horse-eye jack ( Caranx latus ) generally fear scuba divers , schools of them have been known to swarm divers because they are attracted to the bubbles a person exhales?
Did you knowthat despite never surpassing 2,500 copies in circulation, the Jewish anarchist journal Germinal had a readership on four continents as a result of Eastern European Jewish migration?
Did you knowthat the BBC 's Bitesize online study resource has sections in Welsh and Gaelic ?
Did you knowthat All-American fullback Bill Daley is the only person ever to win Little Brown Jug games playing for both Minnesota and Michigan ?
Did you knowthat in Frendak v. United States the court ruled that a competent defendant , who experts testified was probably insane when he committed the crime , cannot be forced to use the insanity defense ?
Did you knowthat many streets in Coconut Grove , Northern Territory , Australia are named after victims of the shipwreck of SS Gothenburg off the coast of Queensland in 1875?
Did you knowthat the German Agricultural Society sets the assessment scale for the German wine classification system?
Did you knowthat due to a lack of freight crossings of the Hudson River , trains must take a 280-mile (450 km) detour,  the Selkirk hurdle , to cross into New York City from the south or west?
Did you knowthat the Vlaamse Druivenveldrit Overijse , a cyclo-cross race held in Overijse , Belgium , was won 11 consecutive times in the 1980s by former four-time world champion Roland Liboton ?
Did you knowthat the sources of William Shakespeare's Hamlet lie in legends which may trace to an Indo-European origin?
Did you knowthat Nigerian John Ezzidio , who was freed from a slave ship and landed in Freetown , Sierra Leone in 1827, became the city's mayor eighteen years later, in 1845?
Did you knowthat Nicholas Medforth-Mills , grandson of King Michael of Romania , is third in the line of succession to the defunct throne of Romania , and future Head of the Romanian Royal Family ?
Did you knowthat some animals interrupt their hibernation a couple of times during winter so that they can sleep ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Navy and NSF Plateau research station on the Antarctic Plateau , though operational for only three years from 1966 to 1969, measured the coldest average monthly temperatures on Earth?
Did you knowthat besides a mobile library , the Mobile Public Library also operates a system of libraries with eight branches and a local history and genealogy division with permanent addresses in Alabama ?
Did you knowthat State Route 70 , a National Scenic Byway through California 's Feather River Canyon , was constructed using an access road laid out by the Utah Construction Company when it built the Western Pacific Railroad in the canyon?
Did you knowthat the B-24 Liberator in which Air Marshal Sir Peter Drummond was travelling when lost at sea in 1945 had previously been the personal transport of Winston Churchill ?
Did you knowthat Yve Lavigueur , who initially became famous as a member of a family that won the biggest lottery jackpot in Canadian history in 1986, later published a book in 2000 on how they lost it all?
Did you knowthat the atmosphere of Triton produces a surface pressure only 1/70,000th of that on Earth?
Did you knowthat the 1920 French film Le Menage Moderne Du Madame Butterfly is the earliest known hardcore pornographic film to depict bisexual and homosexual intercourse?
Did you knowthat businessman Petr Kellner is the wealthiest man in the Czech Republic with an estimated net worth of US$ 6 billion?
Did you knowthat Peter Shergold is currently Australia 's most senior public servant ?
Did you knowthat the Marion, Illinois tornado outbreak in 1982 killed ten people and extensively damaged the town of Marion, Illinois ?
Did you knowthat the main opposition party of Zambia , the United National Independence Party , boycotted the 1996 Zambian Presidential election after their leader was prevented from standing?
Did you knowthat Russian lawyer Vasily Aleksanyan was imprisoned just five days after his promotion to the position of Executive Vice-President of Yukos oil company?
Did you knowthat German - American inventor Philip Diehl invented the ceiling fan in 1887 using a sewing machine motor?
Did you knowthat the Emir of Katsina in northern Nigeria Usman Nagogo played polo with the highest handicap of any African?
Did you knowthat a legend says that when Philip de Braose irreverently spent the night in a church dedicated to Saint Afan , he was struck blind the next morning and his hunting dogs went mad?
Did you knowthat in attempting to stop U-30 from sinking the SS Fanad Head , two Blackburn Skuas managed to cripple themselves with their own bombs, causing them to crash?
Did you knowthat after Bernard Natan directed and acted in hardcore heterosexual and bisexual pornographic films from 1920 to 1927, by 1929 he owned the giant French movie studio Pathé and later helped develop the anamorphic film lens ?
Did you knowthat while neighboring Bordeaux estates were still looking for a cure to heal their infected grapevines , Château Pavie-Macquin was one of the first to begin grafting phylloxera resistant American rootstock on their vines?
