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Did you knowthat Church of Scotland clergyman William Couper protested against the introduction of episcopacy in 1606, but became Bishop of Galloway four years later?
Did you knowthat the Blackstone Hotel in Omaha, Nebraska introduced both the Reuben sandwich and Butter Brickle ice cream to the world?
Did you knowthat Ali Murtopo laid down the party platform for Sekber Golkar , which was instrumental to the party's success in the 1971 legislative elections and the transition to the New Order in Indonesia ?
Did you knowthat American trade union leader William McFetridge switched from Democrat to Republican in 1948 and supported Thomas E. Dewey for president even though Dewey had successfully prosecuted his predecessor for labor racketeering ?
Did you knowthat Charles B. Thompson , who had converted to Mormonism in 1835, later claimed to be the reincarnation of the biblical figure Ephraim and established a communitarian commune with his followers in Iowa ?
Did you knowthat the legislator from Kultali was sentenced by the Kolkata High Court , in 2005, to life imprisonment in a case where a mob dragged two persons out of their house and tortured them to death?
Did you knowthat every autumn more than 23,000 Common Cranes stop at Matsalu National Park in Estonia , making it the biggest autumn stopping ground of Common Cranes in Europe?
Did you knowthat about 22% of all reported species of mammals in Colombia are endangered or critically endangered ?
Did you knowthat the once-standing Palmer Mansion in Chicago , Illinois , had a self-supported spiral staircase which rose 80 feet into a tower?
Did you knowthat natural oil polyols from soy beans are used to make car parts and mattresses?
Did you knowthat Dale Houston and his singing partner Grace Broussard, both performed as Dale and Grace while singing with other singers?
Did you knowthat in 1986 the Basque coat of arms had one of its quarters removed following a legal suit by the Navarre Government claiming that the usage of the arms of a region on the arms of another was illegal?
Did you knowthat Anne Montgomery , who has been a sportscaster for several local television stations as well as SportsCenter , was the first female football referee in Arizona ?
Did you knowthat in graph theory , a pseudoforest can contain trees and pseudotrees, but cannot contain any butterflies, diamonds, handcuffs, or bicycles?
Did you knowthat the John R. Oughton House was used to house patients from the Keeley Institute , where over 400,000 people were treated for alcoholism with injections of "bichloride of gold" from 1879 to 1930?
Did you knowthat Tikigaq Inuit children attending public school in Point Hope, Alaska can take a three-week whaling class to learn specific whaling traditions and skills?
Did you knowthat Holmöarna , an island group in the Gulf of Bothnia , forms the largest island nature reserve in Sweden ?
Did you knowthat the design for the 1941 Art Moderne Illinois State Police Office in Pontiac was also used for the state police headquarters building in Rock Island, Illinois ?
Did you knowthat the seeds of Capparis masaikai found in Yunnan , China contain mabinlins , sweet -tasting proteins more than 100 times sweeter than sucrose on a weight basis?
Did you knowthat Icelandic operatic soprano Sigrún Hjálmtýsdóttir, better known as Diddú , began her singing career in the 1970s with a folk and pop group ?
Did you knowthat gold was first discovered in Oregon in 1850 in the Illinois Valley near Cave Junction, Oregon , the same valley in which a 17-pound gold nugget was found, the largest in Oregon history?
Did you knowthat the ashes of hillwalker and author Alfred Wainwright lie in his favourite fell , Haystacks in the Western Fells of the English Lake District ?
Did you knowthat Romanian writer Dumitru Ţepeneag was a founding member of the Oniric group, an avante garde aesthetic movement, which tries to describe a world which cannot be seen?
Did you knowthat the autobiography has been called the oldest form of Egyptian literature ?
Did you knowthat in April 1999, Australian Justice Carolyn Simpson joined Margaret Beazley and Virginia Bell to form the first all-female bench to sit in Australia , England or New Zealand ?
Did you knowthat singer Al Bernard , known as "The Boy From Dixie", helped popularize W.C. Handy 's blues songs, and also recorded as the female half of a vocal duo with Ernie Hare ?
Did you knowthat King Narasaraja Wodeyar II , who ruled over the Indian Kingdom of Mysore for a decade in the 18th century, was either mute or preferred to remain silent throughout his rule?
Did you knowthat political donations in Australia up to $ 1500 were made tax-deductible in 2006?
