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Did you knowthat Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud is estimated to have lost tens of millions of U.S. dollars gambling in casinos ?
Did you knowthat the Saskatchewan town of Macklin erected a 32-foot-high statue of a horse 's anklebone to commemorate the sport of Bunnock ?
Did you knowthat Iowa 's Black Hawk Purchase is named for the Sac chief Black Hawk , despite that fact that he was in prison when the land-transfer treaty was signed?
Did you knowthat oakmoss is a type of lichen used extensively in modern perfumery ?
Did you knowthat the recent massive flooding in Mumbai could have been avoided if the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai had upgraded the city's drainage system by building the Brihanmumbai Storm Water Disposal System ?
Did you knowthat an industrial process for making instant mashed potatoes was patented in 1912 ?
Did you knowthat the Liga Indonesia is the top football league in Indonesia ?
Did you knowthat Vote-OK , a pro-fox hunting group, claimed to have helped defeat 29 Members of Parliament at the 2005 British general election ?
Did you knowthat the Thunderdome , the home of the basketball and volleyball teams of the University of California, Santa Barbara , is famous for a tortilla -throwing incident in a men's basketball game televised on ESPN ?
Did you knowthat the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 was seen as formally demonstrating Australia 's independence to the world?
Did you knowthat Mantle Hood was an ethnomusicologist known for the idea that students should learn to play the music from the cultures they study?
Did you knowthat chuño is a freeze-dried potato product made since before the time of the Inca empire by a five-day process of alternately freezing, sun-drying, and trampling under foot?
Did you knowthat in response to the 1852 publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin , writers in the Southern United States produced a body of anti-Tom literature which attempted to show that slavery was not evil?
Did you knowthat at the Battle of Cajamarca in 1532 the Inca Emperor Atahualpa was captured by Pizarro's conquistadors and that the battle was a decisive victory in the Spanish conquest of Peru ?
Did you knowthat famine scales are the ways in which degrees of food security are measured, from situations in which an entire population has adequate food to full-scale famine ?
Did you knowthat Maurine Brown Neuberger was the third woman elected to the U.S. Senate and that as a U.S. Senator she sponsored one of the first bills to require warning labels on cigarette packaging?
Did you know that the 1985 comedy film Head Office has established stars such as Danny DeVito starring in roles that are little more than bit parts ?
Did you knowthat Republican California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore wrote a book that was banned in the People's Republic of China ?
Did you knowthat comic-book writer Stan Lee , novelist/historian Winston Groom , and district attorney Jim Garrison have all been victims of Hollywood accounting ?
Did you knowthat the " Victory Tests " were a series of cricket matches between a team of Australian servicemen and an English national side played just two weeks after World War II ended?
Did you knowthat Ronald E. Neumann the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan is the first ambassador since John Q. Adams in 1817 to be appointed to the same country where his father was also ambassador?
Did you knowthat American Wimbledon champion Alice Marble was shot in the back while working as a spy in Switzerland during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Nashville radio station WWTN launched the career of the nationally- syndicated financial advisor Dave Ramsey ?
Did you knowthat Hertfordshire puddingstone is a conglomerate rock named after its resemblance to Christmas pudding ?
Did you knowthat Wayne McLaren , an American model who portrayed the Marlboro Man in the famous cigarette advertising campaign, died of lung cancer ?
Did you knowthat Johnson composed music for some of the most important motion pictures of Malayalam cinema , including Perumthachan and movies directed by Padmarajan ?
Did you knowthat the American's Creed was written in 1917 as an entry into a patriotic contest, and was adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives the next year?
Did you knowthat the Australian Giant burrowing frog does not croak, but rather hoots like an owl ?
Did you knowthat alcohol advertising is heavily restricted in some countries to avoid associating the drinking of alcoholic beverages with sexual success and physical attractiveness ?
Did you knowthat during a flood in 1937 , Brown Hotel in Louisville , Kentucky was partially submerged, and a worker caught a two-pound fish in the lobby ?
Did you knowthat Kabloona ( 1941 ) is a classic account of a Frenchman 's life among Canadian Inuit ?
Did you knowthat the Houston Ballet has one of the largest endowments of any dance company in the U.S. ?
