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Did you knowthat Preparing for Emergencies was a British Home Office programme to increase public safety after several major disasters, including the Madrid bombings , SARS outbreak and UK foot and mouth crisis ?
Did you knowthat the Reesor Siding 1963 Strike which left 3 people dead, was the deadliest confrontation in Canadian labour history?
Did you knowthat Jarilo was a major Proto-Slavic deity of vegetation , fertility and spring , also associated with war and harvest ?
Did you knowthat the fleets of Gisulf II of Salerno sometimes turned to piracy against Amalfi and Pisa ?
Did you knowthat Bob Dylan 's infamous performance of " Maggie's Farm " at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival was seen by his band's organist Al Kooper as "sort of a disaster"?
Did you knowthat the Brazilian city of Corumbaíba was founded after a local rancher saw a white wolf, which, according to a legend, would give him good luck, and then built a chapel thanking his luck?
Did you knowthat In re Debs was a 1895 Supreme Court case that resulted in an unanimous ruling affirming the right of the United States government to issue an injunction to halt strikes affecting interstate commerce and U.S. Mail ?
Did you knowthat the Scintillant Hummingbird has bronze-green upperparts and a rufous and black-striped tail?
Did you knowthat the postminimalist artist, Gabriel Orozco , once sliced a Citroën DS into three pieces length-wise, removed the central piece and then re-attached the two sides leading to an arrow-like automobile ?
Did you knowthat the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata - the seat of the Governor-General during the Raj - was built on the lines of Kedleston Hall , Derbyshire ?
Did you knowthat the first Navy Minister of Imperial Russia , Nikolay Mordvinov , started his career serving on English ships in America ?
Did you knowthat through the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated Usenet newsgroup , Babylon 5 creator and writer J. Michael Straczynski is often credited as being the first TV producer to directly engage with his fans on the internet , and have their comments impact the look and feel of his work?
Did you know that the Soviet general Valentin Varennikov , one of the members of the State Emergency Committee which organized the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 , was eventually acqutted by the Russian court and took a seat in the State Duma ?
Did you knowthat the National Resources Commission controlled 70% of Chinese industry in Republican China ?
Did you knowthat the Rosenbaum House is the only building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the U.S. state of Alabama ?
Did you knowthat the Ottawa rules are a set of guidelines for doctors to aid them in deciding if a patient with foot or ankle pain should be offered X-rays to diagnose a possible bone fracture ?
Did you knowthat each year in the U.S., several sites complete soil contamination clean-up by using microbes that eat up toxic chemicals in soil?
Did you knowthat on January 21 , 2006 Ilan Halimi , a French Jew , was kidnapped by a gang of Muslim immigrant youths and subsequently tortured to death, with the motive being either money or anti-Semitism ?
Did you knowthat the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service was a non-combat branch of the Royal Australian Navy that recruited women, in order to alleviate manpower shortages resulting from men being assigned to combat roles during World War II ?
Did you knowthat Szymon Konarski was a 19th-century Polish radical politician who believed in a revolution of all peoples of the Russian Empire that was to bring freedom and democracy to all?
Did you knowthat the Athénée Palace hotel in Bucharest , Romania , now a Hilton , may have been Europe's most notorious den of spies in the years leading up to World War II , and only slightly less so during the Cold War ?
Did you knowthat Russia won the 1804-1813 Russo-Persian War , because of its superior technology , despite Persia upscaling its efforts at the end of the war, and declaring it a holy war ?
Did you knowthat the call of Mangrove Black Hawk is a distinctive piping spink-speenk-speenk-spink-spink-spink... ?
Did you knowthat national legislative elections will be held in Thailand on April 2 , 2006 , following the decision by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to dissolve the lower house of the Thai legislature, the House of Representatives?
Did you knowthat Bill Ashdown is the only person to have played first-class cricket both before the First World War and after the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat Lydia Sokolova , born in Wanstead as Hilda Munnings, was the principal character dancer of the Ballets Russes and the first English ballerina in the company?
Did you knowthat during the Battle of Hel , one of the longest battles in the 1939 Polish September Campaign , Polish forces temporarily separated the peninsula from the mainland, forming an island?
Did you knowthat Greyfriars Kirkyard , famed for its association with Greyfriars Bobby , is haunted by the spirit of " Bluidy Mackenzie " and featured in the early photography of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson ?
