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Did you knowthat Turkic-speaking Greeks of Georgia and Ukraine refer to themselves as Urums , a term which derives from the Arabic word for Roman ?
Did you knowthat " Lopšinė Mylimai " is the least auspicious debut entry in Eurovision Song Contest history, finishing the 1994 Contest in last place without scoring a point?
Did you knowthat a tornado that hit Dantan in India on March 24 , 1998 killed over 250 people?
Did you knowthat Layman Pang , a wealthy merchant and Zen Buddhist in Tang Dynasty China , once put all of his possessions in a boat and sank them in a river?
Did you knowthat the 1985 trademark infringement case of Canfield v. Honickman , involving the makers of Canfield's Diet Chocolate Fudge soda, continues to be used as an example during the study of trademark product law in the U.S. ?
Did you knowthat David Eldridge is the earliest known person of European descent to die in the Western Reserve , and the first person to be buried in the newly-created city of Cleveland ?
Did you knowthat 19th century London song-writer Helen, Lady Dufferin was admired by Disraeli , compared with Helen of Troy in a poem by Browning , and had a village named after her?
Did you knowthat British Conservative MP Sir Ian Lloyd left his native South Africa in 1955 due to his opposition to apartheid , but was later called " Botha 's mouthpiece" for his advocacy of closer links with South Africa to stimulate reform?
Did you knowthat the name of the museum Na Bolom in San Cristobal de las Casas , Mexico is a pun playing on the Lacandón Maya word for house of the jaguar and the name of Danish mayanist Frans Blom , whose home it was?
Did you knowthat in one of the first tests of Hajile , an experimental British World War II retrorocket system, a gigantic block of concrete was dropped through the roof of the workshop from 2000 ft ?
Did you knowthat sanitary sewer overflow is a common condition, mostly associated with heavy rainfall , leading to discharge of billions of gallons of raw sewage to the environment each year?
Did you knowthat Asif Hossain Khan , a Commonwealth Games gold medal winner at the age of just 15, was brutally beaten and seriously injured by the police of his own country?
Did you knowthat " Dziesma Par Laimi " is the only Latvian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest to be performed in Latvian ?
Did you knowthat feminism in Poland is traditionally divided into seven historical periods, the first one dating to the beginning of the 19th century ?
Did you knowthat Mauisaurus was the largest plesiosaur to roam New Zealand waters and that it gets its name from the Māori god Maui ?
Did you knowthat Fredesvinda Garcia was a Cuban singer who recorded just one album, a year before her death?
Did you knowthat the dome of St. Francis de Sales church in Philadelphia is a prime example of the Guastavino tile arch system ?
Did you knowthat credit and royalties for the 1968 Arthur Brown song " Fire " had to be shared due to similarities to another song, "Baby, You're a Long Way Behind"?
Did you knowthat Japanese historian and economist Taguchi Ukichi has often been referred to as the Adam Smith of Japan?
Did you knowthat Slimey the Worm is the smallest character on Sesame Street ?
Did you knowthat the Leather cannon was an early 17th century attempt of making a mobile cannon that would bridge the gap between muskets and heavy stationary artillery ?
Did you knowthat California 's Rubicon Point Light , at 6300 ft above sea level , is the highest lighthouse in the United States ?
Did you knowthat National Political Institutes of Education , elite secondary schools in Nazi Germany , only accepted students considered to be "racially flawless" and therefore did not admit pupils who needed glasses or had bad hearing ?
Did you knowthat the failed Pakistan coup attempt of 1995 aimed to establish an Islamic caliphate in Pakistan by overthrowing prime minister Benazir Bhutto ?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Alberto of 2000 completed the largest loop ever observed over the Atlantic Ocean ?
Did you knowthat the Himalayan Brown Bear is considered the source of the legend of the Yeti ?
Did you knowthat the Largo , a Socialist Classicism complex in central Sofia , Bulgaria , accommodates a number of state institutions?
Did you knowthat William Garwood , an American silent film actor, starred in 149 films in under 10 years—between 1909 and 1919 ?
Did you knowthat the first American ship sunk in World War II hit a German mine off Cape Otway in the Southern Ocean ?
Did you knowthat Hugh Talbot was roundly panned for his performance as Frederic in the premiere of The Pirates of Penzance ?
Did you knowthat the Xiao'erjing is a system of writing Sinitic languages such as Mandarin in the Arabic script ?
