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Did you knowthat Soviet literature declared Russian the " world language of internationalism ", denouncing French as the "language of fancy courtiers" and English as the "jargon of traders"?
Did you knowthat the ancient Olympic athlete Milo of Croton reportedly drank 10 liters of the Calabrian wine Cirò every day, and that the same wine is still being produced today?
Did you knowthat in O'Donnabhain v. Commissioner , the United States Tax Court is presented for the first time with the issue of whether sex reassignment surgery is tax deductible?
Did you knowthat fake names and scenes were given to actors auditioning for roles in the upcoming episode titled " Confirmed Dead " of the fourth season of ABC 's television series Lost to limit the leak of spoilers ?
Did you knowthat the more than two centuries old Gun and Shell Factory at Cossipore , a neighbourhood in north Kolkata , is the oldest surviving factory in the Indian subcontinent ?
Did you knowthat during the 1917 Kazan Gunpowder Plant fire , its manager Vsevolod Luknitski died after flooding explosives with water, in order to save the whole city from a major explosion?
Did you knowthat a large coastal defense gun was temporarily installed at Oregon's scenic Cape Perpetua during World War II ?
Did you knowthat of the members of Australia 's Quietly Confident Quartet that won the 4 × 100 m medley relay at the 1980 Olympics , Mark Tonelli , Mark Kerry and Neil Brooks were either suspended or expelled by the Australian Swimming Union while Peter Evans refused coaching orders to train harder?
Did you knowthat the St. James-Belgravia Historic District of Louisville, Kentucky , the site of the 1883-87 Southern Exposition , has buildings modeled after London 's Belgravia ?
Did you knowthat Lyrcus is the name shared by two ancient Greek figures?
Did you knowthat Omar Osama bin Laden , son of Osama bin Laden , has proposed a 3000-mile horse race to replace the Dakar rally , canceled the week before due to al-Qaeda threats?
Did you knowthat the Tingari cycle in Australian Aboriginal mythology embodies a vast network of Aboriginal Dreaming songlines that traverse the Western Desert region of Australia, and is frequently the subject of Aboriginal Art ?
Did you knowthat Republican Governor Bobby Jindal supported Joel Chaisson , a Democrat , to become the new president of the Louisiana State Senate ?
Did you knowthat a successful experimental system must be stable and reproducible enough for scientists to make sense of the system's behavior, but unpredictable enough that it can produce useful results?
Did you knowthat the trophy awarded to the first winners of Norwegian film award Amanda , at a weight of 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs), was difficult for some recipients to lift?
Did you knowthat future Soviet psychiatrist Yuri Nuller was sent into the Gulag for supposedly being recruited by the French secret service at the age of three?
Did you knowthat the Peter C. DuBois House in Beacon, New York was reused as a sanatorium for much of the 20th century?
Did you knowthat the unsuccessful, day-long Rebellion of Cao Qin within Beijing , China in 1461 forced the Tianshun Emperor to blockade the gates of the Forbidden City with debris stripped from the Imperial Waterway?
Did you knowthat British - American philanthropist Rhoda Pritzker reportedly wore a life preserver on her entire trans-Atlantic voyage to the United States in 1939 due to the threat of German U-boat attacks?
Did you knowthat the Italian government submitted the Medici villas (pictured) in Tuscany for designation as a World Heritage Site in 2006?
Did you knowthat one of the most important advances in medieval Islamic psychology was the establishment of the first psychiatric hospitals ?
Did you knowthat in Slavic vampire folklore , vampires could take the form of butterflies ?
Did you knowthat because of the laws pertaining to birth aboard aircraft and ships , that it is possible for a person born in a British ship, anchored at a United States port, with a Chinese father and a Turkish mother, to have quadruple nationality ?
Did you knowthat German -born Guenther Podola was the last man to be hanged in Britain for killing a police officer?
Did you knowthat the Koitsenko were the honorary elite of the Kiowa dog soldiers , who tribal lore says called themselves that because they had dreams or visions of dogs?
Did you knowthat the genus Entomocorus includes a catfish species that lives only one year?
Did you knowthat in the year 1214 , the Scot Ruaidhri mac Raghnaill , Lord of Kintyre , stole the treasures of Derry from its monastery ?
Did you knowthat Independence Day Award is the highest state award given by the Government of Bangladesh ?
