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Did you knowthat John Wilson Danenhower , survivor of an Arctic expedition whose ship was crushed by ice, later committed suicide due to the grounding of the ship which was to be his first command?
Did you knowthat Lee McClung , a College Football Hall of Famer , also served as Treasurer of the United States ,  advocating the withdrawal of worn, dirty banknotes on sanitary grounds?
Did you know that, at the conclusion of the Siege of Kiev by the Pechenegs in 968 , the leaders of the two armies shook hands and exchanged their armour ?
Did you know that the vast Mongol Empire that once stretched from East Asia to Romania was brought down by the Red Turban Rebellion ?
Did you knowthat the Waterberg is a UNESCO designated Biosphere , where cattle overgrazing is being reversed to allow giraffe , rhino and Blue Wildebeest to repopulate?
Did you knowthat during the French Revolution , an effigy of Thomas Paine was burned before the door of the religious radical Rev. Joshua Toulmin ?
Did you knowthat Consumer Reports had their food testing done at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 1950's thanks to a negotiated deal with the food technology department chair Carl R. Fellers ?
Did you know that, in hyperbolic geometry , hypercycles are curves with constant distance from a straight line but are not themselves straight?
Did you know that British free market economist Ralph Harris , considered to be an architect of Thatcherism , became a life peer shortly after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister , but sat on the cross-benches in the House of Lords to show his political independence?
Did you know that the location for Janesville Mall was chosen so that shoppers could leave by taking a right-hand turn, as the developers' research showed that women preferred right-handed turns?
Did you knowthat the Urdu movement , which sought to establish Urdu as the lingua franca of the Muslim communities of India , emerged from the fall of the Mughal Empire and became an integral part of the Pakistan movement ?
Did you know that knismesis and gargalesis are the scientific terms used to describe the two different sensations produced by tickling ?
Did you know that cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke showed that human beings are born with many innate skills?
Did you know that the town of Hueyapan in the Mexican state of Morelos was conquered by the female conquistador Maria de Estrada ?
Did you knowthat after receiving global media attention for pulling her kittens out of a burning garage, Scarlett the cat and her kittens received 7000 adoption requests?
Did you knowthat the film Joshua Then and Now was Canada 's entry to the 1985 Cannes Film Festival ?
Did you know that the Medici giraffe was the last live giraffe seen in Europe for almost 400 years?
Did you know that Göran Malmqvist is a Swedish sinologist who in 1974 published a popular book called Chinese is not difficult ?
Did you know that during one of the Caspian expeditions of the Rus , the city of Barda in Azerbaijan was saved from complete destruction only by an outbreak of dysentery among the Rus ?
Did you knowthat the monkey Ramu from the Indian state of Orissa was kept behind bars for five years on the charge of disturbing communal harmony?
Did you knowthat the Challenge Yves du Manoir , a French Rugby union competition which ran from 1931 to 2003 , was created by Racing Club de France with the support of CA Bordeaux-Bègles Gironde and AS Montferrandaise ?
Did you knowthat before Umberto Meoli became an economic historian , he fought in the Italian resistance movement and was once imprisoned by Benito Mussolini 's Fascist government ?
Did you know that Keong Saik Road in Chinatown, Singapore was formerly a red-light district in the 1960s but is now the site of many boutique hotels ?
Did you know that pioneering research on time - temperature canning conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Samuel Cate Prescott was never patented ?
Did you know that in 1919 , the discharge of the chief of police of Berlin led to a general strike and accompanying fighting known as the Spartacist uprising , in which over 500,000 workers took part?
Did you know that Daumantas of Pskov , a Lithuanian dynast involved in the assassination of the first Lithuanian king, was later canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church and became a patron saint of Pskov ?
Did you know that Ohio State linebacker James Laurinaitis , the son of professional wrestler Road Warrior Animal , is the first Buckeyes scholarship football player from Minnesota since 1933 ?
Did you know that Eilhart von Oberge ' s German poem Tristrant , dating to the late 12th century, is the earliest complete version of the Tristan and Iseult legend in any language?
Did you know that both Herbert Witherspoon and Göran Gentele died before the opening nights of their first seasons as general directors of the Metropolitan Opera ?
Did you know that the Ch'onma-ho is a little known, indigenously produced North Korean tank ; information on which has proven to be elusive even to the U.S. government?
