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Did you knowthat the Filipino special court Sandiganbayan holds equivalent rank to the Philippine Court of Appeals ?
Did you knowthat there are only two extant populations of the Tiburon Jewelflower , both on the Tiburon Peninsula of the San Francisco Bay Area ?
Did you knowthat Macassan trepangers traded sea cucumbers with Indigenous Australians generations before the arrival of European people ?
Did you knowthat Prussian military bandmaster Franz von Eckert is credited with composing the harmony to the national anthems of both Japan and the Empire of Korea ?
Did you knowthat the See of Sardis , an episcopal see once held by Melito , continued to be held by titular archbishops for centuries after the Ottoman Turks conquered Sardis ?
Did you knowthat the people of Assam comprise three major ethnic groups: Tibeto-Burman , Mon-Khmer , and Indo-Aryan ?
Did you knowthat Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley was a German monarchist who murdered Bavarian socialist leader Kurt Eisner on a sidewalk in Munich in 1919 ?
Did you knowthat Hortus Malabaricus , the earliest printed treatise on the flora in Asia , contains the first instances of Malayalam types being used for printing?
Did you knowthat Stegosaurus , one of the most distinctive dinosaurs , has been widely depicted in popular culture ?
Did you knowthat Madeline La Framboise , a fur trader of mixed French and Native American descent, was Michigan 's first successful businesswoman, and is buried beneath the altar of St. Anne's church on Mackinac Island ?
Did you knowthat Andrew Truxal was president of Hood College and Anne Arundel Community College as well as an ordained minister of the Evangelical and Reformed Church ?
Did you knowthat an unknown quantity of Columbian Exposition half dollars were used as collateral against loans made to the Columbian exposition and when the exposition failed to repay the debits, the banks dumped the coins into circulation?
Did you knowthat it is a Georgia Tech tradition to steal the "T" from Tech Tower ?
Did you knowthat the remains of the Lviv High Castle in Lviv , Ukraine , was used as the foundation for a kurgan , constructed in memory of the 300-anniversary of the Union of Lublin ?
Did you knowthat the Swedish military medal För tapperhet i fält , awarded for valor in the field , was last received by a Swedish gendarme serving in Persia in 1915 ?
Did you knowthat the Carron , a river in the Scottish Highlands only about 23 km long, has given its name to a type of naval cannon , a line of bathtubs , two warships and an island in the Southern Hemisphere ?
Did you knowthat the two fundamental reference points in the rowing stroke are the catch where the oar blade is placed in the water , and the extraction (also known as the 'finish' or the 'release') where the oar blade is removed from the water?
Did you knowthat Lavastorm , a web design company during the dot-com bubble , split into two companies focusing on revenue assurance and mobile games ?
Did you knowthat the Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses , located on the eastern slope of Mount Etna , holds the world record for the "greatest tree girth ever", and is also the largest and oldest known chestnut tree?
Did you knowthat Gesta Tancredi , one of the most important contemporary histories of the First Crusade , was not translated into English until 2005?
Did you knowthat conductor and Beethoven scholar Elliot Forbes led the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society on a tour around the world in 1967 ?
Did you knowthat the Moscow Water Dog , developed as a water rescue dog , preferred to bite drowning people instead of saving them?
Did you knowthat honolulu is a pocket billiards game which forbids straight-in shots, requiring all balls to be made indirectly, through banks , combinations , caroms or kick shots ?
Did you knowthat Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi , a bomb-maker and member of Jemaah Islamiyah , was responsible for the Rizal Day bombings in the Philippines that killed 22 people in 2000?
Did you knowthat the 25 species of Goodyera comprise just one of over 800 genera of orchids ?
Did you knowthat Donnie Young , the police officer whose murder sparked an international controversy, was a police medal of honor recipient?
Did you knowthat the Thornapple River has 5 dams , including one in Ada bought from Consumers Power for a dollar by a river property owners association?
Did you knowthat Irfan Pathan , the only bowler to take a Test hat-trick in the first over of a match, grew up playing cricket inside a Baroda mosque where his father was the muezzin , and could not afford equipment until his domestic team furnished it, at age 15?
Did you knowthat the 1931 murders of five Japanese people in Hong Kong during anti-Japanese riots were cited as a casus belli for the Shanghai War of 1932 ?
