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Did you knowthat Battlefield Baseball , a Japanese film, features elements of the sports , martial arts and horror genres, as well as including three musical numbers?
Did you knowthat Ukrainian politician Mykola Tomenko is also an Afghan war veteran and a noted historian ?
Did you knowthat Domenico Gabrielli , one of the first composers to write solo music for the violoncello , was himself a virtuoso cello player and earned himself the Italian dialect nickname Minghino dal viulunzeel among his contemporaries?
Did you knowthat Rodney J. Baxter , known for the Yang-Baxter equation in statistical mechanics , was the first doctoral graduate in theoretical physics from the Australian National University ?
Did you knowthat Dominican baseball player Tetelo Vargas led the Dominican Republic's winter baseball league in 1952 , hitting for an average of .350 at the age of 46?
Did you knowthat The Nationwide Project was a media audience research project at the University of Birmingham that influenced media and cultural studies ?
Did you knowthat John Konrads , an Olympic gold-medal winning swimmer who set 26 individual world records, later became the Australasian director of L'Oréal ?
Did you knowthat in the Kasabach-Merritt syndrome , tumours of blood vessels can cause life-threatening bleeding complications in infants?
Did you knowthat the Agony of Doha is a term used by fans of the Japanese national football team to refer to the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification match where Japan lost its World Cup place to South Korea ?
Did you knowthat, once completed, the Stateline Wind Project on the Oregon - Washington border in the United States will be the largest wind farm in the world?
Did you knowthat in the Polish legislative election, 1947 , the communist -controlled Polish government , advised by specialists from Soviet Ministry for State Security , ensured its victory by vote rigging ?
Did you knowthat in the 1848 Moray Firth fishing disaster on the east coast of Scotland , 124 boats sank and 100 fishermen perished, leading to a major redesign of fishing boats in the following years?
Did you knowthat Laurynas Gucevičius was the first professional Lithuanian architect in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and is the most famous representative of Lithuanian classicism ?
Did you knowthat the critical behaviour of the spherical model in statistical mechanics has been solved for arbitrary real positive dimensions, and is the same for dimensions greater than four?
Did you knowthat Hell Below , a 1933 WW I film, set the pattern for many WW II submarine dramas, and featured the deliberate sinking of USS Moody , slated for destruction by the London Naval Treaty ?
Did you knowthat Mukh O Mukhosh ( The face and the mask ), directed by Abdul Jabbar Khan, is the first full-length Bengali language feature film to be produced in the erstwhile East Pakistan , which later became Bangladesh ?
Did you knowthat over-illumination , the use of unnecessarily intense light, not only wastes 1.5 billion barrels of oil per year, but is also linked to increased incidence of headache , fatigue , stress , coronary artery disease and erectile dysfunction ?
Did you know that the Arabic poet Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz ruled as caliph of the Abbasid dynasty for only a single day before he was strangled to death?
Did you knowthat the San Francisco garter snake is an endangered species capable of digesting toxic newts but is not found in San Francisco ?
Did you knowthat Ernst Reuter , after having not been approved by the Soviets as the elected mayor of post-war Berlin , became the first mayor of the non-Soviet controlled part of the city, West Berlin ?
Did you knowthat Makhir of Narbonne was a Babylonian-Jewish scholar who settled in Narbonne , France at the end of the 8th century , and his descendants were leaders of the local Jewish community who bore the title of " nasi " (prince)?
Did you knowthat the nucleus of the 13,000 manuscripts that are just part of the Biblioteca Marciana of Venice , is made up from the personal library of Petrarch and the collection of Cardinal Bessarion ?
Did you knowthat John Davies , the U.S. District Court judge who presided over the trial of a group of LAPD officers in the Rodney King incident, won gold for Australia in the 200m breaststroke at the 1952 Olympics ?
Did you knowthat Patience Dabany , former First Lady of Gabon , is also a successful recording artist ?
Did you knowthat the first mizuya (水屋, literally "water room") was created by 16th-century Japanese tea master Sen no Rikyu for his tea room ?
Did you knowthat, as a result of the Treaty of Yazhelbitsy , the medieval state of Muscovy doubled in size?
Did you knowthat Hulk Hogan's Pastamania was a restaurant located in the Mall of America and created by the WWE's Hulk Hogan , and that it failed spectacularly?
