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Did you knowthat although Ernest Wild developed scurvy during the Ross Sea Party Antarctic expedition, and lost part of a toe and part of an ear to frostbite , he survived - but died of typhoid the next year in Malta ?
Did you knowthat following his term as Mayor of Boston , Frederick O. Prince advocated and oversaw the construction of the Boston Public Library 's McKim Building in Copley Square ?
Did you knowthat Julius Garfinckel , founder of the department store Garfinckel's , died from pneumonia on his 64th birthday?
Did you knowthat Wotif.com only allows consumers to organise hotel reservations 28 days in advance?
Did you knowthat Indo - Guyanese lawyer and civil rights activist Rudy Narayan could, Michael Mansfield has written, have been the great black barrister of his generation?
Did you knowthat Brigadier Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls is the only member of the Coldstream Guards to have won the George Cross , the highest civil decoration of the Commonwealth of Nations ?
Did you knowthat Gautam Adani , a school dropout, is the 13th richest person in India ?
Did you knowthat El Salvador has the highest geothermal energy production in Central America ?
Did you knowthat Frederick Winslow Taylor developed the core of his philosophy of scientific management at Midvale Steel ?
Did you knowthat an offer sheet in the National Hockey League requires compensation in the form of future draft picks if a restricted free agent is signed by a different team in the league?
Did you knowthat the son of French Admiral Georges René Le Peley de Pléville was released as a prisoner of war because the British Admiralty thanked his peg-legged father for saving a British frigate 10 years earlier?
Did you knowthat American academic Jackson Bailey was decorated with the Order of the Sacred Treasure , the highest possible honor given by Japan to a foreigner?
Did you knowthat Galicia started exporting plant cuttings to other European vineyards as early as the 14th century?
Did you knowthat playwright Sam Thompson ' s Over the Bridge about Northern Irish sectarian violence became Belfast 's most-seen play despite a prediction it would "offend and affront every section of the public"?
Did you knowthat the town of Booleroo Centre , South Australia is home to one of Australia's largest collections of tractors and steam engines ?
Did you knowthat Felipe Agoncillo , who topped the highest possible score in a bar exam , was also the outstanding first Filipino diplomat ?
Did you knowthat historian Holden Furber was appointed as a social science analyst to the Office of Strategic Services after the United States entered World War II ?
Did you knowthat François Denhaut built the world's first flying boat , or seaplane with a hull ?
Did you knowthat among the founding members of Philomathes - a clandestine Polish student organization in Imperial University of Vilna in partitioned Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - was Adam Mickiewicz , one of the three national poets of Poland ?
Did you knowthat the establishment of Mahendra Pratap 's Provisional Government of India was one of the reasons that the Rowlatt Commission was set up to investigate German and Bolshevik links to nationalist terrorism in British India ?
Did you knowthat the author of Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography stated he had to go into hiding after receiving threats related to his yet unpublished book?
Did you knowthat during Operation Deep Freeze II in 1956, US Navy Rear Admiral George J. Dufek commanded the first aircraft to land at the South Pole , the C-47 Skytrain “Que Sera Sera”?
Did you know Niek Loohuis is now a Dutch First Division football (soccer) player, despite having been declared unfit and removed from FC Twente 's youth academy at age 18?
Did you knowthat Nicaragua has the lowest electricity generation, the lowest percentage of population with access to electricity, and the highest dependence on oil for electricity generation in Central America ?
Did you knowthat the collision between aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne and destroyer HMAS Voyager is the only event in Australian history to be subject to two Royal Commissions ?
Did you knowthat the gardens of the Petit Trianon were once thought to be haunted ?
Did you knowthat in 1846 Albert Wilson became the first American merchant to open a store in Astoria, Oregon ?
Did you knowthat according to Jainism , the first Purva of ancient knowledge would take a volume of ink equal to an elephant to write, whereas the last would require the ink volume of 2 13 elephants?
Did you knowthat attempts to soften the harsh tannic nature of the Tannat wine grape led to the development of the winemaking technique of micro-oxygenation ?
Did you knowthat in Rose Macaulay 's novel The Towers of Trebizond (1956) the English traveller Aunt Dot aims to emancipate the women of Turkey by converting them to Anglicanism and popularizing the bathing hat?