Did you knowthat Ethel Benjamin was the first woman in the British Empire to present a legal case in court ?
Did you knowthat a street corner in New York City is named after IRA member Joe Doherty , who was convicted in absentia for the murder of the highest ranking SAS officer killed during The Troubles ?
Did you knowthat Kelbessa Negewo was charged with murder in his home country of Ethiopia after one of the women who claims he tortured her discovered him working as a bellhop in an Atlanta , Georgia hotel elevator?
Did you knowthat the arcade conversion of the 2001 video game Ballistics features a unique reclined seating cabinet ?
Did you knowthat Cosa Nostra boss Gerlando Alberti , on his arrest in 1980, claimed that he thought that Mafia was a kind of cheese ?
Did you knowthat architect Frank Lloyd Wright's belief that banks should not "put on the airs of a temple of worship" is reflected in the design of the 1905 Frank L. Smith Bank ?
Did you knowthat Sam Ormerod was the first manager to gain promotion to the First Division , the highest level of English football , with Manchester City F.C. ?
Did you knowthat the Global Community Communication Alliance , an Arizona religious sect led by the New Age figure Gabriel of Sedona, has been compared by the media to the Heaven's Gate group?
Did you knowthat Spanish soldier Manuel la Peña was widely regarded as incompetent, but rose to become Captain General of Andalusia in the Napoleonic Peninsular War ?
Did you knowthat wood paneling from the ruins of Colden Mansion in Montgomery, New York is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ?
Did you knowthat in 1924 , the Calgary Tigers became the first ice hockey team from Calgary to compete for the Stanley Cup ?
Did you knowthat U.S. Route 70 runs across the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico , and can be closed several times per week for missile tests?
Did you knowthat relative volatility in a liquid mixture of chemicals measures the difficulty of separating them by distillation ?
Did you knowthat Dr. John Stevenson , 18th century Scottish merchant and developer of Baltimore , was known as the " American Romulus "?
Did you knowthat after hundreds of years of construction and use, few gunpowder magazines remain in the United Kingdom as gunpowder has not been manufactured there since 1976?
Did you knowthat NW Natural in Portland, Oregon was the first gas company in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States when it started in 1859?
Did you knowthat Hampshire and England cricketer Derek Shackleton took over 100 wickets in 20 consecutive seasons of first-class cricket ?
Did you knowthat although William McFetridge retired as president of BSEIU in 1960, his successor, David Sullivan , fought him for control of the union until 1964?
Did you knowthat Anglo-Sudanese entrepreneur Mo Ibrahim is offering a US$ 5 million prize, plus $200,000 a year for life, to an African leader whose term as head of state meets certain criteria?
Did you knowthat David Quinn , a first-round selection in the 1984 National Hockey League entry draft , was forced to retire before turning professional due to being diagnosed with Christmas disease ?
Did you knowthat in 1901, Dombrau , a village in Karviná District , Moravian-Silesian Region , Czech Republic , was bought by a member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria ?
Did you knowthat British Member of Parliament Alfred Edwards , a Christian Scientist , campaigned to allow Christian Science Nurses to call themselves "Nurses" despite not being registered ?
Did you knowthat the Old Loggers Path , a loop hiking trail in Lycoming County , Pennsylvania , uses old logging railroad grades and roads, and its trailhead is a lumber ghost town ?
Did you knowthat the inscription on the memorial stone of Ingram de Ketenis is the earliest known English inscription north of the River Forth ?
Did you knowthat Julius Joseph Overbeck was unable to be received into the Orthodox Church as a priest for his Western Rite project because he had married after his ordination as a Roman Catholic priest?
Did you knowthat female bolas spiders attract moth prey by mimicry of sex pheromones ?
Did you knowthat Halotus was an Ancient Roman royal servant who, despite being a prime suspect in the poisoning of Claudius in 54 AD , was granted royal stewardship by Galba in 68 AD , even when the public was calling for his death?
Did you knowthat in 2002, two firefighting airtankers crashed after their wings came off in flight, revealing safety problems that led to the permanent grounding of almost the entire U.S. fleet of tankers?
Did you knowthat the residents of Basanti and other deltaic islands in the Indian part of the Sundarbans thanked the French author Dominique Lapierre for the floating dispensaries he had provided?
Did you knowthat the Hilton Hotels brand, Waldorf-Astoria, is attempting to expand its brand beyond the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel , with new hotels such as the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Residence Tower in Chicago?
