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Did you knowthat archaeological evidence has shown that the Indian threadfish (Alectis indicus) has long been a resource for humans , with prehistoric and more modern sites in the United Arab Emirates preserving its remains?
Did you knowthat Bob Odom , Louisiana 's Commissoner of Agriculture and Forestry , is, with 28 years experience, his state's longest-serving statewide constitutional official?
Did you knowthat U.S. Senator Henry F. Ashurst had a cameo as a U.S. Senator in Otto Preminger's film Advice and Consent ?
Did you knowthat the Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area in Ontario will be the largest freshwater marine protected area in the world?
Did you knowthat Frederick Garling was the second solicitor admitted to practice in the Australian state of New South Wales ?
Did you knowthat Ann Northrop gave up a successful career at CBS to eventually become an AIDS educator for the Hetrick-Martin Institute and co-host of TV news program Gay USA ?
Did you knowthat even though nothing definite can be said about the existence of Sebaldus ,  the patron saint of Nuremberg , his veneration continued even after the Protestant Revolution ?
Did you knowthat before U.S. short track speed skater Cathy Turner won a gold medal at the 1992 Winter Olympics , she had left the sport for eight years to pursue a singing career under the stage name "Nikki Newland"?
Did you knowthat the Little Treaty of Versailles was the first of several Minority Treaties , and Poland 's renouncing of it was the deathblow to the League of Nations ' ethnic minority -protection regime?
Did you knowthat before competing in luge , Bonny Warner competed for Stanford University on a field hockey scholarship?
Did you knowthat the founding of the Church in Malta is described in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible ?
Did you knowthat only three of the largest islands of the United States – the Big Island of Hawaii , Kodiak Island , and Puerto Rico – are greater than 3,000 square miles (8,000 km² ) in size?
Did you knowthat descendants of Betsy Mix Cowles 's brother Edwin founded Cowles Publishing Company , the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics , and the Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company ?
Did you knowthat at King of the Ring 1998 , Mick Foley was thrown head first off a sixteen foot high cell onto a table by The Undertaker and it has since become one of the most famous moments in professional wrestling ?
Did you knowthat the Spiral Q Puppet Theater in Philadelphia uses puppetry , street theatre and pageantry to promote social and political change?
Did you knowthat Varbola Stronghold was the largest circular rampart fortress and a trading center built in Ancient Estonia that only lost its importance in the 14th century ?
Did you knowthat José María Campo Serrano became President of Colombia after the resignation of the President and the dismissal of the Vice President by Congress?
Did you knowthat the hydroid Hydractinia bayeri was named by Emperor Hirohito of Japan in honor of a fellow marine biologist , Frederick Bayer ?
Did you knowthat visual evidence of the installation of Soviet missiles in Cuba which triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 was found in reconnaissance photographs by CIA analysts led by Arthur C. Lundahl ?
Did you knowthat the rent control program in New York State is America's longest-running?
Did you knowthat Michael G. Strain is Louisiana 's first elected Republican commissioner of Agriculture and Forestry?
Did you knowthat the Utah Scenic Byways program includes the highest paved road in the state with a summit at 10,715 ft (3266 m)?
Did you knowthat Charles Morris Woodford wrote a dispatch appointing himself the first Deputy Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate , and then convinced the High Commissioner to sign it?
Did you knowthat Raspberry Island in the Gulf of Alaska boasts some of the largest Roosevelt elk ever recorded?
Did you knowthat the Heller House marked a turning point in Frank Lloyd Wright 's shift to Prairie School architecture?
Did you knowthat Sumitro was a prominent Indonesian General in the early years of General Suharto 's New Order , but retired after student riots in Jakarta in 1974?
Did you knowthat the 1999 Sydney hailstorm is the costliest natural disaster in Australian history, causing over A$ 1.7 billion in insured damages?
Did you knowthat the unusual Mexican ball game of pelota mixteca is thought to be a development of real tennis ?
Did you knowthat the Rose Quarter sports and entertainment complex in Portland, Oregon was constructed in the parking lot of the Memorial Coliseum ?
Did you knowthat the Winchester Model 1895 is one of the few lever-action rifles equipped with a charger guide, allowing it to be reloaded by charger clips ?
Did you knowthat in 2002, Devon and Cornwall set up a scheme where travellers on rural railways were rewarded for visiting pubs along the route?
