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Did you knowthat the year 2008 is the 90th Anniversary of the Republic of Estonia ?
Did you knowthat the Scottish investment company Alliance Trust was formed in 1888 from companies providing loans to immigrant farmers in Oregon ?
Did you knowthat the work of make-up artist and body painter Joanne Gair , whose works include the 1992 Vanity Fair cover of Demi Moore , has been featured in ten consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues ?
Did you knowthat in 1907, the Inlet of Vårby in Lake Mälaren became one of the first maritime environments in Sweden to suffer the crayfish plague ?
Did you knowthat Lee Embree took the first air-to-air photographs of the 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor from an unarmed B-17 Flying Fortress , which arrived in Hawaii 30 minutes after the beginning of the attack?
Did you knowthat the current series of banknotes in Singapore feature the portrait of Yusof bin Ishak , the first President of Singapore ?
Did you knowthat future Canadian Senator John Gilbert Higgins hung black crêpe paper on his door in mourning the day that Newfoundland joined Canada ?
Did you knowthat in the forthcoming Bollywood film Krazzy 4 , actor Hrithik Roshan performed an " item number " for the first time?
Did you knowthat Jeff Robinson , who played nine seasons in Major League Baseball , was the thirteenth pitcher in the National League to strike out three batters on nine pitches ?
Did you knowthat a study of 930 patients with fatigue -like symptoms showed 62% testing MELISA-positive to metal allergy ?
Did you knowthat in 2006, Tsering Chungtak became the first Tibetan ever to participate in a major international beauty pageant ?
Did you knowthat F. Scott Fitzgerald was furious when he read his wife Zelda 's first novel, Save Me the Waltz , because she had used material which he was planning to use in Tender Is the Night ?
Did you knowthat while Nicholas Fitzherbert was abroad, two priests were arrested in his father's house and hanged, drawn, and quartered ?
Did you knowthat fluoride varnish can be applied to tooth surfaces to prevent tooth decay , but is currently underutilized for the purpose?
Did you knowthat the Ngoc Lu is regarded as the most important drum of the Dong Son culture of the Bronze Age , whose artefacts have been found at Co Loa Citadel , Chau Can , Lang Ca , Lang Vac , Xuan La and Viet Khe ?
Did you knowthat the first person in England to become a Bahá'í was Mary Thornburgh-Cropper in 1898, the year now regarded as the founding of the British Bahá'í community ?
Did you knowthat geology professor Lawrence Wager was an Arctic explorer and mountaineer who in 1933 reached the highest point yet climbed on Mount Everest ?
Did you knowthat the Chalk Tunnels under Chełm , Poland are thought to total up to 15 km (9.3 mi) in length?
Did you knowthat although Gather Together in My Name , the second book in Maya Angelou 's six autobiographies , was not as critically acclaimed as the first one, it continues the same themes of racism and sexism ?
Did you knowthat many of the 250,000 foreign laborers in Dubai live in conditions described by Human Rights Watch as being "less than human"?
Did you knowthat alleged paranormal activity at the Andrew Bayne Memorial Library in Bellevue, Pennsylvania reportedly peaked in 1998, when a 400-year-old elm tree on the property was dying of Dutch elm disease ?
Did you knowthat Wetsens station on the North Friesland Railway , which served a sparsely populated part of Friesland , Netherlands , closed in 1902, less than eight months after opening?
Did you knowthat the great earthquake in 365 CE destroyed nearly all towns in Crete ?
Did you knowthat Dutch Catechism , a bestseller with translations sold globally, was issued by bishops of the Netherlands to make the message of Jesus "sound as new as it is"?
Did you knowthat only about fourteen of the Tramcars in the National Tramway Museum are operational?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Darby 's remnants caused the Space Shuttle Columbia 's landing at the end of STS-50 to be postponed for a day?
Did you knowthat African-American Lemuel A. Penn , murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on suspicion of being a civil rights activist , was actually a career soldier and Bronze Star recipient?
Did you knowthat the President of Latvia said the result of the 2003 Latvian European Union membership referendum wiped out the divisions of Europe created by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939?
Did you knowthe geneivat da'at principle in Jewish law has been used to forbid false advertising , insider trading , cheating on the Regents exams , and the failure to cite secondary sources ?
Did you knowthat Labworth Café , built in 1932, is the only example of the architectural design of Ove Arup and was made a Listed building in 1996?
