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Did you knowthat Irish cricketer and artist Robert Gregory was the subject of four poems by W. B. Yeats ?
Did you knowthat piano player and pupil of Ignacy Jan Paderewski , Maryla Jonas , debuted at the age of 9?
Did you knowthat book peddlers played an important cultural role in various countries, for which they sometimes suffered state persecution and sometimes enjoyed state protection?
Did you knowthat Australian Olympic swimming gold medalist Neil Brooks retired after being suspended for drinking 46 cans of beer on a flight from Britain back to Australia ?
Did you knowthat as British Colonial Secretary , Arthur Creech Jones oversaw dominion status in 1948 for Ceylon ?
Did you knowthat the 1928 legislative election is considered the last free election in Poland before the fall of communism six decades later?
Did you knowthat Kannada poet and Indian political activist Kayyara Kinyanna Rai published his first journal, Susheela , at the age of 12?
Did you knowthat Michigan State University Libraries has the largest catalogued collection of comic books in the world, with over 150,000 items?
Did you knowthat President Ngo Dinh Diem survived the 1962 South Vietnamese Presidential Palace bombing after a 500 lb (225 kg) bomb landed in his room and failed to detonate?
Did you knowthat the West Pharmaceutical Services explosion in 2003 occurred just 170 miles from the site of another industrial disaster , America 's second-worst ?
Did you knowthat Du battant des lames au sommet des montagnes ( French for "From the beating of the waves to the summit of the mountains") is a legal description of the manner in which the island of Réunion was divided into parcels?
Did you knowthat Rasau Field , one of the two onshore oil fields of Brunei , was discovered in 1979 but oil production only started in 1983?
Did you knowthat when the Sudanese Boeing 737 Air West Flight 612 was hijacked , the hijacker originally wanted to fly to Rome or London but was forced to settle for Chad due to a lack of fuel?
Did you knowthat the mushroom Lactarius rubrilacteus is also known as the " Bleeding milkcap " because it releases a dark-red milky substance when sliced or cut?
Did you knowthat the South Seas Evangelical Church , the third-largest religious affiliation in the Solomon Islands , traces its history to a mission for Kanakas in Queensland , Australia ?
Did you knowthat British Conservative politician Robert Jones was the only person to represent the parliamentary constituency of West Hertfordshire from its creation in 1983 to its abolition in 1997?
Did you knowthat the brief Dodecanese Campaign in 1943 resulted in one of the last major German victories in World War II ?
Did you knowthat Pankaj Gupta was one of the earliest Indian sports administrators involved in football , hockey and cricket ?
Did you knowthat Wee Chong Jin , one of the former judicial officers of the Republic of Singapore , was the longest-serving Chief Justice of Singapore and of a Commonwealth country, having held the post for over 27 years?
Did you knowthat Dr. Hanumappa Sudarshan was honored with the Right Livelihood Award , also known as alternative Nobel Prize , for showing how tribal culture can help secure the basic rights and needs of indigenous people?
Did you knowthat Ashley Mallett , Australia 's most successful post-war off spinner , had his career curtailed by arthritis ?
Did you knowthat the genus Brachyplatystoma includes many large species of Amazonian catfish , including one which may reach about 3.6 metres (almost 12 feet ) in length?
Did you knowthat, even though the soldiers that constituted the Red Lancers , a horse -mounted military unit, first served as the Dutch Royal Guards, they were almost completely destroyed after their first battle in 1812?
Did you knowthat the role of Kanephoros was the most prominent public office a girl or woman could hold in ancient Athens ?
Did you knowthat tens of thousands of Armenian Khachkars have allegedly been destroyed in a systematic manner by the government of Azerbaijan ?
Did you knowthat during a 1942 air attack on the Koolama , an Australian merchant ship , a man survived a direct hit to his head by a bomb , dropped by a Japanese aircraft?
Did you knowthat Dr. Naseem Ashraf was accused in Dawn of having a hidden agenda of de-Islamisation of  the Pakistan cricket team ?
Did you knowthat Shikellamy , an Oneida chief , was an emissary between the Iroquois and colonial government of Pennsylvania for nearly twenty years and helped negotiate several treaties?
Did you knowthat the 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt stalled after President Ngo Dinh Diem falsely promised reform, allowing loyalist forces to crush the rebels?
Did you knowthat in the early 18th century the Marquis de Ségur owned three of the five most prestigious wine estates in Bordeaux?
