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Did you knowthat the non-fiction book Inside Scientology , published in 1972 by Olympia Press , was the first to disclose secret Scientology materials?
Did you knowthat during the 100 point game , Philadelphia Warriors player Wilt Chamberlain became the only player in history to score at least 100 points in a National Basketball Association match?
Did you knowthat Thomas Vose Daily resigned his position as Archbishop of Brooklyn one week after being criticized by the Massachusetts attorney general in a report on the recent Roman Catholic sex abuse cases ?
Did you knowthat a planning application for a 42-storey building in the recent New England Quarter development in Brighton , England , was rejected on twenty separate counts, including the negative effect it would have on the local microclimate ?
Did you knowthat Dallas Theological Seminary , a center of dispensational Christian theology and alma mater for people including Chuck Swindoll and Hal Lindsey , has been in operation since 1924 ?
Did you knowthat the Mifflin Street Block Party , which attracted around 20,000 participants in 2005 , began as a street dance in protest against the Vietnam War ?
Did you knowthat archaeologists at the El Manatí Olmec site have not only found the earliest rubber balls yet discovered and the earliest wooden artifacts in Mexico , but also the skeletons , femurs , and crania of human infants ?
Did you knowthat a general contractor makes submittals which are required by the architect and engineer for verification that correct products will be installed in a construction project ?
Did you knowthat the 1971 Harley-Davidson Super Glide , the first factory custom motorcycle , used an Electra Glide frame mated to Sportster forks?
Did you knowthat the British Indian Association played a catalytic role in building up Indian political consciousness?
Did you knowthat Jamestown Rediscovery is an ongoing archaeological project of the APVA which discovered the long-lost remains of the first fort built by the settlers at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony ?
Did you knowthat retired Seventh United States Army General Frederick Kroesen survived an RPG-7 anti-tank rocket attack by the Red Army Faction ?
Did you knowthat one method of torture used by the French Army in the Algerian War of Independence was to throw prisoners into the sea from helicopters in so-called death flights ?
Did you knowthat the Bronx, New York farmhouse which belonged to Isaac Varian , mayor of New York City from 1839-41, currently houses the Museum of Bronx History?
Did you knowthat Brian Williams was one of three Welsh farmers in the "farming" front row at Neath RFC ?
Did you knowthat Hawaii Route 560 was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 because of its historical character of one lane bridges?
Did you knowthat grape and raisin toxicity is a potential cause of acute renal failure in dogs ?
Did you knowthat approximately 10,000 young Germans known as the Ritchie Boys served in the United States Army in World War II helping conduct psychological warfare against Nazi Germany ?
Did you knowthat Adelaide was the first city in Australia to introduce horse trams and the last to discard them for more modern public transport?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Sergio in 2006 was the strongest Pacific hurricane on record in the month of November ?
Did you knowthat Blackadder Goes Forth , the final series of the BBC situation comedy Blackadder , is noted for its sensitive depiction of World War I trench warfare , and was placed 16th in the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes by the British Film Institute ?
Did you knowthat the insanity of Australian serial killer Catherine Birnie is believed to have been caused by the death of her son?
Did you knowthat the San Bruno Creek Trail provides a key link in the San Francisco Bay perimeter trail, but a two-mile detour inland is required?
Did you knowthat the town of Sayram in Kazakhstan has earned the nickname "Little Uzbekistan " because of its large Uzbek population?
Did you knowthat Lyman Reed Blake devised a sewing machine for sewing the sole to the vamp of the shoe?
Did you knowthat French Major General René Cogny , who later commanded French forces during the First Indochina War , was captured in June 1940 by the German army, and had to escape by crawling naked through a drainpipe?
Did you knowthat the Pianta Grande di Roma by Giambattista Nolli of 1748 was still being used in urban planning in Rome down to the 1970s?
Did you knowthat kissing the statue Il Gobbo di Rialto marked the conclusion of a traditional Venetian punishment in which petty criminals were forced to run naked through the streets from Piazza San Marco ?
Did you knowthat New Zealand rugby union player Billy Stead co-authored The Complete Rugby Footballer while on tour with the All Blacks in 1905-6?
Did you knowthat the Frank and Ernest comic strip first remarked that Fred Astaire "was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did, ... backwards and in high heels," according to The Yale Book of Quotations ?
