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Did you knowthat Shelby Place Historic District was begun due to the woodworking industries that revitalized New Albany, Indiana ?
Did you knowthat despite its name, the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes does not contain a volume about badminton ?
Did you knowthat when Norman Rockwell 's model for his World War II Willie Gillis series enlisted, The Saturday Evening Post demanded that Rockwell continue the character?
Did you knowthat seven whaling ships escaped the Whaling Disaster of 1871 , but were forced to abandon their catch in order to accommodate 1,219 people from 33 other ships trapped in ice off the Alaskan coast?
Did you knowthat Etta Palm d'Aelders , whose salon in Paris was frequented by Jean-Paul Marat , François Chabot and other prominent political figures during the French Revolution , might have been an agent for the Dutch government?
Did you knowthat when the senior officials Yuan Qianyao , Song Jing , and Zhang Shuo were commissioned with new offices in 729, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang held an elaborate ceremony, with music and food from the imperial kitchen?
Did you knowthat Polyandrococos , a genus of palm trees endemic to Brazil , is so named partly because of its hairy tomentum ?
Did you knowthat Alojz Rebula is a Slovene author who wrote extensively about the philosophy of Jacques Maritain ?
Did you knowthat natural gas in the Marcellus Formation could increase United States energy reserves by one trillion U.S. dollars ?
Did you knowthat the USS Mount Vernon , a control ship in the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill , was destroyed off the coast of Hawaii in 2005?
Did you knowthat New Albany, Indiana 's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky ?
Did you knowthat compression of the duodenum by the aorta and the overlying superior mesenteric artery may lead to nausea , bilious vomiting , abdominal pain and weight loss ?
Did you knowthat turquerie became popular in Europe and America primarily due to the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ?
Did you knowthat as a result of a 1972 referendum , the boundary between time zones in British Columbia ended up being different from the provincial boundary?
Did you knowthat the C-Leg microprocessor -controlled prosthetic leg records the motion of the user?
Did you knowthat the Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology is the only research center in the world built on a coral reef ?
Did you knowthat among the effects of Hurricane Dennis in Georgia was the death of a Decatur man from a tree that fell on his bedroom?
Did you knowthat the Gens de Terre River in Quebec , Canada , has a 25 km (15.5 mi) section with continuous whitewater while flowing through 25 m (80 ft) high cliffs?
Did you knowthat in 1985, overflowing from the Adolfo Ruiz Cortines Dam in Sonora, Mexico resulted in the evacuation of 20,000 people?
Did you knowthat books by the writer of romantic fiction Denise Robins sold more than one hundred million copies ?
Did you knowthat the barnacle Megabalanus can reach 7 cm (2.8 in) in length?
Did you knowthat in 1128 Geoffrey , Prior of Christ Church , Canterbury , became the first Abbot of Dunfermline ?
Did you knowthat nearly US$1 million worth of tickets were sold during the week following the first New York Times ad announcing Elizabeth Taylor 's appearance in the 1981 Broadway revival of Lillian Hellman 's The Little Foxes ?
Did you knowthat Thurston Rostron is the fourth-youngest player in the history of the England national football team ?
Did you knowthat the name of Mohrland, Utah was formed as an acronym from the surnames of the principal investors in its coal mining company?
Did you knowthat no governing party in British Columbia has won a provincial by-election since 1981?
Did you knowthat Audrey Stubbart worked until age 105, becoming the oldest verified full-time employee ever in the United States ?
Did you knowthat despite Herodotus 's claim that the sundial was invented in Babylonia , the oldest known example is from Egypt ?
Did you knowthat during a period of widespread family ownership in the industry, the Falstaff Brewing Corporation was one of the few publicly-traded breweries in the United States?
Did you knowthat Elm Yellows is a disease of elm trees caused by mycoplasma -like organisms infecting the phloem ?
Did you knowthat English printer John Day raided the printing premises of his son, Richard Day , after the latter had pirated his father's works and illicitly published his own versions?
Did you knowthat Antley-Bixler syndrome is a rare but severe congenital malformation disorder with symptoms that include flat forehead , closure of cranial sutures and fused bones in the limbs?
Did you knowthat New York Governor David Paterson 's press secretary Errol Cockfield Jr. was previously Albany bureau chief of Newsday ?
Did you knowthat the Financial Stability Forum consists of officials from ministries and central banks of a dozen countries, who coordinate international financial stability?