Did you knowthat the wreck of the scallop dredger Solway Harvester was discovered by the Royal Navy 's minehunter HMS Sandown ?
Did you knowthat The Casuarina Tree short stories set in the 1920's Malaya by W. Somerset Maugham came out of travels he paid for by working as a British spy ?
Did you knowthat Iceland was the first country to recognize Lithuania 's re-established independence in 1991?
Did you knowthat Hartford, Connecticut 's Webster Theater , opened in 1937 as a movie theater, is now a music venue where Incubus and No Doubt performed when they were barely known?
Did you knowthat the Arthur Middleton class attack transport USS George Clymer saw service in four major wars and earned a total of fifteen battle stars ?
Did you knowthat Polish poet and political activist Apollo Korzeniowski was the father of novelist Joseph Conrad ?
Did you knowthat the Premier League 's proposal to play some matches outside England has been condemned by the Football Supporters' Federation as "outrageous desecration of the national game"?
Did you knowthat Gordon Parks High School , an alternative school in Saint Paul , Minnesota , is named after the famous photographer ?
Did you knowthat two years after masterminding the murders of backpackers , Sam Bith was made a general in the Cambodian Army ?
Did you knowthat the Western State Normal Railroad is the only known railroad built by a university and the only funicular operated in Michigan ?
Did you knowthat despite not being present at the Battle of Trafalgar , Richard Strachan was among those rewarded for the victory?
Did you knowthat the US military 's adoption of Eagle Cash stands to save them millions of dollars , and eliminate thousands of wasted man-hours, during the War in Iraq ?
Did you knowthat Sir James Lithgow played a prominent role in restructuring the British shipbuilding industry in the 1930s?
Did you knowthat a rumour that Kylie Minogue had written a song for Hot Chip 's recent album, Made in the Dark , was started by the band itself?
Did you knowthat Francie Kraker Goodridge , who set a world indoor record in the 600-yard run, did not receive a varsity letter or sports scholarship and had to work as a waitress to put herself through college?
Did you knowthat Dr. Charles A. Stafford , a flight surgeon , was awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart , and the U.S. Army had a hospital ship re-named after him during World War II ?
Did you knowthat the coal strike of 1981 was the first against Cape Breton Development Corporation since their nationalization in 1967?
Did you knowthat Laurence C. Jones , the founder of the Piney Woods Country Life School near Jackson, Mississippi , once convinced a white mob not to lynch him by telling them about his educational mission?
Did you knowthat the Central Park Mall leading to the Bethesda Terrace provides the only purely formal feature in the naturalistic original plan of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux for Central Park , New York ?
Did you knowthat the ocean liner SS Shalom accidentally rammed and bisected the Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali , sinking the bow of the tanker but not the stern ?
Did you knowthat at the time of construction Interstate 70 in Colorado featured the world's highest road tunnel?
Did you knowthat Ellyse Perry played both cricket and soccer for Australia at the age of sixteen?
Did you knowthat Italian painter Perugino had probably finished his altarpiece The Virgin appearing to St. Bernard by the time Raphael became his apprentice ?
Did you knowthat the Valley View Ferry , Kentucky's oldest business, is seven years older than the state itself?
Did you knowthat the Olive python , Australia 's second largest snake, can eat prey as large as a wallaby ?
Did you knowthat the Indonesian occupation of East Timor claimed over 100,000 lives and was characterized by torture , forced disappearance , and starvation ?
Did you knowthat orchidologist Henry Frederick Conrad Sander 's magnum opus depicted life-sized orchids in volumes over 20 inches (63 cm) tall?
Did you knowthat M-209 was the shortest state highway in Michigan at a half-mile until 1996, serving as a connection to a former Coast Guard station?
Did you knowthat when Galway Councillor Fintan Coogan was re-elected in 1999, the Irish Times reported his victory under the headline "City's Lazarus claims resurrection status as he defeats provider of fish"?
Did you knowthat François de Troy was admitted into the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture with a reception piece called Mercury cutting off the head of Argus ?
Did you knowthat the Satellite Transit System at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is the second oldest airport people mover system in the U.S.?
Did you knowthat till the 17th century, the Bordeaux wine region of the Haut-Médoc was a vast expanse of salt marshes ?
