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Did you knowthat the German scientist Günter Wirths was brought to the Soviet Union after World War II , where he later was awarded a Stalin Prize for his contribution to the Soviet atomic bomb project ?
Did you knowthat Sisnando Davides , a Mozarab who had previously served Abbadid Seville , was the first Christian governor of Coimbra and Toledo after their reconquest ?
Did you knowthat Florida attorney Ellis Rubin claimed his client was driven to nymphomania by the side-effects of Prozac ?
Did you knowthat Ramon Zamora , the Filipino film actor popularly dubbed the " Bruce Lee of the Philippines ," won an award imitating Adolf Hitler on the gag show Super Laff-In ?
Did you knowthat the history of sherry has been greatly influenced by many of the world's major empires and civilizations including the Phoenicians , Greeks , Romans , Moors , Spanish and English ?
Did you knowthat Lauriston Sharp , a professor of anthropology at Cornell University , studied the indigenous culture of four continents?
Did you knowthat Gal, Bishop of Clermont was known to be so even-tempered that once a man who had insulted him repented on the spot and threw himself at his feet?
Did you knowthat the British composer William Denis Browne chose the grave site on Skyros for his friend, poet Rupert Brooke , just months before he himself was killed in the Gallipoli campaign of World War I ?
Did you knowthat in 2007, Phil Collins ' 1981 hit " In the Air Tonight " reached Number 13 in the UK Singles Chart after appearing in Cadbury 's Gorilla advertising campaign ?
Did you knowthat after Anthony Kemp returned to England where he was questioned about his involvement in the overthrow of William Bligh as Governor of New South Wales , he again went south and became known as the "father of Tasmania "?
Did you knowthat Bonawentura Niemojowski , a Polish politician during the Congress Poland period, became one of the most vocal supporters of the November Uprising against the Russian Empire and a leader of the revolutionary Polish government ?
Did you knowthat Wendy Kaminer 's critique of the self-help movement, I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional , was highlighted among The New York Times ' "Notable Books of the Year 1992"?
Did you knowthat Peire d'Alvernhe is the only troubadour in whose works appear the Occitan phrase for " courtly love "?
Did you knowthat Gerard of Lunel became widely venerated after it was reported snakes carried bread to him and his brother while they were trapped by a flood in a cave?
Did you knowthat Anglican clergyman Chad Varah founded the Samaritans , the world's first crisis hotline , in 1953, at a time when he was also writing for the Eagle comic ?
Did you knowthat famous tenor Antonio Giuglini used to jaywalk through traffic on London 's Brompton Road while flying his kite ?
Did you knowthat Julia Evangeline Brooks , an incorporator of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, was a dean of girls at Danbury High School?
Did you knowthat Sir Rowland Whitehead, 5th Baronet was a Briton born in Kenya , a banker engaged with charities , a hyperpolyglot who wrote about cybernetics , and a church warden who skydived ?
Did you knowthat the civil rights of Panama 's Chinese minority , today the largest in Central America, were curtailed from 1903 until they received full citizenship under the constitution passed in 1946?
Did you knowthat despite having only $300,000 to the incumbent's $4 million in campaign funds, Greg Ballard won the 2007 mayoral election in Indianapolis , one of the biggest electoral upsets in Indiana history?
Did you knowthat Jerrold Wexler helped save a transaction to purchase the Denver Nuggets , helped save Goldblatt's from bankruptcy and led the Drake Hotel to a National Register of Historic Places listing?
Did you knowthat Serhii Vasylkivsky was the first painter after Taras Shevchenko to draw upon Ukrainian historical and ethnographic themes?
Did you knowthat 1992 was the only year the American Society of Journalists and Authors presented the Conscience-in-Media Award to more than one journalist ?
Did you knowthat the McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies in Alanya is run by Georgetown University as the only independent study program in Turkey ?
Did you knowthat Alpha Kappa Alpha founder Sarah Meriweather Nutter visited Grover Cleveland 's grave, and cut a portion of ivy to plant at Howard University ?
Did you knowthat global warming has had a positive effect on the Tasmanian wine industry allowing it to grow grapes more successfully than what would otherwise be possible?
Did you knowthat Ève Curie did not receive a Nobel Prize , unlike her parents Marie and Pierre , her sister Irène , and, on behalf of UNICEF , her husband Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr. ?
