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Did you know that Charles J. Bates was instrumental in developing high-fructose corn syrup for use by Coca-Cola in their soft drinks while he was with American Maize Products in the 1970s?
Did you knowthat while the engineering treatises of Italian Renaissance artist Taccola were widely copied and studied during his lifetime, printed copies were not made until the 1960s?
Did you knowthat even though American lawman Harry Love cut off and preserved the head of notorious bandit Joaquin Murrieta , many people still didn't believe the man was dead?
Did you know that the UK Government Decontamination Service was set up in 2005 after increased threats of terrorism to help the United Kingdom resist and recover from biological , chemical and nuclear incidents?
Did you knowthat the striking of a French consul with a fly-whisk by Ottoman ruler Hussein Dey was used as a pretext for the invasion of Algiers ?
Did you knowthat instead of simply heating particles, the Migma fusion reactor uses small particle accelerators to initiate a fusion reaction ?
Did you knowthat Minnie Evans received inspiration for her colored pencil drawings from her dreams ?
Did you knowthat the  free trade union SLOMR , established in opposition to the communist Romanian government , was suppressed one year before the creation of Solidarity , its more successful Polish counterpart ?
Did you knowthat former executive director of the Institute of Food Technologists Howard W. Mattson became active in promoting organ donation after receiving a heart transplant ?
Did you knowthat the blood of the skink Prasinohaema virens is bright green , due to an accumulation of the bile pigment biliverdin ?
Did you knowthat the City of Amsterdam spent € 160,000 on an unsuccessful soil sanitation program to save the Anne Frank Tree , one of the oldest chestnut trees in the area?
Did you knowthat the Onkochishinsho was the first Japanese language dictionary to collate words in the now-standard gojūon order?
Did you knowthat Hashim Suboh controversially called for the use of force in enforcing the Malaysian social contract ?
Did you knowthat, as part of the Hornsleth Village Project , Danish artist Kristian von Hornsleth paid 340 Ugandan villagers in livestock to legally change their names to include "Hornsleth"?
Did you knowthat the Muscovite-Lithuanian Wars of the 16th century saw significant territorial gains for the Grand Duchy of Moscow , and forced the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to ally itself closer with the Kingdom of Poland , forming the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ?
Did you knowthat journalist Simon Regan established the magazine Scallywag , which did much to propagate baseless rumours that British Prime Minister John Major was having an affair with a Downing Street cook?
Did you knowthat the soldier in the Pulitzer Prize -winning photograph Burst of Joy reunited with his family after six years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp ?
Did you knowthat Tsar Alexander II of Russia signed the Ems Ukaz , a decree banning official use of the "non-existent" Ukrainian language , whilst enjoying a spa at Bad Ems , Germany ?
Did you knowthat excavations at the village of Timerevo near Yaroslavl -on-the- Volga revealed a huge number of African dirhams and a chess piece, all inscribed with Runic graffiti ?
Did you knowthat the Thoroughbred racehorse Sarazen won the United States Horse of the Year Award for two consecutive years in the 1920s?
Did you knowthat the publisher of Mirror Buzz , a Mumbai Mirror supplementary magazine , was arrested in 2005 after the magazine featured images of nude women on its front cover ?
Did you knowthat Michael Groce indirectly started the Brixton riot of 1985 ?
Did you knowthat Wyoming Seminary , a private school in Kingston, Pennsylvania , participated in the first nighttime American football game in 1892 ?
Did you knowthat the pigment responsible for the colour of the bright green Parrot Toadstool is not chlorophyll as it is a fungus ?
Did you knowthat the finds at the village of Gnezdovo near Smolensk include an early folding razor , the first pivoted scissors found in Eastern Europe, and the earliest inscription in the Old Russian language ?
Did you knowthat the self-taught weapon designer Aimo Lahti designed over 50 weapons of all types prior to and during World War II , including the successful Suomi M-31 ?
Did you knowthat " On Again...Off Again " features influences from both dance music and opera , the only time that such a combination has appeared at the Eurovision Song Contest ?
Did you knowthat Sarskoye Gorodishche near Rostov , Russia has been interpreted as either a Varangian outpost on the Volga trade route or the capital of the Finnic Merya ?
Did you knowthat the primary disposal method for human feces in the slums of Nairobi , Kenya is the  unsanitary flying toilet ?
