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Did you knowthat Peter Baume , Chancellor of the Australian National University from 1994 to 2006, was elected to the Australian Senate for the Liberal Party of Australia in the 1974 federal election ?
Did you knowthat the permanent headquarters of the United States Department of Justice was built 65 years after the creation of the department—and 146 years after the creation of the post of Attorney General ?
Did you knowthat German-born anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker 's book Pioneers of American Freedom traces the origins of American anarchism back to Thomas Paine , Thomas Jefferson , and Abraham Lincoln ?
Did you knowthat the star Alpha Persei is also known by the traditional name of Mirfak , Arabic for ' elbow ', and the name Hinali'i , commemorating a tsunami in Hawaiian folklore ?
Did you knowthat George Orwell spent a month in September 1931 living rough in a Hopper hut ?
Did you knowthat the Champagne house Cattier resurrected its dormant de Brignac brand and it is now known for its distinctive, golden pewter bottles?
Did you knowthat the first time that racing promoter Bob Barkhimer went to a midget car race , he wondered what racing had to do with " circus midgets " (little people)?
Did you knowthat Polish General Jerzy Wołkowicki was not murdered by the Soviets in the Katyn Massacre probably due to his heroic past in the Russian Imperial Navy ?
Did you knowthat Richard A. La Vay was a Republican in the Maryland House of Delegates for Montgomery County, Maryland and once shared his district with Mark K. Shriver , son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver ?
Did you knowthat over 200 towns and cities in Brazil are served with a sewer system known as condominial sewerage ?
Did you knowthat James B. Craig , an All-American football halfback and quarterback , was the brother of Ralph Craig , a sprinter and gold medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympics ?
Did you knowthat the Hungarian politician and Nazi collaborator Andor Jaross was also president of the football (soccer) club Ferencvárosi TC ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Foucha v. Louisiana that a person found not guilty by reason of insanity cannot be committed to a mental institution if he has no mental illness ?
Did you knowthat Victorian winemakers sought to capitalize on the French phylloxera epidemic by making enough wine to satisfy the entire British market, but were thwarted when the insect infected their own vineyards?
Did you knowthat drunken trees result from permafrost thawing?
Did you knowthat Jeanette Lee managed both The Cranberries and Pulp while signing The Strokes and The Libertines to her Rough Trade label ?
Did you knowthat some Tibetans once thought Britain’s Queen Victoria was a reincarnation of Palden Lhamo , the wrathful deity considered to be the principal Protectress of Tibet?
Did you knowthat the Royal Danish egg is one of eight Fabergé eggs that are currently missing?
Did you knowthat Robert Adley became on December 10 , 2007 , the newest Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate , just fifty-six days after he was easily reelected as a Democrat in the October 20 jungle primary ?
Did you knowthat William Ohnesorge , Party member of the Third Reich , heavily participated in research toward a German atomic bomb while acting as President of the Reichspost , the German postal service?
Did you knowthat St Mary's Church in Cheadle , Greater Manchester , England , a Grade I listed building , was built in the 16th century and houses a stone cross dating to the 11th century?
Did you knowthat Hallie Ford made the largest donation in the history of Willamette University in 2006, and the largest donation ever to a cultural group in Oregon in 2007?
Did you knowthat glacial periods , commonly referred to as ice ages , are actually cold intervals within an ice age?
Did you knowthat Ann C. Noble , inventor of the "Aroma Wheel", was the first woman hired as a faculty member of the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology ?
Did you knowthat Rudyard Kipling wrote a short story about a group of World War I soldiers who were committed Janeites , that is, fans of Jane Austen novels?
Did you knowthat three of the four batters faced by Mike Palagyi in his one Major League game were later inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame ?
Did you knowthat Champagne has been featured prominently in popular culture from James Bond to hip hop ?
Did you knowthat Keeley Hawes voices the character of Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Underworld , the eighth video game in the Tomb Raider series , as she did in Anniversary and Legend ?
Did you knowthat the town of Rogersville, Tennessee was founded in 1789 by Irish-born pioneer Joseph Rogers and his father-in-law Thomas Amis?
Did you knowthat the highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. state of Georgia is 112 °F (44 °C), while the lowest ever recorded is -17 °F (-27 °C)?
Did you knowthat one of the birth places of punk in the 1970s was a clothing store in Chelsea, London called Acme Attractions ?
