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Did you knowthat The Queen producer Andy Harries was fired as a newsreader for speaking too fast in a broadcast?
Did you knowthat Larrys Creek in Lycoming County , Pennsylvania has 42 named tributaries in its watershed , including one named "Little Dog Run"?
Did you knowthat the Hertford East Branch Line , a railway line in the United Kingdom , used to link to the Hertford Loop Line but was severed due to the Beeching Axe ?
Did you knowthat medieval cycles of the Life of the Virgin could have as many as 53 scenes before reaching the Annunciation of her pregnancy ?
Did you knowthat The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. is a controversial 1981 novella by George Steiner in which Hitler is found alive in the Amazon jungle and claims to be the Jews ' benefactor?
Did you knowthat the Elk Hills Oil Field in San Joaquin Valley is the largest natural gas -producing oil field in California , and has produced over 2 trillion cubic feet (60 billion m³) of gas since its discovery in 1911?
Did you knowthat the 1989 Spanish film If They Tell You I Fell was nominated for seven Goya Awards ?
Did you knowthat the main opposition party Fidesz supported the 2003 Hungarian European Union membership referendum but warned that up to 100,000 jobs could be lost?
Did you knowthat as New York 's General Counsel , Michael C. Finnegan ended a century-old debate over New York City 's water supply when he brokered the New York City Watershed Agreement ?
Did you knowthat Bhanbhagta Gurung returned to his farm in Nepal in 1946, after receiving a Victoria Cross for his actions while serving with the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Gurkha Rifles in Burma ?
Did you knowthat the troop transport USS Wakefield , a former luxury liner , operated in World War II as a "lone wolf" by relying on her speed to avoid Nazi U-Boats?
Did you knowthat Scottish footballer Kevin Bremner scored for five different teams in the Football League during the 1982–83 season ?
Did you knowthat the Julian Price Memorial Park , developed in Julian Price 's honor, and the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park are the largest developed recreational areas on the Blue Ridge Parkway ?
Did you knowthat state representative Dianne Primavera ,  a breast and cervical cancer survivor, sponsored legislation for the Colorado Breast and Women's Reproductive Cancers Fund?
Did you knowthat because of its dorsal fin , Carolus Linnaeus first described the Permit as Labrus falcatus , with the latter part  of the scientific name meaning "armed with scythes ?"
Did you knowthat former football player and manager Alan Brown quit Huddersfield Town and became a policeman for two and a half years before rejoining the club?
Did you knowthat in 1955, black promoter Thurman Ruth booked the Selah Jubilee Singers ,  to perform in a music venue , New York 's Apollo Theater ,  the first gospel group to play commercially?
Did you knowthat Robert DeBlieux , a former mayor of Natchitoches , Louisiana , was the local advisor when the film Steel Magnolias was shot in the city?
Did you knowthat Lieutenant Commander Willis Lent and his submarine the USS Triton fired the first United States Navy torpedo to be used against the Japanese during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Pope Innocent XIII was not elected till the seventy-fifth ballot at the papal conclave in 1721 ?
Did you knowthat the first Dutch satellite , the Astronomical Netherlands Satellite , had the Main Belt asteroid 9996 ANS named after it?
Did you knowthat the Willhire 24 Hour race became the first 24 hour endurance race to take place in the United Kingdom in 1980?
Did you knowthat singer Irvan Perez was considered to be one of the last performers of the traditional Isleño décimas of Louisiana , since there are few members of that community who still know how to sing the songs?
Did you knowthat Canada's first urban Indian reserve was established in 1981 at Kylemore, Saskatchewan ?
Did you knowthat nearly a decade before the official Bordeaux wine classification was released, the directory Cocks & Féret published their own ranking of Bordeaux wine estates?
Did you knowthat the Best Bakery case is a legal case involving the killing of 14 people in Vadodara , India , during the 2002 Gujarat violence ?
Did you knowthat 75 people in the Soviet Union were awarded the Order of the Red Banner , with their names published in Pravda , for the successful mass deportations out of the Baltic States in 1949?
Did you knowthat the establishment of the quaestura exercitus by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I helped to economically secure the lower Danube region?
Did you knowthat Malheur Reservation in Oregon was set aside for Native Americans in 1872 and opened to European American settlement by Ulysses S. Grant in 1876?
Did you knowthat the Kapodistrias Museum in Corfu , Greece , donated by Maria Desylla-Kapodistria the first female Greek mayor , was dedicated to the memory of the first Greek governor , Ioannis Kapodistrias ?
