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Did you knowthat the Walter Gale House is the earliest independent design by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright ?
Did you knowthat Stereo Type , by the Welsh composer Guto Puw , was written for the combination of amplified typewriters and tape and was premiered in a shopping centre in Bangor, Gwynedd ?
Did you knowthat L.L. "Stub" Stewart Memorial State Park is the first new full-service state park in Oregon since 1972?
Did you knowthat the practice of cumul des mandats in French politics , holding multiple political offices at different levels of government concurrently, has been used by Jacques Chirac and Ségolène Royal ?
Did you knowthat the law enforcement agencies of Adjara made a gift of four cars and two two-roomed apartments to six of its most successful officers?
Did you knowthat cricketer Charles Macartney , who set a record for the most runs scored in one day, first learnt to bat with apples from the family orchard?
Did you knowthat Oregon Governor Oswald West sent his personal secretary Miss Fern Hobbs to Copperfield, Oregon, to shut down illegal activities and impose martial law in 1914?
Did you knowthat the climate of Florida includes snowfall or sleet as early as November (in 2006) and as late as April (in 2007)?
Did you knowthat thermal vent ecosystems have been discovered in the Aegean Sea , in the caldera of Kolumbo underwater volcano ?
Did you knowthat during World War II , Allied leaders met at the Droxford Station of the Meon Valley Railway to plan Operation Overlord ?
Did you knowthat the Byzantine general Belisarius held the last Roman triumph ever to be awarded to a private citizen for his victory in the Vandalic War ?
Did you knowthat John Campanius , an early Lutheran missionary to Delaware , transliterated the Lenape language and created one of the first documents to be written in a Native American language?
Did you knowthat investment banker Bill Hambrecht has pledged $2 million to help start an American Football league to compete with the National Football League ?
Did you knowthat the heaviest domestic pig on record weighed over a long ton but died before it could be exhibited at the Century of Progress in 1933 ?
Did you knowthat slavery existed in Indiana as late as 1840, even though Indiana was always a free state above the Mason-Dixon line , and slavery had been outlawed in the region due to the Northwest Ordinance in 1787?
Did you knowthat Hjalmar Hvam came up with the design for the world's first safety ski bindings while recovering from a skiing injury in hospital?
Did you knowthat Saint Gangulphus , who was murdered by his wife's lover in 760 , is invoked as a patron against adultery and marital difficulties?
Did you knowthat the mounds of Indian Mound Park on Dauphin Island , Alabama are composed of oyster shells discarded over centuries by migrant Indians?
Did you knowthat motorsport announcer Ken Squier coined the phrase "The Great American Race" for the Daytona 500 ?
Did you knowthat Ghazi Mullah proclaimed that only the elimination of Russians from the Caucasus would please Allah ?
Did you knowthat when British charity Aid Convoy ' s first dedicated vehicle broke down while delivering aid to Macedonia , it was rescued by British radio and TV presenter Simon Mayo ?
Did you knowthat Paul Henkel , operating out of his son's printing house, became the first and only Lutheran publisher in the United States for years?
Did you knowthat ribbon diagrams , which represent the three-dimensional structure of proteins , are produced by a computerized spline function?
Did you knowthat General Edmund Rice led his regiment against Pickett's Charge , was wounded three times, escaped imprisonment by jumping out of a moving train, and received a Congressional Medal of Honor ?
Did you knowthat Itzik Zohar scored Israel 's first international goal in football after gaining full admittance to UEFA ?
Did you knowthat U-515 sank seven Allied ships in a 12-hour period during her third patrol of the war ?
Did you knowthat Józef Franczak , last of the cursed soldiers , was a resistance fighter for over half his life?
Did you knowthat the Historic Michigan Boulevard District came to be one of the most famous one-sided streets as a result of the legal persistence of Aaron Montgomery Ward ?
Did you knowthat Gordon Murray , the creator of classic British children's television shows Trumpton , Camberwick Green and Chigley , burnt all but one of his puppets on a bonfire in the 1980s?
Did you knowthat the modern history of aviation in Bangladesh began by meeting the needs of the Royal Indian Air Force for its World War II Burma campaign?
Did you knowthat the Susquehanna Boom led to Williamsport, Pennsylvania having more millionaires per capita than any other city at the time?
Did you knowthat in his varied career in French politics , Raymond Janot was concurrently mayor of a small town and secretary-general of the international French Community ?