Did you knowthat Paul Feyerabend 's theory of epistemological anarchism in the philosophy of science led him to be labeled the "worst enemy of science" by his detractors?
Did you knowthat the very first news article on what became known as AIDS appeared in the New York Native , a now defunct gay newspaper in New York City ?
Did you knowthat Luigi Sturzo , a Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Italian People's Party (1919–1926) , collaborated with the OSS while in exile in the United States?
Did you knowthat the Stelo ( plural : Steloj ) was a monetary unit in the Esperanto movement from 1945 to 1993?
Did you knowthat former Michigan Wolverines rushing leader and teammate of Russell Davis , Harlan Huckleby only scored 13 touchdowns in six National Football League seasons , but three were in a single game?
Did you knowthat the semantron , intended for summoning Eastern Orthodox Christians to worship, has been used as a deadly weapon in church brawls?
Did you knowthat Paul Casanova drove in the winning run in what is considered the longest night game in Major League Baseball history at 6 hours, 38 minutes?
Did you knowthat korovai is a traditional Ukrainian wedding bread, baked from wheat flour and decorated with braids ?
Did you knowthat the Polish side tried to keep the Suwałki Agreement limited in scope so that it would not interfere with the planned Żeligowski's Mutiny ?
Did you knowthat in 2002, hundreds of former mobsters incarcerated in eight jails across Italy , supposedly having no way to contact one another, joined a hunger strike to protest against article 41-bis of the Italian Penitentiary Act?
Did you knowthat naturalist Jonathan Couch wrote the four-volume A History of the Fishes of the British Islands , with his own coloured illustrations depicting the vivid natural colours of the different species ?
Did you knowthat John Turner was the first person to be ordered deported from the United States for violation of the 1903 Anarchist Exclusion Act ?
Did you knowthat the first mill for splitting iron into rods and nails , and the first paper mill in the UK, were situated on the River Darent in Kent ?
Did you knowthat Dallas Cowboy running back Tony Boles once stole Emmit Smith 's Nissan Pathfinder for two days when assigned rookie initiation car washing duties?
Did you knowthat about one million animals are used every year in Europe in toxicology testing ?
Did you knowthat Dove 's Evolution is the first entry to win two Grand Prix awards at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival ?
Did you knowthat County Route 91 in Onondaga County, New York is signed as County Route 57 for New York State Route 57 , the route it replaced?
Did you knowthat the Brown mussel Perna perna aggregates in such large amounts that it is able to sink navigational buoys ?
Did you knowthat Rear Admiral Evelyn J. Fields is the first woman and first African American to be the director of the Office of NOAA Corps Operations and the NOAA Commissioned Corps?
Did you knowthat Ken Schrader became the first driver to win in all of NASCAR 's three largest series when he won a Craftsman Truck Series race at Saugus Speedway ?
Did you knowthat Armenian composer and musician Ara Gevorgyan composed the music for Russian prima ballerina Anastasia Volochkova 's "Golden cage" ballet dedicated to the Bolshoi Theater ?
Did you knowthe Amarna Princess , an ancient Egyptian statuette, bought by Bolton Museum for £440,000 and displayed at the Hayward Gallery in an exhibition opened by the Queen , was actually a fake by British forger Shaun Greenhalgh ?
Did you knowthat the International Association for Plant Taxonomy organizes international symposia on problems of plant systematics ?
Did you knowthat 12 of the 23 medals awarded to Egypt at the Olympics so far were given to competitors in combat sports such as wrestling , boxing , judo and taekwondo ?
Did you knowthat Google's Knol project is widely seen as an attempt to compete with Wikipedia?
Did you knowthat Jeanne Labuda , a Democratic member of the Colorado House of Representatives elected in 2006, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia ?
Did you knowthat Colombia and India established diplomatic relations on January 19 , 1959 ?
Did you knowthat, though records from the era are sketchy, press accounts reported that All-American football player Frank Steketee once kicked a 100-yard punt ?
Did you knowthat after selecting the wine to make their Grand vin many Bordeaux estates like Château Margaux will use the remaining cuvee to make a second wine ?
Did you knowthat the historian and geographer Robin Donkin served in Egypt and Jordan as a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery ?