Did you knowthat Bangalore Gayana Samaja , which celebrated its centenary in 2005 , is one of the oldest cultural organisations in Bangalore ?
Did you knowthat Gerald Long , an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate , is believed to be the only Long family member to have held significant public office in Louisiana outside the Democratic Party ?
Did you knowthat after Robert de Ferrers, the 6th Earl of Derby was pardoned for his part in a civil war against King Edward I , he rebelled again?
Did you knowthat the veneration of Saints Felinus and Gratian , which has a weak historical foundation, has been alleged to have been created to further the interests of Perugia ?
Did you knowthat Susan Hadden , an Internet affairs advisor to Al Gore , was killed by bandits while visiting Angkor Wat ?
Did you knowthat wine from the Greek island of Chios , prized in both classical Greece and ancient Rome , was according to mythology the first red wine ?
Did you knowthat Gun Hill Road in the Bronx was proposed to become the Gun Hill Crosstown Expressway?
Did you knowthat Ethel Jones Mowbray was a founder of the first African-American sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha ?
Did you knowthat Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva , Count of Paço d'Arcos served as the governor of various colonies as far as India , Timor , Macao and Mozambique in the Portuguese Empire ?
Did you knowthat "Professor Dull is anything but", referring to the historian of Han China Jack Dull , was a conventional joke on the campus of the University of Washington ?
Did you knowthat although it was destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Legion in the 1948 War , the moshav Atarot is now the site of Jerusalem's largest industrial park ?
Did you knowthat the militants of the Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang were given training in Yunnan in China by the Kuomintang , but then went on to engage in robbery on KMT territory?
Did you knowthat Jerome Avenue is one of three streets in the Bronx with a whole subway line following it?
Did you knowthat East 233rd Street was part of the former New York State Route 22 ?
Did you knowthat the assassination of Bazin , a French labor recruiter in Vietnam , was the first attack by the revolutionary Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang ?
Did you knowthat in 1882 impresario Alfred Schulz-Curtius organized the first performance ever in the UK of Wagner's 's epic operatic Ring Cycle ?
Did you knowthat the famous Roman " first growth " wine Falernian was made from the Aglianico grape which is still being used to make wine today?
Did you knowthat King Richard I of England was killed while beseiging the small castle of Château de Chalus-Chabrol , which was under the control of Aimar V of Limoges ?
Did you knowthat British cricketer Michael Spurway was thought to be the oldest surviving county cricket player at the time of his death, and the last living person to have played county cricket in the 1920s ?
Did you knowthat when Mark DeSantis lost the 2007 Pittsburgh mayoral election to Luke Ravenstahl by thirty percentage points, it was the best performance by a Republican Party candidate in Pittsburgh in over thirty years?
Did you knowthat actress Ethel Jackson remarried with the lawyer who had obtained her divorce the same month?
Did you knowthat Don Durdan was selected as the most valuable player of college football 's Rose Bowl in 1942, and six years later, won a professional basketball championship with the Portland Indians ?
Did you knowthat Flemish Baroque painting (1585–1700) saw many pieces created as collaborations between independent masters, such as Rubens with Jan Brueghel the Elder and Frans Snyders ?
Did you knowthat science historians have done so much work related to Charles Darwin that this area of research is often called the Darwin Industry ?
Did you knowthat there are over 90 mash-ups of the Kersal Massive 's demo song?
Did you knowthat the expressions ' top dog ' and ' underdog ' may originate with the two sawyers in a saw pit ?
Did you knowthat in 2003, thousands of dead cod mysteriously washed up on the shores of Smith Sound, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador with their internal organs frozen solid?
Did you knowthat the firm formed by John Brogden to build Manchester Victoria station and various railroads to the rapidly expanding Manchester in mid-19th century began as a contractor to undertake the sweeping, cleansing and watering of the city?
Did you knowthat Les Parrott , a professor of clinical psychology , a motivational speaker , and a Nazarene minister , co-created, along with his wife, the eHarmony Marriage program?
Did you knowthat the resort town Arniston, Western Cape near Cape Agulhas , the southern-most tip of Africa , was named after Arniston , an East Indiaman that shipwrecked in the vicinity in 1815?
Did you knowthat Saint Terence was proclaimed the patron saint of Pesaro for appearing in times of crisis, lifting a siege of the Italian town by French troops ?
Did you knowthat the car combat video game Grudge Warriors was the first PlayStation title by Take-Two Interactive not requiring payment of a licensing fee to Sony ?
