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Did you knowthat the Social Democrats under leader Hjalmar Branting won the Swedish general election in 1921 , the first fully democratic parliamentary election in Sweden ?
Did you knowthat Henry of Masovia , 14th century bishop of Płock , might have been poisoned by his wife, sister of Grand Duke of Lithuania , Vytautas the Great ?
Did you knowthat the African-American dancer Lavinia Williams gave up ballet stardom in the United States to spend decades developing national schools of Caribbean traditional dance in Haiti , Guyana , and the Bahamas ?
Did you knowthat during World War II , more than 10,000 Soviet soldiers and civilians, cut off from the mainland, resisted for 170 days in the Adzhimushkay quarries in Crimea ?
Did you knowthat the first Prime Minister of Italy , Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour was also one of the first landowners in Italy to use chemical fertilizers ?
Did you knowthat between 1938 and 1943, C$ 13 million worth of gold bricks were shipped out of the small Vancouver Island community Zeballos ?
Did you knowthat the first Wearmouth Bridge in Sunderland was the longest single span cast iron bridge in the world when it opened in 1796?
Did you knowthat Hamdard (Wakf) Laboratories , the world's largest manufacturer of Unani medicines, reinvests all its profits into charitable activities?
Did you knowthat the “Deluxe” version of Outrage! is the most expensive board game in the world?
Did you knowthat a series of scandals in the 1970s involving the Royal Canadian Mounted Police resulted in the permanent loss of their right to oversee Canadian intelligence operations?
Did you knowthat Dream Theater held a song contest to see who could write a song as similar as possible to " Stream of Consciousness " , based solely on its arrangement charts posted from the studio prior to its release?
Did you knowthat the Periyar National Park , Thekkady is located around the Periyar reservoir formed by the backwaters of the Mullaperiyar dam ?
Did you know that the Chinese of Calcutta have established the only Chinatown in India?
Did you knowthat Charles Dadant emigrated from France to Hamilton, Illinois , where he became a founding father of modern beekeeping ?
Did you knowthat Justice G.T. Nanavati headed a one-man commission to investigate the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots ?
Did you knowthat the Swedish schlager singer Towa Carson competed in Melodifestivalen 2004 at the age of 68?
Did you knowthat William Makepeace Thackeray may have based the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon on exploits of the notorious soldier and duelist Tiger Roche ?
Did you knowthat the Bruce Tunnel is the only tunnel on the Kennet and Avon Canal and the second longest navigable tunnel on Britain 's canals ?
Did you knowthat the Tree of Hippocrates is a plane tree in Kos under which, according to legend, Hippocrates taught his pupils medicine ?
Did you knowthat the comic series Bahadur focused on rehabilitation of dacoits at a time when dacoity was prevalent in many parts of rural India ?
Did you knowthat excavations of the Roman castrum at Charax, Crimea revealed drains made of clay pipes and a reservoir with a mosaic portrayal of an octopus ?
Did you knowthat " Giovanni Henrico Albicastro " , the Baroque composer of music in a Corellian manner, was actually Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg, a cavalry officer born in Bavaria ?
Did you knowthat Difficult Run is a tributary of the Potomac River in the United States?
Did you knowthat the Athenian coup of 411 BC temporarily replaced the democratic government of Athens with a narrow oligarchy ?
Did you knowthat New York, Texas is near Athens while Texas, New York is near Rome ?
Did you knowthat at various times and in various cultures the first dance was the minuet , quadrille , waltz , or polonaise ?
Did you knowthat Florence Mary Taylor was the first female architect in Australia ?
Did you knowthat although the Pandora's Box album Original Sin was a commercial failure, some of the tracks have gone platinum with other artists?
Did you know that Kashmiriyat defines the way of life and identity of the Kashmiri people since medieval times, helping them preserve harmony amidst invasions of Kashmir ?
Did you knowthat jewellery in the Pacific changed drastically when missionaries began converting many Pacific nations to Christianity ?
Did you knowthat St. Nilus reportedly foretold to princess Aloara of Capua , for her part in the murder of her husband's nephew, that none of her offspring should reign in Capua—a prophecy that came true in 999 ?
Did you knowthat between 1955 and 1998, under Article 19 of the Greek Citizenship Code which entitled the Greek government to strip non- ethnic Greeks who left the country of their citizenship , 46,638 members of the officially recognized Muslim minority of Greece lost their citizenship?
Did you know that George J. Adler , one of the greatest linguists of the 19th century, went insane from the effort of publishing his Dictionary of German and English Languages ?
