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Did you knowthat Arthur McIntyre became England's oldest living Test cricketer after the death of Ken Cranston ?
Did you knowthat Indonesian freedom fighter Ernest Douwes Dekker is related to the Dutch writer, Eduard Douwes Dekker and volunteered on the Boers ' side during the Second Boer War in South Africa as a youth?
Did you knowthat Air Chief Marshal Sir Lewis Hodges was awarded two DSOs and a Bar to his DFC for flying secret missions for SOE in Europe and the Far East in the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat two officers have quit their jobs over purported paranormal activity at George Stickney House , home to the Bull Valley, Illinois Police Department?
Did you knowthat Stephen Maylad became Voivode of Transylvania with the help of Petru Rareş , who later doomed him to a wretched death in the Yedikule dungeons?
Did you knowthat American papermaking authority Dard Hunter published a volume created entirely by himself—including its paper , type design, typesetting , and printing ?
Did you knowthat William E. "Bud" Davis , who had a successful career as president at four universities, originally wanted " to be the world's greatest football coach " before he went 2-8 in 1962 and never coached again?
Did you knowthat, in autumn 1934, Amicii URSS , a Romanian left-wing cultural society, dispatched the writer Alexandru Sahia on an illegal visit to the Soviet Union , as a means to commemorate the October Revolution ?
Did you knowthat Mandy Mitchell-Innes was the last surviving English cricketer to have played Test cricket before the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat William Dronfield founded the United Kingdom Alliance of Organised Trades , which inspired the creation of the Trades Union Congress ?
Did you knowthat "On the very first of May", a work composed by singer and organist William Savage , was set to nonsense verses by his wife?
Did you knowthat Scottish international rugby player Tremayne Rodd was banned from playing amateur rugby union in 1966 after accompanying the British and Irish Lions ?
Did you knowthat the BBC journalist Barbara Plett ' s admission of having cried at the sight of the terminally ill Yasser Arafat led to a controversy?
Did you knowthat the title of Namestnik of Kingdom of Poland became unused and replaced with that of Governor-General of Warsaw without any formal decree after the death of the last namestnik ?
Did you knowthat members of the music trio Queen of Japan use aliases that sound like Japanese names and are known for synthpop covers of artists such as John Lennon and Bob Dylan ?
Did you knowthat the Kentucky High School Athletic Association divides its member schools into separate enrollment classes in only three of the 13 sports in which it conducts state championships?
Did you knowthat American activist Nelson Cruikshank is considered the most important non- legislator responsible for the enactment of the U.S. Social Security Disability Insurance in 1956 and Medicare in 1965 ?
Did you knowthat Têtes à Claques was originally intended to be stop motion animation , but instead superimposed faces on the figurines to save time?
Did you knowthat the Karnataka politician Hotte Paksha Rangaswamy is the world record holder for number of elections contested?
Did you knowthat during the 1793 Siege of Mainz , Goethe was a military observer and later wrote a book about the bombardment of the city?
Did you knowthat the first three Ministers of the Privy Treasury of the Ottoman Empire were Armenian, the first being Hagop Kazazian Pasha ?
Did you knowthat Dutch governor-general Jan Willem Janssens surrendered both the Cape Colony and the Dutch East Indies in separate incidents during the Napoleonic Wars ?
Did you knowthat at the 1974 Coalition of Labor Union Women convention, Myra Wolfgang declared "...there are 3,000 women in Chicago and they didn't come here to swap recipes !"?
Did you knowthat three members of the Hot 8 Brass Band have died as a result of gun violence in New Orleans ?
Did you knowthat runestones have allowed archaeologists to reconstruct the family saga of the powerful Viking woman Estrid ?
Did you knowthat Robert Keyes was related to five of the other Gunpowder Plot conspirators?
Did you knowthat David Colville Anderson , whose career was ended by a scandal involving teenage girls , blamed it on the KGB ?
Did you knowthat the Alliance for Retired Americans was instrumental in enacting Medicare ?
Did you knowthat the Sajama Lines in Bolivia took 3,000 years to make and might be considered the largest artwork in the world?
Did you knowthat Cecilia Muñoz-Palma was the Philippines ' first female prosecutor, district judge, and Supreme Court justice?
Did you knowthat the six Charles Tayleur locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway were unsuccessful?
Did you knowthat Pope Pius XII tried to prevent the bombing of Rome in World War II ?