Did you knowthat the movie The Iron Ladies is based on a real-life team of transsexuals and homosexuals that won the Thai national volleyball tournament?
Did you knowthat the United States has a numerical system of bicycle routes (similar to the system for roads and highways), which hasn't been expanded since its creation in 1982 ?
Did you knowthat although the director of Bollywood comedy Malamaal Weekly has offered money to anyone who can show that it is not an original work, several reviewers have labelled it a remake of Waking Ned ?
Did you knowthat the Soviet censors initially discouraged the performance of " The Victory Day " , one of the most popular Russian songs to come out of World War II ?
Did you knowthat there is a dispute over when the Chief Whip's powers governing the votes of the Barisan Nasional 's Members of the Malaysian Parliament are in force?
Did you knowthat the Carnac stones , with over 3000 neolithic menhirs , contain the largest stone rows of its kind in the world?
Did you knowthat the 17th century Field Cathedral of the Polish Army was one of many buildings destroyed by the Luftwaffe during the Warsaw Uprising , and was restored to its former glory between 1946 and 1960?
Did you knowthat DJ Gruff , pioneer of Italian hip hop , was forced to retract a song violently attacking Articolo 31 , another Italian hip hop band?
Did you knowthat the Yuba Goldfields , said to resemble intestines from the air, are a bizarre collection of gravel mountains, ponds, and streams that remained a major source of gold long after the California Gold Rush ?
Did you knowthat, although Louis IX of France won the Saintonge War against England , he chose not to annex Guyenne on account of dynastic sensibilities?
Did you knowthat the shortest binomial name of a species is Ia io , which belongs to the Great Evening Bat ?
Did you knowthat Creigh Deeds lost the 2005 race for Attorney General of Virginia by only 323 votes out of almost two million cast?
Did you knowthat Kevin Berry , former Pictorial Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald , won the 200m butterfly at the 1964 Summer Olympics ?
Did you knowthat the Reverend John Thomson , distinguished landscape painter and former minister of Duddingston Kirk , is often credited with originating the famous Scots adage " We’re a' Jock Tamson’s bairns "?
Did you knowthat the Indigenous Australian languages had no written form until colonisation , when they were transcribed into the Latin alphabet ?
Did you knowthat according to Thomas Carlyle , Prussia 's victory in the minor Battle of Hoyerswerda wrecked the 1759 campaign of the anti-Prussian coalition in the Seven Years' War ?
Did you knowthat Lord Simon of Glaisdale ended his career as a Law Lord and cross-bench life peer , but was earlier a Conservative MP who held three ministerial positions?
Did you knowthat Kevin O'Halloran , a swimming gold medallist at the 1956 Summer Olympics , died after accidentally tripping and shooting himself?
Did you knowthat the Swiss municipality Rüegsau is connected to its neighbor Hasle bei Burgdorf by what is probably the longest wooden arch bridge in Europe , at a length of 58.5 meters?
Did you knowthat dead cats were reportedly thrown into the grave of "Rape-master General" Colonel Francis Charteris ?
Did you knowthat NASA terraforming expert Christopher McKay has explored the Gobi Desert , Siberia and Antarctica to study extremophilic life forms ?
Did you knowthat tickets bought for the ceremonial opening of Kiev Republican Stadium scheduled for June 22 , 1941 were still valid 7 years later, as the event was "postponed until after the Victory " due to the Nazi invasion to the USSR ?
Did you knowthat in the Shanghai ghetto , a part of the city occupied by Imperial Japan , about 20,000 German and Austrian Jews escaped the Holocaust ?
Did you knowthat graves in Singapore are exhumed 15 years after burial , and the remains are cremated or re-buried?
Did you knowthat the Peruvian song " El Cóndor Pasa " was popularised by a 1970 cover version by Simon and Garfunkel , although the original Quechua lyrics were entirely re-written?
Did you knowthat in the aftermath of the Defence of the Polish Post in Danzig , in the Polish September Campaign of 1939, all the Polish civilians who had held out for 15 hours against the SS -led assault were executed?
Did you knowthat until the 1990s , the Heckler & Koch MP5 and the Uzi were the only weapons designed outside of the United States that were as widespread in Hollywood productions as the U.S.-produced Colt M1911 pistols, M16 assault rifles , Tommy Guns and revolvers ?
Did you knowthat Marie Selipha Sesenne Descartes , better known simply as Sesenne , was a Saint Lucian singer and cultural icon who was awarded the British Empire Medal in 1972?
