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Did you knowthat the Polish cochineal gave its name to the color red and the month of June in many Slavic languages ?
Did you knowthat John Perlman , one of South Africa 's most popular radio presenters, resigned after blowing the whistle on political censorship at the South African Broadcasting Corporation ?
Did you knowthat the 1916 Lorado Taft work, The Soldiers' Monument , constructed for $21,000, is now worth over $1,000,000?
Did you knowthat Disco D specialized in hip hop music and was a 2005 pioneer in composing original ring tone works for cell phones?
Did you knowthat Lauren Nelson , newly crowned Miss America 2007 , is the second consecutive winner from Oklahoma ?
Did you knowthat Jacob Nolde was so inspired by a pine tree on his land in the early 1900s that he planted 500,000 more in what is now Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center in Pennsylvania ?
Did you knowthat the Singing Priests of Tagbilaran not only proclaim the gospel in the pulpit but also on stage in songs and dances?
Did you knowthat Guy de Rothschild temporarily moved to New York when the French government under François Mitterrand nationalized his bank ?
Did you knowthat Mount Burgess is nicknamed the Ten Dollar Mountain because it was featured on Canadian currency ?
Did you knowthat Antoni Bohdziewicz , a Polish film director , was a member of the Armia Krajowa Polish resistance and worked on a documentary film made and shown entirely in besieged Warsaw ?
Did you knowthat one of Atomic Games ' most successful titles, Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far , topped their previous sale record by a factor of ten?
Did you knowthat the earliest scientifically dated cemetery in the United Kingdom was found at Aveline's Hole , one of the Caves of the Mendip Hills in Somerset , England ?
Did you knowthat French historian Augustin Cochin was the son of Denys Cochin , a prominent right wing Deputy in the National Assembly of France ?
Did you knowthat the Swedish spelman Anders Ljungqvist , according to rumors, had a contract with the Nix , signed in blood on human bones from the local churchyard?
Did you knowthat ball culture , as seen in Paris is Burning , has drag houses that compete for 12' tall trophies and prizes of $1000 or more?
Did you knowthat one person was killed and another injured when they entered a tiger 's cage in Alipore Zoological Gardens , Calcutta , and tried to put a floral garland round his neck?
Did you knowin 1293 , the Bartian tribe of Prussia asked Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytenis for protection against the Teutonic Knights ?
Did you knowthat according to Germanic legends , the cruel king Níðuðr captured the divine smith Weyland and had him hamstrung to prevent escape?
Did you knowthat Egyptian actor Omar Sharif 's first film role was in the 1954 film Sira` Fi al-Wadi ?
Did you knowthat French soprano Germaine Lubin was imprisoned for three years after World War II for her alleged support of Nazi Germany ?
Did you knowthat Emperor Frederick II ran an experiment that involved raising infants in isolation to discover what language God spoke?
Did you knowthat the life of Polish ship captain Mamert Stankiewicz was immortalized in a popular book series ?
Did you knowthat William Frederick Yeames ' painting , And When Did You Last See Your Father? , has been reproduced as a waxwork at Madame Tussauds , London ?
Did you knowthat the discovery of Archaeamphora longicervia , the first known carnivorous plant , suggests that flowering plants should have originated much earlier than previously thought?
Did you knowthat John Murray of Broughton was a Jacobite turncoat, whose evidence led to Lord Lovat's execution for high treason ?
Did you knowthat students who finish a doctorate at the Georg-August University of Göttingen traditionally kiss the Gänseliesel , a statue in the center of Göttingen ?
Did you knowthat Jonas Vileišis was a member of the Council which proclaimed Lithuania 's independence in 1918?
Did you knowthat the charity Facing the World offers cosmetic surgery to children with facial disfigurements who live in countries where effective treatment is unavailable?
Did you knowthat Julius Caesar appears in Norse mythology as the legendary king Kjárr ?
Did you knowthat Bulgarian Dobri Zhelyazkov founded the first textile factory in the Ottoman Empire ?
Did you knowthat Samuel T. Wellman built the first commercially successful open hearth furnace in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Charles Leach was the only British Member of Parliament to have been disqualified under the Lunacy (Vacating of Seats) Act?
Did you knowthat Japanese author Mushanokōji Saneatsu emulated Leo Tolstoy in establishing a commune based on humanism and utopian socialism ?
