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Did you knowthat Seattle 's Ballard Carnegie Library remains standing 44 years after it was sold, despite experts' claims that it would not survive an earthquake ?
Did you knowthat Hema Sardesai is the only Indian singer to have won the Grand Prix award at the International Pop Song Festival in Germany ?
Did you knowthat when Tungning forces under Koxinga captured Fort Zeelandia after a siege in 1662, they ended decades of European colonial rule in Taiwan ?
Did you knowthat Jack Daniels , a New Mexico politician, gave out Jack Daniel's whiskey at campaign events?
Did you knowthat Bashful Brother Oswald took his stage name so that it would appear that an unmarried female member of his band had a family member accompanying her?
Did you knowthat in the landmark case Erie v. Pap's A. M. , the Supreme Court of the United States upheld an ordinance requiring some erotic dancers to wear nipple pasties and a G-string ?
Did you knowthat during the St. John's University strike of 1966–7, Jewish professor Israel Kugler sought an audience with Pope Paul VI to win his support?
Did you knowthat in 1948 , Frank W. Mayborn , a Texas newspaper publisher, cast the tie-breaking vote to certify Lyndon B. Johnson as the Democratic party's U.S. Senate nominee?
Did you knowthat while Al Jaffee created the comics character Ziggy Pig , it was Stan Lee who named him?
Did you knowthat the Randy Van Horne Singers performed the theme songs for many classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons , including The Flintstones and The Jetsons ?
Did you knowthat the megalithic Niedertiefenbach tomb in Hesse , Germany has at least ten discernible layers of burials from the New Stone Age ?
Did you knowthat former U.S. Representative Berkley Bedell left Congress in 1986 after contracting Lyme disease from a tick bite ?
Did you knowthat the New South Wales Court of Arbitration is claimed to be the first court devoted to resolving labour disputes in the world?
Did you knowthat Ipi Tombe , a Thoroughbred racehorse , was sold for the equivalent of US$30 and went on to earn more than $1.5m in races on three continents?
Did you knowthat William E. Metzger opened one of the United States' first automobile dealerships and co-organized Cadillac Motor Car Co ?
Did you knowthat Adriana Pirtea lost the 2007 Chicago Marathon to Berhane Adere when Adere slipped down the side of the street and crossed outside of the finish-line tape?
Did you knowthat before becoming Prime Minister of the Central African Republic , Barthélemy Boganda was a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the French National Assembly ?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Forest Service airtanker scandal resulted in millions of dollars' worth of military aircraft being illegally transferred to private companies?
Did you knowthat the Don Cesar beach resort in Florida is named after the title character in William Vincent Wallace 's 1845 opera Maritana ?
Did you knowthat the 203 BC Battle of Utica was the turning point of the Second Punic War ?
Did you knowthat Wilf Wild was the first Manchester City manager to win the League Championship ?
Did you knowthat Mummadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar , the king of the Kingdom of Mysore in India , was also a collector and an inventor of board games ?
Did you knowthat Chapter XVI of the United Nations Charter declares that if there is a conflict between the UN Charter and any other treaty, the Charter will prevail?
Did you knowthat the academic journal African Affairs was first published to commemorate the travels of the explorer Mary Kingsley ?
Did you knowthat the Solarium Augusti in ancient Rome was the largest sundial in history?
Did you knowthat the Orthodox cave monastery in Bakota , Ukraine is said to have been founded by St. Anthony of Kiev ?
Did you knowthat Peter Paul Rubens produced a series of paintings depicting episodes from Marie de' Medici 's life for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris ?
Did you knowthat former mayor of San Jose, California Ernie Renzel was called the "Father of San Jose International Airport " for his work in establishing the city's first airport?
Did you knowthat the Indo-Burma barrier , a 1,624 kilometer-long barrier between India and Burma , is being built to curtail gunrunning and illicit drug trafficking ?
Did you knowthat legally, a Mett , a preparation of minced pork popular in Germany , is not allowed to contain more than 35% fat ?
Did you knowthat in Orangeville, Illinois , four of the five Registered Historic Places : Union House , Masonic Hall , People's State Bank , and Central House are all within three blocks of each other?
Did you knowthat Chinua Achebe 's novel A Man of the People described a coup d'état so similar to the real circumstances of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi 's rise to power in Nigeria that Achebe was suspected of knowing about the coup in advance?