Did you knowthat the question before the U.S. Supreme Court in Stogner v. California was whether ex post facto laws should also apply to sex offenders victimizing minors ?
Did you knowthat Eddie Hill was the first drag racer to hold the land and water quarter mile speed records simultaneously?
Did you knowthat Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes survived the 1959 Turkish Airlines Gatwick crash almost uninjured, but was executed by hanging a year and a half later?
Did you knowthat Ukrainian realist artist Apollon Mokritsky played the significant role of introducing the former serf and talented artist Taras Shevchenko to the Ukrainian and Russian intelligentsia ?
Did you knowthat Jerry Mathers , as The Beaver , was one of the few stars of the classic TV series Leave It to Beaver who appeared in the pilot It's a Small World , which never aired as an episode within the series?
Did you knowthat Flight Lieutenant Eric Lock was the most successful British ace during the Battle of Britain , shooting down 16.5 German aircraft over the course of the 17-week long battle?
Did you knowthat the Peruvian playwright Juan de Espinosa Medrano wrote plays both in Spanish and in Quechua during the 17th century?
Did you knowthat college football 's 2007 Holiday Bowl featured a bizarre play, involving a non-player staff member of the Texas Longhorn team ?
Did you knowthat until the French Revolution , the Belgian village of Moorsel was divided into two distinct sections?
Did you knowthat one of the music scores depicted by Caravaggio in his painting The Lute Player is by Franco-Flemish composer Jacquet de Berchem ?
Did you knowthat Dennis Robbins , formerly a member of the rock band The Rockets , was the first artist signed to Giant Records ' country music division?
Did you knowthat the Society of the Friends of Peasants had significant influence on the Danish Constitution of 1849 ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Kansas was the crash program initiated by U.S. Army Air Force General Hap Arnold to expedite construction of the B-29 Superfortress at Boeing 's massive plants in Wichita, Kansas ?
Did you knowthat British police detective Walter Dew was involved in hunting both Jack the Ripper and Dr Crippen ?
Did you knowthat Sicilian Mafia boss Giuseppe Falsone has been on the list of most wanted fugitives in Italy since January 1999, a list of criminals considered extremely dangerous by the Polizia di Stato ?
Did you knowthat slain Canadian Mi'kmaq activist Nora Bernard was responsible for the largest class-action lawsuit in Canadian history?
Did you knowthat during the Bisbee Deportation , Phelps Dodge Corporation executives seized control of the town's telegraph and telephones to prevent news of the kidnappings from being reported?
Did you knowthat the Dewoitine D.33 was an aircraft built in 1930, set a long distance record in that year, and was used extensively by Air France ?
Did you knowthat Italian aeronautical engineer Corradino D'Ascanio developed a record-setting early helicopter in 1930 and designed the original Vespa motor scooter in 1946?
Did you knowthat Tang Chinese scholar Yao Silian was the lead author of the official histories of both Liang and Chen Dynasties ?
Did you knowthat the " Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne ", based on the 1755 Lisbon earthquake , exhibits Voltaire 's rejection of optimism and Providence and is considered an introduction to his famous work Candide ?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Rick of 1997 caused coffee prices on the New York Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange to jump 4.7%, because it threatened coffee crops at a time when they were vulnerable to winds blowing them down?
Did you knowthat Tabasco sauce heir Edward Avery McIlhenny was an arctic explorer who, in 1897 and 1898, helped to rescue over a hundred whaling fleet sailors stranded at Point Barrow , Alaska ?
Did you knowthat, although former Michigan Wolverines wide receiver Marquise Walker was selected in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft , he was Jon Gruden 's first draft pick as Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach ?
Did you knowthat the Boy Rangers of America was an early scouting program in the United States for boys ages 8 through 12, a precursor to the Cub Scouting program of the Boy Scouts of America ?
Did you knowthat Elise Primavera , author and illustrator of the 1999 book Auntie Claus , says she gets her best ideas in the shower?
Did you knowthat the Taiwan Cypress (Chamaecyparis taiwanensis) is treated as a species by Taiwanese botanists, and as a variety of the Hinoki cypress (C. obtusa) in the Occident?
Did you knowthat Cuban politician Raúl Chibás defected to the United States via motor boat to Miami after initially supporting Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution ?
Did you knowthat through directing , Delta Sigma Theta Sorority founder Osceola Macarthy Adams helped to start careers of Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte ?
Did you knowthat LPI Media is the largest publisher of gay and lesbian material in the United States with its magazines alone having more than 8.2 million copies distributed each year?
Did you knowthat during the Spanish Civil War , Eduard Pons Prades forged his age so that he could join the Republican army at age 16?
Did you knowthat, after eluding capture for three months when his B-25 bomber was shot down behind enemy lines in World War II , Bob Chappuis was the MVP of the Rose Bowl 60 years ago?
