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Did you knowthat the " social contract " in Malaysia refers to the agreement made by its founding fathers in the Constitution at independence?
Did you knowthat Capt. Robert Bartlett skippered the schooner Effie M. Morrissey to the Arctic 20 times in the name of science and research?
Did you knowthat the Paper Clips Project of a small school in Tennessee received over 30 million paperclips from all over the world to honor the victims of the Holocaust ?
Did you knowthat there have been four attempts to make The Adventures of Ellery Queen into a TV series , starting in 1950 on the DuMont Network ?
Did you knowthat Christopher Strauli was the actor recruited to fill the gap left by the early death of Richard Beckinsale when casting the movie version of Rising Damp ?
Did you knowthat the 1904 Scottish yacht Medea and the battleship USS Texas are the only surviving vessels that fought in both world wars ?
Did you knowthat Mohammed Salman Hamdani was a Muslim citizen of the United States who was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and who is specifically mentioned in Section 102 of the USA PATRIOT Act ?
Did you knowthat Cleese's Woolly Lemur is a newly discovered species of lemur that was named after John Cleese , due to his fondness for the creatures?
Did you knowthat Ketuanan Melayu is the belief that the Malays are the "lords" of the Malay peninsula or Malaysia in general?
Did you knowthat Charles Hicks played a key role in the formation of Brooker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels , the first successful blackface minstrel troupe composed of all African American performers?
Did you knowthat Bill the Goat is the mascot of the United States Naval Academy who first appeared at a Navy football game in 1893 ?
Did you knowthat in the past 5 years, Colin Campbell , a former ice hockey defenceman and coach , handed some of the longest suspensions in NHL history to Marty McSorley and Todd Bertuzzi ?
Did you knowthat Rudyard Kipling 's 1890 poem " Danny Deever " caused the academic David Masson to cry "Here's literature! Here's literature at last!" to his students, and that it was later described as " Teddy Roosevelt's favourite song"?
Did you knowthat the Witty worm self-replicating computer worm was the first worm to attack the pieces of software designed to defend against computer worms?
Did you knowthat both Charles Dibdin and Ira Aldridge were famed for their portayals of the black servant Mungo in the comic opera The Padlock ?
Did you knowthat Article 153 of the Constitution of Malaysia provides quotas and other affirmative action policies for the Malays and other indigenous people of Malaysia , but was intended as a temporary provision?
Did you knowthat New Orleans Creole  chef Leah Chase owns a restaurant named Dooky Chase which has served as a gallery for an extensive African American art collection since the 1950s ,  was a gathering place for Civil Rights leaders?
Did you knowthat the 1959 Mexico Hurricane is the only known East Pacific hurricane to make landfall as a Category 5 ?
Did you knowthat New York Sun columnist and critic Ward Morehouse stayed in so many hotels that he said his epitaph should read "room service, please?"
Did you knowthat a few years after Richard Whitney had been heralded as Wall Street's "White Knight" for his efforts during the Stock Market crash of 1929 and made president of the New York Stock Exchange , he was sentenced to 5-10 years in Sing Sing for embezzlement ?
Did you knowthat American educator Septima Poinsette Clark , known as the "Grandmother of the Civil Rights Movement ," worked for educational and civil rights for African-Americans decades before the rise of national awareness of inequality in the 1960s ?
Did you knowthat the (???), Thirteen Factories referred to the limited area in Canton City, China where the Qing court first allowed Westerners to trade?
Did you knowthat Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete (English: Law of Muhammad the pseudo-prophet) was the first Qur'an translation into a Western language and often regarded as one of the sloppiest?
Did you knowthat Dan Syvret , a rookie ice hockey defenceman with the Edmonton Oilers , captained the record-breaking 2004-05 London Knights ?
Did you knowthat according to the traditions of the United States Senate , bean soup must appear on the Senate dining room menu every day?
Did you knowthat American Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek was imprisioned by the Soviet Union between 1941 and 1963 , and sentenced to 15 years hard labor, six of which were spent in Moscow 's infamous Lubyanka prison ?
Did you knowthat Walchand Hirachand established India ’s first shipyard , first aircraft factory and its first car factory?
Did you knowthat the Law Library of Congress  created the Global legal information network in 1993 to provide free access to an online  searchable full text database of international legal documents, judicial decisions, legislation, statutes and other laws, from many countries, including Brazil , Costa Rica , Kuwait , Peru , and Romania ?