Did you knowthat British Labour Party Member of Parliament Martin Flannery was a Communist until the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was crushed by the Soviet Union , but remained on the far left ?
Did you knowthat Bamse was a St. Bernard dog that became the heroic mascot of the Free Norwegian Forces during the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat Wollaston Lake is the largest lake in the world that drains naturally in two directions?
Did you know that Katsu! is a shout used in Zen Buddhism to induce enlightenment , as well as in the martial arts to focus one's energy ?
Did you knowthat the first Howell Melon Festival became famous when it sent the Howell Melon Queen to visit President Eisenhower ?
Did you knowthat British lawyer Sir Robert Megarry was tried at the Old Bailey in 1954 for submitting false income tax returns, but later went on to become a High Court judge , Vice-Chancellor of the Chancery Division and then Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court ?
Did you knowthat Antwone Fisher was born in a woman's prison in which his mother was incarcerated?
Did you knowthat last week's first-ever football meeting between the University of Miami and Florida International University was marred by a massive brawl that led to the suspension of 31 players?
Did you knowthat between 1944 and 1962, up to 186,000 inmates passed through approximately 100 forced labour camps in Communist Bulgaria ?
Did you knowthat, according to an oriental ritual , the deceased citizens of ancient Prinias , Crete were beheaded and then cremated , while their heads were buried separately?
Did you knowthat the 1989 Glasnost Bowl was an attempt to schedule an American college football game in the Soviet Union ?
Did you knowthat the rococo manor house at Damsgård , near Bergen , Norway , is one of the best preserved wooden 18th century structures in Europe?
Did you knowthat doubt exists about exactly where in Ontario at least two of the three known specimens of the extinct epiphytic moss Neomacounia nitida were collected in the 1860s?
Did you knowthat Soviet Russia recognized the independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in the 1920 Treaty of Moscow , in exchange for the promise not to grant asylum on Georgian soil to troops of powers hostile to the Soviet republic?
Did you knowthat innovative Indian film director Ritwik Ghatak 's first feature film Nagarik premiered after his death, twenty-four years after it was made?
Did you knowthat Mury , a protest song by Jacek Kaczmarski about events in Catalonia , became the unofficial anthem of Solidarity ?
Did you knowthat Iliaş of Moldavia , Jagiello 's brother-in-law, lost his throne and was blinded following Poland 's withdrawal from Moldavian affairs?
Did you knowthat Phil Fondacaro , an actor with dwarfism , portrayed the only Ewok to die on-screen in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi ?
Did you knowthat Edward Palmer , an early- 19th century utopian socialist , advocated the complete abolition of money ?
Did you knowthat groundbreaking on Christ's Resurrection Church in Kaunas , Lithuania , in 1934 was marked by the placement of a symbolic stone brought from Jerusalem 's Mount of Olives ?
Did you knowthat sanitation deficiencies are thought to be responsible for about 14,000 deaths per day at present, and were a major cause of 25 million deaths from the plague in Europe in 1348 ?
Did you knowthat, according to Ahmed ibn Fadlan , the supreme ruler of the Rus' Khaganate "had no duties other than to make love to his slave girls, drink, and give himself up to pleasure" ?
Did you knowthat the Martyrs' Cemetery holds the remains of both Iraqi insurgents and civilians killed during the First Battle of Fallujah in 2004?
Did you knowthat the Tamworth Pig is a rare breed of swine which has such a high bristle density that, unlike most pigs, it almost never suffers sunburn ?
Did you knowthat in 1998 Vishnu Bhagwat became the first service chief in independent India to be fired?
Did you knowthat Susan L. Hefle ' s research led to the development of commercialized ELISA testing for food allergens ?
Did you knowthat Juditha triumphans is an oratorio by Antonio Vivaldi , narrating the story of the Jewish widow Judith , who beheaded the invading Assyrian general Holofernes after he fell in love with her; and that all characters were interpreted by orphan female singers?
Did you knowthat modified starch is added to processed frozen foods to prevent them from dripping when defrosted?
Did you knowthat rock and roll pioneer Chan Romero wrote the 1959 hit, "Hippy Hippy Shake" which was covered by The Beatles ?
Did you knowthat vulvar cancer accounts for about 4% of all gynecological cancers ?
Did you knowthat Swedish goalkeeper Karl Svensson was given his nickname Rio-Kalle after two heroic matches in the 1950 FIFA World Cup that were actually played in São Paulo and not in Rio de Janeiro ?