Did you knowthat Myles Rudge wrote the lyrics to three Top 10 novelty songs in the 1960s, "Hole in the Ground", "Right Said Fred",  and "A Windmill in Old Amsterdam"?
Did you knowthat Colorado state representative Amy Stephens wrote an abstinence-based sex education curriculum that was translated into over a dozen languages?
Did you knowthat Romanian communist poet Alexandru Toma adapted several works of his Classicist predecessor Mihai Eminescu , removing their pessimistic tone and adding Socialist Realist rhetoric?
Did you knowthat in 1656, Judith Catchpole was tried before colonial Maryland 's first all-female jury because a woman's expertise was needed to evaluate the evidence ?
Did you knowthat the Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf cartoons Sheep Ahoy , A Sheep in the Deep , and Don't Give Up the Sheep were censored by ABC to remove a dynamite stick, a smoke break scene, and a spanking scene respectively?
Did you knowthat John Cartier was eulogized by Edmund Burke for his Governorship of Bengal despite losing a third of the population during the 1770 famine ?
Did you knowthat Colorado State Senate president pro tem Peter Groff is the highest-ranking African-American elected official in the U.S. state of Colorado ?
Did you knowthat Robert Crouch led the Parliamentary campaign on the Crichel Down affair involving his constituency, which forced the resignation of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Sir Thomas Dugdale ?
Did you knowthat Westmoreland v. CBS demonstrated that  a public figure cannot win a libel suit in the United States unless reckless and defamatory statements are evidence of actual malice ?
Did you knowthat New Zealand rugby union footballer Jimmy Hunter 's 44 tries on the 1905 All Blacks tour is a record that is unlikely to ever to be surpassed?
Did you knowthat by providing government assistance to vineyard owners so they could replant and redesign their vineyards, the Flurbereinigung restructuring of the late 20th century had a dramatic impact on the German wine industry?
Did you knowthat The Gentleman Usher is the only play in which late 16th-century playwright George Chapman takes a positive view of women?
Did you knowthat 7th-century duke Waldalenus traded off with the Church his firstborn son against his wife's miraculous fertility?
Did you knowthat Edgar Allan Poe 's 1848 essay Eureka presaged the Big Bang theory and black holes ?
Did you knowthat the airdate of " The Beginning of the End ", the fourth season premiere of the television series Lost , means that the season may be interrupted by the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike even if a settlement is reached?
Did you knowthat since humidity and the cold climate inhibited its production in the Low Countries, salt was imported from Iberia in the Middle Ages ?
Did you knowthat Lord Uxbridge 's leg became a tourist attraction after the Battle of Waterloo ?
Did you knowthat the indologist Ernest Bender also published work on the Cherokee language ?
Did you knowthat after the Champagne region, the Loire Valley produces more sparkling wine than any other region in France ?
Did you knowthat James Blake Miller , made famous in a 2004 photograph during the Second Battle of Fallujah as the " Marlboro Marine ", suffered post-traumatic stress disorder and was discharged exactly one year after his picture made worldwide news?
Did you knowthat Lawrence Olson , who was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure , Japan's highest honour for foreigners, for his work on Japanese history , deciphered Japanese messages during World War II for the US Navy ?
Did you knowthat Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Nellie Pratt Russell is remembered with a building named in her and her husband's honor at St. Paul's College ?
Did you knowthat 1.5 million people logged on to the website of the cheddar cheese Wedginald to watch it mature ?
Did you knowthat Greek temples went from small structures of mud and wood (9th century BC) to the classical stone monuments widely known today (6th century BC)?
Did you knowthat Calimerius , a 3rd century bishop of Milan , was said to have been killed by being thrown into a well after his relics were found submerged in water?
Did you knowthat Seattle, Washington businessman Herman Sarkowsky was a co-founder of both the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trail Blazers ?
Did you knowthat Clyde Fastlink , a planned £42m dedicated bus service, is an interim measure for Glasgow 's proposed light rail system?
Did you knowthat the Gerald Loeb Award , administered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management , is considered the most prestigious honor in business journalism ?
Did you knowthat Michael Varah , son of Chad Varah , achieved an athletics world record as part of a 4×800m relay team, and then spent 35 years working in the Probation Service ?
Did you knowthat the establishment of Camp Joe Holt , the first significant act to keep Kentucky from fully seceding to the Confederate States of America , had to be done in Indiana ?
