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Did you knowthat soul singer Bettye Lavette 's album Souvenirs was recorded in 1972 , but was shelved by Atlantic Records until a French music collector discovered it and released it in 2000 , sparking a continuing surge of interest in the singer?
Did you knowthat the English garden designer Batty Langley attempted to "improve" Gothic architectural forms by giving them classical proportions , described in his book Gothic Architecture, improved by Rules and Proportions ?
Did you knowthat Frisian literature refers to written works produced in West Frisian , a language spoken primarily in the province of Friesland in the Netherlands ?
Did you knowthat the Florentine Mannerist sculptor Niccolo Tribolo is often called "the father of the Italian garden" for his axial designs for Cosimo I de Medici at the Boboli Gardens and at Cosimo's villas?
Did you knowthat in an effort to generate listenership for his Top-40 radio station WHB , owner Todd Storz coordinated a treasure hunt that caused traffic tie-ups across the Kansas City metropolitan area ?
Did you knowthat Cuban boxer Kid Charol fought former world middleweight champion Dave Chade and held him to a twelve-round draw despite being in critical condition due to tuberculosis ?
Did you knowthat the University of Arkansas owns SEFOR , a highly contaminated experimental research nuclear reactor that was deactived in 1972 ?
Did you knowthat the Scouting movement's "one good turn" was inaugurated on behalf of British newspaper magnate Cyril Arthur Pearson , who founded several newspapers before going blind with glaucoma and then devoted his life in support of the blind ?
Did you knowthat Rini Templeton created works of graphic art for the New Mexico Land-Grant movement before moving to Mexico to collaborate with the Labor movement there?
Did you knowthat Lake Monger is one of the few remaining wetland areas in suburban Perth, Western Australia as up to 80% of the naturally occurring lakes and swamps north of the city have been reclaimed since European settlement in 1829 ?
Did you knowthat Moctesuma Esparza is a Chicano filmmaker who produced the movie Selena ?
Did you knowthat the trance producer Tatana Sterba is the only trance artist to have three consecutive album chart number ones in Switzerland ?
Did you knowthat in the mid- fourth millennium BC , at the "Eye Temple" at Nagar in northeastern Syria , hundreds of "eye idol" figurines with large watchful eyes were added to the very mortar used to build the temple?
Did you knowthat in 1914 , Lois Weber was the first American woman to direct a full-length feature film ?
Did you knowthat the Soviet pop singer Klavdiya Shulzhenko performed more than 500 concerts in besieged Leningrad in 1941 and 1942 ?
Did you knowthat the United States Air Force does not own the copyright to its official service song, "The U.S. Air Force" ?
Did you knowthat Jonas of Bobbio based his Life of St. Columbanus on the recollections of Benedictine monks who had known the Irish saint personally?
Did you knowthat after the first demonstration by members of Catolicos Por La Raza at St. Basil's Cathedral, in downtown Los Angeles, California , the archbishop resigned?
Did you knowthat the Christmas carol Carol of the Bells was originally a Ukrainian New Year's carol called Shchedryk ?
Did you knowthat Thomas Vorster , an alleged white supremacist terrorist in South Africa , was accused of plotting to throw poisoned oranges into the streets of Soweto ?
Did you knowthat in 1880 Abraham Ulrikab and seven other native Inuit from Hebron , Labrador , Canada were put on display in European zoos and met untimely deaths from lack of medical attention?
Did you knowthat despite being a major hurricane at landfall, 1999's Hurricane Bret only did minor damage because it hit a sparsely-inhabited area?
Did you knowthat one of the surviving records of the life of Andrea da Firenze , a 14th-century composer, is a receipt for wine he consumed in the three days it took to tune a newly-built organ ?
Did you knowthat the Girays of Crimea were regarded as the second family of the Ottoman Empire after the House of Ottoman ?
Did you knowthat of the hundreds of Sesame Street picture books illustrated, Ernie's Work of Art is one of the few with voice bubbles ?
Did you knowthat in 1977 , the U.S. Federal Highway Administration banned the use of electroslag welding for joining certain bridge structural members due to quality concerns?
Did you knowthat the submarine Nautile was used to probe the wrecks of the Titanic and Prestige ?
Did you knowthat Guyana won the first senior regional cricket tournament of the 2005-06 West Indian cricket season ?
Did you knowthat the Liverpool Scottish , a unit of the British Territorial Army , was raised in 1900 from Scotsmen living in Liverpool , England ?