Did you knowthat British Conservative politician Sir John Loveridge published poetry and exhibited paintings and sculpture after serving 13 years as a member of Parliament ?
Did you knowthat the Aboriginal Community Court is an Australian court which aims to reduce the overrepresentation of aboriginal criminal offenders in the justice system?
Did you knowthat because of Canada 's controversial cancellation of the Avro Arrow , 428 All Weather Fighter Squadron of the RCAF was disbanded on June 1 , 1961 ?
Did you knowthat New York Giants quarterback Harry Newman threw the first touchdown pass in an NFL Championship Game 75 years ago in the 1933 NFL Championship Game against the Chicago Bears ?
Did you knowthat less than two months after showing what would become the dress of the season for Spring 2006, Roland Mouret split from his backers and took a two-year hiatus from the fashion industry ?
Did you knowthat when San Francisco –based photographer William Rulofson fell to his death, he was heard to have exclaimed, "I am killed"?
Did you knowthat the passing lanes of the Arroyo Seco Parkway , California 's first freeway , were paved in a different color to encourage drivers to stay in their lanes?
Did you knowthat Terminonatator ponteixensis is the type and only species described for Terminonatator , a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from Late Cretaceous of Saskatchewan , Canada ?
Did you knowthat the Cohocksink Creek was once the boundary between two Pennsylvania towns and now runs beneath the streets of the Philadelphia neighborhood of Northern Liberties ?
Did you knowthat 2002's Hurricane Elida was the first hurricane to be observed by the MERIS sensor aboard the ESA's satellite Envisat ?
Did you knowthat the former chief architect of Yerevan , Arthur Meschian , was also one of the founders of Armenian rock ?
Did you knowthat London's Gresham Club (1843—1991) was named after Sir Thomas Gresham , an Elizabethan merchant?
Did you knowthat violent, porno-chic fashion photography in French and Italian Vogue influenced the sexualized glamor of western cosmetics in the 1970s ?
Did you knowthat the San Francisco and San Mateo Electric Railway was San Francisco 's first electric streetcar company?
Did you knowthat the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track constructed for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Austria , was the first permanent, combination artificially refrigerated track?
Did you knowthat only the shorter of the two Berks and Hants Railway lines actually entered Hants , the longer being entirely in the county of Berks ?
Did you knowthat Danish film director Pernille Fischer Christensen ' s first feature film , about the relationship between a beauty shop owner and a transvestite, won a Silver Bear prize at the 2006 Berlin International Film Festival ?
Did you knowthat the type specimen of Dromicosuchus had damage to its jaw and neck that may have been inflicted by the teeth of the large carnivore it was found underneath?
Did you knowthat Tommy Johnson holds the record for the most goals scored by a Manchester City player in a single season?
Did you knowthat Solomon Bibo was a Prussian -born Jew who became the equivalent of tribal chief of the Acoma Pueblo ?
Did you knowthat Indian company Reliance Power attracted US$27.5 billion of bids on the first day of its initial public offering (IPO), equivalent to 10.5 times the stock on offer, thereby creating India 's IPO record?
Did you knowthat the statue of King Louis XVI built in 1829, currently at the Metro Hall in Louisville, Kentucky ,  was endangered by the Second French Revolution in 1830?
Did you knowthat Midford Castle was built in the shape of the ace of clubs (♣)?
Did you knowthat Edwin Q. Cannon was sent by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a missionary to establish the first LDS churches in West Africa ?
Did you knowthat FPT University , a college in Ho Chi Minh City specializing in information technology , became the first private university in Vietnam when it was established in 2006?
Did you knowthat Scottish film actor Moultrie Kelsall played a pivotal role in saving the dilapidated Menstrie Castle in Clackmannanshire from demolition?
Did you knowthat during the reign of Beorhtwulf of Mercia , London , the chief trading centre of Mercia , was attacked twice, in 842 and again in 851, by Viking armies?
Did you knowthat football manager Yvon Pouliquen led two clubs to victory in the French Cup Final and relegation from the top division in consecutive seasons?
Did you knowthat the 1956 My Fair Lady by Shelly Manne & His Friends was the first album ever made consisting entirely of jazz versions of tunes from a single Broadway musical ?
Did you knowthat after Comanche prophet Isa-tai promised a coalition of Native American warriors they would be invulnerable in battle and they lost, he blamed a Cheyenne killing a skunk for negating his magic?
