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Did you knowthat American artist Sybil Gibson started painting in 1963, aged 55, using the medium of powdered tempera paints on brown paper grocery bags?
Did you knowthat footballer Roy Cheetham was the first Manchester City player to be used as a substitute ?
Did you knowthat Jimmie Lewallen turned down an offer to buy into NASCAR because "it would never amount to anything"?
Did you knowthat the town of Orlová in the Czech Republic was named for the eagle that, legend has it, caused the premature birth of Kazimierz, son of Duke Mieszko and his wife, Ludmiła, on the spot where the town was founded?
Did you knowthat the ANAK Society , Georgia Tech 's oldest secret society , claims to have covertly protected the university's first African American students during Georgia Tech's racial integration in the 1960s?
Did you knowthat despite his never having been emperor , Li Chengqi was posthumously honoured as such by the Tang Chinese Emperor Xuanzong ?
Did you knowthat during his U.S. Air Force career, Colorado state representative Kent Lambert oversaw military support for the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster investigation at Air Force Space Command ?
Did you knowthat signs of spring trending to earlier arrivals are evidence of season creep ?
Did you knowthat the All-American football player John Maulbetsch was known as the "Featherweight Fullback " because he weighed only 155 pounds (70 kg) and ate two pies a day for dinner during his playing career?
Did you knowthat the Rhone Rangers , winemakers who promote the use of grapes from the Rhône Valley in France , were a driving force behind Syrah 's increased popularity among Californian wines ?
Did you knowthat Section 44 of the Australian Constitution has been interpreted as meaning that persons with dual citizenship are ineligible to run for the Australian parliament ?
Did you knowthat the projected Russian hypersonic aircraft Ayaks was supposed to use novel "magneto-plasmo-chemical engines" capable of working in the mesosphere ?
Did you knowthat Vannimais were feudal divisions of Sri Lanka ?
Did you knowthat Ilha dos Marinheiros , the largest and most fertile island in the lagoon Lagoa dos Patos , produces about 80% of the vegetables consumed in Rio Grande , Brazil ?
Did you knowthat Psalms 134 and 135 are usually chanted during the Polyeleos , a festive portion of the Matins or All-night vigil services in some Eastern Christian Churches , but Psalm 44 is chanted instead on feasts of the Theotokos in Greece ?
Did you knowthat John Cort , founder of Broadway 's Cort Theatre, first made his name by booking variety entertainment in the bawdy box houses of Seattle , Washington , USA?
Did you knowthat irritable hip is the most common cause of limp and sudden pain in and around the hip in children aged three to ten?
Did you knowthat the Herbert C. Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. not only houses the headquarters of the United States Department of Commerce , but is also the site of the Population Clock , National Aquarium , and White House Visitor Center ?
Did you knowthat paramilitary loyalist Tommy Herron declared war on the British Army , but called it off after two days?
Did you knowthat Utricularia inflata is one of the few invasive species of carnivorous plant ?
Did you knowthat Shruti Haasan , the daughter of Indian actors Kamal Haasan and Sarika , is a singer turned model who is now also venturing into acting?
Did you knowthat the producer of White Zinfandel originally wanted to name the wine after the old rosé style Oeil de Perdrix ?
Did you knowthat rugby union footballer Robert Wilson Shaw was so influential in Scotland 's Triple Crown winning victory over England in 1938 that the match became known as "Wilson Shaw's match"?
Did you knowthat the Theatre on Terazije is a Broadway-style theatre in Belgrade where the Serbian version of Chicago , Kiss Me, Kate , A Chorus Line and other musicals are performed?
Did you knowthat Oregon State University ’s Wave Research Laboratory has the world’s largest tsunami simulator?
Did you knowthat the 17th chief of the Clan Maclachlan was killed by a cannonball while leading his Jacobite clansmen at the Battle of Culloden in 1746?
Did you knowthat during the French and Indian War Henry Timberlake was an emissary to the Overhill Cherokee whose journals became a primary source for later studies of eighteenth-century Cherokee ?
Did you knowthat in the landmark case Riggins v. Nevada , the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a mentally ill person cannot be forced to take antipsychotic medication while on trial merely to maintain his competency during trial ?
Did you knowthat the philosophical question of temporal finitism has never been fully settled?
