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Did you knowthat the 1975 film Tubby the Tuba marked the first time that computers were used in the production of an animated feature?
Did you knowthat during the Mexican-American War , Ygnacio del Valle destroyed a gold mine on his property to prevent the Americans from gaining access to it?
Did you knowthat it took a musicologist 12 years to reconstruct the missing portions of the only copy of English Renaissance composer Martin Peerson ' s Latin motets so they could be published and recorded?
Did you knowthat the Declaration to the Seven was the first British pronouncement to the Arab states of the former Ottoman Empire advancing the principle of national self-determination ?
Did you knowthat due to Claude de Bernales ' marketing of the gold fields of Western Australia in the 1930s, production increased sevenfold and employment in the industry quadrupled?
Did you knowthat the Missa de Beata Virgine was the most popular of Josquin des Prez 's masses in the 16th century?
Did you knowthat British MP James Henderson Stewart was only one of four National Liberals to vote against Neville Chamberlain in the Norway Debate ?
Did you knowthat the Cave of Swallows is so large and wide that it is possible to navigate a hot air balloon through the cave with ease?
Did you knowthat Phreatobius cisternarum , a species of catfish , is one of the few fish species that lives underground?
Did you knowthat Alwatan is the first and oldest Omani newspaper ?
Did you knowthat legend says that Osanna of Mantua miraculously learned to read just by looking at a piece of paper with the words Jesus and Mary written on it?
Did you knowthat US physicist Gaylord Harnwell was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ?
Did you knowthat Elvira Popescu , an actress , theatre director , and recipient of the Légion d'honneur , was one of four women who inspired Henri Matisse 's painting La Blouse Roumaine ?
Did you knowthat in Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. the U.S. Supreme Court held that preliminary work activities should be included as working time under the Fair Labor Standards Act ?
Did you knowthat the Ouachita Madtom is a rare species of miniature catfish found only in central Arkansas ?
Did you knowthat Kenneth Farrow GC attempted to rescue a boy from an underground aqueduct despite strong current, heavy deposits on the floor and almost no headroom or handholds?
Did you knowthat Camillo Ynitia was the only Native American on the northern frontier of Alta California to secure a large land grant for his tribe?
Did you knowthat Zen master Dahui Zonggao ordered the destruction of the Blue Cliff Record , his master's collection of koans , making it unavailable for the next two centuries?
Did you knowthat although Russian is the most widely used second language in Ukraine , it has no official status in the country?
Did you knowthat 11th century Muslim Al-Andalusian poet Wallada bint al-Mustakfi dressed in public in the fashion of the harems of Baghdad , without a customary hijab ?
Did you knowthat the homosexual content of the works of António Botto led Catholic students to call for the author's hanging ?
Did you knowthat the Auto-Lite Strike culminated in the "Battle of Toledo ," a five-day melee between 6,000 striking workers and 1,300 members of the Ohio National Guard that left two dead and more than 200 injured?
Did you knowthat botanist Leonard John Brass was born and died in Australia , served in the Canadian Army , became an American citizen and did most of his fieldwork in New Guinea ?
Did you knowthat educator Eliot Wigginton , editor of the landmark 12-volume Foxfire oral history anthologies, had to give up teaching in 1992 after pleading guilty to child molestation ?
Did you knowthat citizens from the city of Narni, Italy tried to kidnap Dominican mystic Columba of Rieti for their own city, but she escaped?
Did you knowthat Put Down Your Whip , a 1939 oil painting by Xu Beihong , recently sold for US$ 9.2 million, the highest price ever paid for a Chinese painting at an auction?
Did you knowthat the Saint Petersburg–Hiitola railroad was completed by 1917, but a year later the Finnish Civil War caused traffic to stop, with a mile of track removed?
Did you knowthat the crown in the coat of arms of Amsterdam is the Imperial Crown of Austria ?
Did you knowthat yaylag , the Turkic tradition of moving to highland pastures in the summer, started in the fourth millennium BCE?
Did you knowthat Grey Herons began nesting in the Kaggaladu heronry in only a single tree?
Did you knowthat the ancient goddess Venus derived her epithet Venus Erycina from her celebrated temple on Mount Eryx in Sicily ?
Did you knowthat the steam generated by the Southeast Steam Plant for the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota is enough to heat 55,000 homes?
