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Did you knowthat The Most Dangerous Game has been repeatedly used as source material by television shows like Gilligan's Island ?
Did you knowthat Fort Caroline , near present-day Jacksonville, Florida , was the first permanent French colony in North America ?
Did you knowthat the Henrician Articles , passed in 1573 , laid out the principles of government in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
Did you knowthat June and Jennifer Gibbons communicated via a twin language?
Did you knowthat the Schneider CA1 was the first French tank ?
Did you knowthat Pale Flax may be an evolutionary predecessor to Common Flax , from which the fiber is derived?
Did you knowthat the lowest ranks in the Norwegian military are the menig (Army), flysoldat (Air Force) and Utskrevet menig (Navy)?
Did you knowthat China's peaceful rise is the current non-threatening foreign policy doctrine of the People's Republic of China ?
Did you knowthat gravitational collapse is a leading cause of star death?
Did you knowthat the history of the periodic table records at least two pre- Mendeleevian attempts to organize the elements ?
Did you knowthat weather lore is essentially folk meteorology and varies widely in its veracity?
Did you knowthat the British judicial practice of Quarter Sessions existed until 1972?
Did you knowthat Beijing opera did not originate in Beijing but in the Chinese provinces of Anhui and Hubei ?
Did you knowthat the California Manroot has 5cm round fruits covered in 1cm spines, and a bitter taste?
Did you knowthat the Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier contains the remains of a Canadian soldier who died in France during World War I ?
Did you knowthat Tamale, Ghana obtains its electricity from Akosombo Dam in the central Ghana ?
Did you knowthat American Miranda rights are named for Ernesto Miranda ?
Did you knowthat the Byzantine Senate survived from the end of the Roman Empire up until the time of the Fourth Crusade ?
Did you knowthat Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's opera seria Idomeneo is set on the island of Crete following the Trojan War ?
Did you knowthat the Scarlet King Snake can be distinguished from the Coral Snake by the mnemonic "red and yellow, kill a fellow" and "red and black venom lack"?
Did you knowthat the white eagle on the Coat of Arms of Poland references the story of Lech , the legendary founder of Poland, who saw a white eagle's nest and was inspired to establish the city of Gniezno (literally nest )?
Did you knowthat the crown lands of the United Kingdom are different than crown lands in Canada and Australia , the latter being more like the public lands of the United States ?
Did you knowthat the Turin King List is an ancient Egyptian papyrus scroll , written in hieratic , which lists all the pharaohs and gods believed to have ruled over the Nile kingdom?
Did you knowthat a woman named Priscilla , wife of Aquila , was one of the first Christian evangelists ?
Did you knowthat Bambaiya Hindi , a pidgin used in Mumbai , is a combination of English , Marathi , Gujarati and several other languages?
Did you knowthat in 1990 Cecil Fielder became the first Detroit Tiger since Hank Greenberg (in 1938 ) to slug over 50 home runs in a season?
Did you knowthat the Monty Python joke-warfare sketch is an example of a motif of harmful sensation ?
Did you knowthat Hans Guido Mutke claimed to be the first person to break the sound barrier ?
Did you knowthat Labatt Park in London, Ontario , Canada is thought to be the oldest continually operating baseball diamond in the world?
Did you knowthat the USS Frank Knox was named in honor of Frank Knox , who was United States Secretary of the Navy during World War II ?
Did you knowthat French Sinologist Paul Pelliot was caught up in the Boxer Rebellion and trapped in the siege of Peking ?
Did you knowthat Wyndham Halswelle was winner of the controversial 400- metre run at the 1908 Summer Olympics ?
Did you knowthat the first military plane mass-produced in Germany was the Rumpler Taube in 1910 ?
Did you knowthat the Deluge involving Noah or Utnapishtim in the Epic of Gilgamesh is a widespread theme in mythology ?
Did you knowthat Tom Hanks was in a 1982 TV movie called Mazes and Monsters about a group of college students and their interest in the eponymous role-playing game ?
Did you knowthat in addition to human spaceflight , there have been many animals in space , including monkeys , apes , mice , dogs , guinea pigs , frogs , rats , cats , tortoises , fish , newts , insects , snails , spiders and nematodes ?
Did you knowthat the corticospinal tract contains both sensory and motor axons ?
Did you knowthat the Moro Rebellion was the second phase of the Philippine-American War ?
Did you knowthat the soda ash , used in the production of glass , textiles , and paper , was historically made using the Leblanc process ?