Did you knowthat 67 Australian , Canadian , and New Zealand Article XV squadrons were formed during World War II from graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan ?
Did you knowthat Portugal was taken to court over its failure to implement EU directives regarding its water supply and sanitation systems?
Did you knowthat one of the earliest references to Indian wine was the writings of Chanakya in the 4th century BCE commenting on its prevalence in the court of Emperor Chandragupta Maurya ?
Did you knowthat John Considine , pioneering American vaudeville impresario , once shot and killed a former chief of police of Seattle who had come gunning for him?
Did you knowthat without adequate scouting , Russian forces advanced blindly into the Battle of Lubar in 1658 during the Russo-Polish War , and were soundly defeated by a Polish army much larger than expected?
Did you knowthat Tom Collen resigned over a discrepancy about his résumé a day after becoming Vanderbilt University 's women's basketball head coach, but his résumé was correct?
Did you knowthat the Near-Earth object and Mars-crosser asteroid 2007 WD5 is estimated to have a 1-in-75 chance of colliding with Mars ?
Did you knowthat the 2001 single by Mylène Farmer , C'est une belle journée , was released in April , 2002 after the success of the album , Les Mots , rather than its scheduled date of release?
Did you knowthat although tall waterhemp is considered a weed in 40 U.S. states , it does not appear on the federal noxious weed list or any state lists?
Did you knowthat each title of the thirteen episodes of the 2007 Japanese animated television series Blue Drop: Tenshitachi no Gikyoku is the name of a flower seen in that episode?
Did you knowthat in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongol Empire had an alliance with the Armenians against their common enemy, the Muslim Mamluks ?
Did you knowthat the city of West Sacramento, California is converting the former State Route 275 freeway into a surface road by replacing interchanges with at-grade intersections ?
Did you knowthat Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello , a Nigerian Senator from the People's Democratic Party , is the daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo ?
Did you knowthat there are two separate churches dedicated to St Werburgh in the village of Warburton, Greater Manchester ?
Did you knowthat Associated Press correspondent Edward Kennedy violated a news embargo to break the story of the surrender of the Germans in World War II ?
Did you knowthat the modern Croatian intelligence community emerged as an integral force in Croatia 's war for independence , spying on rival Yugoslav republics?
Did you knowthat before becoming the Judge Advocate General of the United States Navy , Thomas Leigh Gatch was awarded two Navy Crosses ?
Did you knowthat most of Manchester 's Grade I listed buildings are Victorian, because of Manchester's growth during the Industrial Revolution?
Did you knowthat the Rowan County War resulted in 20 deaths, talk of dissolving Rowan County, Kentucky , and the founding of what would become Morehead State University ?
Did you knowthat the Italian winery Vini Lunardelli produced a controversial "historical line" of wine bottles featuring images of Che Guevara , Adolf Hitler , Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin on their labels ?
Did you knowthat when St Hilary's Church in Wallasey , England burnt down in 1857, a new church was built separately, leaving the tower of the old medieval church as a free-standing edifice?
Did you knowthat in the cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies , coffee became the alternative to tea after the enactment of the Tea Act of 1773 ?
Did you knowthat netball in New Zealand is the most popular women's sport in the country, led by its high-profile national team, the Silver Ferns ?
Did you knowthat Marine Attack Squadron 233 was the only squadron of the U.S. Marine Corps to have three commanders killed during the course of World War II ?
Did you knowthat Svinøy island of Norway is so exposed to the wind and high seas that supply boats to the island's lighthouse could not dock but had to be lifted up by a crane ?
Did you knowthat English botanist John Ralfs amassed a collection 3,137 microscopic slides , which he left in his will to the British Museum ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Chudniv in 1660 was the largest Polish victory over the Russians until the Battle of Warsaw in 1920 ?
Did you knowthat many churchgoers in the 1920s believed that Ronald Reagan 's mother, Nelle Wilson Reagan , had the gift to heal due to her strong belief in the power of prayer ?
Did you knowthat the four years between the two no ball decisions for throwing by cricketer Harold Cotton is the longest span during which a player was no-balled in major cricket in Australia ?
Did you knowthat as well as serving as the assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health, Kent R. Hill has also published books and served as the president of the Institute on Religion and Democracy ?
Did you knowthat John Warren Davis , a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit , was indicted for receiving a bribe from film producer William Fox ?
