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Did you knowthat the Monument of Liberty in Istanbul , the gathering place for the second rally of the Republic Protests , is a memorial for the 31 March Incident that took place in 1909?
Did you knowthat the creation of Kannada Sahitya Parishat , an Indian non-profit organization to promote the Kannada language , was first initiated by Bharat Ratna Sir M. Vishweshwaraiah , the Diwan of the Mysore Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat during the drive to emancipate Russia's serfs , one scurrilous rumor held that committee member Grand Duke Constantine Nikolayevich was insane thanks to too much masturbation ?
Did you knowthat the Farm Labor Organizing Committee 's 2004 collective bargaining agreement with the Mt. Olive Pickle Co. marked the first time an American labor union represented guest workers ?
Did you knowthat the wealthy connoisseur Claude-Henri Watelet created the first romantic landscape garden in France ?
Did you knowthere are at least twelve large Rottnest Island shipwrecks ?
Did you knowthat for fifty years the Red River Trails were used by Red River ox carts as the principal means of transportation between modern-day Winnipeg, Manitoba and St Paul, Minnesota ?
Did you knowthat Bold Lane car park , used by shoppers in Derby , England , is one of the ten most secure places in the world, alongside Air Force One , Area 51 , and Fort Knox ?
Did you knowthat before he became Vice Chancellor at Ahmadu Bello University , Ishaya Audu was the personal physician of the University's namesake, Ahmadu Bello ?
Did you knowthat there are 43 designated " Areas of Concern " within the Great Lakes watershed that show severe environmental degradation?
Did you knowthat some South Welsh coal miners in the 1800s would raid the homes of strikebreakers dressed as a "herd" of Scotch Cattle ?
Did you knowthat Jyotirindranath Tagore played a major role in the flowering of the talents in his younger brother, the first Asian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore ?
Did you knowthat James Mortimer was regularly invited to chess tournaments even though he lost most of his matches, managing to beat masters including Johannes Zukertort and Mikhail Chigorin ?
Did you knowthat the film Quitting , originally titled Yesterday in an allusion to the song by The Beatles , was retitled after copyright owner Michael Jackson withheld permission to use the song?
Did you knowthat a researcher at the University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences discovered that the linear arrangement of genes on a chromosome corresponds to the development of body segments in fruit flies ?
Did you knowthat Victor Gauntlett supplied his personal pre-production Aston Martin Vantage for use in the filming of the James Bond film The Living Daylights ?
Did you knowthat the architecture of Ottawa is dominated by its role as the national capital of Canada ?
Did you knowthat, in 1989 , the daughter of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed , then Indian Minister for Home Affairs , was kidnapped within five days of her father assuming office?
Did you knowthat the Cave of the Mounds ’s many speleothems have earned it recognition as the “jewel box” of North American caves ?
Did you knowthat cefquinome is an antibiotic developed to treat bovine respiratory disease?
Did you knowthat marine conservation activists have organized an annual International Coastal Cleanup day that draws more than 300,000 volunteers in 88 countries to pick up trash from the beaches around the world?
Did you knowthat Dr. Sue Gordon became the first full-time and first Aboriginal magistrate in Western Australia in 1988?
Did you knowthat the Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge protects nearly 7,000 acres of American crocodile habitat in southern Florida ?
Did you knowthat Sabancaya , a 5,976 m (19,606 ft) stratovolcano in the Andes , is the most active volcano in Peru ?
Did you knowthat arctic haze contributes to global warming , raising temperatures by up to 1.7°C (3°F) during the arctic winter ?
Did you knowthat British rifleman William Green's memoir is one of the few accounts by an enlisted man of life in the Duke of Wellington 's army, and as such, has provided source material for many historians ?
Did you knowthat Xaltocan , an island in Mexico , means "sandy ground of spiders " in Nahuatl ?
Did you knowthat the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh , Wisconsin provides visitors with rides in an 80-year-old biplane ?
Did you knowthat in 1851 , Hugh O'Bryant was elected the first mayor of Portland, Oregon by a mere four votes?
Did you knowthat Minnesota 's Buffalo Ridge is the site of the first wind farm in the upper Midwest ?
Did you knowthat King Henry VIII was a talented musician and composer, and his song Pastime with Good Company became a popular tune throughout Renaissance Europe and remains a choral favorite?
