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Did you knowthat retired U.S. Air Force general John Chain is the chairman of the board of Northrop Grumman , director of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company , and director of ConAgra Foods, Inc. ?
Did you knowthat Raul Macias , a Cuban - Mexican boxer parlayed his popularity into a successful career in telenovelas ?
Did you knowthat Return from the Stars is regarded as the most optimistic of Stanisław Lem science fiction utopian novels ?
Did you knowthat Marguerite Porete , author of the mystical text The Mirror of Simple Souls , was burnt at the stake for heresy in 1310 ?
Did you knowthat despite its name, the Australian Mathematics Competition receives entries from 38 countries and that the students are ranked with respect to other students in their states, not all of Australia ?
Did you knowthat the Chontal Maya of Tabasco , Mexico , consider themselves the direct descendants of the Olmec civilization?
Did you knowthat Chandra Prakash Mainali , who led an armed Maoist revolt in eastern Nepal in 1971 , later served as Minister of Local Development in 1994 - 95 ?
Did you knowthat the flèche is an aggressive fencing attack generally used with the foil and épée weapons, and is actually illegal to use with the sabre under USFA rules?
Did you knowthat in their final mission of World War II , No. 453 Squadron RAAF escorted the aircraft that returned Queen Wilhelmina to the Netherlands after she spent three years in exile in Britain ?
Did you knowthat John Weston became a published poet after retiring from his post as Ambassador to the United Nations ?
Did you knowthat the 1963 Federal Election in Australia was the first election where all Indigenous Australians could vote?
Did you knowthat William G. McGowan underwent a heart transplant while serving as chairman of MCI Communications ?
Did you knowthat the Nigerian Baptist Convention is the third largest Baptist convention of the Baptist world ?
Did you knowthat Nig Cuppy , having scored five runs against the Chicago Colts on August 9 1895 , holds the record for most runs scored by a pitcher in a major league baseball game?
Did you knowthat Philip J. Perry , the General Counsel for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security , is the son-in-law of Vice President Dick Cheney ?
Did you knowthat the irony mark is an atypical punctuation mark that, along with others, has been featured in some French artistic and literary publications to denote typographically different meanings in sentences?
Did you knowthat the Karoo National Park in South Africa is a leading force in the resettling of the Black Rhinoceros and Riverine Rabbit back into the wild?
Did you knowthat the Millennium Monument in Novgorod , weighing more than 65 tons, incorporates bronze sculptures of 129 eminent figures in Russian history ?
Did you knowthat videokeratography is a non-invasive medical imaging technique for mapping the surface topology of the cornea ?
Did you knowthat the Northland Center opened in 1954 and was the United States ' first suburban shopping mall ?
Did you knowthat the Mutsun language , became an extinct Native American language in 1930 mainly because of the Spanish missionaries who made the Mutsun learn the Spanish language ?
Did you knowthat the Kingston-Port Ewen Suspension Bridge opened in 1921 to complete U.S. Route 9W , was built in part by a female welder ?
Did you knowthat the Russian clown Slava Polunin celebrated the 20th anniversary of his theater by organizing its funerals?
Did you knowthat the song Justified and Ancient , by The KLF (and their alias The JAMs ), featured regularly in their work from 1987 to 1991, and was a statement of rebellion inspired by characters from The Illuminatus! Trilogy novels?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Lechaeum was the first battle in ancient Greek history in which heavy infantry, or hoplites , were defeated by spear throwers, or peltasts ?
Did you knowthat Sir Richard Wild , at the age of 54, was the youngest Chief Justice of New Zealand since 1875 ?
Did you knowthat the Church of the Twelve Apostles in the Moscow Kremlin was consecrated in 1656 as a domestic church of Patriarch Nikon ?
Did you knowthat the Autumn of Nations , which began in Poland , marked the end of the Cold War ?
Did you knowthat Souvenir of Their Visit to America was the first Beatles' EP released in America, but did not chart?
Did you knowthat the Azerbaijani geologist Farman Salmanov , who discovered huge oil fields of Western Siberia in 1961 , was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor at the unusually young age of 37?
Did you knowthat the Foxglove was chosen as the county flower for four different U.K. counties in a competition run by the plant conservation charity Plantlife in 2002?
Did you knowthat after Egyptian land reform individual land ownership in Egypt was limited to a maximum of 200 feddans ?