Did you knowthat the Japanese visual novel True Tears was adapted into an animated television series that is planned to consist of thirteen episodes ?
Did you knowthat the One Child Policy of the People's Republic of China is based on Ma Yinchu ' s New Population Theory, which was criticized by the government after its publication in 1957?
Did you knowthat Stubbins Ffirth drank vomit and smeared bodily fluids over himself in an attempt to prove that yellow fever was not contagious ?
Did you knowthat the death from disease in 951 of Gofraid mac Sitriuc , King of Dublin , was described as divine vengeance for his attack on the Abbey of Kells earlier in the year?
Did you knowthat the military operation against the dervish forces of Mohammed Abdullah Hassan , commonly known as the "Mad Mullah", was described by a British politician as "the cheapest war in history"?
Did you knowthat Milwaukee Hawks player Don Boven fouled out of six consecutive NBA games in 1952—a record that still stands?
Did you knowthat Italian explorer Rafael Perestrello , a cousin of Christopher Columbus , sailed on behalf of Portugal and established trading relationships for that country with the Ming Dynasty in China in 1516?
Did you knowthat the Two Ladies was a euphemism used for the Ancient Egyptian deities Wadjet and Nekhbet , represented on the royal crowns of the merged Upper and Lower Egypt as a cobra and a vulture , respectively?
Did you knowthat Inuit fur trader Stephen Angulalik sold umbrellas and parasols at his trading post in Northern Canada , which were covered in white cotton and used by hunters to sneak up on sleeping seals ?
Did you knowthat Kirill Eskov named a genus from the Linyphiidae spider family discovered by him in 1988 after Kikimora , a female spirit in Slavic mythology ?
Did you knowthat Ong Kim Seng is the only Asian artist outside the USA to be admitted into the American Watercolor Society, having won six awards from the society?
Did you knowthat Ralph Heikkinen was the first All-American football player from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan , being raised in the Finnish-American communities of the Gogebic Range ?
Did you knowthat the new BBC Two sitcom Never Better has been unfavourably compared with other dark sitcoms such as Curb Your Enthusiasm and Lead Balloon ?
Did you knowthat the English historian Sir Raymond Carr was knighted for services to History in the New Year Honours List , 1987?
Did you knowthat an Enoteca , from the Italian for wine library , is a shop that offers tourists and visitors the opportunity to sample local wines for a reasonable fee?
Did you knowthat the Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul disaster, which occurred in 1890 off Kushimoto , led to strengthening foreign relations between Turkey and Japan ?
Did you knowthat amphibious tanks which were used on D-Day were developed by Nicholas Straussler from Hungary ?
Did you knowthat Umberto Boccioni 's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space pays homage to Auguste Rodin 's Walking Man ?
Did you knowthat the weedy scorpionfish can vary considerably in color as well as appendages depending on its environment?
Did you knowthat the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau was created by Henri Matisse himself in 1952?
Did you knowthat it is expected to take 17 years to design and build the first of Australia's new submarines ?
Did you knowthat investment banker John P. Clay pursued his interest in Sanskrit literature by endowing the Clay Sanskrit Library , a 100-volume series of Sanskrit works translated into English?
Did you knowthat surface weather observations play a key role in determining aircraft safety at airports?
Did you knowthat Tommy Fleming was inducted into the American Soccer Hall of Fame in 2005, one of five soccer players unanimously selected to represent overlooked players from before the 1950s?
Did you knowthat Abani Mukherji , co-founder of the Communist Party of India , was executed by the Soviet Union as part of the Great Purge ?
Did you knowthat Stanfield Wells was the first of more than ten All-American football players from Washington High School in Massillon, Ohio ?
Did you knowthat a coal mining spoil heap at Writhlington , England was the site for the discovery of fossilised remains of the world's earliest known Damselfly ?
Did you knowthat Richard C. McCarty helped launch the " Decade of Behavior " campaign to bring attention to the importance of behavioral and social research ?
Did you knowthat Charles Moir ' s first recruit as Roanoke College 's basketball coach was Frankie Allen , who would eventually succeed Moir as head coach of Virginia Tech and become the school's first African American head coach?
Did you knowthat the extinct Greenlandic Norse language is believed to have left loanwords in Kalaallisut ?
Did you knowthat Mohammad Shukri played for the Malaysian Under-15 cricket team at the age of 18, and for the Under-19 team at the age of 20?