Did you knowthat toso is a medicinal sake drunk during Japanese New Year celebrations?
Did you knowthat hippocamps are mythological sea-horses that frolic in the Trevi Fountain ?
Did you knowthat the Terrace Mutiny of 1944 was the most serious disciplinary breach in Canadian military history ?
Did you knowthat pastor and linguist Christoph Mrongovius was honored by having a town named after him ?
Did you knowthat Baghdad Street in Istanbul was named by Murad IV to commemorate his conquest of Mesopotamia ?
Did you knowthat the mythical Canadian water monster Ogopogo inspired the British film Mee-Shee: The Water Giant ?
Did you knowthat Louisiana politician Arthur C. Watson lost the use of his legs in infancy?
Did you knowthat the Imperial Japanese Army 14th Division made Chinese dumplings a specialty of Utsunomiya upon returning from Manchuria ?
Did you knowthat Iya Abubakar , a Nigerian mathematician , served as his country's Minister of Defence ?
Did you knowthat Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe , a Munro in Scotland , is one of the "Five Sisters of Kintail"?
Did you knowthat Ovidiu Pecican co-wrote a textbook of Romanian history that caused a national scandal?
Did you knowthat a protoplanetary nebula is a short-lived phase of stellar evolution ?
Did you knowthat Rolf Dudley-Williams helped set up the company that manufactured the world's first working jet engine ?
Did you knowthat John Casor was the first known slave in the Thirteen Colonies ?
Did you knowthat the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club claims to be the second oldest ice hockey team in the world?
Did you knowthat during the 1933 Simele massacre nearly 3,000 people were killed and more than 63 Assyrian villages were destroyed?
Did you knowthat award-winning Japanese novelist Tachihara Masaaki was a Zainichi Korean , whose works were strongly influenced by Zeami 's traditional Japanese Noh dramas?
Did you knowthat most of the numerous Jarlabanke Runestones were made by a Viking chieftain in an attempt to immortalize his power and greatness?
Did you knowthat the Land Coastal Defence that defended the Polish coast during the German invasion of Poland was subordinate to the Polish Navy , not the Army ?
Did you knowthat two Viking women named Gerlög and Inga documented their tragic and dramatic family saga on a series of runestones during the civil wars of 11th century Sweden ?
Did you knowthat the Aston Martin DBR1 sports car won the 1000km Nürburgring round of the World Sportscar Championship in all three years it entered?
Did you knowthat the Ingvar Runestones commemorate Vikings who died in the raid led by Ingvar the Far-Travelled which pillaged the coasts of Persia ?
Did you knowthat St. Cyril's Monastery in Kiev , Ukraine was closed by the Tsarist Government and its living quarters were converted into a hospital and later an insane asylum , which lasted until the mid-late 20th century ?
Did you knowthat Zhang Zhenshi created a widely reproduced image of Mao Zedong which is known as China 's Mona Lisa ?
Did you knowthat the Free Association of German Trade Unions was the only trade union in Germany to reject the Burgfrieden , a civil truce between the socialist movement and the German state during World War I ?
Did you knowthat Major Alan Shapley , survivor of the sinking of the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor , had been relieved of duty on the Arizona the previous day, but had stayed aboard overnight before reporting to his next duty station?
Did you knowthat Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia was urged by her mother-in-law to testify in the case of Anna Anderson , the woman who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia ?
Did you knowthat there are four UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Scotland and four more sites currently undergoing a process of evaluation including the iconic Forth Bridge ?
Did you knowthat the inhabitants of Fjuckby , Sweden want to change the name of their village because of its unfortunate associations?
Did you knowthat the 17th century Puritan physician Alexander Leighton incurred the wrath of King Charles I for publishing a pamphlet denouncing bishops, and was sentenced by his Star Chamber to public whipping, branding , and having his ears cut off?
Did you knowthat the 1927 American silent film The Cat and the Canary was directed by German expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni ?
Did you knowthat the world's only memorial to war correspondents is located in Maryland 's Gathland State Park ?
Did you knowthat Kenny Leon directed the Broadway premiere of the August Wilson play Gem of the Ocean ?
Did you knowthat Alejandro Maclean , Spanish television producer and Red Bull Air Race World Series pilot, is nicknamed "The Flying Matador "?
Did you knowthat  the 2000 Sri Lanka Cyclone , which left over 500,000 homeless, was the first tropical cyclone of hurricane intensity to hit Sri Lanka since 1978?