Did you knowthat at the end of World War II , ten German nuclear scientists were detained and wiretapped at a house in England as part of Operation Epsilon in order to determine how close the Nazis had come to building an atomic bomb ?
Did you knowthat Dining in refers to a formal military dinner, a practice thought to have begun in 16th Century England in monasteries and universities, adopted by the British Army during the 18th Century and revived in the U.S. Military during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Arcady Boytler was born in Russia but produced some of the most successful films of the Golden age of the cinema of Mexico ?
Did you knowthat while noise mitigation consists of numerous strategies to reduce environmental sound levels, a major breakthrough is the hybrid vehicle in moderate speed operation?
Did you knowthat while the monthly average rainfall for Oahu in August is 0.8 inches , 1959 's Hurricane Dot dumped 2.66 inches of rain over the island?
Did you knowthat the Russian imperial Field Marshal Peter Lacy started his military career at the age of 13, defending Limerick during the Williamite war in Ireland ?
Did you knowthat although the parents of Juan Bautista Rael , a Stanford University professor and folklorist, sent him away for schooling due to limited educational options in their town, he focused his academic career on the folk plays and religious songs of that region?
Did you knowthat such characters of medieval romance as Palamedes , Dinadan , and Lamorak make their first appearance in the prose romance of Tristan ?
Did you knowthat in 1827 , the only open pit amber mine in the world was established in Yantarny ?
Did you knowthat the Russian Admiral Samuel Greig died days after his most famous victory—the Battle of Hogland ?
Did you knowthat Saint Jack , a 1979 fiction film about a prostitute in Singapore and the only Hollywood film about Singapore to be shot on location , was banned in the country until 2006?
Did you knowthat the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center is the northernmost supercomputer cluster in the world?
Did you knowthat Werowocomoco was the chief village of the Powhatan Confederacy in Virginia where Captain John Smith of Jamestown was rescued from execution by Pocahontas , daughter of Chief Powhatan ?
Did you knowthat the pseudonymous author of the defunct left-wing muckraker blog Media Whores Online has not yet been identified?
Did you knowthat Proclamation of Połaniec from 1794, abolishing serfdom in Poland , is regarded as the most famous legal act of the Kościuszko Uprising ?
Did you knowthat the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that operated in Arizona , New Mexico and California from July 1 , 1897 till July 1 , 1902 ?
Did you knowthat British Rail had a design for a flying saucer ?
Did you knowthat consumers of casu marzu , a Sardinian cheese, are advised to wear eye protection while enjoying it, since the live maggots inhabiting the cheese can jump 15 cm?
Did you knowthat in Sweden , a court ruled that the name Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 was unacceptable?
Did you knowthat the level of copyright protection of photographs in Switzerland depends, among other things, on whether the image constitutes an " individual expression of thought "?
Did you knowthat there were six claimants for the title of Roman Emperor in the Year of the Six Emperors ( AD 192 – 193 )?
Did you knowthat the Glasgow Inner Ring Road was only half complete when it was abandoned in 1980 , leaving several incomplete junctions , one of which ends abruptly in mid-air?
Did you knowthat J.S. Bach's renowned Goldberg Variations was named for 14-year-old virtuoso harpsichordist and composer Johann Gottlieb Goldberg ?
Did you knowthat the highest distinction among the Caloyers , a Greek monastic order, involves spending one's entire life alone, confined in a cave on top of a mountain?
Did you knowthat Jesuit Filippo Salvatore Gilij proposed one of the earliest classifications of South American language families ?
Did you knowthat camelot is a woven fabric that might have originally incorporated camel or goat hair?
Did you knowthat in order to subdue the heresy of Imiaslavie , the Russian Empire sent two transport ships and a gunboat to Mount Athos in Greece , and stormed the St. Panteleymon Monastery ?
Did you knowthat the Capitoline Games of Ancient Rome became so popular that the Romans counted periods of time by them, rather than their previous unit of lustrum ?
Did you knowthat the Callippic cycle was a 76-year cycle used to align the lunar calendar with the solar year more accurately than the famous Metonic cycle ?
Did you knowthat Ilsa Konrads , former editor of Belle , was an Australian Olympic swimmer who set 12 world records?
Did you knowthat HMS Ocean never anchored in British waters during her entire period of active service in the Royal Navy ?
Did you knowthat manifest and latent functions and dysfunctions are sociological concepts for understanding the hidden reasons for actions and customs ?