Did you knowthat the Shrapnel Valley Cemetery at Gallipoli is named after the distinctive sound produced by shrapnel in the area?
Did you knowthat Jenna Bush 's book Ana's Story , about a young woman with AIDS , has been criticized for not taking a stand on her father U.S. President George W. Bush 's policies toward United Nations AIDS programs?
Did you knowthat the government of Burmese Prime Minister U Nu was saved from a parliamentary no confidence vote in June 1957 by the communist Burma Workers and Peasants Party ?
Did you knowthat the works of poet Frank Messina include responses to the September 11, 2001 attacks , and poems about the New York Mets ?
Did you knowthat in the post- World War I business slump, Chicago meat packing magnate J. Ogden Armour lost a million dollars a day for 130 days?
Did you knowthat the first ever Representative Assembly in 19th century British India was formed in the Kingdom of Mysore ?
Did you knowthat when John Sands excavated a ~2,000 year old building on the remote Scottish island of St Kilda he unearthed tools that the 1877 residents recognised?
Did you knowthat the Niedermünster in Regensburg was the wealthiest and most influential house of canonesses in Bavaria ?
Did you knowthat least-squares spectral analysis is a method for estimating a frequency spectrum , based on a least squares fit between data and trigonometric functions ?
Did you knowthat the events surrounding the lynching of Joe Coe in Omaha, Nebraska in 1891 are said to foreshadow the lynching of Willy Brown 28 years later?
Did you knowthat Dutch abstract artist Jules de Goede described his art by saying "A reflection of the world like it visually appears is not quite enough ... I try to show what is invisible"?
Did you knowthat C.W.W. Kannangara , Sri Lanka 's first Minister of Education, made education free for all children in the country?
Did you knowthat Clarence W. Wigington , the first African American municipal architect , designed four buildings in two cities that are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places ?
Did you knowthat Joe Keenan 's 2006 novel My Lucky Star won the Thurber Prize for American Humor in 2007?
Did you knowthat Joe Mitty launched the first Oxfam charity shop in the United Kingdom , in Oxford in 1949?
Did you knowthat the 1945 sinking of USS Eagle 56 was classified as a boiler explosion until 2001 when historical evidence convinced the Navy to reclassify it as a combat loss due to enemy action?
Did you knowthat 'Dus-rong Mang-po-rje acceded to the Tibetan throne in AD 676, when he was only six or seven years old?
Did you knowthat the Great Wall of China has impacted the process of evolution in plants ?
Did you knowthat the reconstruction of the Saalburg , Germany 's most completely reconstructed Roman fort , began under Kaiser Wilhelm II ?
Did you knowthat the 1832 capture and execution of Lucy and James Sample by burning was one of several minor attacks of the Black Hawk War ?
Did you knowthat Rizwanur Rahman was charged with abducting his wife by West Bengal police after her father disapproved of the marriage?
Did you knowthat William Wordsworth 's poem " She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways ", an ode to loneliness and loss, is more concerned with his own emotions on the death of an unrequited love , than with the death itself?
Did you knowthat the U.S. state of Oregon has a rail network of over 2,400 miles?
Did you knowthat Ethiopian Abebe Aregai saved his resistance from defeat by repeatedly misleading the Italian occupiers into thinking he was about to join their side?
Did you knowthat the Mona Lisa is named for Lisa del Giocondo ?
Did you knowthat Quentin L. Cook is the latest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles ?
Did you knowthat the National Mint of Jubia was created in an attempt to counter a shortage of coin production in Spain during the Peninsular War ?
Did you knowthat Gavrinis , an island in the Gulf of Morbihan off the coast of Brittany , France , has a rich abundance of megalithic art from the New Stone Age ?
Did you knowthat Vernice Armour was the first female African-American combat pilot in U.S. military history ?
Did you knowthat the "van" in the name of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven is a remnant of his Flemish ancestry ?
Did you knowthat Ann Moore - the fasting woman from Tutbury was actually from Rosliston in Derbyshire and she had not eaten "for nearly five years"?
Did you knowthat the Broomfield Rowhouse in Omaha, Nebraska was designed for a 1909 competition sponsored by Good Housekeeping magazine?
Did you knowthat railroad water stops contributed to the development of bass fishing in the 19th century United States?
Did you knowthat Mir Geribert defied the Count of Barcelona for nearly two decades in the 11th century , even claiming the title of Prince of Olèrdola ?
