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Did you knowthat postoperative nausea and vomiting is an unpleasant complication affecting about two million people in the United Kingdom annually?
Did you knowthat devout Catholics believe in the Perpetual Virginity of Mary ?
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Did you knowthat the U.S. Navy experienced its largest peacetime loss of ships in the 1923 Honda Point Disaster ?
Did you knowthat Japanese Imari porcelain was made specifically for export to Europe ?
Did you knowthat in Upper and Lower Canada , the colonial government used concession roads to define lots which were to be developed?
Did you knowthat the Chislehurst Caves of Kent are actually mines that were first worked in 1250 ?
Did you knowthat a member of the Gelechiidae family of moths is used to control spotted knapweed ?
Did you knowthat the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal established the legal basis for the Nuremberg trials ?
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Did you knowthat there are 14 gases which are lighter than air ?
Did you knowthat the Barnburners supported Martin Van Buren in the U.S. presidential election of 1848 ?
Did you knowthat in physics , a Landau pole is the energy scale where a coupling constant of a quantum field theory becomes infinite?
Did you knowthat the Humboldt River in Nevada is the longest river in the Great Basin and furnished the route of the Central Pacific segment of the transcontinental railroad ?
Did you knowthat the Trumpeter Swan is the largest swan native to North American ?
Did you knowthat Scandanavia 's High North Alliance works to protect the whaling interests of member countries?
Did you knowthat 1943 Triple Crown winner Count Fleet was both sire of and sired by Kentucky Derby winners?
Did you knowthat the music genre known as bouncy techno originated in Scotland ?
Did you knowthat visually impaired musicians can begin learning Music Braille once they are competent in grade-two level literary Braille ?
Did you knowthat the 1539 Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts , which mandated the use of French in official documents, contributed to the rise of French nationalism ?
Did you knowthat the indigenous peoples of Brazil domesticated cassava ?
Did you know that a " rain of fish " (a tornado that travels over the ocean , sucks up fish and then drops them over villages) is a common theme appearing in Honduran art - part of the culture of Honduras ?
Did you knowthat Charley Fox , a Canadian flight lieutenant , was credited with injuring Erwin Rommel ?
Did you knowthat body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?
Did you knowthat Body surface area is an important measure used in medicine to calculate chemotherapy dosage?
Did you knowthat the casque of the Tarictic hornbill is hollow and made of keratin ?
Did you knowthat in Pac-Mania Pac-Man has the ability to jump?
Did you knowthat the larvae of the Cameraria ohridella moth destroy
Did you knowthat Danielle Reyes finished second place on the American version of Big Brother in 2002?
Did you knowthat in the United States, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and its Republican counterpart promote the election of members of their respective parties to Congress ?
Did you knowthat the IBM 350 was the first important milestone in early IBM disk storage ?
Did you knowthat in the presence of risk , subjective expected utility is a valuable method used in economic decision theory ?
Did you know that the U.S. Trade Representative tried to stop Singapore from hosting the first World Trade Organization ministeral meeting because of the caning of Michael P. Fay ?
Did you knowthat the extreme points of the United Kingdom include Out Stack as the northernmost, Rockall as the westernmost, The Lizard as the southernmost and Lowestoft Ness as the easternmost?
Did you knowthat the Malmédy Massacre Trial is often used in extreme right-wing German propaganda ?
Did you knowthat Youppi of the Montreal Expos was the first mascot to be thrown out of a major league baseball game?
Did you knowthat the creator of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups once worked as a dairyman for famed chocolatier Milton S. Hershey ?
Did you knowthat enharmonic scales are the third genus of musical scales ?
Did you knowthat no admiral has ever served as Commander-in-Chief of the Swedish Armed Forces ?
Did you knowthat many of Ford Motor Company 's car makes are based on the same automobile platform ?
Did you knowthat the Fifth and Sixth Crusades were turned back by Al-Kamil , a nephew of Saladin ?
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Did you knowthat script breakdowns are the intermediate step between script and production in theater , film , television and comic books ?
Did you knowthat sidewinding is unique to caenophidian snakes like vipers ?
Did you knowthat Kolkota , India is called the City of Palaces because of its abundance of European -style buildings?