Did you knowthat 1927 Italian football champions Torino F.C. were stripped of their title for match fixing ?
Did you knowthat labor union activist Sam Pollock , who helped lead the Auto-Lite Strike , is the grandfather of noted experimental filmmaker Damon Packard ?
Did you knowthat the Romanian politician Costică Canacheu campaigns for the official recognition of Aromanians as a national minority in his country?
Did you knowthat females of the tropical fish subfamily Glandulocaudinae are able to hold sperm in their ovaries for several months ?
Did you knowthat the body of a 5th-century Germanic warrior found with the Treasure of Pouan was initially thought to be that of Theodoric I ?
Did you knowthat Australian cricketer John Gleeson attributed the finger strength used in his two-finger bowling action to a childhood of milking cows ?
Did you knowthat the first documented discovery of gold in California was at Rancho San Francisco in 1842, six years before the California Gold Rush ?
Did you knowthat the 1964 South Vietnamese coup by General Nguyen Khanh succeeded even though his accomplice General Tran Thien Khiem overslept?
Did you knowthat Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame inductee John Pesek was also inducted into the Greyhound National Hall of Fame?
Did you knowthat somewhere between a quarter and a third of Icelanders living in Iceland died due to the 1783 eruption of Laki , and the subsequent famine ?
Did you knowthat light echoes appear to exceed the speed of light due to simple interstellar illusions ?
Did you knowthat despite the scar literature after the Cultural Revolution in China contributing to Deng Xiaoping 's return to power, he later suppressed it?
Did you knowthat the Irish – Australian surveyor Robert D. Fitzgerald became so skilled in his hobby of botany that Charles Darwin corresponded with him and 4 plants were named in his honour?
Did you knowthat Churumuri.com , one of the most popular blogs on WordPress.com , is  named after a snack made of puffed rice that is a speciality of Mysore , Karnataka in India ?
Did you knowthat the Governors Court in New South Wales had a rule barring ex-convict lawyers from appearing before it, but all of the lawyers in the penal colony were ex-convicts?
Did you knowthat British philosopher Iain King is attempting to apply the scientific revolution to ethics ?
Did you knowthat the Russian Federal Atomic Energy Agency is building nuclear power plants that float on water ?
Did you knowthat during the 2007 Rolex 24 At Daytona , Katherine Legge completed the one millionth lap in the history of the race?
Did you knowthat Dusky Woodswallows roost together in large flocks during the breeding season to protect their young from predators ?
Did you knowthat the person or group responsible for the blackmail letters of the Glico Morinaga case in Japan is known as the Monster with 21 Faces ?
Did you knowthat First Command Financial Planning, Inc. , a financial services company that caters to the U.S. military , was found "willfully" non-compliant related to fraudulent activities in its marketing ?
Did you knowthat Neville Duke was the top Allied fighter ace in the Mediterranean theatre in World War II , having shot down at least 27 aircraft?
Did you knowthat the Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball program is the only college women's team to appear in every NCAA Tournament and every Sweet 16?
Did you knowthat in the book Beyond Capricorn Peter Trickett claims that the Portuguese were the first to discover Australia , between 1519-24?
Did you knowthat Sir Charles MacCarthy , the British colonial governor of Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast , was killed by the Ashanti and his head kept as a trophy?
Did you knowthat Uruguayan footballer Víctor Rodríguez Andrade helped found the Uruguayan Basketball Federation team 25 de Agosto?
Did you knowthat Zhang Chengzhi , who formed China 's first group of Red Guards while a student at Tsinghua University Middle School , converted to Islam ?
Did you knowthat a version of the traditional Bengali panjika , the Hindu astrological almanac , comes with an interactive CD-ROM ?
Did you knowthat none of the storms of the 1970 North Indian Ocean cyclone season in the Arabian Sea made landfall ?
Did you knowthat as Charles I of Austria attempted to regain the Hungarian throne in 1921, Czechoslovakia nearly entered Budapest in order to prevent a Habsburg restoration?
Did you knowthat the study reported in Evaluating a Large Group Awareness Training concluded that attending an LGAT seminar had minimal lasting effects, positive or negative, on participants' self-perception ?
Did you knowthat Martin Lindsay led the 1934 British Trans- Greenland Expedition, which set a world record for travelling 1050 mi (1680 km) using sledges ?
