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Did you knowthat Clare Winger Harris was the first woman to publish short stories under her own name in science fiction magazines ?
Did you knowthat Phoebe Hessel , who masqueraded as a man for 17 years to fight in the British Army alongside her husband, is buried in the churchyard at St. Nicholas Church, Brighton , England ?
Did you knowthat when Indrajit Gupta , a Communist , became India 's Union Minister for Home Affairs in 1996, he became head of a ministry "which once policed the Commies"?
Did you knowthat Russian architect Lev Kekushev built Art Nouveau buildings in Moscow , Russia , in the 1890s and early 1900s, "signed" with a lion ( Lev ) ornament or sculpture?
Did you knowthat the synagogue at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna , Austria was devastated during Kristallnacht in 1938 and converted into a transformer station after the war ?
Did you knowthat John Aloysius Ward , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff from 1983, took early retirement in 2001, after the later years of his ministry were overshadowed by cases of sexual misconduct by priests in his archdiocese ?
Did you knowthat Conservatory Water in Central Park , New York City , shelters a seasonal population of the unusual freshwater medusa Craspedacusta sowerbyi ?
Did you knowthat Monisha , a South Indian cinema actress, was only 15 years old when she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her debut performance in Nakhashathangal ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Navy tank landing ship USS Orange County was decommissioned in August 1946, less than 18 months after entering service, but recommissioned four years later for the Korean War ?
Did you knowthat Immediate Past President of the American Bar Association Michael S. Greco taught English at Phillips Exeter Academy before attending law school ?
Did you knowthat Ranji Hordern took 34 out of 51 wickets (66 percent) in three matches for the Philadelphians in their 1909 tour of Jamaica ?
Did you knowthat Anastasio Aquino led a rebellion of El Salvador 's indigenous Nonualco tribe in the early 19th century, sacking the city of San Vicente in the then- Federal Republic of Central America ?
Did you knowthat Stoic philosophy contrasts kathekonta , actions in accordance with nature , with "perfect actions" (katorthomata) derived from pure reason ?
Did you knowthat Alpamysh , an ancient Turkic epic or dastan , is one of the foremost examples of the Turkic oral literature of Central Asia ?
Did you knowthat the de Bruijn notation and the de Bruijn index are mathematical notations invented by Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn for use in λ calculus ?
Did you knowthat the Red Forest , near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant , gets its name from the ginger brown colour of its dead pine trees after the Chernobyl accident ?
Did you knowthat the site of Spains Hall , an Elizabethan house near Finchingfield in Essex , has been owned by only three families since the Domesday Book was compiled in 1086?
Did you knowthat the relics of Sariputra and Mahamoggallana , Gautama Buddha 's two chief disciples, were the subject of more than two million Sri Lankan pilgrimage visits after their discovery by Sir Alexander Cunningham ?
Did you knowthat the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction , the first criminal court in Australia under British rule, operated more like a court-martial than a court of law?
Did you knowthat Jan du Plessis , Chairman of British American Tobacco 's board of directors , was named the tenth most powerful person in British business by The Times in 2006?
Did you knowthat the 1860 Republican and 1864 Democratic national conventions were held at the Wigwam , a building built in just over a month?
Did you knowthat Lor Tok , a Thai comedian and actor, had roles in more than 1,000 films from the 1930s to the 1980s?
Did you knowthat Helen Hunt Jackson 's 1884 novel Ramona was set at Rancho Camulos in Piru, California ?
Did you knowthat German physicist Max von Laue wrote an article for Acta Crystallographica , which dealt with the absorption of x-rays under interference conditions, while in French military incarceration in 1945?
Did you knowthat William Ansah Sessarakoo , the "Prince of Annamaboe", became a celebrity in mid-18th century London after he was released from slavery , and was compared to Aphra Behn 's fictional Oroonoko ?
Did you knowthat Burning Bright by John Steinbeck was an attempt at a new form of literature, the "play-novelette"— but both the play and novel were savaged by the critics and Steinbeck never wrote for the theatre again?
Did you knowthat while the center of gravity for a set of points is located at the spot from which the sum of the squares of distances to all the points is minimized, the geometric median is the spot from which the sum of distances is minimized?
Did you knowthat although a response to the 1885 Endicott Board recommendations for the coastal defense of San Francisco , the batteries at Fort Miley were not completed until 1902?