Did you knowthat while visiting Mödlareuth in 1983, then U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush alluded to John F. Kennedy 's statement " Ich bin ein Berliner " by exclaiming, "Ich bin ein Mödlareuther!"?
Did you knowthat the site of the early Viking hill fort of Alaborg , Russia , was turned into a quarry for construction of a highway during the years of Stalinism ?
Did you knowthat the Chubb detector lock was developed in 1818 in a competition sponsored by the British Government to create an unpickable lock and remained unpicked until 1851?
Did you knowthat at least 3,000 Vendel Age burial mounds in Grobiņa , Latvia indicate the existence of a prosperous Viking colony there?
Did you knowthat the Malay Agenda is one half of the Malaysian social contract , pertaining to the special status of Malays in Malaysia ?
Did you knowthat the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 entry " Desire " was the first Maltese entry in 28 years to have Maltese lyrics?
Did you knowthat the 1592 book Nine Worthies of London charted the rise of nine tradesmen and apprentices to the nobility?
Did you know that the Tatarbunary Uprising in Budjak , Bessarabia was led by a pro- Soviet revolutionary committee which called for unification with the Ukrainian SSR and an end to " Romanian occupation"?
Did you know that the song with which Thor Salden won the Belgian preselections of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 reached Number 1 in the Flemish music charts ?
Did you know that Laura Callahan , a former senior director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security , was found to have obtained her academic degrees through a diploma mill run out of a converted Motel 6 ?
Did you knowthat the medieval Armenian sect of Tondrakians denied the immortality of the soul,  the afterlife, the church and its feudal rights?
Did you knowthat, according to the United Kingdom 's Teaching and Higher Education Act of 1998 , full time workers aged 16 or 17 have the right to paid leave from work in order to pursue training towards a qualification ?
Did you knowthat in the early 1900s the illegal paramilitary Combat Organization of the Polish Socialist Party assassinated hundreds of Russian officials , policemen and secret agents responsible for repression in partitioned Poland ?
Did you knowthat the travels of a shipment of 29,000 Friendly Floatees bath toys lost overboard in the Pacific in 1992 have been used to model the world's ocean currents?
Did you knowthat the ancient Athenian sacred ships included a galley which was believed to be the ship that carried Theseus to Crete to face the Minotaur ?
Did you knowthat Luton Town Hall was burnt to the ground following a riot at the Peace Day celebrations marking the formal end of World War I on 19 July 1919 ?
Did you knowthat the Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis , a book of Aztec herbal remedies in Latin , was returned to Mexico by Pope John Paul II after more than four centuries of changing hands in Europe ?
Did you knowthat the fiscus Iudaicus was a tax imposed on all Jewish subjects of the Roman Empire after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem , the proceeds of which were used to fund a temple of Jupiter in Rome ?
Did you knowthat the Fairfield Osborn Preserve is home to a great variety of fauna including one of the world's largest salamanders ?
Did you knowthat the Pungoteague River Light was the shortest-lived screwpile lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay , and may have been the shortest-lived lighthouse in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the Pariser Platz in Berlin is named after the French capital in memory of Napoleon 's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 ?
Did you knowthat 17 days after the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, the Soviet Union joined the invasion , ensuring the fall of the Second Polish Republic ?
Did you knowthat the Varmint of Burke's Garden was a coyote that terrorized the community of Burke's Garden, Virginia , in 1952?
Did you knowthat Ratnakar Matkari combined social realism in supernatural thrillers , which was a pioneering idea in Marathi literature ?
Did you knowthat Mountain Mint was used by the Koasati as a treatment for laziness?
Did you knowthat the pen is mightier than the sword , an adage coined in 1839 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton for a play about Cardinal Richelieu , had numerous historical predecessors?
Did you knowthat rally driver Lucien Bianchi , who had driven across 10,000 miles of treacherous terrain, crashed out of the lead of the 1968 London-Sydney Marathon with only 150 miles to go?
Did you knowthat the body of the victim of the Red Barn Murder , in Suffolk , England , was discovered in 1828 after her stepmother reported dreaming about it?
Did you knowthat the South Korean long track speed skater Lee Kyu-Hyuk has held the 1500 m world record, despite never winning a World Cup event or an Olympic medal at the distance?
Did you knowthat the Egyptian actress Faten Hamama has received more than forty awards and starred in almost one hundred films?
Did you knowthat Ivan Argunov , one of the founders of the Russian school of portrait painting, spent his entire life as a serf ?