Did you knowthat Sir Edward Tomkins , British Ambassador to the Netherlands and then France in the 1970s, owned Winslow Hall , a house often attributed to Christopher Wren , for nearly 50 years?
Did you knowthat diamonds have been known in India for at least 3000 years, but most likely 6000 years?
Did you knowthat facilitating, or "grease" payments to foreign officials, unlike bribes , are lawful under U.S. law , but still considered to be questionable from the point of view of business ethics ?
Did you knowthat Aaron Sapiro , a Jewish-American lawyer and cooperative organizer in the farmers' movement of the 1920s, won a court case against Henry Ford for antisemitic comments in his book The International Jew ?
Did you knowthat Horseferry Road takes its name from a horse-ferry from The Embankment to Lambeth Stairs, once one of the most important Thames crossings in London , and which was owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury ?
Did you knowthat the first gas works in the United Kingdom was built by the Gas Light and Coke Company , incorporated by Royal Charter in 1812 with a share capitalisation of £ 1m (approximately £9bn at today's prices)?
Did you knowthat, prior to English physicist C.G. Darwin ’s 1952 conception of man as a human molecule , in 1813 British chemist Humphry Davy had compared man to a " point atom "?
Did you knowthat the song " Swanee " was written in ten minutes by George Gershwin and Irving Caesar , and sold over two million copies after being recorded by Al Jolson in 1919?
Did you knowthat the May 1945 Battle of Kurylowka was one of the biggest clashes fought between the NKVD and Polish anti-communist resistance ?
Did you knowthat the French physician and agronomist Jules Guyot revolutionized the training of grape vines , and the Guyot-system is extensively used throughout vineyards in Europe?
Did you knowthat Tom Jennings won the 1977 U.S. Open 14.1 Pocket Billiards Championship by coming back from a score of 196–42 to win by a score of 200–197, an event called the best comeback in billiards history?
Did you knowthat fighting during the 1998 Six-Day War of Abkhazia actually lasted for more than six days?
Did you knowthat actor Frederick Baltimore Calvert toured America lecturing on the English poets and then toured England talking about America ?
Did you knowthat the namesake for Hondo Dog Park in Hillsboro, Oregon , won an award for valor just weeks before being killed in the line of duty?
Did you knowthat the Orthodox Church of France is a Western Rite Orthodox church that uses a restored Gallican liturgy known as the Divine Liturgy of Saint Germain ?
Did you knowthat the Italian invasion of Albania was launched by Benito Mussolini in April 1939 as a response to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia , and was completed within five days?
Did you knowthat players had to submit their turns by ZX Microdrive cartridge in the play by mail version of video game Dark Sceptre ?
Did you knowthat the 1999 Athens earthquake and the 1999 İzmit earthquake , which happened less than a month earlier, gave rise to the " Greek-Turkish earthquake diplomacy "?
Did you knowthat labour law expert Ron McCallum is the first totally blind person to have been appointed to a full professorship at any university in Australia or New Zealand ?
Did you knowthat the Belgian French Community Holiday celebrates a victory over the Dutch army , while the Dutch speaking region 's holiday celebrates a victory over the French army ?
Did you knowthat Korean independence activist Jang In-hwan used Arthur Schopenhauer 's " patriotic insanity " defense when on trial for the murder of Japan lobbyist Durham Stevens , in San Francisco in 1908?
Did you knowthat from 1985 through 2004, about seventy-five honey collectors from Gosaba and the surrounding areas of West Bengal were killed by tigers in the forests of Sundarbans , but none since?
Did you knowthat an essential component for hillclimbing cars is named after racing driver Patsy Burt , who was once said to be a "waste of a beautiful motor car"?
Did you knowthat release of the award-winning film Lost in Beijing was delayed in part because censors insisted on removing a scene of a Mercedes-Benz driving through a puddle-filled pothole ?
Did you knowthat new bacterial species names are not considered valid until published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology ?
Did you knowthat three 500-goal scorers appeared on a single hockey team for the first time during the 2001–02 Detroit Red Wings season , helping the team to win their tenth Stanley Cup ?
Did you knowthat British Conservative MP Richard Hornby unsuccessfully challenged former Prime Minister and Labour leader Clement Attlee before securing a safe seat?
Did you knowthat Teamsters president Dave Beck invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 117 times before a U.S. Senate investigating committee?