Did you knowthat California 's four-lane Bayshore Highway , now a freeway , was built to high standards in the 1920s and '30s, but was called "Bloody Bayshore" because of the number of crashes ?
Did you knowthat British actress Anastasia Griffith spoke only in an American accent while auditioning for an American character on Damages ?
Did you knowthat a significant number of Iraqis have emigrated to Russia as early as the 1990s?
Did you knowthat the people of Uniontown, Alabama were surprised that Phillip Henry Pitts built such a large house in 1853, so it is now known as " Pitts' Folly "?
Did you knowthat paperback rights to Gay Talese 's 1971 non-fiction novel about the Bonanno crime family , Honor Thy Father , sold for more money than the paperback rights to Mario Puzo 's The Godfather ?
Did you knowthat the economy of Ohio includes the world's largest plants for processing yogurt , soup , ketchup and frozen pizza ?
Did you knowthat multiple-award winning Indian film Vanaja , which could not be screened in India because it found no takers, was the Master of Fine Arts thesis of its director, Rajnesh Domalpalli ?
Did you knowthat former England under-21 goalkeeper Lee Grant has been described by Owls manager Brian Laws as "probably the most outstanding keeper" in the Championship ?
Did you knowthat Sparrenberg Castle in Bielefeld , Germany , was built before 1250 by the counts of Ravensberg ?
Did you knowthat 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model Melissa Haro was the youngest fashion model contestant on the first season of Project Runway ?
Did you knowthat although London and South Western Railway passenger trains first arrived in Plymouth , England in 1876, its Plymouth Friary railway station terminus was not opened until 1891?
Did you knowthat Oregonian newspaper co-founder William Chapman served in the first session of the Oregon Territorial Legislature and was Iowa Territory 's first delegate to the U.S. Congress ?
Did you knowthat moss of the genus Polytrichum has adapted to trap moist air between rows of lamellae ?
Did you knowthat after a recent shooting at Northern Illinois University , a report of a possible gunman on campus was posted on the school's website within 20 minutes?
Did you knowthat the Jnanpith Award for modern literature in India has been awarded to more writers of Kannada literature , than those of any other Indian language ?
Did you knowthat the American tennis player Michael Leach gained national rankings in doubles playing with his father?
Did you knowthat four countries are working together with Israelis and Palestinians to create a range of new cooperative economic projects to foster peace, in the Valley of Peace initiative ?
Did you knowthat Family Moving Day was the last entry in Beechwood Bunny Tales , a series of children's books written by French author Geneviève Huriet , to be translated into English?
Did you knowthat the Heywood class attack transport USS William P. Biddle rescued survivors from four US Navy troopships torpedoed during Operation Torch ?
Did you knowthat the Islamic prophet Muhammad, while in Mecca , was a merchant involved in trade between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea ?
Did you knowthat the 9,000 ton McCawley -class attack transport USS McCawley was accidentally sunk during the Solomons campaign in 1943 by friendly fire ?
Did you knowthat after bad reviews, the distributors of the 1992 animated film The Princess and the Goblin used enthusiastic comments from children in its promotional material?
Did you knowthat Oregon judge William Gilbert opposed Joseph McKenna 's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court after the two had served together on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ?
Did you knowthat computer simulation techniques were used to review the design of One Marina Boulevard in Singapore ?
Did you knowthat the England national football team has only had fifteen managers since the position was made a full-time post in 1946?
Did you knowthat Tony Spear , a leader of the Mars Pathfinder project, is now working to pursue the Google Lunar X Prize ?
Did you knowthat the white kunzea was among the first Australian plants introduced to cultivation in England ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Supreme Court case Holloway v. United States sought to establish whether the Federal carjacking law applies to crimes committed with the "conditional intent" of harming drivers who refuse a carjacker's demands?
Did you knowthat De brief voor de koning ( The Letter for the King ) by Tonke Dragt was chosen in 2004 by the judges of the Gouden Griffel as the best Dutch children's novel of the past fifty years?
Did you knowthat Brest Fortress in Belarus was belatedly honoured by the USSR as a Hero Fortress in 1965 for its resistance to the Nazi invasion in 1941?
Did you knowthat Romany Marie 's café was a bohemian hangout in Greenwich Village for artists, authors, explorers, scientists, visionaries , and other intellectuals from the 1910s through the 1950s ?
Did you knowthat three Queens of England and several British nobles were beheaded in Tower Green , a space within the Tower of London ?