Did you knowthat the All-American Wistert brothers Albert , Alvin and Whitey wore number 11 and played offensive tackle as University of Michigan Wolverines before being named to the College Football Hall of Fame ?
Did you knowthat the half-brother of William the Conqueror , Bishop Odo of Bayeux , was successfully tried for defrauding the Archbishop of Canterbury of church property a decade after the Norman Conquest of England ?
Did you knowthat U.S. soldiers considered the silver chevrons awarded for non-combat service in World War I a badge of shame ?
Did you knowthat despite $ 170m spent on security, Australian comedy group The Chaser managed to enter the restricted zone of the 2007 APEC Summit in a fake motorcade?
Did you knowthat in 1982, Maurice Couve de Murville was plucked from obscurity as the Roman Catholic chaplain at Cambridge University to become the seventh Archbishop of Birmingham ?
Did you knowthat the PowerShot TX1 by Canon is their first attempt at a hybrid digital camera that offers both advanced ultra zoom photography and advanced HDTV movie capture?
Did you knowthat in 2007, Arlene Holt Baker became the first African American AFL-CIO officer?
Did you knowthat Monosolenium tenerum is a species of weed that is threatened with habitat loss in Japan ?
Did you knowthat Lucas Horenbout was "King's Painter" to King Henry VIII and the founder of the English tradition of the portrait miniature , painting Henry and several of his wives ?
Did you knowthat Agatha Christie 's longest book was her autobiography ?
Did you knowthat on November 3 2007 , Navy beat Notre Dame after losing for 43 consecutive years, ending college football 's longest bilateral streak?
Did you knowthat the leader of the Tran Cao rebellion , a peasant revolt against the Le Dynasty in Vietnam in 1516, claimed to be a reincarnation of the Hindu deity Indra ?
Did you knowthat the White House has an official position called Chief Floral Designer ?
Did you knowthat despite being made from the same grape variety and less than 10 miles apart, the Barbaresco and the Barolo are two distinctly different Italian wines ?
Did you knowthat cricket writer Gerald Howat won the Cricket Society 's golden jubilee award for his biography of Learie Constantine ?
Did you knowthat on June 14 , 1835 , USRC Ingham became the first United States warship to engage a Mexican ship in combat?
Did you knowthat nobody knows the meaning of "Delmo", the subtitle given by Rachmaninoff to his 1899 composition Morceau de Fantaisie in G minor ?
Did you knowthat millionaire's daughter Rose Dugdale joined an IRA active service unit and took part in the first helicopter bombing raid on the British Isles in 1974?
Did you knowthat the famous quote "No man who hates dogs and children can be all bad" generally attributed to Leo Rosten was actually first used in 1930 by future war correspondent Byron Darnton ?
Did you knowthat the most famous archeological finding of Bronze and Iron Age Poland is the Biskupin fortified lake settlement?
Did you knowthat the Port of Geelong , located on the shores of Corio Bay in Geelong , Victoria , Australia , is the sixth largest in Australia by tonnage ?
Did you knowthat Security Advisory Opinions , which can take more than 120 days to resolve, are the source of long delays in issuing United States visas ?
Did you knowthat Singaporean Teresa Hsu , a 110-year old social worker who teaches yoga and selfless service to the needy, was named 'Hero for Today' by the Chinese edition of the Reader's Digest ?
Did you knowthat Tui bei tu , a banned 7th century prophecy book about China which has been compared to the work of Nostradamus , became a bestseller in the 1990s?
Did you knowthat the Palestinian Fedayeen campaign against Israel was one of the causes of the 1956 Suez Crisis ?
Did you knowthat the Reverend Sir Frederick Ouseley founded his £30,000 1856 church near the small village of Middleton on the Hill ?
Did you knowthat during the 1991 NFL season , Cris Dishman had a seven game stretch where he forced at least one turnover in each game?
Did you knowthat the Stillwell Avenue /Surf Avenue intersection in New York City is the site of the world's largest subway station ?
Did you knowthat a lift attached to the side of the viaduct at Calstock railway station was used to lower railway trucks to the quays on the River Tamar 113 feet below?
Did you knowthat according to the book The World Without Us radioactive waste, bronze statues, and Mount Rushmore will be the longest lasting evidence of human presence on Earth?
Did you knowthat 10TP was a Polish tank design, which advanced the Polish armor programme but came too late to provide the Polish Army with tanks of sufficient number and quality before the German invasion of Poland in 1939?