Did you knowthat the "Hymn" for tenor in the cantata , Hodie , by Ralph Vaughan Williams was composed because the originator of the part asked that he might be given more to sing?
Did you knowthat the summer stock theater at Caledonia State Park in Pennsylvania regularly featured actress Jean Stapleton , well-known for her role as Edith Bunker on the 70's TV classic All in the Family ?
Did you knowthat the Power Transition theory is used in political science to predict future wars between great powers and a superpower as it states that war is a cyclic event and is inevitable?
Did you know that Bayajidda , the mythical ancestor of the Hausa people of West Africa , is said to have fathered three children with three different women?
Did you knowthat New York Mets pitcher Chuck Estrada picked up the win in Tom Seaver 's major league debut ?
Did you knowthat the Polish 4th Rifle Division was the only Polish military unit that fought in the Russian Civil War and returned to Poland undefeated?
Did you knowthat the original title of the Christmas carol " While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks " is "Song of the Angels at the Nativity of our Blessed Saviour"?
Did you knowthat Salomón Ibarra Mayorga , the lyricist of the Nicaraguan national anthem , was exiled to Honduras for his political activities but was reburied in Nicaragua after his death?
Did you knowthat Safaitic inscriptions, graffiti written by Bedouin in the Syrian Desert between the 1st century BC and the 4th century AD, can be written boustrophedon - from left to right then vice versa?
Did you knowthat American composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich was the first woman to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts in composition and to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music ?
Did you knowthat John G. Downey , Governor of California during the American Civil War , was the state's only foreign-born governor until the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger ?
Did you knowthat, unlike normal lithium ion batteries , the lithium iron phosphate battery does not explode under extreme conditions?
Did you knowthat Ron Powers , co-author of the New York Times Bestseller Flags of Our Fathers (2000), was the first television critic to win the Pulitzer Prize ?
Did you knowthat the mathematician Alexander Kronrod thought female computing staff members were more accurate than males and was known for helping terminal cancer patients?
Did you knowthat a payaos is a type of fish aggregating device used in Southeast Asia , particularly in the Philippines ?
Did you knowthat the cope given to the Rt. Revd. David Urquhart upon his inauguration as the ninth Bishop of Birmingham in November 2006 featured the emblems of Aston Villa and Birmingham City , the two most prominent football teams of the city?
Did you knowthat Oliver Smith is the youngest-ever local party president in British political history ?
Did you knowthat The Breakfast (formerly The Psychedelic Breakfast ) had four songs from their self-titled DIY studio album featured on the MTV series Undressed in 1999 ?
Did you knowthat the writer August Silberstein was sentenced to five years' jail in 1854 for writing satire about the Austro-Hungarian Empire , but was pardoned after one year?
Did you knowthat the Henschel Hs 123 was a sesquiplane dive bomber and close-support attack aircraft flown by the Luftwaffe during the Spanish Civil War and the early part of World War II?
Did you knowthat Alexander Macklin and James McIlroy successfully amputated Perce Blackborrow 's gangrenous toes while stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica ?
Did you knowthat the Cossack victory at the Battle of Konotop remains a classic example of the battle won and a war lost?
Did you knowthat Swedish disco singer-songwriter Bimbo Boy took his stage name from starlets that the media identifies as bimbos , even though the term himbo would have been more technically correct?
Did you knowthat geologist T.H. Clark retired from McGill University in Quebec , Canada , at the age of 100 , after teaching for 69 years?
Did you knowthat Just a Gigolo (1978), David Bowie 's second major film, was so poorly received by critics that the singer quipped, "It was my 32 Elvis Presley movies rolled into one"?
Did you knowthat noted labor historian Selig Perlman is the uncle of author Judith Martin , better known as Miss Manners ?
Did you knowthat the First Engineer Bridge in St. Petersburg , Russia , named after the nearby Engineer Castle , is one of the most decorative of the city's more than 500 bridges ?
Did you knowthat on November 22 , 2006 , at least ten people were killed in a burning leather factory in India after being trapped behind locked emergency exits ?
Did you knowthat King's College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne left Durham University in 1963 to form the new Newcastle University , following a narrowly defeated proposal to rename the university the "University of Durham and Newcastle" in 1952 ?
Did you knowthat in 1932 Paramahansa Yogananda urged young people to pool resources, buy land, and create World Brotherhood Colonies , nearly 40 years before the intentional community movement of the late 1960s?