Did you knowthat Archibald Cameron of Locheil was the last man to be executed for his part in Bonnie Prince Charlie 's Jacobite rebellion ?
Did you knowthat the Piraeus Lion is an ancient Greek statue "embellished" with runic graffiti by Vikings ?
Did you knowthat Lithuanian collective farm workers were 50% more productive than the Soviet average?
Did you knowthat the Strangeways Prison inmate Gordon Park was convicted of murdering his first wife 28 years after the fact?
Did you knowthat Humshaugh in Northumberland , England , is acknowledged as the site of the first official Scout camp?
Did you knowthat economist J. C. Kumarappa coined the term Gandhian economics to describe a school of thought based on Gandhism ?
Did you knowthat construction of Żarnowiec , Poland 's only nuclear power plant , was cancelled as the project neared completion?
Did you knowthat New Zealand rugby player Andy Dalton suffered an injury that kept him from captaining the All Blacks side that went on to win the inaugural 1987 Rugby World Cup ?
Did you knowthat the standing army created during the Thirty Years' War by Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg , developed into the Prussian Army ?
Did you knowthat the Young Bengal leader Ramgopal Ghosh was threatened with ostracism for opposing the Hindu religion?
Did you knowthat about 1,400 people of Fryštát died in 1623 because of bubonic plague ?
Did you knowthat the Suzuki MR Wagon was previewed as a concept car called Mum's Personal Wagon ?
Did you knowthat since the first Urdu language typewriter was created in 1911, the Urdu keyboard layout has evolved to accommodate the needs of the digital age ?
Did you knowthat historian Henry William Carless Davis once served as a member of the British contingent to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919?
Did you knowthat the PEI Tenant League was an agrarian populist movement created in 1863 which overthrew the proprietary land system created by King George III in Prince Edward Island ?
Did you knowthat Jeannette Piccard piloted a hydrogen balloon to the stratosphere for Jean Piccard , likely namesake of Captain Picard of Star Trek ?
Did you knowthat a Lithuanian Heavy Draught horse could weigh up to 920 kilograms ?
Did you know that Gandhian economics , centering around the values of trusteeship , human dignity and equality , has been viewed as an alternative to left-wing and right-wing economic models?
Did you knowthat the Bellefonte Central Railroad once carried passengers and freight to Pennsylvania State University ?
Did you knowthat John McShain was a successful American contractor known as The Man Who Built Washington ?
Did you knowthat Bodysgallen Hall sits on the site of the home of a 5th century AD Welsh king ?
Did you knowthat New Zealand rugby union player Mark Hammett won four Super 12 titles with the Crusaders between 1996 and 2003 before being appointed as their assistant coach for 2007?
Did you knowthat the Royal Fort in Bristol was built with façades in Baroque , Palladian and Rococo styles because it was a compromise between the designs of three different architects?
Did you knowthat the French Military Mission to Japan played a key role in the establishment of the nascent Imperial Japanese Army ?
Did you knowthat a power struggle between Thomas Benolt and Thomas Wriothesley in 1530 almost brought an end to the College of Arms ?
Did you knowthat in 2002, 72% of Swiss voters voted in favour of making abortion in Switzerland legal on demand in the first trimester of a pregnancy?
Did you knowthat on April 29 , 1899 , trade unionists in Coeur d'Alene , Idaho killed two men by steering an explosives-laden train to the site of a mill, in order to protest the firing of fellow union members?
Did you knowthat the British Member of Parliament Dr Donald Johnson was interested by the connotations of the Macmillan government's 69-vote win over the Profumo sex scandal ?
Did you knowthat Hersey Kyota has represented Palau at the United Nations Millennium Summit , even though he is not Palau's ambassador to the U.N.?
Did you knowthat Aristotle 's ideas of physics held that because an object could not move without an immediate source of energy , arrows created a vacuum behind them that pushed them through the air?
Did you knowthat by tradition, military leaders participating in military simulations will often do so anonymously ?
Did you knowthat Sir John Ruggles-Brise, 2nd Baronet , Lord Lieutenant of Essex for 20 years, was the first Pro-Chancellor of Essex University ?
Did you knowthat the gang-rape and murder of Sarathambal in 1999 became an internationally known incident of the Sri Lankan civil war ?
Did you knowthat Room 307, Gilman Hall on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley , where the element plutonium was discovered, is a United States National Historic Landmark ?