Did you knowthat the liwan , a long narrow-fronted hall or vaulted portal often open to the outside, has been a feature of Levantine homes for more than 2,000 years?
Did you knowthat a Belgian , Robert Goffin , was the first person to write a serious book on the indigenous American art-form, jazz ?
Did you knowthat All-American footballer Merv Pregulman , the Green Bay Packers ' first pick in the 1944 NFL Draft, nearly died in a kamikaze attack on his ship before ever playing a pro football game?
Did you knowthat artifacts discovered at Mound Bottom , Tennessee show that the site was part of a vast Native American trading network extending to the Great Lakes , the Gulf of Mexico , and the Appalachian Mountains during the Mississippian era ?
Did you knowthat Joseph Finegan , an attorney , politician, and railroad builder, was the commander of Confederate forces at the Battle of Olustee , fought in 1864 during the American Civil War ?
Did you knowthat meetings of the Committee of Public Safety , the de facto executive government during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution , were convened at the Pavillon de Flore in Paris ' Palais du Louvre ?
Did you knowthat during her first year in the Colorado General Assembly , Democratic legislator Claire Levy sponsored three successful bills regarding energy efficiency standards?
Did you knowthat the Panhellenic Union of Fighting Youths , a Greek Resistance organization, set a bomb that destroyed the headquarters of the pro- Nazi ESPO organization in the very centre of occupied Athens ?
Did you knowthat the Tribal class destroyer HMS Tartar received the nickname 'Lucky Tartar' due to her numerous escapes from dangerous situations in World War II ?
Did you knowthat the titles of the thirteen episodes of the Japanese animated television series Gunslinger Girl were given in Italian as well as Japanese ?
Did you knowthat drag racer Bob Glidden was the top qualifier in 23 straight National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) events, including every event in the 1987 season?
Did you knowthat during the mid- 20th century , wine from Algeria , Morocco and Tunisia accounted for nearly two-thirds of all internationally traded wine?
Did you knowthat the Daguin machine was a cancelling machine first used in post offices in Paris in 1884?
Did you knowthat in Hindu mythology , after Lakshmindara, son of Chand Sadagar , died of snakebite on his wedding night, his bride Behula accompanied his corpse on a raft floating in a river?
Did you knowthat the title of psychiatrist Hervey M. Cleckley 's book The Mask of Sanity refers to the mask of sincerity , generosity , and trustworthiness the psychopath wears to disguise his inability to feel emotion for others?
Did you knowthat the fleet of the Royal Naval Patrol Service , also known as  " Harry Tate 's Navy" or " Churchill 's Pirates", consisted of hundreds of requisitioned trawler‎s , whalers , drifters , paddle steamers , yachts , tugs and the like?
Did you knowthat dealkalizing glass enhances its resistance to corrosion ?
Did you knowthat in return for reinforcements against the Lombards , Cunimund offered Emperor Justin II the city of Sirmium on two separate occasions?
Did you knowthat  the New Orleans Saints first-round draft picks have included Reggie Bush and Archie Manning ?
Did you knowthat Romanian princess Catherine Caradja was nicknamed the "Angel of Ploieşti " for her humanitarian deeds by American and British airmen who were taken prisoner during the bombing of Romania in World War II ?
Did you knowthat Ernst Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué , a Prussian general and confidant of Frederick the Great , was wounded thrice in the Battle of Landeshut , fought in 1760 during the Seven Years' War ?
Did you knowthat " bunchers " are criminals involved in kidnapping pets from residences, trapping stray animals illegally, and selling them to laboratories for animal testing purposes?
Did you knowthat John Rogers , who helped to prepare a version of the Hebrew Bible , also helped to introduce the man engine , an important reform in Cornish mining?
Did you knowthat there was once an estuarine valley with a rich abundance of New Zealand flounders near Waipatiki , Hawke's Bay , New Zealand , but it became a stream system after an earthquake in 1931 ?
Did you knowthat The Australian Golf Club , arguably the oldest in Australia, held its 17th Australian Open between the 13th – 16th December 2007, after holding the inaugural edition in 1904 ?
Did you knowthat department store chain Sakowitz was purchased by shopping mall developing firm L. J. Hooker in 1988, so that a location could be opened at Cincinnati 's Forest Fair Mall ?