Did you knowthat the sailors of the Santa María shipwrecked in Haiti were infected by the first reported cases of tungiasis , a disease caused by burrowing fleas ?
Did you knowthat the German prisoners of war built part of the Stade de Gerland stadium in Lyon , France , after the First World War ?
Did you knowthat a young Aruna Asaf Ali had to commence the Quit India Movement in 1942 as all the major leaders were arrested the night before to prevent them from reaching the venue?
Did you knowthat the Nivelle Offensive during World War I involved around 1.2 million French troops and over 7,000 guns?
Did you knowthat American comics writer and artist Don Rico started his creative career in the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project during the Great Depression ?
Did you knowthat the 1970 Ancash earthquake and the landslide that followed killed at least  47,194 people and was the worst natural disaster ever recorded in the history of Peru ?
Did you knowthat Herman Ashworth was the fourth person to drop his appeals since the U.S. state of Ohio resumed the death penalty in 1999 ?
Did you knowthat Indonesian women's rights organisation Gerwani was banned when General Suharto became President in 1965 ?
Did you knowthat A. R. R. A. P. W. R. R. K. B. Amunugama has more initials than any other first-class cricketer ?
Did you knowthat W. G. Collingwood , John Ruskin 's secretary and assistant was a noted scholar of Norse history and art?
Did you knowthat during the 1976 Pacific hurricane season three consecutive storms made landfall?
Did you knowthat Vicente Leñero , a prominent Mexican novelist, journalist and playwright, was a screenwriter for El Crimen del Padre Amaro , one of Mexico's all-time highest grossing films?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Navy has been training Bottlenose Dolphins to subdue terrorists as part of the Cetacean Intelligence Mission ?
Did you knowthat Sir Conrad Hunte was a West Indian cricketer who in 1965 set the record (550 runs) for the highest Test series aggregate score without scoring a century ?
Did you knowthat when the eight-mile Texas and Northern Railway began operations in 1948 , it was designated a Class I railroad , in the same class as giants like the Pennsylvania Railroad ?
Did you knowthat Carmen Boullosa is a leading Mexican novelist, poet, and playwright whose award-winning play Teatro herético satirically addresses the issue of gender roles ?
Did you knowthat Valrhona , a company based in the small town of Tain l'Hermitage in the Rhône Valley in France , is one of the world's leading manufacturers of high-quality chocolate ?
Did you knowthat the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service , which was passed by the Nazi regime on April 7 , 1933 , prohibited Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from working as civil servants?
Did you knowit is estimated that more than 85 percent of all business information exists as unstructured data , commonly appearing in e-mails , memos , reports , letters , presentations and Web pages ?
Did you knowthat Adolf Hitler was a self-proclaimed vegetarian and had a large greenhouse built to keep him supplied with fresh fruits and vegetables throughout World War II ?
Did you knowthat John W. Peoples, Jr. tried to have his execution carried out by electric chair instead of lethal injection ?
Did you knowthat Science Service used to broadcast information from its Science News magazine on the radio ?
Did you know that Igor Spassky , the head of the Russian Rubin Design Bureau , was the chief designer of 187 submarines (91 diesel-electric and 96 nuclear ) as well as Halliburton oil platforms and the marine part of the Sea Launch complex?
Did you knowthat Lancelot Blackburne was thought to have spent time in the Caribbean as a buccaneer as a young man, and lived openly with his mistress whilst Archbishop of York ?
Did you knowthat Nağaybäk Tatars of Russia constructed their own Paris, with Eiffel Tower ?
Did you knowthat the current German Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth Renate Schmidt was forced to quit school at the age of seventeen because of a pregnancy ?
Did you knowthat virtual plagues can infect and kill the characters in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and are usually caused by unexpected problems with the programming code ?
Did you knowthat the Shell Lake murders were committed by Victor E. Hoffman three weeks after his release from a mental hospital and that he claimed to have had fought the Devil just before committing the murders?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Garibpur fought between India and Pakistan preceded the official start of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 , and was the first battle where dog fighting occurred over East Pakistan ?
Did you knowthat Maurice Tillet was disfigured by acromegaly from a young age, but cashed in on his appearance by becoming an early wrestler?