Did you knowthat when Edwin J. Cohn gave public demonstrations of the newly-invented blood fractionation machine, he used his own freshly-drawn blood which, when the machine exploded after clogging, led to the first several rows of the audience being covered in blood?
Did you knowthat Mozambican journalist Carlos Cardoso was murdered while investigating the privatization of the country's largest bank ?
Did you knowthat although archaeologists in Singapore have discovered many artifacts , they do not have government support for their work, and there is no centralised place to store the artifacts?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Zhuolu , fought in the 26th century BC and the second recorded battle in Chinese history , is often considered a pivotal moment in the establishment of the Han Chinese civilization?
Did you knowthat Nikolay Glazkov , a Soviet poet , is credited with having coined the term samizdat , which has come to be internationally known?
Did you knowthat on Christmas Eve 1942, in the Tatsinskaya Raid ,  the Red Army 's 24th Tank Corps captured the German airfield that was conducting the Stalingrad relief airlift?
Did you knowthat the Yellow-shouldered Blackbird , a bird endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico , engages in anting , a behavior in which birds rub ants on their feathers?
Did you knowthat the mummified remains of outlaw Hazel Farris helped raise funds for the Bessemer Hall of History in Bessemer, Alabama ?
Did you knowthat The Stewardesses , the most profitable 3-D film in history, was notorious for still being edited during the first year of its showing in theaters?
Did you knowthat French singer Édith Piaf dedicated her recording of the song, " Non, je ne regrette rien ", to the French Foreign Legion ?
Did you knowthat the 5th New York Volunteer Infantry suffered 330 casualties, including 120 dead, in eight minutes at the Second Battle of Bull Run , the largest number of fatalities received by any federal infantry unit in the entire American Civil War ?
Did you knowthat the Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum , a medieval didactic poem, was considered a scholarly medical work that was seriously discussed until the 19th century ?
Did you knowthat in Miller v. Jackson the Court of Appeal of England and Wales found that a cricket club was liable in negligence and nuisance when sixes were hit over the boundary onto neighbouring property, and that it is best known for the lyrical dissenting judgment of Lord Denning , MR ?
Did you knowthat pitcher - outfielder Clint Hartung was hyped as Cooperstown -bound but played so poorly for the New York Giants that his name has become synonymous with rookies who flop?
Did you knowthat Protmušis is a quizbowl competition that has been taking place in Vilnius , Lithuania since 1997 ?
Did you knowthat a private citizen, Avabai Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy , entirely funded the construction of the Mahim Causeway , a major throughfare connecting the island city of Mumbai (Bombay) with its north-western suburbs?
Did you knowthat the Kryvbas economic region in Ukraine is one of the largest iron ore and steel industry centers in Europe ?
Did you knowthat in the Battle of Gdynia during the Polish September Campaign , the German armed forces captured Gdynia , an important port and industrial center of the Second Polish Republic ?
Did you knowthat the SS leader Felix Landau temporarily spared the life of the Jewish artist Bruno Schulz , because Landau liked his art and wanted the artist to paint a set of murals for his young son's bedroom?
Did you knowthat the Ford Mustang SSP , in addition to being advertised by Ford as "chasing Porsches for a living", was also used as a pursuit car for the Lockheed U2 spy plane?
Did you knowthat in the Night Attack skirmish, Vlad III Dracula is said to have been "one of the first European crusaders to use gunpowder in a deadly artistic way"?
Did you knowthat Kongara Jaggayya was the first Indian film actor to be elected directly to the Parliament ?
Did you knowthat Camille Gravel , a Louisiana Democrat and civil rights advocate, was highly influential in state and national politics despite never holding office?
Did you knowthat the Uruguayan Invasion was a musical phenomenon of the 1960s distinctly similar to the British Invasion , with rock bands from Uruguay rapidly gaining popularity in Argentina ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of the Lower Dnieper is considered to be one of the largest battles in world history, involving almost 4,000,000 men on both sides and stretching on a front 1,400 kilometers wide?
Did you knowthat Saint Thomas Becket professed to owe a "debt of gratitude" to Margaret of Navarre , who was the regent of Sicily between 1166 and 1171 ?
Did you knowthat less than a teaspoon of  a pesticide of the Toxicity Class I ( EPA system) can kill an adult person?