Did you knowthat the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet is an offshoot of the Phoenician alphabet that was used to write the Hebrew language from about the 10th century BCE until it fell out of use in the 5th century BCE?
Did you knowthat Ravensburg State Park in Pennsylvania , built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, is named for the ravens that still roost there?
Did you knowthat noted Bengali writer Rajnarayan Basu was a tutor of Asia 's first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore ?
Did you knowthat if you ever responded to a shaky telemarketing or sweepstakes solicitation , chances are that you have been placed into a sucker list and in the future you will be approached with a reloading scam ?
Did you knowthat British athlete Don Thompson was nicknamed "Il Topolino" ( Italian for "Little Mouse") when he raced to victory in the 50km walk at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome while wearing a képi and sunglasses ?
Did you knowthat Leonarda Cianciulli , the "Soap-Maker of Correggio ", murdered three women and turned their bodies into soap and tea cakes ?
Did you knowthat Semuliki National Park in Uganda is one of the richest areas of floral and faunal diversity in Africa ?
Did you knowthat the Laura Spence Affair was a major UK political row started over comments made by British Chancellor Gordon Brown accusing Oxford University of elitism?
Did you knowthat Jules Porgès was a financier central to the rise of the Randlords who controlled the diamond and gold mining industries in South Africa from the 1870s?
Did you knowthat Birdcage Walk in the City of Westminster , London , is named after the Royal Menagerie and Aviary which was located beside it in the reign of Kings James I and expanded by Charles II ?
Did you knowthat the Partition of Midnapore to divide Midnapore , India's most populous district, was achieved 81 years after the first attempt in 1921?
Did you knowthat the " Shakespeare Lady ", a schizophrenic street performer in Downtown New Haven , Connecticut , has her own trading card?
Did you knowthat the needle-exchange programme John Turvey helped create in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside eventually became North America's first safe injection site ?
Did you knowthat an employee resignation letter from the son of Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr. , patent attorney to the Wright Brothers , led to the demise of the Tucker Car Company and a $62 million donation to Georgetown University Medical Center?
Did you knowthat alternative rocker and Pixies frontman Black Francis wrote the song " Crackity Jones " about a stay with a crazed roommate in Puerto Rico as an exchange student?
Did you knowthat Islay Herald Don Pottinger became interested in heraldry when commissioned to paint a portrait of Sir Thomas Innes of Learney ?
Did you knowthat Sir John Gonson , a British Justice of the Peace for nearly 50 years in the early 18th century, was depicted twice in William Hogarth 's A Harlot's Progress ?
Did you knowthat the Shelter was an experimental city car of the early 1950s designed and built by a Dutch engineering student with financial backing by the government of the Netherlands ?
Did you knowthat the Sannyasi Rebellion was a series of clashes between Indian ascetics and the British East India Company during the eighteenth century in Bengal ?
Did you knowthat the Slutsk defence action was the short-lived attempt to defend Belarusian independence from Soviet Russia in the aftermath of the Polish-Soviet War ?
Did you knowthat the famous Russian orientalist of Azeri origin, Muhammad Ali Kazim-bey , was converted to Christianity by Scottish Presbyterian missionaries in 1821 ?
Did you knowthat at the Battle of Stone Houses in 1837 , a band of American Indians defeated a group of Texas Rangers by smoking them out of their shelter?
Did you knowthat the athletic competition Sunflower Showdown , between Kansas State and the University of Kansas , traces back to a fight over the location of the state university in the 1860s ?
Did you knowthat listening to Mangalkavya epics was said to bring spiritual and material benefits?
Did you knowthat Nancy Dickerson was the first female news correspondent on the CBS television network?
Did you knowthat a specimen of Australia 's largest mushroom Phlebopus marginatus from Western Victoria weighed in at 29 kg, and caps can sometimes reach 1 metre across?
Did you knowthat Yakov Bulgakov , Catherine II 's emissary in Istanbul , managed to obtain a plan of the Turkish naval offensive while being imprisoned in Yedikule during the Russo-Turkish War, 1787-1792 ?
Did you knowthat Czech Second World War fighter pilot František Fajtl briefly flew for the French Air Force before commanding units in the Royal Air Force and then a Czechoslovak regiment formed by the Soviet Union ?