Did you knowthat when Ahmad Said was appointed as Chief Minister of the Malaysian state Terengganu by King of Malaysia Mizan Zainal Abidin , it was against the wishes of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ?
Did you knowthat the economy of Omaha, Nebraska has expanded to embrace the burgeoning information technology sector since the city was labeled the "Motor Mouth City" by The New York Times ?
Did you knowthat the 1990 Strangeways Prison riot at 25 days was the longest British prison riot?
Did you knowthat the Taipei Metro Xinbeitou Branch Line , consisting of two stations, was severely restricted due to complaints of noise pollution ?
Did you knowthat 16 of the 72 fiction authors with at least 100 million copies of their works in print did not write in English , and 16 of the 72 are women?
Did you knowthat the acquisitions of Joseph Smith , British consul in Venice , formed the basis of the drawings collection in the Royal Collection and the "King's Library" of George III at the British Library ?
Did you knowthat Charles J. O'Byrne , Secretary to Governor David Paterson of New York , is a former priest who officiated at the marriage of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette in 1996 and presided over their funeral in 1999?
Did you knowthat City of Truro was the first railway locomotive to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h) while hauling a train near Wellington station on the Reading to Plymouth Line in England ?
Did you knowthat residents of 22½ St. in Minneapolis petitioned the City Council and changed the street's name to Milwaukee Avenue because the '½' made them feel as if they lived in an alley?
Did you knowthat the Bordeaux winery Château Quinault was planned for destruction to build a new housing development?
Did you knowthat soon after John Gabriel Jones helped convince the Virginia General Assembly to create Kentucky County , he was killed in an ambush led by Mingo chieftain Pluggy ?
Did you knowthat Lee Bible had no experience in driving at land speed record speed when he was hired to drive the White Triplex in an attempt to take the record back from Henry Segrave ?
Did you knowthat Don Starkell and his son Dana paddled from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Belem, Brazil by canoe , a trip covering more than 12,000 miles (19,000 km)?
Did you knowthat in 1877 the 4,000-seat Queen's Theatre staged a spectacular and expensive production of The Last Days of Pompeii that flopped: the earth did not quake, the volcano did not erupt, and acrobats fell onto the cast?
Did you knowthat the Islamic Emirate of Bari in Southern Italy was conquered in 871 by Frankish and Lombard ground forces under Louis II of Italy , together with a Croatian fleet?
Did you knowthat Kot Filemon is the hero of a Polish animated TV series by Academy Award -winning studio Se-ma-for ?
Did you knowthat antiquarian Antonio Francesco Gori is alleged to have stolen Galileo 's finger when the scientist's remains were transferred in 1737 to Santa Croce , Florence ?
Did you knowthat Gibraltar passports are full British passports which are particularly issued to Gibraltarians and only differ in some wording?
Did you knowthat the 1901 Royal Norwegian Navy torpedo boat HNoMS Sæl was sunk by three German Schnellboots in 1940?
Did you knowthat of Andrea Palladio 's grand design for Palazzo Porto in Piazza Castello, Vicenza , ca 1571, only two bays were ever completed?
Did you knowthat Major General Douglas Alexander Graham was once rescued by Victoria Cross recipient Henry May ?
Did you knowthat sunflowers have been used in rhizofiltration to remove radionuclides from contaminated water?
Did you knowthat Vice-Admiral Samuel Story was forced to surrender his Batavian fleet to the British navy without a fight in August 1799 because his officers started a mutiny ?
Did you knowthat KILI-FM started broadcasting in 1983 as the first Native American -owned radio station in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the United Kingdom House of Commons serves an English white wine called Fumé , produced by Wickham Vineyards ?
Did you knowthat Mavia was an Arab queen who in 378 AD  personally led her troops out of southern Syria in revolt against Roman rule ?
Did you knowthat the 1979 Dechmont Woods Encounter in West Lothian , Scotland , is the only UFO sighting in the United Kingdom to have become the subject of a criminal investigation ?
Did you knowthat according to his hagiography , Saint Severus of Naples temporarily brought a man back from death in order to testify on the size of his debt and save his widow from slavery?
Did you knowthat despite inundating Omaha, Nebraska for more than 26 days the Great Flood of 1881 killed only two people there?
Did you knowthat Moses , the first Arab Orthodox bishop , administered his duties while journeying with a nomadic confederation of Arabs in the fourth century?
Did you knowthat Cuban First Lady Marta Fernandez Miranda de Batista became a contributor to Miami 's Jackson Memorial Hospital while in exile in Florida ?