Did you knowthat 1988 's Hurricane Gilbert was the first to make landfall on Jamaica since 1955 ?
Did you knowthat the Hungarian monarch wears the Crown of St. Stephen ?
Did you knowthat William James Sidis , an eccentric—and once world-famous— genius , entered Harvard University in 1909 at the age of 11?
Did you knowthat Napoléon Bonaparte 's defeat in what the Russians call the Patriotic War was the turning point in the Napoleonic Wars and the beginning of the end for the Emperor?
Did you knowthat the blood vessel present during fetal development that carries oxygenated blood from the placenta to the growing fetus is called the umbilical vein ?
Did you knowthat in 1996 then New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman may have violated the civil rights of Sherron Rolax by frisking him?
Did you knowthat few color blind humans have true monochromacy , but rather are dichromats or anomalous trichromats ?
Did you knowthat osteomyelitis , i.e. bone infection , is particularly common in the tibia , femur , humerus and vertebral bodies?
Did you knowthat religion in Canada is dominated by the Roman Catholic Church , the United Church of Canada and the Anglican Church ?
Did you knowthat Orcas Island , named for the area's killer whales , is the largest of Washington state 's San Juan Islands ?
Did you knowthat Swedish adventurer Saloman Andrée died in 1897 while trying to reach the geographic North Pole by hot-air balloon ?
Did you knowthat Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan severely injured his back while filming the blockbuster hit Kal Ho Naa Ho ?
Did you knowthat iron deficiency anemia is the final stage of iron deficiency ?
Did you knowthat the " Pardoner's Prologue and Tale " in Geoffrey Chaucer 's The Canterbury Tales is about three revellers who set out to kill Death ?
Did you knowthat Assyriologist Archibald Sayce discovered that the Hittite hieroglyphic system was predominantly syllabic ?
Did you knowthat writer Panait Istrati is known for his line, "All right, I can see the broken eggs. Where's this omelet of yours?"
Did you knowthat the descent of Elizabeth II leads back directly 1500 years and fifty generations to Cerdic of Wessex ?
Did you knowthat one way to calculate distances in terms of latitude and longitude is the Haversine formula ?
Did you knowthat the longest NHL overtime game in the history of hockey was a 1936 match between the Detroit Red Wings and the Montreal Maroons ?
Did you knowthat Lumpsuckers are fish that have modified pelvic fins which have evolved into adhesive discs that allow them to adhere to their substrate ?
Did you knowthat the New Zealand McGillicuddy Serious Party wanted to return to a medieval lifestyle and establish a monarchy based on the Scottish Jacobite line?
Did you knowthat Eric Coates was an English composer who wrote some songs for lyrics by Arthur Conan Doyle ?
Did you knowthat a suikinkutsu is a type of Japanese garden ornament and a music device?
Did you knowthat Kimono de Ginza are a group of kimono and Japanese clothing enthusiasts in Tokyo that meet monthly in full-dress in front of a department store and then later in an izakaya ?
Did you knowthat the unmanned Apollo VI space capsule was recovered by the USS Okinawa (LPH-3) 380 miles north of Kauai , Hawaii ?
Did you knowthat the founders of College of Charleston included three signers of the Declaration of Independence and three fathers of the United States Constitution ?
Did you knowthat the 2000 Summer Olympics gold medalist in the heptathlon was Denise Lewis ?
Did you knowthat Knecht Ruprecht , a figure in Germanic folklore , is often depicted as traveling with Santa Claus ?
Did you knowthat the Genghis Khan defeated Jelal ad-Din Mingburnu , sultan of the Khwarezmid Empire , at the Battle of Indus in 1221 ?
Did you knowthat Oklahoma's Price Tower is one of the only two Frank Lloyd Wright skyscrapers ever built?
Did you knowthat image intensifiers , which are similar to night-vision , were invented by Vladimir Zworykin , a World War II -era RCA employee?
Did you knowthat the journalistic practice of muckraking began at McClure's magazine?
Did you knowthat Pieter de Hooch , a genre painter from the Dutch Golden Age , died in an insane asylum ?
Did you knowthat Los Angeles, California 's Griffith Park was originally an ostrich farm?
Did you knowthat, according to cat coat genetics , two different X chromosome alleles must be expressed to create a calico ?
Did you knowthat Connie Mack managed for 53 baseball seasons, winning nine pennants and five World Series ?
Did you knowthat the first diet soda was produced in 1958 ?
