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Did you knowthat former Congolese general Laurent Nkunda was a psychology student before helping Laurent-Désiré Kabila to overthrow Mobutu Sese Seko ?
Did you knowthat South African cricketer Geoff Griffin took a hat-trick in his second Test match , at Lord's in 1960, but was no-balled repeatedly for throwing in the same match and in the exhibition match that followed it, and never played Test cricket again?
Did you knowthat after the non-profit Internet service provider Public Netbase began supporting websites that opposed his political party , Austrian politician Jörg Haider accused the organisation of sponsoring child pornography ?
Did you knowthat Ming Dynasty general Gang Bing castrated himself and placed his severed organs under Emperor Yongle 's saddle to avoid being accused of sexual improprieties?
Did you knowthat Frank McEwen fostered the development of stone sculpture among untrained Shona artists in Rhodesia ?
Did you knowthat despite the destruction of his fleet by Greek fire , Igor I of Kiev managed to end the Rus'-Byzantine War (941) by signing a favourable trade treaty ?
Did you knowthat the Cessna 165 aircraft was instrumental in the recovery of the Cessna Aircraft Company in the years following the Great Depression ?
Did you knowthat " De Vogels Van Holland " was the first song ever performed at the Eurovision Song Contest ?
Did you knowthat despite holding the graves of Rudolf Nureyev , Andrei Tarkovsky and Ivan Bunin , Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery is not officially recognized as a landmark?
Did you know that Mansfield Cut Underwater Archeological District off the southern coast of Texas contains three Spanish shipwrecks caused by a 1554 storm?
Did you knowthat Winning Colors is one of only three fillies to have won the Kentucky Derby ?
Did you knowthat English Test cricketer Graham Roope was batting at the non-striker's end when Geoff Boycott reached his 100th first-class century , but not when John Edrich achieved the same record one month earlier, despite many claims to the contrary?
Did you knowthat Brahmo social reformer Dwarkanath Ganguly served a girls' boarding school in Kolkata , India as headmaster, teacher, dietician, guard, and janitor?
Did you knowthat after being captured by the Germans during World War II , Soviet soldier Baymirza Hayit joined the pro- Nazi Turkestan Legion and became a leading Turkestani nationalist?
Did you knowthat the Yulupa Creek watershed has been designated as critical habitat for two California endangered species ?
Did you knowthat due to a lack of bilingual inscriptions , most knowledge of the Etruscan language has been derived using the combinatorial method ?
Did you knowthat Alexander Kazhdan , the editor of the three-volume Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium , started his career as a provincial teacher in Ivanovo and Tula ?
Did you knowthat, in the early 1890s, the Berlin wine tavern Zum schwarzen Ferkel was the meeting place for a circle of mostly Scandinavian writers and artists that included August Strindberg and Edvard Munch ?
Did you knowthat the first military decoration to use a medal bar was the British Sutlej Medal ?
Did you knowthat Bulgarian physicist Stefan Marinov claimed to have created a perpetual motion machine using only two ballraces and a car battery ?
Did you knowthat the Buddhist scholar Jizang spent eleven years transcribing 2,000 copies of the Lotus Sutra by hand?
Did you knowthat Riley started as a bicycle manufacturer in Coventry in 1890, and produced its last motorcar in 1969?
Did you knowthat in his only armed clash with the police , bushranger James Alpin McPherson was unable to effectively return fire as his gun was loaded with blanks ?
Did you knowthat the endangered wildflower Lasthenia conjugens has successfully colonized new vernal pools with human assistance?
Did you knowthat Randall Thompson 's The Testament of Freedom was performed at a 1945 Carnegie Hall concert given in memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt ?
Did you knowthat Abu Isa founded the first Jewish sect since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem ?
Did you knowthat the crash of Crossair Flight LX498 was initially attributed to cell phone use, and led to bans of cell phones in airplanes in several countries?
Did you knowthat Nathaniel Butler introduced the first potato found by Europeans in North America to Jamestown, Virginia ?
Did you knowthat American attorney Nicole Seligman represented both Lt. Colonel Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings and President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial ?
Did you knowthat Singapore 's Museum Planning Area contains ten national monuments ?
Did you knowthat the Brush Creek confluence with Santa Rosa Creek was the site of a Pomo village , the antecedent of modern Santa Rosa, California ?
Did you knowthat the science and technology magazine Food Technology was originally a scientific journal ?