Did you knowthat only three works of Egardus , a fourteenth century composer whose music was known in Flanders , Italy , and Poland , are known to have survived?
Did you knowthat Gottlieb Ott changed Berne 's cityscape both by constructing new buildings and removing a medieval tower?
Did you knowthat the All India Sikh Students Federation was a major part of the movement for a Sikh -majority state of Punjab in India ?
Did you knowthat species of Prosaurolophus , a duckbilled dinosaur , have been described by Barnum Brown and Jack Horner , two of the most prominent paleontologists of the 20th century?
Did you knowthat Thrud the Barbarian , a comic character parodying Arnold Schwarzenegger 's depiction of Conan the Barbarian , has the intelligence of a garden snail ?
Did you knowthat the Free Belgian Forces fought in several theaters during World War II , including Great Britain, East Africa, the Mediterranean, and northwestern Europe?
Did you knowthat Jerry Zimmerman was the last active Major League Baseball coach to umpire a major league game?
Did you knowthat the first recorded use of " mad as a March hare " , which refers to the antics of hares during their breeding season , was written by Sir Thomas More in 1529?
Did you knowthat the defection of Polish secret police agent Józef Światło in 1953 shook the Polish United Workers' Party and led to the liberalization of Polish October ?
Did you knowthat Mother Theresa University, in Vilpatti Panchayat , South India , is the nation's only university exclusively devoted to women's issues?
Did you knowthat the history of invasive and interventional cardiology began with catheters being placed into the right and left ventricles of a living horse in 1711?
Did you knowthat the Korean dialect spoken by ethnic Koreans in Japan has changed so much that some of its speakers don't think it can be properly referred to as " Korean " anymore?
Did you knowthat Berne 's Christoffelturm , when it was over 500 years old, was pulled down in a political move that had 415 supporters and 412 opposers?
Did you knowthat in Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. , the United States Supreme Court declared that " nudity itself is not inherently expressive conduct"?
Did you knowthat Ninasam , a cultural organization in Karnataka , India , had a project sponsored by the Ford Foundation of the United States ?
Did you knowthat the Cadillac Northstar LMP Le Mans prototype did not actually use an engine from a Cadillac , but instead an Oldsmobile ?
Did you knowthat Dominican Anthony Neyrot renounced Christianity after being captured by Moorish pirates , but publicly reconverted and was stoned to death at Tunis ?
Did you knowthat during the Battle of Dalmatia , Croatian forces were so ill-equipped that they stuffed explosives into Coca-Cola cans to create hand grenades ?
Did you knowthat the 1932 comedy Pojkarna på Storholmen , starring Fridolf Rhudin , is one of the most successful Swedish films in history?
Did you knowthat the White-eyed Gull , a rare gull endemic to the Red Sea , does not have white eyes?
Did you knowthat Rajarsi Janakananda , before becoming the leading disciple of Hindu Guru Paramahansa Yogananda , was a self-made American millionaire named James Jesse Lynn?
Did you knowthat the polymathic Thomas Shaw Brandreth invented the Cycloped , a horse-powered locomotive, and published a blank verse translation of the Iliad into English?
Did you knowthat Hugo Stoltzenberg developed the poison gas used at the 1915 Battle of Ypres during World War I ?
Did you knowthat former Chicago mayor William Hale Thompson was cast in the 1927 silent exploitation film Is Your Daughter Safe? to ensure it would pass the city's censorship boards?
Did you knowthat a nonconvex polygon with three convex vertices is called a pseudotriangle ?
Did you knowthat online data broker Intelius owns more than half of the people search market?
Did you knowthat Dorus Rijkers was a Dutch lifeboat -captain who saved over 500 men, women and children from drowning at sea?
Did you knowthat Kampong Sungai Teraban in Brunei was settled by a group of Malay fishermen who moved across the Belait River after a falling out with the inhabitants of Kuala Belait ?
Did you knowthat the Court of Civil Jurisdiction was the first civil court established in New South Wales , Australia ?
Did you knowthat in 2005, the newly-upgraded RORO ferry Queen of Oak Bay lost power and crashed into a marina , damaging or destroying 28 other vessels?
Did you knowthat the history of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore dates back to the arrival of Lutheran Hakka refugees following the Taiping Rebellion in China ?
Did you knowthat Operation Independence , which aimed to crush the Guevarist guerilla ERP , was the first large-scale operation in the Argentine Dirty War ?