Did you knowthat Stravinsky wrote his 1948 Mass partially in response to the masses of Mozart, which he called " rococo -operatic sweets-of-sin"?
Did you knowthat Lucy Hobbs Taylor was the first female dentist in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Aristotle believed that a vital heat was produced in the heart , causing blood to boil and expand outward into the arteries with each pulsation?
Did you knowthat Martin-Paul Samba went from being a favoured German collaborator to a feared rebel leader in colonial Cameroon ?
Did you knowthat the infant Red-bellied Lemur rides on both mother and father, but after age 33 days, only the father offers transport?
Did you knowthat William Hawkins Polk , brother of President James Polk , was a U.S. Representative and ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples ?
Did you knowthat the circulation of major Soviet sports newspaper Sovetsky Sport has declined from 5,000,000 in 1988 to 122,903 in 2006?
Did you knowthat The Marine Mammal Center has rescued over 12,000 sea otters , sea lions , dolphins and other species, but also produces important scientific discoveries regarding marine chemistry ?
Did you knowthat a 17th century Polish politician Mikołaj Sienicki held the office of marshal of the Sejm nine times and was called a 'Polish Demosthenes ' for his oratory skills?
Did you knowthat Karl Zinsmeister , a U.S. journalist and the new top domestic policy advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush , wrote a book-length Marvel comic book on the Iraq War ?
Did you knowthat 1970's Super Typhoon Joan , the largest storm of the season in size, is the strongest typhoon ever to hit the Philippines ?
Did you knowthat Morris Fidanque de Castro , a life-long government servant, was the first Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands who was born in the territory?
Did you knowthat Francisco Portusach Martínez was appointed acting- Governor of Guam after the capture of the island by the U.S. Navy in 1898 because he was the only U.S. citizen living there?
Did you knowthat Breakfast in the Ruins is the second novel by Michael Moorcock to feature Karl Glogauer as its protagonist , the other being Behold the Man ?
Did you knowthat Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) cemetery in Belgium was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and contains the grave of the playwright Alan Bennett 's uncle?
Did you knowthat jazz trombonist Kai Winding's song " Time Is on My Side " became a U.S. top ten hit for The Rolling Stones in 1964, and has been covered by Michael Bolton , Wilson Pickett , Paul Revere & the Raiders and Vanessa Carlton , among others as recently as 2005?
Did you knowthat taking photos with a perspective correction or "tilt and shift" lens can mitigate the effect of vertical perspective ?
Did you knowthat Corinthian brass was a priceless metal alloy allegedly created as the city's hoard of precious metals melted together during the burning of Corinth in 146 BC?
Did you knowthat Irish American mob informant Danny Greene drove a green car, wore green jackets, and had his union office repainted and recarpeted in green?
Did you knowthat Dracorex hogwartsia was a dinosaur named for its resemblance to the Hungarian Horntail , a dragon in J.K. Rowling 's Harry Potter series?
Did you knowthat Howard T. Markey , the first chief judge of the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and a major general in the Air Force Reserve , asked his nursing home staff to alternate calling him judge and general ?
Did you knowthat although the tiny Hochstetters frog of New Zealand has no tail , it has atavistic tail-wagging muscles ?
Did you knowthat the manor of Ropsha , near Saint Petersburg , was the scene of tortures, a regicide , and the honeymoon of a Grand Duchess of Russia ?
Did you knowthat more than 200,000 railroad workers participated in the Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 , and the strike's collapse directly led to the formation of the American Federation of Labor ?
Did you knowthat Dogs Trust , a British animal welfare charity , provided AA wardens with pistols to painlessly euthanise animals injured in road accidents?
Did you knowthat the 1635 Treaty of Sztumska Wieś between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden was of much interest to contemporary European diplomacy ?
Did you knowthat Sal Castro was the teacher that inspired Mexican American students to protest unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District schools, resulting in the 1968 East L.A. walkouts ?
Did you knowthat the 1996 season of the Super 12 was the first season of professional rugby union in the southern hemisphere following a US$ 550,000,000 deal between SANZAR and News Corporation ?
Did you knowthat William H. Hastie was the first African American to be appointed judge of a Federal District court (of the Virgin Islands ); to be appointed to a U.S. Court of Appeals ( Third Circuit ); and to be Governor of the Virgin Islands ?