Did you knowthat for the past 16 years Michael Kesterton has written a column in The Globe and Mail made up of a collection of odd news stories pulled from various sources?
Did you knowthat after the 1607 Battle of Guzów , the victorious King Sigismund III Vasa gave a general amnesty which punished nobody and decided nothing?
Did you knowthat investigative journalist John Sweeney stated his outburst in the documentary Scientology and Me was a by-product of viewing the Citizen's Commission on Human Rights exhibit, " Psychiatry: An Industry of Death "?
Did you knowthat Englishman Peter Marner was the first batsman to hit a century in one-day cricket , in the first round of Gillette Cup matches in 1963?
Did you knowthat Handigodu Syndrome is an osteoarthritic disorder endemic to the Malnad region in Karnataka , India ?
Did you knowthat the Bukit Batok Memorial was built by Australian POWs to honor the war dead of the Japanese and Allies from Singapore 's Battle of Bukit Timah ?
Did you knowthat although largely forgotten, Spring in Park Lane is still the British film with the highest cinema attendances in the UK ?
Did you knowthat St. Assam's Church in Raheny , Dublin , has been the site of Christian worship since 1189 ?
Did you knowthat the US Supreme Court overturned the suspension of seventy-five students from Marion-Franklin High School ?
Did you knowthat General Sir Edward Jones was the only man to follow his father as a member of the Army Board in the 20th century, and later served as Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod in the House of Lords ?
Did you knowthat Dateline: Toronto , a collection of Ernest Hemingway 's newspaper writings for the Toronto Star in the early 1920s, contained themes and ideas later used in The Old Man and the Sea and The Sun Also Rises ?
Did you knowthat Chief Yellow Horse was the first full-blooded Native American to play Major League Baseball ?
Did you knowthat Irish cricketer Leslie Kidd played his first first-class cricket matches for Cambridge University and played his last against them?
Did you knowthat some scholars interpret the petroglyphs of Kamyana Mohyla in Ukraine as precursors of the Sumerian cuneiform script ?
Did you knowthat Tong Yabghu , khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate , campaigned with the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius in the Caucasus Mountains ?
Did you knowthat 35 Jewish Zionists were executed in the Pinsk massacre because they were suspected of being Bolsheviks ?
Did you knowthat the Community Court of Australia 's Northern Territory aims to reduce re-offending by involving the indigenous community in the sentencing process?
Did you knowthat Don Tallon , regarded as one of Australia's greatest ever wicketkeepers, was once dropped from his state team because he was ruled to be too young to travel interstate?
Did you knowthat the peacekeeping Polish-Ukrainian Peace Force Battalion , created in the late 1990s, is serving as part of the Kosovo Force ?
Did you knowthat battle for trade was a phrase introduced by Polish communist propaganda for the nationalization of private sector shops ?
Did you knowthat John J. Bernet was known for bringing railroad companies back from bankruptcy to solvency, earning him the nickname "Doctor of Sick Railroads"?
Did you knowthat Peter Herdic , a 19th-century Pennsylvania lumber baron, millionaire, and philanthropist, also invented the horse-drawn herdic , an early form of taxicab?
Did you knowthat Allen Steere , a professor of rheumatology at Harvard University , is credited with discovering Lyme disease ?
Did you knowthat Trivikrama Mahadeva has organized the funerals of over 42,000 people?
Did you knowthat debt-relief activist Ann Pettifor staged a 70,000 person protest which formed a human chain and encircled the 1998 G8 summit ?
Did you knowthat the first wine region established as an American Viticultural Area was the Augusta AVA in Augusta, Missouri being selected eight months before Napa Valley, California ?
Did you knowthat the nudie cutie The Adventures of Lucky Pierre was the first sexploitation movie to be filmed in color?
Did you knowthat the Gotha Go 145 bi-plane started service as a trainer in the Luftwaffe in 1935, and was still in service as a night bomber at the end of the war in Europe ?
Did you knowthat the Cumberland Valley Railroad ran its first trains in 1837 on oak stringers in place of iron rails, and that in 1839 it ran the first sleeping cars in America?
Did you knowthat wind gradient causes sounds to appear to carry farther downwind, not the wind itself?
Did you knowthat the Pleasant Home , a U.S. National Historic Landmark , derives its name from its location, the intersection of Pleasant Street and Home Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois ?
Did you knowthat ASNOVA was a group of architects that linked psychology and architecture by building laboratories and expounding psychological theories?