Did you knowthat Khanmohammad Ibrahim was the oldest living Indian Test cricketer at the time of his death?
Did you knowthat the location of the first mass in the Philippines in 1521 remains a matter of dispute?
Did you knowthat Zen Buddhist scholar Philip Yampolsky was the grandson of Franz Boas , the founder of Columbia University 's anthropology department?
Did you knowthat Ottomar Pinto has served three non-consecutive times as governor in the history of Roraima , Brazil ?
Did you knowthat Canada issues special licence plates available only to war veterans ?
Did you knowthat University of Michigan Wolverine Tyrone Wheatley was not only both a Big Ten rushing and scoring champion, but also a Big Ten 110 meter hurdles champion?
Did you knowthat in 2002, an officer of the Wellington Free Ambulance was accidentally shot by police during an Armed Offenders Squad training exercise?
Did you knowthat Alabama lawyer and Republican Party pioneer John Grenier of Birmingham was self-taught in four foreign languages: French , Spanish , German , and modern Greek ?
Did you knowthat Chen Chi-li , late head of Taiwan 's United Bamboo Gang , claimed to have killed dissident journalist Henry Liu out of patriotism, and refused the $ 20,000 payout he was offered?
Did you knowthat during the five years of fighting in the Cabanagem revolt in Brazil , it is estimated that the population of Pará was reduced from about 100,000 to 60,000?
Did you knowthat Truong Dinh , who led a guerrilla army that fought French colonials in southern Vietnam against the orders of Emperor Tu Duc , was so effective that the French thought Tu Duc had supported him secretly?
Did you knowthat Senator Bob Hagedorn introduced legislation to name John Denver 's " Rocky Mountain High " Colorado 's second official state song ?
Did you knowthat Donald Stone Macdonald was a Korean studies expert who served as mayor of Kwangju while a member of the US Department of State ?
Did you knowthat Isocrates developed a personal hatred for Chares of Athens after his closest pupil, General Timotheos , was impeached for refusing to fight in the Battle of Embata during a storm?
Did you knowthat the South Australian wine industry produces more than half of all Australian wines , including the premium Penfolds Grange and many of the mass produced box wines ?
Did you knowthat University of Colorado football player Jordon Dizon , one of three finalists for the Dick Butkus Award as America's top collegiate linebacker , attended Waimea High School , the westernmost high school in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the Sinologist and Confucius expert Herrlee Glessner Creel was a lieutenant colonel in the US Army during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Australian Bob Marshall won the World Amateur Billiards Championship four times and the Australian championship 21 times in a career spanning 50 years?
Did you knowthat in 1953, Polish Air Force pilot Franciszek Jarecki escaped to Denmark with a Soviet MiG-15 , which helped the U.S. Air Force in the Korean War ?
Did you knowthat orange snow fell in February of 2007 in western Siberia?
Did you knowthat Michael Garcia has introduced legislation to lower the legislative age of candidacy in Colorado from 25 to 21 after being himself elected at age 26?
Did you knowthat Sir James Whitehead, 1st Baronet , Lord Mayor of London in 1888-9, replaced the circus -like elements of the Lord Mayor's Show with a State Procession, and was the arbitrator in the London Dock Strike of 1889 ?
Did you knowthat sociologist Ralph Larkin published Comprehending Columbine after teaching about the Columbine High School massacre at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice ?
Did you knowthat the publishers of Hindustan Ghadar are said to have memorised the names of over a thousand of its subscribers to prevent these being known to British Intelligence?
Did you knowthat Thai history scholar Benjamin Batson took up his field while posted in Bangkok as a university maths lecturer?
Did you knowthat a replica of the Old Plantation Flats Light built in 2004 contains the first new lens constructed to Fresnel 's patterns in eighty years?
Did you knowthat there are three unilingually Swedish municipalities in one province of mainland Finland ?
Did you knowthat Felician of Foligno was the first ever bishop to receive the pallium as a symbol of his office?
Did you knowthat the cost of transporting crushed stone often exceeds its cost at the quarry ?
Did you knowthat Irish actor Paudge Behan is the son of IRA Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding and Beatrice Behan, the widow of playwright Brendan Behan ?
Did you knowthat The O.C. 's music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas worked in the music department of over fifty Roger Corman B-movies before her television debut?
