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Did you knowthat the heart of Frederic Chopin is kept in an urn in the Holy Cross Church in Warsaw ?
Did you knowthat the Inuktun language, spoken by 1000 Inughuit people around Qaanaaq in northern Greenland , is related to Canadian Inuit languages ?
Did you knowthat retired American football player William Fuller is one of the few players in National Football League history to record 100 career quarterback sacks ?
Did you knowthat Darjeeling Himalayan Railway was the second railway in the world that was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO ?
Did you knowthat Edyta Górniak sang part of " To Nie Ja " in English at the dress rehearsal for the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 , which almost caused the song to be disqualified?
Did you knowthat Mount Omine is a sacred mountain in Nara , Japan , famous for its controversial ban on women and for its three tests of courage?
Did you knowhow patients with gender identity disorder are classified over the course of their medical treatments?
Did you knowthat Tolay Lake has yielded thousands of charmstones thrown into the lake by prehistoric peoples to invoke health and high crop yields?
Did you knowthat the illumination method used in modern light microscope design was invented by 27-year-old German graduate student August Köhler in 1893?
Did you knowthat Goat Rock Beach in Sonoma County, California has a number of sea stacks and offers viewing of marine natural arches ? ...
Did you knowthat Lou Ye ' s film Summer Palace was the first Chinese film to feature both male and female full-frontal nudity ?
Did you knowthat Nicholas II of Russia , his wife and children have all been recognized as saints of the Russian Orthodox Church ?
Did you knowthat Vitamin C megadosage is an alternative medical practice which advocates huge doses of vitamin C to cure a wide range of diseases?
Did you knowthat Jacob Dacian , a Franciscan missionary to the P'urhépecha Indians of Mexico, spoke 8 different languages and was probably a son of King John I of Denmark ?
Did you knowthat 16-year-old Cory Kennedy became an "Internet It girl " in 2006 without her parents even knowing?
Did you knowthat the location of tropical cyclone formations are traditionally divided into seven basins ?
Did you knowthat Hernando Arias de Saavedra was the first native-born governor of a New World colony and issued the order leading to the modern-day partition of Argentina and Paraguay ?
Did you knowthat Kavirajamarga , the earliest extant literary work in the Kannada language , was written by King Amoghavarsha I who was a famous poet and a scholar ?
Did you knowthat many Australian wool, dairy, and wheat towns were created overnight when demobilized WWI and WWII soldiers accepted Crown land in otherwise uninhabited rural locations?
Did you knowthat the Life Assurance Act 1774 , still in force in Britain today, closed a legal loophole which had allowed life insurance policies to be used as a form of gambling ?
Did you knowthat Stefan Báthory assisted Vlad Dracula to reclaim the throne of Wallachia in 1476?
Did you knowthat when it was shown at the Metropolitan Opera , Diana von Solange by Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was so poorly received that three hundred people signed a petition demanding that it be removed from the repertory?
Did you knowthat Beata Brookes , Conservative MEP for North Wales for ten years, has been nicknamed "the Celtic Iron Lady"?
Did you knowthat the actions of Captain Alfred C. Haynes and the crew of United Airlines Flight 232 are often cited as an exemplar of good airmanship ?
Did you knowthat the 22 Bodmer Papyri from a fifth-century Egyptian monastic library near Nag Hammadi contain three plays by Menander and fragments of the Iliad , as well as early versions of the Gospel of Luke and Gospel of John ?
Did you knowthat The Christian by Hall Caine (published 1897) was the first novel in Britain to sell over a million copies?
Did you knowthat British Conservative MP Norman Miscampbell turned down a knighthood because he thought it would prevent him enjoying his retirement from politics?
Did you knowthat the former KGB agent Yuri Nosenko was incarcerated for five years by the CIA including 1,277 days of interrogation, because the American agents did not believe he had truly defected ?
Did you knowthat Leon Wasilewski , first Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs , was one of the chief supporters of the Prometheism policy aimed at breaking up the Soviet Union ?
Did you knowthat Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden wrote three biographies about the Russian imperial family and about her own escape from Russia in 1917?
Did you knowthat, when first built, the Chicago Board of Trade Building became the second structure located at 141 West Jackson Boulevard to bear, for a time, the title of tallest building in Chicago ?
Did you knowthat just 51 days after Adam Air 's loss of Flight 574 , Adam Air Flight 172 snapped in half after a hard landing, but there were no casualties?