Did you knowthat the island of Tanjong Pelumpong in Brunei was created when a ten meter deep channel was cut through the spit to provide access to Muara Port ?
Did you knowthat Morlon Wiley was part of the NBA 's only trade on the day of the trading deadline in 1995, being traded for Scott Brooks ?
Did you knowthat the $7m (£4.2m) estate of Gregory Hemingway , the youngest son of Ernest Hemingway , could not be left to his wife because of the same-sex marriage laws in Florida ?
Did you knowthat the first large influx of Russians in Korea came after the fall of Vladivostok to communist forces in 1922?
Did you knowthat Dov Yosef , Israel's second Minister of Justice , immigrated to Israel as a soldier in the Canadian Jewish Legion ?
Did you knowthat biologists Emile Zuckerkandl and Linus Pauling would intentionally avoid peer review when publishing their most provocative works on molecular evolution ?
Did you knowthat Johann Sebastian Bach wrote concertos for 1, 2, 3, and even 4 harpsichords ?
Did you knowthat the pasilalinic-sympathetic compass was an attempt to communicate across vast distances using a telepathic link between snails ?
Did you knowthat Luxembourg City 's Place Guillaume II is colloquially known as the 'Knuedler', after the knot in the belt worn by Franciscan friars, one of whose monasteries once stood there?
Did you knowthat Matysiakowie is both the most popular radio drama in Poland and one of the longest running in the world, with over 2600 episodes broadcast since 1956?
Did you knowthat the Frank Lloyd Wright -designed Mrs. Thomas H. Gale House is considered a forerunner to the famous Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania ?
Did you knowthat baseball player Rollie Hemsley was the first member of Alcoholics Anonymous to break their anonymity on a national level?
Did you knowthat St. Patrick's Church was the first Catholic parish established in New Orleans outside the French Quarter , so that Irish immigrants would have a parish that was not dominated by French-speaking Creoles ?
Did you knowthat Grand Duke George Mikhailovich of Russia once owned the largest and finest collection of Russian coins?
Did you knowthat footballer David Weir scored Manchester City 's first ever FA Cup goal?
Did you knowthat the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals was a leading Islamic political group, founded in 1990 by senior politician and later president of Indonesia , B. J. Habibie ?
Did you knowthat Paula Cooper , sentenced to death at age 15, had her sentence commuted in 1989 after an international uproar ensued and Pope John Paul II appealed to the Governor of Indiana for leniency?
Did you knowthat Alexander Everett used techniques from the Unity Church and Jose Silva 's Silva Mind Control , in his company Mind Dynamics ?
Did you knowthat Dave Brubeck 's The Real Ambassadors was largely based on the goodwill tours of Louis Armstrong and other jazz musicians on behalf of the U.S. State Department during the Cold War ?
Did you knowthat the founding father of physical education in Poland , Dr. Henryk Jordan , started a school for midwives during his stay in New York City in the late 19th century ?
Did you knowthat in 1926, author Helen Dore Boylston and Laura Ingalls Wilder 's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane , drove from Paris to Albania in a Model T Ford called "Zenobia"?
Did you knowthat some catfishes of the subfamily Glanapteryginae live exclusively in sand ?
Did you knowthat just as there is a " Fifth Beatle ," Phillip Wilcher is called the "fifth Wiggle" for leaving The Wiggles shortly before they became Australia's highest grossing entertainers?
Did you knowthat writer and publisher Bernard d’Abrera is a fervent creationist who blames environmental problems on the "waste" of studying evolution ?
Did you knowthat Bernard de Neufmarché was the first of the Norman conquerors of Wales , who annexed the Kingdom of Brycheiniog to England ?
Did you knowthat the great-granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi , Leela Gandhi , is a senior lecturer at La Trobe University in the English program?
Did you knowthat on 28 April 1285 at Girona , Jean Cholet crowned Charles of Valois with his galero and pronounced him King of Aragon , earning Charles the affectionate moniker roi du chapeau (king of the hat)?
Did you knowthat Ed Trice , creator of the chess variant known as Gothic Chess , helped Jonathan Schaeffer solve the game of checkers , the largest game ever solved?
Did you knowthat the Australian solicitor and politician , Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott was a Freemason , and the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of NSW and ACT ?
Did you knowthat all four deaths in the thirty annual Chicago Marathons have occurred in the last ten years?