Did you knowthat Pinchas Rosen , Israel 's first Minister of Justice , served in the German army during World War I ?
Did you knowthat the subtropical ridge helps steer tropical cyclones ?
Did you knowthat the Old Admiralty House , a national monument in Singapore , was used by the British Armed Forces for strategic planning during World War II ?
Did you knowthat robotic jockeys are used in camel racing events in Qatar in an effort to phase out the widespread use of forced child labor in the races?
Did you knowover 250,000 pieces of 15th century Vietnamese pottery were recovered from the Hoi An Wreck over a four-year period from 1996, at a cost of USD 14 million?
Did you knowthat British Postmaster General Reginald Bevins ' s promise in November 1962 to "do something" about the BBC programme That Was The Week That Was was immediately countered by the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ?
Did you knowthat Colony Collapse Disorder is a syndrome describing the increasing die-off of honey-bees and other arthropods ?
Did you knowthat the first of the Joe McDoakes series of one-reel short subjects began as a project to teach students at the University of Southern California movie making before being bought by Warner Bros. for $2500 in 1942 ?
Did you knowthat the Polish Second Army was the second major formation of the Peoples' Army of Poland fighting alongside the Soviet Union in the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat RNA -binding piwi proteins are required for the formation of sperm in many animals, including mammals ?
Did you knowthat Uzbekistani artist Nikolai Shin spent more than two decades working on his 44-metre-long painting Requiem , which depicts the 1937 deportation of the Koryo-saram to Central Asia ?
Did you knowthat a road in Charlcombe , Somerset , England is closed for two months every spring to allow frogs and toads to cross safely?
Did you knowthat Colin McDonald and George Thoms were Australian cricketers who, uniquely, opened the batting for their club, state and national teams in the same season?
Did you knowthat the 101 female Members of Parliament elected in the United Kingdom in Labour 's landslide general election victory in 1997 were popularly known as Blair Babes ?
Did you knowthat plant cells go through an additional stage in their cell cycle , the preprophase , which does not occur during mitosis in animal cells ?
Did you knowthat the five themes of geography is an educational framework for geography adopted in 1984 by the Association of American Geographers ?
Did you knowthat the House of Lords declined to hear an appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeal in Aerotel v Telco and Macrossan's application , concerning the patentability of computer programs in the United Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat Little Mikey was a character who appeared in a television advertisement for Quaker Oats ' Life cereal that was aired in the United States for over 12 years?
Did you knowthat the The Bull Ring is a henge that was built in the late Neolithic period near Dove Holes in Derbyshire ?
Did you knowthat the causes and extent of Olmec influences on Mesoamerican cultures are still being debated long after they were first raised at a conference in Tuxtla Gutiérrez in 1942?
Did you knowthat the Seal Slough tidal channel in California hosts a thriving marshland habitat despite encroachment by a sewage treatment plant and two schools?
Did you knowthat Ann Ebsworth was the first female High Court judge to be assigned to the Queen's Bench Division , the previous five having all been assigned to the Family Division ?
Did you knowthat Iñaki de Juana Chaos began a hunger strike in November 2006 to protest what he believes to be unlawful imprisonment by the Spanish government ?
Did you knowthat because the horse does not have a gall bladder , they can only have up to 20% fat as part of their equine nutrition ?
Did you knowthat Able Seaman Just Nuisance is the only dog to have been officially enlisted in the Royal Navy ?
Did you knowthat the Dutch barn was the first non-native barn model ever built in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Indian Test cricketer Murali Kartik was expelled from the first intake of the National Cricket Academy due to indiscipline?
Did you knowthat 16th-century Genevan reformer John Calvin held Bible studies in the Calvin Auditory ?
Did you knowthat the Brunswick Manifesto , issued during the French Revolution to intimidate Paris , backfired and spurred further revolutionary action?
Did you knowthat archaeologist Francis Turville-Petre , discoverer of Neanderthal remains in Israel , was portrayed in works by authors W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood ?
Did you knowthat 17th-century philosopher Cesare Cremonini refused to look at the Moon 's mountains through Galileo 's telescope, believing that Aristotle had proven the Moon was a perfect sphere ?