Did you knowthat Adelaide Johnson , sculptor of a memorial to women's suffrage in the US Capitol , was married in 1896 by a female minister, with two of her busts as bridesmaids?
Did you knowthat the Directa Decretal (385 AD) was a strongly-worded letter by Pope Siricius reminding priests of the perpetual celibacy required of them?
Did you knowthat graphic artist Rea Irvin ' s portrait of Eustace Tilly , a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle , appeared on the debut issue of The New Yorker in 1925, and annually each February until 1994?
Did you knowthat the vote by Stanley Forman Reed to join the majority in Brown v. Board of Education made the ruling unanimous,  helping to win public acceptance for the decision?
Did you knowthat two teenage brothers from Poland escaped in 1985 to Sweden under a truck, and this event was presented in a 1989 film 300 Miles to Heaven ?
Did you knowthat the landmark 1924 case Tournier v National Provincial and Union Bank of England clarified English law on the obligations that a bank has to protect the confidentiality of its customers?
Did you knowthat the supermassive black hole at the center of the quasar OJ287 has been measured to be 18 billion times the mass of the Sun , six times heavier than the previous record holder?
Did you knowthat Karachi ’s Lyari River is the major contributor to the annual discharge of 200 million gallons of sewage and Industrial waste into the Arabian Sea ?
Did you knowthat Cliff Friend co-wrote " The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down ", the theme tune of the Looney Tunes cartoon series?
Did you knowthat Chardonnay grapes are very neutral in flavor with many of the characteristics commonly associated with Chardonnay wine being derived from influences like terroir and the use of oak during winemaking ?
Did you knowthat London 's St James's Club (1857–1978) was claimed to be the only gentlemen's club with a room devoted solely to backgammon ?
Did you knowthat the traditional song Happy Birthday to You was first sung at the Little Loomhouse of Louisville, Kentucky ?
Did you knowthat before Nielsen BookScan began tracking point of sale data at bookstores, nobody knew how many copies were being sold of literary works that were published by multiple publishers and had entered the public domain ?
Did you knowthat when World War I aviator Stephen W. Thompson downed an Imperial German Army Air Service Albatros D.III on February 5 , 1918 , he became the first American to ever shoot down an enemy airplane?
Did you knowthat Sydney's Alexandra Canal is an artificial waterway originally planned to join Sydney Harbour to Botany Bay ?
Did you knowthat when Manolo Reyes created and hosted one of South Florida 's first Spanish-language newscasts in 1960, the station received a number of complaints from non-Spanish speakers?
Did you knowthat St John the Evangelist's Church, Weston , Runcorn , Cheshire is known as "The Choirboys' Church" because its choirboys wrote thousands of letters to raise money to build it?
Did you knowthat years after Adolph Spreckels shot M. H. de Young , the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (which he donated) and the De Young Museum merged to form the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ?
Did you knowthat three different Somali government organizations have sold rights for oil exploration in Puntland in the last three years?
Did you knowthat under the guidance of civil engineer Eugène Belgrand , Paris 's sewer system expanded four-fold between 1852 and 1869?
Did you knowthat one of the classifications used in proxemics is the classification of spaces into sociofugal or sociopetal spaces (the names being analogues of the words " centrifugal " and " centripetal ")?
Did you knowthat as well as being the only contemporary anthology of 17th century Scottish Gaelic verse, the Fernaig manuscript is written in a form of English orthography unique to the author?
Did you knowthat Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater , which ran on CBS from 1956 – 1961 , had five spin-off series , the most successful having been Chuck Connors ' The Rifleman , which ran on ABC from 1958 – 1963 ?
Did you knowthat writer Ngaire Thomas was forced at the age of 15 to apologise in front of 600 members of her church congregation for " fornicating " with her cousin, when in fact she had only kissed him?
Did you knowthat Peter de Villiers was named coach of South Africa 's national rugby union team, the Springboks , in January 2008, the first ever black coach of the team?
Did you knowthat Louisville's Eleven Jones Cave is the only known location for the Louisville cave beetle , Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes ?
Did you knowthat "Big" Alma Spreckels once successfully sued an ex-lover for "personal defloweration "?
Did you knowthat the church of Hagia Thekla in Constantinople , now a mosque , was rebuilt by Emperor Isaac I Komnenos as thanks for surviving a hunting accident?