Did you knowthat 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue model Quiana Grant served for four years as her mother's eyes while the latter underwent a series of corrective surgeries for chorioretinitis ?
Did you knowthat the second movement of Symphony No. 21 in A major by Joseph Haydn has a mirror recapitulation , which is unusual for both a work of Haydn's and a symphony ?
Did you knowthat the sQuba , developed by Swiss company Rinspeed , is the world's first car that can be driven both on land and under water?
Did you knowthat the battle of the Dukla Pass was one of the bloodiest battles in Slovakia 's history?
Did you knowthat Tibbia College , with 84 patents in herbal medicine , is the only medical institution in India to offer education and training in two ancient systems of medicine, Ayurveda and Unaani ?
Did you knowthat U.S. politician William Waldo served as a county judge in Oregon after his younger brother served on the Oregon Supreme Court ?
Did you knowthat the plot of the Lost episode " The Economist " was compared to the Book of Daniel , the TV series Alias , and the film Assassins ?
Did you knowthat Martin Corry , a Fianna Fáil TD for over 40 years, once suggested in the Dáil the use of poison gas to end the Partition of Ireland ?
Did you knowthat white nose syndrome has caused a mortality rate of over 90% of bats in some caves ?
Did you knowthat Singaporean artist Chua Ek Kay ’s ink paintings blended traditional Chinese painting forms and Western art theories and techniques?
Did you knowthat four of the five ships operated by the Hamburg Atlantic Line and their successors were named Hanseatic at some point of their tenure in the company?
Did you knowthat Archduke Felix of Austria was once barred from entering Austria , and he held a news conference to announce his illegal arrival the day after sneaking in from Germany in 1996?
Did you knowthat the Vermejo Park Ranch in New Mexico is the largest privately owned , contiguous tract of land in the United States , making its owner Ted Turner the biggest private land owner in the country?
Did you knowthat cleaning up Quassaick Creek convinced Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to make environmental law his lifelong work?
Did you knowthat as a protest against what they call " Imperial Manila ", the local government of Cebu Province forced all of its schools to sing the Philippine National Anthem in Cebuano instead of Tagalog ?
Did you knowthat two 79th Academy Award Best Visual Effects nominees employed mathematician Ronald Fedkiw 's model for their special effects ?
Did you knowthat, at a debate on evolution in 1860 , Bishop Wilberforce allegedly asked Thomas Huxley if it was through his grandfather or his grandmother that he claimed his descent from a monkey ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Navy 's Harris -class attack transports Leonard Wood , Joseph T. Dickman and J. Franklin Bell were all named after U.S. Army generals ?
Did you knowthat Most Rev. S. Arulappa , Archbishop of Hyderabad , was the youngest to be consecrated as a Roman Catholic Archbishop in India ?
Did you knowthat South Korean screenwriter and director Byeon Seung-wook spent five years working on the scenario for his 2006 directorial debut film, Solace ?
Did you knowthat before becoming mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania in 1862, Prescott Metcalf started two railroads , numerous manufacturing firms , and was the director of a canal ?
Did you knowthat according to Lapsiporno.info , a blacklist of websites compiled by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation included those containing legal pornography ?
Did you knowthat Penny Neer , 1982 AIAW discus champion and one of the top U.S. discus throwers, also blocked 64 shots for the University of Michigan women's basketball team?
Did you knowthat the Eneabba Stone Arrangement is an Aboriginal stone arrangement once thought to have been associated with survivors of the Vergulde Draeck , a Dutch galleon wrecked on the coast of Australia in 1656?
Did you knowthat forthcoming Tamil film Aegan , starring Ajith Kumar , marks the directorial debut of choreographer Raju Sundaram ?
Did you knowthat the bobsleigh and luge track used for the 1992 Winter Olympics has 80 km (50 mi) of ammonia refrigeration piping and 40 km (25 mi) of electrical conduit running though its 6,500 m 3 (8,500 cu yd ) of concrete ?
Did you knowthat Dương Quỳnh Hoa , who socialized with Saigon elites during the Vietnam War , was a communist spy?
Did you knowthat Shirazi wine from the Persian city of Shiraz was white and has nothing to do with the Shiraz grape used to make wine today?
Did you knowthat Francis Bok , who was held as a slave in northern Sudan for ten years, now works as an abolitionist for the American Anti-Slavery Group ?