Did you knowthat a recent oil discovery in Bojonegoro is the biggest in Indonesia for three decades and one of the biggest reserves in Indonesia ?
Did you knowthat the Minute Women of the U.S.A. was a militantly anti-communist organization for American housewives in the 1950s?
Did you knowthat General Stanislav Poplavsky was one of thousands of Soviet officers who served as commanders, advisors and officials in the People's Republic of Poland during the Stalinization period?
Did you knowthat Philip Blaiberg survived for more than nineteen months after receiving the second heart transplant ever?
Did you knowthat the four corners of the main crossroads in the historic town of Ross in Tasmania are known as Temptation , Recreation , Salvation and Damnation ?
Did you knowthat the Empire State Building in New York City was illuminated with blue lights on April 5, 2005 to mark the 10th anniversary of National Poetry Month which is celebrated every April in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Squad Five-O grew from an indie band and eventually signed to the general market label Capitol Records before disbanding in 2006?
Did you knowthat the representatives at the Vilnius Conference in 1917 elected a 20-member Council of Lithuania to negotiate with the Germans for the independence of Lithuania ?
Did you knowthat the statue of the Virgin and Child in the porch of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford was cited as evidence in Archbishop Laud's execution trial, and has bullet holes made by Oliver Cromwell 's troops?
Did you knowthat Polish Navy admiral Włodzimierz Steyer commanded the Polish Army in the Battle of Hel , the longest battle of the Polish September Campaign ?
Did you knowthat John Oliver Wheeler and his grandfather Arthur Oliver Wheeler mapped the Selkirk Mountains ?
Did you knowthat George Washington 's threshing barn was an early example of an American round barn ?
Did you knowthat Jablunkov is the easternmost town of the Czech Republic ?
Did you knowthat Daniel Friedmann , Israel 's Minister of Justice , is a seventh-generation sabra , a rarity in a country where mass Jewish immigration did not begin until the late 19th century?
Did you knowthat 49 of Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous ' s novels have had film adaptations ?
Did you knowthat Caffè Florian , established in 1720, was the first coffeehouse in Venice to admit women?
Did you knowthat the 7th-century King Cynegils , the first West Saxon ruler known to have been baptised as a Christian , is called the son of at least three different fathers in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ?
Did you knowthat Bryan Pearce overcame learning disabilities from congenital phenylketonuria to be recognised as one of the UK 's leading naïve artists ?
Did you knowthat the deadly mushroom Clitocybe dealbata is known as the "sweating mushroom" because this is a striking side effect of consuming it?
Did you knowthat laminopathies are a diverse group of genetic diseases caused by mutations in nuclear envelope filaments?
Did you knowthat a strike in the Hipolit Cegielski Industries in Poznań , June 1956, led to the first major Polish protest against communism ?
Did you knowthat Charles R. Stelck proved that ancient coral reefs had once existed in the Arctic and that oil could be found there?
Did you knowthat despite being illiterate , Duncan Bàn MacIntyre became one of the most famous Scottish Gaelic poets?
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Did you knowthat the advertising campaign " Love in the Afternoon " only became lucrative for ABC when advertisements chronicling the troubled union of Luke and Laura were aired, bringing General Hospital to the top of the U.S. soap opera ratings?
Did you knowthat Polish general Jan Rządkowski was dismissed from his post as the commander of the armed forces of Central Lithuania when it was discovered that he did not have citizenship in that state?
Did you knowthat even though Denis Potvin retired in 1988, fans of the New York Rangers still practice a tradition aimed at insulting him?
Did you knowthat the United States Africa Command , the newest U.S. military Unified Combatant Command , will cover all of Africa , except for Egypt ?
Did you knowthat J.M. Legard's 2006 novel Giraffe is based on the real-life mass killing of giraffes at the zoo in the Czechoslovakian town of Dvůr Králové nad Labem on the night of 30 April 1975 ?
Did you knowthat Private Passions , a weekly classical music programme on BBC Radio 3 , has occasionally featured interviews with hoax characters played by comedian John Sessions ?
Did you knowthat Robin Wilson was not only a science fiction author and editor, but President of California State University, Chico ?
Did you knowthat the Newgate novels of the 19th century were attacked by the press for glamorizing the criminals portrayed in their stories?