Did you knowthat seven countries have more than one capital city ?
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Did you knowthat bond convexity is a measure of the sensitivity of bond prices to interest rate changes?
Did you knowthat Chetham's Library in Manchester , England is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world?
Did you knowthat Dunash ben Labrat , a medieval Jewish writer, introduced Arabic language poetic meter into Hebrew poetry ?
Did you knowthat blue boxes used for phreaking were also called Spiros , which was a reference to disgraced U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew ?
Did you knowthat, according to legend, one of the Holy Nails used in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was incorporated into the Iron Crown of Lombardy ?
Did you knowthat Norman architecture is a form of the Romanesque ?
Did you knowthat 18th century French salons were often led by those who were creating the Encyclopédie ?
Did you knowthat there are several different kinds of baseball gloves , including catcher 's mitts, pitcher 's gloves, first basemen 's gloves and infield and outfield gloves?
Did you knowthat the Elton John - Bernie Taupin song " Candle in the Wind " is the bestselling single of all time?
Did you knowthat some Trotskyists described the Soviet system under Josef Stalin as one of bureaucratic collectivism ?
Did you knowthat scientist Arvid Carlsson won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work leading to the treatment of Parkinson's Disease ?
Did you knowthat the 1984 Summit tunnel fire in England may have been the biggest underground fire in transportation history?
Did you knowthat within Superman 's Fortress of Solitude there is an apartment set aside for Supergirl ?
Did you knowthat there are at least four methods of plastic welding ?
Did you knowthat sex determination in sports is no longer practiced at the Olympic Games ?
Did you knowthat the Venetian polychoral style arose because of the unique architectural and acoustical characteristics of San Marco di Venezia , aka St. Mark's Cathedral, in Venice , Italy ?
Did you knowthat Thomas Macaulay referred to Charles Dickens ' novel Hard Times as "sullen Socialism "?
Did you knowthat holidays celebrated in Greece include Το Όχι , literally day of the "no" , which honors Greece's refusal to surrender to the Axis Powers in 1940 ?
Did you knowthat a Greek hero cult usually focused on a great man of history (e.g. Oedipus ) or the founder of a city (e.g. Battus of Cyrene )?
Did you knowthat Chicago Freight Subway was abandoned in 1959 and the tunnels flooded catastrophically in 1992 ?
Did you knowthat the people of Thailand use the Thai six-hour clock in addition to the usual 24-hour clock?
Did you knowthat actress Hunter Tylo sued producer Aaron Spelling and won after she was fired from Melrose Place ?
Did you knowthat the village name Ynysybwl , in South Wales , UK , is pronounced "Un-is-u-bull"?
Did you knowthat the supercontinent Pannotia only lasted about sixty million years before disintegrating into four continents ?
Did you knowthat Lion Beer was Asia 's first brand of beer ?
Did you knowthat Joseph Guillemot , winner of the 5000 m at the 1920 Olympics , was a pack-a-day smoker ?
Did you knowthat the Welsh language has three kinds of initial consonant mutation ?
Did you knowthat the case Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company established the precedents for UK contract law?
Did you knowthat Cockaigne was a legendary peasant utopia of medieval Europe ?
Did you knowthat the execution of Flor Contemplacion strained relations between Singapore and the Philippines ?
Did you knowthat a madrigale spirituale is a madrigal with a spiritual rather than secular topic?
Did you knowthat a Baja Bug is a Volkswagen Beetle that has been modified to operate on sand dunes ?
Did you knowthat there are fewer than 2000 Indian Rhinoceroses left in the wild?
Did you knowthat Mike Woodin was the Principal Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales for 6 years and a city councillor for Oxford for 10 years?
Did you knowthat the bulb of the Wavy-leafed Soap Plant can be used to wash your hair, to stun fish , to cure rheumatism and to make brushes?
Did you knowthat the Mexican War of Independence ( 1820 – 1821 ) resulted in an unlikely alliance between liberales and conservadores ?
Did you knowthat bone age is usually determined by examining x-rays of the long bones ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Tarawa was the first time in World War II that the US faced serious opposition to an amphibious landing?