Did you knowthat Stephana de Quinzanis once threw herself upon a cartload of thorns in imitation of a penance done by St Thomas Aquinas ?
Did you knowthat the idiom forty winks relates to the biblical use of the number 40 , thus meaning just the right amount of sleep?
Did you knowthat Sorubim is a genus of catfish with shovel -shaped long noses ?
Did you knowthat despite the country's oil revenues, only 87% of Venezuelan citizens have access to potable water and 71% have access to sanitation ?
Did you knowthat during the Holocaust , Capuchin friar Père Marie-Benoît created fake passports and baptism certificates in order to smuggle hundreds of Jews out of Southern France ?
Did you knowthat chal is a traditional Turkic drink made from fermented camel 's milk, which is popular in Central Asia , as well as in the Near East ?
Did you knowthat an appellate court panel immediately freed Wisconsin civil servant Georgia Thompson on conclusion of oral arguments , an almost-unheard of occurrence?
Did you knowthat the bestselling 1906 erotic novel Josephine Mutzenbacher is thought to have been written by Felix Salten , the author of Bambi ?
Did you knowthat Leela Majumdar , author of children's books, translated Jonathan Swift 's Gulliver's Travels and Ernest Hemingway 's The Old Man and the Sea into Bengali ?
Did you knowthat Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta is an ancient Sumerian tablet describing how Enmerkar of Uruk forced the people of Aratta to contribute materials for the ziggurats he was building?
Did you knowthat the modern meaning of " ballad ", a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form, came about from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway composers?
Did you knowthat NASA conducts field trials, called Desert RATS , for new technologies for manned exploration of the surface of the Moon , Mars , or beyond?
Did you knowthat in the 1957 Polish legislative elections , only 723 of 60,000 candidates were allowed to run?
Did you knowthat it is unclear whether the Church of St Abamūn in 13th century Busiris was dedicated to Abāmūn of Tarnūt or Abāmūn of Tukh ?
Did you knowthat the earliest known examples of polyphonic music , dating from the 9th century, are written in Daseian notation ?
Did you knowthat Hypancistrus is a genus of catfish with suckermouths , including popular aquarium fish such as the zebra pleco ?
Did you knowthat pharmacist Sir Hugh Linstead introduced the British Act of Parliament which criminalised cannabis cultivation?
Did you knowthat Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter was the first of its kind in Hong Kong ?
Did you knowthat in 1906 The New York Times praised The Langham apartment building , noting among its modern amenities " real ice "?
Did you knowthat the "secret university " largely organised by Frank Bell in a World War II POW camp taught subjects as diverse as Urdu , pig-farming, civics and chess?
Did you knowthat Neil Doak was named in the Ireland squad for the 2003 Rugby World Cup but did not play, just missing out on becoming the first Irish dual cricket / rugby union international since the 1960s?
Did you knowthat Antoni Szylling was captured by the Germans as a Major in the Russian Army during World War I , and was captured again by the Germans in World War II as a General of the Polish Army ?
Did you knowthat the "Girl Grimmett ", Peggy Antonio , was the first Australian to take a wicket in women's Test cricket ?
Did you knowthat Finland was close to becoming an independent kingdom in 1742?
Did you knowthat professional ice hockey player Bob Bailey was traded three separate times for Bill Dineen over a nine year period?
Did you knowthat the process of adding sugar to wine prompted 900,000 people to protest in the French Languedoc , culminating in riots that killed five people?
Did you knowthat the Armenian community of Dhaka played a major role in education in Bangladesh , and owned major landmarks, such as the gardens of Shahbag and Bangabhaban ?
Did you knowthat, as part of an advertising campaign in 2006, award-winning Romanian writer Ioan T. Morar impersonated Communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu ?
Did you knowthat Grey's Scouts , despite starting off as a small provisional group, became one of the most effective and successful Special Forces units in the Rhodesian Bush War ?
Did you knowthat although the modern trumpet is a recent invention, primitive trumpets of one form or another have been in existence for millennia?
Did you knowthat the Amoy dialect of Chinese formed the basis of Taiwanese ?
Did you knowthat the Chaga mushroom has been used as a folk remedy in Eastern European countries for ulcers , cancer and gastritis since the 16th century?
Did you knowthat Dr John Billings was an Australian neurologist who developed the Billings ovulation method of family planning ?
Did you knowthat the Poznań International Fair is the largest trade fair in Poland ?