Did you knowthat the status of the Northern Group of Forces , the Soviet Army unit stationed in Poland from 1945 to 1993, was formally regulated by Soviet-Polish treaty only in 1956?
Did you knowthat on March 21 , 1943 , Rudolf Christoph von Gersdorff tried to kill Adolf Hitler in a suicide attack in Berlin , but failed because Hitler left earlier than expected?
Did you knowthat Francis Barber was born a slave in Jamaica and was the manservant for over 30 years, and finally the heir, of Dr. Samuel Johnson of dictionary fame?
Did you knowthat " O Meu Coração Não Tem Cor " was the most successful Portuguese Eurovision entry to date, but was ironically followed by the country's worst result since the Carnation Revolution ?
Did you knowthat there are significant breeding populations of 35 mammalian species in Kaziranga National Park , Assam , India , out of which 15 are threatened mammals according to the IUCN Red List ?
Did you knowthat the Goulburn Valley region of Australia is home to the oldest and largest plantings of the little used Marsanne grape variety?
Did you knowthat G. S. Shivarudrappa is only the third person to be named "poet of the nation" by the Government of Karnataka ?
Did you knowthat the British colonial Administrator Sir Robert Codrington was influential in establishing British colonial government in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland and making them different in character from white-settler-led Southern Rhodesia ?
Did you knowthat rhymed prose has been popular in various cultures, ranging from medieval Arabic maqamat to modern rap ?
Did you knowthat Polish general Józef Zając held military decorations from Poland , the United Kingdom , France , Germany , Austro-Hungary , and the short-lived state of Central Lithuania ?
Did you knowthat a 1968 court challenge to the right of Sir Ewan Forbes, 11th Baronet , born "Elizabeth", to inherit his family baronetcy rested on the question of his gender ?
Did you knowthat Kolkata West International City has one of the largest foreign direct investments in township projects in India ?
Did you knowthat Brigadier General Mihiel Gilormini , founder of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard , served in the Royal Canadian Air Force , the UK's Royal Air Force , and the United States Army Air Corps during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Cesar Picton , who was enslaved aged six in Senegal , died in England as a wealthy coal-merchant?
Did you knowthat, according to human rights organizations, Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev has been beaten, received death threats and had his father kidnapped due to his criticism of the government ?
Did you knowthat three days after a fire gutted the passenger ferry Levina 1 , killing at least 49, she sank with a party of journalists and investigators on board, killing at least one more?
Did you knowthat during the Battle of Jarosław in 1939 the Polish Army defended the town for two days before retreating in good order?
Did you knowthat in the 1850s Arnold Guyot measured the elevation of Old Black in the Great Smoky Mountains to within 3 feet (1 m) of the modern value?
Did you knowthat Sir David Robertson initially agreed to mind the constituency of another British parliamentarian who was interned during the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat Lil' Pimp was the first feature-length film to be created entirely with Macromedia Flash animation?
Did you knowthat Javad Malik-Yeganov was exiled to Karelia following the collapse of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic on suspicion of being a member of Musavat ?
Did you knowthat in 2005 the then 28-year-old Murat Yusuf became the youngest ever Mufti of Romania ?
Did you knowthat Mao Anqing , the last known surviving son of Mao Zedong , suffered from a mental illness often attributed to a severe beating received from a policeman while living on the streets in Shanghai in the 1930s?
Did you knowthat shortly after Jonah of Manchuria died in 1925, he is said to have appeared in a dream before a crippled boy saying "Here, take my legs. I don't need them anymore," and the boy woke up completely healed?
Did you knowthat Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 's Missa Papae Marcelli was once thought to have been composed to convince the Council of Trent not to ban polyphonic music from the Catholic Church ?
Did you knowthat New Black Panther activist Quanell X is featured in some of Scarface 's early rap videos?
Did you knowthat the Rev. Arthur Wagner, the first curate of the Church of St. Paul, Brighton , England, commissioned stained glass windows of his mother, father and aunt for the church?
Did you knowthat the Romney Expedition , led by Stonewall Jackson , cleared Union forces from the lower Shenandoah Valley and surrounding Allegheny ranges during the early part of the American Civil War ?
Did you knowthat after the Japanese Supreme Court found Shibusawa Tatsuhiko guilty of obscenity for translating the works of the Marquis de Sade into Japanese , he was outraged by the triviality of his fine?