Did you knowthat the Siege of Malta cost 1,493 civilian lives?
Did you know Edmund Beckett , the designer of Big Ben , said, "I am the only architect with whom I have never quarrelled."
Did you knowthat the Great Salad Oil Swindle was an infamous attempt at cornering the market ?
Did you knowthat Asclepiodotus was King of the Britons , until he died in a battle fighting Coel ?
Did you knowthat the Frankfurt kitchen was the first built-in kitchen, and was designed with space efficiency in mind?
Did you knowthat the Pergamon Museum in Berlin hosts a reconstruction of a 113 meter long sculptural frieze ?
Did you knowthat dramatic structure has been diagrammed by both Aristotle and Gustav Freytag ?
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Did you knowthat pineconefish have no apparent sexual dimorphism ?
Did you knowthat Commodore Horatio Bridge was the first officer to employ the idea of comprehensive fleet supply within the United States Navy ?
Did you knowthere are large stands of primeval forest on the border between Poland and Belarus ?
Did you knowthat the Monty Python song " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life " is a parody of the type of song featured in Disney films?
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Did you knowthat The Brighter Day is the only explicitly religious soap opera ever to air on American network television ?
Did you knowthat You Bet Your Life was a radio and television quiz show hosted by Groucho Marx ?
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Did you knowthat one cause of the 21 years of military dictatorship in Brazil was the support of president João Goulart for a mariner rebellion, led by a disguised CIA agent , Cabo Anselmo?
Did you knowthat bicycle helmets are not designed to be re-used after a major accident?
Did you knowthat the Calayan Rail flightless bird is a significant recent species discovery, announced on 16 August 2004 ?
Did you knowthat the average lifespan of a feral cat who survives kittenhood is two years, compared to 16 years for house cats ?
Did you knowthat the Osmond family , known for their musicality, have two siblings who were born deaf ?
Did you knowthat infant teeth emerge in pairs?
Did you knowthat wheelbase dimensions are crucial to automobile steering and balance ?
Did you knowthat aboriginal whaling rights are granted to native populations in Greenland , Canada , the United States , Russia and several Caribbean island communities?
Did you knowthat a pit stop in Formula One autosport involves about 20 mechanics?
Did you knowthat the Alpine Ibex of Gran Paradiso were first protected in 1816 ?
Did you knowthat an amateur airplane pilot's spatial disorientation during flight can lead to an irreversible graveyard spiral?
Did you knowthat the ear's hair cells encode the information from the fluid waves of the cochlea for use by the auditory nerve ?
Did you knowthat blackwater fever causes red blood cells to burst, leaking hemoglobin into the plasma ?
Did you knowthat the Turkish military coup of 1971 is known as the Coup by Memorandum ?
Did you knowthat Pickles is George W. Bush's nickname for his wife?
Did you knowthat the golden age of arcade games began with the release of Space Invaders in 1978 ?
Did you knowthat seeds of the Hawaiian baby woodrose contain chemicals with effects similar to LSD ?
Did you knowthat Brownie Wise invented the Tupperware party?
Did you knowthat Michael Faraday did the first modern research into the nature of colloidal gold ?
Did you knowthat the 364-metre pier in Withernsea , England was struck by ships four times, finally leaving it only 15 metres long?
Did you knowthat most of the Strigolniki were drowned in the Volkhov river in 1376 as a result of pressure from the Russian Orthodox Church ?
Did you knowthat the Norwegian heavy water sabotage was a key part of Allied efforts to prevent Nazi Germany from developing nuclear weapons ?
Did you knowthat a self number is an integer that cannot be generated by any other integer added up to its digits ?
Did you knowthat the primary Polish Scouting organization is Zwiazek Harcerstwa Polskiego ?
Did you knowthat the famed message "England expects that every man will do his duty" is misquoted on Nelson's Column in London ?
Did you knowthat Santa Maria sopra Minerva is the only Gothic church in Rome and holds the body of Saint Catherine of Siena , but not her head?
Did you knowthat Englog is English mixed with Tagalog words, while Taglish is Tagalog mixed with English words?
Did you knowthat Pennsylvania Hospital , cofounded by Benjamin Franklin , was the first hospital in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the source of the Naga fireballs of the Mekong river is a topic of much debate in Thailand ?