Did you knowthat Australian Olympic swimming champion Faith Leech grew up on a diet of carrot juice and beetroot after refusing all other food as a baby?
Did you knowthat the pyramid scheme Holiday Magic was investigated by the State of California , the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission and shut down for fraud ?
Did you knowthat footballer Francis Lee earned his nickname Lee One Pen by setting an English record for the most penalties scored in a single season?
Did you knowthat Polish-Jewish and American historian Adam Ulam escaped The Holocaust by leaving to study in the U.S. only days before the Germans invaded Poland ?
Did you knowthat the cities of Viterbo and Narni fought a two-year battle over where the popular nun Lucia Brocadelli of Narni would reside?
Did you knowthat exploitation film director/producer S. S. Millard was able to pass himself off as Romanian nobility when a former Romanian queen visited California ?
Did you knowthat John Downer , Premier of South Australia from 1885 to 1887, is the grandfather of Alexander Downer , the current Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs ?
Did you knowthat Beighton Cup is the oldest field hockey tournament in the world?
Did you knowthat until 1861 Newton Abbot railway station had three separate train sheds for trains running on lines to and from Exeter , Plymouth , and Torquay ?
Did you knowthat Canford Cliffs , an affluent suburb of Poole , Dorset , includes an exclusive branch of HSBC bank which requires that customers without large accounts or mortgages pay to enter?
Did you knowthat Reginald H. Thomson , the civil engineer responsible for "virtually all of Seattle 's infrastructure", had a Ph.D. in philosophy ?
Did you knowthat like the characters in his television series The Practice and Boston Legal , David E. Kelley worked as a lawyer in a Boston law firm?
Did you knowthat the concentration ability of Augustine Fangi reportedly allowed him to undergo an operation without anesthetic and feel nothing?
Did you knowthat Bengali nationalism motivated the proposal for a united, independent Bengal as an alternative to the 1947 partition of Bengal ?
Did you knowthat the Australian legal doctrine of Persona designata allows a judge to exercise non-judicial power, if it has been conferred to the judge personally, rather than to his or her court?
Did you knowthat the concept of cross-boundary subsidies is developed out of a merging of ideas from the studies of landscape ecology and food web ecology?
Did you knowthat Judy Morris , co-writer of the Academy Award winning Happy Feet has also acted in many of the most popular North American and Australian television programs since the age of 10?
Did you knowthat some species of Iridomyrmex ants have a symbiotic relationship with caterpillars?
Did you knowthat Bhadda Kapilani , the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in understanding past reincarnations , was the former wife of Mahakasyapa , who led the sangha following the Buddha's paranibbana ?
Did you knowthat the First Tokyo Middle School , one of the top public secondary schools in Japan , expelled all of its Korean international students in 1905 when they demonstrated against the Eulsa Treaty between Japan and Korea ?
Did you knowthat Pedro Vuskovic 's plan to move Chile 's economy to a socialist model by democratic means led to runaway inflation and economic recession ?
Did you knowthat the International Grape Genome Program in Adelaide, Australia discovered that white grapes only exist today due to a rare genetic mutation that took place thousands of years ago?
Did you knowthat, following his death, Constabilis is said to have appeared to the abbots of La Trinità della Cava , which he founded, the first four of whom have also been declared saints ?
Did you knowthat Kannada cinema star Dr. Rajkumar was buried at Kanteerava Studios in Bangalore ?
Did you knowthat aged 14, Sandra Morgan became the youngest Australian to win a gold medal at the Olympics ?
Did you knowthat Sam Mbakwe was nicknamed "the weeping governor" for shedding tears when trying to get the federal government of Nigeria to pay more attention to his state?
Did you knowthat the events of Polish October together with Hungarian November shook the Eastern Bloc in 1956 and set the course for the Revolutions of 1989 ?
Did you knowthat, until Johannes Rebmann saw snow on Kilimanjaro in 1848, most Europeans thought it could not exist in Africa ?
Did you knowthat Sarkis Soghanalian , the "Cold War's largest arms merchant", was backed by the CIA and was the primary private arms dealer to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war ?
Did you knowthat the preservation movement that resulted in the Chicago Landmark designation began with the 1957 adoption of the Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House ?
Did you knowthat National Cavalry refers to the reformed Polish cavalry , succeeding the famous but obsolete Polish Hussars ?
Did you knowthat Lake Kutubu , the largest upland lake in Papua New Guinea , has 12 endemic species of fish?