Did you knowthat despite its federal mandate to provide only intercity rail service, Amtrak operated the Calumet commuter train between Chicago, Illinois and the Indiana suburb of Valparaiso from 1979 to 1991 ?
Did you knowthat passengers aboard JetBlue Airways Flight 292 were able to watch their own malfunctioning aircraft circle Los Angeles International Airport on the satellite television screens at each seat until the flight crew disabled the system in preparation for the aircraft's successful emergency landing ?
Did you knowthat more than one thousand people are caned in Singapore each year using a bamboo cane that has been soaked in water overnight to prevent splitting?
Did you knowthat Egyptian actor Farid Shawki starred in 361 films?
Did you knowthat Harry Thomas Thompson , a former yeoman of the United States Navy , was the first American to be convicted of espionage since World War I ?
Did you knowthe original Norfolk Southern Railway was a small regional railroad in Virginia and North Carolina for 98 years before it became the namesake of the current Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982 ?
Did you knowthat, as a tribute to Arthur Stace , the Sydney Harbour Bridge was lit up with the word " Eternity " as the new millennium began?
Did you knowthat the first ever golden goal was scored in the Cromwell Cup final at Bramall Lane , Sheffield in 1868 , giving Sheffield Wednesday a 1-0 victory?
Did you knowthat Charles Butler McVay III , commander of the USS Indianapolis , was blamed when it was lost at sea in 1945 and only finally exonerated by the United States Congress posthumously in 2000 ?
Did you knowthat the newly-discovered trans-Neptunian object 2003 UB 313 is native to a distant region of our solar system known as the scattered disc ?
Did you knowthat in 2004 , the world spent US$896,235 million on military expenditures and the U.S. military budget constituted 41 percent of this, placing the nation at the top of the list of countries by military expenditures ?
Did you knowthat Ithaa iin Maldives is the world's first and only underwater restaurant ?
Did you knowthat Subramanian Swamy worked towards normalizing Sino-Indian relations and persuaded Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping to open the Kailash Mansarovar in Tibet to Hindu pilgrims from India ?
Did you knowthat Baqa'a is the largest refugee camp for Palestinians in Jordan ?
Did you knowthat Henry Perky invented a machine to produce shredded wheat breakfast cereal and that he made his fortune selling the cereal rather than the machine?
Did you knowthat in 1855 the Howard Association of Norfolk, Virginia received contributions during the yellow fever epidemic from the U.S. Gulf Coast areas and that 150 years later, they sent $50,000 of leftover funds to Louisiana to help with Hurricane Katrina relief?
Did you knowthat the Flying Dragon is a lizard that has skin membranes which it uses to glide distances over 7 metres ?
Did you knowthat American photographer George W. Ackerman took over 50,000 photographs during a nearly 40-year career with the United States Department of Agriculture ?
Did you knowthat Serbia and Montenegro and Italy were co-hosts of the 2005 European Volleyball Championship ?
Did you knowthat the modern Arms of the Principality of Wales are based on those borne by the 13th century Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great ?
Did you knowthat Dravidar Kazhagam formed in 1944 was the first fully Dravidian party in India ?
Did you knowthat conifer Torreya taxifolia was one of the first plant species listed as endangered in the United States ?
Did you know that the Old Well at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a neoclassical rotunda modelled after the Temple of Love at the Palace of Versailles ?
Did you knowthat the incisors of blesmols are visible even when their mouths are closed?
Did you knowthat Australian swimmer Fanny Durack was considered to be the world's greatest female swimmer from 1910 until 1918 ?
Did you knowthat the University of Dhaka is the oldest and largest public University in Bangladesh ?
Did you knowthat at 23.8 hours, The Hazards of Helen is believed to be the longest motion picture serial ever made?
Did you knowthat Nicolas-Charles Bochsa , who helped found the Royal Academy of Music in 1822 , was only in London because he had fled France five years earlier to avoid prosecution for multiple counts of forgery and fraud ?
Did you knowthat Fort Story at Cape Henry in Virginia Beach, Virginia was the site of the first landing of the Jamestown settlers in 1607 , and the Cape Henry Lighthouse , first in the U.S., in 1792 ?
Did you knowthat there have been six Indian Ocean Island Games , the latest being held on the isle of Mauritius in 2003 ?