Did you knowthat Agilisaurus was first discovered when construction workers were excavating a site for a new dinosaur museum in China ?
Did you knowthat the Norwegian politician Kåre Kristiansen , a former minister and chairman of the Christian People's Party , resigned from the Norwegian Nobel Committee in protest over the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat ?
Did you knowthat Man of the World was a 1960s UK television series starring Craig Stevens as a world-renowned photographer that spun off the series The Sentimental Agent ?
Did you knowthat leaders of Workers Resistance , a Trotskyist group in Ukraine , set up a swathe of invented parties in order to defraud other left-wing organisations?
Did you knowthat The Clash 's song " English Civil War ," warning against the rise of far right groups in Britain , was adapted from a popular American Civil War song?
Did you knowthat the little-known Xiaosaurus may be an evolutionary missing link between Lesothosaurus to Hypsilophodon ?
Did you knowthat flutamide is a medicine used to treat prostate cancer ?
Did you knowthat on Christmas Eve 1969 , when California lawyer and noted political activist Ricardo Cruz was a law student at Loyola Law School , he was arrested for leading a march of several hundred demonstrators protesting the newly constructed, $4 million St. Basil's Cathedral?
Did you knowthat Baltimore, Maryland has a permanent Rumor Control Center ?
Did you knowthat selective yellow is a colour for automotive lamps , defined by UNECE Regulations , and that it was designed to improve vision and reduce glare by removing blue wavelengths from the projected light?
Did you knowthat Senegalese marabout Mahmadu Lamine was executed by French soldiers for leading an 1886 rebellion against the French colonial government ?
Did you knowthat 1956 was the first time when a computer was able to play a chess -like game, Los Alamos chess ?
Did you knowthat the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. was an African Methodist Episcopal Church for 50 years before being rededicated last year?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales of the Mexican-American War occurred after the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo was already signed?
Did you knowthat the New Testament 's "camel passing through the eye of a needle " is an example of adynaton , an extreme form of hyperbole used to imply impossibility?
Did you knowthat the Havengore is a ceremonial vessel that was used to carry the body of Winston Churchill during his state funeral on 30 January 1965 ?
Did you knowthat the first gang injunction to make headlines was obtained by Los Angeles City Attorney James Hahn against the West Los Angeles -based street gang the Playboy Gangster Crips in 1987 ?
Did you knowthat the song " The Show Must Go On " by the British rock band Queen was written by guitarist Brian May , and is about lead singer Freddie Mercury 's desire to continue making music even as his health was deteriorating?
Did you knowthat basketball coach Bob Knight told a radio program that if he had not been fired from Indiana University in 2000 , he would have fired his assistant Mike Davis , who replaced him as IU coach?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Alma was a rare June major hurricane in the 1966 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the earliest Continental U.S. hurricane strike since 1825?
Did you knowthat the Gleason score is a measure of how different prostate cancer cells are from normal cells ?
Did you knowthat César Sampaio is a former Brazilian football player who played offensive midfielder for Palmeiras and the Brazilian national team ?
Did you knowthat Felipe Pinglo Alva is known as the father of Peruvian Musica criolla , and is best known for his often covered song "El Plebeyo"?
Did you knowthat Pastoral Care was a book written by Pope Gregory I around A.D. 590 to address the responsibilities of the clergy ?
Did you knowthat Steve Steen was given a role in the movie version of Porridge , but his character did not say anything during the film?
Did you knowthat Tomás Rivera , a Chicano author , poet , and educator , was the first Mexican American chancellor of the University of California system?
Did you knowthat during World War II , the United States developed Who me? , a top secret stench weapon designed to humiliate German officers ?
Did you knowthat The Clash 's single " Complete Control " was actually produced by famed dub and reggae musician Lee "Scratch" Perry ?
Did you knowthat sporotrichosis is a chronic fungal infection that commonly affects farmers ?
Did you knowthat footballer Alan Taylor scored two goals in the quarter final, two goals in the semi final and two goals in the final of the 1975 FA Cup as his club West Ham United won the competition?
Did you knowthat the Association of Pizza Delivery Drivers is a union that represents pizza-delivery drivers, and is one of the first unions in the United States to operate entirely over the Internet ?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Fico caused significant damage in Hawaii without making landfall?
Did you knowthat prostate cancer staging is the process by which physicians evaluate the spread of prostate cancer ?