Did you knowthat Samuel Spencer , first president of the Southern Railway was killed in a train wreck in Virginia in 1906 ?
Did you knowthat the Indian cricketer Chetan Chauhan stood in five elections to the Lok Sabha , the lower house of the Indian Parliament , winning two of them?
Did you knowthat Alistair Beaton predicted the flooding of New Orleans in his 2004 satirical novel A Planet for the President ?
Did you knowthat Salaga in northern Ghana was once one of the biggest slave markets in West Africa ?
Did you knowthat Milan Obrenović II , who was the ruler of Serbia for less than two weeks in 1839 , may have been too ill to ever have been aware of the fact?
Did you knowthat the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments have been standard regulation for medical laboratories in the United States since 1988 ?
Did you knowthat after Brad Vice's award-winning short stories were destroyed by his publisher because of a disputed plagiarism charge, remaining copies sold for hundreds of dollars?
Did you knowthat advertisements featuring the character Michael Power doubled Guinness sales in Africa between 1999 and 2003 ?
Did you knowthat the Maritime Museum of San Diego has in its collection one of the world's oldest seaworthy ships, the Star of India , built in 1863?
Did you knowthat the United States Senate has met in closed session 54 times since 1929 , but closed sessions of the United States House of Representatives have taken place only five times since 1825 ?
Did you knowthat Renaissance composer , instrumentalist and copyist Pierre Alamire was also a spy for Henry VIII , until he was revealed as a double agent ?
Did you knowthat targeted therapy is a type of chemotherapy which blocks the growth of cancer cells by interfering with specific targeted molecules needed for carcinogenesis and tumor growth?
Did you knowthat American modern dancer and choreographer Bill Cratty quit his tap dance lessons as a child because his two brothers teased him, and he didn't dance again until high school?
Did you knowthat the Taurid meteor shower , which peaks every 3000 years, may have been responsible for the Star of Bethlehem ?
Did you knowthat American Civil War -era novelist John William DeForest coined the phrase the Great American Novel in an 1869 essay ?
Did you knowthat Russian native Emilio Kosterlitzky , known as the Mexican Cossack , spoke nine languages, jumped ship in Venezuela , fled to Mexico where he fought in the Apache Wars and in the Mexican Revolution , and eventually became an undercover operative for the U.S. government during World War I ?
Did you knowthat ancient packrat middens (essentially, packrat nests) can provide important clues about long-term changes in climate or vegetation in an area?
Did you knowthat from 1836 to 1855 , Chinese painter Lam Qua painted pre-operative portraits of physician Peter Parker 's patients, particularly those with large tumors or other major deformities?
Did you knowthat Mikhail Shtalenkov enjoyed a stellar career, including the win of a silver medal in hockey in the 1998 Winter Olympics , but never became a starting goaltender in the National Hockey League ?
Did you knowthat Peter Parker , the first Protestant medical missionary to China , introduced Western anesthesia in the form of sulphuric ether in 1835 ?
Did you knowthat the 2005 Global Intellectuals Poll is a list of the 100 most important living public intellectuals in the world, as voted by readers of Prospect Magazine ?
Did you knowthat a soda gun is a device used by bars to serve various types of drinks ?
Did you knowthat Richard Arrington , the first African American mayor of Birmingham, Alabama has a doctorate in zoology ?
Did you knowthat former National Hockey League player Jason Bonsignore is considered one of the worst draft choices in the history of the Edmonton Oilers ?
Did you knowthat a few years after Albert H. Wiggin , President of Chase National Bank , was lauded as a hero for committing bank funds to try to stop the Wall Street Crash of 1929 , a Congressional investigation revealed he had secretly helped drive the stock market down in order to reap a multi-million dollar profit for himself by short selling Chase Bank shares?
Did you knowthat Gary King became the first DJ to work for the UK's three national pop and rock networks when he joined Virgin Radio , having already presented for Atlantic 252 and BBC Radio 1 ?
Did you knowthat in the Hebrew Bible Moses ' sister Miriam was turned snow-white by God for criticizing Moses' marriage to a Cushite wife?
Did you knowthat on December 26 and 27 , 1969 during the War of Attrition the elite special forces unit Sayeret Matkal kidnapped a whole Egyptian P-12 radar system in a mission called Operation Rooster 53 ?