Did you knowthat United States Executive Order 9835 established a Federal Employee Loyalty Program, under which 27,000 federal employees were investigated by the FBI between 1948 and 1958 for alleged communist affiliations?
Did you knowthat the album City of Angels: Music from the Motion Picture was the second-best-selling soundtrack of 1998 in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the Pereshchepina Treasure was discovered in 1912 , when a Ukrainian shepherd boy literally stumbled over a gold vessel and fell into the grave of Kubrat , the founder of Great Bulgaria ?
Did you knowthat Saner Wonggoun was the number one fugitive of the U.S. Air Force from 1994 until he was caught by the Royal Thai Police in October 2006?
Did you knowthat Elizabeth Godfrey was the most outstanding female goldsmith of her generation in 18th century Britain ?
Did you knowthat the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine , the largest open pit iron mine in the world, is so large that the nearby town of Hibbing, Minnesota was relocated in 1919 to allow more iron ore to be mined?
Did you knowthat rice brokers in Osaka in the Edo period were the forerunner of banking in Japan ?
Did you knowthat in addition to being a painter , Wolf Huber was active as an architect , but that no buildings designed by him have survived?
Did you knowthat a type of car modification named Bippu is alleged to have originated from ties to the Yakuza ?
Did you knowthat Pamheiba made Hinduism the official religion of Manipur in 1717 C.E. ?
Did you knowthat Stanford professor Kate Lorig developed a peer-led chronic disease self management course which is the basis of the Expert Patient Programme of the British National Health Service ?
Did you knowthat the New York Sports Express , a free weekly newspaper designed to take a lighter look at sports, lasted only a little over one year on the hurried streets of New York City ?
Did you knowthat the song " Ninanajna " has two very different sets of lyrics - one in English and one in Macedonian ?
Did you knowthat walking fish can actually skip, crawl, slither, and even climb trees?
Did you knowthat the USS Hunchback was a steam powered ferryboat converted into a gunboat for the American Civil War ?
Did you knowthat film composer Richard Harvey has a collection of more than 600 different musical instruments?
Did you knowthat the Tagore family , with over three hundred years of history, has exercised the greatest influence on reawakened Bengali spirit?
Did you knowthat the Northern Red-legged Frog is a near-threatened species , whose male defends breeding pond territory with nocturnal displays?
Did you knowthat Battle of the Border refers to the series of battles in the opening stage of the Nazi Germany invasion of Poland in September 1939?
Did you knowthat Motilal Sheel , a Bengali merchant in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in British India in the early 19th century, donated the land on which the Calcutta Medical College was built in 1835?
Did you knowthat Colonel Denning State Park , which opened in Pennsylvania in 1936, is named for an American Revolutionary War hero, Colonel William Denning, who was a sergeant not a colonel ?
Did you knowthat Penley , a small village near Wrexham in north east Wales , was home to a hospital founded on the orders of Sir Winston Churchill after World War II to care for Polish ex-servicemen?
Did you knowthat social dancers exchange partners several times during a mixer dance , to increase their chance of dancing with new people?
Did you knowthat Australian Test cricketers Mark Waugh and Shane Warne were fined after accepting money from an Indian bookmaker known only as " John " in return for pitch and weather reports?
Did you knowthat Loretta Perfectus Walsh was the first woman to enlist in the U.S. military ?
Did you knowthat according to Statistics Canada , 60 percent of Canada's population are classified as White ?
Did you knowthat the witch's hat is the common name of a colourful orange-red toadstool?
Did you knowthat K-Klass are a house music group from North Wales that purchased an underground bunker for use as a recording studio ?
Did you knowthat the Mahishya caste is one of the predominant Hindu castes in West Bengal , India ?
Did you knowthat Harry McNish was one of only four crew members of the Endurance not to receive the Polar Medal , and that his grave remained unmarked for almost 30 years?
Did you knowthat via Giulia , projected for Pope Julius II , was the first attempt since antiquity to pierce a new thoroughfare through the heart of Rome ?
Did you knowthat the thriller The Beat That My Heart Skipped ( De battre mon cœur s'est arrêté ) won eight awards at the 2006 César Awards ?
Did you knowthat during the Shiraz blood libel , the first to start the pogrom of the Jewish quarter were the soldiers sent to protect the Jews against mob violence?