Did you knowthat the chief suspect in the 1919 Green Bicycle Case tried to destroy the bicycle that tied him to the victim, but was nonetheless acquitted ?
Did you knowthat scientific jury selection is used by some U.S. attorneys in high-stakes cases?
Did you knowthat the book This Is Not The Life I Ordered , co-authored by former California State Senator Jackie Speier , has twice reached the San Francisco Chronicle best seller list?
Did you knowthat Canada's first dedicated movie theater, the Ouimetoscope , was created in 1906 with an original investment of only seventy-five dollars?
Did you knowthat Chris Cosentino , a contestant on The Next Iron Chef famous for cooking offal , hated his grandmother's tripe as a child?
Did you knowthat poet Violet Kazue de Cristoforo wrote haikus while she and her family were detained in Japanese American internment camps during World War II ?
Did you knowthat near the end of World War II , American soldiers conducted a raid behind Soviet lines to rescue the bay stallion Witez II from a Czechoslovakian stud farm at the behest of captured German officers?
Did you knowthat ethnic cleansing of Poles in 1943 Volhynia was resisted by the Defence of Przebraże ?
Did you knowthat Joseph Throckmorton was called a "second Nero or Calligula (sic)" for his actions on his steamboat Warrior at the 1832 Battle of Bad Axe ?
Did you knowthat in 2004, the Children's Court of Victoria in Australia granted a teenager a "divorce" from his mother?
Did you knowthat Goose Creek State Park , a North Carolina state park off Pamlico Sound , is in an inlet that once provided cover for Blackbeard , Stede Bonnet and other pirates ?
Did you knowthat Lothar Neethling of the South African Police confiscated and denied crash investigators access to the aircraft flight recorders from the wreckage of the air disaster which killed President Samora Machel of Mozambique in 1986?
Did you knowthat Ugaritic culture hero Danel may have been a model for the Biblical Daniel of Ezekiel ?
Did you knowthat NASCAR founder Bill France, Sr. examined photographs and newsreels for three days before determining that unofficial 1959 Daytona 500 race winner Johnny Beauchamp had actually finished second behind Lee Petty ?
Did you knowthat from 1955 to 1973, the United States conducted a scientific initiative aimed at producing gravity -manipulation technology?
Did you knowthat intoxication is never recognized as an excuse for crime , but settled insanity due to substance abuse is?
Did you knowthat former Finance Minister of Israel Pinchas Sapir was famous for carrying a "black notebook" of economics-related observations in his travels?
Did you knowthat G. Venkatasubbaiah is regarded as the father of the modern Kannada dictionary ?
Did you knowthat artist R. B. Kitaj blamed the death of his second wife on the savagely negative reactions to his 1994 retrospective?
Did you knowthat wide receiver Mercury Hayes caught the game-winning touchdown in Lloyd Carr 's Michigan coaching debut?
Did you knowthat Fermin Rocker , son of anarchist writer Rudolf Rocker , once sold a painting to rock star Mick Jagger ?
Did you knowthat despite being found guilty of conspiring with Mary, Queen of Scots to assassinate Elizabeth I , Charles Paget was given the manor of Weston-on-Trent ?
Did you knowthat the first film to take advantage of the relaxation of communism in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s was The Sun in a Net ?
Did you knowthat the now- Polish Gliwice Canal was known as the " Adolf Hitler Canal" during WWII ?
Did you knowthat the NATO commander in Afghanistan labelled the Siege of Sangin against Taliban insurgents the most intensive engagement involving British soldiers since the Korean War ?
Did you knowthat sculptor Tom Otterness delivered more than four times the amount of work commissioned for his popular " Life Underground " subway installation?
Did you knowthat Professor Padraig O'Malley of the University of Massachusetts Boston helped bring 16 Iraqis to a conference in Finland , where they met with participants in the internal reconciliations in South Africa and Northern Ireland ?
Did you knowthat Singapore ’s Fort Tanjong Katong , one of the oldest military forts built by the British colonial government , never saw combat action and was nicknamed the "Wash-out Fort"?
Did you knowthat in his 1968 Declaration of Perth , British Conservative leader Edward Heath pledged his party's support for Scottish devolution , a policy later reversed by Margaret Thatcher ?
Did you knowthat the Louisiana Tigers Confederate Army brigade were a key part of the Army of Northern Virginia and developed a reputation as fearless, hard fighting shock troops ?
