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Did you knowthat the Nusa Kambangan , "the Alcatraz of Indonesia ", has held a son of former President Suharto and terrorists of the 2002 Bali bombing ?
Did you knowthat when the Kälvesten Runestone was rediscovered in the walls of a church, it was removed and again used as building material?
Did you knowthat the Union forces in the American Civil War won the Battle of Simmon's Bluff without inflicting casualties?
Did you knowthat the Akhurian River is said to have turned completely red because of a major battle nearby?
Did you knowthat the Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines was temporarily abolished during the Japanese occupation ?
Did you knowthat labor leader Victor Kamber created playing cards with public figures in 1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie" music video depicting a rapping Ronald Reagan in 1984 ?
Did you knowthat Alan Jay Lerner , lyricist of My Fair Lady , also co-wrote a disastrous musical version of Nabokov 's Lolita ?
Did you knowthat Soviet actor Pavel Luspekaev played in the classic Russian Ostern movie White Sun of the Desert with both feet amputated?
Did you knowthat NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw was a firm created by Germany in 1922 to illegally manufacture submarines?
Did you knowthat snow in Florida has been reported at least 34 times, including as far south as Homestead ?
Did you knowthat actor Edward Chapman , known for his role as "Mr. Grimsdale" in many Norman Wisdom films, tried to have Sir John Gielgud thrown out of Equity ?
Did you knowthat in his lifetime, Thomas Brassey was involved in building one-third of the railway built in the United Kingdom and in one-twentieth of the railway built in the world?
Did you knowthat Herkus Monte , one of the most famous leaders of the Great Prussian Uprising, was kidnapped in the 13th century by the Germans as a boy?
Did you knowthat Rachel Paulose is the first woman in Minnesota to become a District Attorney ?
Did you knowthat Simplicity Patterns has been a leader in home pattern sewing since 1927?
Did you knowthat the word jazz was originally a California baseball slang term and was first applied to a style of music in Chicago ?
Did you knowthat Stephan Körner's major philosophical work was in the philosophy of mathematics and the study of "exact" and "inexact" concepts ?
Did you knowthat La Casa Pacifica , President Richard Nixon 's private retreat in San Clemente, California , became known as the "Western White House"?
Did you knowthat criminal and boxer , James Field , was so feared by the police force of London in the 18th century , that they would pretend not to recognize him rather than arresting him?
Did you knowthat 60 percent of Carnatic musicians in Karnataka come from Rudrapatna ?
Did you knowthat Serenade No. 10 for winds by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is scored for twelve wind instruments and double bass and consists of seven movements ?
Did you knowthat former British Member of Parliament Walter Scott-Elliot was murdered by "Monster Butler" Archibald Hall ?
Did you knowthat Munir Bashir , known for his mastery of the maqam scale system, was a famous musician in the Middle East during the 20th century ?
Did you knowthat the Heinkel He 50 , designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1931, was used operationally by Germany almost until the end of World War II ?
Did you knowthat Duff Goldman of Ace of Cakes hired some painters and sculptors as assistants even though they didn't have experience as pastry chefs ?
Did you knowthat in Faridah Begum bte Abdullah v. Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah , it was held that non- Malaysian citizens cannot sue a Malay ruler ?
Did you knowthat when the Geats saw the Swedish king Ragnvald Knaphövde travelling among them without Geatish hostages, they deemed him so arrogant that they murdered him?
Did you knowthat Oneirocritica , the first major work on dream interpretation , was written in the second century by Artemidorus ?
Did you knowthat the City of York was a British barque which sank after hitting a reef off Rottnest Island within sight of its destination?
Did you knowthat there are several theories about the origins of the name of Poland ?
Did you knowthat Eriogonum parvifolium is a California endemic dunes shrub that is host to several endangered butterflies ?
Did you knowthat the first time in World War II submersible tanks were used was on June 22 , 1941 , by German tanks of the 18th Panzer-Division ?
Did you knowthat the Anjajavy Forest holds many endangered species including four of the 99 pairs of Madagascar Fish Eagle ?
Did you knowthat Alix, the wife of Viscount of Rochechouart Aymeric VI, was imprisoned in Château de Rochechouart castle with a lion, but the animal did not hurt her and laid down at her feet?
Did you knowthat J-ska is contemporary Japanese music with origins in Jamaica ?
Did you knowthat Japanese surrealist gothic horror author Yumeno Kyūsaku dropped dead due to a cerebral hemorrhage while at an autograph signing party hosted by his publisher?