Did you knowthat Red Plague , a poem of Józef Szczepański , commander of Batalion Parasol during the Warsaw Uprising , was banned in the People's Republic of Poland due to its anti-Soviet sentiments?
Did you knowthat Momoko Ueda became the youngest golfer in Japan LPGA Tour history to finish first on the money list?
Did you knowthat the artillery of the Nguyen Lords was so strong that cannons were placed at 4 m intervals along a 12 km defensive wall to repel the rival Trinh Lords of Vietnam ?
Did you knowthat Jeff Groscost oversaw the passing of an alternative fuels bill in Arizona whose cost ballooned from $10 million to $140 million?
Did you knowthat Sergeant James Graham was declared the "bravest man at Waterloo " for closing the North Gate at Hougoumont , an act which Wellington claimed saved the battle?
Did you knowthat the origins of Pak Khlong Talat , the primary flower market in Bangkok , Thailand , date to the 1700s?
Did you knowthat Olympic gold medal -winning swimmer Gail Neall was initially so bad that her coach filmed her as an example to other swimmers of what not to do?
Did you knowthat Otte Wallish calligraphed Israel's Declaration of Independence in 1948 and helped design its first coins , but since it as yet had no name, he sketched the first postage stamps for a country called Yehudah ?
Did you knowthat of the original 28.9 miles (46.5 km) operated by the Grand Rapids, Belding and Saginaw Railroad , less than 2 miles (3.2 km) remain in use?
Did you knowthat Vietnamese politician and dissident Hoang Minh Chinh was jailed twice after criticizing the Communist Party ?
Did you knowthat the rooflines of the newest school in the Cornwall Central School District mimic the surrounding hills in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York ?
Did you knowthat the film crew of the forthcoming Tamil film , Kanthaswamy adopted two villages near Madurai to give film profits to?
Did you knowthat Australian General George Vasey regretted to have sent a small unit too far without adequate support for the Battle of Kaiapit during World War II and considered himself lucky to have won?
Did you knowthat in March 2007, about five thousand workers were evacuated from Hong Leong Building in Singapore after tremors originating from Sumatra were felt?
Did you knowthat the Port of Mainz was an important war harbour for the Roman fleet from which Roman ships patrolled the Rhine ?
Did you knowthat official mail stamps were first introduced into the U.S. by the USPOD , due to an 1872 Republican election plan , to abolish free franking that 31,933 people were entitled to at a cost of US$ 5 million?
Did you knowthat the " sweaty saddle " aroma associated with Shiraz from the New South Wales wine region of the Hunter Valley is actually a wine fault ?
Did you knowthat University of Michigan Hall of Honor inductee Al Renfrew was the first person to play on a NCAA championship college hockey team and later coach a national champion?
Did you knowthat " Palestinian archaeology " can refer to a field of archaeological inquiry known as Syro-Palestinian archaeology , and more recently, to archaeological research conducted by Palestinians themselves?
Did you knowthat in 1940, the USS American Legion transported a Norwegian Princess to the safety of America , along with a vital Bofors 40mm gun to be used as a mass production prototype ?
Did you knowthat Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary in Kerala , India , receives migratory birds from far away Siberia ?
Did you knowthat many cellular phone ringtones use Music Macro Language , developed in the 1980s as a means of programming music on personal computers and video game consoles ?
Did you knowthat U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has expanded the Human Terrain Team program to match anthropologists with every brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan ?
Did you knowthat " quickfire ", a form of arson employed in Scandinavian blood feuds , was punishable by death only if the perpetrator was caught in the act and killed at the scene of the crime?
Did you knowthat the fifth growth Bordeaux wine estate of Château Cantemerle was not included in the original maps from the Bordeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855 ?
Did you knowthat the USS Hunter Liggett (APA-14) ran hazardous support missions to the American garrison on the bitterly contested island of Guadalcanal for over 14 months?
Did you knowthat Holocaust survivor Miles Lerman immigrated to the United States in 1947 and became a major figure behind the establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. ?
Did you knowthat Hans Thomsen , the German Chargé d'Affaires in Washington, D.C. immediately prior to World War II , directed an effort to influence the foreign policy platform of the 1940 Republican National Convention ?
Did you knowthat Burrabazar , in Kolkata , expanded from a yarn and textile market into a large wholesale market?