Did you knowthat Christine Witty is both a speed skater and a cyclist who has won three Olympic medals in speed skating and holds the 1000-metre world record ?
Did you knowthat Jack Jouett , known as the " Paul Revere of the South", saved Thomas Jefferson and other Revolutionary leaders in Virginia by warning them of a British cavalry raid meant to capture them?
Did you knowthat the friction coefficient is very important in determining the friction between two objects?
Did you knowthat the Cochin Jews have had a settlement in India since the 16th century ?
Did you knowthat Clare Boothe Luce 's play The Women has been made into a movie twice, and revived on Broadway several times?
Did you knowthat in electrical engineering , a Smith chart is a common way of graphing the amount of a signal reflected by a telephone line ?
Did you knowthat the Thue-Morse sequence has applications in number theory , combinatorics , differential geometry and chess ?
Did you know Belgian artist Henry Van de Velde was one of the leading representatives of the Art Nouveau movement?
Did you knowthat there appears to be no localized consciousness in the human brain ?
Did you knowthat the Plymouth Council for New England was the joint stock company which organized the Plymouth Colony ?
Did you knowthat Kao Neaw , a Thai sticky rice dish, is often served with ripe mangos and coconut milk as Kao Neaw Mamuan?
Did you knowthat Len Wein created the Swamp Thing character for DC Comics ?
Did you knowabout Swedish neutrality during World War II ?
Did you knowthat the endangered golden lion tamarin has a long, but not prehensile , tail?
Did you knowthat in 1916 , Berlin, Ontario changed its name to Kitchener due to World War I -era anti-German sentiment?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Postal Service 's POSTNET uses a checksum to verify zip codes ?
Did you knowthat the Balkan comic opera Ero the Joker was first performed on November 2 , 1935 ?
Did you knowthat the Tokyo Monorail , which travels at speeds of up to 80 kph , was constructed to coincide with the 1964 Summer Olympics ?
Did you knowthat jumping plant lice and aphids are considered to be the "primitive" group within the Hemiptera order of true bugs?
Did you knowthat in 1971, Pakistani writer Eqbal Ahmad was indicted on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger ?
Did you knowthat Power Girl is a cousin of Superman from the DC Comics universe?
Did you knowthat linguicism is a prejudice based on someone's use of language ?
Did you knowthat meiosis , a form of cell division , confers a selective advantage ?
Did you knowthat a Klondike bar is a dessert generally consisting of a vanilla square coated with a thin layer of chocolate ?
Did you know the Report on the Affairs of British North America stated in 1839 that Canada consisted of "two nations warring in the bosom of a single state ?"
Did you knowthat Greeneyes are hermaphroditic ?
Did you knowthat Clint Malarchuk sustained one of the most horrific in-game injuries in NHL history?
Did you knowthat a Chicken sexer is specially trained to visually determine the sex of chicken hatchlings?
Did you knowthat Monique Serf was only ten years old when she had to go into hiding during the German occupation of France in World War II ?
Did you knowthat in the 1930s , Australia was home to a paramilitary Fascist organization called the New Guard ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Academic Decathlon was first organized in Orange County, California ?
Did you knowthat until the 1930s , methanol was the most widely used antifreeze ?
Did you knowthat the Auditorium Building in Chicago, Illinois was intended to rival New York City 's Metropolitan Opera House ?
Did you knowthat Dido class cruisers fought in the Battle of Cape Matapan , Battle of Okinawa , Operation Overlord , and Operation Torch ?
Did you knowthat Zenna Henderson's story "Pottage" was made into an ABC -TV Movie, "The People", starring William Shatner ?
Did you knowthat the Kharosthi script was in use from the middle of the 3rd century BC until around the 3rd century AD ?
Did you knowthat the governor of Texas during the American Civil War was Francis Lubbock ?
Did you knowthat Measure 51 would have repealed Oregon 's Death with Dignity Act ?
Did you knowthat Joan of Arc and Mahatma Gandhi were protagonists in Clone High ?
Did you knowthat Signing Exact English is easy for parents and teachers of deaf children to master quickly?
Did you knowthat the Persian king Cyrus the Younger invented the scythed chariot ?
Did you knowthat there is no widely accepted explanation for geographic features called Carolina bays , but that meteors may be the cause?
Did you knowthat there is a collection of neurons in the basal forebrain of reptiles called a nucleus accumbens that is implicated in reward responses?
Did you knowthat New York City has been working on the Second Avenue Subway project since 1919?