Did you knowthat Gamma , a gamma-ray telescope , was launched in 1990, 25 years after it was originally conceived?
Did you knowthat botanist Henry Lyte's Niewe Herball of 1578 was an English translation of the 1564 Cruydeboeck of Rembert Dodoens printed in Antwerp with the woodcuts of the original edition?
Did you knowthat Mosida, Utah was a failed planned community whose developers tried to irrigate the desert with water pumped from Utah Lake ?
Did you knowthat Eastern Christians believe that the tomb on the Mount of Olives is the Tomb of Mary ?
Did you knowthat the ten cannons of Fort Guijarros , built in 1797 as the first defensive fortifications for San Diego Bay , California , have been fired in action only twice since?
Did you knowthat Florence J. Harriman , an American socialite , suffragist , diplomat and author , was credited with arranging for the safe evacuation of members of the Norwegian royal family when Germany invaded Norway in 1940?
Did you knowthat if all the video games traded at Goozex in 2007 were stacked on top of each other, the resulting pile would reach 2,132 feet (650 m), more than 450 feet (137 m) taller than Taipei 101 ?
Did you knowthat Socialist Paulina Veloso , exiled during Pinochet's rule in Chile , has served in the governments of all four post-Pinochet presidents , including holding the cabinet-level presidential Chief of Staff position from 2006 to 2007?
Did you knowthat Sultanahmet Jail in Istanbul , Turkey , which served mostly as a prison reserved for intellectual dissidents , is today a five-star hotel ?
Did you knowthat Baxter v. United States determined that since poker was a game of skill, poker winnings should be treated as earned income instead of unearned income ?
Did you knowthat the original name of Euphemia , empress consort of Justin I of the Byzantine Empire , was 'Lupicina', which led historian Alexander Vasiliev to associate her with she-wolves and prostitution ?
Did you knowthat while one naval historian praised Richard Lestock for his "zeal and attention", another declared he "ought to have been shot"?
Did you knowthat the Bordeaux wine estate Château Beau-Séjour Bécot was demoted in the Saint-Émilion classification amidst controversy, only to be later re-instated?
Did you knowthat the Söflingen Abbey in Ulm , Baden-Württemberg is the oldest nunnery of the Order of Poor Ladies in Germany ?
Did you knowthat both William Wentworth, Earl of Strafford and his wife were painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds ?
Did you knowthat antiepileptic drugs have been shown to prevent early post-traumatic seizures but not post-traumatic epilepsy ?
Did you knowthat the earliest surviving ensenhamen (an Occitan didactic poem ) was written by the troubadour Garin lo Brun around 1155?
Did you knowthat hawkers in Kolkata , numbering 275,000, occupy pavements and generate annual business worth around 2 billion dollars?
Did you knowthat Professor Lalit Goel of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore became an internet celebrity after footage of his lectures were uploaded to YouTube ?
Did you knowthat the briefly popular " I'm Backing Britain " campaign in 1968 suffered embarrassment when a number of t-shirts bearing the slogan were found to be made in Portugal ?
Did you knowthat the Marshall Field and Company Building has three separate atria ?
Did you knowthat the Persian political-philosophical treatise, the Siyasatnama , provides evidence for the survival of pre-Islamic traditions within the Seljuq empire?
Did you knowthat in Toolson v. New York Yankees , the U.S. Supreme Court first considered a player's challenge to Major League Baseball 's reserve clause ?
Did you knowthat the Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary in Chełm , Poland, now a Catholic church, was formerly an Orthodox one?
Did you knowthat the first psychosurgery in the United Kingdom was performed in Bristol in December 1940?
Did you knowthat Hugh Ruttledge led the 1933 Mount Everest expedition on which Andrew Irvine 's ice axe was discovered?
Did you knowthat on 28 November 1968 the Finnish ferries MS Ilmatar and MS Botnia collided in the Åland archipelago, resulting in the death of six people?
Did you knowthat during World War II , the Roosevelt Community Library in Minneapolis held storytimes for children, partly to help reduce juvenile delinquency in the Standish neighborhood?
Did you knowthat as he lay dying, the American Presbyterian theologian J. Gresham Machen declared that there is no hope without the active obedience of Christ ?
Did you knowthat Israeli agricultural output is now 16 times what it was at independence in 1948, which means that it has risen three times more than the population growth rate?
Did you knowthat while in charge of the MESAN political party, President for Life Jean-Bédel Bokassa appointed Elisabeth Domitien to serve as the prime minister of the Central African Republic , making her Africa 's first female head of government?