Did you knowthat Jose R. Velasco ' s research on the coconut was instrumental in him becoming a National Scientist of the Philippines ?
Did you knowthat Ade Schwammel of the Oregon Agricultural College football team was part of the 1933 " Pyramid Play ", where a player stood on the shoulders of two others to block a kick, a ploy since banned?
Did you knowthat Dohäsan , last undisputed Principal Chief of the Kiowa people, was battlefield leader in the First Battle of Adobe Walls , one of the largest ever fought between the Plains tribes and the U.S. Army ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Kostiuchnówka during the Brusilov Offensive in summer 1916 is considered the largest and most vicious of the battles involving the Polish Legions ?
Did you knowthat scientist and concert pianist Manfred Clynes used principles of neuroscience to develop SuperConductor, a computer program that can "perform" classical music with its own expressive intonation ?
Did you knowthat French adventurer Marie-Charles David de Mayréna was supposed to negotiate treaties with the local people in an 1888 expedition to present-day Vietnam , but instead formed a new Kingdom of Sedang with himself as the king ?
Did you knowthat the Ballarat Botanical Gardens in Victoria features a collection of busts of all 25 predecessors of the recently elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd ?
Did you knowthat when the Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad opened to the public in 1892 it took 14 minutes to travel the 3.6 mile (5.8 km) route?
Did you knowthat French anarchist Theodule Meunier , responsible for several bombings in Paris in 1902, was featured as a Sherlock Holmes antagonist in René Réouven's L'Assassin du Boulevard ?
Did you knowthat Ukrainian impressionist Ivan Trush painted a number of portraits of famous Ukrainians, among them Vasyl Stefanyk , Lesya Ukrainka , Mykhailo Drahomanov , Mykola Lysenko , and Ivan Franko ?
Did you knowthat portrait painter John Michael Wright painted both Charles II and the daughter of Oliver Cromwell ?
Did you knowthat quarterbacks Billy Joe Tolliver and David Archer were teammates as backups in the National Football League , but competed against each other as starters in the Canadian Football League ?
Did you knowthat the capture of King Louis IX during the Seventh Crusade prompted as many as 60,000 young shepherds in France to participate in the Shepherds' Crusade in 1251?
Did you knowthat Pulitzer Prize -winning journalist Sylvan Fox was a classically trained pianist who attended, but never graduated from, the Juilliard School ?
Did you knowthat Pampa Sarovar , the place in Hindu mythology where Shiva 's consort Parvati performed penance to show her devotion to him, is a lake in Karnataka ?
Did you knowthat Cuban economist Felipe Pazos was ordered to be executed by Raúl Castro in 1959, but was ultimately spared and allowed to leave the country?
Did you knowthat despite its name, the Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw Railway connected neither to Chicago nor Saginaw ?
Did you knowthat the first episode of talk show Shomoyer Kotha drew media attention when a former U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh jokingly commented that Bangladeshis sometimes tend to be conspiratorial?
Did you knowthat an Anglo-Allied army of 23,000 men failed to capture the Spanish port of Tarragona from a small Franco-Italian force of 1,600 during the Peninsular War , sending the losing general to a court-martial afterwards?
Did you knowthat the tallest building in Tulsa , Oklahoma is the 667- foot (203 m ) BOK Tower ?
Did you knowthat Patricia Kirkwood was the first woman to have her own series on BBC TV ?
Did you knowthat the Soviet Armenian biochemist Norair Sisakian was considered as one of the founders of space biology ?
Did you knowthat United States Navy Rear Admiral Charles A. Curtze qualified for the 1936 Summer Olympics as a gymnast , but the State Department prohibited him from traveling to Nazi -ruled Germany ?
Did you knowthat, in November 2002, autonomous regions replaced departments as the first-level administrative subdivisions of Peru in an attempt to achieve an effective decentralization of the country?
Did you knowthat the Prospect Mountain Veterans Memorial Highway is the only reference route in New York owned by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ?
Did you knowthat ancient jousting battles near Smisby in Derbyshire provided the inspiration for a similar scene in the book Ivanhoe ?
Did you knowthat Bill Jenkins ' dragsters were known as "Grumpy's Toys"?
Did you knowthat excavations of earthworks conducted in the 19th century revealed evidence of possible Belgic fortifications at the site of Sharsted Court , a manor house near Newnham, Kent , England ?
Did you knowthat Jan IV Oświęcimski , the duke of Oświęcim from 1445 to 1456, harassed the King of Poland so much that he was paid a debt that was promised him four years earlier?
Did you knowthat the German 15 cm sFH 18 was the first field gun to use Rocket Assisted Projectiles ?