Did you knowthat the Rift Valley lakes of Africa are a freshwater ecoregion ?
Did you knowthat the UK 's Workers Socialist Federation began as a suffragette group?
Did you knowthat Captain & Tennille now reside in Nevada , United States ?
Did you knowthat siblings raised separately may experience genetic sexual attraction if they meet as adults?
Did you knowthe brains of spider monkeys are weigh twice as much as the brains of howler monkeys of equal size?
Did you knowthat Church House is the headquarters building for the Church of England ?
Did you knowthat Irving proposed to Cathy on Valentine's Day 2004?
Did you knowthat red mercury is a substance used in making nuclear weapons ?
Did you knowthat the USSR named twelve cities and one city-fortress Hero Cities for valor during the Great Patriotic War ?
Did you knowthat in Vajrayana Buddhism , a Wisdom King is the third tier of deity after Buddhas and bodhisattvas ?
Did you knowthat a demisemiquaver is a musical note that is played for 1/32 the duration of a whole note ?
Did you knowthat "Persian violet" is another name for cyclamen ?
Did you knowthat Ancient Egyptian architect Senemut was allegedly the lover of the Pharoah Hatshepsut ?
Did you knowthat the music of the Pointer Sisters combined jazz , scat and be-bop ?
Did you knowthat Venetian , spoken in and around Venice, Italy , is not a dialect of Italian ?
Did you knowthat collard greens is both a plant and a recipe ?
Did you knowthat Hong Kong is made up of a peninsula and 236 islands ?
Did you knowthat the Ancient Greek mathematician Polybius invented the Polybius square , a cryptographic technique?
Did you knowthat William X of Aquitaine , father of Eleanor of Aquitaine , was a noted patron of troubadors ?
Did you knowthat famous epic poems like Beowulf and Judith were written in Late West Saxon ?
Did you knowthe ember days were formerly set aside for fasting and prayer in the Christian liturgical calendar?
Did you knowthat a vexatious litigant may be barred from using the courts in common law countries because they have previously undertaken frivolous litigation claims or procedures ?
Did you knowthat American frontiersman Hugh Glass traveled 200 miles through the wilderness, alone and gravely injured, after surviving a grizzly bear attack?
Did you knowthat the framework of the cautionary tale became a cliché in 1980s slasher films ?
Did you knowthat trisecting the angle is one of the three impossible tasks using classical ruler-and-compass construction ?
Did you knowthat the Waldorf Astoria in New York City sits on the site of the former home of William Waldorf Astor ?
Did you knowthat the Super Friends had two sets of sidekicks: Wendy & Marvin, and then the Wonder Twins ?
Did you knowthat the False Vampire Bat will fall out of a tree to pounce upon unsuspecting prey?
Did you knowthat " Layla ", a song of Eric Clapton , was inspired by a Persian love story?
Did you knowthat settlers are people who travelled, of their own choice, from their land of birth to live in "new" lands or colonies?
Did you knowthat the Children of the Corn horror-flick movie series is based on a Stephen King short story ?
Did you knowthat the viscosity of a ferrofluid can be controlled with electromagnets ?
Did you knowthat Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko is famous for his anti - Stalinist work?
Did you knowthat Cornell University in the United States has four statutory colleges ?
Did you knowthat mushroom bodies have nothing to do with fungi , but are part of the brain anatomy of arthropods ?
Did you knowthat Fritz the Cat was the first X-rated animated feature?
Did you knowthat the biggest telescope in the Southern Hemisphere will be the Southern African Large Telescope , opening later this year?
Did you knowthat the first standard for donated organs was that they be from so-called " non-heart beating donors "?
Did you knowthat Le Corbusier 's most famous building is probably Unité d'Habitation in Marseille ?
Did you knowthat the dharma wheel of Buddhism represents the collective teachings known as the dharma ?
Did you knowthat scientists are testing Einstein 's theory of general relativity with Gravity Probe B , an artificial satellite ?
Did you knowthat cell adhesion is a product of protein bonding?
Did you knowthat Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay is a World Heritage Site ?
Did you knowthat male Western fence lizards have blue bellies?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Isandlwana was a major British defeat in the Zulu war ?
Did you knowthat France was the first country to adopt the 35-hour workweek ?
Did you knowthat Napoleon once commissioned Louis-Marcelin de Fontanes to write an éloge on George Washington ?
Did you knowthat Daniel S. Goldin spearheaded the "faster, better, cheaper" approach at NASA ?