Did you knowthat after an affirmative action dispute, Yale freshman Jian Li was the subject of a controversial parody in the annual joke issue of The Daily Princetonian ?
Did you knowthat W. Harry Davis , who helped desegregate Minneapolis , overcame childhood polio to become a Golden Gloves coach and manager of U.S. Olympics boxing teams ?
Did you knowthat results of the 1946 Romanian general election , the first in Romania under universal suffrage , were manipulated by the Communist Party ?
Did you knowthat Dralasites are an amoeboid extraterrestrial race depicted in science fiction role-playing games for the past 25 years?
Did you knowthat the Polish minority in Lithuania is the country's largest non-Lithuanian ethnic group ?
Did you knowthat the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland of 1815 , considered among the most liberal constitutions of its time, was increasingly disregarded by the Polish government , leading to the November Uprising of 1830?
Did you knowthat Robert Spear Hudson used paintings by professional artists for advertising before Pear's Soap and Lever Brothers ?
Did you knowthat the Department of Food Science at Purdue University was created during Bernard J. Liska ' s tenure as Dean of Agriculture in 1983 ?
Did you knowthat Tom Chick is a prolific games journalist and Hollywood actor who has a degree in divinity from Harvard Divinity School ?
Did you knowthat James Palacio of the HBO series Oz was an empress of the Imperial Court System ?
Did you knowthat the first German U-boat sunk by the United States Navy in World War II was U-656 , sunk on 1 March 1942?
Did you knowthat Harold G. Schrier led the patrol of U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag on Mount Suribachi ?
Did you knowthat the Carbonera Creek watershed in California has diverse plant communities including a rare assemblage known as Maritime Coast Range Ponderosa Pine forests ?
Did you knowthat the Round Tower in Sandiway , Cheshire , was originally the gate lodge of the great house of Vale Royal Abbey ?
Did you knowthat Lithuania's name was recorded in chronicles by its Latinized Slavic name form Litua , for the first time in 1009 ?
Did you knowthat the female Smith's blue butterfly has only seven days to feed, court , mate , and lay eggs ?
Did you knowthat John Freke was the first ophthalmic surgeon?
Did you knowthat the Ryuho was the only major warship damaged in the Doolittle raid , and the last Japanese aircraft carrier to make a war-time voyage outside the Home Islands ?
Did you knowthat the Gouin Reservoir in Quebec , Canada is not one contiguous body of water, but the collective name for a series of lakes with highly irregular shapes?
Did you knowthat cock throwing was a popular blood sport in England for centuries?
Did you knowthat 51 Birch Street , a low-budget documentary about the mystery of a suburban marriage, was named one of The New York Times top ten films of 2006?
Did you knowthat Updown Court , a private residence in England , is valued at over US$120 million?
Did you knowthat Roger Bacon sent his Opus Majus , a treatise of natural science , to Pope Clement IV in 1267?
Did you knowthat Murderers Among Us was the first German post- World War II film?
Did you knowthat 2003's Hurricane Ignacio was the latest-forming first hurricane of a Pacific hurricane season since reliable satellite observation began in 1966?
Did you knowthat the champion racehorse Corrida , a two-time winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe , disappeared during the Battle of the Falaise Gap ?
Did you knowthat the Finnish Air Force selected the Saab 91 Safir as its primary trainer aircraft over the domestic Valmet Tuuli III ?
Did you knowthat according to the book Civilization One , there are 366 degrees in a circle?
Did you knowthat Richard E. Cavazos , recipient of two Distinguished Service Cross awards, was the United States Army 's first Hispanic 4-star general ?
Did you knowthat a copper mine on Brim Fell in England appears as in the novel The Plague Dogs ?
Did you knowthat the Mayurakshi river in India wreaks havoc with its floods even after the construction of a dam?
Did you knowthat Peter Prendergast was recognised as the leading landscape painter in Wales after the death of Sir Kyffin Williams in September 2006?
Did you knowthat Broken Glass , a 1994 play by Arthur Miller , was nominated for the 1994 Tony Award for Best Play, but lost out to Angels in America: Perestroika ?
Did you knowthat Randy Conrad became a local celebrity in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia after appearing in a McDonald's TV commercial ?
Did you knowthat although Abkhazia is not recognised by any nation, the Abkhazian Air Force had a reported roster of 250 men and seven aircraft in 2001 ?