Did you knowthat of the world's largest wooden ships , almost all those longer than 300 feet leaked or were not seaworthy?
Did you knowthat Corona Schröter , an 18th century German singer , composed musical settings for several works by Friedrich Schiller , as well as two dramas, hundreds of arias and duets , and an autobiography given to Johann Wolfgang Goethe , but that all of these works are now lost?
Did you knowthat Australian -born American actor Marc McDermott joined an acting troupe to support his mother and sister after his father's death?
Did you knowthat current Journal of Food Science scientific editor Daryl B. Lund was a college roommate of future Governor of Wisconsin and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson ?
Did you knowthat Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame member Allan Pickard built and managed amateur ice hockey organizations that produced future NHL stars and became a model for modern organized amateur hockey?
Did you knowthat the history of science and technology in China was made known in the West largely through the work of the Jesuits and later through Joseph Needham ?
Did you knowthat Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University publishes the largest number of research papers among agricultural universities in India ?
Did you knowthat a major source for Greek mythology , the first Vatican Mythographer , survives in a single text in the Vatican Library ?
Did you knowthat the first foreigner decorated in World War Two with the highest Soviet medal, Hero of the Soviet Union , was a Czechoslovak soldier, Otakar Jaroš after the Battle of Sokolovo in 1943 ?
Did you knowthat Radishchev Museum in Saratov founded by Russian painter Alexey Bogolyubov was the first museum in the country opened to the general public?
Did you knowthat the Ganesha Purana is a religious text in Hinduism dedicated to the elephant -headed deity Ganesha and was produced by the Hindu sect Ganapatya ?
Did you knowthat British Labour politician Fiona Jones was disqualified from the House of Commons when she was convicted for submitting fraudulent election expense returns, but was later reinstated?
Did you knowthat John T. Ford was the only American theatre manager to pay Gilbert and Sullivan royalties for H.M.S. Pinafore during its initial U.S. run?
Did you knowthat Władysław Wejtko joined the Polish Army and constructed fortifications in the decisive Battle of Warsaw ?
Did you knowthat the Iowa horticultural professor Griffith Buck created over 80 named cultivars of the rose ?
Did you knowthat in 1263 Fürstenfeld Abbey was founded by Ludwig the Severe of Bavaria as a penance for killing his wife?
Did you knowthat on February 1, the National Weather Service began using the Enhanced Fujita Scale to assess tornado damage, replacing the Fujita scale ?
Did you knowthat Cuba 's Latin American School of Medicine is supported by both the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus and Venezuela 's President Hugo Chávez ?
Did you knowthat in 1965 Marguerite Legot became the first female Belgian federal government minister ?
Did you knowthat link-boys were paid to carry a torch to guide pedestrians at night before street lighting became commonplace?
Did you knowthat the Tomlin order , a court order in England and Wales under which a court action is stayed on terms which have been agreed in advance between the parties, is named from a 1927 ruling of the High Court judge , Mr Justice Tomlin ?
Did you knowthat French Champagne merchant Charles Heidsieck was imprisoned for espionage during the American Civil War , sparking an international incident?
Did you knowthat Calabazas Creek in Sonoma Valley cuts through a volcanic watershed with nearby relict hot springs ?
Did you knowthat Torbjörn Nilsson is considered to be one of the greatest Swedish footballers of all time, despite only having played 28 matches for the national team ?
Did you knowthat the levée of Louis XIV , the privilege of removing the king's nightshirt, was a great honour only accorded to a high noble ?
Did you knowthat the Gippeumjo is a "pleasure group" that was established in 1978 during the administration of Kim Il-sung ?
Did you knowthat the Krazy Kat cartoons printed in the San Francisco Examiner prompted a serious physical assault on author Agnes Newton Keith ?
Did you knowthat Norwegian politician Harald T. Nesvik claimed to have nominated George W. Bush and Tony Blair for the Nobel Peace prize ?
Did you knowthat Lublin Castle was the place where the Union of Lublin , creating the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , was signed?
Did you knowthat Salmson 2 , along with the Breguet 14 , was the main reconnaissance aircraft of the French army in the First World War ?
Did you knowthat " Vrede " was the first Eurovision entry to feature DJ scratching ?
Did you knowthat U-256 was one of seven German World War II submarines converted into anti-aircraft submarines, and the last German submarine to leave Brest, France ?
