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Did you knowthat the Defaka people of Nigeria are gradually abandoning their language in favour of the language of the Nkoroo , their close neighbours?
Did you knowthat Augustiner Bräu is Munich 's only German -owned brewery ?
Did you knowthat Alexander Selkirk was travelling on the British galleon Cinque Ports when he was abandoned on the uninhabited Pacific island of Juan Fernández in 1704 and that his tale inspired the story of Robinson Crusoe ?
Did you knowthat Suudu is a culture-specific syndrome of painful urination and pelvic "heat" familiar in south India , especially in the Tamil culture?
Did you knowthat despite apparently predicting that future naval warfare would rely on boarding actions, Kipling 's satirical poem The Ballad of the "Clampherdown" , was taken seriously when published in 1892 ?
Did you knowthat there are at least 60 different human and alien technologies in the fictional Stargate universe ?
Did you knowthat Marn Grook is the name of ball game played by Australian Aborginals which is thought to be the basis for the modern game of Australian Rules Football ?
Did you knowthat superfecundation is the fertilization of two or more ova by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse and can lead to twins with different fathers?
Did you knowthat Toktogul Satilganov was the most famous of the Kyrgyz Akyn storytellers?
Did you knowthat the Dakar-Niger Railway was the site of a 1947 strike celebrated by author Ousmane Sembène as a turning point in West Africa 's anti- colonial struggle?
Did you know that the Mokola virus is a relative of the rabies virus and was first isolated in tree shrews ?
Did you knowthat there have only been two tied Tests in the 128 years of Test cricket , both involving the Australian cricket team ?
Did you knowthat misdirected letters are a common plot twist in the 19th century genre of theatre called the Well-Made Play ?
Did you knowthat California's current State Senate Minority Leader Dick Ackerman ran for State Attorney General in 2002 ?
Did you knowthat the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College is a rabbinical seminary established by Mordecai Kaplan , the founder of the Reconstructionist Judaism movement?
Did you knowthat the BBC1 sitcom Grace & Favour was the sequel series to the long-running programme Are You Being Served ?
Did you knowthat 1980 's Rescue at Rigel by Epyx was one of the first science fiction computer role-playing games ?
Did you knowthat Department S was an ITC Entertainment production which not only led to a successful spin-off , Jason King , but was also a large source of inspiration for Austin Powers ?
Did you knowthat patients with acrocyanosis have dark or bluish hands and feet but are otherwise normal?
Did you knowthat Andy Ducat suffered a heart attack and died whilst playing in a wartime cricket match and is the only person to have died during a cricket match on the Lord's Cricket Ground ?
Did you knowthat Frank Ryan earned a Ph.D. in mathematics while playing quarterback for the Cleveland Browns ?
Did you knowthat Country -comedian and Hee Haw star Archie Campbell's childhood home has been preserved as a "tourism complex and museum" in Bulls Gap, Tennessee ?
Did you knowthat children's book The Gruffalo was made into a play and was performed at the National Theater and on Broadway ?
Did you knowthat the powerful ancient Egyptian courtier Yuya is thought by some scholars to have been the historical Joseph of Genesis ?
Did you knowthat Internet entrepreneur Pete Ashdown is running against incumbent Orrin Hatch for the 2006 U.S. Senate race in Utah ?
Did you knowthat the Russian musical group Terem Quartet performs classical works on folk instruments in a humorous, virtuosic style?
Did you knowthat the field of island restoration is usually credited with having been started in New Zealand in the 1960s ?
Did you knowthat Edgar Evans was the first person to die on the ill-fated Scott Polar Expedition of 1910 - 1912 ?
Did you knowthat Bitòn Coulibaly transformed a Ségou youth organisation into an army that he used to found the eighteenth-century Bambara Empire ?
Did you knowthat Johnny Rodgers was voted the University of Nebraska's college football " Player of the Century "  and College Football News called him "the greatest kick returner in college football history"?
Did you knowthat the Peul preacher and social reformer Seku Amadu led a jihad against the Bambara Empire of nineteenth-century West Africa to found his own theocratic Massina Empire ?
Did you know that the Working Group on Internet Governance is a United Nations body set up to investigate the future governance of the Internet and the role of ICANN ?
Did you knowthat adjustable gastric banding is a form of weight loss surgery which does not cut into or remove any part of the digestive system ?