Did you knowthat Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski , a colonel of the Polish Army , was one of the many prisoners murdered by Nazi Germany in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp ?
Did you knowthat Troy VII is an archaeological layer of Troy associated with the city's destruction during the legendary Trojan War ?
Did you knowthat The Tanganyika Rifles mutinied in 1964 , seizing control of Tanganyika for days before surrendering to the Royal Marines ?
Did you knowthat the calls of the Red-throated Ant-Tanager , a noisy passerine bird native to the Caribbean , include a scolding raaah or nasal pip pik , and the song is a throaty whistled cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick cherry quick ?
Did you knowthat Jefferson Pier in Washington, D.C. was a survey monument for the first meridian of the United States , replacing one set by Thomas Jefferson in 1793 , and that it was later used as a mooring bollard on the Potomac River ?
Did you knowthat, during the Battle of Königsberg , German troops were subjected to Soviet propaganda , telling them that they were trapped in a pocket and that their resistance was pointless?
Did you knowthat a pioneer automobile manufacturer, August Duesenberg , went bankrupt after his failure to sell his first mass produced vehicle, although his race cars had won seven of the first ten places in the 1920 Indianapolis 500 -mile race?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Domašov during the Seven Years' War was the first big military success of Ernst Gideon von Laudon , which made Prussian King Frederick the Great finish the siege of Olomouc and leave Moravia ?
Did you knowthat Robin Philipson , former President of the Royal Scottish Academy , was particularly renowned for his cockfight paintings?
Did you knowthat in 1132 George of Antioch was given the title ammiratus ammiratorum , which translates as Admiral of Admirals in modern English , but meant Emir of Emirs to contemporaries?
Did you knowthat, in the history of wound care , the Ancient Greeks were the first to differentiate between acute and chronic wounds , calling them "fresh" and "non-healing", respectively?
Did you knowthat the sepoys lost the Central India Campaign (1858) because most of their officers were elderly men who had attained rank through seniority while seeing little action and receiving no training as leaders?
Did you knowthat the Birdsville Races in Queensland , Australia used to have separate races for horses that ate grass and those that ate corn ?
Did you know that the Bogomil bishop Nicetas went to Lombardy in order to throw doubts on the Cathars 's spiritual succession to the Apostles ?
Did you know that the 1065-m long Črni Kal viaduct on the A1 highway is the longest viaduct in Slovenia ?
Did you know that a bouchon is a type of traditional restaurant in Lyon , serving such delicacies as pig's head cheese, tripe soup and andouillette ?
Did you know that Peter the Great was the principal editor of the Vedomosti , the first newspaper printed in Russia ?
Did you know that Hugh Green received the Walter Camp Award and the Lombardi Award , and was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996 ?
Did you know that the 111th Fighter Escadrille of the Polish Air Force successfully foiled an attack by the German Luftwaffe about an hour before World War II broke out in Westerplatte ?
Did you know that Yueh Hai Ching Temple is the oldest Taoist temple in Singapore , and Chinese Emperor Guang Xu presented a plaque to the temple in 1907 ?
Did you know that Will Jefferson is probably the tallest professional cricketer ever, at about 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m ) tall?
Did you know that Philip II of Macedon used the Social War (357-355 BC) as an opportunity to further the interests of his Macedonian Empire in the Aegean region?
Did you know that Arthropleuridea is an extinct class of myriapods which includes, at over 2 meters long, the largest terrestrial arthropods that ever lived?
Did you know that King James IV of Scotland once used Mingarry Castle as a stronghold for fighting off clan Donald in the late 15th century ?
Did you know that some call the Atchison County Historical Museum the "world's smallest presidential library "?
Did you know that during the American Civil War , an early Union steam torpedo boat, USS Spuyten Duyvil , was used to clear obstructions so President Lincoln could visit the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia after General Lee 's withdrawal?
Did you know that the Canadian Parliament Buildings have housed several dozen stray cats since the 1970s ?
Did you know that the 2005-06 World Sevens Series in rugby sevens will be the first in seven seasons of the competition to be won by a team other than New Zealand ?
Did you know that Australia has a National Public Toilet Map , allowing users to locate the 14,000 public toilets across the country to four decimal places of latitude and longitude ?