Did you knowthat at nearly seventy percent, the rate of homicides in the United States involving gun violence is significantly higher than that of other developed countries ?
Did you knowthat the Temporary Constitution of the Republic of China was the first ever constitution in China ?
Did you knowthat the oldest continuously operational tavern in Philadelphia is McGillin's Olde Ale House , which opened in 1860?
Did you knowthat the 1928 Thames flood was the last time central London was flooded?
Did you knowthat John Pasche , an art designer most famous for designing the "Tongue and Lip Design" logo for the popular band The Rolling Stones , has also done work for musicians like Jimi Hendrix , David Bowie , Judas Priest and The Who ?
Did you knowthat Jackson Pollock 's No. 5, 1948 was sold by David Geffen to David Martinez for the inflation adjusted price of $140 million dollars, making it the world's most expensive painting sold at an auction as of November , 2006 ?
Did you know that English lower-league football team Bristol Rovers once beat the Netherlands national football team 3-2?
Did you knowthat Sukhbir is often referred to as the Prince of Bhangra ?
Did you knowthat Tropical Storm Beryl was the second tropical storm of the 1994 Atlantic hurricane season , and spread flooding and tornadoes up the Eastern Seaboard of the United States ?
Did you knowthat Theobald Stapleton ' s 1639 catechism was the first Roman Catholic book in Irish to be printed in antiqua , and that it used simplified spellings that did not become standard for another 300 years?
Did you knowthat the President of the Bundestag is ranked ahead of the Chancellor of Germany according to the German order of precedence ?
Did you knowthat Grandi's series 1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + · · · is divergent and appears to equal 0 , yet in some sense "sums" to 1 ⁄ 2 , producing a paradox once linked to the creation ex nihilo of the universe?
Did you knowthat Derek Freeman was an anthropologist whose refutation of Margaret Mead 's work "ignited controversy of a scale, visibility, and ferocity never before seen in anthropology"?
Did you knowthat the Château de Courances has been acclaimed as "the epitome of the French formal garden style in which château and environment form a whole"?
Did you knowthat Richard Stücklen was the longest serving member of the German Bundestag , winning election 11 times between 1949 and 1990?
Did you knowthat Princess Louise-Marie of France , the youngest of the 10 children of Louis XV of France and his Queen consort Maria Leszczyńska , amazed the court when she asked her father to allow her to become a Carmelite nun in 1770?
Did you knowthat the medieval Slavic Milceni tribe, ancestors of the Sorbs of Germany , are mentioned in The Song of Roland ?
Did you knowthat a record 7238 salmon made the trip up the 310 metre Pitlochry fish ladder in 2006?
Did you knowthat, in the "Tower of the League" at the Château de Tanlay in Burgundy , the agonists of the Wars of Religion are represented in the guise of Olympic deities ?
Did you knowthat the Joint Expedition Against Franklin was a small battle during the American Civil War for which seven Union sailors were awarded Medals of Honor ?
Did you knowthat Tropical Storm Dean was one of four Atlantic hurricanes in the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season to lose their circulation and subsequently re-develop?
Did you know that the suppression of a protest in Nagpur and Jabalpur caused the Flag Satyagraha to erupt in 1923, bringing thousands of nationalists from across India to the rebellion?
Did you knowthat Nagarjunakonda , a historic Buddhist town in Andhra Pradesh believed to hold some relics of Gautama Buddha was submerged by the construction of the Nagarjuna Sagar Dam , the tallest masonry dam in the world?
Did you knowthat Kingsley Fairbridge established the first child migration scheme for impoverished British children which over 68 years housed and educated  1,195 boys and girls at his farm school in Pinjarra, Western Australia ?
Did you knowthat the Irish Thoroughbred Noor was the first racehorse ever to defeat two U.S. Triple Crown champions?
Did you knowthat the Ukrainian Catholic University is the first Catholic university to be opened and operated by an Eastern Rite Catholic Church ?
Did you knowthat the monument to Mother Featherlegs near Lusk, Wyoming has been called the only monument to a prostitute in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the Greek colony of Phanagoria in present-day Russia was the seat of the last Bosporan kings , the capital of Great Bulgaria , and the residence of the exiled Emperor Justinian II ?
Did you knowthat John Makepeace Bennett was a pioneer of Australian computer science who was involved in the construction of early computers in England?
Did you knowthat Piperia yadonii is a rare and endangered species of wild orchid whose survival may be influenced by the demand for increased golfing on the Monterey Peninsula ?