Did you knowthat Flocabulary is an educational New York City -based project that uses hip hop music to teach SAT -level vocabulary ?
Did you knowthat the Althing of Iceland confirmed Thorlac Thornalli as a saint over 700 years before the Catholic Church did?
Did you knowthat Joseph Monier was one of the principal inventors of reinforced concrete ?
Did you knowthat Koreans in Vietnam form that country's second-largest group of expatriates after the Taiwanese ?
Did you knowthat South African mining magnate Sir Lionel Phillips survived being shot five times in an assassination attempt?
Did you knowthat when Archie Goodall scored the lone goal for Ireland in a 9–1 loss to Scotland in 1899, he became the oldest footballer to score in international football in the 19th century?
Did you knowthat Kosambi , a city in ancient India which was a frequent site of sermons by the Buddha , was one of the places considered suitable for his Parinibbāna ?
Did you knowthat Desmarest's Hutia has the most complex stomach of any rodent ?
Did you knowthat Richard de Southchurch , Sheriff of Essex , planned to attack London with burning cocks ?
Did you knowthat Rush Limbaugh was a U.S. ambassador to India ?
Did you knowthat the Tempest Prognosticator employs a jury of twelve leeches that use small hammers to ring a bell to indicate the approach of a storm?
Did you knowthat Serge Voronoff ' s surgical technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue onto human males has some modern supporters?
Did you knowthat the Alameda Works Shipyard in Alameda, California , was one of the largest and best equipped shipyards in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Ananthabhadram , a film by Indian director Santhosh Sivan , was inspired by classical Kathakali dancing and paintings of Raja Ravi Varma ?
Did you knowthat the California Condor , Mauritius Kestrel and Kakapo were all saved from extinction using modern bird conservation techniques?
Did you knowthat German settlement in Bulgaria dates back to the 13th–14th century?
Did you knowthat Mahmoud el-Meliguy , an Egyptian actor famed for his villain film roles, was nicknamed " Marlon Brando of the East"?
Did you knowthat Lucy Brewer claimed to have served in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 , but was probably invented by an American writer?
Did you knowthat Suyab , the 7th-century capital of the Western Turkic Khaganate , had Buddhist temples, Nestorian monasteries, Zoroastrian ossuaries , and Turkic bal-bals ?
Did you knowthat little is known about the career of American architect John S. Van Bergen because a fire in 1964 destroyed most of his architectural drawings and records?
Did you knowthat Supraśl Lavra is one of six Eastern Orthodox monasteries for men in Poland ?
Did you knowthat Alse Young is believed to have been the first person to be executed as a witch in the American colonies ?
Did you knowthat British music publisher Boosey & Hawkes owns copyrights to much major 20th century music, including works by Bartók , Bernstein , Britten , Elliott Carter , Rachmaninoff , Steve Reich and Stravinsky ?
Did you knowthat Thomas , the first known Bishop of Finland , resigned after confessing to torture and forgery ?
Did you knowthat the Commonwealth of Kentucky had a Confederate shadow government during the U.S. Civil War , although it never officially seceded from the Union ?
Did you knowthat British politician David Renton, Baron Renton served for over 60 years in Parliament , representing two parties and then as a life peer , and was the oldest member of the House of Lords when he died?
Did you knowthat Australian cricketer Bill Johnston , the fastest bowler to reach 100 Test wickets , took career-best figures shortly after a near-fatal car crash?
Did you knowthat Thoroughbred horse trainer Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr. is a United States' Racing Hall of Fame inductee?
Did you knowthat Yuri Izrael , Russian vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , believes the Kyoto Protocol is scientifically unsupported?
Did you knowthat after capture by English adventurer Sir David Kirke and combat with the Iroquois , surgeon Robert Giffard de Moncel helped start the first hospital in North America?
Did you knowthat William Penn Patrick , founder of companies Holiday Magic and Leadership Dynamics , ran against Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination for Governor of California ?
Did you knowthat the beach volleyball events at the 2007 Games of the Small States of Europe will take place on the Larvotto , Monaco's most famous beach?
Did you knowthat Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from the Red Mountain AVA were used to create the first US wine outside of California to receive consecutive perfect scores from Robert Parker 's Wine Advocate ?
Did you knowthat, aged 38 in November 1984, Bob Holland was the oldest Australian cricketer to make his Test debut in more than half a century?