Did you know that Puerto Rican painter Antonio Martorell was about to board the Underground shortly before the 7 July 2005 London bombings , but he stopped at his hotel to get breakfast and learned about the bombings while at the restaurant?
Did you knowthat Clyde Tunnel in Glasgow was built rather than a bridge to not interfere with shipping , a concern which was out of date by the tunnel's completion?
Did you know that NASA , Google , Microsoft and Yahoo! are shipping their own GIS killer applications known as the " virtual globe "?
Did you knowthat the Super Buddies , a team of DC Comics superheroes , were a comedic Justice League offshoot who first appeared in the Eisner Award -winning miniseries Formerly Known as the Justice League ?
Did you know that California Certified Organic Farmers was one of the first U.S. based organizations to certify organic farmers ?
Did you know that the St'at'imcets language , an endangered language of British Columbia , is similar to Semitic languages in that it also has pharyngeal consonants ?
Did you know that the Perioikoi were free inhabitants but not citizens under Spartan rule?
Did you know that the Wallkill River is one of the few rivers that drains into a creek , because it is impounded just before the confluence ?
Did you know that Wilfred Stamp, 2nd Baron Stamp holds the record for holding a peerage for the shortest length of time due to a legal fiction in English law ?
Did you know that The Springboro Star Press is a weekly newspaper in southwestern Ohio published since 1976 ?
Did you know that the Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna is the longest single residential building in the world and spans four tram stations?
Did you knowthat khash is a traditional Armenian dish from the Shirak region which has cow's feet as its main ingredient?
Did you knowthat the first known classical fiction in Korean literature called Kumo shinhwa (Kumo's tales) by Kim Shi-sup was written in Chinese characters ?
Did you knowthat the Swedish Bikini Team , an advertising and marketing campaign for Old Milwaukee beer was shut down in the U.S. following protests by the National Organization for Women ?
Did you knowthat the Choristodera are extinct reptiles that lived during the time of the dinosaurs and have a skull structure similar to that of the modern day Gharial ?
Did you knowthat legendary producer and arranger Quincy Jones produced jazz vocalist Helen Merrill's self-titled debut album when he was just 21 years old?
Did you knowthat King Ali bin Hussein of Hejaz succeeded to his father's titles of king and Sharif of Mecca in 1924 , only a year before their territory was conquered and annexed by the House of Saud ?
Did you knowthat " Jive Talkin' " is considered to be the "comeback" song for the Bee Gees , after an absence of three years from the Top 40 charts?
Did you knowthat the Gwenn ha du organisation made a bomb out of a condensed milk carton which blew up a statue in Rennes ?
Did you knowthat the composer Johannes Brahms premiered his Academic Festival Overture , a musical fantasy based on several student drinking songs , at the University of Breslau 's convocation to thank the institution for granting him an honorary doctorate ?
Did you knowthat Dr. Ibrahim Oweiss , Georgetown University economics professor , coined the term " petrodollars " to describe the US dollar income of oil-producing countries in 1973 ?
Did you knowthat Chingay Parade in Singapore , a display of floats, music and dances, is a major festival in Asia attended by more than 200,000 people and watched by millions on TV across Asia?
Did you knowthat tobacco advertising is one of the most highly-regulated forms of marketing , along with alcohol , and is banned in many countries?
Did you knowthat like many desert rodents , kangaroo mice go their entire lives without drinking and get water from their food ?
Did you knowthat Ronald Bass , the Academy Award -winning screenwriter of Rain Man , taught himself to read by the age of three?
Did you knowthat Chris Woods cost Queens Park Rangers 250,000 pounds from Nottingham Forest in 1979 even though he had never played a League game before his transfer?
Did you knowthat Malian fashion designer Chris Seydou pioneered the use of bògòlanfini , a traditional Bamana mudcloth, in international fashion?
Did you knowthat Lord of the Nutcracker Men was a 2001 children's novel about World War I ?
Did you knowthat Huchoun was one of the earliest Scottish poets and wrote a number of important alliterative verse romances in the early 14th century ?
Did you knowthat the Indian Railways Fan Club is the Internet 's largest website devoted to the Indian Railways and rail transport in the Indian subcontinent ?
Did you knowthat London Pride is a garden flower symbolic of ordinary Londoners ' resilience under attack?