Did you knowthat Ammosaurus remains were originally mistaken by Othniel Charles Marsh as those of another dinosaur , Anchisaurus ?
Did you knowthat the producers of the sitcom The Facts of Life masked Kim Fields ' short stature by putting her character, Tootie Ramsey , in rollerskates ?
Did you knowthat Hastings Wise is the sixth person to waive appeals of the death sentence in South Carolina since the state resumed executions after Gregg v. Georgia ?
Did you knowthat the only surviving fossils of Aegyptosaurus were destroyed in a 1944 bombing raid on Munich, Germany during World War II ?
Did you knowthat the all-time best-selling album of traditional Irish music in Ireland is Sharon Shannon ' s self-titled debut?
Did you knowthat activist Jerry White is a  cofounder of the Landmine Survivors Network and that he has testified before the United States Senate ?
Did you knowthat Bernhard Cossmann was a renowned German cellist who taught at the Moscow Conservatory and that many of his cello etudes are still used today?
Did you knowthat the bootleg turn was invented by stock car racing legend Robert Glenn "Junior" Johnson ?
Did you knowthat Oliver W. Hill , a civil rights attorney , worked against racial discrimination and helped end the doctrine of separate but equal during a period of massive resistance to integration in Virginia's public schools ?
Did you knowthat Sesame Beginnings was spun-off the long-running Sesame Street , and is designed to increase family interactivity?
Did you knowthat The Berghoff restaurant in Chicago will close on 28 February 2006 after 107 years of operation by three generations of the Berghoff family?
Did you knowthat the Imperial Railway Company of Ethiopia attempted unsuccessfully to build a railroad from Djibouti to Addis Ababa in the 1890s?
Did you knowthat, in 1974 , intruder Marshall Fields drove a vehicle through the gates of the White House , prompting a review in security measures by the U.S. Secret Service ?
Did you knowthat Jöran Persson , King Eric XIV of Sweden 's most trusted counselor, was executed by King John III of Sweden for his role in suppressing the nobility ?
Did you knowthe Stadion Graz-Liebenau in Austria was renamed after controversy over Arnold Schwarzenegger 's decisions in recent death penalty cases in California ?
Did you knowthat Dimba was the top goalscorer of the 2003 Brazilian football championship?
Did you knowthat PSUC viu was formed by a group of hardline communists in Catalonia , Spain in 1997 , as the historical Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) became dormant?
Did you knowthat Kellie Castle in Scotland dates back to 1150 and it is rumoured that the 5th Earl of Kellie hid there in a burnt-out tree stump for the entire summer following the Battle of Culloden in 1746 ?
Did you knowthat ministeriales formed the core of the knightly class in the 15th-century Germany ?
Did you knowthat Garo Yepremian was voted as Kicker of the Decade by the Pro Football Hall of Fame between 1970 and 1980 ?
Did you knowthat the 13th-century Tale of the Greenlanders is one of the main sources of information for the Norse colonization of the Americas ?
Did you knowthat Frank Ticheli is an American composer whose works have become particularly notable as standards in concert band repertoire?
Did you knowthat Corry v. Stanford was a California court case that declared Stanford University's speech code illegal under the freedom of speech protections of the state's Leonard Law ?
Did you knowthat Mifune Chizuko , a Japanese clairvoyant , was reported to have read messages written inside hidden envelopes ?
Did you knowthat Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet was Franklin 's proposal for a spelling reform of the English language ?
Did you knowthat several cases of interactions between Buddhism and the Roman world are documented by Classical and early Christian authors?
Did you knowthat veduta was the most popular genre of landscape painting in the 18th century ?
Did you knowthat Murray Raney , who developed the Raney nickel catalyst , did not attend high school ?
Did you knowthat the greatest shrine of the Pochayiv Lavra in Ukraine is a footprint left by the Theotokos on the rock after she appeared to the monks in the shape of a column of fire ?
Did you knowthat the short-lived Apple Network Servers were the last non- Macintosh computers manufactured by Apple ?
Did you knowthat Nottinghamshire and England cricketer Charles Wright was the first captain to declare an innings closed?
Did you knowthat Rickard D. Gwydir , an early settler of Washington state, was born in Kolkata and served in the Confederate army before being named Indian agent of the Colville Indian Reservation ?
Did you knowthat the former English football player Eric Brook is the all-time record goalscorer for Manchester City F.C. with 178 goals?
