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Did you knowthat the dummy of ventriloquist and magician Jay Marshall was actually his left hand dressed up as a rabbit ?
Did you knowthat in the 17th century Jean Gery , a French deserter, later served as a guide and translator for the Spanish in North America ?
Did you knowthat in a British by-election in 1981 , John Desmond Lewis ran for office under the name Tarquin Fin-tim-lim-bim-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olè-Biscuitbarrel , drawing inspiration from a Monty Python skit about silly elections?
Did you knowthat Hong Lim Green was Singapore 's first public garden ?
Did you knowthat Saga Castle is one of the few medieval castles in Japan to be surrounded by a wall , instead of being built on one?
Did you knowthat the Jawami ul-Hikayat is an 800-year-old handwritten book of Persian political anecdotes , which—at 2500 pages long—has never been printed in full, but only in abridged editions?
Did you knowthat Norwegian director Nils Gaup was nominated for an Academy Award for the Sami language film The Pathfinder ?
Did you knowthat Cécile Guillaume was the first female engraver of postage stamps in France ?
Did you knowthat Vladimir Nabokov described D.S. Mirsky's book A History of Russian Literature : From Its Beginnings to 1900 as "the best history of Russian literature in any language, including Russian"?
Did you knowthat the national sport of Nauru is Australian rules football ?
Did you know Shakespeare's sexuality is sometimes debated?
Did you knowthat British singer Maxine Nightingale first charted on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 after a massive marketing push by her label, United Artists ?
Did you knowthat Current Biography is a standard reference work in American libraries?
Did you knowthat Victoire Thivisol was the youngest winner ever of the Best Actress award at the Venice International Film Festival for her title role in the 1996 French film Ponette ?
Did you knowthat Edward Falkingham ordered the construction of prisons in Ferryland , Bonavista and Carbonear in 1732 while he was Governor of Newfoundland ?
Did you knowthat Redline was the last game published by Accolade before being acquired by Infogrames in 1999 ?
Did you knowthat Basheba Spooner was the first woman to be executed in the United States of America , for the murder of a Minuteman who had raped her?
Did you knowthat the first James Bond gun barrel sequence , in the film Dr. No , was filmed through the barrel of an actual gun ?
Did you knowthat Withering Abalone Syndrome can cause an abalone to eat its own foot ?
Did you knowthat the first unfurling of the new flag of the United States occurred at the Middlebrook encampment ?
Did you knowthat in 1878 , Sam Lucas became the first African American actor to play the role of Uncle Tom in a serious production of Uncle Tom's Cabin , only to do the same for film 37 years later ?
Did you knowthat Bill Ranford , who won the 1990 Conn Smythe Trophy as NHL playoff MVP, later appeared in the movie Miracle , as Team USA goaltender Jim Craig ?
Did you knowthat Euclid Beach Park , an amusement park in Cleveland, Ohio that was modelled after Coney Island , was home to a race riot in 1946 ?
Did you knowthat E. Sreedharan , the managing director of Delhi Metro , earned the sobriquet of Metro Man for ensuring that the first phase of the metro project was executed without any cost or time overruns?
Did you knowthat the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania was a failed plan by the Central Railroad of New Jersey to avoid certain taxes from 1946 to 1952 ?
Did you knowthat the Tucson Citizen is the oldest newspaper in Arizona ?
Did you knowthat Luis Ramirez was the 15th person executed in 2005 in the U.S. state of Texas ?
Did you knowthat the Busette , in 1973 , was the first successful small school bus to be built on a cutaway van chassis with a low center of gravity and dual rear wheels ?
Did you knowthat Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is India 's richest woman ?
Did you knowthat James Autry received a stay on his execution in October 1983 after the needles for his lethal injection had been inserted into his arms?
Did you knowthat Torchwood will be the first spin-off from Doctor Who since an unsuccessful pilot for K-9 and Company in 1981 ?
Did you knowthat with a dynamometer car in tow, the Northern Pacific Railroad was able to drive Timken 1111 on a demonstration run as fast as a sustained 142 km/h while pulling the North Coast Limited passenger train ?
Did you knowthat Roger Lemerre has won the Football World Cup , European Football Championship , Confederations Cup and the African Nations Cup ?
Did you knowthat a voluntary caregiver is an unpaid spouse, relative, friend or neighbor of a disabled person or child who assists with activities of daily living?