Did you knowthat the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is rusting ?
Did you knowthat Severnaya Zemlya was the last archipelago on Earth to be discovered?
Did you knowthat Harrington Lake in Quebec is the official country retreat of the Canadian Prime Minister ?
Did you knowthat the Tibetan Plateau is known as the "roof of the world"?
Did you knowthat chocolate contains large quantities of oxalic acid ?
Did you knowthat the only remaining dock on the south side of London 's River Thames is Greenland Dock , the city's oldest riverside dock?
Did you knowthat Caedwalla of Wessex conquered southeast England during his brief 7th century reign?
Did you knowthat the Transverse Ranges of California run east-west because of a bend in the San Andreas fault ?
Did you knowthat Monument Valley was once mined for uranium ore?
Did you knowthat during World War I thimbles were used as currency ?
Did you knowthat the Magellanic subpolar forests of South America are the world's southernmost forests ?
Did you knowthat Jimmy Piersall ran the bases backwards after hitting his hundredth home run ?
Did you knowthat the first British merchant navy ship lost to enemy fire since World War II was the Atlantic Conveyor , sunk by an Argentinian Exocet missile during the Falklands War ?
Did you knowthat there are at least 18 different distinct video game genres ?
Did you knowthat the tallest mountain in the Pyrenees is Aneto ?
Did you knowthat Tetricus I was the last of the Gallic Emperors ?
Did you knowthat Wite-Out correction fluid was invented in 1966 ?
Did you knowthat the Assembly of First Nations is an advocacy group for aboriginal people in Canada ?
Did you knowthat Oriental metal is a kind of death metal music that originated in Israel which has traditional Jewish and " Oriental " influences?
Did you knowthat Chicago mayor Jane Byrne moved into the notoriously miserable Cabrini-Green housing project in 1981 ?
Did you knowthat the Valdivian ecoregion contains the only temperate rainforest in South America ?
Did you knowthat Henry Wade never lost a case until Roe v. Wade ?
Did you knowthat Striptease won the 1997 Golden Raspberries award for Worst Picture?
Did you knowthat the author Pai Hsien-yung ' s father was Kuomintang general Pai Chung-hsi ?
Did you knowthat left-handed specialists in baseball frequently enjoy long careers since their pitching arm suffers lesser stress?
Did you knowthat the 555th Parachute Infantry Company was the first African-American airborne unit in the United States Army ?
Did you knowthat Singapore 's first elected President was Ong Teng Cheong ?
Did you knowthat NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson has logged 497 hours in space ?
Did you knowthat the original "dreamer of dreams" was British poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy ?
Did you know Vlad II Dracul , ruler of Wallachia , was the father of the infamous Vlad the Impaler ?
Did you knowthat Enrico Fermi was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1942?
Did you knowthat the improper use of a flag of truce or of the national flag is a forbidden ruse of war ?
Did you knowthat Thutmose I was the first Pharaoh to be buried in the Valley of the Kings ?
Did you knowthat the Reduced Shakespeare Company performs all 37 of Shakespeare 's plays in 97 minutes?
Did you knowthat aniridia is the congenital condition of being born without irises ?
Did you knowthat because of an effort to curb the spread of STDs , prostitution in Germany has been legal since the 1920s ?
Did you knowthat the Chinese tallow tree is used to make soap , candles , and medicine ?
Did you knowthat the film The Titfield Thunderbolt was inspired by the restoration of the narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway in Wales ?
Did you knowthat pole stars change over time because stars exhibit a slow but distinct drift with respect to the Earth's axis?
Did you knowthat high jumper Ulrike Meyfarth became the youngest individual Olympic champion in athletics ?
Did you knowthat there are at least 10 Malay-based creoles ?
Did you knowthat Herb Robert , a species of cranesbill , is believed by traditional herbologists to be a toothache palliative?
Did you knowthat Mickey Marcus is the only person buried at the United States Military Academy who died fighting under a foreign flag?
Did you knowthat in the United Kingdom a County palatine was one which had special autonomy and was ruled by an Earl or Count ?
Did you knowthat many Mexicans pray to a figure known as Saint Death ?
Did you knowthat the Von Willebrand factor is a blood protein used by the coagulation function of the circulatory system ?
Did you knowthat Cousin problems have nothing to do with difficult relatives?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Blue Licks in Kentucky was the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War ?
Did you knowthat most garden flowers and herbs are forbs ?