Did you knowthat the first president of the World Association of Copepodologists was a veteran of the Polish resistance movement in World War II ?
Did you knowthat Les Taylor only captained Watford in the 1984 FA Cup final because regular captain Wilf Rostron was suspended?
Did you knowthat the interaction of bees and toxic chemicals can make bees drunk or produce poisonous honey ?
Did you knowthat Andreas Joseph Hofmann proclaimed the first republican state in Germany on March 18 , 1793 ?
Did you knowthat Maurice K. Goddard helped create 45 Pennsylvania state parks ?
Did you knowthat Junqueirópolis , a municipality in São Paulo , Brazil , is nicknamed " Acerola Capital" for its agriculture ?
Did you knowthat Seb Clover , who sailed the English Channel solo at age 11, set a world record at age 15 when he raced against his father in an Atlantic Ocean crossing?
Did you knowthat Target for Tonight was a 1941 documentary filmed, acted, and written by the Royal Air Force ?
Did you knowthat fewer than 100 of 500 colonists in the Virginia Colony survived the Starving Time during the winter of 1609-1610?
Did you knowthat the Blohm und Voss Bv 144 was an attempt by Nazi Germany to develop an advanced commercial airliner for post-war service?
Did you knowthat a Jacksnipe is a two-man racing sailing dinghy created in 1968 by prolific boat designer Jack Holt ?
Did you knowthat Major General Keith L. Ware , who was awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II , was the first U.S. Army general officer to be killed in action in the Vietnam War ?
Did you knowthat the Suisun Shrew is a rare mammal species that survives only in a narrow marshland at the northern extremity of San Francisco Bay ?
Did you knowthat the Stingray Nebula , discovered in 1987, is the youngest known planetary nebula ?
Did you knowthat Edwin D. Hill was the first president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to be elected by secret ballot ?
Did you knowthat an Egyptian army of 1,500 was defeated by 300 women and old men of Diro during the Egyptian Invasion of Mani in 1826 ?
Did you knowthat the Witches of Belvoir supposedly believed a cat named Rutterkin helped them cast spells ?
Did you knowthat La Salle Road in Hong Kong is named after French educator Jean-Baptiste de la Salle ?
Did you knowthat Arnold Zamora , a Filipino musician , is one of the Singing Priests of Tagbilaran ?
Did you knowthat Davi Kopenawa Yanomami , a shaman of the indigenous people of Brazil , received an award from the United Nations Environmental Program ?
Did you knowthat the Gettlinge gravefield contains a stone ship , made of standing stones in the shape of the traditional Viking sailing vessel?
Did you knowthat Larin Paraske , a Finnish oral poet , could recite over 32,000 verses of poetry?
Did you knowthat during the Winter War , a Swedish fundraising drive paid for the purchase of a Fokker F.VIII airliner for the Finnish Air Force ?
Did you knowthat Elisabeth Rivers-Bulkeley was one of the first women to become a member of the London Stock Exchange ?
Did you knowthat the king stropharia , a prized edible mushroom , develops spiny cells which kill nematodes ?
Did you knowthat matches were so prized during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition that Alfred Cheetham offered a bottle of champagne for one?
Did you knowthat Craignethan Castle was the last private fortress built in Scotland ?
Did you knowthat in his satirical 1827 pamphlet Grand Erratum , French physicist Jean-Baptiste Pérès argued that Napoleon never existed, but was just another expression of an ancient myth?
Did you knowthat model Rebecca Twigley became a household name in Australia after wearing a revealing dress to an event in 2004?
Did you knowthat the Golden Resources Mall in Beijing , the second-largest shopping mall in the world, has attracted as few as 20 shoppers in an hour?
Did you knowthat the Soviet spotter aircraft Sukhoi Su-12 , though approved, was never produced due to lack of manufacturing capacity in the USSR ?
Did you knowthat after serving as a surgeon in the Army of the Republic of Texas , David Catchings Dickson was elected to the First Texas Legislature ?
Did you knowthat the Black Fell comprised a chapter in the Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells because of its excellent view?
Did you knowthat the Heinkel He 46 , designed for the Luftwaffe in 1931, was still being used to fight the Soviets in 1943?
Did you knowthat the geology of London includes abundant fossilized animal remains?
Did you knowthat the Singapore Conference Hall was the first building to be built in the Shenton Way financial district ?
Did you knowthat sculptor Bernardo Cennini helped produce the Doors of Paradise for the Battistero di San Giovanni ?