Did you knowthat two Dutch professors who lost an article written by Samuel Iperusz Wiselius were nonetheless to join him in forming the Batavian Republic in the Netherlands ?
Did you knowthat New World , the first and largest family-oriented amusement park in Singapore , was known for its striptease , cabaret girls, and wrestling matches during its heyday?
Did you knowthat Dennis Spurgeon , formerly chief operating officer at uranium supplier USEC Inc. , became U.S. Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy in 2006?
Did you knowthat some of Frank Sinatra 's recordings of the 1964 song " My Kind of Town " change the original lyrics to omit reference to the Union Stock Yard which closed in 1971?
Did you knowthat the 1476 edition of Giovanni Boccaccio 's De casibus virorum illustrium by Flemish printer Colard Mansion was the first printed book with engraved illustrations?
Did you knowthat Oregon pioneer Levi Scott is the namesake for a town, a valley, and a mountain, as well as the highest peak in Crater Lake National Park ?
Did you knowthat the play Charlie Victor Romeo has a script consisting of the almost-verbatim cockpit voice recorder transcripts from six real-life air disasters ?
Did you knowthat the 2001 GMAC Bowl set a record as the highest-scoring bowl game in college football history even before it went into overtime ?
Did you knowthat Walter Scott 's narrative poem The Lady of the Lake is in six cantos , each of which concerns the action of a single day?
Did you knowthat Silma Ihram decided to found Al-Noori Muslim Primary School in Greenacre , New South Wales after Presbyterian Ladies' College would not allow her daughters to wear hijabs in school?
Did you knowthat in 1921 the United States Department of State mailed out invitations for the Second International Eugenics Conference around the world?
Did you knowthat under the 1557 Edict of Compiègne all those who travelled to Geneva or published books in this Protestant city could be put to death?
Did you knowthat mountains are sometimes bombed to trigger small avalanches and thus prevent larger, more dangerous ones?
Did you knowthat the three-month Great Tea Race of 1866 to bring tea to London from China almost ended in a tie?
Did you knowthat the Tibetan Empire reached its greatest extent under Ralpacan ' s rule from 815 to 838 CE?
Did you knowthat Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Nancy Montanez Johner has suggested changing the name of the Food Stamp Program ?
Did you knowthat The Victim , a 2006 Thai horror-thriller film, was shot on locations of actual crime scenes?
Did you knowthat Republican Jerry Sonnenberg was the only member of the largest class of freshman legislators in the history of the Colorado House of Representatives to be elected to an open seat without opposition?
Did you knowthat Somerset cricket captain Jack Meyer was entrusted with the education of seven Indian boys, six of them princes, and founded the Millfield School to do so?
Did you knowthat the Alicante Bouschet is the only Vitis vinifera wine grape with red juice ?
Did you knowthat Frank Fulco , a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives between 1956 and 1972 , was once honored on his House floor by the government of Italy for his long involvement in Italian American causes?
Did you knowthat the Hudson River Historic District is, at 35 square miles (89 km²), the largest Registered Historic District in the contiguous United States ?
Did you knowthat the haor located in north-eastern Bangladesh , is a bowl-shaped depression with such vast stretches of turbulent water that it is thought of as a sea during a monsoon ?
Did you knowthat Eagle River, Wisconsin is known as the " Snowmobile Capital of the World" because it hosts the World Championship Snowmobile Derby ?
Did you knowthat Washington Ellsworth Lindsey became the third Governor of New Mexico after his predecessor died while in office?
Did you knowthat a silver dish thought to be the Ancient Roman Risley Park Lanx was on display in the British Museum for several years before being determined to be a complete fabrication?
Did you knowthat the new airport being constructed near Islamabad , Pakistan will be named Gandhara International Airport , after the ancient kingdom Gandhara ?
Did you knowthat Haiti has the lowest coverage of electricity in the Western Hemisphere , with only about 12.5% of the population having regular access to electricity ?
Did you knowthat Lesbian wines were some of the most highly sought after wines of the Ancient Greeks ?
Did you knowthat in 1512, the 2nd Marquess of Dorset unsuccessfully led an English army to France to reconquer Aquitaine , which had been lost during the Hundred Years' War ?
Did you knowthat safety Don Dufek was cut from the Seattle Seahawks four times?
Did you knowthat Alexandre Bontemps , senior head valet to Louis XIV of France , was a rich and powerful figure, feared by courtiers , whose behaviour was reported to him by the Swiss Guard ?