Did you knowthat Japanese American journalist Bill Hosokawa and his family were released from the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center in 1943 in order to take a job as a copy editor with The Des Moines Register ?
Did you knowthat Tanaz Eshaghian 's film Be Like Others explores the experiences of transsexuals in Iran , a country that outlaws homosexuality but sanctions sex-reassignment surgery ?
Did you knowthat Robert Oxnam , who wrote a memoir describing his dissociative identity disorder , was president of the Asia Society for over a decade?
Did you knowthat the original Roanoke Street Railway Company streetcar tracks were removed from the Memorial Bridge during its 2002–03 restoration?
Did you knowthat British industrialist Sir Maurice Laing was the first president of the Confederation of British Industry ?
Did you knowthat despite much preparation by Prussia , Toruń Fortress , one of the largest defence complexes in Central and Eastern Europe , did not play a significant role in World War I ?
Did you knowthat the 1940 Czortków Uprising was a failed attempt by anti- Soviet teenagers to free Polish soldiers?
Did you knowthat Flat Top Manor , built by textile industrialist Moses H. Cone in 1900, gets nearly 250,000 visitors annually as the main feature of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park in North Carolina ?
Did you knowthat the author of the best-selling book Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years , who claimed to be a Holocaust survivor, admitted her memoir was a hoax ?
Did you knowthat lawyer James A. MacAlister was the first president of Drexel University ?
Did you knowthat with over 370 officers and ratings , HMS President is one of the largest " stone frigates " of the Royal Naval Reserve ?
Did you knowthat according to historian Rev. H B Kendall , five Camp Meetings which led to the establishment of Primitive Methodism as a denomination in 1811 were held in Ramsor in Staffordshire ?
Did you knowthat the conservative Thai Social Action Party was founded in 1974 by politician and former Prime Minister of Thailand Kukrit Pramoj ?
Did you knowthat the Chelembra Bank Robbery , one of the biggest bank robberies in Kerala , was quickly solved by the Kerala Police and the stolen goods recovered?
Did you knowthat writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse were careful not to create a paradox in the plot of " The Constant ", a fourth season episode of Lost that features time travel ?
Did you knowthat free MMS were sent out to all 5.5 million mobile phone subscribers in Singapore to alert them of the prison break of ISA detainee Mas Selamat bin Kastari ?
Did you knowthat Evagrius Scholasticus , John of Ephesus , Gregory of Tours and Paul the Deacon all accused Byzantine Emperor Justin II and his empress consort Aelia Sophia of greed?
Did you knowthat treated wastewater from Kern River Oil Field , the fifth-largest U.S. oil field , is used to irrigate crops in the San Joaquin Valley in California ?
Did you knowthat the hazaj meter was the most popular meter for Iranian romantic epics in the 11th century?
Did you knowthat artist Chryssa constructed The Gates to Times Square , a 10 ft (3 m) cube of neon , acrylic glass and stainless steel through which museum visitors may walk?
Did you knowthat Sir Ralph Howell , farmer and Conservative MP for North Norfolk for 27 years, argued for the adoption of a " workfare " system of unemployment benefits in the UK ?
Did you knowthat the 2004 Montana gubernatorial election saw the first bipartisan ticket since the constitution required Governors and their Lieutenants to run as a team?
Did you knowthat Christopher Tin is the first Fulbright scholar for film scoring ?
Did you knowthat former Arsenal and Sheffield Wednesday footballer Brian Hornsby trekked to Machu Picchu with musician Tony Hadley in aid of Action Medical Research ?
Did you knowthat Frank Winder , one of the leading Irish rock-climbers of the 1950s and 60s, started climbing to search for rare plants and insects?
Did you knowthat in two decades Australian record producer , audio engineer and mixer Tim Whitten has worked with artists including Powderfinger , The Go-Betweens , and Hoodoo Gurus ?
Did you knowthat the song " Vodka " will represent Malta at Eurovision Song Contest 2008 ?
Did you knowthat Stockport County physio Rodger Wylde formed a rock group with  player Tom Bennett whilst treating his broken leg?
Did you knowthat Nihon Go Gakko , a Japanese language school in Tacoma, Washington , later became a gathering point for Japanese residents during World War II , being sent to internment camps ?
Did you knowthat Adam Franz Lennig organized the first Katholikentag in Mainz in 1848?
Did you knowthat the Tang Dynasty chancellor Cui Shi was believed to have risen to power through affairs with Shangguan Wan'er and Princess Taiping ?