Did you knowthat Nazi admiral Karl Dönitz advocated tonnage wars —military attacks on commercial vessels?
Did you knowthat one of the three Hoenn starter Pokémon is Torchic ?
Did you knowthat a 2002 BBC World Service global poll voted A Nation Once Again the world's most popular tune?
Did you knowthat a theme in Robert Heinlein 's science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land is group marriage ?
Did you knowthat circles and Reuleaux triangles are examples of curves of constant width ?
Did you knowthat the Antarctic ecosystem cannot support vascular plants ?
Did you knowthat a diplomatic bag is a term of art in both international relations and cryptography ?
Did you knowthat the scandalous murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor has never been solved?
Did you knowthat Benguela current of the Southern Ocean has a small El Niño effect?
Did you knowthat the fundamental complexity of chemical synthesis impedes many efforts at drug design ?
Did you knowthat autonomic ganglions are cell bodies within the autonomic nervous system ?
Did you knowthat the Korean poetic form of sijo resembles the Japanese poetic form of haiku ?
Did you knowthat poet Robert Hass , a two-term American Poet Laureate , is a neighbor of Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz ?
Did you knowthat Maia Chiburdanidze was the youngest woman ever to win the women's world chess championship?
Did you knowthat the private income of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is known as the Privy Purse ?
Did you knowthat Villeurbanne and Lyon form the second-largest conurbation in France ?
Did you knowthat newspaper columnist and game show panelist Dorothy Kilgallen claimed to have information about the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and she died under suspicious circumstances?
Did you knowthat " God Save Ireland " was the unofficial national anthem of the Irish Free State ?
Did you knowthat, together with Mike Nichols , Elaine May founded the trail-blazing comic troupe The Compass Players, which later became Second City ?
Did you knowthat most of the 8,000 speakers of the Niuean language live outside the borders of Niue ?
Did you knowthat Swedish chemist Karl Wilhelm Scheele discovered the first refractory metal in 1781 ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. movement toward small claims courts began in the early 1960s , as Justice of the Peace courts became increasingly archaic?
Did you knowthat the Kei apple is a shrub often used for hedges, not an edible apple ?
Did you knowthat Bodega Bay in California was the setting for Alfred Hitchcock 's film The Birds ?
Did you knowthat rattlesnake venom contains hemotoxins ?
Did you knowthat Ernest Duchesne discovered penicillin 's antibiotic powers 32 years before Alexander Fleming ?
Did you knowthat the Indrikis chronicles are the oldest written history of Latvia and Estonia ?
Did you knowthat the term Fertile Crescent was coined by James Henry Breasted ?
Did you knowthat an important tool in surface mining is the drag line excavator ?
Did you knowthat New York Point lost out to Braille in the "War of the Dots"?
Did you knowthat The Mississippi Rag has been reporting on traditional jazz and ragtime music since 1973 ?
Did you knowthat a cousin of curling , ice stock sport , is played primarily in Germany and Austria ?
Did you knowthat a crystal set is the simplest kind of radio receiver ?
Did you knowthat Fanny Crosby wrote more than 8,000 hymns despite being totally blind ?
Did you knowthat Austrian journalist Günther Nenning is nicknamed Auhirsch , meaning "meadow deer"?
Did you knowthat the Rolls-Royce Pegasus engine powers the Harrier jet ?
Did you knowthat Herschel Island in Canada is named for scientist John Herschel ?
Did you knowthat Heaven Can Wait , a play by Harry Segall , has been filmed at least four times?
Did you knowthat exploding head syndrome isn't fatal?
Did you knowthat Harry Potter and Ron Weasley found Tom Riddle's diary in Moaning Myrtle 's bathroom ?
Did you knowthat Sean MacDermott , a leader of the Easter Rising of 1916, was executed by firing squad ?
Did you knowthat there is a form of mental calculation called Vedic mathematics which is based on the ancient Indian Vedas ?
Did you knowthat California 's Russian River is named for the Russian trappers who explored it in the early 19th century ?
Did you knowthat the Diners Club card was the first independent credit card ?
Did you knowthat Chick Gandil was the ringleader of the 1919 Black Sox scandal in American baseball ?
Did you knowthat Galileo 's father Vincenzo Galilei was a noted Italian lutenist ?
Did you knowthat Canada Dry ginger ale became a popular mixer during Prohibition , when its flavor helped mask the taste of homemade liquor ?
Did you knowthat four planes were simultaneously hijacked in the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings ?