Did you know Miles Copeland, Jr. , the father of Stewart and Miles III , was a CIA spy involved in several Mideast coups , but began his career as a trumpeter for big bands including Glenn Miller ?
Did you knowthat Cleveland may today still have been spelled "Cleaveland," were it not for a newspaper dropping the first 'a' to fit the name onto their masthead ?
Did you know that New Orleans street vendor Old Corn Meal is one of the earliest known African Americans to have had a documented influence on the development of blackface minstrelsy specifically and American popular music in general?
Did you knowthat the Adolph Beck case was the most notorious case of mistaken identity in British legal history , resulting in a conviction of an innocent man not once but twice?
Did you knowthat the battleship Satsuma of the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first ship in the world to be designed and laid down as an "all-big-gun" battleship, although the British HMS Dreadnought was eventually the first one to be completed in 1906 ?
Did you knowthat the 1959 court case K. M. Nanavati vs. State of Maharashtra was the last jury trial ever held in India ?
Did you knowthat the Gurkha Contingent of the Singapore Police Force is the world's only police department outside of Nepal to be comprised of Gurkhas , and it is currently the only military or police unit in Singapore to be headed by a Briton ?
Did you knowthat the Canon Episcopi , which was inserted into canon law by Burchard of Worms in the 11th century , demanded that Roman Catholics be skeptical about witchcraft ?
Did you knowthat tradition credits King Gebra Maskal Lalibela with carving the monolithic churches of Lalibela from stone with his own hands, helped only by angels ?
Did you knowthat a strap-on dildo may be used by heterosexual couples for the sexual practice of pegging ?
Did you knowthat the Liverpool Blitz was a sustained bombing campaign on the city of Liverpool , United Kingdom , by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat the Mandara kingdom of West Africa was conquered by Modibo Adama of the Fulani Empire , Muhammad Ahmad of Sudan , and Germany within a single hundred year span?
Did you knowthat in Scots law the civil action known as lawburrows —in use since 1429 and intended to prevent violence —is a simple, bond -based alternative to interdicts or court orders ?
Did you knowthat Robert Meeropol , son of Communists Ethel and Julius Rosenberg , was adopted by " Strange Fruit " lyricist Abel Meeropol following the Rosenbergs' execution for espionage ?
Did you knowthat the Paragould Meteorite is the third-largest meteorite ever discovered in North America ?
Did you knowthat Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches , an 1899 book by Charles Godfrey Leland , was one of the foundational texts of Wicca , but has been suspected of being a fraud ?
Did you knowthat more than 700 of the caricatures on display at Sardi's restaurant in New York City were drawn by a Russian refugee in exchange for meals at the restaurant?
Did you knowthat British archaeologist J. Desmond Clark discovered a site at Zambia 's Kalambo Falls containing artifacts from over 250,000 years of human culture?
Did you knowthat Operation Gibraltar was the name given to the failed plan by Pakistan to infiltrate Jammu and Kashmir , India and start a rebellion and that it eventually sparked the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 ?
Did you knowthat Francisco Pradilla Ortiz was a prolific Spanish painter who not only produced over 1,000 paintings but also was briefly the director of the Prado Museum ?
Did you knowthat Naseeruddin Shah could not bag the title role in Gandhi , but later had opportunities to portray the Mahatma in a play and in a film ?
Did you knowthat the Tremont Street Subway in Boston, Massachusetts is the oldest subway tunnel in North America ?
Did you know that religious identity in Israel for Jews differs strikingly from that recognized in the Jewish diaspora ?
Did you know that Dolores Erickson , the woman on the album cover for Whipped Cream & Other Delights by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass , was actually covered in shaving cream ?
Did you knowthat Abelisaurus had a lighter skull than other dinosaurs due to large fenestrations behind its eyes?
Did you knowthat Papillon is a famous memoir written by Henri Charrière about his numerous escape attempts from a French penal colony in French Guiana ?
Did you knowthat Varina Farms , the plantation of John Rolfe and Pocahontas , was site of the first successful cultivation of export tobacco in the Virginia Colony in 1612 ?
Did you knowthat Iannis Xenakis wrote Metastaseis to represent the sounds of warfare and Einsteinian views of time ?
Did you knowthat parts of the first law passed by the U.S. Congress are still on the books?
Did you knowthat Nagesh Kukunoor made Hyderabad Blues, the most successful independent film from India in just 17 days?