Did you knowthat Emir Rodríguez Monegal had a cameo in Jorge Luis Borges's 1949 short story The Other Death ?
Did you knowthat Friedrich Hayek 's assertion that price fluctuations are an essential part of the economy was initially rejected by his peers?
Did you knowthat Finnish-American Klaus Nordling is best known for his work on comic books , including the 1940s masked crimefighter " Lady Luck "?
Did you knowthat St. Trudpert's Abbey , a Benedictine monastery in Münstertal in the southern Black Forest , was plundered during the Peasants' War and destroyed by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War ?
Did you knowthat 17th century London printer Nicholas Okes printed the first quartos of Shakespeare 's King Lear and Othello ?
Did you knowthat future space tourists may use the Quasi Universal Intergalactic Denomination (Quid) as currency when traveling?
Did you knowthat a person must be deemed competent to receive the death penalty in order to be executed , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Ford v. Wainwright ?
Did you knowthat after his release from prison, Laurence McKeown , a former volunteer in the Provisional IRA who took part in the 1981 Irish hunger strike , earned a Ph.D. from Queen's University Belfast and co-founded the Belfast Film Festival ?
Did you knowthat the Hillsboro Police was the first law enforcement agency in Oregon to collect demographic statistics from traffic stops to combat racial profiling ?
Did you knowthat the Michigan Wolverines are college football 's most victorious program by total wins and percentage?
Did you knowthat early Seattle real estate developer George Kinnear served as the Captain of the "Home Guard" that put down the city's Anti-Chinese riots of 1885–1886?
Did you knowthat U.S. President Ronald Reagan timed his first proclamation of National Sanctity of Human Life Day to coincide with the anniversary of the Supreme Court 's decision in the Roe v. Wade abortion case?
Did you knowthat despite a Nazi ban on all sports, soccer matches with hooliganism still occurred in Poland ?
Did you knowthat Isaac Jefferson was a valued slave at U.S. President Thomas Jefferson 's Monticello plantation ?
Did you knowthat " The fate of the language ", a radio lecture in Welsh by Saunders Lewis on February 13 , 1962 , was the catalyst for the formation of the pressure group Welsh Language Society ?
Did you knowthat Tyolet is an anonymous 13th century Breton lai in Francien which shares elements with Chrétien de Troyes ' Le Conte du Graal ?
Did you knowthat Outhwaite Park in Auckland , New Zealand , is named after early settlers, the Outhwaite family ?
Did you knowthat in 2000, Tony Blair established a commission to review how the British co-operative movement could be modernized?
Did you knowthat Colonel William H. Wilbur of the United States Army received the Medal of Honor for attempting to arrange an armistice with Vichy French forces in Casablanca and then leading an assault on an artillery battery during Operation Torch ?
Did you knowthat the megalithic Altendorf tomb in Hesse , Germany contains bones from at least 235 individuals from the New Stone Age ?
Did you knowthat segregated seating known as ghetto ławkowe (" ghetto desks" or "ghetto benches") were introduced in Polish universities in the late 1930s, primarily for Jewish students?
Did you knowthat the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island includes three books bound in human skin ?
Did you knowthat the Fehr Round Barn , the Otte Round Barn and the Harbach Round Barn are three of 21 round barns that were built in Stephenson County, Illinois during the early 20th century?
Did you knowthat the Susukino district was established as a red-light district in Sapporo , Japan in 1871 to keep labourers in Hokkaidō ?
Did you knowthat most land south of latitude 40°S is part of the Antarctic Floristic Kingdom , with plant species that remain closely related despite their physical separation, dating back to the prehistoric southern hemisphere supercontinent of Gondwana ?
Did you knowthat English clergyman Ralph Tollemache gave his many children increasingly eccentric names, such as that of British Army officer Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache ?
Did you knowthat in his book James the Brother of Jesus , Robert Eisenman contends that the Twelve Apostles were in fact an artificially expanded replacement of the factual smaller circle of the brothers of Jesus ?
Did you knowthat Nellie Farren was best known for her roles as the " principal boy " in burlesques at the Gaiety Theatre in London ?
Did you knowthat Simon Girty 's son Mike called Potawatomi chiefs Waubonsee and Shabbona cowards when they opposed Sauk Chief Black Hawk in the 1832 Black Hawk War ?
Did you knowthat a dispute about S$ 60 has led to a court appeal amounting to over S$120,000 in legal costs?