Did you knowthat 18th century prostitute Sally Salisbury was sent to prison after a riot but was released by a judge who was infatuated with her?
Did you knowthat the city of Mysore , in the Indian state of Karnataka , has been called the " Cultural Capital of Karnataka "?
Did you knowthat Neil McLean persuaded the British government not to recognise the Yemen Arab Republic takeover of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen during the North Yemen Civil War ?
Did you knowthe 1765 cookery book The Frugal Housewife, or, Complete woman cook by English author Susannah Carter was republished in Boston in 1772, illustrated with engravings by Paul Revere ?
Did you knowthe AT&T Corporate Center is the tallest building built in Chicago in the last quarter of the 20th century?
Did you knowthat the Century apartments is one of the first residential buildings to be built in the Art Deco style, causing it to stand out from its Beaux-Arts neighbors on Central Park West ?
Did you knowthat despite plagiarizing a Chinese - French - Latin dictionary ordered by Napoleon , Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes went on to become a member of the French Academy of Sciences ?
Did you knowthat convicted American felon Matthew Cox was so bold in committing over $ 15 million of mortgage fraud that he allegedly even took out a mortgage under the name of The Simpsons character " C. Montgomery Burns "?
Did you knowthat The Wordless Book was invented by the London Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon and employs religious symbolism and color psychology in evangelism ?
Did you knowthat the Bangladeshi filmmaker Alamgir Kabir was imprisoned by Ayub Khan for being a leftist ?
Did you knowthat upon completion of Central Reclamation Phase 1 of the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation project in Hong Kong , the coastline of Central, Hong Kong was extended up to 350 metres beyond the original coastline?
Did you knowthat Eugene Antonio Marino became the first African American Catholic archbishop in the United States in 1988?
Did you knowthat Hungerford Market , a food market in London for nearly 200 years, was demolished in the 1860s to make way for Charing Cross railway station ?
Did you knowthat George B. Schwabe served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1921 to 1922 and was the first and only Republican to hold that position until 2005?
Did you knowthat the LST-1 -class tank landing ship USS Benzie County was featured in a World War II -era Camel cigarettes advertisement?
Did you knowthat the 1903 Vagabond Hurricane is the most recent Atlantic hurricane to strike the state of New Jersey , and briefly threatened the life of President Theodore Roosevelt ?
Did you knowthat the large reredos above the altar in St. Martin's Church in Brighton , England , includes 20 pictures and 69 statues, all of which were carved in Oberammergau , Germany ?
Did you knowthat 8-year-old Sylvia Mendez played an instrumental role in the 1946 Mendez v. Westminster case, which successfully ended de jure segregation in California schools?
Did you knowthat architecture critics praised the Art Deco Ghostbusters Building , in New York City , when it opened in 1929?
Did you knowthat Al Sobotka , who drives the Zamboni for Detroit Red Wings games, is the namesake of the team mascot Al the Octopus ?
Did you knowthat naturalist Remington Kellogg used his time serving in France during World War I to collect specimens for universities in the United States?
Did you knowthat archaeologists discovered bones of at least seven people sacrificed by druids in Havránok , Slovakia ?
Did you knowthat the Imperial Castle in Poznań was to be a symbol of Prussian power but was lost to Poland only eight years after its completion?
Did you knowthat S. graminifolium was one of only four Stylidium species collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander from Botany Bay in 1770 on their voyage to Australia with James Cook ?
Did you knowthat in five years of operation during World War II , more than 747 vessels were built in the Richmond Shipyards in Richmond, California —a feat not equaled anywhere else in the world, before or since?
Did you knowthat Lucceius Albinus had just been appointed Roman procurator and was still on his way to take office in Judea when the High Priest of Israel took advantage of the lack of imperial oversight to assemble a Sanhedrin and had James, the brother of Jesus stoned without Roman authorization?
Did you knowthat The Crystals did not actually sing on their 1962 #1 hit " He's a Rebel "?
Did you knowthat Pectinaria australis , a marine ice cream cone worm of New Zealand , builds a delicate tube home from sand grains only one grain thick?
Did you knowthat New York City 's Central Park West Historic District contains only one building not felt to contribute to its historic character?
Did you knowthat Brazilian bull rider Adriano Moraes is one of only three men to ride ten out of ten bulls at the U.S. National Finals Rodeo ?