Did you knowthat Emily Helen Butterfield was Michigan's first licensed female architect , and designed many college fraternity and sorority crests thanks to her interest in heraldry ?
Did you knowthat Birger Dahlerus was a Swedish businessman and friend of Hermann Göring , who made numerous trips between Germany and England in 1939 in an attempt to avert the Second World War ?
Did you know that the Laguna de Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California , has several endemic endangered species and is the second-largest freshwater wetland in Northern California ?
Did you knowthat the Singer's Bridge , designed by architect Vasily Stasov , was called the Yellow Bridge and is the third-widest bridge in Saint Petersburg , Russia ?
Did you knowthat the 180- degree turnout , or rotation of the leg, featured in ballet allows for greater extension of the leg, especially when raising it to the side and rear?
Did you knowthat the treasure of Tillia tepe , Afghanistan , was re-discovered after it was thought to have been destroyed by the Taleban , and is now on display at the Musée Guimet in Paris ?
Did you knowthat the effects of Hurricane Isabel in North Carolina were the worst from a hurricane in the state since that of 1999's Hurricane Floyd , and included US$ 450 million in damage and three deaths?
Did you know that American composer Alla Pavlova lived close to ground zero and dedicated her first symphonic work to the memory of the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks ?
Did you know that the 1983 text adventure game Snowball , the first of the Silicon Dreams trilogy , contained over 7,000 locations?
Did you knowthat the Spenser Somers Foundation is named after a student from Edina , Minnesota who suffered from Ewing's sarcoma ?
Did you knowthat megaherbs on the uninhabited New Zealand sub-antarctic islands almost became extinct by overbrowsing by livestock introduced to support shipwrecked sailors ?
Did you knowthat in the Battle of Rhium , Phormio used his climatic knowledge of the Corinthian Gulf to help defeat a Spartan fleet that outnumbered his Athenians more than 2 to 1?
Did you knowthat Buzz Holmstrom was the first person to row alone all the way down the Colorado River from Green River, Wyoming to the Boulder Dam ?
Did you knowthat the Nanai language , despite having only a few thousand speakers left, continues to contribute loanwords to languages with even fewer speakers, such as Udege ?
Did you knowthat the Printing Presses and Publications Act gives the Home Affairs Minister of Malaysia "absolute discretion" in granting and revoking publication and printing permits?
Did you knowthat Corporal Mark Wright will be posthumously awarded the George Cross for entering an unmarked minefield in Helmand Province , Afghanistan , attempting to save other injured soldiers?
Did you knowthat Estonians defeated invading Sweden in 1220 at the Battle of Lihula ?
Did you knowthat Kaissa , the first world computer chess champion in 1974 was a Soviet creation?
Did you knowthat the steviol glycosides found in stevia plants are natural sweeteners up to 300 times sweeter than sugar ?
Did you knowthat Pasillo is the "national music" of Ecuador but originated from the Viennese Waltz ?
Did you knowthat shortly before Christmas 1942 , an alleged Nazi spy was captured by the Garda in Castletownroche , a small Irish village?
Did you knowthat Eugène de Beauharnais returned the territories of the Napoleonic Italy to provisional Austrian rule in 1814 by the Convention of Mantua ?
Did you knowthat cowboy pool is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards with more standard pocket billiards characteristics, and requires a player to intentionally scratch in order to win?
Did you knowthat Ralph Bigland worked as a cheesemaker across Europe before becoming an officer of arms and eventually Garter Principal King of Arms ?
Did you knowthat the phenomenon of Renting-A-Russian sometimes refers to getting a male Russian ice dancer to country hop to pair with a female figure skater from another country?
Did you knowthat Richard Tregaskis , American war correspondent and author best known for his first-hand account Guadalcanal Diary ,  was almost killed in Italy in 1943 when shrapnel cut though his helmet and penetrated his skull?
Did you knowthat Guido Verbeck , a Dutch -born foreign advisor in the Meiji government of Japan from 1859-1898  arrived as a missionary after almost dying of cholera while working as a civil engineer in Arkansas ?
Did you knowthat Göteborgs BK , founded in 1875 , is the oldest football club in Sweden known by name, and only played Swedish football , a local variant?
Did you knowthat Skowronek was an Arabian stallion who became a lead horse in the Crabbet Arabian Stud ?