Did you knowthat the fictional Tyranids Hive Fleets of the Warhammer 40,000 game contain special ships for an alien invasion ?
Did you knowthat the sack of Constantinople by Latin crusaders in 1204 destroyed the Byzantine economy , with the Latin emperors melting down statues for coin, and the Venetians exporting architecture spoils to decorate their churches?
Did you knowthat Alfred Winslow Jones , father of the hedge fund industry, was a sociologist ?
Did you knowthat the medieval Greek mystic Gregory Palamas successfully defended his doctrine of Tabor Light through three synods of the Orthodox Church ?
Did you knowthat the shooting of followers of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Tri Quang by the Catholic government of Ngo Dinh Diem led to months of protests which culminated in a coup in November 1963?
Did you knowthat the government of Kenya named the 1963-67 secessionist Shifta War after " shiftas ", the local word for " bandit ", as part of a propaganda initiative?
Did you knowthat Vagish Shastri , Sanskrit grammarian , linguist and yogi taught the pop singer Madonna Sanskrit pronunciation?
Did you knowthat Aluminaut , the world's first aluminum submarine , helped recover a lost atomic bomb ?
Did you knowthat not only have Isobel Joyce and her twin sister Cecelia played for the Ireland women's cricket team , three of their brothers have played for the men's team ?
Did you knowthat Judge Learned Hand showed his disrespect for U.S. District Judge Robert A. Inch by frequently referring to him in internal documents as "the Inchworm" or "Judge Millimeter"?
Did you knowthat the first experimental reforestation station established in California was Henninger Flats in 1903?
Did you knowthat Gour Govinda Ray , Brahmo Samaj missionary and scholar specialising in Hinduism , attempted to compare Krishna with Christ ?
Did you knowthat the OSA Group was the first association of architects to bridge Constructivism from art to architecture ?
Did you knowthat Slovak Paradise National Park is home to more than 2,100 species of butterfly , resulting in the highest concentration in Slovakia ?
Did you knowthat the Indian mobster turned Congress politician Pappu Kalani won two elections while in jail?
Did you knowthat the company Leadership Dynamics was cited by psychologists as the first form of Large Group Awareness Training ?
Did you knowthat the catfish genus Steindachneridion was named after its discoverer, the Austrian zoologist Franz Steindachner ?
Did you knowthat William R. Ellis served as mayor of two Iowa cities before being elected to represent Oregon in the United States Congress ?
Did you knowthat the Society for the Reformation of Manners , founded in England in 1691, included a network of "moral guardians" in London to gather information about moral infractions?
Did you knowthat L.J. Cooke , the first coach of the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's basketball team, created the tradition of the Little Brown Jug ?
Did you knowthat an Anglo-Australian trade boycott was threatened in 1932-33 after Australian cricket captain Bill Woodfull was struck over the heart by a ball bowled by Harold Larwood according to England 's Bodyline tactics?
Did you knowthat the Discovery Institute conducts public relations campaigns to promote intelligent design and discredit evolution ?
Did you knowthat the Unami Lodge was the founding chapter of the Boy Scouts of America 's Order of the Arrow ?
Did you knowthat during the 1990 New York Giants season , the NFL American football team set a league record for fewest turnovers in a season?
Did you knowthat the 16th-place of " Vjerujem u ljubav " in the semi-final of Eurovision 2007 marked the first time that Croatia had not reached the final since its independence?
Did you knowthat vinkenzetting ( Dutch ) is a 400-year-old sport in which the male Chaffinch that makes the most bird calls wins?
Did you knowthat the Great Western Railway operated road motor (bus) services in England and Wales from 1903 until 1933 as it was cheaper than building new railways?
Did you knowthat tajchy , a network of 60 water reservoirs and more than 100 km of channels, was built in the 1700s to drain flooded silver mines in Banská Štiavnica ?
Did you knowthat before 1954, public transport in Belfast included electric trams ?
Did you knowthat in 1992 about 10-15% of the Nicaraguan population emigrated to the U.S. ?
Did you knowthat Pascal Taskin altered a harpsichord by Joannes Goermans to make it look like Jan Couchet 's work so he could earn more from its sale?
Did you knowthat Major League Baseball player Cass Michaels was given the last rites after being hit in the head by a career-ending pitch ?
Did you knowthat during the Napoleonic Wars , a Prussian Regiment , formed from prisoners-of-war, served in the French Army?