Did you know that Lake Karachay in Russia is the most polluted spot on earth ?
Did you knowthat the first Superman character in Superman's publication history , created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster , was not a hero , but a villain ?
Did you knowthat Rue de l'Abbaye in Paris takes its name from an abbey where the Merovingian kings of France used to be interred ?
Did you knowthat the 1966 New York City transit strike at the start of the mayoralty of John V. Lindsay was led by the defiant Irish -born TWU founder Mike Quill , who was briefly jailed for leading the illegal strike, and died before the month was out?
Did you knowthat John Kemble , hanged in 1679 for his part in the Titus Oates plot, was subsequently canonized by the Roman Catholic Church ?
Did you knowthat a nineteenth century utopian socialist community known as Kaweah Colony identified the world's largest tree now called the General Sherman tree , and named it after Karl Marx ?
Did you knowthat the song " Wildwood Flower " evolved from a 19th century parlor song called "I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets" and that the song was most famously performed by the Carter Family ?
Did you knowthat Dan Brown 's depictions of core aspects of Christianity and the history of the Roman Catholic Church in his most famous novel have generated numerous criticisms of The Da Vinci Code among critics who feel that much of what he wrote is factually inaccurate?
Did you knowthat a new free trade agreement called  the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership between Brunei , Chile , New Zealand and Singapore will come into effect on 1 January 2006 ?
Did you knowthat electrogas welding is an arc welding process commonly used in the shipbuilding industry?
Did you knowthat a historic Water Village built on stilts above a river is home to ten percent of the population of the country of Brunei ?
Did you knowthat while the Berber scholar Arsène Roux of France collected and studied an enormous amount of Sous Berber texts and manuscripts, almost nothing from his scholarly work actually saw publication during his lifetime?
Did you knowthat the defeat of the Welsh army in the Battle of Orewin Bridge effectively ended the independence of medieval Wales ?
Did you knowthat forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union was considered as part of war reparations to cover the damages inflicted by Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union during the World War II ?
Did you knowthat in 1994 , Greg Landry was a key reason why Illinois had the second-best passing offense in the Big Ten , which eventually carried the team to a 30-0 win in the Liberty Bowl over East Carolina , the school’s first bowl appearance in 16 seasons?
Did you knowthat dead yellow patches in suburban Australian lawns are often the work of Christmas beetle larvae?
Did you knowthat the film I'm No Angel (1933) starred Mae West as a circus lion tamer, and that West did her own stunts including riding an elephant into the ring and putting her face between the lion 's jaws?
Did you knowthat the Housing Act 1980 was an Act of Parliament that gave residents of council houses in Great Britain the right to buy their residence?
Did you knowthat the early Italian composer Gherardello da Firenze belonged to the Benedictine order of the Vallombrosa ?
Did you knowthat the Karamanli dynasty of 18th century Tripoli depended almost entirely on piracy for its income?
Did you knowthat the In Soviet Georgia advertisements for Dannon yogurt helped to reverse negative growth in the company's United States division?
Did you knowthat David Tweed is an Australian share market trader who has attempted to purchase shares from small investors for less than the market price?
Did you knowthat Clinton v. Jones established that a President of the United States was not exempt from being sued by private citizens in civil lawsuits ?
Did you knowthat the Kanembu , an ethnic group of Chad , are generally considered the modern descendants of the Kanem-Bornu Empire ?
Did you knowthe chess Grandmaster Wolfgang Uhlmann is one of the world's leading experts on the French Defence ?
Did you knowthat the National Museum of Mali is housed in a traditional mud brick structure?
Did you knowthat Serge Chermayeff and Erich Mendelsohn designed the De La Warr Pavilion in 1934 , and that the Pavilion is a significant work in the British modernist movement of architecture?
Did you knowthat California's Leonard Law applies the United States Constitution's First Amendment protections to students at private colleges and universities ?
Did you knowthat the Indian cricketer Bapu Nadkarni got the nickname Bapu —literally, father , and Mahatma Gandhi 's sobriquet —for the curious reason that he used to wear loincloths ( langotis ) instead of modern underwear ?
Did you knowthat a violent incident at Pont-de-Montvert in the Cévennes , July 24 , 1702 , sparked the rebellion of the French Protestant Camisards ?
Did you knowthat the Adrar des Ifoghas , a sandstone massif in Mali 's Kidal Region , is half the size of France ?