Did you knowthat the Knoxville Campaign ended with a Union Army victory even though the final battle of the campaign at Bean's Station had resulted in a Confederate victory?
Did you knowthat Camp Cuddly Pines: Power Tool Massacre is the first adult film to be released in the HD DVD format?
Did you knowthat Hawayo Takata , a Nisei fluent in the language and culture of both Japan and the United States , introduced Reiki to the Western World ?
Did you knowthat the Ajacan Mission , a failed attempt by Spanish Jesuit priests to bring Christianity to the Native Americans of the Virginia Peninsula , predated the establishment of Jamestown by about 36 years?
Did you knowthat Japanese writer Naoki Sanjugo (literally "Naoki 35") changed his pen-name four times, once per year, to match his age?
Did you knowthat at the Atlantic House on Cape Cod during World War I , Pulitzer Prize -winner Eugene O'Neill was arrested at gun point as a spy for the Kaiser ?
Did you knowthat Ern Westmore was the only member of the famed Westmore family to be given a special Academy Award for make-up , bestowed for his work on the film Cimarron ?
Did you knowthat " bohemian " Japanese symbolist poet Nakahara Chuya remained close friends with influential literary critic Kobayashi Hideo all of his life, despite the fact that his girlfriend left him for Kobayashi soon after they met?
Did you knowthat although Lehigh Gorge State Park in Pennsylvania is now known for whitewater rafting on the Lehigh River , in the 19th century it was the site of a canal built to bypass those same rapids?
Did you knowthat 11-year old Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein is regarded by Jacobites as third in line for the throne of England , Scotland , France , and Ireland ?
Did you knowthat the American composer Paul Moravec won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2004 for his Shakespeare -inspired chamber piece Tempest Fantasy ?
Did you knowthat in 362 AD, the rhetorician Prohaeresius , a friend of the pagan Emperor , was allowed to keep his teaching post in spite of a ban on Christians but resigned in protest?
Did you knowthat Ken Okuyama , a Japanese person , designed the Enzo Ferrari super car ?
Did you knowthat Sharon Sayles Belton was the first female and first African-American mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota ?
Did you knowthat the Short Sturgeon started life as a high-performance torpedo bomber , became a target tug , then a naval reconnaissance bomber, and finally an anti-submarine aircraft, before failing altogether?
Did you knowthat Arthur William Hodge was the only white person in the history of the British West Indies to be executed for killing a black slave ?
Did you knowthat Colonel Frederick Gough was the first person to receive the Royal Aero Club Parachutist Certificate?
Did you knowthat Michael Beetham , World War II bomber pilot, is now senior Marshal of the Royal Air Force ?
Did you knowthat Trachodon , despite being a well-known and often-used duckbill name in the past, is based on teeth that include both duckbill and horned dinosaur specimens?
Did you knowthat the Nikolayevsk Incident , in which Japanese people were killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries, was pretext for the invasion of Sakhalin island ?
Did you knowthat the National Security League formed the first known political action committee in the United States in 1918, and spent more than $100,000 to defeat congressmen who opposed its positions?
Did you knowthat South Korean United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Tanzanian Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro previously worked together as foreign ministers?
Did you knowthat Tobias Lear probably destroyed six letters of conflict between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson ?
Did you knowthat male spiders , scorpions and mantids have special strategies to avoid sexual cannibalism ?
Did you knowthat Joseph E. Widener , a major figure in U.S. Thoroughbred horse racing , lost his elder brother and nephew in the Titanic disaster?
Did you knowthat the Federal Corrupt Practices Act was the primary law regulating campaign finance in U.S. federal elections until the passage of the Federal Election Campaign Act in 1971?
Did you knowthat Trondheim Tramway was reopened in 1990 after being permanently closed for two years, the process costing two mayors in Trondheim their jobs?
Did you knowthat Russian billionaire, politician and philanthropist Alexander Lebedev started his career as a KGB agent working in London ?
Did you knowthat Windows DreamScene displays videos in MPEG or WMV format as desktop wallpaper ?
Did you knowthat Öpir , the "shouter", was the most productive of the old Viking runemasters ?
Did you knowthat One is a Japanese adult renai game (or visual novel ), developed by Tactics ?
Did you knowthat the schooner Rouse Simmons , known as "The Christmas Tree Ship", was transporting over 5,000 Christmas trees to Chicago when it sank in 1912?