Did you knowthat, during the Great Depression , the Romanian politician Grigore Iunian proposed devaluing the leu as a means to curb peasant insolvency ?
Did you knowthat the 3rd Earl of Radnor , wanting the borough of Downton to be free from his own influence, successfully pushed for its complete disenfranchisement?
Did you knowthat Crveni Krst , a neigborhood of Belgrade , Serbia , was built around the alleged burial site of Saint Sava ?
Did you knowthat it was recently discovered that about 10,000 Muslim graves in Cebeci Asri Cemetery , Ankara , Turkey were not oriented in the direction required by Islam ?
Did you knowthat Oscar Kiss Maerth asserted in his 1971 book The Beginning Was the End that humankind evolved from cannibalistic apes?
Did you knowthat Australian physicist , Sir Kerr Grant studied with Nobel Prize winning chemist and physicist , Irving Langmuir at the University of Göttingen ?
Did you knowthat the Hilary Duff song " Haters " is rumored to be directed at actress Lindsay Lohan ?
Did you knowthat the term Rashtrapati , the native word in India to refer the nation's President , was first suggested by the Kannada poet , scholar T.N. Srikantaiah ?
Did you knowthat the Benicia Arsenal in Benicia, California , was home to the short-lived U.S. Camel Corps ?
Did you knowthat Icelandic tenor Garðar Thór Cortes was voted sexiest man in Iceland twice in one year in separate polls?
Did you knowthat Hakim Habibur Rahman , a Unani physician, collected all the Arabic , Persian and Urdu books written in Bengal for more than 40 years and published a catalog titled Sulasa Ghusala ?
Did you knowthat for more than a century, the oxygen we breathe was thought to evolve from carbon dioxide during photosynthesis , but later proven to be split from water molecules instead?
Did you knowthat lobbying by the International Seamen's Union led to the abolition of the practice of imprisoning seamen who deserted their ship in the United States in 1915?
Did you knowthat Elli Perkins , having refused psychiatric care for her schizophrenic son because of Scientology beliefs, was murdered by him?
Did you knowthat because of liberal divorce laws in the U.S. state of Nevada , the Riverside Hotel in Reno catered specifically to wealthy divorce-seekers?
Did you knowthat Albert Blaustein was a consultant on the national constitutions for over 14 countries and helped found the United States ' Law Day ?
Did you knowthat Seaport Centre , a large biotechnology research complex, was developed over old salt evaporation ponds ?
Did you knowthat Henri Le Secq was a founding member of the short-lived, first ever photographic organization Société héliographique ?
Did you knowthat author Dean Koontz reportedly was so unsatisfied with the film version of his novel Hideaway that he attempted to have his name removed from the credits?
Did you knowthat the extinct species of Edaphodon , a type of rabbitfish related to the shark , grazed along the bottom of the ocean like land-dwelling herbivores do now?
Did you knowthat the Russian Communist Varvara Yakovleva was a member of the board of the Secret Police and led food inspections that requisitioned food as a punitive measure?
Did you knowthat the dispute settlement system in the World Trade Organization is characterized as the most adjudicative mechanism in the world ?
Did you knowthat United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally intervened to make sure the new post office in Ellenville, New York was built of stone instead of brick after residents complained to him via telegram ?
Did you knowthat the Russian painter Grigory Gagarin was also a military leader and a diplomat in Paris , Rome , and Istanbul ?
Did you knowthat Torrent was the first American film starring the Swedish actress Greta Garbo ?
Did you knowthat during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine , a secret synod of Ukrainian bishops in Pochaiv Lavra created the Ukrainian Autonomous Orthodox Church , canonically linked to the Moscow Patriarchate ?
Did you knowthat a forehead lift is a procedure used in plastic surgery to remove the deep "worry" lines that run across the forehead ?
Did you knowthat the newly-named Oryctodromeus , a genus of small herbivorous dinosaur from the mid Cretaceous of Montana , is the first dinosaur described as making burrows ?
Did you knowthat Cochiti Dam in New Mexico is one of the ten largest dams in the United States , the 23rd largest in the world, and the eleventh largest earthen dam worldwide?
Did you knowthat the South African physician Abdullah Abdurahman became Cape Town 's first coloured city councillor in 1904 ?
Did you knowthat the publishers of the American music magazine Option once launched a spin-off fashion magazine, UHF ?