Did you knowthat Judeopolonia was a proposed buffer state between the Russian and German Empires with a projected population of 30 million Jews , Poles , Ukrainians , Belarusians , Lithuanians , Latvians , and Baltic Germans ?
Did you knowthat Generalissimo Francisco Franco lifted the exile of Francisco Vidal y Barraquer , a Spanish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church , only after reaching a concordat with the Vatican ?
Did you knowthat The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco , a 1959 album by jazz band The Cannonball Adderley Quintet , reached the bestseller charts with 50,000 copies sold by May 1960?
Did you knowthat the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben across Ontario from Montreal to Lake Nipissing , a depression formed by ancient faults, is a failed arm of the ancestor of the Atlantic Ocean?
Did you knowthat Snyder Middleswarth Natural Area lost its status as a Pennsylvania state park in the 1990s despite being a National Natural Landmark and Snyder County's only state park?
Did you knowthat discards are the portion of a catch of fish which is not retained on board during commercial fishing operations and is returned, often dead or dying, to the sea?
Did you knowthat though only one melody for every ten songs has been preserved among the work of the troubadours , a remarkable three-quarters of Berenguier de Palazol's surviving poems have melodies?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Defense Department issued archaeology awareness playing cards to educate soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan on the importance of respecting ancient monuments?
Did you knowthat the twelve episodes of the Tsukihime, Lunar Legend anime were developed by the Tsukihime Production Committee, which included companies such as Geneon Entertainment , Movic , Tokyo Broadcasting System , and J.C. Staff ?
Did you knowthat the highly prolific Carignan wine grape is one of the leading culprits of France's wine lake and that the European Union has resorted to paying farmers to uproot their Carignan vines to help alleviate the problem?
Did you knowthat the molecular weight of a polymer can be determined from data on its intrinsic viscosity using the Mark-Houwink equation ?
Did you knowthat Elizabeth Woodville was the first English royal mistress to become the English queen consort ?
Did you knowthat Zeta Orionis , or Alnitak , 'the girdle', in Arabic , is the brightest O-type blue supergiant and one of the hottest bright stars in the sky?
Did you knowthat social activists opine that the extension of the Kolkata Metro on pillars on the bed of Adi Ganga will destroy the waterway?
Did you knowthat once economic advisor to Margaret Thatcher , Christopher Story went on to publish independent intelligence magazines that are considered important reading by many international top agencies?
Did you knowthat Ralph Millet , who brought the first Saab cars to the United States, discussed production of Saabs in the U.S. in the 1950s, but that the idea was only resurrected with the U.S. production of a Saab in the 2006 model year?
Did you knowthat the preface of a book written by Saint Goeznovius is an important document in establishing a historical basis for the mythical British king , King Arthur ?
Did you knowthat the tropical spiderwort ( Commelina benghalensis ) is a noxious weed in the United States , but used as a remedy against leprosy in Pakistan ?
Did you knowthat Terry Pitt died after choking on nicotine -replacement chewing gum in the back of a taxi in Birmingham , England ?
Did you knowthat unmatched dye lots can frustrate weeks of labor for a knitter or crocheter ?
Did you knowthat Warren Storm pioneered a South Louisiana musical genre known as swamp pop ?
Did you knowthat Qaqun , a Palestinian village depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War , had been continuously inhabited by Arabs since as early as the Mamluk period ?
Did you knowthat at the time, the 1947 Sydney hailstorm , which hospitalised at least 350 people, was the most severe storm to strike the city since records began in 1792 ?
Did you knowthat retired Major General Charles D. Metcalf is the current Director of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force , the world’s oldest and largest military aviation museum ?
Did you knowthat Luo Binwang wrote a sharply worded accusation against Empress Wu Zetian , China's only female emperor , that impressed her so much that after his death she collected his writings and published them?
Did you knowthat after the fall of Napoleon in France , some 200 Bonapartists fled to the United States and attempted to establish an agricultural settlement to grow wine grapes and olive trees in the Alabama wilderness?
Did you knowthat George K. Gay 's house was the first brick house in Oregon and served as the boundary marker between Yamhill and Polk counties?
Did you knowthat until recently many Chilean wines labeled Merlot and Sauvignon blanc were really made from Carménère and Sauvignon vert ?
Did you knowthat Madeline L'Engle ran writers' workshops and retreats every January at Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, New York ?