Did you knowthat Sajjida Shah debuted for Pakistan's women's cricket team aged just twelve?
Did you knowthat Wollongong Head Lighthouse is the only place in eastern Australia to have two lighthouses within close proximity?
Did you knowthat Anthony of Kiev left his Monastery of the Caves when it gained 12 members because he felt it was crowded?
Did you knowthat Saudi Arabian Prince Abdul Majeed bin Abdul Aziz was Governor of the provinces of Tabuk , Medina and then Mecca , between 1980 and his death in 2007?
Did you knowthat England has won six of the seven Women's European Cricket Championship s to date?
Did you knowthat Anthelm of Belley left his post as bishop of Belley in protest at the lifting of the excommunication of a count who had held one priest captive and murdered a second?
Did you knowthat Sir Anthony Eden was considered the least effective British Prime Minister of the 20th century in three separate polls ?
Did you knowthat the Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster involved 30 tons of liquid steel at 1,500 °C , engulfing a room full of workers?
Did you knowthat James Madison 's Report of 1800 was used to support the doctrine of nullification , despite his objection to that doctrine?
Did you knowthat Gay Talese 's seminal 1965 magazine feature " Frank Sinatra Has a Cold " was written without Talese ever being allowed to interview Frank Sinatra ?
Did you knowthat Dr. Benjamin Bates gave up his practice to accompany Sir Francis Dashwood around Europe, but Dashwood died and Bates never received the huge payment he had been promised?
Did you knowthat the German 502nd heavy tank battalion was the first unit to be issued the famous Tiger I heavy tank?
Did you knowthat Pham Ngoc Thao , one of the key figures in South Vietnam 's Strategic Hamlet Program , was a communist agent who deliberately mismanaged it to stimulate popular dissent?
Did you knowthat the distinct resemblance of a certain silver mixture, known as Diana's Tree , to a forest of trees led alchemists to theorize the existence of life in the realm of minerals?
Did you knowthat World War II naval aviator William O. Gallery was one of three brothers who became US Navy rear admirals ?
Did you knowthat the earliest cannon projectiles were round shot and grapeshot ?
Did you knowthat Ernie Toshack debuted for the Australian cricket team a year after World War II ended, during which he had been rejected by the army on health grounds?
Did you knowthat Saalumarada Thimmakka was awarded the National Citizen's award for planting and nurturing 284 banyan trees along an Indian highway ?
Did you knowthat beneath Vienna 's Judenplatz is an excavation that displays the remains of a medieval synagogue ?
Did you knowthat the Roman general Barbatio was beheaded for treason after his wife's indiscreet letter was intercepted by Emperor Constantius II ?
Did you knowthat the Crusade of Varna required simultaneous attacks on the Muslim Ottoman Empire by Christian Hungary and the Muslim Karamanids , which did not occur?
Did you knowthat the external decorations of the Perugia Cathedral were never completed?
Did you knowthat New South Wales Chief Justice Sir Leslie Herron was Australian Father of the year?
Did you knowthat the earliest European term for " cannon " was the Medieval Latin word " bombardum ", and that "cannon" itself came from the Latin word canna , meaning a tube?
Did you knowthat in 1925 Saskatchewan produced over half of the wheat in the Dominion of Canada ?
Did you knowthat the Polish air force combated in the victory of Lublin-Brest Offensive , which cleared the path for the Red Army to recapture Warsaw ?
Did you knowthat despite wild differences in subject matter, 1970s Japanese science fiction television series Akumaizer 3 features frequent allusions to Alexander Dumas ' famous novel The Three Musketeers ?
Did you knowthat during his research into women's olfactory selection of potential mates , Swiss biologist Claus Wedekind conducted what has become known as the "Sweaty T-shirt Study"?
Did you knowthat emigration of physicians and nurses poses a major problem for Nigeria 's health care system , as there were 21,000 Nigerian doctors practising in the U.S. alone?
Did you knowthat the events in the novel The Dig take place during the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo , in Suffolk , England ?
Did you knowthat Kona lows bring severe weather to Hawaii two to three times each year between October and April ?
Did you knowthat while leader of the short-lived secessionist state of South Kasai , Albert Kalonji gave himself the title of Supreme Chief of the Muluba People and Protector of the Associated Tribes ?
Did you knowthat a slogan of the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire is "Prolétaires de tous les pays, caressez-vous" ( Workers of the world, caress yourselves! )?