Did you knowthat the European Maritime Safety Agency was founded in 2002 to help prevent maritime accidents and marine pollution , in response to the Estonia , Erika and Prestige sea disasters?
Did you knowthat Robinow syndrome is an extremely rare genetic disorder whose facial deformities were described by Meinhard Robinow with the term fetal facies , due to the resemblance of some patients' faces to that of a fetus ?
Did you knowthat Jakub Uchański , a 16th-century primate of Poland , was suspected of heresy and summoned to appear before the inquisition in Rome ?
Did you knowthat Benjamin Franklin Tilley , the first American governor of American Samoa , was put on trial and removed from office for allegedly receiving a massage from a native?
Did you knowthat a regional park established to protect Nevėžis River ecosystem in Lithuania also breeds wisents ?
Did you knowthat the motif of " La Paloma ," written by Sebastián Iradier in Cuba around 1863, can be traced back to an episode during the Greco-Persian Wars in 492 BCE?
Did you knowthat A Perfect Vacuum , a 1971 book by Polish author Stanisław Lem , is an anthology of imaginary reviews of nonexistent books?
Did you know that the disputed Sir Creek , a tidal estuary , has prevented India and Pakistan from setting a permanent maritime boundary in the Arabian Sea ?
Did you knowthat Harry Pursey started his career as a boy seaman in the Royal Navy , retired with the rank of Commander , and served as a Member of Parliament for twenty-five years?
Did you knowthat Harvard 's prestigious annual Dudleian lectures , endowed in 1750 for denouncing the supposed errors of Catholicism , were held by the Catholic Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini in 1998?
Did you knowthat Dutch football manager Clemens Westerhof is credited with turning the Nigerian national team into a perennial powerhouse in African football, having guided them to victory in the 1992 African Cup of Nations as well as their first FIFA World Cup participation in 1994?
Did you knowthat partly because of issues highlighed by the London matchgirls strike of 1888 , the Salvation Army opened up its own match factory in Bow, London in 1891, which used harmless red phosphorus and paid better wages?
Did you knowthat Joseph Wallace Oman , a future Governor of the United States Virgin Islands , was awarded a Navy Cross during World War I for commanding the seized German SS Vaterland (renamed the USS Leviathan ), and delivering almost 120,000 troops to the war effort in Europe?
Did you knowthat during the French Revolution , the lawyer defending Marie Antoinette , Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde , came under such suspicion for the able defense he made, that he was forced to defend himself before the Comité de sûreté générale ?
Did you knowthat the 2nd Queen Victoria's Own Rajput Light Infantry , a regiment of the British Indian Army , uniquely possessed an Honorary Colour granted for service under General Lake in 1803 and employed an additional jemadar to carry it?
Did you knowthat LT United's Eurovision Song Contest 2006 entry " We Are The Winners " was so well-received by the Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus , that the group were invited to his Presidential Office to perform the song live for him?
Did you knowthat the first pilgrimage made by Christopher Columbus upon discovering America was to the Royal monastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe , the principal house of the monastic order of the Hieronymites ?
Did you knowthat Yakov Kulnev , a Russian general killed in action during Napoleon's invasion of Russia , was reputed to live in poverty, in order to emulate the soldiers of Roman antiquity that were his ideal?
Did you knowthat the seal of Baruch ben Neriah , a legendary 6th century BCE scribe and disciple of the Biblical prophet Jeremiah , was found imprinted on two clay bullae excavated in 1975 and 1996?
Did you knowthat the Basilica of Begoña in Bilbao , Spain has 24 bells, each imported from Switzerland ?
Did you knowthat Eastley End House , in Surrey , was used as a base for "burglar-hunting" parties?
Did you knowthat with some 150,000 customers per day, the Seventh-Kilometer Market outside of Odessa , Ukraine , is among the largest markets of the world and consists almost entirely of shipping containers ?
Did you knowthat Garry Parker ran the full length of the pitch at Wembley Stadium to score a goal for Nottingham Forest in the final of the Simod Cup against Everton in 1989 , which Forest won 4-3?
Did you knowthat legislation concerning slavery in ancient Greece allowed guardians of unmarried women who lost their virginity to sell them as slaves?
Did you knowthat Tanaka Shosuke is the first recorded Japanese to have travelled to the Americas in 1610 , on the Japanese-built ship San Buena Ventura ?