Did you knowthat Major League Cricket plans to launch a professional cricket league in the United States , with the goal of qualifying the U.S. for the Cricket World Cup by 2011?
Did you knowthat the Valley Pike was a toll road managed by Harry F. Byrd which followed a Native American migratory trail in the Shenandoah Valley ?
Did you knowthat to prepare for future examinations , Singapore students use the ten year series to practice on past years' examination papers, some of which date back to before they were born ?
Did you knowthat " Toro Mata " ("The Bull Kills" in Spanish ) is one of the most famous folk songs in Peru ?
Did you knowthat a single verb in the Nez Percé language , which is currently spoken by fewer than 100 people, can contain as much information as a complete sentence in English ?
Did you knowthat there are only 75 nonprismatic uniform polyhedra ?
Did you knowthat Norge , an unincorporated town in James City County, Virginia was established by Norwegian-Americans in the late 19th century?
Did you knowthat the well-publicized defection of German agent Erich Vermehren in early 1944 led directly to the demise of the Abwehr ?
Did you knowthat amorphous ice is a solid form of water that, like glass , has no crystal structure?
Did you knowthat American novelist Harold MacGrath had 18 of his 40 novels and 3 of his fictional short stories made into motion pictures ?
Did you knowthat the single " F.E.A.R. " is based on Coolio's " Gangsta's Paradise ", which was in turn adapted from Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise"?
Did you knowthat when the Toledo Harbor Lighthouse was automated with solar cells by the United States Coast Guard in 1965 , it was staffed by a uniformed mannequin officer in order to prevent vandalism ?
Did you knowthat Farkhor Air Base in Tajikistan is India 's only extraterritorial military base?
Did you knowthat Bertrand Russell is the longest-lived of any Nobel Prize in Literature winner?
Did you knowthat in 1969, a world record number of 15 million people attended the funeral of C.N.Annadurai , the first non Congress Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , India ?
Did you knowthat the contradictory term foot cavalry was first used to describe the rapid movement of infantry troops of General Stonewall Jackson during the American Civil War ?
Did you knowthat Elbert Frank Cox was the first black person in the world to get a Ph.D in mathematics ?
Did you knowthat Manga Sewa of Falaba surrendered his city to Mandinka conqueror Samori Ture by detonating himself and his family in the city's powder magazine?
Did you knowthat former Moroccan prime minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi involved himself in socialist causes as early as the age of 20, by attempting to organize the Casablanca working class ?
Did you knowthat the New York-New Jersey Line War lasted more than half a century until it was finally settled by action of the King of Great Britain ?
Did you knowthat French officer Charles Mangin was despised by his troops during World War I due to his aggressive tactics, which earned him the nickname "The Butcher"?
Did you knowthat the Tu’i Tonga Empire was the most influential local empire in the history of Oceania ?
Did you knowthat Yunfa , a 19th-century ruler of the Africa kingdom of Gobir , made a personal attempt on the life of Fulani reformer Usman dan Fodio , triggering the Fulani War ?
Did you knowthat Ed Roberts became one of the founders of the disability rights movement when he lobbied for basic accommodations at the University of California, Berkeley ?
Did you knowthat Wash Woods is a lost town on Virginia 's False Cape , which was built by survivors of a shipwreck using cypress wood that washed ashore?
Did you knowthat not all Polish names end in -ski ?
Did you knowthat in 1930 , the footballer Gerard Keizer played for both Arsenal and Ajax Amsterdam simultaneously, flying between England and the Netherlands to play in matches?
Did you knowthat a sailor from the SS Thames owed his life to a cask of porter after the ship wrecked on the Isles of Scilly in 1841 ?
Did you knowthat the town of Moronvilliers was totally destroyed in WWI and was also a site for French dry-nuclear testing ?
Did you knowthat 1980s video game publisher BudgeCo was formed to distribute just two games ?
Did you knowthat the Reverend Dr. James Blair of Scotland was a clergyman and missionary to the Virginia Colony , and is best known as the founder in 1693 of the College of William and Mary , where he served as President for 50 years?
Did you knowthat the Bombay Quadrangular cricket tournament originated in an 1877 game to foster interracial harmony, but was abandoned in 1946 over fears that its racial basis threatened Indian independence ?
Did you knowthat booth capturing is a kind of electoral fraud that is seen mainly in India , where armed gangs belonging to political parties try to "capture" a polling booth and indulge in bogus voting?