Did you knowthat Charles Dickens , Wilkie Collins , Elizabeth Gaskell and Adelaide Anne Procter each wrote a chapter of the  short story " A House to Let "?
Did you knowthat Spanish government minister and European Commissioner Loyola de Palacio deflected speculation that she was an Opus Dei member, noting that she was named after Ignatius Loyola , founder of the Society of Jesus ?
Did you knowthat the ancient Chinese sect known as the Way of the Celestial Master established a theocratic state in Sichuan province during the 2nd century CE ?
Did you know that the freeware amateur adventure game 5 Days a Stranger and its sequel won 5 and 2 Adventure Game Studio awards respectively?
Did you knowthat " Fast as You Can " is Fiona Apple 's only top forty single in the United Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat Shreve, Crump & Low , North America 's oldest jeweler , built prestigious trophies such as the Davis Cup and the Cy Young Award ?
Did you knowthat American composer Stephen Paulus gained fame with a 1982 opera based on The Postman Always Rings Twice , one of his nine operas?
Did you know that the world's longest lasting lightbulb is 105 years old and has burnt continuously since 1976 ?
Did you knowthat in 1920 a Secret Court , headed by university President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and the acting Dean, was convened at Harvard University to rid the school of homosexuals , resulting in nine expulsions?
Did you knowthat the creators of the Alcazaba fortification in Málaga , Spain , reused materials from nearby Roman ruins?
Did you knowthat Corporal Bryan Budd is being posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in Helmand Province , Afghanistan , only the 13th such award since the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat the Yerazi —an Azeri clan that originated in modern-day Armenia but left before the Nagorno-Karabakh War —have dominated politics in Azerbaijan since Soviet times?
Did you knowthat the fictional radio listeners Dave and Sue exemplify the target audience for BBC Local Radio ?
Did you knowthat Theodore Roosevelt Lake , a large artificial reservoir located along the Salt River , is the largest lake located entirely within the U.S. state of Arizona ?
Did you knowthat the slogan Juan Valdez drinks Costa Rican coffee , popular on bumper stickers in Costa Rica , prompted a lawsuit from Federación Nacional de Cafeteros de Colombia ?
Did you knowthat the Columbian Issue , the first U.S. commemorative postage stamps , included the first female portrait on American postage — Spain 's Queen Isabella ?
Did you knowthat Romania 's Piteşti prison housed the largest and most intensive form of brainwashing through torture ever carried out in the Eastern bloc ?
Did you knowthat the American singer Mary Fahl's first full-length solo album contains a song first written over 800 years ago in the extinct language of Mozarabic ?
Did you knowthat Jaime Navarro was the opposing and winning pitcher for the inaugural Texas Rangers game at The Ballpark in Arlington in 1994 ?
Did you knowthat Salvatore Cardinal Pappalardo broke the code of omertà in 1992, becoming the first senior Sicilian clergyman of the Catholic Church to openly condemn the Mafia ?
Did you knowthat Arnold Miller defeated W.A. "Tony" Boyle in 1972 for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America after Boyle murdered union reformer Joseph Yablonski ?
Did you knowthat the video game Daze Before Christmas allows the player to transform into "Anti-Claus", a blue-suited, devilish looking version of Santa Claus ?
Did you knowthat neoclassical Staszic Palace in Warsaw was temporarily given a Russo-Byzantine redesign upon Poland 's partition ?
Did you knowthat Pulau Sejahat was a British military encampment in Singapore during World War II whose gun batteries were never used against Japanese invaders?
Did you knowthat the Silesian -born scholar Heimann Hariton Tiktin , one of the founders of modern Romanian linguistics was initially destined to become a rabbi ?
Did you knowthat Howard Zahniser died a few months before President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law, after spending eight years authoring and promoting it?
Did you knowthat those who fear bees should know that bee smokers are useless when fending off bee swarms ?
Did you knowthat the Illiana Expressway is a proposed Interstate -standard tollway connecting northeastern Illinois and northwestern Indiana ?
Did you knowthat the coat of arms of Brook Watson featured his leg which he had lost in a shark attack?
Did you knowthat Vincenzo Ragusa was an Italian sculptor hired by the Meiji government of Japan from 1876 to 1882 to introduce Western art techniques in order to revive Japan's own ancient sculptural arts ?
Did you knowthat the 1870 poem " The Heathen Chinee ," written by Bret Harte as a satire of racial prejudice , was publicly embraced as a mockery of Chinese immigrants , and shaped anti-Chinese sentiment in the U.S. more than any other work at the time?