Did you knowthat moot hills in Scotland were mostly artificial mounds built as traditional meeting places for de facto lairdly courts and courts of law?
Did you knowthat an Ivorian air attack in 2004 which killed 9 and wounded 37 French soldiers on a UN peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire prompted a retaliation that annihilated the Air Force of Côte d'Ivoire on the same day?
Did you knowthat the Ephraim Smith House is the only unaltered Greek Revival rural house in Kane County , Illinois ?
Did you knowthat construction of the Brussels-Charleroi Canal was ordered several times over nearly 400 years before work finally began in 1827?
Did you knowthat 16th century Scottish Bishop of Ross Henry Sinclair was simultaneously Lord President of the Court of Session , and was succeeded in that office by his brother, John Sinclair , Bishop of Brechin ?
Did you knowthat Lake Karla is the only lake in the plain of Thessaly ?
Did you knowthat South African rugby player Jannie du Plessis is both a physician and professional athlete?
Did you knowthat Godfrey Howitt had to wait over ten years for his family to visit him in Victoria and in the same year he also played host to three Pre-Raphaelite artists?
Did you knowthat the 13th century Prussian Crusade commanded by Hermann Balk led to the conquest and gradual Christianization of the Old Prussians by the Teutonic Knights ?
Did you knowthat Czech fighter pilot Otto Spacek survived three air crashes and won five Czechoslovak War Crosses during the Second World War , but then spent 40 years in exile in Canada after the Communists came to power?
Did you knowthat Dykes on Bikes have regularly participated at gay pride events, such as Pride parades , Dyke Marches , and other LGBT events, such as the Gay Olympics , since 1976?
Did you knowthat in the landmark decision United States v. Oppenheimer , the U.S. Supreme Court held that the common law principle of res judicata applies to criminal cases?
Did you knowthat Chicago Police Department Police Commander Jon Burge was absolved of responsibility for police brutality and torture by statute of limitations after a $ 17 million investigation of 148 cases?
Did you knowthat the first ever Ranji Trophy cricket match, played in the year 1933 between Mysore and Madras teams, is the only game in the history of the Ranji Trophy to have been completed in a single day?
Did you knowthat Sting won a Grammy Award for the 1980 The Police instrumental " Behind My Camel " (as a band member) even though he didn't play on it, hated it, and even buried the tape of it in a garden?
Did you knowthat Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee originally served as Florida 's first penitentiary ?
Did you knowthat Nathaniel Butter published the first English newspaper ?
Did you knowthat the idea of spoofing Soviet radars' blip-to-scan ratio led to the design of the Convair KINGFISH and Lockheed A-12 high-speed aircraft?
Did you knowthat the cuisine of Gibraltar includes Maltese , Genoese and Portuguese influences?
Did you knowthat Naval Aircraft Factory PN flying boats were a series of US patrol aircraft in the 1920s and 1930s?
Did you knowthat German physical chemist Max Volmer became head of a design bureau for the production of heavy water in the Soviet Union after the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat English biochemist Ernest Baldwin (1909 – 1969) was a pioneer in the field of comparative biochemistry ?
Did you knowthat Dutch 19th century scientist Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff was his country's War Minister for 10 months?
Did you knowthat British farmer Sir Nigel Strutt , great-nephew of Nobel Prize -winning physicist Lord Rayleigh , declined an offer of peerage , as did his great-great-grandfather, Joseph Holden Strutt ?
Did you knowthat whether Gaius Stertinius Xenophon , a Roman physician , was involved in the death of Claudius is debated to this day?
Did you knowthat Richard Honeck , an American murder convict, was freed after serving 64 years of a life sentence , reputedly the longest prison term which ended in parole ?
Did you knowthat Singaporean Venerable Ho Yuen Hoe worked nineteen-hour days hairdressing for nearly thirty years, and used the money to open a nursing home at age 61?
Did you knowthat both ancient and modern examples of Roman brick have similar proportions?
Did you knowthat the 1½ km long Odori Park which bisects the Japanese city of Sapporo was originally intended as the city's main street?
Did you knowthat Russian pastor Gennadi Kryuchkov led his illegal Baptist organisation for 20 years in the USSR while hiding from the KGB ?
Did you knowthat Dutch linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk published a Batak - Dutch dictionary to enable him to translate the Bible into Batak in 1861, and his posthumous trilingual Kawi - Balinese - Dutch dictionary was republished in English in 1971?