Did you knowthat during the English Civil War , the Crown Inn in Nantwich , Cheshire was used as a place of worship, as the church was used as a prison?
Did you knowthat Alene B. Duerk , head of the Navy Nurse Corps , was the first woman in the U.S. Navy to be promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral ?
Did you knowthat some legislatures resort to literally stopping the clock in order to meet constitutional or statutory deadlines?
Did you knowthat despite dramatically improving the quality of education at Transylvania University , Horace Holley was forced to resign as the university's president over doctrinal differences with the Presbyterian Church?
Did you knowthat the effects of Hurricane Dennis in Alabama included $127 million dollars (2005 USD ) in damage and three injuries?
Did you knowthat the history of winemaking in Luxembourg , primarily in vineyards overlooking the Moselle River , goes back to Ancient Roman times?
Did you knowthat Edward Cocker 's Arithmetick was such a popular textbook of mathematics that over 100 editions were published over a period of more than a century?
Did you knowthat, when the Comintern appointed him general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party , Alexander Danieliuk-Stefanski was still a member of the Communist Party of Poland and could not speak Romanian ?
Did you knowthat television critics have speculated as to how the 30 Rock episode " MILF Island " will avoid explaining the meaning of " MILF " since the last letter stands for an obscene word ?
Did you knowthat the Azov Cossack Host was the only Cossack Unit in the Russian Empire that had a naval role?
Did you knowthat legendary Polish boxing champion Antoni Czortek fought for his life in boxing matches while at Auschwitz ?
Did you knowthat Puslinch Lake is the largest kettle lake in North America ?
Did you knowthat the authorship of the Declaration of Arbroath has been attributed by some to Bernard the Abbot of Arbroath ?
Did you knowthat the postmodernist Romanian writer Ruxandra Cesereanu retold Arthurian legends and co-authored poems through e-mail with the American Andrei Codrescu ?
Did you knowthat the cabinet of former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland resigned following a 1.9% drop in the popular vote ?
Did you knowthat Stalag fiction was a genre of Israeli pornography about concentration-camp imprisonment, brutalization by female SS guards, and the prisoners' revenge?
Did you knowthat the traditional Scottish folk song Ye Jacobites by Name was re-written by Robert Burns around 1791?
Did you knowthat Amaranthus brownii , an endangered species of pigweed endemic to the Northwestern Hawaiian Island of Nihoa , was discovered in 1923, but has not been seen in the wild for twenty-five years?
Did you knowthat although Desmond Lardner-Burke , Minister of Justice in Rhodesia , died in the 1980s, his name appeared on the electoral roll for the Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2008 ?
Did you knowthat mutations of the ATN1 gene result in dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy , a neurological disorder with diverse problems as dementia , ataxia , seizures and obstructive sleep apnea ?
Did you knowthat after being captured by the rebel ruler An Lushan , the Tang Dynasty general Geshu Han offered to write letters to persuade other Tang generals to surrender to An?
Did you knowthat the Roanoke Building sits on the site of a former building by the same name that was once an official climate site for the National Weather Service ?
Did you knowthat Karl Schnibbe was one of a group of three Hamburg teenagers arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi Germany during World War II for distributing anti- Hitler pamphlets?
Did you knowthat Cuban Colonel Ramón Barquín , who unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow Fulgencio Batista in 1956, later founded Atlantic College and several other educational institutions while in exile in Puerto Rico ?
Did you knowthat after making the first ascent of the remote Mount Lucania , Robert Bates was forced to survive on squirrels and mushrooms during his 156-mile (251 km) trek out of the wilderness?
Did you knowthat slate and stylus were invented by Louis Braille and Charles Barbier for blind people to write braille ?
Did you knowthat dairyman Henry W. Jeffers , a founder of Plainsboro Township, New Jersey , invented a bacteriology counter, a feed calculator, and an automated cow-milking system?
Did you knowthat Manitoba Provincial Road 373 became famous after a band from Norway House won an award for an album named after the highway?
Did you knowthat Scottish footballer John Cushley was a modern-languages graduate who acted as translator when Celtic F.C. attempted to sign Real Madrid striker Alfredo Di Stéfano in 1964?
Did you knowthat the 1944 Appalachians tornado outbreak was the worst tornado outbreak in the history of West Virginia ?
Did you knowthat the edible mushroom Marasmius alliaceus tastes and smells like garlic ?