Did you knowthat the six episodes of the Japanese original video animation series FLCL were produced by the FLCL Production Committee, which included Gainax , Production I.G , and Starchild Records?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Henri of 1979 was only one of four tropical cyclones in the 20th century to enter the Gulf of Mexico and not make landfall ?
Did you knowthat Alameda Street was built by Los Angeles County, California as a "truck boulevard" to the port ?
Did you knowthat Jeffrey Miles , a chief justice in Australia, once heard a case in which a woman sought damages for losing the opportunity to work as a prostitute following a fall in a supermarket?
Did you knowthat American lyric soprano Helen Jepson was first soprano on the original recording of Porgy and Bess ?
Did you knowthat Böttcherstrasse in Bremen , Germany , is an unusual ensemble of expressionist architecture ?
Did you knowthat at age 13 Susy Clemens wrote a biography of her father Mark Twain that was included in his posthumously published work, Chapters from my Autobiography ?
Did you knowthat the Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court heard the first Australian criminal prosecution of a bank for failing to protect its employees from armed holdups by improving safety at branches?
Did you knowthat Towson (Md.) Methodist Church 's membership split in two for 90 years after a dispute over the American Civil War ?
Did you knowthat Capitol Offense , the rock band of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee , has opened for REO Speedwagon , Percy Sledge , Willie Nelson , and even Grand Funk Railroad ?
Did you knowthat Lorenzo Sawyer was the first judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ?
Did you knowthat the main house of the Thaddeus Hait Farm is built of wood and stone, an unusual combination in a Federal style building?
Did you knowthat Blessed Veronica of Milan unsuccessfully tried to teach herself to read until an apparition of the Virgin told her that spiritual lessons were more important?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Ava was the first Pacific hurricane flown into by NOAA aircraft?
Did you knowthat since its original completion in 1972, the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Oberhof, Germany has undergone three separate renovations ?
Did you knowthat two new amphibious warfare ships of Australia to be added to the nation's fleet starting in 2012 will each be able to carry an entire infantry battalion and up to 16 helicopters?
Did you knowthat The Expert at the Card Table , one of the most famous books on magic and card tricks, was written in 1902 by S. W. Erdnase , an author whose identity has been an enduring mystery for over 100 years?
Did you knowthat Robert Campbell Reeve , the founder of Reeve Aleutian Airways , set a new world record for the highest landing of a ski equipped aircraft at 8,750 feet (2,667 m) on Mount Lucania in 1937?
Did you knowthat the Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque in Istanbul features a cypress tree with a chain that was swung between two people who gave contradictory statements to determine which one was telling the truth?
Did you knowthat William Melmoth ' s 1711 work The Great Importance of a Religious Life Consider'd went through thirty editions and sold over 420,000 copies by the end of the century?
Did you knowthat Polly Horvath 's award-winning 2001 children's novel Everything on a Waffle tells the story of Primrose Squarp, an 11-year old girl whose parents are lost in a typhoon?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Greg caused one of Mexico 's highest rainfall totals from a Pacific hurricane ?
Did you knowthat the original land deed requires that a jail cell from the original Dutchess County courthouse be preserved in the current building?
Did you knowthat the Nepalese Maoist Newar National Liberation Front sponsored the 'Miss Newa ' beauty pageant despite having previously demonstrated against it?
Did you knowthat London 's historic United University Club (1821-1972) is now occupied by the London Centre of the University of Notre Dame ?
Did you knowthat Francisco de Quevedo 's 1626 novel El Buscón , a major work of Spanish literature , was published without the permission of the author?
Did you knowthat Operation Camargue , one of the largest operations of the First Indochina War , failed to snare the Viet-Minh 's Regiment 95?
Did you knowthat in 1920, George Shima was dubbed "The Potato King" as he controlled 85% of California 's potato market?
Did you knowthat Think! , the Jeopardy! theme song by show creator Merv Griffin , has earned over $70 million in royalties since it debuted in 1964?
Did you knowthat Vereniging Basisinkomen is an organization that advocates granting all Dutch residents a guaranteed minimum income ?
Did you knowthat Mike Trinh , an American attorney who represents a Guantanamo detainee on a pro bono basis, studied under Viet Dinh , author of the Patriot Act ?
Did you knowthat Le chemin de fer , a piano composition by Charles-Valentin Alkan , is the first musical depiction of a railway ?