Did you knowthat the Queen Elizabeth Walk in Singapore was built on reclaimed land in 1922 and that it was renamed in 1953 to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat young celebrity chef Sam Stern joined fellow chefs including Jamie Oliver and Anthony Worrall Thompson at the "BBC Good Food Show" in London when he was just 15?
Did you knowthat Louis Kaufman , an accomplished American classical violinist, played more than 400 solo performances in movie soundtracks , making him one of the world's most frequently heard violinists?
Did you knowthat on 2 January 1990, 26-year old Nivedita Bhasin of Indian Airlines became the youngest woman pilot in world civil aviation history to command a jet aircraft?
Did you knowthat even though Michigan State football coach Muddy Waters got fired for his losing 10-23 record, his fans still carried him off the field after his final 24-18 loss to Iowa ?
Did you knowthat prominent Soviet Armenian finswimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saved 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen from a dam into the Erevan reservoir ?
Did you knowthat the Konevsky Monastery at Lake Ladoga takes its name from a huge boulder which was revered by pagan Finns ?
Did you knowthat the Maya archaeological site of La Corona is the enigmatic and long-sought "Site Q"?
Did you know that the Portuguese film Ala-Arriba! features real-life fishermen from Póvoa de Varzim in starring roles?
Did you knowthat an attack on the USS Firebolt (PC-10) killed the first member of the United States Coast Guard to die in action since the Vietnam War ?
Did you knowthat Interstate 10 in Texas is the longest continuous untolled freeway under a single authority in North America ?
Did you knowthat Giles Pellerin , known as the Super Fan, attended 797 consecutive USC football games over a period of 73 years?
Did you knowthat the first album of Taiwanese band 2moro includes a song which consists of excerpts from 23 songs by other singers?
Did you knowthat Henry Shelton Sanford , the founder of Sanford, Florida , was hired as an envoy to the United States by King Leopold II of Belgium ?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Kelbajar was the first time Armenian military forces crossed and captured a region of Azerbaijan during the Nagorno-Karabakh War ?
Did you knowthat the Boston Transportation Planning Review was declared by the U.S. Department of Transportation as the prototype urban transportation evaluation?
Did you knowthat the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 made broad and sweeping changes to women's rights in the United Kingdom , allowing women to enter the professions or serve on juries ?
Did you knowthat stereotypes of animals are common in television and film and usually emphasise particular traits of the species?
Did you knowthat Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of Scouting , had a peerage conferred upon him at the 3rd World Scout Jamboree ?
Did you knowthat Scottish National Party politician Douglas Henderson was instrumental in passing the censure motion that led to the downfall of James Callaghan 's Labour government in 1979, but narrowly lost his own seat in the ensuing general election ?
Did you knowthat as a consequence of poverty in Pakistan 51% of tenants are bonded to their landlords in a feudal fashion?
Did you knowthat over 58,000 Paleo-Indian artifacts were unearthed at Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge in North Dakota when lake waters were lowered on the lake in 1989 to reconstruct a dam ?
Did you knowthat Máel Sechnaill mac Maíl Ruanaid , a 9th-century "king of all Ireland ", came to power after killing his brother?
Did you knowthat Justice Rana Bhagwandas was the first Hindu to serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan ?
Did you knowthat Tom Campbell was a popular radio personality on KYA San Francisco who used to loan his personal phonograph, record collection and even his personal automobile to his listeners?
Did you know that cricket was introduced to Slovenia in 1974 by a 13-year-old boy who had visited his pen pal in England and brought back a single bat and a copy of the Laws ?
Did you knowthat racehorse Lil E. Tee , who was deemed so worthless that even an auction company rejected him as unsaleable, won the 1992 Kentucky Derby ?
Did you knowthat Eketorp is an Iron Age ringfort on the island of Öland , Sweden that was mysteriously abandoned for three centuries and rebuilt as a Medieval castle ?
Did you knowthat the Koichi Nakamura -designed computer puzzle game Door Door was the first game to be published by Enix ?
Did you knowthat the Haryana Tourism Corporation names its tourist complexes after local birds in the Indian state of Haryana ?
Did you knowthat the development of the Chrysler Sunbeam was funded by a British government grant?
Did you knowthat NicVax causes an immune response that prevents nicotine from reaching the brain ?
Did you knowthat in their 1956 book Union Democracy , social scientist Seymour Martin Lipset and his colleagues describe how the International Typographical Union once defied Michels ' iron law of oligarchy ?
Did you knowthat the cast for the Academy Award -nominated movie Little Terrorist had never acted in a movie before and that the crew worked for the movie free of charge, and even travelled to India at their own expense?
Did you knowthat Garston Lock is the last remaining turf sided lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal and one of only two remaining in Britain ?
Did you knowthat Russian painter Nikolay Karazin produced many works inspired by the Moscow Metro project that was rejected by the government in 1902?