Did you knowthat a co-founder of the Slavophile movement, Ivan Kireevsky , turned for wisdom to the elders of the Optina Monastery , rather than to Western philosophers?
Did you knowthat wearing the Gandhi cap became a steadfast tradition during the Indian independence movement that is continued by Indian politicians to this day?
Did you knowthat John von Sonnentag de Havilland was one of only two officers at the College of Arms to have been born in the United States ?
Did you knowthat experiments with winged tanks , meant to glide into a drop zone and provide support for airborne forces , were tried but abandoned by several military forces?
Did you knowthat the Sevso Treasure is a hoard of silver objects from the late Roman Empire ?
Did you knowthat Tadeusz Hołówko became one of the first victims of the assassination campaign carried out by the members of the radical Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists despite his relatively moderate stance in the Polish - Ukrainian conflict?
Did you knowthat British Admiral of the Fleet Michael Pollock , was gunnery officer on the HMS Norfolk when she fought the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst during the Battle of North Cape ?
Did you knowthat a statue stands where Matangini Hazra was shot in 1942 during the Quit India Movement ?
Did you knowthat BŻ-1 GIL was the first Polish experimental helicopter ?
Did you knowthat the English nursery rhyme Bobby Shafto was an electioneering song by the 18th Century British MP , Robert Shafto?
Did you knowthat when Abraham Lincoln 's brother-in-law, Confederate Brig Gen. Benjamin Hardin Helm was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga , Lincoln's White House went into mourning?
Did you know that 17th-century Mughal subahdar Shaista Khan conquered Chittagong and ousted the British East India Company from Bengal over a trade dispute?
Did you knowthat a subtlety was an elaborate medieval dish that was supposed to entertain and surprise diners with extravagant decorations or by imitating other types of food ?
Did you knowthat the Paramarines was a short-lived parachute -trained unit of the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II , but its members were never dropped by parachute into combat?
Did you know that the website Machinima.com got its name when the founder misspelled his original portmanteau of machine and cinema and liked the new version better?
Did you knowthat the immortal DNA strand hypothesis was proposed in 1975 by John Cairns as a mechanism for adult stem cells to minimize mutations in their genomes ?
Did you knowthat Bolko II of Świdnica was the last independent duke of the Piast dynasty in Silesia ?
Did you knowthat Bearcat Stadium of Northwest Missouri State University , originally opened in 1917 , is the oldest stadium of any NCAA Division II school?
Did you knowthat Bellot Strait is a 2 km passage of water separating Somerset Island from the northernmost point on mainland North America ?
Did you knowthat Kanken Toyama, who developed the Shudokan school of karate , was originally an elementary school teacher ?
Did you knowthat " My Star " was the first song that Latvia entered into the Eurovision Song Contest , making them the last of the Baltic states to debut at Eurovision ?
Did you knowthat psychedelic rock group Circus Maximus was the launching point for the career of country musician Jerry Jeff Walker ?
Did you knowthat French Olympic shooter Léon Moreaux won his first of seven Olympic medals at the age of 38?
Did you knowthat, in opposition to the orthodox architectural canon, a giant undulating apse occupies the entire east façade of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Svishtov ?
Did you knowthat Marcelo Piñeyro ' s second film, Wild Horses , was the second-highest-attended film in Argentina during 1995 , and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ?
Did you knowthat the King/Drew Medical Centre , a major public hospital in South Central Los Angeles , was founded in response to the 1965 Watts Riots ?
Did you knowthat " La Coco-Dance " was the first Eurovision entry to feature Tahitian lyrics, representing Monaco in 2006 ?
Did you knowthat Kaundinya , the first arahant and bhikkhu of Gautama Buddha , was the only royal scholar to predict Siddhartha 's Buddhahood ?
Did you knowthat Heinie Reitz was the first Major League baseballer to die in a car accident ?
Did you knowthat the city of Thasos held out against an Athenian siege for over two years in the Thasian rebellion ?
Did you knowthat Canadian microbiologist John Dick was the first to isolate and identify a cancer stem cell ?
Did you knowthat Frances Slocum State Park in Pennsylvania is named for a woman captured by the Lenape at age 5, who permanently lived with Native Americans despite reuniting with her family 59 years later?
Did you knowthat the 43,000 Sakhalin Koreans were abandoned by Japan after World War II and kept stateless by the Soviet Union for 30 years?