Did you knowthat research into attitude polarization suggests that when people read research that both supports and contradicts their current views, they come to hold their original attitudes more strongly than before?
Did you knowthat Cecil Hobbs began his interest in Southeast Asian history after his career as a missionary in Burma was ended in 1942 by the Japanese invasion ?
Did you knowthat in 1708 the Bonnington pavilion in Scotland had a "hall of mirrors" designed to give visitors the illusion that they were standing in the middle of the Corra Linn ?
Did you knowthat the parents of Anna Seidel , a German Sinologist and expert on Taoism , risked the death penalty by hiding a Jewish friend during World War II ?
Did you knowthat the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue caused so many cancellations that Sports Illustrated and its publisher Time Warner had to stop delivery to certain subscribers, such as libraries ?
Did you knowthat the skink Chalcides colosii was once considered a subspecies of another species, Chalcides ocellatus (named for its ocelli), despite the fact that C. colosii has no ocelli ?
Did you knowthat Rear-Admiral Henry Blagrove , who died in the destruction of HMS Royal Oak in October 1939, was the first Royal Navy flag officer killed in the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat the Oliver Typewriter Company of Chicago , Illinois produced and sold over one million of the first "visible print" typewriters ?
Did you knowthat German lawyer Horst Mahler had for his own lawyer the future Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder ?
Did you knowthat Oregon 's longest covered bridge is the Office Bridge and is the only one west of the Mississippi River with a sidewalk?
Did you knowthat though legend says the mid-way bend in Pittsburgh 's Armstrong Tunnel was a mistake and that the engineer responsible killed himself in shame, the chief engineer, Vernon R. Covell, did not commit suicide?
Did you knowthat the antibody class IgE was discovered by the Japanese scientist Kimishige Ishizaka ?
Did you knowthat after the death of Ukrainian novelist Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky , a museum was built in his hometown of Vinnytsia , films were made and his son was executed for having counter-revolutionary contacts?
Did you knowthat Major Carl Mothander , the leader of Swedish volunteers in the Estonian War of Independence , later wrote books on Estonian politics that were banned in Finland ?
Did you knowthat world champion bridge player Paul Soloway earned the most masterpoints in history?
Did you knowthat before becoming King of the United Kingdom , Edward VII was a frequent visitor to the luxurious Belle Époque brothel Le Chabanais in Paris and had himself built a special "love seat" there?
Did you knowthat South Vietnamese Special Forces under Ngo Dinh Diem , which were used mainly for repressing dissidents, also attacked pagodas during the Buddhist crisis and killed a giant carp that had attracted pilgrims?
Did you knowthat U.S. professor of oriental studies Earl H. Pritchard was the first ever recipient of the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal , in recognition of his work on military intelligence in World War II ?
Did you knowthat actuaries can use the Schuette–Nesbitt formula to calculate the net single premium for life annuities and life insurances ?
Did you knowthat the main cargo of the Peggy Stewart , burned in the 1774 Annapolis Tea Party, was not tea but 53 indentured servants ?
Did you knowthat former Swansea mayor Percy Morris called for Swansea Castle to be demolished and redeveloped because it was a "shambles"?
Did you knowthat ANDRILL is a scientific drilling project in Antarctica to gather information about global warming over the last 65 million years?
Did you knowthat British submariner Arthur Hezlet torpedoed the heavy cruiser Ashigara , the largest Japanese warship sunk by the Royal Navy Submarine Service during the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat Trafalgar Square 's original fountains were made from stone quarried near Boddam in Aberdeenshire ?
Did you knowthat the membership of the Ghanaian national labor federation Trades Union Congress fell by 58% after a law requiring civil servants to be members was repealed in 1966?
Did you knowthat despite British Conservative MP Denis Keegan winning a marginal constituency by over 7,000 votes, he ended his political career after one term, preferring to work for the trade association for television shops?
Did you knowthat turret deck ships incurred lower canal tolls because tonnage measurements used to calculate those tolls did not account for the vessels' unique shape?
Did you knowthat Field Marshal Sir John Stanier was the first British Chief of the General Staff after the Second World War who had not seen active service?
Did you knowthat knopper galls , caused by the eggs laid by gall wasps , develop as a chemically induced distortion of growing acorns on Pedunculate Oak trees?
Did you knowthat an operational nuclear reactor and an orbiting satellite are high points in 2007 of science and technology in Colombia ?