Did you knowthat the cornerstone for the first museum of space exploration , the Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga , Russia , was laid by Yuri Gagarin ?
Did you knowthat the 1968 Florida teachers' strike was the first statewide strike by teachers in United States history?
Did you knowthat the Raven banner , a standard used by various Viking leaders including Sigurd the Stout and Harald III of Norway , was a totem believed to have the power to grant victory to its holder?
Did you knowthat the 1939 planned encyclical of Pope Pius XI , Humani Generis Unitas , which condemned racism and persecution of Jews , became known as "The Hidden Encyclical" or "The Lost Encyclical," because it was never promulgated?
Did you knowthat the 1985 Oregon State vs. Washington football game resulted in the biggest overcome point spread in college football history when the Beavers beat the Huskies , 21-20?
Did you knowthat David Robinson, who tried to hijack Qantas Flight 1737 in 2003, wanted to crash the plane into a Tasmanian national park to release the Devil and bring about Armageddon ?
Did you knowthat kabuki actor Matsunosuke Onoe became the first superstar of Japanese cinema , appearing in over 1,000 films during the course of his 17-year career, including over 80 per year at his peak?
Did you knowthat Ian Harvey , a Conservative junior minister in the United Kingdom , resigned his seat in 1958 after a sex scandal?
Did you knowthat the University of Cambridge denied Edward A. Irving a PhD when he submitted evidence supporting continental drift ?
Did you knowthat Delaware Canal State Park in Pennsylvania contains the only intact 19th century towpath canal in the United States ?
Did you knowthat 199 of the 210 soldiers of the 5th Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Japanese Army's 8th Infantry Division froze to death as a result of a winter training accident in January 1902?
Did you knowthat U.S. Congressman Cecil R. King of California , deeply involved in the issue of Medicare , ran unopposed for his first 10 years in office?
Did you knowthat the twelfth sultan of Aceh , Iskandar Muda , had his own son killed and named as his successor the son of the sultan of Pahang , whom he had brought to Aceh twenty years earlier?
Did you knowthat before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans , the United Teachers of New Orleans was the largest trade union in the city?
Did you knowthat the removal of President Rolandas Paksas from office by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania was the first successful case of impeachment of a head of state in the history of Europe ?
Did you knowthat Dave Burrell 's operatic live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970 's?
Did you knowthat Acallam na Senórach , a tale of ancient heroes surviving to recount their deeds to St. Patrick , is the longest original text in medieval Irish literature ?
Did you knowthat the Vietnam War veteran Wesley Autrey jumped onto a New York City Subway track in front of an oncoming train to save another man?
Did you knowthat the Romanian anti-communist resistance movement , operating between 1948 and 1960, was one of the most enduring armed resistance movement in the former Soviet bloc ?
Did you knowthat the song " Shambala " by Three Dog Night has a gospel music sound and Tibetan Buddhist subject matter?
Did you knowthat the Swedish sculptor Willy Gordon received some attention with a sculpture showing a naked male figure carrying a piece of meat on his shoulders before a reclining female figure?
Did you knowthat Sir Francis Mitchell was the last British knight of the realm to be publicly degraded ?
Did you knowthat famed Japanese literary critic Kobayashi Hideo toured China as a guest of the Imperial Japanese Army , with future Nobel-prize winner Kawabata Yasunari ?
Did you knowthat after former House representative John H. Burke was not a candidate for renomination in 1934 , he went back to his home in Long Beach, California and became a real estate broker ?
Did you knowthat William Henry Holbert , a catcher for the 19th century New York Metropolitans baseball team, still holds the records for the most career at-bats without a home run ?
Did you knowthat the Landmarks Foundation helps conserve sacred sites such as the stone spheres of Costa Rica and the moai of Easter Island ?
Did you knowthat the carom billiards game, cushion caroms , was enjoyed on occasion by Mark Twain ?
Did you knowthat Byron N. Scott was a public school teacher in Long Beach, California prior to being elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1934?
Did you knowthat the Mecelle , the Ottoman civil code of 1877, was the first attempt to codify part of the laws of an Islamic state?
Did you knowthat mathematician Đuro Kurepa lectured at almost every university in Yugoslavia ?
Did you knowthat the Florida Education Association led the first statewide teachers ' strike in American history in 1968 ?