Did you knowthat French naturalist and explorer Théodore Monod had the same great-grandfather as biologist Jacques Monod and director Jean-Luc Godard ?
Did you knowthat string instruments are bowed, plucked, or have their strings struck, with three exceptions : the Aeolian harp uses air movement, the Hurdy gurdy a rotating wheel and for Ellen Fullman's Long String Instrument it will take rosined hands?
Did you knowthat it took half a century to construct Bolshoi Kamennyi Bridge , which was the first stone bridge in the city of Moscow ?
Did you knowthat John Drainie was a Canadian actor and television presenter , who was called "the greatest radio actor in the world" by Orson Welles ?
Did you knowthat Steadicam camera magazines are specially designed with a pair of moving spindles that gradually change position as the film rolls through the camera in order to maintain a steady center of gravity ?
Did you knowthat Yusuf ibn Ali Karamanli , pasha of Tripoli , declared war on the United States in 1801 by ordering the flagpole of Tripoli's United States consulate cut down?
Did you knowthat broadcasting in the Soviet Union was so secretive that they didn't disclose the frequencies the domestic radio stations operated on, thus leaving SWLs wanting to tune into Soviet radio to memorize the frequencies and remember where the sites were?
Did you knowthat Seattle -based company Sur La Table is the second-largest specialty cookware retailer in the United States , after Williams-Sonoma ?
Did you knowthat John Surma is the president and chief executive officer of United States Steel Corporation ?
Did you knowthat the Petrine Baroque style of architecture and design represented a drastic rupture with Byzantine traditions that had dominated Russian architecture for almost a millennium?
Did you knowthat the Inca Dove is a small New World dove that ranges from the southwestern United States and Mexico through Central America to Costa Rica ?
Did you knowthat Tom Bauer is a lawyer and politician from Saint Louis, Missouri who was recalled after supporting several redevelopment proposals using eminent domain ?
Did you knowthat Negro League catcher Biz Mackey was regarded in his prime as superior to Josh Gibson , won two batting titles, and mentored the young Roy Campanella ?
Did you knowthat there are more than 100 nature reserves in Russia , which cover an area of about 33 million hectares ?
Did you knowthat Rabbi David Wolpe proposed that the name of Conservative Judaism be changed to Covenantal Judaism to better encompass the view that rabbinic law is both binding and evolving?
Did you knowthat Jorge Isaacs ' only novel, María , became an immediate success in his native Colombia and is considered a representative work of the Spanish Romantic movement?
Did you knowthat the exhumation of Yagan's head in 1997 first required a sophisticated geophysical survey of the gravesite to ensure that the remains of 22 stillborn babies would not be disturbed?
Did you knowthat the tiny municipality of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Quebec was set up in 1722 to protect its only occupant, a hospital , from taxes?
Did you knowthat the Afro-Brazilian trader Octaviano Olympio dominated the politics of Lomé , Togo , for the first 50 years after its inception?
Did you knowthat the race horse Flockton Grey did not even run in the race for which it is best remembered?
Did you knowthat the Russian Byzantine historian Alexander Vasiliev was persuaded by Michael Rostovtzeff to defect in 1925 ?
Did you knowthat Interrabang was an Italian television adventure series about a secret treasure hidden inside the Leaning Tower of Pisa ?
Did you knowthat the Blijde Inkomst (the "Joyous Entry") of January 1356 was the basic charter of freedoms for Brabant , compared by Romantic historians to Magna Carta ?
Did you knowthat as a child, B.A. Rolfe was billed as "The Boy Trumpet Wonder", and that he went on to become a bandleader and significant film producer ?
Did you knowthat the parents of Chicana fiction writer and Cornell University English professor Helena Maria Viramontes met while working in the fields, and that the  impact of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers later influenced her fiction ?
Did you knowthat the John Lennon song " Beautiful Boy " features the lines "Every day in every way/It's getting better and better", which were inspired by the mantra of French psychologist Émile Coué ?
Did you knowthat the earliest known patrilineal ancestors of the Romanov Dynasty of Russian tsars were a certain boyar Andrei , nicknamed " The Mare ," and his son Fyodor , nicknamed " The Cat "?
Did you knowthat the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia was launched to secure oil for Britain and provide a route for Lend-Lease supplies desperately needed by the Soviet Union during World War II ?