Did you knowthat the training exercises in Flash Focus were developed under the supervision of a professor at Japan's Aichi Institute of Technology?
Did you knowthat the US Navy Bayfield class attack transports USS Alpine , USS Barnstable , USS Callaway , USS Cecil and USS Goshen all found use as cargo vessels after World War II but were scrapped at Kaohsiung in Taiwan in the 1970s?
Did you knowthat Heuneburg , an early Celtic settlement by the upper Danube , was already fortified with a massive ditch-and-bank enclosure by the Middle Bronze Age (15th to 12th century BC)?
Did you knowthat Derbyshire M.P. George John Venables-Vernon who enthused about Italian literature is the namesake of Vernon County in Australia ?
Did you knowthat Harold E. Martin , a newspaper publisher and editor , won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1970 and served for twenty years on the board of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association ?
Did you knowthat when Sir Francis Rodes bequeathed a yearly £20 , it was enough to run a secondary school in the 16th century?
Did you knowthat a dispute over the Sudanese region of Abyei may determine the fate of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the 22-year civil war ?
Did you knowthat the United States Supreme Court held in Moyer v. Peabody (1909) that the U.S. government may imprison citizens without probable cause during an insurrection so long as it acts in good faith ?
Did you knowthat Mafia turncoat Baldassare Di Maggio claimed that Cosa Nostra boss Totò Riina respectfully kissed former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti at a meeting?
Did you knowthat it was John Hollingshead who brought together Gilbert and Sullivan in 1871?
Did you knowthat Jüri Vilms , a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee , issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence in February 1918, and was executed by German troops less than two months later?
Did you knowthat Harris Wash is a 40-mile long tributary of the Escalante River within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah ?
Did you knowthat the Mourning of Muharram , observed by Shi'a Muslims , commemorates the anniversary of the death of Imam Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680 ?
Did you knowthat London will soon have a Walk of Fame for dogs ?
Did you knowthat Gershwin 's musical Primrose had its Broadway première more than sixty years after its 1924 London debut?
Did you knowthat the Praetorian Building , a high-rise in Dallas ,  is regarded to be the first skyscraper constructed in the Southwestern United States ?
Did you knowthat Douglas Bruce is so associated with Colorado 's Taxpayer Bill of Rights that attempts to loosen its spending restrictions are known as "de-Brucing"?
Did you knowthat during a copper miners' strike in Michigan in 1913, labor leader Charles Moyer was shot in the back by unknown assailants and then expelled by Calumet city police while still bleeding?
Did you knowthat a prosecution was started against Benjamin Robinson for starting a school in Findern in 1693?
Did you knowthat Zhenzhu Khan of Xueyantuo once offered 50,000 horses, 10,000 cattle or camels, and 100,000 goats to Emperor Taizong of Tang China to serve as bride price for a princess ?
Did you knowthat Unnale Unnale was the director of Jeeva 's final film before his death?
Did you knowthat nine workers died at India 's Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited due to a blast that occurred when leaking water was accidentally mixed with molten steel ?
Did you knowthat Speak, Mnemosyne was replaced by Speak, Memory as the title of Vladimir Nabokov 's autobiography for fear that people could not pronounce it?
Did you knowthat Ron Cole was involved in a violent standoff with Amo Bishop Roden , the wife of former Branch Davidian leader George Roden, at the site of the compound destroyed in the Waco siege ?
Did you knowthat major league baseball player Terry Pendleton participated in the World Series in 1985 , 1987 , 1991 , 1992 and 1996 , but lost all five times?
Did you knowthat Edward Laurillard produced musical comedies in London and New York in the early 20th century, in partnership with George Grossmith, Jr. ?
Did you knowthat the Mustagh Pass crosses the Baltoro Muztagh range in the Karakorams , from Pakistan to China ?
Did you knowthat Shripat Amrit Dange was a founding member of the Communist Party of India ?
Did you knowthat the Jacobean play The Widow's Tears is thought to be the last comedy written by George Chapman ?
Did you knowthat the Blue-throated Piping-guan is a South American bird similar to a turkey ?
Did you knowthat the Đorđe Martinović affair, concerning a farmer hospitalised with a beer bottle in his rectum , was a major ethnic and political controversy in Serbia in 1985 and contributed to the collapse of Yugoslavia ?
Did you knowthat former Palermo mayor Vito Ciancimino explained that Italy without bribes would be "as though someone wanted to remove one of the four wheels of a car"?