Did you knowthat George Cecil Ives created the Order of Chaeronea , a secret society to promote gay rights, and left 122 volumes of diaries and 45 of scrapbooks?
Did you knowthat approximately 300 pieces of mail a day are still being sent to 10048 , the ZIP code assigned to the former World Trade Center complex?
Did you knowthat the legend of the smuggler Cruel Coppinger was embellished by the Reverend Robert Stephen Hawker when he published it in 1866?
Did you knowthat a special kind of soil from Bidar fort is an essential ingredient in making Bidriware , a metal handicraft of Karnataka , India ?
Did you knowthat United States Senator Charles Sumner was nearly beaten to death by Representative Preston Brooks in the Old Senate Chamber of the United States Capitol ?
Did you knowthat maize was the staple of Aztec cuisine , and that maguey worms , spirulina and corn smut were popular Aztec foods?
Did you knowthat the low alcohol beer Buckler was taken out of the market in the Netherlands after sales dropped as a result of the negative image created by comedian Youp van 't Hek in 1989?
Did you knowthat orographic rainfall, one of the three types of rainfall , is caused when cool air is forced upward by mountains to form clouds which then produce rain?
Did you knowthat the Brown Rock Chat sometimes nests in the rafters of inhabited houses ?
Did you knowthat St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is one of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 's oldest churches and a prime example of the ' Polish Cathedral ' style?
Did you knowthat nomadic eagle falconers maintain that "as the man trains the eagle, so does the eagle train his man"?
Did you knowthat Josef Hoffmann co-founded two major art groups and his designs served as a precedent for modern architecture ?
Did you knowthat ten case forms can be traced in the Lithuanian language , seven of which are preserved in the standard language version?
Did you knowthat Arthur Fonjallaz was expelled from the Heimatwehr , a fascist organization in Switzerland , because he advocated an annexation by Italy ?
Did you knowthat Copadichromis borleyi is a type of mouthbrooding fish endemic to Lake Malawi in East Africa ?
Did you knowthat the first Director of Singapore 's Commercial Affairs Department , Glenn Knight , was also the first legal officer in the country to be charged for corruption ?
Did you knowthat a British submarine flotilla dominated the Baltic Sea for a major part of WWI , but the loss of the Socialists in the Finnish Civil War forced the crews to scuttle the fleet outside Helsinki ?
Did you knowthat the term " a feather in your cap " comes from the traditional rights bestowed upon warriors or hunters who have killed their enemy or prey?
Did you knowthat Fort Antes in what is now Nippenose Township , Pennsylvania , survived a scorched earth attack during the American Revolutionary War , despite having been abandoned by its defenders?
Did you knowthat Chitrakala Parishat , an art institution and a cultural organization in Bangalore , was the brainchild of famous Russian painter Svetoslav Roerich who used to reside in that city?
Did you knowthat Peter of Tarentaise started the charitable tradition of giving food to poor farmers in the spring called pain de Mai (May-bread), which continued for over 600 years?
Did you knowthat the people of the Bronze Age Elp culture in the present-day Netherlands lived in longhouses similar to those inhabited by the area's farmers today?
Did you knowthat MANual Enterprises v. Day 370 U.S. 478 (1962) was the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court engaged in plenary review of a Post Office Department order holding obscene materials "nonmailable"?
Did you knowthat the Arab Socialist Action Party , the main secular opposition group in Saudi Arabia at the time, faced a massive crackdown in the spring of 1982?
Did you knowthat William Firmatus , a Norman hermit , is said to have led a wild boar by the ear from a farmer's plot and instructed it to fast for the night in a solitary cell?
Did you knowthat the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 established the first peacetime draft in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Philip Whistler Street was a Chief Justice on the Supreme Court of New South Wales , Australia -- as were his son Kenneth and his grandson Laurence ?
Did you knowthat the Common Skullcap , a perennial plant found throughout Eurasia , is traditionally used as a mild sedative ?
Did you knowthat the Potawatomi , a tribe of Native Americans , were evicted from land near Indiana ’s Yellow River less than six years after tribal chiefs signed a treaty granting them that land in perpetuity?
Did you knowthat the Lutheran Church of China was created from the union of no less than 25 separate Lutheran missionary agencies?
Did you knowthat 18% of all deaths occurring in automobile accidents are the result of traumatic aortic ruptures ?