Did you knowthat BASICODE programs were broadcast by radio for recording onto compact audio cassettes , and could run on nearly all 8-bit home computers of the 1980s ?
Did you knowthat the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Memorial , which is located in the Moti Shahi Mahal in Ahmedabad , was built by Emperor Shahjahan and was formerly the residence of the Governor of Gujarat ?
Did you knowthat in the 1936 Siege of the Alcázar , around 1000 Spanish Nationalists in Toledo held a medieval castle for two months despite aerial and artillery bombardments and a sustained assault by 8000 Republican troops?
Did you knowthat the Middle Awash is a site along the Awash River of Ethiopia in which some of the most famous extinct hominids have been discovered?
Did you knowthat a Mercedes roadster was colloquially named after a wealthy German call girl , Rosemarie Nitribitt , who was murdered in Frankfurt in 1957 ?
Did you knowthat Stamp mills , first used during the Renaissance in such diverse industries as paper making , oil-seed processing, and ore refining, work to crush their material by repeatedly dropping heavy weights on them?
Did you knowthat Ivan Shuvalov , who was a favourite of Empress Elizabeth , 27 years his senior, used his influence at court to establish the first permanent theatre , university , and academy of arts in Russia ?
Did you knowthat despite inherent design flaws, the Polish Navy ordered two Wicher -class destroyers from a French shipyard in order to help secure a line of credit for the Polish government ?
Did you knowthat the Ashfork-Bainbridge Steel Dam , one of only 3 such steel dams built in the United States, and located in the Kaibab National Forest , is the only one still in service?
Did you knowthat it took thirty railway cars to move the Fersman Mineralogical Museum collections from Saint Petersburg to Moscow in 1934 ?
Did you knowthat the Splittail , a cyprinid fish native to the Central Valley in California , is the sole living member of its genus?
Did you knowthat canoe racer Josefa Idem , a 1984 Olympic bronze medalist for West Germany , later took an Italian citizenship and became the first female Olympic medalist in canoeing for her new country?
Did you knowthat the Bobby Goldsboro song " Honey " (1968), Goldsboro's first and only number-one hit on the U.S. Billboard Pop Singles Chart , frequently appears on " worst songs of all time " lists?
Did you knowthat the Trinity Church is a permanent building in Antarctica and the most southern church in the world?
Did you knowthat the Gujarat Vidyapith was founded in 1920 by Mahatma Gandhi as a means to establish an education system for all Indians free of British rule ?
Did you knowthat mellah is a walled Jewish quarter of a city in Morocco , an analogue of the European ghetto ?
Did you knowthat the Kirghiz novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years takes place over the course of one day and chronicles efforts of two cosmonauts , one American and one Soviet, to make contact with intelligent life from another planet ?
Did you knowthat the reforms of the Great Sejm in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth , based on the French revolution , were annulled by the military intervention of the Russian Empire ?
Did you knowthat the Red Army conducted the successful Toropets-Kholm Operation in January 1942, threatening to encircle German Army Group Centre?
Did you knowthat the culture of medieval Poland , the earliest stage of Polish culture , was heavily influenced by the Catholic Church ?
Did you knowthat Women Strike for Peace played a crucial role in bringing down the HUAC and were acknowledged by both U Thant and John F. Kennedy as a factor in the adoption of the Limited Test Ban Treaty ?
Did you knowthat the Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union , an Indian farm labourers movement, claims a membership of over 2.5 million?
Did you knowthat the French light cruiser Marseillaise was sabotaged by her own crew on November 27 , 1942 , in order to prevent the Germans from capturing the ship?
Did you knowthat Bud Neill was a Scottish newspaper cartoonist whose best loved strip was set in "Calton Creek", a fictional Arizona outpost of the wild west populated with Glaswegians , including Sherriff "Lobey Dosser" who rode a two-legged horse?
Did you knowthat Masjid Omar Kampong Melaka is the oldest mosque in Singapore and was established in 1820, just a year after the British set up a trading post in Singapore ?
Did you know that the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company carrying passengers and freight from Sydney to the south coast of New South Wales , Australia , between 1850 and 1955, was known as the 'Pig and Whistle line' because it was said that the fleet ships would wait an hour for a pig but not a minute for a passenger?