Did you knowthat strikebreakers are used more frequently in the US than in any other industrialized country ?
Did you knowthat adjoining the house where the Cato Street conspirators intended to kill all of the cabinet , was the home of Archbishop of York, Edward Harcourt , who was entertaining the Prince Regent and the Dukes of Cambridge , Cumberland and Wellington ?
Did you knowthat Bob Woodward has twice won the Worth Bingham Prize : in 1972 for reports on Watergate and in 1987 for covering covert action in United States foreign policy ?
Did you knowthat despite a history of identifying Communist intrigues, British Parliamentarian Percy Daines demanded that Marcus Lipton name his sources or withdraw the claim that Kim Philby was a Soviet spy?
Did you knowthat one of the founders of modern Russian psychiatry , Pavel Jacobi , brother of the painter Valery Jacobi , participated in the January Uprising in Poland and volunteered in the Army of the Vosges led by Giuseppe Garibaldi ?
Did you knowthat Alexei Mikhailovich was the only Imperial Russian Grand Duke to bear the name and patronymic of a Tsar ?
Did you knowthat the coat of arms of Andalusia bears the Pillars of Hercules , the ancient name given to the promontories that flank the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar ?
Did you knowthat, by joining the Democratic caucus in 2007, Rep. Debbie Stafford became the first Colorado state legislator to switch parties in two decades?
Did you knowthat shortly after the Revolution of 1848 , the socialist feminist Jeanne Deroin became the first woman to stand in a national election in France?
Did you knowthat the Sanskrit literature scholar Barbara Stoler Miller , whose translation of the Bhagavad Gita helped to popularise Indian literature in the United States , also translated Spanish poetry ?
Did you knowthat, although sentenced to death during the Great Purge , Soviet politician Sergey Kavtaradze was set free and reinstated by Joseph Stalin , and was eventually his representative in Iran and Romania ?
Did you knowthat Mute Swans ring for lunch at the Bishop's Palace in Wells , UK?
Did you knowthat Michael Rowntree was Chairman of Oxfam for six years, and is one of only two people ever to be elected as its Chair Emeritus ?
Did you knowthat synthetic analogues of camptothecin , a cytotoxic quinoline alkaloid isolated from the Chinese tree Camptotheca acuminata , are being used as anti-cancer drugs ?
Did you knowthat the Doric -style temple in Mote Park near Maidstone in Kent commemorates the review by George III and William Pitt the Younger of a militia formed to repel Napoleon ?
Did you knowthat the British motor tanker SS Atheltempler , part of Convoy PQ-18 to aid the Soviet Union in the war against Nazi Germany , was sunk north of Bear Island ?
Did you knowthat Alan Entwistle , a leading Hindi language scholar, continued researching for ten years despite a terminal brain tumour ?
Did you knowthat The Big Blowdown , a crime novel by American author George Pelecanos , was the recipient of the International Crime Novel of the Year award in France , Germany and Japan ?
Did you knowthat the Nurses and Midwives Tribunal of New South Wales can order the suspension or removal of a nurse or midwife from practice?
Did you knowthat when immature, the "death angel" fungus, Amanita ocreata , closely resembles an edible mushroom ?
Did you knowthat the sweating mushroom is called so from the symptoms of its poisoning ?
Did you knowthat Charles Hucker , a leading historian on Imperial China , was awarded the Bronze Star in World War II and wrote plays ?
Did you knowthat the Pasig River reverses its flow of water from Manila Bay to Laguna de Bay when there is a high tide during the dry season?
Did you knowthat when Barry Cohen sued under the Hyde Amendment ,   the U.S. Government was forced to pay a record-setting $ 2.9 million in legal fees for the "vexatious, frivolous" prosecution of his client?
Did you knowthat tariffs imposed by the Austrian Empire on the export of Piedmontese wines to Austrian controlled areas of Italy was one of the underlying sparks of the revolutions of 1848–1849 ?
Did you knowthat J. L. Wilkinson was named the manager of the All Nations professional baseball team after the previous manager absconded with the gate proceeds?
Did you knowthat Rajo Jack , one of the first African-American racecar drivers , pretended to be Portuguese to avoid racism ?
Did you knowthat when analyzing relationships of the harvestmen it is found that they are not true spiders , as often believed, but are in fact more closely related to scorpions ?