Did you knowthat at the Second Battle of the Aisne in World War I , the French suffered over 187,000 casualties ?
Did you knowthat Lott Cary was an African American slave who became educated, bought his freedom, became a minister and physician, and helped found the Colony of Liberia in Africa in 1822 ?
Did you knowthat Kasturbhai Lalbhai represented the mill-owners when Mahatma Gandhi undertook his first ever fast for a political cause in support of the mill workers during the 1918 Ahmedabad strike ,  but later became Gandhi's staunch follower?
Did you knowthat Rabbi Judah ben Ilai was a  second century Talmudic scholar who said "Who teacheth his son no trade, guideth him to robbery"?
Did you knowthat Korean American cartoonist Lela Lee created the cartoon Kim, the Angry Little Asian Girl after being enraged at racist cartoons she had seen at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation ?
Did you knowthat the Sri Lanka National Pharmaceuticals Policy was established in the 1970s to ensure that Sri Lankans could get high-quality, reasonably priced medications at correct dosages, and later became a model for national drug policies worldwide?
Did you knowthat Uładzimir Karatkievič was a Belarusian writer whose novels deal predominantly with Belarus's history , including the January Uprising ?
Did you knowthat Socks was one of Bill Clinton 's two pets while President of the United States ?
Did you knowthat geographical renaming can take place to change the name of a city or country for many reasons, including as part of a sponsorship deal?
Did you knowthat a Hi-point 995 Carbine Rifle was used in the Columbine High School massacre ?
Did you knowthat fossil remains of the dinosaur species Aralosaurus were found in Kazakhstan after the Aral Sea started shrinking significantly?
Did you knowthat the decidua is the maternal contribution to the placenta ?
Did you knowthat Jaja , one of the most successful merchant kings in 19th-century Nigeria , began his life as a slave in Bonny ?
Did you knowthat Raghib Ismail became the highest paid player in gridiron football history when he joined the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League ?
Did you knowthat invasion literature , such as The War of the Worlds , was a literary genre influential in foreign politics during the years leading up to World War I ?
Did you knowthat Come Out by composer Steve Reich was made out of the recorded speech of a young man injured in a race riot who was wrongly arrested for murder ?
Did you knowthat the Combined Islands cricket team were dissolved the year after they won their first — and thus last — domestic trophy in West Indian cricket ?
Did you knowthat the North Pacific Gyre was responsible for depositing hundreds of lost Nike sneakers on the western shores of North America in 1991?
Did you knowthat Françoise Gilot married the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and later in life was also wed to the famous doctor, Jonas Salk ?
Did you knowthat the characters in the name of Mamoru Takuma , who stabbed eight first and second-grade students to death in the Osaka school massacre , mean "protect the home"?
Did you knowthat Chetan Sharma , a former Indian cricketer , was the first Indian ever to get a ten wicket haul overseas, taking 10/188 against England in a Test Series in 1986 ?
Did you knowthat the Suramadu Bridge , connecting the islands of Java and Madura , will become the longest bridge in Indonesia when completed in 2008 ?
Did you knowthat over 50 parents contacted Gonzaga University 's athletic department on the first day that a Sports Illustrated issue featuring a story on Gonzaga basketball player Adam Morrison and his life with Type 1 diabetes was available at retail outlets?
Did you knowthat Lamb Chop is a fictional sheep that was created by comedienne and ventriloquist Shari Lewis and first appeared on the children's morning television show Captain Kangaroo in 1957?
Did you knowthat the Alfa Romeo Montreal was so named because it was first unveiled in prototype form at Montreal 's Expo 67 world's fair ?
Did you knowthat F.I.B.S is the earliest backgammon server on the internet and has been actively operating since July 19 , 1992 ?
Did you knowthat silicosis is a lung disease caused by inhalation of silica , the second most common mineral on earth's crust?
Did you knowthat a sheriff officer is an officer of the Scottish Sheriff Court , responsible for serving documents and enforcing court orders within the area of their commission?
Did you knowthat Odoardo Beccari was an Italian naturalist best known for discovering the titan arum , the plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, in Sumatra in 1878 ?
Did you knowthat the first person shooter computer game Requiem: Avenging Angel was influenced by the Bible and Christian Mythology ?
Did you knowthat the genera Bergerocactus and Bergeranthus are named after Alwin Berger , a German botanist best known for his contribution to the nomenclature of succulent plants , particularly agaves and cacti ?