Did you knowthat Marrack Goulding , a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations , was Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford from 1997 to 2006?
Did you knowthat Cornelius, Oregon is named after pioneer Thomas R. Cornelius , who served in the both the Territorial and State legislatures ?
Did you knowthat the Ferranti Argus was developed to control the Bristol Bloodhound missile, but went on to be Ferranti 's most successful industrial control computer?
Did you knowthat Thai filmmaker Aditya Assarat writes his scripts in English and then translates them to the Thai language ?
Did you knowthat Bolivia-Chile relations have been strained due to a border dispute unresolved since the 19th century?
Did you knowthat the transport ship USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg is scheduled to be sunk in 2008 to form an artificial reef off the Florida Keys ?
Did you knowthat there is no statutory body in India to investigate academic misconducts such as scientific plagiarism ?
Did you knowthat Acme Tackle Company 's Little Cleo fishing lure was deemed by Field & Stream Magazine to be one of the 50 greatest lures of all time?
Did you knowthat IKB Deutsche Industriebank was the first European bank to announce substantial losses from the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis ?
Did you knowthat the 13th century Venetian troubadour Bertolome Zorzi composed songs while a prisoner of war for seven years in Genoa ?
Did you knowthat Marcela de Agoncillo , who made the first Philippine flag , was married to the first Filipino diplomat ?
Did you knowthe Provisional IRA attack on Derryard checkpoint was carried out by a flying column of volunteers , created in an attempt to avoid infiltration by informers ?
Did you knowthat the Bushy-tailed Woodrat is the original "pack rat" due to its strong affinity for shiny objects such as coins and spoons?
Did you knowthat French conductor Louis Antoine Jullien received thirty-six given names at his baptism?
Did you knowthat the harvesting of wine grapes can happen every month of the calendar year somewhere in the world?
Did you knowthat Horace King was the architect of dozens of bridges in the Southern United States in the 1800s , despite being a slave?
Did you knowthat the Swiss Federal Police in 2005 noted a slight increase of far-right extremist activism , rising by some 100 to 1,800 involved individuals (0.02% of the total population)?
Did you knowthat Kirsten Sheridan , director of the new movie August Rush , got her start in film portraying the younger sister of Irish artist Christy Brown ( Daniel Day-Lewis ) in her father Jim Sheridan 's 1989 film, My Left Foot ?
Did you knowthat Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett was born in the United States to a Scottish father, educated in England and eventually became the Australian Chief of the Air Staff ?
Did you knowthat the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis began in the home of Harriet G. Walker and her husband T. B. Walker ?
Did you knowthat Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard and his seven siblings all had first names beginning with the letter " M "?
Did you knowthat China supported the Zimbabwe African National Union 's fight against British rule in the country and recognized it right from independence day on April 18, 1980?
Did you knowthat the history of Rioja wine has been greatly influenced by the Bordeaux wine industry with many Riojan bodegas benefiting from the influx of Bordeaux winemakers into the region following the phylloxera epidemic of the 1860s ?
Did you knowthat visitors to the House of the Binns in Scotland can see the table where General Tam Dayell is supposed to have played cards with Satan?
Did you knowthat Elijah White 's only two children drowned in separate instances in Oregon Country during 1838?
Did you knowthat the principles of learning pioneered by Edward Thorndike nearly a century ago are still widely used in practical instruction?
Did you knowthat rabbi Balfour Brickner was selected as one of the 50 sexiest New Yorkers at age 77?
Did you knowthat Australian rock band Small Mercies first encountered their producer, Matt Wallace, when he left a message on their MySpace ?
Did you knowthat although the first specimen of the smallmouth scad , a tropical fish endemic to northern Australia , was already taken in 1984 and deposited in the Queensland Museum , it was not officially named till 1987?
Did you knowthat when English composer Sir Edward Elgar died in 1934, he left more than 130 pages of sketches for a third symphony ?
Did you knowthat in Sell v. United States , the Supreme Court decided a dentist was unconstitutionally jailed for eight years without trial for refusing to be medicated with psychiatric drugs ?
Did you knowthat Julian Howard Ashton , a prominent figure of media and art in Britain and Australia in the 19th and 20th century, won the Sydney sesquicentenary prize for landscape drawings for his art work?
Did you knowthat the Nachtigall Battalion of the German army consisting of Ukrainian volunteers actively participated in the murder of around 4,000 Jews of Lviv in July 1941?