Did you knowthat Charles M. Loring was the father of the park system in Minneapolis , where Horace Cleveland designed the Grand Rounds and Theodore Wirth placed a park near every home?
Did you knowthat Nihonga artist Ogura Yuki was the first woman to be selected chairperson of the Japan Art Academy , and one of only two women painters to be awarded Japan's Order of Culture ?
Did you knowthat Joseph Smith Jr. instructed that members of the Latter Day Saints ' First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles should be accepted by the church as prophets, seers, and revelators ?
Did you knowthat Nguyen Van Nhung , who executed Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu following South Vietnam 's 1963 coup, was himself executed a few months later, after another coup?
Did you knowthat Thomas Lant called the College of Arms "a company full of discord and envy?"
Did you knowthat the Dehousing Paper , presented to the British War Cabinet in 1942, advocated for a strategic bombing campaign of German cities?
Did you knowthat American John Thayer is the only known first-class cricketer to have died on the RMS Titanic ?
Did you knowthat the French-designed Minié rifle was the dominant infantry weapon of the American Civil War ?
Did you knowthat Franz Liszt 's symphonic poem Hunnenschlacht was inspired by a painting of the same name by Wilhelm von Kaulbach ?
Did you knowthat David Lewis and his son Stephen Lewis served simultaneously as the leaders of the Canadian and Ontario New Democratic Party ?
Did you knowthat Lt.-Col. Tatsuji Suga of the Imperial Japanese Army and Commander of all POW and civilian internee camps in Borneo in World War 2 , was a graduate of the University of Washington ?
Did you knowthat Yasa , the sixth arahant of Gautama Buddha , was also the son and former husband of the first two female lay disciples?
Did you knowthat Frederick Matthew Darley was offered the position of Chief Justice of New South Wales , Australia, twice, and that he refused it the first time as he would earn less money than if he continued to practise as a barrister ?
Did you knowthat Emperor Gia Long united Vietnam under the Nguyen dynasty after French missionary Pigneau de Behaine , whom he met in a forest while fleeing the Tay Son dynasty , sought French military assistance?
Did you knowthat Canadian Ministers of Finance have a tradition of buying or wearing new shoes on budget day ?
Did you knowthat the key area of NBA basketball courts was widened to reduce the effectiveness of dominating centers like George Mikan ?
Did you knowthat Bollywood actress Shenaz Treasurywala was discovered while stuck in India when Kuwait Airways lost her luggage, including travel documents she needed to return to school in New York?
Did you knowthat Alan Davidson , regarded as one of the greatest left arm fast bowlers in the history of cricket , only took up the skill when his uncle's weekend team ran out of fast bowlers?
Did you knowthat the Beta Effect, which affects larger tropical cyclones and needs to be accounted for in tropical cyclone forecasting , forces a more northwest tropical cyclone track in the Northern Hemisphere ?
Did you knowthat when the Workers Party of North Korea was founded in 1946, Kim Il-sung was given the position of Vice Chairman of the party?
Did you knowthat Lloyd Groff Copeman , the inventor of the rubber ice cube tray , the electric stove and a toaster which turned bread automatically, was singer Linda Ronstadt 's grandfather?
Did you knowthat when Katherine Ann Power , a fugitive from justice for 23 years before turning herself in, was on the run in Oregon , she was treated for depression by Courtney Love 's mother?
Did you knowthat the lionfish genus Parapterois includes P. heterura , an attractive species uncommon in the aquarium trade, and the poorly known P. macrura ?
Did you knowthat long after Lana Stempien died by drowning, someone or something turned on the GPS system on her abandoned boat?
Did you knowthat after being captured by pirates , friar Matthew Carrieri offered to remain a captive in place of others, which shocked the pirate captain so much he set all the prisoners free?
Did you knowthat in 1954, the Federal Communications Commission sought to force union attorney Edward Lamb to surrender his broadcasting license on the grounds that he associated with communists ?
Did you knowthat vented cell (or flooded cell) nickel-cadmium batteries are used when large capacities and discharge rates are required?
Did you knowthat the Swiss castle Ruine Wulp was at one point torn apart and replaced with a single tower and building?
Did you knowthat Building 470 at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland housed fermentor tanks for producing Bacillus anthracis during the Cold War ?
Did you knowthat generic antecedents are essential parts of communication; and there are many strategies to refer to them clearly and appropriately?