Did you knowthat the New Year's Eve 1963 snowstorm simultaneously set new daily, weekly, and monthly snowfall records for Huntsville , Alabama ?
Did you knowthat " Bitaqat Khub " is the first and only Eurovision Song Contest to have been performed in Arabic , and also the first and only entry to have represented an African country?
Did you knowthat Uli is a traditional type of design long practiced by the Igbo people of Nigeria ?
Did you knowthat Josquin des Prez 's Miserere , a motet of Psalm 51 , was hugely influential not only as a psalm setting, but as an example of how to approach the text of Infelix ego ?
Did you knowthat Soviet sniper Roza Shanina 's declaration "I shall return after the battle" would be paraphrased in a book title?
Did you knowthat Empress Zhang Yao'er refused to hand over control of China 's Chen Dynasty until threatened with violence, as she hoped her captive son would be freed to take the throne?
Did you knowthat "She Shoulda Said 'No'!" was partially inspired by the arrest of actress Lila Leeds , who later starred in the film?
Did you knowthat many subatomic particles are constantly decaying into more stable lower- mass particles?
Did you knowthat Henry Burrell was the first person to successfully keep the Platypus in captivity, in a habitat of his own design that he called a platypusary?
Did you knowthat Marmoutier Abbey in France was destroyed four times between its construction in the 4th Century and the raising of a private school on its latest ruins?
Did you knowthat political illustrator Steve Brodner has caricatured American Presidents going back to Richard Nixon ?
Did you knowthat the common mullein plant was burnt in France during celebrations on the second Sunday of Lent to protect against evil spirits and demons ?
Did you knowthat British teacher and MP Leah Manning organised the evacuation of almost 4,000 Basque children to Britain during the Spanish Civil War ?
Did you knowthat Buddhism in Austria is a legally recognized religion and has 10,402 followers according to the 2001 census ?
Did you knowthat although it was a hoax gone awry, scientists originally believed Drake's Plate of Brass to be genuine, based on initial metallurgical studies?
Did you knowthat the NTSB recommended installing event recorders on grade crossing signals after the 1999 Bourbonnais train accident ?
Did you knowthat Austrian entrepreneur Richard Lugner has been nicknamed Mörtel (" Mortar ", as in masonry ) by the media?
Did you know that the graves of 13 Britons and a Jamaican trained at Royal Canadian Air Force Station Mount Hope during World War II , are still maintained in a local churchyard in Glanbrook , Ontario ?
Did you knowthat Taum Sauk Mountain and its neighbors in the St. Francois range are believed to be one of the few spots in the central US that may never have been submerged under ancient seas?
Did you knowthat the hunchbacked marionette Karagiozis uses mischievous and crude ways to find money and feed his family in the traditional Greek theatre of shadows?
Did you knowthat Father José María Arizmendiarrieta escaped a death sentence after the Spanish Civil War and went on to found the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation , the world's largest co-operative ?
Did you knowthat Australian author Duncan Ball worked as an industrial chemist and as an editor before he became a full-time author?
Did you knowthat Aer Arann is the only scheduled airline that uses Waterford Airport , which lies close to Tramore Bay in the Republic of Ireland ?
Did you knowthat Takashi Sakai , a General of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II , was sentenced to death on August 27 , 1946 for atrocities committed against civilians and surrendered soldiers in Hong Kong ?
Did you knowthat the Des Moines Register , "The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon," ended its tradition of printing the sports sections on peach -colored paper in 1999 ?
Did you knowthat in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology , Ness' son Conchobar mac Nessa was brought up as the son of the druid Cathbad , although the true father may have been her lover, Fachtna Fáthach , the High King of Ireland ?
Did you knowthat hose clamps are sometimes used as a more permanent version of duct tape , and can be found mounting signs and holding together emergency home repairs ?
Did you knowthat the Blue Eagles are one of only two professional helicopter aerobatics teams in the world?
Did you knowthat Labour 's Alfred Dobbs was the shortest-serving post-war British Member of Parliament – just one day, before his death in 1945 ?
Did you knowthat 19th century photographer Napoleon Sarony reportedly paid stage actress Sarah Bernhardt 1500 USD to pose for his camera, which would be equivalent to more than 20,000 USD today?
Did you knowthat Salt is an ancient agricultural town in west-central Jordan , famous for the quality of its grape harvest , and therefore speculated to be the root for the English word sultana ?