Did you knowthat Buganda , the largest of the traditional kingdoms in present-day Uganda , maintained a fleet of large outrigger canoes , which allowed commandos to raid any shore on Lake Victoria ?
Did you knowthat measuring the oxidizable carbon ratio is a way to determine the age of charcoal samples up to 35,000 years old?
Did you knowthat the Pitsa panels from 530 BCE are the only surviving examples of ancient Greek panel painting , the most important art style of Ancient Greek art ?
Did you knowthat Billy the pygmy hippo was the pet of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge , outlived him by 23 years, and sired 18 children all named Gumdrop?
Did you knowthat Canada was the first Western country to recognize Ukraine 's independence in 1991?
Did you knowthat in 1918, the National Federation of Federal Employees became the first labor union in the United States to win the legal right to represent federal employees?
Did you knowthat Apaliunas , a Luwian deity of Wilusa ( Troy ) attested among gods in a treaty inscription, ca. 1280 BCE, is a likely precursor of Apollo of Greek mythology ?
Did you knowthat the Apocalypse of Zerubbabel is a seventh-century Hebrew apocalypse in which the angel Metatron revealed to Zerubbabel that the Messiah would appear in 1058 ?
Did you knowthat Scouting in displaced persons camps was very active during and after World War II and that Scout groups provided postal delivery in Displaced Persons camps ?
Did you knowthat vaudeville performer Birdie Reeve was billed as the "World's Fastest Typist" in the 1920s , typing 200 words a minute using just two fingers of each hand?
Did you knowthat Slovak collaborationist Ferdinand Durčanský was both dismissed by the Nazis as pro-Jewish and later condemned to death for complicity in the murder of Jews?
Did you knowthat Simon Sainsbury , who had given funds to establish the Judge Business School in the old Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge , also gave paintings worth £100 million to the Tate and National Gallery ?
Did you knowthat the Fightmaster Cup is the first and only international golfing tournament for one-handers?
Did you knowthat runemaster Ulf of Borresta was a successful Viking who returned from England thrice with a share of the Danegeld ?
Did you knowthat Series III of the Sri Lanka Navy 's Ultra Fast Attack Craft is the fastest of its class of patrol boats in the South Asian region, with a maximum speed of 53 knots ?
Did you knowthat in 2006, only 79% of the population in Peru had access to electricity , well below the 94.6% average for Latin America ?
Did you knowthat the Knightly Order of Vitéz , formed by Miklós Horthy , the Regent of Hungary , for distinguished World War I veterans, was originally established by Imre Thököly , Prince of Transylvania , during an anti- Habsburg uprising in the late 17th century?
Did you knowthat a small silicon disc containing goodwill messages from 73 countries was left on the Moon by the Apollo 11 astronauts?
Did you knowthat for his part in the Bangladesh Liberation War , Dutch Australian commando officer William Ouderland is the only foreign recipient of Bir Pratik , Bangladesh's fourth highest gallantry award?
Did you knowthat the Þingalið was a standing army of 3,000 elite Viking warriors, whose main purpose was to defend England against other Vikings?
Did you knowthat the Berlin Committee was formed during World War I by Indian nationalists to foment a revolution against the British Raj ?
Did you knowthat the Catholic Church denied the German - Nicaraguan Enrique Gottel burial in a Managua cemetery because he was a Freemason ?
Did you knowthat Excello Records did not release south Louisiana black Creole musician King Karl's 1958 rock and roll ballad " This Should Go On Forever " until it had already become a national hit for Karl's hometown friend, Cajun swamp pop musician Rod Bernard ?
Did you knowthat NHS Together , a group of unions which support Britain's National Health Service , are supported by celebrities such as football (soccer) player Geoff Hurst , adventurer Ranulph Fiennes , actress Tamsin Greig and comedian Arthur Smith ?
Did you knowthat the highly toxic all-white toadstool Amanita virosa , one of several species known as the destroying angel , can be confused with the common mushroom when young?
Did you knowthat milestone home runs by Barry Bonds have caused crowd mêlées , necessitating police escorts, and that special baseballs were issued to avoid counterfeiting ?
Did you knowthat the Texan schooner Zavala was the first steamship -of-war in North America ?
Did you knowthat the Gothic king Radagaisus abandoned his forces and tried escaping after a counterattack by the Roman army in 406?