Did you knowthat scientists are unsure why Lake Phalen , in Saint Paul, Minnesota , is home to a population of rainbow darters , a fish normally found in fast-moving streams?
Did you knowthat 50 years after winning A£ 100 in a fridge-decorating competition, Australian artist Robert Dickerson commands from A$ 80,000 for a painting today?
Did you knowthat approximately half of the distributed water in Ghana is lost as non-revenue water due to leakage and illegal connections?
Did you knowthat the Comer Strait in the Canadian Arctic , and the Gallinula comeri , the flightless moorhen of Gough Island , were both named after whaling Captain George Comer ?
Did you knowthat Ince Manor and Saighton Grange Gatehouse are the only two surviving monastic manorial buildings in Cheshire , UK ?
Did you knowthat the Tang Dynasty general Wang Zhongsi was raised inside the palace of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang after Wang's father was killed in battle in army service when he was still young?
Did you knowthat the Congolese artist Bodys Isek Kingelez was a restorer of African tribal masks before he began to create his models of fantasy cities?
Did you knowthat due to its economic growth , Taiwan served as a showcase for Japan's propaganda on the colonial efforts throughout Asia, as displayed during the 1935 Taiwan Exposition?
Did you knowthat Miller's Court in Dorset Street was the location of the last murder by Jack the Ripper on 9 November 1888 ?
Did you knowthat Omaha, Nebraska 's Peony Park became famous after the Lawrence Welk Band made it their official headquarters during the Great Depression ?
Did you knowthat the Frédéric Chopin monument in Warsaw , Poland , was designed by Wacław Szymanowski in 1907, erected in 1926, destroyed by the Germans in 1940, and reconstructed in 1958?
Did you knowthat a year after Richard William Briginshaw entered the House of Lords as a life peer , he wrote a pamphlet calling for it to be abolished?
Did you knowthat Japanese film tycoon Haruki Kadokawa built a full-size replica of Columbus' flagship Santa Maria which sailed from Barcelona to Japan?
Did you knowthat the Temple of Divus Augustus was a major temple in imperial Rome dedicated to the first Roman emperor , Augustus , and completed by his adoptive grandson Caligula ?
Did you knowthat Hans P. Kraus claimed he was the only bookdealer to have owned both a Gutenberg Bible and the two Mainz Psalters?
Did you knowthat the Bahá'í Faith is one of only a few non-Christian religions recognised by the government of Cameroon ?
Did you knowthat Governor of New York David Paterson chose Jon Cohen as his Chief Advisor, although Cohen briefly ran against him for Lieutenant Governor ?
Did you knowthat "Maphriyono" ( Maphrian ) meaning, "to make fruitful", or "one who gives fecundity" is another term for Catholicos of India ?
Did you knowthat Dodge Street in Omaha, Nebraska is often erroneously said to be a namesake of Union Pacific Railroad chief engineer Grenville Dodge , when it was actually named for Iowa Senator Augustus C. Dodge ?
Did you knowthat a biography of Saladin , the 12th-century sultan of Egypt and Syria , written by his friend and confidant Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad , is still in print after seven centuries?
Did you knowthat Herm Doscher and his son Jack were the first pair of father and son to have both played Major League Baseball ?
Did you knowthat Saint Paul , Minnesota was once known as "Pig's Eye"?
Did you knowthat during the Third American Karakoram Expedition's attempt to climb K2 , Pete Schoening saved the lives of six falling climbers?
Did you knowthat Flora Sandes , who served with the Serbian Army, was the only British woman to officially enrol as a soldier in World War I ?
Did you knowthat Sara Larraín , who finished in fifth place in the 1999 Chilean presidential election , was a founder and the first director of Greenpeace in Chile ?
Did you knowthat the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland both set rainfall records in 1950 ?
Did you knowthat Mary Meader , best known for taking more than 1,000 aerial pictures, was also a major philanthropist , once giving US$4 million to Western Michigan University ?
Did you knowthat Chai Trong-rong , a Taiwanese legislator, was unable to return to Taiwan while studying abroad because he was placed on the Kuomintang 's black list ?
Did you knowthat Myrialepis paradoxa , a species of palm trees native to Southeast Asia , is used to make thatched baskets ?
Did you knowthat, on a per capita basis, foreign aid donated by Saudi Arabia is one of the highest in the world?
Did you knowthat at a cost of US$ 7.9 billion, Meghna Bridge in Bangladesh is the single largest project with Japanese assistance in the world?