Did you knowthat Gaetano Donizetti 's opera Le duc d'Albe didn't receive its first performance until more than 40 years after his death?
Did you knowthat Dr. Andrew Rochford , a presenter on the popular Australian television show What's Good For You , got his break after he won the popular show The Block ?
Did you knowthat the ideology of the Romanian National Renaissance Front has been described as " operetta fascism "?
Did you knowthat according to Ronald Enroth 's book Churches That Abuse , " spiritual abuse can take place in the context of doctrinally sound, Bible -preaching, fundamentalist , conservative Christianity "?
Did you knowthat Nova Studios developed the "West Coast Look", a stylized and highly planned filmmaking style of gay pornography which dominated the genre through the 1980s?
Did you knowthat the port of Kuala Belait , one of the two ports in Brunei , is located in Kampong Sungai Duhon ?
Did you knowthat Benedict Arnold learned about the capture of his fellow-conspirator John André while living on Sugarloaf Hill , from which he then fled?
Did you knowthat Japanese painter Shimomura Kanzan came from a family of Noh actors, and that themes from Noh drama frequently appeared in his works?
Did you knowthat participants in the Sterling Institute of Relationship dance naked in a ritual while being videotaped?
Did you knowthat Jim Hutchinson , who died in 2000, was the longest-lived first-class cricket player, at 103 years and 344 days?
Did you knowthat Edward R.  Bradley was the preeminent owner and breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses in the Southern United States during the early 20th century?
Did you knowthat there are 618 species of birds in Belize ?
Did you knowthat the Zambian district of Chiengi has no television or telephone service?
Did you knowthat American comic book artist Art Saaf also made storyboards for The Jackie Gleason Show and illustrated Highlights for Children ?
Did you knowthat the Institute of National Remembrance , a Polish research institute on modern Polish history , has been in a center of recent Polish politics ?
Did you knowthat the Tel Aviv bus 5 massacre was the deadliest suicide bombing in Israeli history up until that time?
Did you knowthat when Reprise Records signed 17-year-old Chris Cummings to a record contract in 1992, he was the youngest artist they had ever signed?
Did you knowthat ceramics expert Otto Natzler perfected over 2,000 colours and styles of glazes ?
Did you knowthat the enrollment rate of girls in schools in Yemen is the lowest out of all Middle Eastern countries?
Did you knowthat gay pornographic film director Scott Masters directed more than 100 loops before founding his own company, Nova Studios ?
Did you knowthat more than one million Koreans moved to Arab countries and Iran between 1975 and 1985?
Did you knowthat nearly 3 million rupees worth of property was stolen from the house of Kannada cinema actor Srinath on the day of his daughter's marriage in 2001?
Did you knowthat the 1914 comic strip Abie the Agent , the first American comic with a Jewish protagonist , has been called the first adult comic?
Did you knowthat Kveldulf Bjalfasson , a ninth-century Norwegian landowner and grandfather of the Viking Egill Skallagrímsson , was reputed to be an ulfhéðinn or werewolf ?
Did you knowthat Nabisco Brands, Inc. sold the US Shredded Wheat operations to General Foods , and the international Shredded Wheat operations to General Mills ?
Did you knowthat between her marriage to Marcus Garvey and her relationship with President of Liberia William Tubman , Pan-Africanist activist Amy Ashwood Garvey ran a club on London 's Carnaby Street ?
Did you knowthat reification is a logical fallacy that occurs when qualities of a living being are attributed to an abstract concept ?
Did you knowthat Whistling Kites in Australia primarily hunt live prey, while those in New Guinea are principally scavengers ?
Did you knowthat the Poplar Tree Elementary School building was damaged by boulders from blasting works during its construction, and it initially had no playground ?
Did you knowthat the women courtiers in the erstwhile Mysore Kingdom were expected to be adept in 64 arts, with Kasuti embroidery being one of them?
Did you knowthat former Ghana MP Eric Amoateng was arrested in the United States and has pled guilty to drug trafficking -related charges?
Did you knowthat the town of Channapatna in India is known as the "toy-town of Karnataka " due to the popularity of the wooden toys manufactured there?
Did you knowthat the eight surviving medieval Bulgarian royal charters are among the few available secular documents from the time of the Second Bulgarian Empire ?
Did you knowthat the performance of " Let Me Try " at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 featured performers banging on what appeared to be drums of industrial waste ?