Did you knowthat the DC comic book Batman: The Last Arkham drew on the influences of psychology and biology books such as " Superstition in the Common Pigeon "?
Did you knowthat over 100 million people in Indonesia lack access to safe water and more than 70 percent of the country’s 220 million population relies on water obtained from potentially contaminated sources?
Did you knowthat Sungai Tujoh is the westernmost point of Brunei and is one of the four land crossing points into the Malaysian state of Sarawak from Brunei?
Did you knowthat in Ancient Roman entertainment, a desultor was a performer who led several horses in full gallop—as many as six or eight at once—and leaped from one to another?
Did you knowthat Maharaja Suraj Mal took over Bharatpur, India , and established it as the capital of Mewat state?
Did you knowthat New Zealand photographer Laurence Aberhart uses an obsolete camera and a type of photographic paper that is no longer manufactured?
Did you knowthat Batasio sharavatiensis , a species of bagrid catfish discovered near Jog Falls in India , is named after the Sharavathi river in which it was found?
Did you knowthat Joseph-François Lambert was a French adventurer who tried to overthrow the "Mad Queen" Ranavalona I of Madagascar ?
Did you knowthat Jeremiah Arkham , the sadistic head of Arkham Asylum in the Batman universe of DC Comics , held Batman captive in his comic book debut?
Did you knowthat Byzantines were skilled at using diplomacy as a weapon of war?
Did you knowthat the late Sir William Northam was the oldest Australian to win an Olympic gold medal ?
Did you knowthat Genlisea margaretae , a carnivorous plant native to Southeast Africa , has the smallest recorded flowering plant genome ?
Did you knowthat nearly every known example of the New Zealand -designed Charlton Automatic Rifle was destroyed in a fire at the storage depot shortly after World War II ?
Did you knowthat Frank Lloyd Wright 's Plan for Greater Baghdad included a 300-foot gilded statue of Harun al-Rashid ?
Did you knowthat the red column of the Kruty Heroes Memorial recalls the colonnade of the famously red-colored main building of the Kiev University where many of the Ukrainian cadets slain at the 1918 Battle of Kruty had studied?
Did you knowthat the play Four Nights in Knaresborough , which tells the story of the aftermath of Thomas Becket 's murder using modern language and idiom , is to be re-made as an action movie in the style of Young Guns ?
Did you knowthat William R. Bell , the District Officer for Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1915 to 1927, was killed while collecting a head tax from the resistant Kwaio ?
Did you knowthat Jack Fingleton , a journalist who was press secretary to former Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes , represented Australia in Test cricket ?
Did you knowthat the Japanese seaplane carrier Wakamiya conducted the world's first naval-launched air raids ?
Did you knowthat cloud suck has dragged paragliders to altitudes as high as 9,946 meters (32,600 feet )?
Did you knowthat the snakeskin gourami is one of Thailand 's five most important aquacultured freshwater species?
Did you knowthat the artistic creations of Tommaso Francini marked a distinct stage in the importation of Italian features in the French formal garden ?
Did you knowthat Tran Kim Tuyen , the intelligence chief of South Vietnam 's Ngo Dinh Diem was referred to as "Vietnam's Goebbels "?
Did you knowthat researchers believe the monotypic New Zealand genus Oreostylidium represents an extreme example of floral paedomorphosis and should be transferred back to the related Australian genus Stylidium ?
Did you knowthat the Youth Olympic Games are planned to teach Olympic values to teenage athletes?
Did you knowthat Manuel Gamio conducted the first scientific excavations in the Valley of Mexico ?
Did you knowthat Western Ganga literature included Kannada poetry and prose written by royalty , on topics ranging from religion to elephant management?
Did you knowthat the time traveling premise featured in the Chrono series of video games was inspired by such television programs as The Time Tunnel ?
Did you knowthat Marshal Soult 's last offensive against the Duke of Wellington 's forces in the Peninsular War was lost before a single red coat could join the battle?
Did you knowthat the Short Knuckleduster gull-winged flying boat never entered military service, but data from its handling and engine steam-cooling aided the design of Short 's Empire and Sunderland aircraft?
Did you knowthat although people from the Isle of Man are British citizens , they do not have freedom of movement or employment throughout the European Union ?
Did you knowthat the Scientology Task Force of Hamburg , Germany reported on what it called brainwashing in Scientology 's Rehabilitation Project Force ?