Did you knowthat iridodialysis is a localized separation or tearing away of the iris from its attachment to the ciliary body ?
Did you knowthat the Liverpool Irish was the popular name for a battalion of the British King's Regiment raised by Liverpool 's large Irish community in 1860?
Did you knowthat Edwin B. Hart studied physiological chemistry under Nobel Laureate Albrecht Kossel before leading research that would lead to controlling anemia and goiter ?
Did you knowthat funding for the Prussian Academy of Sciences was originally provided by giving it a monopoly on the sale of calendars?
Did you knowthat Shahzia Sikander , 2006 recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant", is a Pakistan-born American artist who specializes in Indian and Persian miniature painting?
Did you knowthat athlete Gretel Bergmann left Germany for America because she was discriminated against for being Jewish , and that she refused to return to attend festivities when the Berlin-Wilmersdorf sports complex was named in her honour?
Did you knowthat the "O. P. Q. Letters" were written anonymously in a failed attempt to incite an insurrection in Texas in 1834 ?
Did you knowthat New Zealand Test cricketer Martin Donnelly also played rugby union for England ?
Did you knowthat the Belgian Impéria was one of the first automobiles available with a sunroof ?
Did you knowthat Hamel , a town located in the South West of Western Australia , owes its name to solicitor and politician Lancel Victor de Hamel, the former owner of the land where the townsite is situated?
Did you knowthat Walter Stauffer McIlhenny , president of McIlhenny Company (1949-1985), maker of Tabasco sauce , was awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions in 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal ?
Did you know that the phrase to grab the brass ring comes from the brass ring dispenser, which presents rings to carousel riders to grab and possibly win prizes?
Did you knowthat British Labour politician Reg Freeson spent 23 years as an MP , including 14 years on the front bench , but was deselected in 1985 due to his "sensible left" views and replaced by Ken Livingstone ?
Did you knowthat the Holophusikon was a museum of natural curiosities and ethnographic items collected by Ashton Lever and exhibited in London from 1775?
Did you knowthat Indian serial killer Raman Raghav targeted street urchins and beggars sleeping in the open on roadsides and slums in Mumbai ?
Did you knowthat the Miami blue butterfly may be the rarest insect in the United States , and that its continued survival may depend on a captive breeding program at the University of Florida ?
Did you knowthat Isaac Albalag was a Jewish philosopher whose liberal interpretations of the Biblical account of the Creation , in accordance with the Aristotelian theory of the eternity of the world, stamped him in the eyes of many as a heretic ?
Did you know that the single-grain experiment conducted between 1907 and 1911 would lead to the development of modern human nutrition ?
Did you knowthat the Ythan Estuary in Scotland contains the most extensive dunes formation in Europe and is also the site of a Stone Age settlement ?
Did you knowthat the Cockpit-in-Court theatre in the Palace of Whitehall was used to stage court masques for the Stuart Kings of England , but was originally built by Henry VIII as a venue for cockfighting ?
Did you knowthat the Bangladeshi musician and composer Samar Das , who composed over 2,000 songs and was the music director of over 50 films, also played a prominent role in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 ?
Did you knowthat " Ernold Same " , a song from Blur 's 1995 album The Great Escape , was narrated by the current Mayor of London Ken Livingstone ?
Did you knowthat the name of the endangered language isolate Huave , spoken in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec , probably comes from a Zapotec word meaning "people of the sea", but that the Huave people who call themselves Ikoots refer to their language as ombeayiiüts , "our language"?
Did you knowthat the Kennedia nigricans , or the Black Coral Pea, is a robust Western Australian species of climbing plant that spreads to over 18 m 2 (200 ft 2 )?
Did you knowthat 51 nations participated in the FIBA World Championship as of the 2006 tournament ?
Did you knowthat the founders of the Indian spice manufacturing company MDH were popularly known as Deggi Mirch Wale , the "Pot Chilli People"?
Did you knowthat Operation Poomalai was a humanitarian supply airdrop over Jaffna , Sri Lanka by the Indian Air Force in June 1987, and was the first active intervention by India in the Sri Lankan Civil War ?
Did you knowthat Sajal Barui , who escaped after being convicted of murdering his family, was recaptured by the West Bengal police for theft without his true identity being discovered?
Did you knowthat Elm Farm Ollie in 1930 became the first cow to be milked while flying in an airplane ?