Did you knowthat the 1991 Spanish film Amantes shocked audiences due to the frankness of its sex scenes?
Did you knowthat professor Malcolm Grant , the Provost and President of University College London , agreed to shave off his moustache if UCL students raised £1500 for Comic Relief , on Red Nose Day in 2005 ?
Did you knowthat adjuvants are sometimes used to modify the effects that a vaccine has on disease resistance by stimulating the immune system to respond to the vaccine with much more vitality ?
Did you knowthat Jiri Dudacek , the first Czechoslovak ice hockey player to be selected in the first round of the National Hockey League draft , never left Czechoslovakia due to the protests of the country's sports minister?
Did you knowthat the foreign minister of Turkmenistan Batyr Berdiyev was dismissed for poor knowledge of the native language Turkmen , before being arrested and convicted for his involvement in an assassination attempt on President Saparmurat Niyazov ?
Did you knowthat Lophostropheus from Normandy is one of the only dinosaurs known from the Triassic - Jurassic boundary?
Did you knowthat the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters , the earliest extant Chinese Buddhist sutra , is similar in form to the Analects of Confucius ?
Did you knowthat Varvara Yakovleva , a nun of the Russian Orthodox Church , was canonized as a martyr after she was killed with her former mistress, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna ?
Did you knowthat the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem , Oregon , is the third largest museum in the state - and Yahoo! Travel's tenth best thing to do in Salem?
Did you knowthat Steve Fossett 's Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer aircraft had a fuel fraction of nearly 85 percent, meaning it carried more than five times its weight in fuel?
Did you knowthat during World War II the British military successfully airdropped homing pigeons into German -occupied France so that they might carry the locals' intelligence reports back to England?
Did you knowthat England cricket captain Tony Greig said that England would make the West Indies "grovel" on their tour to England in 1976 , but went on to lose 6 of the 8 matches?
Did you knowthat Shaul Shimon Deutsch left the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish movement to set up his own Hasidic court in 1995 and curates a museum of Biblical archaeology in Brooklyn, New York ?
Did you knowthat following the 1886 Seattle anti-Chinese riot the United States Congress paid the Chinese government $276,619.15 in compensation, but the victims received nothing?
Did you knowthat the streak of a mineral , the color of the mark it makes when rubbed on a plate, is usually a more consistent identifier than the color of the original mineral?
Did you knowthat Japanese alpinist Ken Noguchi became the youngest person to scale the Seven Summits when he ascended Mt. Everest in 1999 at the age of 25?
Did you knowthat Rush Limbaugh guest-hosted the short-lived The Pat Sajak Show in 1990 and caused such an uproar with his controversial comments that the audience had to be removed from the studio?
Did you knowthat the prehistoric badger genus Chamitataxus lived during the Late Miocene and is considered the most primitive badger genus in North America ?
Did you knowthat Justus of Beauvais , a cephalophore saint, is reported to have picked up his head and continued preaching after his beheading?
Did you knowthat The Dove , an American film released in 1974 , is based on the real life experiences of Robin Lee Graham , a 16-year-old who spent five years sailing around the world alone?
Did you knowthat when the English programmer Pete Shaw was still a teen , he had already written eleven technical computer books, published around the world in several languages?
Did you knowthat Emmanuel Kwasi Kotoka came to power in Ghana through a military coup d'état in 1966, only to be deposed and killed in a further coup fourteen months later?
Did you knowthat the Académie de Poésie et de Musique , which was founded in 1570 under the auspices of Charles IX of France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville , was the first academy in France ?
Did you knowthat Canadian ice hockey referee and organizer Fred Waghorne was the first to use a whistle to stop game play rather than the customary cowbell , when disruptive fans started bringing their own cowbells?
Did you knowthat the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plants complex in Slovakia became the first Soviet-era nuclear plant in Eastern Europe to have safety standards comparable to Western ones ?
Did you knowthat Kenneth Branagh had his earliest theatre appearances with Progress Theatre , including one minor role of "second policeman"?
Did you knowthat The Kinship of the Three is the earliest book on theoretical alchemy in China and is the earliest source to have mentioned the compositions necessary to create gunpowder ?
Did you knowthat the International Society for Science and Religion was founded by two winners of the Templeton Prize ?
Did you knowthat English book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps acquired some 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts over the course of his lifetime?