Did you knowthat no viable solution has yet been found to counteract radiation from space , which is a serious threat to astronauts on any future mission to Mars ?
Did you knowthat Norma Elizabeth Boyd , founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, was a United Nations observer in 1949 and supported the Principle 10 of the Declaration of Human Rights ?
Did you knowthat John Straffen , a triple child-killer who escaped from Broadmoor , served 55 years in prison becoming the longest-serving prisoner in British history?
Did you knowthat R Family Vacations offered the first all- gay and lesbian family vacation packages where LGBT parents can bring their children?
Did you knowthat Thomas Bancroft ' s Times out of Tune (1658) includes verses against whoring , gluttony , alcoholism , hedonism , lying , pride in clothing , betrayal , ambition , cowardice , and the abuse of poetry ?
Did you knowthat Hadspen House has been owned by the family of Henry Hobhouse since 1785?
Did you knowthat Michigan Wolverines football player Bill Yearby was an All-American football player as well as a champion shot putter who the coaches felt could have starred for the Wolverines basketball team?
Did you knowthat until Darren Cheeseman ' s win in 2007 , the Australian seat of Corangamite had not been won by a Labor candidate in over 70 years?
Did you knowthat during the winter the Romans of the Mosel wine region would drink their wine hot like a tea ?
Did you knowthat the green-flag wielding Republican Army defeated the Spanish forces during the Battle of Rosillo at Salado Creek in San Antonio and established the first Texas Republic in April 1813 ?
Did you knowthat Ornatifilum is likely to be the oldest known fossil fungus ?
Did you knowthat although Ohio State Buckeye Archie Griffin defended the Heisman Trophy in 1975, Michigan Wolverines football player Gordon Bell won the 1975 Big Ten rushing championship?
Did you knowthat certain biological neuron models are a literally spherical cow , in that the cell is approximated to be a sphere?
Did you knowthat William Scrots , King's Painter to Henry VIII and his son Edward VI , was paid a salary twice as large as that of his predecessor, Hans Holbein ?
Did you knowthat Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority founder, Margaret Flagg Holmes and her husband were received by Pope Pius XI in 1931?
Did you knowthat KGB head Ivan Serov did not go on tour in Britain as planned because the British press labelled him "Ivan the Terrible"?
Did you knowthat Irena Iłłakowicz , a secret agent of the Polish resistance during WWII , was formerly married to a Persian prince?
Did you knowthat Michigan Wolverines football player Jim Pace not only won the Chicago Tribune Silver Football as the Most Valuable Player in the Big Ten Conference, but also won the Big Ten 60-yard indoor dash title?
Did you knowthat in 1866 Polish exilees to Siberia staged an uprising trying to escape to China ?
Did you knowthat Sam Little , a retired farmer from Bastrop, Louisiana , was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives by a margin of only 9 votes out of 7,863 cast in a low-turnout contest?
Did you knowthat as cricket in Ireland is organised on an All-Ireland basis, a team representing Northern Ireland has appeared just once, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games cricket tournament ?
Did you knowthat Queensland MP Peter Wellington held the balance of power for four months, until a by-election allowed the Australian Labor Party to form a majority government ?
Did you knowthat, after hitting another driver from behind in heavy traffic, screenwriter Jennifer Philbin and her husband Michael Schur raised $ 26,000 for charity in a retaliation campaign instead of paying $840 to fix the driver's broken bumper?
Did you knowthat in 1902, 23-year-old British archaeozoologist Dorothea Bate discovered a new species of dwarf elephant in a cave on the island of Cyprus ?
Did you knowthat Pundravardhana was a territory, mostly in present-day Bangladesh , of the Pundras, a group of non- Aryan people, dating back to 8th - 7th centuries BC ?
Did you knowthat Neil Riser , an incoming Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Columbia, Louisiana , began working at the age of fourteen as a logger ?
Did you knowthat the urn atop Charles Bulfinch 's grave in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts , U.S. once stood at the center of Franklin Place , Boston ?
Did you knowthat the mythical Connla's Well , home to the Salmon of Wisdom , is the legendary source of the Shannon and Boyne Rivers as well as Irish poetic inspiration?
Did you knowthat Etaples Military Cemetery is the largest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in France , with over 11,500 burials ?
Did you knowthat Fred Ryan was instrumental in the development of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library ?