Did you knowthat before Newton's law of universal gravitation , the universe was thought to have an absolute centre called the Central Fire towards which all objects must fall?
Did you knowthat Saddam Beach in the Indian state of Kerala was given its name by local Muslim villagers after the Gulf War of 1991 in solidarity with former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ?
Did you knowthat the Temple of Harmony , built in the grounds of Halsworth House in Goathurst , Somerset , England in 1767, is a replica of the Temple of Fortuna Virilis in Rome ?
Did you knowthat Sonoma Mountain produces Sonoma Valley premium wine grapes as high as 1700 feet in elevation and was a significant influence on the works of author Jack London before the Wine Country became famous?
Did you knowthat Hurricane Erin was the longest-lived hurricane of the 2001 Atlantic hurricane season ?
Did you knowthat the National Liberal Party-Brătianu , created in 1930 by politicians who supported Carol II as King of Romania , became, in the space of three years, one of the monarch's most vocal adversaries?
Did you knowthat a Millwall brick is an improvised weapon made from folded newspaper ?
Did you knowthat the Wesselenyi conspiracy in Hungary aimed at removing Austrian influence had the reverse effect?
Did you knowthat General A.D. McRae , the BC Industrialist who organized the election of Canada's 11th Prime Minister , R.B Bennett , made his fortune selling land during the settlement of Saskatchewan ?
Did you knowthat in the 2004 film Shallow Ground , actor Rocky Marquette plays a central character who is naked for the duration of the film?
Did you knowthat Nestor Lakoba , a Soviet Communist Party chief in Abkhazia , was probably poisoned by Lavrentiy Beria , who then had his wife and son killed?
Did you knowthat the spacious Hall of Lost Footsteps was added to the medieval Palace of Poitiers at the behest of Alienor of Aquitaine , Queen consort of France and England ?
Did you knowthat Litchfield Towers is the largest and tallest dormitory at the University of Pittsburgh 's main campus, at 22 stories in height and housing over 1,850 residents?
Did you knowthat " Amour Amour " , Luxembourg 's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 was performed by Plastic Bertrand a decade after the band achieved fame with " Ça plane pour moi "?
Did you knowthat Philippe Égalité 's Château du Raincy near Paris contained an outcrop of houses scored to resemble traditional Russian log huts?
Did you knowthat the expression " simon-pure ", meaning "of untainted purity or integrity" came from the name of a character who is impersonated throughout most of Susanna Centlivre 's 18th-century play A Bold Stroke for a Wife ?
Did you knowthat a little Switzerland was a 19th-century Romantic term in European languages for any steep landscape with rock outcrops, but later was used for a lakeland too?
Did you knowthat The Drifters ' hit " Under the Boardwalk " was recorded the day after lead singer Rudy Lewis' unexpected death?
Did you knowthat the Stanfield-Worley Bluff Shelter , an important Paleo-Indian site in Alabama , yielded over 11,000 artifacts ranging up to 9,000 years of age?
Did you knowthat the Hebrides Overture , also known as Fingal's Cave and composed by Mendelssohn , was inspired by the famous cave off the coast of Scotland ?
Did you knowthat The Very Rev. Dr. Finlay A. J. Macdonald saw his calling as being "a lawyer for God" instead of a lawyer for man while studying philosophy ?
Did you knowthat Macquarie University made its site's architect , Walter Abraham , a professor to give his opinions the same weight as those of the academic staff?
Did you knowthat the Romanian Surrealist writer Geo Bogza , who adopted Socialist realism later in his life, was tried three times on charges of obscenity during the 1930s?
Did you knowthat Sir Peter Lely , the most popular portrait artist in England in the mid 1600s, was born Pieter van der Faes, and is reputed to have adopted the surname "Lely" from a heraldic lily on the gable of the house of his father's birth?
Did you knowthat a complex system of artificial caverns, some excavated by the Greeks more than 2500 years ago, lies beneath Naples ?
Did you knowthat the silver hand and bronze foot of Saint Melor were said to miraculously work as if they were natural appendages?
Did you knowthat Ateas , the best attested king of the Scythians , was killed in a battle with Philip II of Macedon at the age of 90?
Did you knowthat an area of 500 hectares in the centre of Bucharest razed in the 1980s at the orders of Ceauşescu was called Ceaushima by the Bucharest residents?