Did you knowthat the snipers of the Kremlin Regiment killed a total of more than 1,200 German soldiers and officers during the Soviet-German War ?
Did you knowthat bowls player Willie Wood was the first athlete to compete in 7 Commonwealth Games , despite being barred from the 1986 games in his home country of Scotland for refusing to reclassify as an amateur?
Did you knowthat Michael Matz , who trained the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro , saved the lives of four children on the ill-fated United Airlines Flight 232 in 1989, and also carried the U.S. flag at the 1996 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremonies?
Did you knowthat the statues of St. Andrew and Samson from the Fountain of Samson in Kiev were stored in a museum before the beginning of WWI , saving them from destruction by the Bolsheviks ?
Did you knowthat Martyn J. Fogg , a doctoral student in planetary science at the University of London and a dental surgeon , wrote the first technical book on terraforming and planetary engineering ?
Did you knowthat the unconventionally named Boots Mallory was a teenage dancer and model who appeared in Hollywood films of the 1930s, largely as a result of her good looks?
Did you knowthat the war between Russia and Sweden from 1741 to 1743 involved a change of ruling dynasties in both countries?
Did you knowthat throughout the development of science , many ideas have been obliterated by incorporation ?
Did you knowthat the Strépy-Thieu boat lift in Belgium is the tallest boat lift in the world at 73 metres high and has a structural mass of 200,000 tonnes?
Did you knowthat Ruparel College in Mumbai , India boasts nuclear physicist Anil Kakodkar and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai among its alumni?
Did you knowthat Pablo Picasso's Dora Maar au Chat , a 1941 portrait of Picasso's mistress Dora Maar , recently sold for $95.2 million, making it one of the most expensive paintings in the world ?
Did you knowthat disqualification protests were lodged against Clare Dennis , the winner of the 200 m breaststroke at the 1932 Summer Olympics , on the grounds of her "inappropriate" costume, which exposed her shoulderblades ?
Did you knowthat India's Operation Meghdoot to capture the Siachen Glacier in 1984 was the first assault launched in the world's highest battlefield ?
Did you knowthat newly-launched First News , a British weekly newsmagazine for children with a unique focus on current events, is headed by "editorial overlord" and ex- Mirror editor Piers Morgan ?
Did you knowthat Huron University , the first institute of higher education to grant a degree in the then- Dakota Territory , closed in 2005 after 123 years of existence and had its assets auctioned off?
Did you knowthat Israfil Mamedov , the first Azeri Hero of the Soviet Union , killed about seventy Germans, including three officers, during the Battle of Moscow on December 3 , 1941 ?
Did you knowthat Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island was used as a staging area by the Union Army during the American Civil War , and that more than 230 Union troops were buried there?
Did you knowthat controlled water landings or ditchings by commercial airliners , whilst rare, can often be survived by passengers and crew?
Did you knowthat the final episode of Kamen Rider Stronger , a Japanese tokusatsu television series, features appearances from the main characters of every previous series in the franchise ?
Did you knowthat in 1988 the Greek passenger ferry, City of Poros , was the victim of a terrorist attack by members of the Abu Nidal Organisation which left nine tourists dead and 98 injured?
Did you knowthat following the Mississauga train derailment of 1979 , nearly 250,000 people had to be evacuated for up to five days while toxic chemicals that had spilled onto the railway tracks were cleaned up?
Did you knowthat Escape from Paradise , a book which documents a Singaporean woman's divorce, was removed from bookstores and libraries in the country in 2002, even after it had been reviewed in the Singapore press?
Did you knowthat in Persia , non-Muslims were considered to be najis (ritually unclean) by Shi'a Muslims , and were not allowed to go outside in rain or snow for fear that some impurity could be washed from them onto a Muslim?
Did you knowthat the Funicular dos Guindais was originally built to carry cargo - including port wine - from the Ribeira quayside to the centre of Porto , and is now a tourist attraction and one of the world's steepest counter-balanced cable railways?
Did you knowthat forensic electrical engineering is a branch of forensic engineering whose primary role is to investigate whether a fire was caused by the failure of an electrical appliance ?
Did you knowthat the Merton Thesis holds that Protestantism had significant influences on the course of the scientific revolution ?
Did you knowthat Sara Christian was the first woman to compete in a NASCAR race, the only woman to have a Top Five finish, and the recipient of the 1949 United States Drivers's Association Woman Driver of the Year award?