Did you knowthat Iceland leads the world in renewable energy and is the first country to supply all electricity from renewable sources ?
Did you knowthat Doppler spectroscopy was used to discover the first extrasolar planet in 1995 and has since been used to identify more than one hundred exoplanet candidates?
Did you knowthat overcrowding in Chicago 's racially segregated Black Belt was so severe that in 1934 an estimated 6.8 people were living in the average kitchenette apartment?
Did you knowthat Israeli pilot and peace activist Abie Nathan landed his plane in Egypt in 1966 in an attempt to deliver a message of peace to President Nasser ?
Did you knowthat the average speed of the contestants in the Great Steamboat Race , held each year before the Kentucky Derby , is only 7 miles per hour ?
Did you knowthat the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay will carry the Olympic torch across 22 countries on 6 continents between March and August 2008?
Did you knowthat Werner Erhard was investigated by the Church of Scientology after he incorporated Scientology beliefs and practices into Erhard Seminars Training and The Forum ?
Did you knowthat chocolate was the first non-alcoholic social beverage in early modern European cuisine ?
Did you knowthat the South Wales Gas Pipeline is the United Kingdom 's largest high pressure gas pipeline?
Did you knowthat the Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball team has won two NIT championships and made 14 NCAA Tournament appearances, but has also had a winless season?
Did you knowthat children in a test audience for Sesame Street ’s episode Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce were so distressed by the show that producers declined to air it?
Did you knowthat Saint Gorgonia supposedly cured herself of a life-threatening illness by anointing herself with elements of the Eucharist mixed with her own tears ?
Did you knowthat huge boulders can be transported to the open ocean by rafts of plant matter?
Did you knowthat Israel is the world's largest recipient of United States overseas military assistance?
Did you knowthat the Romanian organization Corpul Muncitoresc Legionar was created by the Iron Guard in order to rally the working class around fascism ?
Did you knowthat the cast of By the Sword (1991), the first feature film about fencing , included two actors sharing the same last name as the director?
Did you knowthat real estate developer James Graham Brown , who was worth $100 million when he died in 1969, lived most of his life in a small suite in his Brown Hotel ?
Did you knowthat reindeer hunting provides an important staple food for many households in Greenland ?
Did you knowthat the expulsion of Poles by Germany was contemplated in the 19th century and implemented in the 20th?
Did you knowthat more than half of the 214 bird species found on Barbados are considered " accidental "—that is, they are found there only because they strayed off-course?
Did you knowthat selenium contamination in the late 1970s led the Kesterson Reservoir in Central California , once rich in several species of fish and other life, to only support saline-tolerant mosquitofish ?
Did you knowthat a separatist group refuses to allow the exploitation of crude oil and natural gas reserves in the Ogaden Basin , Ethiopia ?
Did you knowthat aggressive NK-cell leukemia , a type of leukemia with a systemic proliferation of natural killer cells , is more prevalent in Asians than other ethnic groups?
Did you knowthat Golden Boy was the first book musical ever to play at the London Palladium ?
Did you knowthat English cricketer and footballer Arthur Milton was the last surviving person to have played Test cricket for the England cricket team and international football for the England football team ?
Did you knowthat Klaus Traube worked on building the German fast breeder in Kalkar when he changed his view about nuclear power, went into opposition and was considered a security threat by the German secret service?
Did you knowthat a 1922 dispute about how Georgia was to be integrated into the Soviet Union was one of the factors that led Lenin to break with Stalin and call for his removal for office in his testament ?
Did you knowthat Orval Grove was one out away from a no-hitter in a baseball game on July 8 , 1943 when Joe Gordon hit a double off his pitch?
Did you knowthat the founding of Phenomena Research Australia , in response to a surge of unidentified flying object sightings in 1947 , was the first gathering of Australian UFO enthusiasts?
Did you knowthat Marilee Jones , the disgraced former dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , was called "the guru of the movement to tame the college-admissions frenzy" by The New York Times ?
Did you knowthat until the discovery of the Library of Nag Hammadi in 1945, the 2nd century CE work Against Heresies was the best surviving description of Gnosticism ?
Did you knowthat poet Anna Williams 's works include On the Death of Sir Erasmus Philipps, Unfortunately Drowned in the River Avon ?