Did you knowthat when Nizah Morris , an African American transgender woman, was murdered, the medical examiner immediately labeled it a homicide , but the Philadelphia police took over a month to do so?
Did you knowthat Jeffrey Pollack , Commissioner of the World Series of Poker , won two Emmy Awards for the work he did as NASCAR 's marketing director?
Did you knowthat Thai actor Mitr Chaibancha died while filming a stunt for the final scene of the 1970 film, Insee thong ?
Did you knowthat Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania was America's first student union?
Did you knowthat the last archbishop of Bordeaux of the Hundred Years' War , Pey Berland , built annexed to the cathedral a tower that still bears his name: the Tour Pey Berland ?
Did you knowthat East Perth Cemeteries ' first recorded burial was of Private John Mitchell from the 63rd regiment who died on 6 January 1830 ?
Did you knowthat the praetorian prefecture of Africa , a Byzantine province established after the Vandalic War , saw continuous warfare and two major military mutinies during its first 15 years of existence?
Did you knowthat most species of catfishes of the subfamily Sarcoglanidinae are small and transparent ?
Did you knowthat Mozart was a frequent guest at the villa Bertramka on the outskirts of Prague and that the house is now a museum in his memory?
Did you knowthat in 2006 Gibraltar was granted a new constitution , giving it a modern constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat Oscar the Cat was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine for his purported ability to predict the impending death of the terminally ill ?
Did you knowthat when severely disturbed, catfish of the genus Acrochordonichthys may release a milky-white mucus -like substance that can kill other fish?
Did you knowthat Abraham Lincoln helped bury the dead at Kellogg's Grove following the second Battle of Kellogg's Grove during the Black Hawk War ?
Did you knowthat the online business term Enterprise 2.0 originated with Participate Systems CEO Alan Warms in 2001 and has spawned an annual collaborative technologies conference of the same name?
Did you knowthat children who turn 16 during the validity of a Family Railcard may still travel at child fares until the card expires?
Did you knowthat the Duncan Hunter presidential campaign, 2008 has been endorsed by both Chuck Yeager and Ann Coulter ?
Did you knowthat Ed Bruneteau was traded twice to the Detroit Red Wings within two years?
Did you knowthat the children's group The Wiggles , Australia's most successful entertainers, have franchised their image and songs to groups in Taiwan and South America?
Did you knowthat the winners at the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe in September, 2007, will receive the first WSOP bracelets ever awarded outside of Las Vegas?
Did you knowthat Auburn Tigers offensive coordinator Al Borges wrote both a book and an instructional video titled Coaching the West Coast Quarterback ?
Did you knowthat members of the genus Breitensteinia have a longer body than other stream catfishes due to an increase in number of vertebrae ?
Did you knowthat in terms of political ideology , American economists tend to be liberal ?
Did you knowthat oleoresin extracted from Byadgi chilli is used in making nail polish and lipstick ?
Did you knowthat library@esplanade is Singapore 's first public library for the performing arts ?
Did you knowthat Iraqi world-class wrestler and weightlifter Kadhem Sharif attempted to use a sledgehammer to bring down the statue of Saddam Hussein at Baghdad 's Firdos Square ?
Did you knowthat University Hall , Northwestern University's oldest building, is composed of Joliet limestone - the same kind used to build the Chicago Water Tower ?
Did you knowthat the homosexual relationship between Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone only became a major on-screen plot line on All My Children after the series fans demanded it?
Did you knowthat the Cleeves Cove caves were used as a refuge for the local Covenanters , a religious group seeking religious freedom, during the time of their persecution by Charles II 's government?
Did you knowthat Johnny Ramensky was a Scottish criminal who used his safe-cracking abilities to help the British Army ?
Did you knowthat in 1999, John Pollack quit his job as a Congressional speechwriter to build a boat made entirely out of corks ?
Did you knowthat State Route 69 (road sign pictured) in the U.S. state of Utah was renumbered State Route 38 in 1993, due to sign theft caused by one connotation of the number ?
Did you knowthat catfish of the genus Leporacanthicus are also known as vampire plecostomus because of the presence of very long teeth on their upper jaw?
Did you knowthat Russian parliamentarian Vasily Maklakov is suspected of having procured the poison that was used to murder Grigori Rasputin ?
Did you knowthat Christopher Wright , one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot , could be the source of the letter that betrayed the plan?