Did you knowthat every proposal made by the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853 was defeated when placed before the voters?
Did you knowthat Narayan Debnath made the comic-strip character Batul The Great a superhero when the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 flared up?
Did you knowthat Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker , a junior Foreign Office minister during the Suez Crisis in 1956, was sacked by new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1957 for his private opposition to the invasion of Egypt ?
Did you knowthat Italy's 1957 Eurovision entry, " Corde Della Mia Chitarra ", was so long that it resulted in the introduction of length restrictions for competing songs?
Did you knowthat a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment is a tool largely developed in the USA for analysis of real estate toxic liability , but its use has spread to much of the developed world ?
Did you knowthat Wavefront Technologies developed some of the very first off-the-shelf computer animation software, for which it received Academy Awards ?
Did you knowthat hemosuccus pancreaticus , a rare cause of bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract , can cause silver -coloured stools if the bleeding source obstructs the common bile duct ?
Did you knowthat the Russian émigré writer Gaito Gazdanov earned a living by working as a tax collector and hosting a show at the Radio Liberty ?
Did you knowthat Ansett Airlines Flight 232 from Adelaide to Alice Springs in 1972 was the first aircraft hijacking to take place in Australia ?
Did you knowthat Dutch polymath Theodoor Jansson compiled a list of authors who plagiarized expressions from other writers?
Did you knowthat Nathaniel Currier , of Currier and Ives , first achieved prominence creating newspaper illustrations of current events and political cartoons ?
Did you knowthat Joseph Maca played on the United States men's national soccer team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup even though he wasn't a U.S. citizen?
Did you knowthat Mehrauli , a neighbourhood of Delhi housing the famous Qutb complex , was the capital of the Slave dynasty from 1206 to 1290 ?
Did you knowthat Matir Moina , a Bangladeshi film by Tareque Masud , was temporarily banned by censors in Bangladesh before becoming the country's first film to compete for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category?
Did you knowthat Peter and Jane are the main characters in a series of 36 children's early readers for the English language published by Ladybird Books that have been in print for over 40 years, and have sold over 80 million copies?
Did you knowthat Portugal's leading satirical poet of the 18th century, Nicolau Tolentino de Almeida , made the first literary reference to the "Brazilian modinha "?
Did you knowthat the Sidrapong Hydel Power Station is the oldest hydroelectric power station in India ?
Did you knowthat roll call is the only legal means to establish a quorum in the United States Senate and until the next roll call the quorum is assumed to be present, so that less important business may be performed even without physical presence of the whole quorum of 51 Senators?
Did you knowthat " Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo " is a grammatically valid sentence ?
Did you knowthat the first two books by Argentine author Ricardo Güiraldes were such a commercial and critical failure that he gathered up the unsold copies and threw them in a well?
Did you knowthat Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Johnston , Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office from 1981 to 1987, co-ordinated the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer and of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson , and the funeral of the Duchess of Windsor ?
Did you knowthat the Wild Ass Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat , home to the endangered Asian Wild Ass , is the largest wildlife sanctuary of India ?
Did you knowthat during the Gallic War Julius Caesar built the first bridge over the Rhine river in only 10 days and cut it down 18 days later?
Did you knowthat the nearly completed Sivand Dam project in Fars Province , Iran will flood 130 archaeological sites and hasten the destruction of the ancient Persian city of Pasargadae ?
Did you knowthat Mordvin sculptor Stepan Erzya developed a project of transforming entire mountains in the Andes into monuments to the heroes of the war for independence?
Did you knowthat Proverb , a piece by Steve Reich , was influenced both by minimalist techniques and medieval polyphony ?
Did you knowthat Joint Forest Management between villagers and the government of India was started to prevent theft of forest resources at Arabari , but now accounts for the management of at least 14 million hectares in 27 states?
Did you knowthat Walerian Łukasiński , a 19th century Polish Army officer , was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment by the Russian Empire , and died in prison after 44 years, becoming one of the martyrs of the Polish struggle for independence under the partitions ?
Did you knowthat in 1961, retired bus driver Kempton Bunton stole Francisco Goya 's painting Portrait of the Duke of Wellington as a protest, and demanded £140,000 to be donated to charity to allow the poor to pay for television licenses ?
Did you knowthat the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan is a rebel organization that gained de facto recognition from the Government of Pakistan on September 5 , 2006 as a result of negotiations between Islamabad and local tribesmen to end the Waziristan War ?
Did you knowthat in addition to 8,000 Scouts , the 1st World Scout Jamboree of 1920 also hosted, amongst other animals, an alligator, a crocodile, an elephant, and a lioness cub?