Did you knowthat the character of Betts, played by Andrew Paul , was the only inmate seen to be released from the borstal –albeit temporarily–during the controversial British film Scum ?
Did you knowthat prisoners of the Iraqi Special Tribunal are transported in armored buses called Rhino Runners ?
Did you knowthat Dmitry Pavlov , who was appointed to the rank of General of the Army in 1941, was the highest-ranking Soviet commander to be executed for military incompetence during the World War II , only to be exonerated in 1956?
Did you knowthat rail transportation in Okinawa dates back to 1902, when the island's first line started operations to haul sugarcane , but the Okinawa Monorail is the only line still in operation?
Did you knowthat Höhlgangsanlage 8 , built in Jersey during World War II under the occupation of the Channel Islands by German forces , was a partially completed underground hospital complex with over 1 km of tunnels ?
Did you knowthat according to the Marlovian theory of Shakespearean authorship , works attributed to William Shakespeare were actually written by playwright Christopher Marlowe , who faked his own death in 1593 to continue writing under a Shakespeare pseudonym ?
Did you knowthat Livadia Palace , a summer retreat of the last Russian tsar , was the setting of the 1945 Yalta Conference between the Big Three ?
Did you knowthat Olaus Johannis Gutho (d. 1516), who was a student at the newly founded University of Uppsala from 1477 until at least 1486, and later became a monk in the Abbey of Vadstena , left seven bound volumes of lecture notes that have been preserved until today?
Did you knowthat Corippo , despite being a contender for Switzerland 's smallest municipality with a population of only 17, has its own website , coat of arms , mayor and town council ?
Did you knowthat three years after Anders Uppström had published his edition of the 6th-century Codex Argenteus , a dying library janitor presented him with ten leaves that had been missing from the manuscript for over two decades?
Did you knowthat the Free Economic Society , founded at the instigation of Catherine II of Russia in 1765 , was briefly closed down by the imperial Russian authorities in 1900 amid accusations of fomenting revolutionary upheaval?
Did you knowthat Novgorod 's medieval river pirates , called ushkuiniki , wreaked havoc along the Volga River as far downstream as Kazan and Astrakhan ?
Did you knowthat the English composer Anthony Payne , who completed a version of Elgar's third symphony, has also composed a version of Elgar's incomplete Pomp and Circumstance March No. 6?
Did you knowthat the media reports that Deborah Freund , Vice Chancellor and Provost for Academic Affairs at Syracuse University , is to replace Albert Carnesale as the chancellor of UCLA ?
Did you knowthat Nerima Daikon Brothers is a rare musical comedy format anime series that pokes fun at Junichiro Koizumi , Michael Jackson , Bae Yong Joon , and other contemporary topics in Japan?
Did you knowthat the International Cricket Council awarded Australia and New Zealand the hosting rights to the 2015 Cricket World Cup because they were sufficiently impressed with their 2011 bid which lost to Asia by 7 votes?
Did you know that the Tennessee State Museum has one of the largest collections in the United States of weapons, flags, and uniforms from the American Civil War ?
Did you knowthat, during the Russo-Swedish War, 1656-1658 , the Russians had to lift their siege of Riga after foreign officers of the Russian flotilla had defected to the other side?
Did you knowthat David Clyde was the first person selected in the 1973 MLB Draft and signed to a $125,000 bonus, the highest bonus ever given to a draft pick at the time?
Did you knowthat Nikolai Skoblin was a general in the counterrevolutionary White Russian army , a leader of the expatriate Russian All-Military Union , a Bolshevik double-agent, and a Gestapo agent?
Did you knowthat the Chesed-El Synagogue , built in 1905, is the second synagogue for the Jewish community in Singapore , and was one of the first places to use gaslights in Singapore?
Did you knowthat Frank Beaurepaire , a Lord Mayor of Melbourne , member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and multi-millionaire tyre businessman was a six-time Olympic medallist in swimming who set 15 world records in his swimming career?
Did you knowthat The Masked Rider mascot of Texas Tech University wears a black and red outfit and rides his black horse around to enthuse fans of the Texas Tech Red Raiders ?
Did you knowthat Michelle Ford was the first woman to win individual swimming medals at the Olympics in two distinct specialized strokes?