Did you knowthat the caterpillars of the Anise Swallowtail butterfly like to eat fennel ?
Did you knowthat Sale of the Century was Australia 's longest-running game show ?
Did you knowthat freak waves are common near Cape Algulhas off the southern tip of Africa ?
Did you knowthat bag people were common in the USSR following the Russian Revolution ?
Did you knowthat women are twice as likely as men to have pulmonary hypertension ?
Did you knowthat some people believe that the Angels of Mons helped protect British forces during World War I 's Battle of Mons ?
Did you knowthat Canada's tax policy does not include an inheritance tax ?
Did you knowthat an oast house is a traditional Kentish structure for drying hops before brewing ?
Did you knowthat George Rogers Clark , older brother of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition , captured two British forts during the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you knowthat Emilio Carranza was known as "the Lindbergh of Mexico "?
Did you knowthat corals , graptolites , brachiopods and trilobites are frequently used as index fossils ?
Did you knowthat the assassination in Sarajevo of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria led to World War I ? (Okay, you probably did know that one.)
Did you knowthat many old buildings near Government Center in Boston once hid fugitive slaves riding the Underground Railroad ?
Did you knowthat the Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned literacy tests as a voting qualification in the U.S. ?
Did you knowthat surgery patients who experience anesthesia awareness may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder ?
Did you knowthat rapid single flux quantum is an electronics technology that relies on quantum effects in superconducting materials rather than the present-day transistor standard?
Did you knowthat the cucumber sandwich is an integral part of polite tea ?
Did you knowthat in 1934 Leonid Nikolaev was executed for the murder of Sergei Kirov , the popular chief of the Leningrad Communist Party ?
Did you knowthat after the Red Baron , French ace René Fonck had the most confirmed World War I aerial victories?
Did you knowthat authentic shrunken heads have nose hair ?
Did you knowthat an apartment building known as Pavlov's House became a symbol of Soviet resistance during World War II 's Battle of Stalingrad ?
Did you knowthat public broadcasting in New Zealand of color television began in 1975 ?
Did you knowthat the first branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia was located in Philly's city hall ?
Did you knowthat residents of California buy more earthquake insurance than residents of any other U.S. state ?
Did you knowthat in architecture , there are at least five kinds of buttress : clasping, angle, flying, set-back and diagonal?
Did you knowthat during the Cold War , Soviet leaders used " And you are lynching Negroes ..." as an ad hominem attack against the U.S. ?
Did you knowthat the Temple Bar marks the western edge of the City of London ?
Did you knowthat the evolution of sex is a major puzzle of evolutionary biology , due to the so-called two-fold cost of sex ?
Did you knowthat the hyper engine was a hypothetical aircraft engine design meant to deliver 1 horsepower from 1 cubic inch of displacement ?
Did you knowthat Gatianus of Tours was one of seven bishops sent by Pope Fabian from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel ?
Did you knowthat quantum optics is a field of research in physics , dealing with the application of quantum mechanics to phenomena of light?
Did you knowthat former U.S. decathlete Rafer Johnson ignited the Olympic Flame during the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics ?
Did you knowthat it was the British geologist Joseph Prestwich who confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes ?
Did you knowthat England brokered the 1617 Treaty of Stolbova between Sweden and Russia ?
Did you knowthat Groundskeeper Willie , a character on The Simpsons , coined the phrase cheese-eating surrender monkeys ?
Did you knowthat the Mid-Canada Line was a line of radar sites across Canada designed to be an nuclear attack early-warning system?
Did you knowthat what was probably the last living Spix's Macaw died in 2000 ?
Did you knowthat the caterpillar of the Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly has large yellow eyespots?
Did you knowthat on Dagen H , or H Day , (Sunday September 3 , 1967 ) at 5:00 am, Swedes switched from driving on the left to the right?
Did you knowthat Taiwan professional baseball was started in 1989 , and the two leagues merged in 2003 ?
Did you knowthat nearly half the eligible male population of New Zealand served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War I ?
Did you knowthat the Pascha greeting is an Easter custom amongst Orthodox Christians ?
Did you knowthat the Duchy of the Archipelago was an alliance of islands in the Aegean Sea organized after the Fourth Crusade ?
Did you knowthat Marcin Kromer was a 16th century Prince-Bishop of Warmia , cartographer , and historian in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
Did you knowthat the so-called Loughall Martyrs were a group of eight men from the Provisional IRA 's East Tyrone Brigade who were ambushed and killed on May 8 1987 by the British special forces, the SAS ?