Did you knowthat due to a "defect of birth", Thomas Livingston was forced to receive a papal dispensation to continue working in the church?
Did you knowthat David Brody is credited with co-founding the field of "new labor history"?
Did you knowthat Romanian actor Ion Caramitru figures prominently in theories that the Romanian Revolution of 1989 was not truly a popular uprising but a cover-up for a coup d'état ?
Did you knowthat Texas oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy gained the nickname "King of the wildcatters " after striking oil thirty-eight times in ten years?
Did you knowthat the Mount Kirkpatrick Formation is the only major dinosaur -bearing rock formation in Antarctica ?
Did you knowthat the French admiral Dupetit Thouars took possession of the Tahiti archipelago against his government's will?
Did you knowthat Canyon live oak acorns were a Native American staple food ?
Did you knowthat the Ristorante Cooperativo in Zürich may be the only restaurant to have been patronised by Benito Mussolini , Vladimir Lenin and Gerhard Schröder ?
Did you knowthat the British politician Alfred Lane Beit was made an honorary Irish citizen after he donated 17 masterpieces to the National Gallery of Ireland ?
Did you knowthat the Political Instability Task Force might have predicted over 85% of major state crises occurring in 1990–1997?
Did you knowthat the Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 led to wind gusts in excess of 100 mph across New York , New Jersey , and New England ?
Did you knowthat social anthropologist Sir Raymond Firth ' s research career spanned 76 years after it began in Polynesia ?
Did you knowthat Pepe Marchena was a popular singer who created a new palo or flamenco musical form , called colombiana ?
Did you knowthat after World War II , the Czech urban legend of Pérák changed from a shadowy surprise attacker to a heroic figure of resistance against the Nazi occupation of Prague ?
Did you knowthat Maratha Emperor Shivaji 's mentor Dadoji Konddeo also built the " Lal Mahal " in Pune , the royal palace before the capital moved to Raigad ?
Did you knowthat Sergei Yushenkov and Yuri Shchekochikhin , key members of the Kovalev Commission charged with investigating the Russian apartment bombings both died in apparent assassinations?
Did you knowthat parts of Karnataka gained independence after its Unification , a year later than most of India ?
Did you know that Bill Orban developed the 5BX plan to help Canadian Air Force pilots keep fit?
Did you knowthat Malaysia 's Sedition Act disregards criminal intent in passing judgement?
Did you knowthat the Japanese Sōshi-kaimei policy forced Koreans previously banned from using Japanese surnames to do so?
Did you knowthat the village of Sharpham in Somerset , is the birthplace of Elizabethan poet Sir Edward Dyer , writer Henry Fielding and cleric William Gould ?
Did you knowthat during construction of the Fort Canning Tunnel , special care was taken to minimize environmental impact on the surrounding Fort Canning Park ?
Did you knowthat the trees alongside the Falls of Bruar were planted in response to an entreaty from Robert Burns , the Scottish poet?
Did you knowthat construction of St. Francis Xavier's Cathedral in Adelaide did not finish until 1996 , 130 years after it began?
Did you knowthat American World War II Army Captain Bobbie E. Brown was awarded the Medal of Honor for running 100 yards up a hill through machine-gun fire to place a bomb in a German pillbox in the Battle of Crucifix Hill ?
Did you knowthat the church of Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli in Rome , along with the adjacent tower , is all that remains today of a Dominican convent dedicated to Catherine of Siena ?
Did you knowthat Australian Cricket Academy leg spin coach Terry Jenner was previously jailed for embezzlement ?
Did you knowthat the Samara flag , presented as a gift from Russia to the Bulgarian volunteers in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 , is the only flag awarded a Bulgarian Medal for Bravery?
Did you knowthat the Korpela movement was a short-lived cult during the 1930s in Northern Sweden and Finland whose controversial sexual rituals eventually led to the arrest of 60 followers?
Did you knowthat American Thoroughbred Kingston won eighty-nine races , the most by any horse?
Did you know that Norse sagas record some Finnish campaigns against Sweden in the mid- 8th century ?
Did you knowthat in 1819 , Hussein Shah , the seventeenth Sultan of Johor , allowed a British settlement in Singapore in order to wrest the throne from his brother with the help of the British, leading to the Malay Peninsula 's colonisation?
Did you knowthat in 2005 , Ghatam player Ghatam Udupa became the first Indian to perform at the Krakow International Percussion Festival?
Did you knowthat studies on whether nice guys finish last have been hindered by the social desirability bias ?