Did you knowthat there are 254 Hewitts and Nuttalls in England?
Did you knowthat Yalchik Lake is the biggest lake in Mari El , Russia ?
Did you knowthat Anne Hyde Choate was the second president of the Girl Scouts of the USA and also an international Scouting leader in WAGGGS for fifty years?
Did you knowthat Marbrianus de Orto was one of the first composers to write a completely canonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass ?
Did you knowthat Tejashwini Sreeramesh , an Indian Member of Parliament from the Kanakapura constituency of Karnataka , was previously an anchor of a talk show on Udaya TV ?
Did you knowthat microfinance organization FINCA International is known as the " World Bank for the poor"?
Did you knowthat Alex Stevenson is the only footballer to play for both the Republic of Ireland and Rangers F.C. ?
Did you knowthat the non-fiction book Est Playing the Game was almost blocked from publication because it described techniques used in Erhard Seminars Training ?
Did you knowthat one of the liturgies of the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate , a part of Western Rite Orthodoxy , is a modified form of the 1928 American Book of Common Prayer ?
Did you knowthat John Bower was the first non- European to ever win in any events at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1968?
Did you knowthat Banga Mahila Vidyalaya (Bengali Women’s College) was the first women’s liberal arts college in India ?
Did you knowthat the 1934 film Sati Sulochana was the first ever talkie produced in the Kannada language ?
Did you knowthat Marthe Richard was a former prostitute and spy who worked to make brothels illegal in France ?
Did you knowthat Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park in California was initially built and run in the 1970s by the Newhall Land and Farming Company ?
Did you knowthat despite a requirement for scientists to share data , over a quarter of geneticists could not access data required to validate research?
Did you knowthat Andrew N. Meltzoff 's research revealed that infants of only a few weeks of age can imitate facial expressions and hand gestures ?
Did you knowthat Alexandru Ghika , the founder of the Romanian school of functional analysis , was the great-great-grandson of Grigore IV Ghica , Prince of Wallachia ?
Did you knowthat the villagers of Kotor referred to Dominican visionary and anchoress Osanna of Cattaro as "the trumpet of the Holy Spirit " and the "teacher of mysticism "?
Did you knowthat it is said that the name for Gilbertstone in Birmingham derives from a man named Gilbert lifting an erratic to extend his land?
Did you knowthat Amsterdam 's Prostitution Information Center provides the city's visitors with information and advice about prostitution ?
Did you knowthat the Lieutenant Governor's Court was the first real civil court in Tasmania and that a judge-advocate presided in the court rather than the lieutenant governor?
Did you knowthat Terry Major-Ball , elder brother of the former British Prime Minister Sir John Major , wrote an "exquisitely funny" autobiography detailing his mishaps running the family's garden ornament business in the 1950s?
Did you knowthat the Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation is the first attempt at recording the complete history of Russian and Soviet animation ?
Did you knowthat the father of Nguyen Van Cu , the Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilot who led the 1962 Presidential Palace bombing , was a dissident jailed by Ngo Dinh Diem ?
Did you knowthat the David Bowie song " Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) " was inspired by Evelyn Waugh 's novel Vile Bodies , which was also the basis for the film Bright Young Things ?
Did you knowthat Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club was the site of Tiger Woods ’ record third consecutive amateur championship ?
Did you knowthat Very Light Jet entrepreneur Jim McCotter founded a religious movement ?
Did you knowthat 25 of the 368 Cuban bird species are endemic ?
Did you knowthat according to legend, when a peasant stole a donkey from Opportuna of Montreuil ' s abbey , she "left the matter up to God ," and the next day, the peasant's field was sown with salt ?
Did you knowthat the 2,000 American soldiers who fought in the Battle of Short Hills against 17,000 British men suffered only minor casualties and were able to inflict considerable damage on the enemy?
Did you knowthat there are two radio stations in Brunei that broadcast partially in Gurkhali for the Nepalese speakers of the First Battalion of the Royal Gurkha Rifles stationed in Brunei?
Did you knowthat Jiang Rong was inspired to write his 2004 novel Wolf Totem during China 's Cultural Revolution after a failed attempt to domesticate a wolf ?
Did you knowthat the 1983 film Circle of Power won a Dramatic Films award at the 1982 Sundance Film Festival ?
Did you knowthat County Route 708 in Camden County, New Jersey is only one of four routes in that county that has multiple routes of the same number?