Did you knowthat the avifauna of Lithuania includes a total of 342 species, of which 2 have been introduced by humans?
Did you knowthat the monopoly of The Hostmen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne over coal trade in the Tyneside area raised questions in the House of Commons in the 1620s?
Did you knowthat the bark of the African tree Bombax buonopozense is burnt in Ghana to drive away evil spirits?
Did you knowthat because of Salvatore Pincherle , German mathematicians could attend the Third International Congress of Mathematicians despite a ban imposed during World War I ?
Did you knowthat the Cherokee Nation was induced to cede large portions of land in Tennessee and Georgia to the United States in the Tellico Blockhouse , Monroe County, Tennessee ?
Did you knowthat one of the largest rainwater harvesting projects in the world is being implemented in the rural areas of the state of Karnataka , India ?
Did you knowthat the Old National Library Building , a much-beloved national icon of Singapore , was demolished despite a rare display of public opposition?
Did you knowthat in China , access to water supply and sanitation varies greatly between rural areas, where only 67% of the population has access to improved water supply, and cities, where 93% does?
Did you knowthat Demologos , the first warship powered by a steam engine , saw only one day of active service in the U.S. Navy , carrying President James Monroe around New York Harbor ?
Did you knowthat the Danish firm Marcussen & Søn have built over 1000 organs since their foundation in 1806 ?
Did you knowthat " Comme Ci, Comme Ça " was performed in French at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 , despite being the Cypriot entry?
Did you knowthat the Burgsvik beds , a geological formation exposed on Gotland , Sweden , contain the only fossil euglenid ever discovered?
Did you knowthat Paul C. Barth , former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky , committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse?
Did you knowthat despite sending 8000 ARVN soldiers from out of district to stuff ballot boxes , South Vietnam 's President Ngo Dinh Diem could not prevent his candidate from losing to Phan Quang Dan in a 1959 legislative election by a ratio of 6-1?
Did you knowthat Akwasi Afrifa became Lt. General and head of state of Ghana after a coup d'état , was detained after a second coup, won parliamentary elections after a third and was executed after a fourth coup?
Did you knowthat former University of Kentucky basketball star Dirk Minniefield smoked marijuana the night before Kentucky's loss in the 1983 NCAA Tournament to the University of Louisville ?
Did you knowthat the Rupert Downes Memorial Lecture commemorates a Australian Army general , physician and historian who was killed in a plane crash during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Tung Hua Lin led a team that designed and built China 's first twin-engine aircraft in a cave to avoid detection by the Japanese during World War II ?
Did you knowthat American sculptor Lynda Benglis sought to confront the male ethos in the arts community with an  advertisement in which she only wore a pair of sunglasses?
Did you knowthat the recently beatified Paul Joseph Nardini died of pulmonary typhus he contracted when giving the last rites to a member of his parish?
Did you knowthat the song " Push The Button " was believed by some to relate to Iran 's attempt to build nuclear weapons ?
Did you knowthat Louise Pitre , a Tony Award -nominated musical theatre actress, was turned down after auditioning for the role of Josephine in the London musical Napoleon ?
Did you knowthat three years after tying for its final Kentucky State Football championship, Flaget High School closed due to falling enrollment?
Did you knowthat the final episode of the 1986 television series Outlaws recycled footage from The Oregon Trail , because actors Rod Taylor and Charles Napier appeared in both programs?
Did you knowthat income inequality increased in the United States in 2005 with the top 1% of earners having roughly the same share of income as in 1928?
Did you knowthat Lt. Gen. Terry Gabreski is the first female to hold the rank of Lieutenant General in the US Air Force ?
Did you knowthat catfish species of the genus Hypophthalmus are unusual among neotropical fishes because they feed on plankton by straining water over a fine sieve created by numerous long, thin gill rakers ?
Did you knowthat Gabriele Kohlisch is one of only two people to ever win World Championship gold medals in both bobsledding and luge ?
Did you knowthat the Mitcham and Morden by-election in 1982 remains the last to see a gain by the British Conservative Party ?
Did you knowthat the Union Stockyards of Omaha, Nebraska was the largest livestock market and meatpacking center in the United States from 1955 until 1973?
Did you knowthat Carlos Morales Troncoso , the foreign minister of the Dominican Republic , has degrees in both chemical engineering and sugar engineering ?