Did you knowthat Ellis Bent was the first barrister appointed as a judge in Australia ?
Did you knowthat despite the relatively low level of academic output by Professor Gary Chaison , he is widely cited in the American mass media ?
Did you knowthat Le Quang Tung , the Catholic head of South Vietnam 's special forces had his CIA funding threatened because he concentrated on repressing Buddhists and raiding temples instead of fighting communists ?
Did you knowthat press passes grant the bearer access to crime scenes or other restricted areas unless it would interfere with the duties of emergency personnel?
Did you knowthat Innocence , a 2005 documentary film about a school in rural northern Thailand , influenced the Thai government to reverse cuts it had made in the education budget?
Did you knowthat an apparition of Saint Michael is said to have convinced Antoninus of Sorrento and Catellus of Castellammare to found a new church after both resigned from the same bishopric ?
Did you knowthat bishop Adam Stanisław Krasiński was one of the leaders of the Bar Confederation , the first Polish uprising ?
Did you knowthat Dr Brewer's A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar is a 19th century example of the persistence of the caloric theory of heat transfer?
Did you knowthat poison , over its 6500-year history , has been used for both great progression in medicine and as a hugely popular method of assassination ?
Did you knowthat the Banat Bulgarian Stefan Dunjov participated in both the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Italian unification , and was the first Bulgarian to be promoted to the rank of Colonel ?
Did you knowthat Anuruddha , one of the leading five disciples of Gautama Buddha , was his cousin?
Did you knowthat Pyotr Zakharov-Chechenets is believed to have been the first professional painter of Chechen origin ever?
Did you knowthat the Gortyn code is the largest surviving piece of ancient Greek epigraphy ?
Did you knowthat aquarium filters are necessary to support life as aquaria are relatively small, closed volumes of water compared to the natural environment of most fish ?
Did you knowthat British architect Jan Kaplický escaped from Prague to London in the wake of the Prague Spring , carrying only US$100 and a few pairs of socks?
Did you knowthat the cornerstone of moral syncretism is that religion cannot be the only arbiter of morality ?
Did you knowthat Chabad rabbi Milton Balkany misappropriated more than $700,000 of federal grant money from a charitable organisation that cared for disabled children?
Did you knowthat the Australian cricket team 's world record of 16 consecutive wins ended during its 2002 India tour , when India recorded only the third win in Test cricket history by a side forced to follow-on ?
Did you knowthat Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church , the oldest church in Minneapolis, Minnesota , was originally built by a Universalist Society but soon acquired by a Catholic French Canadian congregation?
Did you knowthat Adolfo Holley was the first Minister of War and Navy of the victorious revolutionary congressional junta in the Chilean Civil War ?
Did you knowthat Assaji , the last of the first five bhikkhus of Gautama Buddha to become an arahant , converted Sariputta and Mahamoggallana , the Buddha's two chief disciples?
Did you knowthat the Woodward & Lothrop Service Warehouse in Washington, D.C. still features a large pink neon sign identifying it as a Woodward & Lothrop property, even though the company is defunct?
Did you knowthat Work , painted over 13 years from 1852 to 1865, is generally considered to be the most important painting by Ford Madox Brown ?
Did you knowthat the units of the Red Army and the Afghan army fought the Battles of Zhawar in 1985-86 to destroy a mujahideen supply base near the Pakistani border?
Did you knowthat numerous common idioms feature one of the various slang meanings of 'dime' ?
Did you knowthat when Birmingham -based early-music choir Ex Cathedra founded its Baroque orchestra in its 1983–1984 season, this was the first period instrument orchestra to be established in an English city outside London ?
Did you knowthat Ngo Dinh Diem became president of South Vietnam after a fraudulent 1955 election run by his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu , polling 133% of registered voters in Saigon ?
Did you knowthat Sara Gruen’s historical novel Water for Elephants recounts that circus workers were sometimes thrown off the circus train in the middle of the night, a practice known as "redlighting"?
Did you knowthat an entire army had to retreat during the Cádiz Expedition of 1625 because almost all had become drunk on wine taken from a village they were raiding?
Did you knowthat The Best Bet , a film by former Singaporean gambling addict Jack Neo , was intended to warn people of the perils of gambling ?
Did you knowthat the July Theses , a set of proposals found in a speech by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu , were inspired by his visits to Communist China , Korea and Vietnam ?