Did you knowthat the 1978 musical film The Wiz re-tells L. Frank Baum 's popular story The Wizard of Oz in an urban setting and with an entirely African-American cast?
Did you knowthat USS Stewart , now a museum in Texas , is the only surviving example of an Edsall class destroyer escort ?
Did you knowthat Ani , a medieval city once rivaling Constantinople , was ransacked by Mongols and now stands in ruin ?
Did you knowthat former California representative Bertrand W. Gearhart ran unopposed and captured nearly 100 percent of the vote in his biennial re-election bids from 1936 to 1944 ?
Did you knowthat the Russian composer Vladimir Shainsky created music and songs for popular cartoons such as Cheburashka and his best friend Crocodile Gena ?
Did you knowthat the McCarthy-style interrogations of the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee caused the firing or expulsion of scores of professors and students from Florida universities between 1956 and 1966?
Did you knowthat among the earliest accounts of the use of a man-lifting kite is in the story of Ishikawa Goemon 's robbery from Nagoya Castle ?
Did you knowthat Major Megan McClung , the first female United States Marine Corps officer killed in combat in Iraq , organized and competed in the first satellite running of the Marine Corps Marathon in Iraq?
Did you knowthat John Litchfield trod on the foot of one Prime Minister , sat on the lap of another, and was the first person to toast the health of Queen Elizabeth II ?
Did you knowthat the future mother-in-law of Kunikida Doppo urged her daughter to commit suicide rather than marry the Japanese author?
Did you knowthat for seven centuries Runamo was famous in Scandinavia as a runic inscription until scientists determined it to be natural cracks in the rock ?
Did you knowthat the Union of Salvation , a Russian secret society of revolutionary Decembrists , was organized according to a complex Masonic style system of rituals and vows?
Did you knowthat Nobel Prize -winning author Kawabata Yasunari was a houseguest of fellow author Kambara Ariake for almost two years after the end of World War II ?
Did you knowthat Sandra Feldman , former president of the American Federation of Teachers , was mentored by civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and arrested twice during the Freedom Rides ?
Did you knowthat British MP Anthony Courtney was blackmailed by the KGB using photographs of him with a tour guide ?
Did you knowthat Nikki Haley of South Carolina is the first Republican Indian-American state legislator in the USA ?
Did you knowthat the mentally ill Egyptian policeman who perpetrated the Ras Burqa massacre , killing seven Israeli tourists, including four children, was hailed in the Egyptian opposition press as a national hero?
Did you knowthat former California representative Allan O. Hunter was appointed as the president and chairman of Fannie Mae by President Richard Nixon in 1970 ?
Did you knowthat sixteen people were killed during a general strike in Nepal in 1992 , an incident that contributed to the breakout of a civil war four years later?
Did you knowthat a pentimento is an alteration to a painting that can often only be seen in an X-ray or an infra-red photograph ?
Did you knowthat Japanese poet Kitahara Hakushu was jailed for adultery in 1912?
Did you knowthat Nepalese politician Radha Krishna Mainali , once a communist revolutionary and a political prisoner for 16 years, was appointed Minister of Education & Sports by King Gyanendra after the king's seizure of power in February 2005?
Did you knowthat the 2006 Insight Bowl featured the biggest comeback in NCAA Division I-A football bowl history?
Did you knowthat 2006 was the 650th anniversary of the 1356 Basel earthquake , the most significant earthquake to have occurred in Central Europe in recorded history?
Did you knowthat children's writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes has written more than fifty stories, and illustrated over two hundred?
Did you knowthat Georgie White was the first woman to run a commercial Grand Canyon river guiding service?
Did you knowthat in Johnson Tan Han Seng v. Public Prosecutor , the Malaysian Federal Court held that a Proclamation of Emergency remains in force after the circumstances it was meant for have expired?
Did you knowthat The Mall at Turtle Creek in Jonesboro, Arkansas was the only enclosed mall to open in the United States in 2006?
Did you knowthat Powelliphanta Sp.Augustus is found only on a five hectare area northeast of Westport , New Zealand ?
Did you knowthat Hillsborough County, Florida Commissioner Ronda Storms was the author of an ultimately successful proposal that banned the county from acknowledging "gay pride"?
Did you knowthat Tigranakert was a center of Armenian culture until the Armenian Genocide of 1915 , when the population was eradicated and replaced by Kurds ?
Did you knowthat an editor for Kangura magazine was convicted at the International Criminal Tribunal for inciting the Rwandan Genocide ?