Did you knowthat Rajendrasinhji Jadeja was the first Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army ?
Did you know that economist Walter Adams served as expert witness before 36 United States Congressional committees ?
Did you knowthat Irving Crane pocketed 150 balls in a row in the final round of the 1966 World Crown straight pool championship; a feat that has never been equalled or eclipsed?
Did you knowthat the appearance of a dog named Cheeka in a Hutch ad campaign doubled sales of pugs in India in 2003 ?
Did you knowthat the prolific spawning of the Pacific herring can lead to egg densities of six million eggs/m 2 on submerged vegetation ?
Did you knowthat American novelist Tracy Quan once served as spokeswoman to the sex worker advocacy group Prostitutes of New York?
Did you knowthat Satveer Chaudhary was the first Asian American to hold elected office in Minnesota ?
Did you knowthat in the United Kingdom alone, over £ 60 million is spent annually on dealing with the effects of leaves on railroad tracks ?
Did you know that in 1057 , Saint Anthony of Pechersk singled-handedly dug out the Near Caves in Kiev , Ukraine which is part of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra ?
Did you knowthat Thoroughbred racehorse Gallant Man lost the 1957 Kentucky Derby by a nose after his jockey stood up to celebrate?
Did you knowthat together with the Treaty of Mendota , the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux ceded nearly 24 million acres of Sioux land to the United States in exchange for cash and annuities ?
Did you knowthat Clontarf Aboriginal College in Australia has at various points in its history served as an orphanage , a convent , an RAAF training facility , a boarding school and a day school ?
Did you knowthat Taras Fedorovych , a 17th century Cossack leader, led a Cossack and peasant uprising over the issue of the Cossack register ?
Did you know that human sacrifices were once offered in Chitpur , now home to Kolkata ’s latest railway passenger terminal?
Did you knowthat numerous specimens of dinosaurs have been excavated from the Dashanpu Formation , first discovered by a natural gas company that found the formation's first dinosaur, Gasosaurus ?
Did you knowthat Standard Oil of Kentucky (or Kyso ) was formed from the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911 and was awarded oil rights over the Southeastern U.S. ?
Did you knowthat the Late November 2006 Nor'easter caused winds up to 80 mph in the Outer Banks , the only occurrence of thundersnow on record in Charleston , and the earliest recorded snowfall in Charleston and Savannah ?
Did you knowthat under the terms of the Bunbury Agreement , the English county of Cheshire would have remained neutral during the English Civil War ?
Did you knowthat Chicago politician Giuseppe Esposito was shot and killed in front of his family during the 1928 Republican Pineapple Primary ?
Did you know that the New Guinean Quoll is a carnivorous marsupial that is reported to eat prey bigger than itself?
Did you know that Rudolf Duala Manga Bell was organising a colony-wide revolt against the German Empire in Cameroon when he was executed for high treason in 1914?
Did you knowthat in 1992, a single marbled eel was sold in mainland China for $ 1,000?
Did you know that Isaac Newton Van Nuys of New York founded Van Nuys, California , United States in 1911 ?
Did you knowthat Theo Osterkamp was the first German reconnaissance pilot to fly a land-based aircraft to England during World War I ?
Did you knowthat Shelley 's poem On the Medusa by Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery is based on the painting which was not in fact authored by Leonardo ?
Did you knowthat for organizing a revolt on an Ottoman slave galley and freeing Christian slaves, Hetman Ivan Sulyma received a medal from Pope Paul V ?
Did you knowthat Richard Ferguson joined a gang of highwaymen after recognising the man robbing his stagecoach near London as a former acquaintance?
Did you knowthat Crab Creek is one of the few perennial streams of the Columbia Basin ?
Did you knowthat Maria Fyodorovna was the tallest Russian tsarina ever,  and experienced difficulties while dancing with her husband, Emperor Paul , as a result?
Did you knowthat Cirsium fontinale is a species of California thistle that actually represents three taxa , two of which are endangered species with narrow endemic ranges?
Did you knowthat the breeding rights for the Thoroughbred racehorse Graustark sold for a record $ 2,400,000?
Did you knowthat with over 3,000 participants, the 1884 Chichibu Incident was one of the largest peasant revolts of Japan 's Meiji period ?
Did you knowthat Agustin Ramos Calero was the second-most- decorated soldier in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II ?