Did you knowthat Barbara Cassani founded the budget airline Go Fly before becoming the initial leader of London's bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you knowthat the genetically modified plum C5 is the only Prunus species resistant to the devastating plant disease plum pox ?
Did you knowthat Ferrellgas , the largest propane retail distributor in the United States , started in 1939 as a family-owned business in Atchison, Kansas ?
Did you knowthat Watson's Hotel is India 's oldest cast iron building and is among the " 100 Most Endangered Sites "?
Did you knowthat the French battleship France sank after hitting an uncharted rock during a patrol of Quiberon Bay on August 26 , 1922 ?
Did you knowthat measuring the levels of certain enzymes called transaminases can help to diagnose some liver diseases?
Did you knowthat the Olympic Javelin is a high-speed rail service announced as part of the public transport regeneration of London in readiness for the 2012 Summer Olympics ?
Did you knowthat the Indian Meteorological Department was set up as a result of a tropical cyclone that hit Calcutta in 1864 , and the subsequent famines in 1866 and 1871 due to failing monsoons ?
Did you knowthat Mandinka prince Sundiata Keita defeated Sosso king Soumaoro Kanté at the Battle of Kirina in 1240 , securing the future of the Mali Empire ?
Did you knowthat shrimp farms are a serious threat to the environment because they cause widespread destruction of mangroves and disperse antibiotics through their wastewater?
Did you knowthat the Plan of Saint Gall is the only surviving architectual drawing from the 700-year period between the fall of Rome and the 13th century , and is a national treasure of Switzerland ?
Did you knowthat Cyrus K. Holliday was a founder of the city of Topeka, Kansas , as well as the first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad ?
Did you knowthat soap opera actor Cameron Mathison suffered from Perthes disease as a child, requiring him to wear leg braces for nearly four years?
Did you knowthat Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne was the only British artillerist to command an army in World War I ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency supported the Chushi Gangdruk guerilla fighters in their attempts to overthrow the Communist Party of China in Tibet in the 1950s ?
Did you knowthat five teams in cricket's 2005 ICC Trophy will be granted official one-day international status for the next four years?
Did you knowthat in the 1850s , El Hadj Umar Tall founded a short-lived Islamic empire covering modern day Guinea , Senegal , and Mali ?
Did you knowthat Constable Stephen Tibble had been in the Metropolitan Police Force of Greater London for six months before he was killed by an IRA gunman?
Did you knowthat panel painting was the primary painting medium used in the West , from about the 13th to the 16th century , before canvas and oil paint became the norm?
Did you knowthat George Gershwin selected tap dance innovator John W. Bubbles to play a major role in his opera Porgy and Bess , even though he did not read music ?
Did you knowthat after actor Philip Loeb committed suicide , an article in the New York Times noting his passing commented that "He died of a sickness commonly called ' the blacklist '."?
Did you knowthat Massachusetts Avenue , home of Washington D.C.'s Embassy Row , is both the longest and widest avenue in the city?
Did you knowthat the Dictionary of the Middle Ages (1989) is the largest English language encyclopedia of the Middle Ages , covering over 100,000 topics?
Did you knowthat J. Willard Marriott grew a small root beer stand to a huge hotel and resort chain, Marriott International ?
Did you knowthat Mount Pantokrator is the highest mountain on the island of Corfu at 914 metres tall?
Did you knowthat the Beehive House was constructed as a home for Brigham Young , a polygamist , and his wives?
Did you knowthat Manitoba politician Colin H. Campbell is said to have won his seat in the 1907 election by a margin of one vote?
Did you knowthat the California Pacific Conference has school members that range from members of the California State University system to religious and liberal arts colleges ?
Did you knowthat the jihad of Modibo Adama led to the spread of Islam and the Fulani ethnic group across northern Cameroon ?
Did you knowthat the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Labrador was the first ship to circumnavigate North America ?
Did you knowthat the last African American jockey to win the Kentucky Derby was James Winkfield in 1902 ?
Did you knowthat on 14 August 1936 Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky , thus becoming the last person to be publicly executed in the United States ?
Did you knowthat bulk vending machine operators often spray Mike and Ikes and Hot Tamales with cooking spray to keep them from sticking together?