Did you knowthe divergent conclusions in the Krulak Mendenhall mission to South Vietnam led John F. Kennedy to ask his staff if Joseph Mendenhall and Victor H. Krulak had visited the same country?
Did you knowthat as the result of a deal before the 2000 general election , Paul Bérenger became the first non- Hindu Prime Minister of Mauritius in 2003 ?
Did you knowthat a platoon of the 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion was the first segregated African-American unit of the US Army to receive a Distinguished Unit Citation ?
Did you knowthat Wythenshawe Aerodrome was Manchester 's first purpose-built municipal airfield, but was closed after one year due to the completion of Barton Aerodrome ?
Did you knowthat Christian anarchist Dave Andrews was excommunicated from the parachurch Youth With A Mission ?
Did you knowthat the Caribou Inuit people are defined by their fur clothing, use of sled dogs and their snowhouses ?
Did you knowthat gay screenwriter Marco Pennette was outed in front of his parents on the People's Choice Awards red carpet by a colleague who asked him about his boyfriend?
Did you knowthat the Hindu serpent goddess Manasa , the "destroyer of poison", is worshiped mostly in the rainy season when the snakes are most active?
Did you knowthat the region of Cieszyn Silesia was in 1920 divided by the Spa Conference between Poland and Czechoslovakia and remains divided to date?
Did you knowthat the Hoover Dam is an arch-gravity dam , combining the load-bearing features of a gravity dam and an arch dam ?
Did you knowthat the final text of the Durban Declaration produced by the governments meeting at the World Conference against Racism 2001 does not contain the language that caused the Israeli and United States delegations to withdraw halfway through?
Did you knowthat former Michigan Wolverines football player Keith Bostic was elected by his teammates as the toughest guy on the National Football League Houston Oilers defense?
Did you knowthat the Western Islands Planning Area in Singapore houses the world's third largest refining centre, located in Jurong Island ?
Did you knowthat in 1386, Georgia was invaded by Tamerlane and his Turco-Mongol forces , who sacked Tbilisi and captured the Georgian king Bagrat V ?
Did you knowthat when Gyo Obata designed Great American Insurance Building at Queen City Square , he was inspired by Princess Diana 's tiara for the top of the building?
Did you knowthat Cliff Mapes , a Major League outfielder who played only three full seasons, was the starting right fielder for the New York Yankees ' first of five consecutive world championships, in 1949 ?
Did you knowthat National Scientist Dr. Fe del Mundo was the first Filipina enrolled in Harvard Medical School and the only female student at that time?
Did you knowthat a PRR Class E6 steam locomotive powered train equipped with a mobile darkroom for developing newsreels en route , delivered footage from Washington to New York faster than a chartered plane ?
Did you knowthat All-American Bump Elliott and his brother Pete Elliott played halfback and quarterback for the Michigan football team that beat the USC Trojans 49-0 in the Rose Bowl 60 years ago on 1 Jan. 1948?
Did you knowthat in 1999, Song Il-gon became the first Korean filmmaker to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival ?
Did you knowthat the name of Stob Choire Claurigh in Scotland translates from Gaelic as “Peak of the Brawling Corrie”, referring to the roaring of the stags inhabiting the corries of the mountain during the breeding season ?
Did you knowthat wine made from the Italian grape Refosco dal Peduncolo Rosso was praised by Pliny the Elder and a favorite of Caesar Augustus ' wife Livia ?
Did you knowthat the Brocard points , the Brocard circle and the Brocard triangle are named after French geometer Henri Brocard , who spent most of his life studying meteorology with no notable original contributions to the subject?
Did you knowthat Ernest Dynes , best known as an English cricketer in the 1920s and 1930s, served as Aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II between 1955 and 1957, for which he was awarded the CBE ?
Did you knowthat William W. Bedsworth , a judge at the California Courts of Appeal , is also a goal judge with the National Hockey League ?
Did you knowthat prior to the emergence of anarcho-pacifism at the outbreak of World War II , there was a general agreement among anarchists that violence was inevitable?
Did you knowthat Campanula gelida , an endemic species of a bellflower , grows in nature only on one rock in the Czech Republic ?
Did you knowthat the 2007 film 10 MPH documents a 100-day, 4,064-mile journey across the United States on a Segway scooter?
Did you knowthat Danish-American artist Antonio Jacobsen was called the " Audubon of Steam Vessels" for the scope, breadth and intricate details in the 6,000 works of sail and steam ships he painted?
Did you knowthat the Stora Istad wind park had to reduce its power output to below 10 MW in order to comply with Swedish law?
Did you knowthat Soviet sculptor Sergey Merkurov was the author of the three biggest monuments of Joseph Stalin erected in the USSR during the period of Stalinism ?
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