Did you knowthat the EPA 's lead and copper rule restricts allowable lead levels in drinking water to 15 parts per billion ?
Did you knowthat the first Swedish alphabet book , the Runa ABC , was mainly intended to teach the runic alphabet in an attempt to supplant the Latin one?
Did you knowthat R. C. Evans , an apostle in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , became the leader of a schismatic sect in 1918 after concluding that Joseph Smith, Jr. was a false prophet ?
Did you knowthat Major-General John Hill rose high as a courtier and officer in the British Army in the reign of Queen Anne , becoming Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance despite having no particular military ability?
Did you knowthat Mary Howitt wrote " The Spider and the Fly " (the poem parodied in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) and 120 other books, and translated Hans Christian Anderson ?
Did you knowthat the National Bike Registry is a database in the United States that has helped to identify and return stolen bicycles and scooters to their rightful owners since 1984 ?
Did you knowthat a tasting room for Twisted Oak Winery in Murphys, California is located in a building that was once the childhood home of Albert Abraham Michelson , the first American to win a Nobel Prize in Physics ?
Did you knowthat Apo Reef in Sablayan , Mindoro is the world's second-largest contiguous coral reef system and the largest in the Philippines ?
Did you knowthat the 1955 novel Teneke by Turkish author Yaşar Kemal was adapted into an Italian opera of the same title by Fabio Vacchi in 2007?
Did you knowthat the Chinese national basketball team is guaranteed of a berth in the upcoming Olympics despite finishing ninth in the FIBA Asia Championship 2007 ?
Did you knowthat 16th century Indian musician-composer Miyan Tansen laid the foundations of Hindustani classical music by mixing Sufi and Bhakti musical traditions ?
Did you knowthat the Hillsboro Civic Center was only the second city hall in America to earn an LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council ?
Did you knowthat some editions of Tom Wolfe 's first published book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby , quoted Kurt Vonnegut , "Verdict: Excellent book by a genius", but omitted the rest of his quote, "who will do anything to get attention"?
Did you knowthat the Baal teshuva movement refers to the phenomenon that began during the mid- 20th century , whereby large numbers of previously highly-assimilated Jews chose to move in the direction of practicing Judaism ?
Did you knowthat Dominique Strauss-Kahn , recently elected president of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was a member of the Union of Communist Students in his youth?
Did you knowthat the Freedman's Savings Bank , created in 1865 for emancipated African-Americans , had 19 branches in 12 states and assets worth $3.7 million at the height of its success?
Did you knowthat the Building of Bath Museum was originally constructed in 1765 as a chapel for Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon ?
Did you knowthat Nils Alwall initiated the treatment for two of the longest known survivors on dialysis worldwide over 35 years ago?
Did you knowthat Lord Canning wanted to build a port at Canning , now in West Bengal , that could rival Singapore but gave up when the Matla River surged its fury on the new port town in 1867?
Did you knowthat " On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog " is the most reproduced cartoon from The New Yorker magazine, and its title a phrase still used around the world?
Did you knowthat over 130,000 species of plants from Colombia have been described?
Did you knowthat the first drive thru in the United States is at Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop along U.S. Route 66 in Springfield, Illinois ?
Did you knowthat the Tsalenjikha Cathedral , a medieval cathedral in Georgia , is decorated with murals of Byzantine Palaeologan art from the 12th to 14th centuries?
Did you knowthat English inventor Edward Butler produced an early three-wheeled automobile capable of travelling up to 10 mph, but was prevented from adequately testing it because it exceeded the legislated speed limit of 4 mph at the time?
Did you knowthat although William Quesse was convicted of conspiracy in 1922, less than five years later his union was one of the most politically powerful organizations in Chicago ?
Did you knowthat Prince Dimitri Romanov is the first member of the Romanov dynasty to be married in Russia since its fall in 1917?
Did you knowthat Reinald , a 13th century Cistercian monk and Bishop of Ross , was nicknamed Macer , French for "skinny"?
Did you knowthat the tamburi , the principal drone instrument in Carnatic music to this day, was introduced during the Vijayanagara era in India ?
Did you knowthat George P. Kane , Marshall of Police in Baltimore, Maryland , was imprisoned in Fort McHenry along with Mayor George William Brown and pro-South members of the city council by the Northern Army during the American Civil War ?