Did you knowthat the painting The Face on the Barroom Floor , in Central City, Colorado , was inspired by a poem , and that it in turn inspired a chamber opera?
Did you know that deaths caused by falling billboards in Metro Manila during Typhoon Xangsane (Milenyo) prompted a renewed push by Philippine legislators for a ban on billboard advertising?
Did you knowthat the only working, full sized, Caisson lock ever built, was on the Somerset Coal Canal at Combe Hay , Somerset in England between 1795 and 1805?
Did you knowthat Sten Rudholm is a member of the Swedish Academy and today the only living Swedish non-royal knight of the Order of the Seraphim ?
Did you knowthat the French poet Georges de Brébeuf is most well-known for his verse translation of Lucan 's Pharsalia which was warmly received by Pierre Corneille , but which was ridiculed by Nicolas Boileau ?
Did you knowthat rational egoism is the idea that it is always in accordance with reason to pursue one's own interest, used by Ayn Rand as the rationale behind objectivism ?
Did you knowthat the T-43 tank was devised as a replacement to the Soviet T-34 medium tank , but was scrapped in favour of simply improving the armament of the T-34?
Did you knowthat Agatha , mother of Saint Margaret of Scotland , could have been either a daughter of Yaroslav the Wise of Kiev or a daughter of the Bulgarian Tsar ?
Did you knowthat Scouts' Day is a special day observed by members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement throughout the year when all Scouts re-affirm the Scout Promise ?
Did you knowthat the Vitra Design Museum was American architect Frank Gehry 's first European commission?
Did you knowthat the Stora Alvaret , a World Heritage Site on the island of Öland , Sweden , has rich biodiversity , even though the soil mantle on this 26,000 hectare limestone barren is less than two centimeters deep?
Did you knowthat according to Mongolian folklore, the escort that buried Genghis Khan committed suicide to make his grave impossible to find?
Did you knowthat although Saint-Porchaire ware began the French tradition of high ceramic art, only some seventy examples survive?
Did you knowthat the Soviet dramatist Nikolai Erdman was awarded the Stalin Prize at the period when he was not allowed to live in Moscow owing to his " criminal record "?
Did you knowthat " Kylie Said To Jason " was a deliberate attempt by then-cash-strapped British band The KLF to have a hit single, however it failed to enter the UK Top 100 ?
Did you knowthat Virginia politician Charles F. Mercer switched between five different political parties during his 22-year service in the United States Congress ?
Did you knowthat the Curse of the Colonel refers to a reputed curse placed on the Kansai-based Hanshin Tigers baseball team by deceased KFC founder and mascot , Col. Harland Sanders ?
Did you knowthat St Laurence Church, Ludlow , England has an extensive collection of medieval misericords and other wood carvings , but may be best known as poet A.E. Housman 's gravesite?
Did you knowthat the influential French writers Jacques Rivière and Alain-Fournier both failed the entrance examination for Paris's École Normale Supérieure ?
Did you knowthat Mykola Skrypnyk , who had promoted an independent Bolshevik Ukraine , and later led the Ukrainization program of the Ukrainian SSR , chose to shoot himself rather than recant his policies?
Did you knowthat Pagoda Street in Chinatown, Singapore was named after the pagoda -like gopuram of Sri Mariamman Temple ?
Did you knowthat the Sarikoli language is often referred to as "Tajik", despite being only distantly related to Tajikistan's national language ?
Did you knowthat Jyoti Prasad Agarwala is regarded as the father of Assamese cinema ?
Did you knowthat the movement to secure the rights of Sami as an indigenous people in Norway was in large part made visible by civil disobedience ?
Did you knowthat an early trial of the effectiveness of the Lagonda flamethrower as a deterrent to Luftwaffe dive bombing attacks on Merchant Navy vessels was utterly unsuccessful?
Did you knowthat when Krishna Mohan Banerjee , a member of the famous Young Bengal group in Kolkata , in British India, converted to Christianity in 1832, he lost his job in David Hare ’s school?
Did you knowthat the photograph Tomoko Uemura in Her Bath of a severely deformed, naked child was deliberately posed with the agreement of her mother to illustrate the terrible effects of Minamata disease , a form of mercury poisoning ?
Did you knowthat, during the summer of four captains in 1988, Chris Cowdrey became only the second son to follow his father as captain of the English cricket team ?