Did you knowthat the 1702 Spanish treasure fleet was destroyed in the Battle of Vigo Bay ?
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Did you knowthat the sterile insect technique has been successfully used to fight malaria ?
Did you knowthat the Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever attracts waterfowl by making a fool of itself?
Did you knowthat Indiana 's Eel River once served as informal boundary between the lands of the Potawatomi people in the north and Miami people in the south?
Did you knowthat in 1960 the American Ballet Theatre became the first American ballet company to dance in the Soviet Union ?
Did you knowthat Germans consume up to 300 metric tons of döner kebab each day?
Did you knowthat the Milky Way 's galactic halo contains many globular clusters ?
Did you knowthat the Thor , Baldur and Vidar are the best-known sons of Odin but that Snorri Sturluson names at least five others?
Did you knowthat more than 50 members of the Japanese Diet were involved in the Recruit Scandal of the 1980s ?
Did you knowthat holy cards are an important devotional practice for many Roman Catholics ?
Did you knowthat the Death's Head moth is named for the mark on its back, which resembles a human skull ?
Did you knowthat St. George, Bermuda was founded by sailors headed for Plymouth Colony in Virginia ?
Did you knowthat chalcocite , a profitable and desirable kind of copper ore , was particularly plentiful in the now-depleted copper mines of Cornwall , England and Bristol, Connecticut ?
Did you knowthat the casque of the Tarictic Hornbill is hollow and made of keratin ?
Did you knowthat Colin Pitchfork was the first person to be convicted using DNA fingerprinting ?
Did you knowthat members of the Coeur d'Alene nation refer to themselves in their own language as Schitsu'umsh ?
Did you knowthat Alfred J. Kwak , a duck from a Dutch television cartoon , lives in a clog ?
Did you knowthat physiological sound localization relies primarily on binaural cues for determining source azimuth , and head-related transfer functions for determining source elevation ?
Did you knowthat Karel Kuttelwascher was the most famous World War II flying ace of Czech nationality ?
Did you knowthat the aftermath of the Revolt of 1173-1174 is depicted in the Peter O'Toole - Katharine Hepburn movie The Lion in Winter ?
Did you knowthat weight transfer causes the traction of tires on a car to vary?
Did you knowthat before Helen Gallagher became well-known for her role as matriarch on Ryan's Hope , she won a Tony Award for her work in the revival of No, No, Nanette ?
Did you knowthat at the height of the Cold War , Lynne Cox became the first person to swim from the USA to the USSR ?
Did you knowthat André Maginot , for whom the Maginot Line was named, was awarded the Medaille Militaire for valor during World War I ?
Did you knowthat the 1953 movie Robot Monster was so poorly received, its director attempted suicide ?
Did you knowthat when complete, B of the Bang will be Britain's tallest sculpture ?
Did you knowthat the symbol of Fatima's hands , while widespread in Middle Eastern Islamic societies, is not officially condoned by Islam ?
Did you knowthat the first post office in the Bahamas was probably on Crooked Island ?
Did you knowThat the feminist group Women on waves built a gynaecology unit on board of a ship and makes abortions on international waters ?
Did you knowthat 19th century American vigilance committees had different purposes depending on their geographic location?
Did you knowthat the second-highest ranking official in the Kingdom of Hungary was the Palatine ?
Did you knowthat the only excavated stand-alone timber circles in the British Isles are those at Seahenge in Norfolk and the early phases of The Sanctuary in Wiltshire ?
Did you knowthat Frank Sinatra, Jr. 's kidnapping in 1963 led his father to habitually carry a roll of dimes ?
Did you knowthat eugenicist Paul Popenoe introduced marriage counseling to the United States ?
Did you knowthat Urdu literature is dominated by poetry , often of the ghazal form?
Did you knowthat the legendary Buenaventura River was imagined to parallel the significance of the Mississippi River within the western North America ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. military's Tybee hydrogen bomb , missing off the coast of the state of Georgia since 1958, may recently have been discovered?
Did you knowthat Barbara Billingsley was so typecast as June Cleaver on the sitcom Leave It to Beaver that she could not get acting jobs for nearly twenty years?