Did you knowthat the Singapore Declaration , one of the two most important constitutional documents of the Commonwealth of Nations , is thought to have been unenforceable until the Harare Declaration twenty years later?
Did you knowthat besides writing 3000 songs during his life, Clifford Grey also competed for the United States in bobsledding while still a British citizen?
Did you knowthat the Esplanade in Calcutta , which formed a favourite promenade for "elegant walking parties" in the eighteenth century, now sees some 200,000 to 300,000 vehicles pass through during rush hour ?
Did you knowthat William Gaskell , husband of the well-known Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell , was a pioneer in the education of the working classes ?
Did you knowthat Tan Howe Liang is Singapore 's only Olympic Games medallist?
Did you knowthat algific talus slope ecosystems exist only in the Driftless Area of Minnesota , Wisconsin , Illinois , and Iowa ?
Did you knowthat the Austrian government gave the American soprano Teresa Stich-Randall the title of Kammersängerin given to esteemed artists?
Did you knowthat the Javanese Damarwulan legend may be based on events during the reign of Queen Suhita of the Majapahit Empire ?
Did you knowthat the Calendar of saints of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa includes feasts for a number of individuals from Africa, including Bernard Mizeki , Robert Gray , Manche Masemola , and Charles Frederick Mackenzie ?
Did you knowthat Jews of Iran is the first documentary film about Iran 's Jewish minority ?
Did you knowthat Carpenter's Coffee House in Covent Garden , London , became known as "The Finish" as it was the place revellers went when all the other coffee houses and taverns closed?
Did you knowthat subjective logic can help you deal with uncertainty?
Did you knowthat Choir is the site of the longest runway in Mongolia ?
Did you knowthat while under construction the Lena Water Tower in Lena, Illinois had to be demolished and rebuilt because it began to crumble?
Did you knowthat there were no police in Cascade City, British Columbia in 1897 and when thieves broke into a store, taking 150 pounds of tobacco , a book-keeper was sent to arrest the suspects?
Did you knowthat Edgar Allison Peers was an English Hispanist who coined the term " red-brick university "?
Did you knowthat prominent pops conductor and arranger Jeff Tyzik released six albums from 1981–1990 as a solo trumpeter?
Did you knowthat former sumo wrestler Asahikuni Masuo suffered from chronic pancreatic trouble and sometimes commuted to tournaments from a hospital?
Did you knowthat in the years 1936–1939 about 3 million Poles gave their personal savings, jewelry and valuables to the Fundusz Obrony Narodowej (National Defence Fund), to improve the equipment of the Polish Army ?
Did you knowthat Pareuchiloglanis catfishes can be distinguished from other members of the Sisoridae family only by their premaxillary tooth bands?
Did you knowthat the Cody Caves are part of the setting of the children's book, The Kootenay Kidnapper by Canadian author Eric Wilson ?
Did you knowthat the story of the video game Code Age Commanders is set in a fictional "intraglobular world" similar to a Dyson sphere ?
Did you knowthat road maintenance depots have been used as fronts to disguise entrances to military installations?
Did you knowthat Count Vladimir Lambsdorff managed to talk Nicholas II of Russia out of the projected Russian-German alliance against Britain ?
Did you knowthat John Beckett is the only American football player to have been the team captain for two different Rose Bowl teams: the University of Oregon in 1917 and Mare Island in 1918?
Did you knowthat the medieval Irish narrative The Sickbed of Cúchulainn gave its name to the first song on The Pogues ' 1985 album Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash ?
Did you knowthat the Bilbie family produced more than 1,350 bells , from the late 1600s to the early 1800s?
Did you knowthat the BBC reported that the John West Salmon ' s "Bear Fight" videos have been viewed over 300 million times making it the sixth most viewed online video ?
Did you knowthat according to a legend, Polish-Lithuanian noble Mikołaj Sapieha stole a Holy Painting from a private Papal chapel in Rome?
Did you knowthat horses hauled both passenger and goods trains to Weston-super-Mare railway station , England , from 1841, when the railway opened, until 1851?
Did you knowthat The French Connection led the Buffalo Sabres to the Stanley Cup Playoffs in each of the seven full seasons they were together except the one Gilbert Perreault 's broken leg limited him to 55 games?
Did you knowthat in 1078 the Chinese statesman and poet Su Shi ( 1037 - 1101 ) wrote a memorial to the throne warning of the potential danger of bandits overrunning the iron industry of Xuzhou ?