Did you knowthat folk singer / guitarist Nic Jones suffered multiple broken bones and brain damage after a serious car accident in February 1982 ?
Did you knowthat Labour Member of Parliament Ellen Wilkinson organised the 1936 Jarrow March of 200 unemployed men and women from Tyneside to London to demand jobs?
Did you knowthat L'Origine du monde , Gustave Courbet 's most provocative painting , remained in the privacy of its successive owners for almost 130 years before entering the musée d'Orsay ?
Did you knowthat Mexican pilot Alberto Braniff was the first pilot to fly a plane over Mexico City ?
Did you knowthat the British ice hockey team The Blackburn Hawks are often referred to as the Blackhawks , and were briefly called the Lancashire Hawks ?
Did you knowthat the Sydney Riot of 1879 was one of international cricket 's earliest riots ?
Did you knowthe fire from the Weyauwega derailment on March 4 1996 displayed fireballs up to 300 feet (90 m ) high?
Did you knowthat Repenomamus may have been the largest mammal in the Cretaceous period and is the only mammal known to have eaten non-avian dinosaurs ?
Did you knowthat BBC television series Watchdog helped uncover the Hoover Company "free flights" scam?
Did you knowthat the Chicken's Neck is a narrow strip of land 24 km in width connecting India to its north-eastern states ?
Did you knowthat the men's adventure genre of pulp magazine often featured damsels in distress menaced by Nazis ?
Did you knowthat melasma is a skin hyperpigmentation commonly affecting pregnant women that is caused by the overproduction of melanin ?
Did you knowthat the racy George Michael song I Want Your Sex touted monogamy instead of promiscuity ?
Did you knowthat Lockheed Martin Aeronautics , a major division of Lockheed Martin , is manufacturer of some of the world's most advanced military aircraft ?
Did you knowthat Jeopardy! 's impact on culture has earned it references or parodies in no less than 64 feature films , and appearances on more than 10 television show episodes?
Did you knowthat Zentatsu Richard Baker was an influential American Zen priest who played a leading role in founding Tassajara , the first Buddhist training monastery outside of Asia ?
Did you know that the Pushkar Fair is the world's largest camel / cattle fair?
Did you knowthat Justice Leila Seth was the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and the first woman to become Chief Justice in India ?
Did you knowthat before building his first railroad steam locomotive , in 1832 , Matthias W. Baldwin was apprenticed as a jeweler and devised and patented a method for applying gold plating?
Did you knowthat the U.S. federal government sold the disputed Erie Triangle region to Pennsylvania in 1792 so that state would have a freshwater port?
Did you knowthat Bewitched actress Elizabeth Montgomery made her acting debut as a regular on her father's popular series Robert Montgomery Presents in 1952 ?
Did you knowthat Quebec -born singer Alys Robi was subjected to a lobotomy in 1952 , following a mental breakdown ?
Did you knowthat a Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was used in the 2004 movie The Flight of the Phoenix ?
Did you knowthat the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad's plan to expand into Wyoming 's Powder River Basin would be the largest new railroad construction in the United States since the American Civil War ?
Did you knowthat the Great Black Hawk is a bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles , hawks and Old World vultures ?
Did you knowthat businessman John King was Chairman of British Airways from 1981 and was successfully sued by Richard Branson for libel as a result of BA's dirty tricks against Virgin Atlantic ?
Did you knowthat Wai-Wai is a popular noodle -like snack in Nepal , Sikkim and in northern parts of West Bengal ?
Did you knowthat The Vampyre was a short novel first published on April 1 , 1819 in parts in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution "A Tale by Lord Byron "?
Did you knowthat in October 1950 , the U.S. National Guard bombed the small town of Jayuya , Puerto Rico , where Blanca Canales led a revolt?
Did you knowthat Semmering is a mountain pass in the Northern Limestone Alps connecting Lower Austria and Styria ?
Did you knowthat the Zippe-type centrifuge , named after Gernot Zippe , is a device designed to collect uranium-235 ?
Did you knowthat a major milestone in the decline of Buddhism in India came in 1193 when the great university at Nalanda was destroyed by Turkish Muslim raiders?
Did you knowthat Kordylewski clouds are large concentrations of dust that orbit Earth at the distance of the Moon ?
Did you knowthat Warton in Lancashire is a historic village famous for its contribution to the UK aerospace industry?