Did you knowthat the San Mateo woolly sunflower is an endangered species that makes its home on serpentine outcrops that are chemically inhospitable for most plant species ?
Did you knowthat in addition to practising as a lawyer in Cairo , Albanian nationalist Andon Zako Çajupi wrote a comedy attacking the tradition of arranged marriages ?
Did you knowthat Jimmy Fratianno was the highest-ranking member of the Mafia to become an informant for the U.S. government until Sammy Gravano in 1991?
Did you knowthat the Sandugo or Blood Compact , where two people drink a small amount of each other's blood, was a traditional way to formalize treaties of friendship in the Philippines ?
Did you knowthat the Scouting song Ging Gang Goolie was deliberately written in gibberish so that Scouts from different countries could easily learn it without struggling with a language barrier ?
Did you knowthat the first identifiable European print portrait was one of the artist Israhel van Meckenem and his wife Ida?
Did you knowthat American soldier Lucian Adams was awarded the Medal of Honor for single-handedly destroying several enemy machine gun emplacements in World War II ?
Did you knowthat Wee Siew Kim , a Singaporean MP , had to apologise after scandal broke out involving an elitist blog entry made by his daughter?
Did you knowthat the Russian victory in the Battle of Rakovor in 1268 put an end to the attacks of the Teutonic Knights on Russia for thirty years?
Did you knowthat during the Ottoman occupation of Hungary no fewer than 75 Turkish baths were built in the Hungarian eyalets ?
Did you knowthat Polish painter Jan Matejko smuggled arms to Polish insurgents during the January Uprising in 1863?
Did you knowthat in 2003, German authorities foiled a plot by a neo-Nazi group to set off a bomb at the Ohel Jakob synagogue cornerstone ceremony?
Did you knowthat after resigning from the Australian Liberal Party , politician Steven Pringle used his parliamentary privilege to launch a scathing attack on the far right faction of the party for their alleged branch stacking tactics?
Did you knowthat even though John Clough Holmes helped found Michigan State University in 1855, it was not until 1965 that a building was named in his honor?
Did you knowthat Ching-Thang Khomba was the first king of a unified Manipur ?
Did you knowthat Giulio Campagnola was the first engraver to use stippling in his works?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Schöngrabern features in Leo Tolstoy 's novel War and Peace ?
Did you knowthat Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park was formerly home to one of the few colonies of the endangered Mediterranean Monk Seal in the Western Mediterranean?
Did you knowthat Scamozzi 's Villa Molin near Padua served as military command headquarters during the Great War ?
Did you knowthat after a successful theatrical career spanning three decades, U.S. actress Tittell Brune joined the Order of St Francis , remaining a sister until her death, aged 99?
Did you knowthat the sound of the revving motorcycle in the Meat Loaf rock anthem " Bat out of Hell " is actually a recording of an electric guitar solo by producer Todd Rundgren ?
Did you knowthat former Queensland Health Minister Leisha Harvey served five months in prison for misappropriation of public funds during her tenure?
Did you knowthat Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 was the deadliest air disaster of 1997, claiming the lives of over 230 people?
Did you knowthat Red Road is the first of three films in the Advance Party trilogy, each of which are to be set in Scotland using the same characters and cast, and directed by a different first-time director each time?
Did you knowthat Nicolas Grollier de Serviere invented a type of bookwheel that allowed many heavy books to be read at the same time?
Did you knowthat Acanthomintha duttonii is an endangered wildflower that is found only in a six mile long strip on the San Francisco Peninsula ?
Did you knowthat the Mark II radio telescope built in 1964 at Jodrell Bank Observatory , UK was the first telescope to be controlled by a digital computer ?
Did you knowthat Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer , who was affected with cerebral palsy and was unable to talk or use her limbs, became an author and prominent disability rights advocate?
Did you knowthat the pinax , an ancient Greek votive tablet, has given several modern European languages their word for " art museum ", as exemplified by Munich 's Alte Pinakothek ?
Did you knowthat modern Romania 's most notorious serial killer, Ion Râmaru , was himself the son of a serial killer?
Did you knowthat the South Australian Register was the first newspaper to be produced and distributed in South Australia ?
Did you knowthat William King Gregory , a leading authority on vertebrate evolution and the preeminent expert on human dentition , was initially taken in by the Piltdown Man , a hoax which was purported to be an early human?
Did you know that despite projections of producing four times as much power as it used in heating, the Riggatron fusion reactor was never built due to a lack of funding?