Did you knowthat most people on a raw food diet won't eat anything heated to more than 46 °C (115 °F )?
Did you knowthat the root of the Purple Salsify tastes of oysters ?
Did you knowthat the Homomonument in Amsterdam commemorates all gay men and lesbians who have been subjected to persecution because of their sexual orientation ?
Did you knowthat the Diadochi were generals of Alexander the Great who sought power after his death?
Did you knowthat when released, the film Waterworld was the biggest failure, in terms of returns?
Did you knowthat the Maltese alphabet contains 29 letters but does not contain the Latin letter Y ?
Did you knowthat Abercrombie & Fitch was founded in 1892 and originally sold hunting , camping and fishing gear?
Did you knowthat in the 19th century the Wörthersee became an exclusive summer retreat for Vienna 's nobility ?
Did you knowthat the longest extra inning game in professional baseball history was an International League game that lasted 33 innings ?
Did you knowthat the Three-Self Patriotic Movement is part of the only government -sanctioned Protestant church in the People's Republic of China ?
Did you knowthat an American thoroughbred racehorse named Cigar was the first winner of the Dubai World Cup ?
Did you knowthat in 1169 Denny Abbey was handed over to the Knights Templar ?
Did you knowthat Dave Righetti was the first player in Major League Baseball history to pitch a no-hitter and lead the league in saves in a career?
Did you knowthat the co-winner with Jane Addams of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize was Nicholas Butler ?
Did you knowthat Taiwan celebrates a national Teacher's Day holiday each September 28 ?
Did you knowthat both serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors and novel antidepressants like bupropion work on multiple neurotransmitters ?
Did you knowthat the HMS Finisterre replaced her sister-ship the Hogue in Far Eastern service after the latter was destroyed by a collision with an Indian cruiser?
Did you knowthat Polish Communists forbade the use of Wymysojer shortly after World War II , and now only about 100 native speakers remain?
Did you knowthat a 1939 conflict between Soviet and Japanese troops in the village of Nomonhan is thought to have led to the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
Did you knowthat California 's Owens River has been entirely diverted for irrigation and drinking water ?
Did you knowthat there are many uses for trigonometry ?
Did you knowthat Dudley Pope wrote many of his books aboard a 54-foot wooden yacht ?
Did you knowthat the tallest structure in California is a television antenna tower, while in Arizona it is a chimney ?
Did you knowthat the Snellen chart is used to measure visual acuity ?
Did you knowthat a wrecking amendment is added to legislation in bad faith?
Did you knowthat a kammback is an aerodynamic drag-reducing car body style?
Did you knowthat both Cliff and Nina and Greg and Jenny are considered supercouples ?
Did you knowthat while Tom Foley was the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives , he was not re-elected by his constituents?
Did you knowthat the flags of the Yugoslav Socialist Republics were the old flags of the constituent nations , with a red star added to represent communism ?
Did you knowthat the United States Mint produced a half dime coin from 1792 until 1873 ?
Did you knowthat the edge of space is about 100 kilometers above mean sea level ?
Did you knowthat the Brown Dog affair , a Edwardian era vivisection controversy, led to massive riots ?
Did you knowthat the ideal cellular network has evenly distributed hexagonal cells?
Did you knowthat the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis was sparked by a visit to Cornell by Lee Teng-hui ?
Did you knowthat the Iliad and the Odyssey were just two parts of the eight-part Trojan War cycle of epic poems ?
Did you knowthat automatic differentiation is a method for evaluating the derivative of a function at a given point?
Did you knowthat in Canada there were once eight districts of the Northwest Territories ?
Did you knowthat Occidental Petroleum head Armand Hammer bought into Church and Dwight in order to hold a stake in their Arm and Hammer baking soda trademark , apparently finding humor in the coincidence of their names?
Did you knowthat in linguistics , the La Spezia-Rimini Line separates eastern Romance languages from the western Romance languages using isoglosses ?
Did you knowthat the dog called the Miniature Fox Terrier (or Mini Foxie ) originated in Australia ?
Did you knowthat the Great Basin tribes of North America originated the Ghost Dance movement?
Did you knowthat manscaping is the practice of men shaving their body hair?
Did you knowthat since the introduction of antivenin in 1956, only one person has died from the bite of the Australian red-back spider , a cousin of the black widow ?
Did you knowthat the 1922 Red Ruhr Army workers' revolt was a response to the Kapp Putsch ?