Did you know that in the case of Sue v Hill , the High Court of Australia decided that the United Kingdom was a "foreign power" to Australia , recognising Australia's complete independence?
Did you knowthat during the Iberian War , Kavadh I tried to make peace with the new emperor Justinian I by attempting to have Justinian adopt his son Khosrau I ?
Did you knowthat Kirsan Ilyumzhinov , President of the Republic of Kalmykia and head of the World Chess Federation , built the multi-million dollar Chess City complex for hosting international chess tournaments?
Did you knowthat after winning Germany's only Eurovision victory in 1982 with a record margin, Nicole performed her reprise of the winning song " Ein Bisschen Frieden " in four different languages ?
Did you knowthat Michael Moorcock wrote the book The City in the Autumn Stars in tandem with The Laughter of Carthage , one during the day, and the other at night?
Did you knowthat ergs are huge (> 125 km²) fields of sand dunes and that approximately 85% of all the Earth's mobile sand is found in ergs that are larger than 32,000 km²?
Did you knowthat cracker butterflies acquired their name because of the unusual sound that males produce as part of their territorial displays?
Did you knowthat advanced practitioners of Japanese tea ceremony are awarded ceremonial tea names that may incorporate the names of animals, trees or flowers, natural phenomena, or personal characteristics, or may be based on Buddhist teachings?
Did you knowthat Richie Evans holds the record for the most NASCAR championships with nine NASCAR Modified championships, including his posthumous championship in 1985, the first year of the Whelen Modified Tour ?
Did you knowthat the oldest remaining structure showing the establishment of Buddhism in Australia are two bodhi trees planted by Sinhalese immigrants on Thursday Island in the 1890s?
Did you knowthat Harold Hardwick , an Australian swimming gold medallist at the 1912 Olympics , was also a national boxing champion and later an army colonel?
Did you knowthat throughout the Second World War , there were four formations that carried the name of Polish 8th Infantry Division and two of them existed simultaneously?
Did you knowthat the MacHeths were a Gaelic kindred who raised several rebellions against the Scotto-Norman kings of Scotland in the 12th and 13th centuries ?
Did you knowthat Broadway producer Jed Harris was the inspiration for both Laurence Olivier 's interpretation of Richard III , and Walt Disney 's Big Bad Wolf?
Did you knowthat tent pegging is one of only ten equestrian disciplines officially recognised by the International Equestrian Federation ?
Did you knowthat the University of Liberia , founded in 1862 , is the oldest institute of higher learning in West Africa ?
Did you knowthat an unnamed hurricane in October, 1804 brought up to three feet of snow to parts of New England ?
Did you knowthat Wojciech Bartosz Głowacki , a peasant , became a Polish national hero after he captured a Russian cannon during the Battle of Racławice ?
Did you knowthat one of the Sunken Forests of New Hampshire off the coast of Rye , New Hampshire , hasn't been above the surface of the Atlantic Ocean since 1978 ?
Did you knowthat people with a Schatzki ring can develop sudden crushing chest pain , often termed the "steakhouse syndrome", if they do not chew their food properly?
Did you knowthat the Sansenke , or "three houses of Sen," the three main schools of Japanese tea ceremony , are all associated with 16th-century tea master Sen no Rikyu and his descendents?
Did you knowthe movie Spy Game depicts a burn bag , albeit used in an unintended manner?
Did you knowthat Jim Roper was credited with NASCAR 's first Strictly Stock (now NEXTEL Cup ) win after apparent winner Glenn Dunnaway was found to have illegally modified springs?
Did you knowthat, although Catherine II of Russia wished Sophia Cathedral in Tsarskoye Selo to remind her of the Hagia Sophia , the church was built in an austere Palladian style?
Did you knowthat Duke Kahanamoku won the 100m freestyle at the 1912 Olympics after the eventual silver medallist Cecil Healy lobbied against Duke's semifinal disqualification for turning up late?
Did you knowthat Patrick Carr's statement that British troops were not to blame in the Boston Massacre was the first use of the " dying declaration " exception to the general inadmissibility of hearsay evidence?
Did you knowthat the  unanimous decision Holmes v. South Carolina (reversing the conviction of a man who was barred from arguing that another man committed the crime) was the first decision written by Samuel Alito as a Supreme Court Justice ?
Did you knowthat James W. Patterson , a Senator from New Hampshire , was a professor of mathematics , astronomy , and meteorology ?