Did you knowthat the Poltava Bandurist Capella , directed by Hnat Khotkevych , was the first Soviet ensemble to be invited to tour North America ?
Did you knowthat the football song Hampden in the sun celebrates the record scoreline of the 1957 Scottish League Cup final?
Did you knowthat the Lajkonik is an unofficial symbol of the city of Krakow as well as an annual festival celebrated for over 700 years commemorating victory over the Tatar invasion?
Did you knowthat American Revolutionary War officer William Stacy narrowly escaped death by burning at the stake and was given a gold snuff box by George Washington ?
Did you knowthat the Frosty Leo Nebula was so named because it is the only known protoplanetary nebula whose circumstellar outflow is dominated by crystalline ice in the long-wavelength emission spectrum ?
Did you knowthat the Australian town of Bundarra, New South Wales is home to a breeding colony of endangered Regent Honeyeaters , containing around thirty of the less than 1,500 birds remaining in existence?
Did you knowthat William Cooley was a salvager and pioneer whose family's 1836 murder during the Second Seminole War led to the abandonment of the New River Settlement near Fort Lauderdale, Florida , United States ?
Did you knowthat among the toughest fighters of the Dahomey War were the corps of female warriors armed with rifles and double-edged machetes ?
Did you knowthat the color signals of Israel Broadcasting Authority television transmissions were erased until 1981, when Minister of Communications Yoram Aridor authorized color television broadcasting?
Did you knowthat brownouts have claimed more helicopters in recent military operations than all other threats combined?
Did you knowthat Kannada is the only language in which a Jain version of the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata exists?
Did you knowthat Julius Reubke composed his Sonata on the 94th Psalm for organ a year before dying aged 24?
Did you knowthat Scottish footballer Billy McPhail launched a legal case claiming that heading heavy leather footballs contributed to him developing Alzheimer's disease ?
Did you knowthat Vancouver police Chief Jamie Graham apologized for  leaving a paper target riddled with bullet holes on the desk of the city manager , his boss, as a joke?
Did you knowthat the New Zealand Railways Department dumped tank locomotives of the W B class in the Mokihinui River to protect against erosion beside the route of the Seddonville Branch line?
Did you knowthat the Greek Phlyax plays of South Italy might have been an influence on Roman comedies of Plautus ?
Did you knowthat La Martiniere Boys' College in Lucknow , India is the only school in the world to be awarded a battle honour ?
Did you knowthat Introitus et Exitus , a financial record of the Apostolic Camera from 1279 to 1524 , has been used to authenticate the provenance of artworks and study past European exchange and interest rates ?
Did you knowthat the Salerno Mutiny of 1943 saw the largest number of men charged with mutiny at any one time in all of British military history ?
Did you knowthat the third of four expeditions sent in the late 19th century by French nobleman Marquis de Rays to an imaginary majestic colony called New France in present day Papua New Guinea , saw 123 Italian settlers perish of disease and famine?
Did you knowthat the Bangalore based SELCO company, which promotes solar power in rural India , has twice won an Ashden Award ?
Did you knowthat Ben Abell provided the St. Louis area with more than 120,000 weather forecasts ?
Did you knowthat The Secret Battle (1919) was the first novel by A. P. Herbert , and the first war novel to deal with the soldiers " shot at dawn " during World War I ?
Did you knowthat Dutch publisher Emanuel Querido published 110 works between 1933 and 1940 by German writers in exile ?
Did you knowthat the rock band The Sidewinders changed their name to the Sand Rubies after being sued by a cover band over the use of their name?
Did you knowthat Lough Hyne is a marine lake that was probably freshwater until rising ocean levels flooded it about 4000 years ago?
Did you knowthat Omaha chief Logan Fontenelle sold the Omaha land to the U.S. government and was subsequently killed by Brulé and Arapaho ?
Did you knowthat in the 18th century the owners of Tom King's Coffee House developed their own argot , Talking Flash , to prevent informers learning of their misdeeds?
Did you knowthat, in 19th and 20th century Romania , Roma people known as Ursari trained brown bears to step on people's backs, as a folk remedy for back pain ?
Did you knowthat according to legend , the Polish Princess Wanda would rather commit suicide than marry a leader of an invading German force?