Did you knowthat William Hamilton , a surgeon of British East India Company , cured the Mughal emperor Farrukhsiyar from recurrent illness, thereby hastening the process of achieving the grant that allowed the company to legally trade in India ?
Did you knowthat the Privat Group is one of the few Ukrainian companies that own industries in the United States ?
Did you knowthat the Peking Plan saved three destroyers of the Polish Navy from imminent destruction at the beginning of the Second World War ?
Did you knowthat The University of Texas School of Law has been involved in two separate court cases , one of which reached the Supreme Court , which significantly redefined university admissions criteria across the United States ?
Did you knowthat the Russo-Persian War of 1796 was cancelled by Tsar Paul I within one month after his ascension to the Russian throne ?
Did you knowthat the Jugendweihe is a secular alternative to confirmation in Germany and became a Socialist pledge in the atheist GDR ?
Did you knowthat completion of the West Coast Highway viaduct — the longest in Singapore — was delayed for more than two years because of the contractor 's financial problems?
Did you knowthat Charles Schepens , an influential ophthalmologist and regarded by many in the profession as "the father of modern retinal surgery ", was also a leader in the Nazi resistance movement ?
Did you knowthat Katie Melua agreed to re-record her song " Nine Million Bicycles " (2005) in response to criticisms from physicist Simon Singh , who described its lyrics as "an insult to a century of astronomical progress"?
Did you knowthat the wars in Lombardy , fought between Venice and Milan from 1425 to the signing of the Treaty of Lodi in 1454, mark the emergence of five great Italian territorial states and the European concept of " balance of power "?
Did you knowthat Moritz Daniel Oppenheim , a German Jewish painter , is considered "the first Jewish painter" because his work was informed by his cultural and religious roots at a time when many of his contemporaries chose to convert?
Did you knowthat many cases of nuclear espionage are thought to have occurred since the Manhattan Project ?
Did you knowthat Henrik Hybertsson was the shipbuilder responsible for building the Regalskeppet Vasa , which sank on its maiden voyage and is now on display in Vasa Museum in Stockholm , Sweden ?
Did you knowthat Robert Triffin predicted the reasons for the collapse of the Bretton Woods System over ten years before it happened?
Did you knowthat Doctor Who spoofs range from a 1964 novelty Christmas single by the Go-Go's called "I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek " to two sketches on Saturday Night Live ?
Did you knowthat the Warsaw Arsenal was the scene of heavy fighting during the Warsaw Uprising of 1794 ?
Did you knowthat Catherine II 's Instruction to the Legislative Assembly was banned in pre-revolutionary 18th-century France as a "libertarian book"?
Did you knowthat the Finnish Communist leader Arvo Tuominen broke with the Soviet Union during the Winter War and ordered the Finnish Communists not to assist the Red Army ?
Did you knowthat the EMAS has been so effective in monitoring traffic conditions on Singapore 's expressways that the LTA removed most SOS telephones from the expressways as a result?
Did you knowthat the Vanessa Carlton song " White Houses " (2004) provided the inspiration for a charity which aimed to raise money for Habitat for Humanity International ?
Did you knowthat Anna Marly originally wrote Chant des Partisans , the song that became the anthem of the French Resistance following the prohibition of La Marseillaise , in Russian ?
Did you knowthat the village of Cellardyke in Fife , Scotland , is the site of the first confirmed case of H5N1 avian flu in the United Kingdom , and was once home to a 200-strong fishing fleet ?
Did you knowthat methoxychlor is used as an insecticide instead of the chemically related DDT because it apparently does not lead to bioaccumulation ?
Did you knowthat the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos , apart from being the seat of the Spanish Inquisition was also the meeting place between Columbus and Isabella before he made his voyage to the New World in 1492 ?
Did you knowthat the explorer Peter Semenov of Tian Shan presided over the Russian Geographical Society for more than 40 years?
Did you knowthat PZL-230 Skorpion attack aircraft , cancelled in 1992, was one of the most ambitious airplane projects of Poland ?
Did you knowthat Colonel Peter Egerton Warburton was a British explorer who crossed the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia in 1873 by camel ?
Did you knowthat a Katsa is a field intelligence officer of the Mossad who collects information and runs agents, similar to the case officer of the CIA ?
Did you knowthat more than 30 km² of the Losiny Ostrov National Park forest fall within the boundaries of Moscow ?