Did you knowthat Yrausquin Airport in the Caribbean island of Saba has commercial air service despite prohibition for airline airplanes to land there?
Did you knowthat Minnesota congresswoman Coya Knutson sang and played her accordion at campaign events?
Did you knowthat a Starets is a spiritual leader unique to the Russian Orthodox Church ?
Did you knowthat the Muslim state of Ifat was completely annexed by Ethiopia in 1415 ?
Did you knowthat the 1892 farce Charley's Aunt has been the basis of at least six different films , as well as the successful 1950s Broadway and West End musical , Where's Charley?
Did you knowthat the Mongols , led by Genghis Khan 's grandson Hulegu Khan , executed Al-Musta'sim , the Abbasid caliph of the Islamic state, following the 1258 Battle of Baghdad ?
Did you knowthat Bryce State Mental Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama , USA , has served as a model of both progressive and inhumane mental health treatment during its 144-year career?
Did you knowthat the Delphic Hymns , written in stone between 138 and 128 BC in Ancient Greece , are the earliest surviving unambiguous notated music in the western world?
Did you knowthat in Angola , almost two out of every ten newborns die within one year, making it the country with the highest infant mortality rate in the world ?
Did you knowthat Charles Brooks, Jr. , was the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Rodger Penzabene , co-author of the 1968 Temptations hit " I Wish It Would Rain ," used a real-life breakup as inspiration for the song and committed suicide when the song was released?
Did you knowthat the Presidio of Santa Barbara , built by the Spanish in 1782 , is the second-oldest European building in the U.S. state of California ?
Did you knowthat Closer Economic Relations is a free trade agreement between the governments of New Zealand and Australia ?
Did you knowthat in Elizabethan England anyone opening a message in a bottle without the approval of the Queen could face the death penalty ?
Did you knowthat Antarctosaurus was one of the largest dinosaurs ever to live in South America ?
Did you knowthat the Hungry i nightclub was instrumental in launching the careers of Lenny Bruce , Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen ?
Did you knowthat in 2001 Watercolour Challenge won a Royal Television Society award in the category of Best Features - Daytime television ?
Did you knowthat Phil Spector considered the song " River Deep - Mountain High " , his 1966 production for Ike & Tina Turner , his best work, despite its commercial failure in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the War of Canudos was an armed conflict in the 1890s in the Northeastern village of Canudos , Brazil , that was started by a Christian mystic and messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and a band of fanatic followers and resulted in the death of more than 15,000 people?
Did you knowthat although Archibald Leitch was the foremost football stadium architect in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century , only two of his works have been listed for preservation?
Did you knowthat men who practice snake charming often also use their skills as a form of pest control ?
Did you know that Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi , Japan , repeating her performance of 2003 ?
Did you knowthat the defeat of Vijayanagara Empire at the Battle of Talikota in 1565 ended one of the last great Hindu kingdoms in South India ?
Did you knowthat the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center , founded in 1968 , is one of the three inaugural satellite launch sites of the People's Republic of China ?
Did you knowthat Charles Atangana was the first Ewondo to be baptised Catholic in German Cameroon ?
Did you knowthat the largest organism in the world is a honey fungus which covers more than 3.4 square miles (8.9 km²) and is thousands of years old?
Did you knowthat the Finnish speed skater Clas Thunberg is the oldest Olympic speed skating champion, winning gold at the 1928 St Moritz games at the age of 35?
Did you knowthat umchwasho is a traditional chastity rite in Swaziland that restricts the sexual relations of unmarried women?
Did you knowthat detonating nuclear weapons is specifically forbidden in Britain under the Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Act 1998 ?
Did you knowthat the 1888/9 South African cricket season marks the beginning of first-class cricket in South Africa ?
Did you knowthat Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was independent India 's first individual Olympic medalist when he won the wrestling bronze medal at the 1952 Helsinki games ?
Did you knowthat Sergio Blass was the only singer to be a member of both Los Chicos and Menudo , Puerto Rican rival boy bands during the early 1980s ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Asal Uttar fought between India and Pakistan was the largest tank battle in the history of the Indian subcontinent ?
Did you know that Lake Enriquillo is the only saltwater lake in the world inhabited by crocodiles ?
Did you knowthat the Nurek Dam in Tajikistan is the tallest dam in the world, and in 1994 generated enough hydroelectric power to supply three-quarters of that country's generation capacity?