Did you knowthat Edwin Lemare was the most highly-paid organ virtuoso of his day?
Did you knowthat Indian whisky is actually a distilled spirit made mostly from molasses ?
Did you knowthat a Court of Disputed Returns is an independent body that determines disputes about election results in some countries?
Did you knowthat the world's first birth control clinic was set up in 1930 in the Mandya district of the state of Karnataka , India ?
Did you knowthat Iraqi refugee Wafaa Bilal was shot by more than 60,000 paintballs in a month-long performance art piece in Chicago ?
Did you knowthat the foreman of the jury who acquitted Thomas Hardy of treason during the 1794 Treason Trials in Britain fainted after reading the verdict?
Did you knowthat Rufous Whistler birds, unlike all other Whistler birds, never forage on the ground but high up in trees or other high places?
Did you knowthat the Sicilian friar Antonio del Duca lobbied for decades for papal authorization of a more formal veneration of the Seven Archangels ?
Did you knowthat the Suwa Shrine survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki , although the nearby Urakami Cathedral and surrounding Catholic neighborhoods were completely obliterated?
Did you knowthat Józef Mianowski , a 19th-century Polish academic and personal physician of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna , falsified university records to give alibis to Polish insurgents in 1860s ?
Did you knowthat stellar magnetic fields create loops of plasma that arc over the surface of a star ?
Did you knowthat the Mexico tropical cyclone rainfall climatology tells us that one-third of the annual rainfall along the Mexican Riviera , and up to one-half of the annual rainfall within Baja California Sur , is due to tropical cyclones moving up Mexico 's west coast?
Did you knowthat Ba Cut (meaning Short Third ), a military commander of the Hoa Hao religious sect in Vietnam, was so named because he cut off his third finger to remind him to fight French colonialism?
Did you knowthat the Royal Navy ordered the construction of the destroyer HMS Ledbury two days after the outbreak of World War II ?
Did you knowthat Mexican singer-actor Antonio Aguilar made over 150 albums and 150 movies in his career?
Did you knowthat a decline of the population of brook trout in the Straight River in central Minnesota was caused by rising water temperatures, prompting government scrutiny of nearby irrigation operations?
Did you knowthat Ryszard Bartel 's design, the Bartel BM-4 , was Poland's first own aircraft built in series?
Did you knowthat Vlasina Lake in southeastern Serbia is famous for floating islands arising from chunks of peat broken off the shore?
Did you knowthat political boss John Henry Whallen influenced every election in Louisville, Kentucky from 1885 until his death in 1913?
Did you knowthat the Empire Gallantry Medal ' s design was changed twice in its seventeen year existence?
Did you knowthat areas of the North Fly District in Papua New Guinea 's Western Province experience a peak annual rainfall of ten metres?
Did you knowthat Hancock Manor received wounded men from the Battle of Bunker Hill and entertained both Lafayette and George Washington ?
Did you knowthat Key Highway , built to provide better access to the municipal piers in Baltimore in preparation for increased trade through the Panama Canal , is now a truck bypass of the historic Federal Hill neighborhood?
Did you knowthat the Columbia detachment of the Royal Engineers built some of the first major roads in British Columbia ?
Did you knowthat the Indian state of Maharashtra has started a project for the location of suitable sites for Jatropha plantations ?
Did you knowthat 173 of the 198 Kwaio arrested during the Malaita massacre were hospitalized for dysentery while awaiting trial in Tulagi , the Solomon Islands ?
Did you knowthat British Labour politician Piara Singh Khabra was the fifth Asian MP , and was the oldest MP sitting in the House of Commons and the only sitting MP to have served in the armed forces during the Second World War at the time of his death?
Did you knowthe Art Institute of Chicago Building was co-financed by the financiers of the World's Columbian Exposition , which occupied the building for its first six months?
Did you knowthat the Ordos culture includes some of the easternmost Scythians , who were settled for several centuries in an area about 300 kilometers from modern Beijing in China ?
Did you knowthat Linus Pauling and Emile Zuckerkandl proposed using protein sequences to estimate the time since genetic divergence , early in the history of molecular evolution research?
Did you knowthat Tom Dennison got a mayor elected eight times, instigated a race riot and controlled all sale of liquor, gambling and prostitution during his 30+ year reign as Omaha 's political boss ?