Did you knowthat German-American football center Adolph F. "Germany" Schulz is credited for developing the "roving center" technique, which became the basis for the linebacker position?
Did you knowthat according to literary critics, The Queen and Concubine , a 17th-century tragicomic stage play written by Richard Brome , is a critique of royal tyranny and courtly sycophancy in England at the time?
Did you knowthat during the Spanish Civil War Solidaridad Obrera , published by an anarchist labor union, was Spain's highest-circulation newspaper?
Did you knowthat the Brooklyn Hospital Center is the oldest hospital of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City ?
Did you knowthat the Abbey of Condat , founded in the 420s in the Jura Mountains by Romanus and Lupicinus , predated even Montecassino as one of the earliest monasteries in the West?
Did you knowthat, after failing to hail a cab on New Year's Eve in Denver , state representative Jerry Frangas sponsored legislation to deregulate Colorado 's taxicab industry?
Did you knowthat although Louisiana per Perry v. Louisiana forbids the forced medication of a death row inmate to make him competent for execution , some states allow it?
Did you knowthat the well known white wine region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia also makes red wine from grapes like Merlot , Cabernet Sauvignon and Pignolo ?
Did you knowthat indigenous Australian cricketer Jack Marsh was called for illegally throwing instead of bowling an Australian record seventeen times in one innings?
Did you knowthat in the 17th century, south-London prostitutes , nicknamed ' Winchester Geese' after the Bishop whose land they worked on, were buried in a special, unconsecrated graveyard called Cross Bones ?
Did you knowthat people with patent foramen ovale , an atrial septal defect , are more likely to suffer from migraine headaches?
Did you knowthat the Laetare Medal , an award for an American Catholic who has made an outstanding contribution to society , was first given to the historian John Gilmary Shea in 1883?
Did you knowthat The Entrepreneur , the first video game created by famed game designer Peter Molyneux , sold only two copies?
Did you knowthat Ava Helen Pauling , an American human rights activist and wife of Nobel laureate Linus Pauling , was a three-time national vice president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom ?
Did you knowthat Powderfinger 's D.A.F. was named after its chord progression , rather than its subject matter like most popular songs?
Did you knowthat Richard Lloyd Racing's custom-built 956 GTi was structurally stronger than the standard 956's built by Porsche thanks to the introduction of aluminium composite honeycomb in the chassis construction?
Did you knowthat the skin of the Austrian white wine grape Zierfandler turns red just before it is ready to harvest ?
Did you knowthat the Nobel laureate physicist Theodor W. Hänsch works at the faculty of the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics ?
Did you knowthat the 18th century publisher Ralph Griffiths erected a sign outside his shop warning dunces that his Monthly Review would have no mercy in exposing and shaming dull authors?
Did you knowthat Shanhua , a township in Taiwan , is also known as Bakaloan and Tevoran?
Did you knowthat after scoring the highest score for the Federated Malay States cricket team in 1933, Cyril Reed was playing against them for the Straits Settlements the following year?
Did you knowthat spinning cones are sometimes used to lower the alcohol level of wine made from grapes with a high sugar content?
Did you knowthat according to the Christmas Price Index it will cost your true love US$78,100 to buy you all those gifts this year?
Did you knowthat to clear a jammed gun on the armored cruiser USS Brooklyn , Medal of Honor recipient Harry L. MacNeal crawled along its barrel during the Battle of Santiago de Cuba ?
Did you knowthat wine made from the Italian grape Schioppettino was served at weddings in 1282 and the grape is still being grown today?
Did you knowthat development of the 2008 film Dragonball began in 2002, when 20th Century Fox acquired the rights?
Did you knowthat in the 1971 film Lawman , American actor Robert Ryan played the role of the sheriff under the name Cotton Ryan?
Did you knowthat Franz Kafka 's 1917 " Jackals and Arabs " has been read as variously a Zionist critique of Western Jewry, a European critique of Jewish-Arab relations, and a paean to Nietzsche 's On the Genealogy of Morality ?
Did you knowthat in 1971, the Indian Claims Commission ordered US$ 74,856.50 to be paid to the Lower Skagit tribe to pay for land lost as a result of the Point Elliott Treaty ?