Did you knowthat numerous references to Wikipedia on The Colbert Report , an American satirical comedy series, defined the word Wikiality as "Truth by consensus, rather than fact"?
Did you knowthat in Floyd's algorithm for cycle detection , the tortoise and hare move at very different speeds, but always finish at the same spot?
Did you knowthat Molly Badham , co-founder of Twycross Zoo , trained the chimpanzees who appeared in the long-running Brooke Bond PG Tips television advertisements ?
Did you knowthat during the first six years of the Australian edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? nobody won the top prize of one million dollars ?
Did you knowthat Belfast streetfighter "Buck Alec" Robinson kept two lions at his home, frequently walking them on the streets of the city?
Did you knowthat the Hunt Memorial Building in Ellenville, New York , has served as a public library , an appliance store, and several other things?
Did you knowthat Alexey Ekimyan , the author of many Soviet hits , was considered the only popular composer in the world who ruled a law enforcement department at the same time?
Did you knowthat the 1997 volcanic eruption of Pillan Patera on Jupiter 's moon Io was the largest effusive eruption ever witnessed?
Did you knowthat " Pick You Up " was the first Powderfinger song to be nominated for an ARIA Music Award ; the 1996 award for "Song of the Year"?
Did you knowthat cricketer Steve Atkinson has played for both the Netherlands and Hong Kong in international cricket ?
Did you knowthat the giant jellyfish Chrysaora achlyos is the largest invertebrate discovered in the 20th century ?
Did you knowthat road slipperiness causes over 53,000 accidents a year in the United Kingdom alone?
Did you knowthat Sholom Schwartzbard was acquitted in the Schwartzbard trial despite pleading guilty to murder, and that the family of his victim was ordered to pay for the cost of the trial?
Did you knowthat St Patrick's Marist College , the oldest school in Australia run by Marist Brothers , started out as a primary school ?
Did you knowthat William Wallace disguised himself as a woman to hide at the castle in Riccarton , a village and parish in East Ayrshire , Scotland ?
Did you knowthat Randle Holme III of Chester painted memorial boards without the permission of the English College of Arms resulting in its King of Arms , William Dugdale , travelling north on at least three occasions between 1667 and 1670  to destroy them?
Did you knowthat the Muslim Revolution of Agriculture industrialized sugar production, building the first sugar refineries and sugar plantations in the 8th century?
Did you knowthat former Branch Davidian leader George Roden was shot twice in a gun battle with his rival David Koresh and  seven other Branch Davidians, before being evicted from the Mount Carmel Center near Waco ?
Did you knowthat South Africa and England had already  played each other during pool play before meeting in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final ?
Did you knowthat a single raccoon reduced the entire population of White Cay iguanas to 140 males and 10 females in one year?
Did you knowthat in Colombian folklore the legendary Alligatorman ( Hombre Caiman ) is said to be a fisherman converted by the spirit of the Magdalena River into an alligator, that returns every year on St. Sebastian ´s Day to hunt human victims?
Did you knowthat some liverwort species in the class Haplomitriopsida rafted from Gondwana to Asia via the Indian subcontinent ?
Did you knowthat Walter Plunkett 's "barbecue dress" for Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind was one of the most widely copied dresses in fashion of the 1930s and early '40s , second only to the Duchess of Windsor's wedding dress?
Did you knowthat Colombia 's 12th President, Carlos Eugenio Restrepo , was nicknamed Monsieur Veto for his common practice of vetoing many bills he considered were not in the best interest of his nation?
Did you knowthat Andrew Winch , an award-winning yacht designer, has been selected to design the interior of a version of the Boeing 787 , a commercial airliner?
Did you knowthat the Suevi of Gallaecia were converted from a form of Germanic paganism to Arian Christianity by a Celtic missionary, Ajax , sent by the Visigoths ?
Did you knowthat the population of the Falkland Islands was only 50 people in 1841 ?
Did you knowthat German nuclear physicist Heinz Barwich had illegal contacts to the Soviet secret police NKVD during Nazi rule , and then spied on the Soviet Union for the West while working in the East ?
Did you knowthat Senator Ron May is credited with installing the first wireless internet network in the Colorado State Capitol ?
Did you knowthat the White-browed Scrubwren , which inhabits dense undergrowth, can occur close to urban areas in Sydney ?