Did you knowthat an amateur baseball tournament held on August 16 , 1933 in the Christie Pits , ended with Nazi -sympathisers unveiling a flag depicting a swastika ?
Did you knowthat during the "dawn-to-dusk" publicity run for the CB&Q's Pioneer Zephyr on May 26 1934 , the train reached a top speed of 112.5 mph (181 kph )?
Did you knowthat Ulysses S. Grant awarded Bolama to Portugal , who made it the first capital of Portuguese Guinea ?
Did you knowthat when he was promoted to president of the Great Northern Railway in 1919 , Ralph Budd was the youngest American railroad president up to that date?
Did you knowthat Boxcar is an Australian electronic band that sometimes performed wearing gas masks ?
Did you knowthat in the history of neurology , Ancient Egyptians described the effect of high transection of the spinal cord in humans ?
Did you knowthat empty nest syndrome is a form of depression that affects parents when a child leaves home?
Did you knowthat Sue Rubin, the subject of the documentary film Autism Is a World , was considered mentally challenged until she learned to communicate with a keyboard ?
Did you know that Representative Edith Nourse Rogers sponsored the G.I. Bill and the legislation that created the Women's Army Corps before becoming the longest-serving woman in the U.S. Congress ?
Did you know that The Patty Duke Show challenged the scope of special effects on television in the 1960s , with Patty Duke playing two roles?
Did you know that John Frederick Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset was one of the most noted cricketers of the mid-to-late 18th century?
Did you knowthat Ferdinandea was a volcanic island near Sicily which was claimed by four countries when it appeared in 1831 , but was destroyed by erosion less than a year later?
Did you knowthat Andy the Clown performed at Chicago White Sox games for 30 years, outlasting an attempt to replace him with two new mascots ?
Did you knowthat Arthur Ronald Nall Nall-Cain, 2nd Baron Brocket —grandfather of British TV celebrity Lord Brocket —was a known Nazi sympathiser?
Did you knowthat Devils & Dust , the upcoming folk album from Bruce Springsteen , will be his nineteenth released album?
Did you knowthat a Pd/H 2 electrode is a reference electrode similar to a standard hydrogen electrode (with platinum ), but with the added ability to absorb molecular hydrogen ?
Did you knowthat Hamilton Palace in Scotland was lent for use as a naval hospital during World War I , by Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton ?
Did you knowthat Obolon CJSC , the  largest Ukrainian brewer based in Kiev , was the first private company of the independent Ukraine?
Did you knowthat Leonid Kadeniuk , the first astronaut of the independent Ukraine , made his first space flight on NASA's space shuttle Columbia in 1997 , and had been training for such a mission since 1976 ?
Did you knowthat Godfrey Ho , a Hong-Kong based filmmaker , has been credited under more than 20 different pseudonyms ?
Did you knowthat the clapping game Mary Mack may refer to the Battle of Hampton Roads ?
Did you knowthat scotopic sensitivity syndrome is a form of dyslexia which makes it very difficult for a person to read black text on white paper?
Did you knowthat Playland , often called Rye Playland,  is America's only government owned and operated amusement park ?
Did you knowthat faculty members at the Stanford Institute for International Studies include Condoleezza Rice and William Perry ?
Did you knowthat a fire-control system is a computer which is designed to assist a weapon system in hitting its target(s)?
Did you knowthat girls in Poland wear red lingerie underneath their dresses during a studniówka ( high school ball )?
Did you knowthat the poorly studied Evermannellidae family, or Sabertooth fish , have oversized, inward curving teeth suggestive of the sabertooth cats ' teeth?
Did you knowthat the Asiatic Society of Bombay possesses one of the only two surviving original copies of Dante 's The Divine Comedy ?
Did you knowthat rugby player Wayne Shelford suffered a ripped scrotum during an All Blacks match against France ?
Did you knowthat the film David and Lisa , shot in black-and-white for just $183,000, was nominated for the 1962 Academy Award for Directing ?
Did you knowthat Reginald Hill's novel "A Clubbable Woman" was his first story about Dalziel and Pascoe ?
Did you knowthat tumor markers are chemical substances found in blood that arise from the presence of cancerous tissues ?
Did you knowthat the Squirrel Nut Zippers were influenced by the energetic sounds of 1920s hot jazz ?
Did you knowthat Aquarius is the world's only underwater research facility?