Did you knowthat Marsha Looper , a Republican state legislator elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006 by a 2-to-1 margin, is also a systems engineer , real estate broker , and rancher ?
Did you knowthat Georgiana Harcourt , a 19th century English correspondent and translator, was the daughter of Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt , the Archbishop of York ?
Did you knowthat Richard Nolte was appointed as U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Republic for three weeks in 1967 but never served due to the outbreak of the Six-Day War ?
Did you knowthat Liberian park Sapo National Park contains the second-largest tropical rainforest in West Africa after Taï National Park in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire ?
Did you knowthat British comedians Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie made one of their earliest television appearances in their 1983 television pilot The Crystal Cube , a show the BBC hated?
Did you knowthat the Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity Associations might be returned $ 2.33 billion in compensation if the Libyans convicted of the Pan AM and UTA plane bombings are cleared?
Did you knowthat the Madaba Map is a large Byzantine mosaic from circa 550 CE that depicts the topography of Jerusalem and surrounding areas in great detail?
Did you knowthat a symbolic April 1995 boat trip—celebrating the foundation of the Mekong River Commission —was unable to cross the Mekong River because China was filling the reservoir of its Manwan Dam?
Did you knowthat future four-star admiral John H. Sides , father of the United States Navy 's guided-missile program, risked his career by participating in the Revolt of the Admirals ?
Did you knowthat the Smith Point Light at the mouth of the Potomac River was preceded by four other lighthouses and three lightships at the same site?
Did you knowthat during the Samanid dynasty , commentary on Persian poetry took the form of either slander or excessive praise, usually through sophistry or exaggeration of trivial errors in a rival's poetry?
Did you knowthat the California wine industry accounts for nearly 90% of all U.S. production , and if California were a country it would be the world's fourth largest wine producer?
Did you knowthat Ebrulf left his position as a Merovingian courtier to become a hermit?
Did you knowthat the National Assembly , Germany 's legislature from 1919 to 1920, convened in Weimar to remind the World War I Allies of Germany's cultural history such as the Weimar residents Goethe and Schiller ?
Did you knowthat Aline was an ordinary woman who lived in 1st century AD Egypt, and whose name and portrait were preserved in her grave?
Did you knowthat Country-Western singer, songwriter and actor Jimmy Wakely had his own series of DC Comics comic books, billing him as "Hollywood's Sensational Cowboy Star!"?
Did you knowthat the Duchess of Marlborough egg is the only Fabergé egg to have been commissioned by an American ?
Did you knowthat Chinese-American author Laurence Yep 's fantasy novel Dragon of the Lost Sea was originally conceived as a picture book adaptation of a folktale involving the Monkey King , a popular Chinese mythical character?
Did you knowthat Otto Magnus von Stackelberg , Russian ambassador to Poland , can be considered an unofficial but de facto ruler of Poland ?
Did you knowthat 20 year old tobacco store clerk Eddie Kolb was allowed to pitch the last regular season baseball game for the 1899 Cleveland Spiders in exchange for a box of cigars?
Did you knowthat buildings in Kuala Lumpur have Mughal , Tudor , Neo-Gothic or Spanish architectural styles modified  to use local resources and for the climate of Malaysia ?
Did you knowthat Muhtar Kent , named to assume the post of CEO of the Coca-Cola Company on July 1 , 2008 , is the son of a Turkish diplomat , who risked his life to save Jews in France during the Holocaust ?
Did you knowthat Chris Harris was the first basketballer from England to play in the NBA ?
Did you knowthat John Pitre ' s 1965 visionary art painting, A New Dawn, which was valued at $ 1.7 million in 1997, was offered in trade for a £ 1 million house in London in 2004?
Did you knowthat Chase Austin was the first African American racecar driver to race in the NASCAR Busch Series ?
Did you knowthat " I Am Your Gummy Bear " , a silly novelty song whose video features a "jolly and jiggly" lime green cartoon gummi bear and a 30-second video clip in eight languages, is an internet meme ?
Did you knowthat Princess Stéphanie of Monaco ’s song " Ouragan " was a number one hit in France ?
Did you knowthat boats crammed with people from both India and Bangladesh , flying the flags of their respective countries, converge on the Ichamati River , the international border, to immerse the idols after Durga Puja ?
Did you knowthat Philip Pullman 's novel Clockwork was adapted into an opera for children?