Did you knowthat Kenneth Cummins was one of the last five confirmed British surviving veterans of World War I , having served in the Royal and Merchant Navies in the First and Second World War respectively?
Did you knowthat between the 10th and 14th centuries, the Indian state of Karnataka was ruled by the Hoysala Empire ?
Did you knowthat Farrer Park is where Singapore 's first racecourse was built and the island's aviation history began?
Did you knowthat one ship had to deal with Hurricane Tanya twice in two different areas of the North Atlantic Ocean five days apart in 1995?
Did you knowthat although 99.8% of the population is Muslim , there is no official religion in Turkey ?
Did you knowthat platypus venom is delivered by small spurs on the male's hind limbs?
Did you knowthat Starkad was a legendary Norse hero blessed by Odin but cursed by Thor ?
Did you knowthat one of the finest khachkar memorial stones is located at Goshavank Monastery in Armenia , the place where the law of Armenia was first codified by Mkhitar Gosh in the late 12th and early 13th century?
Did you knowthat the high-pitched quack of the Call Duck was used to lure wild ducks into funnel traps ?
Did you knowthat Roland Winters , who played the role of Charlie Chan in six films, was just over 6 months younger than Keye Luke , who played his son?
Did you knowthat SPLA-Nasir was a breakaway faction of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army that aligned with the government in the Second Sudanese Civil War ?
Did you knowthat an impact wrench can deliver very high torque to a fastener, while only requiring minimal effort from the user, and is one of the most commonly used air tools ?
Did you knowthat Jason Bedrick , a New Hampshire state representative , is that state's first Orthodox Jewish elected official?
Did you knowthat as a teenager , Chiri Yukie prepared the first Japanese translations of several of the yukar sagas of the Ainu people ?
Did you knowthat the Vedic Mathematics genre was revived after Hindu Shankaracharya Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthaji Maharaja rediscovered it in the form of sixteen sutras ?
Did you knowthat the Department of State Lands is one of Oregon 's oldest government agencies ?
Did you knowthat on October 5 1914 , a French Voisin III pilot scored the first air-to-air kill of World War I ?
Did you knowthat Broadway actress Evelyn Hoey was found shot dead in the bedroom of oil heir Henry H. Rogers 's grandson in 1935?
Did you knowthat Julien Wiener is the only Jewish Australian Test cricketer ?
Did you knowthat in the Oregon ghost town of Boyd only the wheat fields are still operational?
Did you knowthat Operation Show Me How was a major Interpol narcotics bust concerning the transporting of heroin within the covers of the children's book Show-Me-How-I-Can-Paint ?
Did you knowthat Peter Gadsden , the 652nd Lord Mayor of London , was born in Canada and became a Companion of the Order of Australia ?
Did you knowthat towns given specific meteorological warnings during storms are known as breakpoints ?
Did you knowthat snowmelt from the Carhuasanta travels farther than water from any other source to reach the mouth of the Amazon River ?
Did you knowthat Henry Percy was killed in a battle against Henry IV of England , whom he had helped to gain the Crown in a coup d'état ?
Did you knowthat former NASCAR chairman Bill France, Jr. once used a mule while helping with the construction of Daytona International Speedway ?
Did you knowthat astrophilately is the area of philately connected with human spaceflight ?
Did you knowthat Article 10 of the Constitution of Malaysia guarantees citizens certain rights on condition that these rights are not restricted by the government?
Did you knowthat Graham Creek in California was a seasonal hunting and gathering ground for prehistoric Pomo and Wappo people?
Did you knowthat Ye Htoon was the final director-general of the Burmese Scout Movement before the military junta disbanded it in 1964 ?
Did you knowthat U.S. judge Charles Crookham held a mock funeral for Roman numerals when they were retired from use in state pleadings ?
Did you knowthat venturi scrubbers use the named effect explained by Bernoulli's principle to remove unwanted particles from an exhaust stream ?
Did you knowthat Mafioso Totò Riina eulogised Giuseppe Calderone as a great peacemaker, despite having been allegedly responsible for ordering his death?
Did you knowthat six Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres are charged with globally tracking tropical cyclones ?
Did you knowthat the support that Australian author Mary Grant Bruce gave to racial stereotypes and social Darwinism in her books was redacted from later editions?