Did you knowthat Duke University anthropologist Anne Allison worked as a hostess girl for four months while researching Nightwork , her study of white-collar entertainment clubs in Japan ?
Did you knowthat Neuromarketing is a new field of marketing that uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to scan consumers' brains in order to determine which products they subconsciously like?
Did you knowthat change of venue is the legal term for moving a jury trial away from a location where a fair and impartial jury may not be possible due to widespread publicity about a crime and/or the defendant ?
Did you knowthat the remains of Mungo Man are the oldest anatomically modern human remains found in Australia ?
Did you knowthat the anti- smuggling activities of the British frigate HMS Rose in 1775 , provoked the Rhode Island government to commission the first warship, the Sloop-of-war Providence , in what became the U.S. Navy ?
Did you knowthat " Blue Tail Fly " or " Jimmy Crack Corn " is a blackface minstrel song dating from the 1840s, and that on the surface, it is a black slave 's lament over his master's death; the subtext is that he is glad his master is dead, and may have killed him by deliberate negligence?
Did you knowthat in 1910 the Kalem Company became the first American film studio to ever make a motion picture outside the United States when a film crew went on location in Ireland ?
Did you knowthat there were three more cancelled Apollo missions planned to land on the Moon after Apollo 17 ?
Did you knowthat Indra Lal Roy of the Royal Air Force became India 's first flying ace after he achieved 10 victories in thirteen days during World War I ?
Did you knowthat the first U.S. state agricultural experiment station was established at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1875 ?
Did you knowthat the Judean date palm , which was thought to have died out around 1 CE , was resurrected using a single seed found in the palace of Herod the Great on Mount Masada in southern Israel ?
Did you knowthat the naval victory of Travancore State over Dutch East India Company in the Battle of Colachel in 1741 is considered the first example of an Asian power defeating a European navy?
Did you knowthat in 1982 , 68 kg of gold bars were stolen in a robbery that became known as the Perth Mint Swindle , and that seven years later 55 kg of the gold was found dumped outside a Perth television station?
Did you knowthat the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands fought the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War from 1651 to 1986 , and that not a single shot was fired during this war?
Did you knowthat Caesar Augustus , his wife Livia and numerous other members of Julio-Claudian dynasty were entombed in the Mausoleum of Augustus ?
Did you knowthat Rosa Montero is a leading author of contemporary feminist literature and a senior journalist for Spain 's largest newspaper, El País ?
Did you knowthat Hazelwood power station is the single largest source of carbon dioxide emissions in Australia , although it is only the sixth-largest power station ?
Did you knowthat the name of the Congolese writer Tchicaya U Tam'si means small paper, which speaks for a country in Zulu ?
Did you knowthat  silent film actor Harrison Ford and present-day star Harrison Ford each have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ?
Did you knowthat the University Students' African Revolutionary Front was a political student group formed in 1967 at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania ?
Did you knowthat the only remaining instance of active use of the death penalty in Europe is in capital punishment in Belarus ?
Did you knowthat Fort Atkinson was the first U.S. Army post established west of the Missouri River ?
Did you knowthat Hershey Chocolate Company was the primary producer of US Army military chocolate rations during World War II ?
Did you knowthat the shipwreck of the HMS Orpheus was the biggest maritime disaster in New Zealand history ?
Did you knowthat Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka was the scene of Mujibur Rahman 's historic speech on March 7 , 1971 that eventually led to Bangladesh 's Liberation War ?
Did you knowthat the 1980s CBS sitcom Frank's Place was set in New Orleans , Louisiana ?
Did you knowthat Green Mountain on Ascension Island is one of the world's very few large-scale artificial forests?
Did you knowthat during the 1970s the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts were broadcast live on CBS during primetime and was syndicated in over 40 countries?
Did you knowthat in a landmark case, Dutch -born Jetta Goudal , one of the biggest Hollywood movie stars of the 1920s, successfully sued her film studio for breach of contract ?
Did you knowthat Ruth Riley , an all-star center in the Women's National Basketball Association , also wrote a children's book ?
Did you knowthat Gingee Fort in Tamil Nadu , India was called the " Troy of the East" by the British for its inaccessibility and is one of the few forts still surviving in the state?