Did you knowthat a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly , directly elected by citizens of member countries, has been proposed by legislators in an effort to counter the influence of the World Trade Organization and other unelected international bodies?
Did you knowthat as of 2005 James Neil Tucker was the last person executed in the United States using the electric chair ?
Did you knowthat Amos Urban Shirk was a prodigious reader of encyclopedias?
Did you knowthat during the Indian Independence Movement , Tanguturi Prakasam bared his chest when the police threatened to shoot and that after the incident, he was respected with the epithet of Andhra Kesari ( Lion of Andhra )?
Did you knowthat A Different Corner by George Michael became the first #1 in the UK singles chart to be written, sung, played, arranged and produced by the same person?
Did you knowthat the Sanhedrin , which is part of the Mishnah ,  a major Jewish religious text,  focuses on criminal law , and that  commentaries on the Sanhedrin by rabbis , as recorded in the Talmud ,  are noteworthy as precursors to the development of common law principles?
Did you knowthat Jean Laplanche , French psychoanalyst and co-author of the definitive Language of Psycho-Analysis , is also an accomplished vintner ?
Did you knowthat Beau Sia , a perennial Nuyorican Poets Cafe favorite, first discovered slam poetry through MTV as a teenager?
Did you knowthat Jacob Bruce , a Russian nobleman of Scottish descent and one of the most educated people in Russia at the time, was famous among the 18th-century Muscovites as an alchemist and mage ?
Did you knowthat the 1972 case of Yvonne Wanrow , a Colville Indian , charged with the  murder of a child molester , brought about changes in U.S. criminal law as it affects women and Native Americans ?
Did you knowthat Badruddin Amiruldin is a Member of the Parliament of Malaysia who has told those who oppose Malaysia's status as an Islamic theocracy to leave the country?
Did you knowthat a condenser is used to condense steam from a steam turbine to obtain maximum efficiency?
Did you knowthat Samuel Andrews (1836–1904) was an English-born chemist and inventor whose request for investment capital to build an oil refinery in 1862 led to a partnership with John D. Rockefeller and the formation of the Standard Oil companies?
Did you knowthat Sandia Pueblo in central New Mexico was discovered by Spanish conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1539 while on an expedition to discover the seven Cities of Cibola ?
Did you knowthat according to Breton folklore , not completing the 600 km long Tro Breizh in one's lifetime would condemn their soul to repeating a tour of equivalent length every seven years from within their coffin ?
Did you knowthat Newman and Baddiel in Pieces was the final show on which the comic partnership of Robert Newman and David Baddiel worked together before going their separate ways?
Did you knowthat the parents of Rachel Whitear allowed a photograph of her dead body to be used in a campaign against heroin ?
Did you knowthat at 67 years old, Elias Syriani was the oldest person executed in the United States since James Hubbard was executed by Alabama at the age of 74 in 2004 ?
Did you knowthat South African rebel tours was the name given to a series of cricket tours to South Africa during its isolation from international cricket in the 1980s due to apartheid ?
Did you knowthat the campaign for a " Malaysian Malaysia " has had its proponents denounced as traitors or irrational firebrands?
Did you knowthat the arrest of fascist sympathizer and spy Anna Wolkoff was witnessed by a young boy named Len Deighton ?
Did you knowthat the video for the Tori Amos single " Silent All These Years " is #98 on Rolling Stone 's top 100 videos of all time?
Did you knowthat fashion designer Katharine Hamnett once met with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher while wearing her own t-shirt with the slogan "58% Don't Want Pershing "?
Did you knowthat the wedding of the parents of Anne of Cleves took place  at Schloss Burg , now the largest reconstructed castle in North Rhine-Westphalia ?
Did you knowthat in the name of science , American nurse Clara Maass volunteered to be bitten by yellow fever -carrying mosquitoes seven times, caught the disease twice, and ultimately died from it?
Did you knowthat under the New Hampshire state constitution citizens of that state have the right to revolution?
Did you knowthat A Commitment To Our Roots is the first charity devoted to helping comic book industry veterans in need?
Did you knowthat Rabbi Judith Hauptman has written extensively on the treatment of women in her scholarly articles on the Jewish Talmud ?
Did you knowthat Yusuf Adil Shah was the founder of the Adil Shahi dynasty that ruled Bijapur for two centuries in South India ?