Did you knowthat the first radiosonde was made by Soviet meteorologist Pavel Molchanov ?
Did you knowthat Beard Liberation Front efforts led to the inclusion of beard ism in the Oxford English Dictionary ?
Did you knowthat in 1936 , 11-term U.S. Congressman Frederick R. Lehlbach closely lost his re-election bid to a political newcomer, Frank W. Towey, Jr. ?
Did you knowthat Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajnath Singh has been active in the party since age 13?
Did you knowthat in 1945 , Frederick C. Branch became the first African-American U.S. Marine Corps officer?
Did you knowthat the Swedish forces at the Siege of Jasna Góra were actually German mercenaries and Polish supporters of Charles X Gustav ?
Did you knowthat jazz musician Roscoe Mitchell , while in Germany for the U.S. Army , studied under the first clarinetist of the Heidelberg Symphony ?
Did you knowthat the Australian punk rock single " (I’m) Stranded " pre-dated the Sex Pistols ' debut release?
Did you knowthat Jaya Bharata Jananiya Tanujate , a Kannada poem, was declared the official anthem of the Indian state of Karnataka in 2004 ?
Did you knowthat Plagiostomum vittatum , the " Candy Cane Worm ", is a flatworm with red stripes ?
Did you knowthat the Normal School for Colored Girls was incorporated into the University of the District of Columbia ?
Did you knowthat Randy Shilts was the first openly gay man in the mainstream U.S. media ?
Did you knowthat the chaperon was a hat from the Middle Ages that could be worn in at least six different ways?
Did you knowthat Millennium City, Hong Kong has skyscrapers numbered 1, 2, 3, and 5, possibly because 4 is considered unlucky ?
Did you knowthat the Louvre describes Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle as the most beautiful ronde-bosse ivory carving ever made?
Did you knowthat in his 1560s work the Zimmern Chronicle Count Froben Christoph von Zimmern tried to establish a lineage to the ancient tribe of Cimbri just because his name sounded similar?
Did you knowthat Washburn University 's mascot , "the Ichabod", is named after Ichabod Washburn ,  an owner of the world's largest wire mill ?
Did you knowthat in Public Prosecutor v. Khong Teng Khen & Anor. it was held that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia can promulgate ordinances with the force of law?
Did you knowthat women in some societies may be subject to honor killing for violation of namus ?
Did you knowthat after Frank W. Towey, Jr. lost his House of Representatives re- election bid, he became assistant to the U.S. Attorney General ?
Did you knowthat the Young Bengal leader Dakshinaranjan Mukherjee was largely ostracized for marrying the widow of Maharaja Tejendra ?
Did you knowthat the Malta Summit was the first face-to-face meeting between George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev ?
Did you knowthat British MP Will Owen was nicknamed "greedy bastard" by the Czechoslovak intelligence agency to whom he sold secrets?
Did you knowthat 2-methylhexane and heptane are liquids with the same molecular formula but they have different density , freezing points and boiling points ?
Did you knowthat despite being a Soviet citizen and a confirmed NKVD agent, Alexandru Nicolschi served as head of Communist Romania 's secret police ?
Did you knowthat a botánica is a Latin American store that sells religious goods, magical paraphernalia and brand name health care products?
Did you knowthat Josef Frings , Archbishop of Cologne , was observed by the Gestapo during World War II ?
Did you knowthat despite Irish neutrality , weather reports from Met Éireann were used to plan the D-Day landings ?
Did you knowthat Scottish language prodigy James Murdoch , after participating in a failed communist commune in Paraguay , was hired by the Australian Ministry of Defence as an expert on Japanese issues?
Did you know that Ira Goldstein , an advertisement campaign character for the ASB Bank in New Zealand , supposedly drives a metallic-brown 1979 Leyland Princess 2000 HL?
Did you knowthat former New Jersey Representative Henry Helstoski was charged with receiving bribes from illegal aliens in 1976 ?
Did you know that the Ayles Ice Shelf at Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago collapsed in less than an hour in August 2005, setting a 66 km² (25 mi²) ice island adrift in the Arctic Ocean , but the collapse was only discovered during the recent analysis of satellite images captured by MODIS ?
Did you knowthat Australian cricketer Trevor Chappell was reprimanded by the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand when he rolled an underarm delivery to batsman Brian McKechnie to stop him from lofting the ball for six ?