Did you knowthat David Bergelson was a Yiddish language writer, who believed that the future of Yiddish literature lay in the Soviet Union and that he moved there from Berlin when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany , but was ultimately executed during Josef Stalin 's anti-semitic campaign against " rootless cosmopolitans "?
Did you knowthat in the Ukrainian Canadian internment of 1914 to 1920, about five thousand Ukrainian immigrants from Austro-Hungary were classified "aliens of enemy nationality", and interned in twenty-four work camps throughout Canada ?
Did you knowthat Jack Broughton was the first person to develop a set of rules for boxing ?
Did you knowthat " Flood ," the sixth episode of The Young Ones , was the only one of the twelve episodes made which did not feature a live band during the show, instead using a lion tamer ?
Did you knowthat land under cultivation has grown from under 400,000 acres in 1976 to more than eight million acres in 1993 thanks to the irrigation in Saudi Arabia ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. maintains border preclearance facilities at a number of foreign ports and airports, whereby travellers pass through immigration and customs before boarding their plane or boat?
Did you knowthat, before Wayne Rooney made his debut in February 2003 , England 's youngest ever football player was James F. M. Prinsep , who had held the record for more than 123 years?
Did you knowthat Massimo Morsello was the most prominent far right Italian songwriter ?
Did you knowthat Eddie Gilbert was an Australian Aboriginal cricketer who bowled Don Bradman out for a duck during a match in 1933 and was later described by Bradman as the fastest bowler he'd ever faced?
Did you knowthat the Tucson Bird Count monitors bird diversity at almost 1000 sites in urban Tucson , Arizona and is among the largest urban biological monitoring programs in the world?
Did you knowthat teams in the International Basketball League scored nearly 130 points per game in its first season?
Did you knowthat a Northern Ireland naming dispute has existed since 1922 , after the secession of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is India 's highest sporting honour?
Did you knowthat former National Hockey League rookie Michel Briere ' s career was tragically cut short following an automobile accident in 1970 ?
Did you knowthat the Alamosaurus , named after Fort Alamo, Texas , is considered to be the last of the sauropods ?
Did you knowthat Seatack, Virginia , named for an "attack by sea" during the War of 1812 , has an Internet "Tower Cam" in the Old Coast Guard Station Museum on the boardwalk at Virginia Beach ?
Did you knowthat the 999-year-old Gonbad-e Qabus in Golestan , Iran is the world's tallest brick tower at 70 meters (230 feet)?
Did you knowthat André Meyer quit school at age 16 to work as a messenger boy, and was later described as "the most creative financial genius of our time in the investment banking world" by David Rockefeller ?
Did you knowthat the 2012 Summer Olympic Games will be the third London Olympics , and that no other city has hosted the games three times?
Did you knowthat Scotland 's Craigellachie Bridge , a revolutionary cast iron structure built by Thomas Telford in 1814 , inspired a popular Strathspey reel tune?
Did you knowthat Herb Thomas was the first NASCAR race-car driver to win two championships in the modern NEXTEL Cup ?
Did you knowthat the Shubert Theatre in New Haven was the location of the pre- Broadway premieres of five of the most famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, including Oklahoma! , The King and I and The Sound of Music ?
Did you knowthat Lieutenant-Colonel John Nairne originally hoped to make his seigneurity , La Malbaie , a Protestant community?
Did you knowthat the Yuanwang -class of ships is used by the People's Republic of China for tracking and supporting their Shenzhou spacecraft ?
Did you knowthat Captain Israel Pellew , brother of the more famous Sir Edward Pellew , sent his Captain of Marines to receive Admiral Villeneuve's surrender at the Battle of Trafalgar but in the heat of battle, Villeneuve's sword never reached him and it was later given to Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood who kept it much to Pellew's disgust?
Did you knowthat the Ao language is one of the few Kuki-Chin-Naga ( Tibeto-Burman ) languages that has been subject to acoustic analysis?
Did you knowthat Tom Edur gave up a professional ice hockey career at the age of 24 to study Christianity ?
Did you knowthat Marlin Gray was executed on October 26 for his part in pushing two women off the Chain of Rocks Bridge over the Mississippi River in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1991 ?
Did you knowthat a traffic accident in New York City 's Times Square eventually led to the downfall of the Joe K spy ring , headed by Kurt Frederick Ludwig ?