Did you knowthat Elecia Battle , who claimed to have a 162 million dollar lottery winning ticket, is a professional female boxer ?
Did you knowthat the film Dangerous Minds was based on the true story by the high school teacher Louanne Johnson, My Posse Don't Do Homework ?
Did you knowthat ignorantia juris non excusat is Latin for the legal doctrine , "ignorance of the law is no excuse"?
Did you knowthat medieval pilgrims on the Way of St James would join up at the French Basque town of Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port before crossing the Pyrenees ?
Did you knowthat in the animated Laff-a-Lympics , non-competing Hanna-Barbera characters such as Fred Flintstone and Jabberjaw made appearances as guest announcers ?
Did you know that professional wrestler Gorilla Monsoon grew a long beard and billed himself as a terrifying giant from Manchuria as a heel gimmick ?
Did you know that U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen received the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact , which contained an understanding between Hitler and Stalin to split Central Europe , from German diplomat Hans von Herwarth ?
Did you knowthat Nancy Olson was nominated for an Oscar for playing the "good" girl in Sunset Boulevard shortly after being considered for the role of the temptress Delilah in the film Samson and Delilah ?
Did you know that the only international cricket in South Africa between 1971 and 1981 comprised 6 private tours and 1 women's test match , because no test match playing nation was willing to tour the country because of its apartheid policy?
Did you know that in the ionization chamber of a smoke detector , ions strike smoke particles and are neutralized, and this drop in current triggers the alarm ?
Did you know that the Saladin tithe was levied in England in 1188 to help finance the Third Crusade ?
Did you know that Mary Magdalene realized that Jesus had returned from the dead after his crucifixion in the Bible verse John 20:16 ?
Did you know that the Fox television series Herman's Head used characters to represent different aspect of the main character's psyche , similar to Eric Berne 's concept of transactional analysis ?
Did you knowthat tusk shells are a class of marine mollusks that resemble elephants ' tusks , and were used by the natives of the Pacific Northwest as wampum ?
Did you knowthat the tangent piano is a rare keyboard instrument that fuses the sound of the harpsichord and piano ?
Did you knowthat in 1944 , Gwethalyn Graham was the first Canadian writer to reach number one on The New York Times bestseller list , with a novel depicting an interfaith romance between a Protestant woman and a Jewish man?
Did you knowthat the earliest record of Gaelic handball is the 1527 town statutes of Galway , Ireland , which forbade the playing of ball games against the walls?
Did you knowthat the 1995 documentary film Anne Frank Remembered contains the only known film footage of the young diarist ?
Did you know that the Beatles ' song " Polythene Pam " was partly inspired by a Liverpool fan who ate polyethylene ?
Did you knowthat the Fairy Queen is the longest-operating steam locomotive in the world?
Did you knowthat Fastnet Rock , a small clay - slate island with quartz veins, is the southernmost point of Ireland ?
Did you knowthat in the court case Trop v. Dulles , the U.S. Supreme Court decided that it was unconstitutional for the government to cancel the citizenship of a U.S. citizen as a punishment ?
Did you know that Nica de Koenigswarter of the Rothschild family was known as the " bebop baroness " for her patronage of jazz musicians, including Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker ?
Did you knowthat King George V of the United Kingdom was a member of the Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George" ?
Did you knowthat C is for Cookie is a song by Joe Raposo , first performed on Sesame Street by Cookie Monster on March 28 , 1972 ?
Did you knowthat Loys Bourgeois , a French Renaissance composer, was sent to jail for changing a few notes in a hymn tune?
Did you knowthat the Swedish government canceled a short film about AIDS that they commissioned from film director Roy Andersson because he had made it "too dark in its message"?
Did you knowthat the world's first geothermal power station was built in Larderello , Italy in 1911 ?
Did you knowthat the eighth century bishop and saint Rupert of Salzburg set up his base in the old Roman town of Juvavum and renamed it Salzburg ?
Did you knowthat Alvin Adams founded Adams and Company, forerunner to Adams Express Company, to haul express freight shipments by rail in 1840 ?
Did you knowthat an automatic number plate recognition system uses optical character recognition to read the license plates on vehicles?
Did you knowthat, in the 1996 film The Pompatus of Love , the main characters sit around discussing the meaning of the word " pompatus "?
Did you knowthat Captain Alexander Hood of the Royal Navy was killed in battle between his ship Mars and the French Hercule in 1798 ?