Did you knowthat the final streetcar to service Roanoke, Virginia went from Grandin Road Commercial Historic District to downtown on July 31 , 1948 ?
Did you knowthat Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer made their sitcom debut with their 1992 Channel 4 pilot The Weekenders ?
Did you knowthat American rockabilly musician Bobby Lee Trammell nearly fell off a radio broadcast tower during a botched practical joke ?
Did you knowthat Joyce Carlson , designer of the Disney theme park attraction " It's a Small World ", was the first female employee to achieve a fifty-year service record with Disney ?
Did you knowthat the 1917 Pinar del Río hurricane is the third most intense cyclone to make landfall in Cuba , with a low atmospheric pressure reading of 928 mbar (27.40 inHg )?
Did you knowthat Sherefudin's White Mosque , where the mihrab , minbar and minarets have a folk art character subtly enhanced by the avant-garde geometries of their setting, won the 1983 Aga Khan Award for Architecture ?
Did you knowthat the 13th-century troubadour Guilhem de Montanhagol encouraged the conversion of the Cathars to Catholic orthodoxy by persuasion and opposed their violent suppression by the Albigensian Crusade ?
Did you knowthat Tews Fall, located within the Spencer Gorge / Webster's Falls Conservation Area , is the tallest of 96 waterfalls found in Hamilton, Ontario ?
Did you knowthat the Rolls-Royce Conway , a turbofan engine ,  was the first commercial aero engine to be awarded clearance to operate for periods up to 10,000 hours between major overhauls?
Did you knowthat St James's Hall , London 's principal concert hall and home of the Philharmonic Society in the 19th century, had annual seasons of blackface minstrelsy ?
Did you knowthat Heba Kotb , Egypt 's first licensed sexologist , hosts a call-in show named The Big Talk where she gives Qur'anic advice?
Did you knowthat Interstate 37 is one of the few limited-access hurricane evacuation routes away from the Texas coast?
Did you knowthat wig wearing and addressing judges as "My Lord" or "Your Lordship" in Singapore courts was abolished by Chief Justice Yong Pung How in 1990?
Did you knowthat Africans from the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the U.S. formed their own community of Africatown near Mobile, Alabama after the Civil War ?
Did you knowthat a group of Philippine congressmen were named after the Spice Girls ?
Did you knowthat upon his death, Lolita author Vladimir Nabokov told his son to destroy his final novel, The Original of Laura , but the manuscript remains in a Swiss Bank vault , its fate uncertain?
Did you knowthat the 11th century Duke Yaropolk Izyaslavich is an Eastern Orthodox saint ?
Did you knowthat as a non-military form of conscription , a Finnish rescue authority official is entitled to order anyone in the municipality to assist in a rescue operation?
Did you knowthat a poem by William Newton led to an end to gibbeting corpses in Derbyshire ?
Did you knowthat Italy 's Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico shipyard built two ocean liners named MS Stockholm for the Swedish American Line between 1936 and 1941, neither of which operated commercially?
Did you knowthat during the Chicago Federation of Labor 's 1903 convention, seven major brawls broke out, hospitalizing one man?
Did you knowthat Kjesäter , a Swedish manor , was later the main assembly point for up to 50,000 refugees from German-occupied Norway during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Interstate 80 in Nevada crosses the Forty Mile Desert, the most dangerous part of the California Trail ?
Did you knowthat the butterfly Heliconius heurippa may be a separate species from—but a hybrid of—the species Heliconius cydno and Heliconius melpomene , a possible example of hybrid speciation ?
Did you knowthat Times Square Stores , which went bankrupt in 1989, was once considered Long Island 's most prominent discount department store chain?
Did you knowthat John Roby ignored some Lancashire oral traditions in writing about the boggart of Clegg Hall ?
Did you knowthat Democrat Bob Holden was the first incumbent Missouri Governor to lose a primary ?
Did you knowthat despite being a National Historic Landmark and the site of Washington 's oldest known human remains, the Marmes Rockshelter was submerged after the Lower Monumental Dam construction?
Did you knowthat HMS Bonaventure became the first ship to re-enter service with the Clan Line after the end of the Second World War , having spent five years as a submarine depot ship ?
Did you knowthat Abby and Julia Smith fought for women's suffrage by refusing to pay taxes to the Town of Glastonbury, Connecticut and almost lost their property Kimberly Mansion ?
Did you knowthat the Maltese European Union membership referendum saw the lowest support for joining, and highest turnout , of any of the states that held referendums on joining in 2003?