Did you knowthat Stalking Cat is a San Diego man who has spent more than 150,000 US dollars on tattoos and cosmetic surgery working towards his goal of resembling a live tiger ?
Did you know that the Narita Shinkansen from Tokyo to Narita Airport , which took nine years to build 9 km of track bed, is the only bullet train line ever officially cancelled?
Did you knowthat Canadian media cannot legally reprint their own stories mentioning the name of convicted school shooter Todd Cameron Smith ?
Did you knowthat day beacons and other navigational aids vary in standard designation worldwide much like driving on the right or left ?
Did you knowthat three of the stars named after people , often thought to have traditional Arabic names, were in fact named for members of the Apollo 1 crew?
Did you know that Driftless Area National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa has rare ice age snails that survive living on rock formations cooled from underground ice?
Did you knowthat the definitive image of the African and Caribbean goddess Mami Wata was based on a poster of a Samoan snake charmer?
Did you knowthat Brendon Kuruppu was the first Sri Lankan cricketer to score more than 200 runs (a double century ) in a Test innings ?
Did you knowthat Foundation 9 Entertainment is the largest independent video game developer in North America ?
Did you knowthat the Indian Shaker Church is a Christian denomination founded by an American Indian in 1881 which incorporates Catholic , Protestant , and indigenous beliefs, but traditionally rejects the Bible and other written scriptures?
Did you knowthat the Islamic Spaniard Judar Pasha led 4,000 Moroccans to victory against more than 40,000 Songhai troops at the Battle of Tondibi , putting an end to West Africa 's Songhai Empire ?
Did you knowthat Lancashire cricketer Dick Barlow was immortalised in Francis Thompson 's poem "At Lord's"?
Did you knowthat Henri Blowitz , the Paris correspondent of the Times , averted a war between the French Third Republic and the German Empire in 1875 ?
Did you knowthat the African Grove theater was founded by free blacks in New York City in 1821 —when New York was still a slave state —and that it launched the career of the great black Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge ?
Did you knowthat sociocracy is a form of government relying on principles of consensus ?
Did you knowthat the Philadelphia Metro is a free daily newspaper that was first published in 2000 ?
Did you knowthat the Ever Victorious Army , consisting of Chinese imperial forces led by a European officer corps , was instrumental in putting down the Taiping Rebellion ?
Did you knowthat adjustable pedals as well as an adjustable driver's seat were luxury features of the Renault Spider ?
Did you knowthat the most popular deity worshipped by the Duala peoples of Cameroon is a mermaid called a jengu ?
Did you knowthat though only 14% of all U.S. nuclear testing was conducted at the Pacific Proving Grounds , they comprised nearly 80% of the total explosive yields of all U.S. tests?
Did you knowthat the Mauritania Railway transports iron ore on trains up to three kilometers long?
Did you knowthat Liberia is the only nation in the history of West Africa never to have been colonised ?
Did you knowthat the Spined Loach is able to breathe through its intestine during times of oxygen scarcity, and can inflict an excruciating sting with the two-pointed spike under its eyes ?
Did you knowthat DC Comics sued Fawcett Comics in 1941 over Fawcett's Captain Marvel being a Superman rip-off, and the resulting National Comics Publications v. Fawcett Publications lawsuit took thirteen years to settle ?
Did you knowthat Juan Esteban Pedernera was interim President of Argentina in 1861 , following the death of Santiago Derqui ?
Did you knowthat Plumpy'nut is a peanut -based food supplement that is being used to combat malnutrition in Niger ?
Did you knowthat the Baltusrol Golf Club , the golf course that is the site of this week's PGA Championship , is a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for its managing of its lands with concern to the environment ?
Did you knowthat Silvio O. Conte was a U.S. Congressman who once donned a pig mask in order to protest pork barrel spending?
Did you knowthat the Kittlitz's Murrelet nests in isolated locations on inland mountaintops , unlike most other seabirds , which nest in seashore colonies?
Did you knowthat Peter de Noronha was the first Indian to become an envoy of the Legion of Mary and was later knighted by Pope Paul VI ?
Did you know that 1999 's Scooby Doo: Mystery of the Fun Park Phantom was the first commercial Scooby-Doo computer game for the Windows platform ?