Did you knowthat Hoot was novelist Carl Hiaasen 's first book geared toward young adults ?
Did you knowthat the British film It Happened Here is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the film 's eight years production schedule as the longest ever?
Did you knowthat the crustaceans known as giant isopods , which live in the depths of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean , can grow up to 45 centimetres long?
Did you knowthat the 33 Edicts of Ashoka in north India and Pakistan are the first tangible historical evidence of Buddhism ?
Did you knowthat Ethelbert of York 's 8th century library was probably the largest book collection of its day outside of Rome ?
Did you knowthat a potassium deficiency known as hypokalemia can be a side effect of certain medications?
Did you knowthat most contemporary robotic telescopes are in the hands of amateur astronomers ?
Did you knowthat the zigzag method of using a knife and fork is particular to the United States ?
Did you knowthat the Bonfires of Saint John festival in Spain uses discarded furniture as tinder for the fires ?
Did you knowthat communication with submarines is difficult because salt water is a conductor which blocks electromagnetic radiation ?
Did you knowthat Vertigo actress Barbara Bel Geddes was the daughter of designer Norman Bel Geddes ?
Did you knowthat the United Kingdom was the first country to offer its citizens a postal savings system ?
Did you knowthat the literary genre known as Bangsian fantasy sets its action wholly or partially in Hell ?
Did you knowthat the word ecology was coined by Ellen Swallow Richards , the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ?
Did you knowthat Antarctica 's Lemaire Channel is such a popular tourist destination that it's nicknamed Kodak Gap ?
Did you knowthat the 1945 Trial of the Sixteen helped the USSR consolidate its control over Poland ?
Did you knowthat the Cork Opera House in Ireland was built in 1855 , burned down in 1955 , and rebuilt in 1963 ?
Did you knowthat the Venetian Arsenal is mentioned in Dante 's Inferno ?
Did you knowthat British lying-in-state ceremonies take place at Westminster Hall ?
Did you knowthat there are three major kinds of arcade cabinet : upright, sit-down and cocktail?
Did you knowthat the Malayan Tapir is the only species of tapir native to Asia ?
Did you knowthat the word "high" in high treason differentiates that well-known crime from the more obscure petty treason ?
Did you knowthat the history of Buddhism includes a century of Greco-Buddhist interaction, primarily around Bactria ?
Did you knowthat the Malayan tapir species of tapir and the only one native to Asia?
Did you knowthat the Romanian riots of 1989 led to the only bloody overthrow of a Communist regime in Europe ?
Did you knowthat the disputed Cherokee Strip in Kansas was the result of a boundary conflict between the Osage , Cherokee and United States federal government which lasted from 1854 until 1866?
Did you knowthat the English mediæval shrine statue Our Lady of Ipswich , ordered to be destroyed during the Reformation , might have survived in an Italian village?
Did you knowthat many of the Dartmoor longhouses built during the Middle Ages still stand today?
Did you knowthat Buchwald v. Paramount may (or may not) have set a precedent for questioning spurious Hollywood accounting practices?
Did you knowthat the history of the incipit runs from ancient Sumeria through to modern word processors ?
Did you knowthat the dominant art form of the English Renaissance was the play ?
Did you knowthat the mysterious objects known as Black triangles may actually be hybrid airships ?
Did you knowthat Wikipedia has lots articles about Persian Kings ?
Did you knowthat the city of Swakopmund , Namibia has some of the world's best examples of German Art Deco architecture?
Did you knowthat Johannes Bugenhagen introduced the Protestant Reformation to Pomerania and Denmark in the 16th century ?
Did you knowthat the now-closed Opryland was the official theme park of NASCAR ?
Did you knowthat the French village of Giverny , best known as the home and landscape subject of Claude Monet , is a pre-Roman town known in ancient deeds as Warnacum ?
Did you knowthat Governor-General outranks the Prime Minister in the New Zealand order of precedence ?
Did you knowthat Luis Francisco Ojeda is a Puerto Rican television host ?
Did you knowthat Bobby Sherman became a very popular teen idol after his first single rose to number 3 on the Billboard charts?