Did you knowthat Singaporean Web Map Service Streetdirectory.com successfully sued several businesses for copyright infringment , but is now being sued on the same charge by the Singapore Land Authority ?
Did you knowthat only one of the 266 1076 Class steam locomotives built for the Great Western Railway was named, and the rest had only numbers?
Did you knowthat Sheila Gallagher has been the City of London 's last remaining lollipop lady since 1990?
Did you knowthat the Nuyorican Poets Cafe began in the apartment living room of one of its founders?
Did you knowthat the Brazilian labour movement was predominantly anarchist until the 1920s?
Did you knowthat the medieval pirate Cord Widderich occupied Eiderstedt and made the Pellworm church tower his base?
Did you knowthat future Maltese diplomat Arvid Pardo was successively detained by Fascist Italian , Nazi German , and Soviet authorities between 1940 and 1945?
Did you knowthat many of the image stones of the Viking Age depict lost tales from Norse mythology ?
Did you knowthat the late Dame Joyanne Bracewell was the fifth woman to be appointed as an English High Court judge ?
Did you knowthat Sir Samuel Davenport , a South Australian parliamentarian , had an electoral district named after him?
Did you knowthat " Push It To The Limit ", a pop rap song backed by The Walt Disney Company , was recently the most downloaded song at the iTunes Store ?
Did you knowthat in the 1950s , the names and telephone numbers of women who attended the integrated meetings of civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were published in a Ku Klux Klan magazine?
Did you knowthat recently-departed Dame Joyanne Bracewell was the fifth woman to be appointed as an English High Court judge ?
Did you knowthat despite having won the Cricket World Cup only once ( 1983 ), Indian cricket team batsmen hold most Cricket World Cup batting records ?
Did you knowthat the Sao civilisation is the earliest to have left clear traces of their presence in the territory of modern Cameroon ?
Did you knowthat the Mediterranean mantis is capable of virgin birth ?
Did you knowthat Léonce Perret was a prominent movie director and actor , involved in more than four hundred films from 1909 to 1935?
Did you knowthat the twenty-six tons of books and artifacts from Dr. Robert Bell 's private library were almost destroyed in an Ottawa fire?
Did you knowthat the 110th United States Congress freshman class contains members from diverse backgrounds, including a professional football player, a Navy vice admiral, several former teachers, and the first Buddhist and Muslim members?
Did you knowthat the first plate of William Hogarth 's The Four Stages of Cruelty features a boy supposed to be a young George III ?
Did you knowthat Soviet surgeon Aleksandr Bakulev pioneered the first successful lung ablation with open ductus arteriosus ?
Did you knowthat the haiku poet Takahama Kyoshi edited the literary magazine Hototogisu ?
Did you knowthat all Barrier Reef Anemonefish are born sexless and develop into males, and only become females if they rise to the top of the hierarchy?
Did you knowthat sailplane winglets were first successfully implemented by American inventor Peter Masak ?
Did you knowthat the German physicist Otto Laporte discovered what is known in spectroscopy as the Laporte rule ?
Did you knowthat the Soviet Union considered occupying its ally Lithuania soon after signing the Soviet-Lithuanian Treaty of 1920 , but the Red Army 's defeat at the Battle of Warsaw rendered such plans obsolete?
Did you knowthat Ken Cranston began playing Test cricket for the English cricket team within 8 weeks after his debut in first-class cricket in 1947, but retired in 1948 to concentrate on his career as a dentist ?
Did you knowthat Mujahedeen KOMPAK has diverted charitable donations from Australia to produce recruitment videos for militant Islamic groups?
Did you knowthat American basketball player Fred Roberts was chosen by the Miami Heat in their expansion draft, but never played a game for them in the NBA ?
Did you knowthat the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory , containing ores bearing uranium-238 , is one of many products that have been recalled in the interests of toy safety ?
Did you knowthat alchemist James Price committed suicide by drinking prussic acid after being challenged to prove he could turn mercury into gold ?
Did you knowthat Tombo Ati , a traditional Javanese song based on a popular hadith of the prophet Muhammad , is still popular five centuries after its composition?
Did you knowthat Hall of Fame football player Ed Molinski was also a Golden Gloves state boxing champion and served in the U.S. Marines during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Sir Colin Figures was the ninth Chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service , known informally as MI6 ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Sangarará was a decisive victory for rebel forces under Túpac Amaru II against the Spanish in Peru ?