Did you knowthat a boycott of Juanes ' song " La Camisa Negra " was organized after it was used by neo-fascists ?
Did you knowthat Squirrel Systems introduced the first touch screen point of sale terminal in 1984?
Did you knowthat the mother of Jamila Massey , an Indian actress and writer , refused to allow her to attend drama school, after the death of her father?
Did you knowthat Bishop Barbatus of Benevento is thought to have helped the city's resistance to Byzantine Emperor Constans II by destroying a Temple of Isis in the city, reusing the materials in building the city wall ?
Did you knowthat Dumitru Dămăceanu was a Romanian Army officer prominent in the royal coup of 1944 , and later was a signatory to the Paris Peace Treaties of 1947 ?
Did you knowthat the late-15th century Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales , a setting of the Ordinary of the Mass , is one of the most famous works composed by Josquin des Prez ?
Did you knowthat the Brabham BT19 driven by Jack Brabham was the first car bearing its driver's name to win a Formula One world championship race ?
Did you knowthat during his tenure as India's cricket coach , Kapil Dev , broke down in a BBC interview about alleged match-fixing ?
Did you knowthat Ajit Wadekar was the first Indian to represent the country as Test Cricket player, captain, coach/manager and Chairman of Selectors?
Did you knowthat Alexander of Bergamo is thought to have survived the decimation of the Theban Legion for their conversion to Christianity only to be individually beheaded later for the same reason?
Did you knowthat as part of a successful flattery campaign to persuade Ngo Dinh Diem 's loyalist general Ton That Dinh to defect, his colleagues bribed his soothsayer to predict his elevation to political authority?
Did you knowthat American Chabad Rabbi Moshe Rubashkin has been convicted of fraud twice?
Did you knowthat British barrister Sir Tony Hetherington was the first head of the Crown Prosecution Service after it was founded in 1986?
Did you knowthat it is estimated that 40% of the Tamil and Malayalam Nadar caste are Christians ?
Did you knowthat the SS in Nazi Germany were above civilian law, answering only to the SS-run Hauptamt SS Gericht ?
Did you knowthat after his 1967 film Branded to Kill , contract director Seijun Suzuki was fired by the Nikkatsu Company for making films "that make no sense"?
Did you knowthat retired LAPD homicide detective "Jigsaw John" St. John was posthumously reinstated to active duty in 1995 so that he could be buried as a detective?
Did you knowthat the Chronicle of Huru , a 19th century forgery advancing Moldavia 's independence, claimed that a Moldavian federal republic emerged from the Roman province of Dacia in 274?
Did you knowthat Patacara , who became a Buddhist while disconsolately wandering naked through the Indian city of Savatthi , rose to become the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in her mastery of the Vinaya ?
Did you knowthat the 16th-century Castillo de la Real Fuerza in Havana is the oldest stone fortress in the Americas ?
Did you knowthat German textile artist Gunta Stölzl was the only female "master" of the Bauhaus ?
Did you knowthat Liu Heita was a Xia general during China 's transition between the Sui and Tan dynasties in the 7th century?
Did you knowthat Ngo Dinh Can , brother and confidant of South Vietnam 's president Ngo Dinh Diem , was believed to have organised black market smuggling into North Vietnam ?
Did you knowthat the 800,000-member Global Pastors Network continues the legacy of Bill Bright by attempting to, in their own words, "win 1 billion people to Christ "?
Did you knowthat French pirate Jacques de Sores , who captured Havana in 1555, went by the nickname of "The Exterminating Angel"?
Did you knowthat the taekwondo form Ko-Dang was named after Korean nationalist Cho Man-sik , imprisoned and executed for his opposition to Kim Il-sung 's communists ?
Did you knowthat the fruits of Matico ( Piper aduncum ) are used as a condiment , for flavoring cocoa , and its leaves are used as an antiseptic , to stop hemorrhage , and to treat infections ?
Did you knowthat Greek composer Phivos has written songs for artists including Keti Garbi , Angela Dimitriou , Manto , Thanos Kalliris , and, most successfully, Despina Vandi ?
Did you knowthat the graphic novel The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers combines Kolkata 's Babu culture and the legend of The Wandering Jew ?
Did you knowthat the television series ER aired an episode based on the 2003 Chicago balcony collapse ?
Did you knowthat Clarenceux King of Arms Stephen Leake appointed his thirteen year old son Chester Herald in 1752?