Did you knowthat Frank Pitcher was the only cricketer in Australia history to be no balled for throwing in his debut match?
Did you knowthat, with Christine Scanlan 's appointment to the Colorado House of Representatives , the state house's Democratic caucus became majority-female?
Did you knowthat the Zoological Garden of Hamburg built the world's largest primate house in 1915, only to see most of the monkeys starve to death during World War I and the zoo go bankrupt in 1920?
Did you knowthat when the Duke of Austria , Leopold III , established reign over the Italian city of Trieste one of his stipulations was that the city supply him each year with 100 urns of the region's best Ribolla wine?
Did you knowthat before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Jackson v. Indiana , an incompetent criminal defendant could be involuntarily confined indefinitely (as if given a life sentence ) without a trial or a conviction ?
Did you knowthat Ron DeGregorio was elected in 2003 as the fourth president of USA Hockey since 1937 ?
Did you knowthat Viktor Pynzenyk , Ukraine's Minister of Finance , is also a professor of economics at Lviv University ?
Did you knowthat the British shipping company Ellerman Lines lost 60 out of its 105-strong fleet of merchant vessels during the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat cricketer Barry Fisher had a metal pin surgically inserted into his shoulder to prevent injury while bowling , although he still suffered from persistent shoulder problems?
Did you knowthat Soma Cruz , the protagonist of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow , the third installment of the Castlevania video game series on the Game Boy Advance , is the reincarnation of the series' premier villain, Dracula ?
Did you knowthat the SAPPHIRE information network helped prevent epidemics in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina , using Semantic Web technologies?
Did you knowthat after serving as a border guard , Saint Claudius of Besançon became, successively, a priest , monk , abbot , bishop , and then an abbot again, in the 7th century ?
Did you knowthat there is currently significant controversy on college and university rankings like those used for business school rankings because some of the methodologies are deemed misleading?
Did you knowthat Luv Ya Blue was the term given to a 1970s movement by fans of the Houston Oilers that featured fight songs , pom-pons and other gimmicks more reminiscent of college football than the NFL ?
Did you knowthat Hector Munro Macdonald graduated as fourth Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos of 1889?
Did you knowthat " Clash of the Choirs " was a quick reality talent contest miniseries between celebrity -led amateur choirs that was criticized for a lack of tension and actual judges ?
Did you knowthat, upon exhumation , the 10th century saint Rasso was found to be 2 meters (6' 6") tall, although, given that his grave was 2 and a half meters, he had earlier been thought to be even taller?
Did you knowthat Frank Parr , an English chess player, won the Hastings Premier during his first and only appearance at the tournament in 1939/1940?
Did you knowthat Christopher Erhardt was a product planner for companies such as Teledyne , and is now working on a doctoral dissertation on video game players' demographic considerations?
Did you knowthat the Zionist leader Leo Motzkin organized the Jewish delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and led agitations against the Nazi Party ?
Did you knowthat Stanley Green , the "Protein Man", walked up and down Oxford Street in London every day for 25 years, sometimes in green overalls to protect himself from spit , warning passers-by about the dangers of too much protein — and sitting ?
Did you knowthat The Enchanter is the last work of fiction written by Vladimir Nabokov in Russian but was first published in English after his death ?
Did you knowthat the writer and diplomat Maurice Francis Egan introduced President Theodore Roosevelt to William Butler Yeats at a White House lunch?
Did you knowthat the Little War was the smallest and least successful of the three conflicts in the Cuban War of Independence ?
Did you knowthat Clifford Last , a son of the author of the Housewife, 49 diaries, migrated from Britain to Australia after the war and became a noted abstract sculptor ?
Did you knowthat Glenn Vaad was elected to seats on his local town board , school board , sanitation board, and county commission before winning election to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006?
Did you knowthat after sinking the SS City of Cairo , Kapitän zur See Karl-Friedrich Merten gave the survivors directions to the nearest land, and parted with the words "Goodnight, and sorry for sinking you"?
Did you knowthat Cornelius Shea , the founding president of the Teamsters , spent more than five years in Sing Sing prison for slashing and stabbing his mistress 27 times?
Did you knowthat when the old All Saints Church, Marple was replaced by a new church 30 metres away in 1880, the tower from the old church was retained and is now used as a free-standing bell-tower?