Did you knowthat Donald Stephens , recently deceased mayor of Rosemont, Illinois for 51 years, is believed to have been the longest-serving mayor in the United States?
Did you knowthat in economics , the kinked demand curve theory was the first attempt at explaining sticky prices?
Did you knowthat French mycologist and naturalist Lucien Quélet claimed in his book, Mycologic Flora of France , that the human race as a whole was becoming more and more primitive ?
Did you knowthat the Lykaia in Arcadia was a primitive rite of passage centered upon a threat of cannibalism and the possibility of a werewolf transformation?
Did you knowthat James T. Brand of the Oregon Supreme Court was the presiding judge for most of the Judges' Trial , in which 10 German lawyers and judges were convicted of war crimes after World War II ?
Did you knowthat in negative base systems, positive and negative numbers can be represented without the use of a minus sign ?
Did you knowthat Gurdwara Sahib Klang , a Sikh Gurdwara in Malaysia , was constructed with donations collected by Sikh Sangats all over Malaysia, including a large sum from the Prime Minister's Department?
Did you knowthat in 2000, Willamette Industries, Inc. was fined a then-record $11.2 million by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for violations of the Clean Air Act ?
Did you knowthat Ladipo Solanke , long the Secretary-General of the West African Students' Union , was the first person to broadcast on the radio in the Yoruba language ?
Did you knowthat the Portland Power ’s Natalie Williams was the leading scorer in the ABL during the 1997 to 1998 season?
Did you knowthat the Romanian artist Ion Valentin Anestin was censored and ultimately arrested by the Communist regime for publishing caricatures of Joseph Stalin during World War II ?
Did you knowthat a British Gurkha Battalion has been maintained in Brunei at the request of the Sultan of Brunei since the 1962 Brunei Revolt ?
Did you knowthat Kerry Lynch is the only nordic combined skier to ever be disqualified for doping and stripped of his medal at the Winter Olympics or Nordic skiing World Championships ?
Did you knowthat Charles Menzies established Newcastle, New South Wales as a settlement, when he was only 21 years of age?
Did you knowthat Jacqui Oatley is the first female football commentator in the history of BBC football programme Match of the Day ?
Did you knowthat the Avinguda Diagonal , a street in Barcelona , Spain , is so named because it cuts the central district Eixample in two diagonally?
Did you knowthat Dan Jones heard founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Joseph Smith, Jr. 's " final prophecy " the day before Smith was killed?
Did you knowthat the Vietminh named the grenades they made and used against the French after Phan Dinh Phung , who led a rebel army in the initial colonisation of Vietnam ?
Did you knowthat Australian Test cricketer Ray Lindwall played in two rugby league grand finals for the St. George Dragons ?
Did you knowthat Annette Akroyd , an orientalist , is remembered primarily for her early efforts at women’s education in India ?
Did you knowthat a German-American was aboard the German submarine, U-94 , when she was sunk by United States Navy and Canadian Navy forces?
Did you knowthat the Royal Brunei Navy formed as the Boat Section of the Brunei Malay Regiment ?
Did you knowthat Eduard Bloch was a Jewish doctor whose life was saved out of "everlasting gratitude" by Adolf Hitler ?
Did you knowthat on May 3 , 2002 a military MiG-21bis aircraft crashed into the Bank of Rajasthan in India , killing eight?
Did you knowthat the far right political writer Armin Mohler was refused entry to the SS and forced to return to his native Switzerland , where he was arrested for desertion from the Swiss Army ?
Did you knowthat Lyndon Johnson declined to respond to the Vietcong 's Christmas Eve 1964 Brinks Hotel bombing , fearing that fighting during the holiday season would damage morale?
Did you knowthat Julian Salomons was the only chief justice in New South Wales to resign before he was sworn into office?
Did you knowthat tourism is Nicaragua 's second largest industry, having grown 394% in the past 12 years?
Did you knowthat Royal Governor of Chile José de Garro planned to defeat the Mapuches by taking their chiefs hostage in a ruse, but the plan was rejected by King Charles II of Spain as too deceitful?
Did you knowthat in 1961 the Portland Buckaroos hockey team beat the Seattle Totems in the Western Hockey League championship to win the Lester Patrick Cup in its first season of existence?
Did you knowthat the non-fiction book The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled is cited in academic journals as an extreme example of encounter groups ?