Did you knowthat Gordon Macklin was the first president and CEO of NASDAQ , and later a board member of WorldCom up to its bankruptcy in 2002?
Did you knowthat Carnival in Flanders , which was performed only six times, is the least performed play to be recognized with a Tony Award ?
Did you knowthat Ludwig Preiss collected the first specimen of the Western Swamp Tortoise in 1839, but no further collections occurred until 1953?
Did you knowthat Kesatuan Melayu Muda was the first Malayan political body to request Malayan independence?
Did you knowthat Fossil Cycad National Monument , established in South Dakota in 1922, was withdrawn as a national monument in 1956 because all of the visible fossils had been stolen?
Did you knowthat English seaman John Vincent lost part of his upper lip when it froze to a metal cup during the voyage of the James Caird ?
Did you knowthat the first class Kaunas Fortress was captured by German forces in 1915 after eleven days of fighting?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Flossy was the first tropical cyclone to significantly impact oil refining in the Gulf of Mexico ?
Did you knowthat Southern stingrays , originally drawn to an area in Hol Chan Marine Reserve in Belize by food from fishermen cleaning their nets, are now a tourist attraction fed by local tour guides?
Did you knowthat Třinec Iron and Steel Works produces more than a third of the steel in the Czech Republic ?
Did you knowthat Aeroplanes Voisin , a major French aircraft manufacturer during World War I , was dissolved after the war when its cofounder Gabriel Voisin became more interested in designing automobiles than planes?
Did you knowthat television executive Barry Crane was such an avid contract bridge player his record number of masterpoints was not matched until six years after his death?
Did you knowthat on Malaita in the Solomon Islands , the mean daily temperature in the warmest month is only 3.4° F warmer than that of the coolest?
Did you knowthat the lyrics of the debut song of Indian rock musician Rabbi Shergill were written by the 18th century Punjabi poet Bulleh Shah ?
Did you knowthat the Monkey River feeds the second largest barrier-reef complex in the world?
Did you knowthat the Old Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro was the setting for the coronation of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil in 1822 and several other important historical events?
Did you knowthat the Arado Ar 197 plane was designed by Germany before World War II for a never completed aircraft carrier ?
Did you knowthat modern dye tracing techniques are capable of detecting concentrations of dye as low as one part per trillion ?
Did you knowthat U-106 was one of Germany's most successful submarines, sinking twenty-two Allied ships in World War II ?
Did you knowthat highwayman Henry Simms invented a plot against the King to try to gain a pardon ?
Did you knowthat the bulbs of Utah 's state flower , the Sego Lily , were an important food source for Native Americans and the Mormon pioneers ?
Did you knowthat Robert King High was mayor of Miami for ten years and unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Florida as a Democrat in 1966?
Did you knowthat the Ramban Synagogue , founded by Nahmanides in 1267 , is the oldest active synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem ?
Did you knowthat zookeeper Ram Brahma Sanyal ' s pioneering works on the scientific treatment of captive breeding led to his zoo 's hosting the first live birth in captivity of a Sumatran Rhinoceros , a feat not replicated for 112 years?
Did you knowthat the Palace in the Quinta da Boa Vista park in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , was inhabited by one King of Portugal and the two Brazilian Emperors ?
Did you knowthat free-diver Herbert Nitsch can hold his breath for over nine minutes?
Did you knowthat the Norte Chico civilization is the oldest known civilization in the Americas ?
Did you knowthat the fictional planet Zenn-La , homeworld of the Silver Surfer , has been destroyed at least three times?
Did you knowthat the Kaleva , a Finnish passenger plane carrying diplomatic post, was shot down by Soviet bombers in an act of aggression?
Did you knowthat even though the Mooney aircraft company bears Albert Mooney's name, upon his death he held no ownership in the company?
Did you knowthat in 2003-2004, ANA had to pay almost ¥ 100 m for flying too many passengers to Noto Airport ?
Did you knowthat the tyranny and the perceived dread of Gobindram Mitter , a British deputy in Calcutta , earned him a place in a Bengali rhyme?
Did you knowthat the Duchy of Veragua , granted to the grandson of Christopher Columbus , is a perfect square of land 25 leagues to a side?