Did you knowthat between a half and two million Poles were deported from the Polish areas annexed by the Soviet Union to the Regained Territories in the repatriation of 1944-1946 ?
Did you knowthat country musician Johnny Sea ' s spoken word recording "Day For Decision", a response to Barry McGuire 's protest song , " Eve of Destruction ", was a Top 40 hit in the U.S. and was nominated for a Grammy award ?
Did you knowthat leading New Testament scholar C. F. D. Moule was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity , the oldest chair in the University of Cambridge , for 25 years?
Did you knowthat Ove Karlsson is both the name of a Swedish sports player and a Swedish sports journalist ?
Did you knowthat Transfusion was the first EP by Powderfinger to receive significant commercial airplay, and was their first work to top the ARIA alternative music chart ?
Did you knowthat Andy Papathanassiou , a former college football player who was the first person hired as a NASCAR pit crew coordinator, started use of trained athletes to cut pit stop times from 19 down to 13 seconds?
Did you knowthat the French space agency funded the operation of the Soviet space observatory Granat after the dissolution of the USSR ?
Did you knowthat the Finsch's Flycatcher-thrush , a flycatcher -like thrush of West African forests, sings four melodious whistles and responds to recordings of its own songs?
Did you knowthat the election of Dominican friar Laurence de Ergadia as Bishop of Argyll in Scotland was voided by Pope Urban IV in 1274 on a technicality?
Did you knowthat in the anonymous Breton lai Melion , one of King Arthur 's knights was transformed into a werewolf by his wife using a magic ring before she ran off with another man to Ireland ?
Did you knowthat English football referee Matt Messias once urged a Portsmouth defender not to kick an opposing player during a match against Newcastle United because "the devil was trying to get him sent off "?
Did you knowthat American archaeologist and flintknapper Errett Callahan produces and sells obsidian scalpels that are 100 times sharper than the traditional surgical scalpels made of steel ?
Did you knowthat Mdm2 , whose role in regulating p53 was discovered by British scientist Karen Vousden , is a potential target for anti-cancer drugs ?
Did you knowthat eleven months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , U.S. four-star admiral Charles P. Snyder opted to lose two ranks rather than serve under incoming Pacific Fleet commander Husband E. Kimmel ?
Did you knowthat the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu is considered the holiest Catholic shrine in Sri Lanka ?
Did you knowthat Giles Clarke , chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board , studied Arabic at the University of Damascus ?
Did you knowthat a U.S. government funded research project is concluding that racial discrimination is a significant factor when jurors make death penalty decisions?
Did you knowthat the Austrian industrialist Johan E. Zacherl made a fortune in the late 19th century by selling dried flower heads of Chrysanthenum cinerariifolum as insecticide ?
Did you knowthat Oscar M. Laurel , a south Texas Mexican-American Democratic state representative known for his flamboyant oratory, opposed a late 1950s bill that would have declared cactus peyote an "unlawful dangerous substance"?
Did you knowthat in 1890, future centenarian and four-star admiral Richard H. Jackson was commissioned ensign by special act of Congress after originally being cashiered from the Navy for poor grades at the U.S. Naval Academy ?
Did you knowthat a series of explosions destroyed two miles of Louisville, Kentucky 's sewer system on Friday the 13th in February 1981?
Did you knowthat James Roche became CEO and chairman of the board of General Motors without a college education?
Did you knowthat Yekaterina Zelenko was the only woman to perform an air ramming and the only female pilot in the Winter War ?
Did you knowthat though many troubadours wrote about the Crusades and either encouraged or mocked them as politics dictated, the jongleur Peirol was one of the few to actually travel to the Holy Land , on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1221?
Did you knowthat American football coach Dick Anderson , who led Rutgers to its first victory over Penn State in 70 years, was a Penn State assistant coach before and after his time at Rutgers?
Did you knowthat John Popper , now frontman of the rock band Blues Traveler , once convinced a teacher to let him play harmonica in his high school band with an in-class solo performance of the song " She Blinded Me with Science "?
Did you knowthat Arumuga Navalar , a Hindu revivalist , also helped translate the Bible into Tamil ?
Did you knowthat the Spanish military engineer Julio Cervera Baviera , a veteran of the Spanish-American War , pioneered radio technology in his native country?
Did you knowthat although it is commonly referred to as Fort Detroit , the fort William Hull surrendered to the British without a fight during the War of 1812 was actually named Fort Lernoult ?