Did you knowthat Brazilian singer Maria Bethânia released her first recording the same year as her brother Caetano Veloso , even though he was four years older?
Did you knowthat  in a Maranao myth, the Agus River was constructed to prevent Lake Lanao from becoming an ocean?
Did you knowthat the Malay kite , a model of kite used for hundreds of years in the Far East and introduced to the West in 1894, provided the inspiration for the now widespread and popular "Eddy" kite design?
Did you knowthat Portland , Oregon –based evangelical minister Luis Palau has collaborated with government leaders, and 500 Christian pastors, to rally volunteers to address homelessness ?
Did you knowthat the Colonel Wright was the first steamboat to run on the Snake River ?
Did you knowthat at the height of Wally Phillips ' radio career , roughly half the entire Chicago listening audience , or about 1.5 million listeners, tuned into his show?
Did you knowthat at the Council of Acre in 1148, the decision was made to attack Damascus , leading to the failure of the Second Crusade ?
Did you knowthat Scottish actor Russell Hunter was so concerned about being identified with "Lonely", the anxious, smelly sidekick he played in the 1960s spy series Callan , that he took pains to smell nice?
Did you knowthat of the twenty-five clipper ships owned by the Loch Line , which operated between the United Kingdom and Australia , seventeen were lost at sea?
Did you knowthat Pasquale Condello of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta , recently captured by Italian police in February 2008, was previously sentenced in absentia to four life prison terms plus another 22 years in jail?
Did you knowthat the utility of heavy water as a moderator in a nuclear reactor was demonstrated by Klara Döpel and her husband Robert in the 1940s?
Did you knowthat Montreal Canadiens forward Maurice "Rocket" Richard was named the three best players of a National Hockey League playoff match, earning himself all three stars ?
Did you knowthat Emperor Xuanzong of Tang had the eunuch Gao Lishi strangle Consort Yang Yuhuan to prevent a rebellion by the imperial guards angry at her?
Did you knowthat Gustav Christian Schwabe decided to finance Thomas Henry Ismay 's venture, the White Star Line , during a game of billiards ?
Did you knowthat in the 2007 documentary film Autism: The Musical , five autistic children in Los Angeles develop and star in an original stage production?
Did you knowthat the Palazzo Filangeri-Cutò , featured in Giuseppe di Lampedusa 's novel The Leopard and the Luchino Visconti film of the same name, was almost totally destroyed in a 1968 earthquake?
Did you knowthat Lytocaryum weddellianum , an endangered species of palm trees endemic to Brazil , may be saved from extinction as it has become a common potted plant in Europe ?
Did you knowthat the ancient Egyptians set up hundreds of ka statues in Abydos so the dead could participate in religious festivals?
Did you knowthat the decision of a Pennsylvania provincial court in 1764, The King v. Haas , is one of the first attempts to apply the writ of habeas corpus in the Thirteen Colonies ?
Did you knowthat when Masashi Kishimoto was creating the characters of the Naruto manga , he used other shōnen manga as references, including Akira Toriyama 's Dragon Ball ?
Did you knowthat the former Australian Supreme Court justice and barrister , Sir John Vincent Barry , qualified as a lawyer after graduating from an articled clerk course ?
Did you knowthat the yellow livery of the German postal service was decreed by the Allied Control Council in 1946?
Did you knowthat during a Viking funeral (pictured) , human sacrifice was performed with sexual rites?
Did you knowthat Woodside, Utah is a ghost town with a roadside cold water geyser ?
Did you knowthat Groucho Marx joined Hillcrest Country Club even though it was willing to have him as a member?
Did you knowthat footballer Henry Martin scored on his début against Liverpool and again the next day against their neighbours Everton ?
Did you knowthat Retired Rear Admiral Roberta L. Hazard , once the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. military , was a history teacher ?
Did you knowthat every receipt issued by Taiwanese businesses, known as the Uniform Invoice , is also a lottery ticket?
Did you knowthat part of the northern Oklahoma State Highway 92 is named after country singer Garth Brooks ?
Did you knowthat Judge James Yates resigned from the New York State Supreme Court to be General counsel to the Governor of New York David Paterson ?
Did you knowthat Don Nicholson was so dominant that critics predicted the demise of the new Funny Car "craze"?
Did you knowthat the New Guinean mouse Pseudohydromys germani is one of two rodent species to have only two molars in each jaw ?