Did you knowthat the Lake Tanganyika passenger ferry MV Liemba began its life as a German warship in World War I, spent eight years on the bottom of the lake, and later portrayed the Empress Luisa in the film The African Queen ?
Did you knowthat the houses at Roman Bulla Regia in Tunisia were built in two levels, a ground level to catch winter sun and a subterranean one round an open atrium for coolness in summer?
Did you knowthat Cedric Griffin , the only University of Texas football player ever to return a blocked field goal for a touchdown , was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings ?
Did you knowthat firing of Anna Walentynowicz , a Polish free trade union activist, was one of the events that led to the giant wave of strikes in Poland and eventually the creation of Solidarity ?
Did you knowthat Cyclone Mala was the strongest tropical cyclone in the Bay of Bengal to be named , although several unnamed cyclones have been stronger?
Did you knowthat when Rollie Free rode his motorcycle to a land speed record in 1948 , he was wearing only a Speedo bathing suit, a shower cap, and a pair of borrowed sneakers ?
Did you knowthat Gustav Adolf von Götzen , a German explorer and Governor of German East Africa , was the first European to set foot in Rwanda ?
Did you knowthat the Kremlin stars , crowning five towers of the Moscow Kremlin since the 1930s , are made of ruby glass ?
Did you knowthat John Devitt was awarded a gold medal in the 100m freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome despite all three timekeepers awarding a faster time to the silver medallist?
Did you knowthat the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party , a Maoist group, took part in the Liberation War of Bangladesh but continued armed activities after the independence of the country?
Did you knowthat Władysław Filipkowski , a Polish resistance fighter and commander of the Lwów Uprising against Nazi Germany occupiers in 1944, was soon afterwards arrested by the Soviet NKVD and imprisoned for three years?
Did you knowthat Tsenacommacah was the name of the territory in eastern Virginia which was controlled by the Powhatan Confederacy at the time of the arrival of English colonists at Jamestown in 1607?
Did you knowthat the East Los Angeles community arts center Self Help Graphics & Art has been producing Chicano art for more than thirty years?
Did you knowthat Winsor McCay 's animated film Gertie the Dinosaur was originally created for a vaudeville act where McCay would seem to interact with the cartoon dinosaur?
Did you knowthat Alevtina Kolchina was the first female Nordic skier and first person from the Soviet Union (now Russia ) to receive the Holmenkollen medal in 1963 ?
Did you knowthat former Eight is Enough actress Susan Richardson battled an addiction to cocaine after using the drug for weight loss following her pregnancy ?
Did you knowthat Maharaja Gulab Singh , founder of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir , was illiterate?
Did you knowthat the National Labor Board established the doctrine of representational exclusivity in American labor relations, a rule still used today?
Did you knowthat even in perfect darkness, the retina spontaneously sends signals down the optic nerve , causing a sensation of gray called eigengrau ?
Did you knowthat during Jake Gaither 's tenure as head football coach at Florida A&M University , his teams won twenty-two Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships and six Black College National Championships?
Did you knowthat the 1st Lithuanian-Belarusian Infantry Division was a Polish military unit, created from volunteers and self-defence units of the Kresy territories?
Did you knowthat Kazakhstan Temir Zholy is building a  transshipment railway to connect China with Europe using standard gauge ?
Did you knowthat Nenets painter Konstantin Pankov had never seen a painting before he began painting landscapes of the Far North?
Did you knowthat Alexander Korzhakov contends that his political adversaries wanted to kill his main rival in the 1997 parliamentary by-election in Tula in order to deem it invalid?
Did you knowthat career US diplomat George Wadsworth , Chargé d'affaires in Italy at the onset of World War II , was one of the last American personnel to leave the country?
Did you knowthat Charlotte Wilson was murdered by Hutu rebels in Burundi during the Titanic Express massacre ?
Did you knowthat Edward Schildhauer's design for the Panama Canal railway and lock machinery has remained in use for almost 100 years?
Did you knowthat the Congressional Country Club is one of the 100 Greatest Golf Courses as ranked by Golf Digest and it will host its third United States Open in 2011 ?
Did you knowthat 3D Construction Kit , a utility for creating 3D worlds in Freescape , typically ran at one frame per second on the Commodore 64 ?
Did you knowthat His Master's Voice , one of the most acclaimed science-fiction novels of Stanisław Lem , is also one of Lem's strongest critiques of the science-fiction genre itself?