Did you knowthat as Oregon State University athletic director, Percy Locey agreed to play the 1942 Rose Bowl at the opposing team's home field due to the attack on Pearl Harbor ?
Did you knowthat Ron Halcombe was the first player to be called for throwing in major Australian cricket by three different umpires ?
Did you knowthat the pun riddle “What do you call a spicy missile? A hot shot!” was generated by computer as part of computational humor research?
Did you knowthat Libya was the first country to purchase the Palmaria , an Italian -made self-propelled 155mm howitzer , ordering 210 units in 1982?
Did you know Robert Hett Chapman was the second president of the The University of North Carolina and instituted the first Bible study classes at the university?
Did you knowthat the Creusot steam hammer , with its massive 100 ton hammer and 750 ton anvil, was the world's largest steam hammer on its completion in 1877 and is the largest surviving steam hammer today?
Did you knowthat Mount Urpín is home to 35 endangered animal species, despite its proximity to downtown Banská Bystrica ?
Did you knowthat theatre director David Warren landed a directing role on Desperate Housewives after giving the show's creator, Marc Cherry , his first acting job twenty years prior?
Did you knowthat HMCS Esquimalt was the last Royal Canadian Navy warship lost to enemy action in World War II ?
Did you knowthat Jack Blott , an All-American football center for the Michigan Wolverines , had a Major League Baseball career with the Cincinnati Reds lasting only two games?
Did you knowthat, as of December 2007, more than half of registered players of rugby union in Belgium are teenagers and pre-teens ?
Did you knowthat recreational parachutist Jacques-André Istel wrote a children's book claiming that the center of the world is located in Felicity, California , a town he founded?
Did you knowthat Nationalism and Culture , the magnum opus of German anarchist Rudolf Rocker , was lauded by three Nobel Prize laureates?
Did you knowthat the energy elasticity of India in 2005 was 0.80?
Did you knowthat the first act of Paul John Hallinan as Archbishop of Atlanta , an office he assumed in 1962, was to order the desegregation of all Catholic schools and institutions in the Archdiocese of Atlanta ?
Did you knowthat the L class destroyer HMS Legion rescued 1,560 crew members of the torpedoed aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal ?
Did you knowthat cricketer Ian Meckiff was chaired off the ground by angry spectators as a hero after he was sanctioned for illegal bowling ?
Did you knowthat two of the four judges depicted in The Bench , a 1758 oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Hogarth , were half asleep in court ?
Did you knowthat the Army Cyclist Corps , which operated the bicycle infantry of the British Army , only existed for four years?
Did you knowthat after placing fifth in the original Judgment of Paris wine tasting , the 1971 Monte Bello Cabernet Sauvignon made by Paul Draper of Ridge Vineyards won the 2006 rematch ?
Did you knowthat Kurt Vonnegut 's short story 2BR02B is mentioned in his later book God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater , where it is attributed to Vonnegut's fictional alter ego Kilgore Trout ?
Did you knowthat the 1957 accident on the Saint-Paul ramps claimed twenty-seven lives, making it among Réunion 's deadliest road accidents?
Did you knowthat No. 112 Squadron RAF was the first unit from any air force to use the "Shark Mouth" logo on P-40 fighter planes ?
Did you knowthat pole splitting is a frequency compensation technique that can be used to improve the step response of an electronic amplifier ?
Did you knowthat " Majulah Singapura ", the national anthem of Singapore , was originally a theme song for events held by Singapore's City Council during colonial times?
Did you knowthat the Invasion of Minorca, 1781 , by Spanish and French forces succeeded, after more than five months, because the British defenders had no fresh vegetables ?
Did you knowthat the conventional name of the Darius Painter , an Apulian red-figure vase painter , is derived from his name vase , which carries the depiction of Darius the Great of Persia ?
Did you knowthat the community of West Union, Oregon , has the oldest Baptist church west of the Rocky Mountains ?
Did you knowthat actor Ben Kingsley has been cast in the lead role of the upcoming film reportedly inspired by the life of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh , Guru of Sex ?
Did you knowthat French winemakers in Jurançon once promoted their white Manseng wines with the slogan "Manseng means Jurançon means Sex " ?
Did you knowthat the phrase dental hygiene is credited to Alfred Fones who founded the first dental hygiene school and whose cousin was the first qualified dental hygienist ?