Did you knowthat the Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek were Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth who offered their lives during the Holocaust in exchange for the release of citizens of Nowogródek ?
Did you knowthat much of Glencoe, Oregon , was relocated to the new town of North Plains after the railroad bypassed the old town?
Did you knowthat the Dix of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet , a steamboat which sank and drowned over 45 people after a collision off Duwamish Head , Washington in 1906, was twice refused a seaworthiness certificate?
Did you knowthat the first medical missions in China began in part because the missionary Robert Morrison wanted to discover whether the Chinese pharmacopoeia could cure disease in the West?
Did you knowthat French geometer Émile Lemoine proposed a system of five operations to measure the "complexity" of compass and straightedge constructions ?
Did you knowthat the Brindavan Gardens in Karnataka is a Mughal style garden having a design similar to that of Shalimar Gardens in Kashmir ?
Did you knowthat in the post- WWII era, the Zidell family business based in Portland, Oregon became the largest shipbreaking operation in the U.S. ?
Did you knowthat the broadhead catfish , a carnivore , can be fed with rice bran ?
Did you knowthat French cardinals in the Papal conclave of 1758 vetoed the candidature of cardinal Cavalchini when he was only one vote short of being elected to the papacy ?
Did you knowthat Royal Navy captain Kenneth Dewar was controversially court-martialled in 1928 for criticising his flag officer , an event the press described as a mutiny ?
Did you knowthat in 1956 the Pidhirtsi Castle in Lviv Oblast , Ukraine burned for three weeks costing US$ 12 million in damages?
Did you knowthat Adolf Hitler never thought much of the Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders despite its iconic status in the U.S.?
Did you knowthat the Chinese government had no objections when the Eastern Orthodox Church canonized Metrophanes, Chi Sung and other martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion , but did object to canonizations by the Roman Catholic Church ?
Did you knowthat the K'iche' Kingdom of Q'umarkaj in Central America were conquered when the Kaqchikel people allied with a Spanish force ?
Did you knowthat the 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake was the largest earthquake to hit the UK for over twenty years?
Did you knowthat the Maratha Ditch was excavated around Calcutta , India , as a protection against attacks by Marathas , who, however, never attacked?
Did you knowthat seeds of the water lily Euryale ferox may be toasted and eaten like popcorn ?
Did you knowthat the Augustaion , named after the Augusta Helena , was the main public square in medieval Constantinople ?
Did you knowthat the monk responsible for the current state of Thuyen Ton Temple in Vietnam lived to 102 years?
Did you knowthat the "Sound of Insanity" in Powderfinger 's 2008 single " Who Really Cares (Featuring the Sound of Insanity) " is simply a sitar with synthesised effects overlaid?
Did you knowthat pig fat , cannabis oil, fish , scorpions and hot sand were used in various offensive weapons in ancient and medieval warfare ?
Did you knowthat restaurant Beyti in Istanbul , famous for its Beyti kebab , once catered U.S. president Richard Nixon 's Air Force One ?
Did you knowthat Truc Lam Temple is named after the Zen sect founded by Emperor of Vietnam Tran Nhan Tong , who abdicated the throne to become a monk ?
Did you knowthat the Sheffield Improvement Act 1818 required all owners of steam engines in the Yorkshire town to "consume" the engine's smoke?
Did you knowthat Filipino poet José García Villa was known for his extensive use of commas , which made him known as the "Comma Poet"?
Did you knowthat the Telugu film Anasuya was said to be inspired by the Hollywood film The Silence of the Lambs ?
Did you knowthat Randi Weingarten , the openly gay president of the United Federation of Teachers , has been called one of the 25 most powerful women in New York City business?
Did you knowthat Denmark's debut in the Eurovision Song Contest took place in 1957, when the country finished third and would be the most successful debutant until 1994?
Did you knowthat General Anthony Bacon , hero of Waterloo , resigned his commission in protest when the colonelcy of the 17th Lancers was purchased by Lord Lucan ?
Did you knowthat Konrad Bartelski is the only British alpine ski racer to finish on the podium in a World Cup downhill race?
Did you knowthat a large number of Rwandans converted to Islam after the 1994 Genocide ?
Did you knowthat New York Assemblyman Gregory R. Ball proposed a measure offering free education for United States military veterans ?
Did you knowthat eight well preserved Maronite mummies dating back to the 13th century were uncovered by speleologists in the Qadisha Valley , Lebanon ?