Did you knowthat the Blood In The Water match was one of the most famous matches in water polo history, and was won by Hungary after the match was stopped in the final minutes following crowd trouble?
Did you knowthat Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov referred to his opera Kashchey the Immortal as a "short autumnal fairy tale", as opposed to Snegurochka , a "spring fairy tale"?
Did you know that the Explorer 32 satellite was able to determine the density of the upper atmosphere through ground-based observations of the effect of drag on the satellite?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Shusha in May 1992 was the first significant Armenian military victory during the Nagorno-Karabakh War , and marked a turning point during the conflict?
Did you knowthat many plants avoid seed predation through a process called mass seeding , whereby so many seeds are produced at once that it is impossible for predators to eat all of them?
Did you knowthat in 1935, David Townsend was the last England Test cricketer not to have played for one of the English first-class cricket counties?
Did you knowthat the Venus de' Medici ' s elegant arms are by Ercole Ferrata ?
Did you knowthat due to the rarity of the recently-discovered Old World babbler Bugun Liocichla , no type specimen was collected; instead, feathers from the mist net and notes were used as the holotype ?
Did you know that the Bara Katra palace in Dhaka , now dilapidated and half-destroyed, was built originally to be the residence of Mughal prince Shah Shuja ?
Did you knowthat Coop NKL opened Norway 's first self serve food store on October 1 1947 ?
Did you knowthat according to legend, any immigrant to the city of Agroha , established by Emperor Agrasen in ancient India , would receive a hundred thousand bricks to build a home, and a hundred thousand rupees to start a business of his own?
Did you knowthat although the name of Pennsylvania 's western Conewago Creek means at the rapids in the Lenape language , there are no rapids in the creek itself?
Did you knowthat the popular Lithuanian fairy tale hero Eglė the Queen of Serpents transformed herself and her children into trees as a punishment?
Did you knowthat while The Goons may have joked about exploding trousers , farmers in New Zealand in the 1930s actually experienced the phenomenon when herbicide that they were using caught fire?
Did you knowthat the Obscure Berrypecker of New Guinea is a small forest bird known from two specimens and a handful of sightings?
Did you knowthat nutcracker esophagus , a cause of difficult swallowing , takes its name from high amplitude contractions of the esophagus being likened to a mechanical nutcracker ?
Did you knowthat Charlie Williams , one of the first black football players in Britain after the Second World War and later Britain's first well-known black comedian , responded to heckling by saying: "If you don't shut up, I'll come and move in next door to you"?
Did you knowthat Royal Castle in Poznań was once the largest castle in the Polish Kingdom ?
Did you knowthat the 2003 aggressive skating video game Rolling featured a roster of professional skaters including Fabiola da Silva and Brian Shima ?
Did you knowthat the USS Robert H. McCard , a United States Navy destroyer , was named after U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Robert H. McCard , a recipient of the Medal of Honor ?
Did you knowthat fried spiders are a popular food in the Cambodian village of Skuon ?
Did you knowthat Anne Gregg , best known as former presenter of the BBC 's travel programme Holiday through the 1980s , was one of the first people from Northern Ireland to become a national British television personality?
Did you knowthat in order to get him to agree to write and perform the " Theme from Shaft " , Isaac Hayes was promised an audition for the film 's title role?
Did you knowthat the Saqqara Bird , an Egyptian artifact dating to at least 200 B.C.E., has led some scholars to speculate whether the Ptolemaic Egyptians possessed rudimentary airplane technology?
Did you knowthat at 7'3" (2.21 m), Swede Halbrook became the tallest person to ever play college basketball when he joined the Oregon State Beavers in 1954?
Did you knowthat the fort at Arki, India was captured by Gurkhas in 1806 and used as their stronghold till 1815 , when they ceded it during the Gurkha War ?
Did you knowthat French Communist Party politician Jeannette Vermeersch was elected to to every sitting of the National Assembly from 1946 to 1958?
Did you knowthat " Stormtrooper in Drag ", the debut single by Paul Gardiner , was co-composed by friend and former Tubeway Army bandmate Gary Numan , and marked the first time in four years of working together that they had collaborated on the writing of a published song?
Did you knowthat Karan Bilimoria invented Cobra Beer and was the first Parsi in the House of Lords ?
Did you knowthat in 1967 Mohawk Airlines Flight 40 crashed after a fire was sparked by a non-return valve being installed backwards?
Did you knowthat the Blood Parrot , a cross-bred fish , has neither a binomial nomenclature nor a distinctly known parentage?
Did you knowthat Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation can be used instead of chlorine in wastewater treatment , eliminating toxic by-products of chlorine?
Did you knowthat three years after being arrested for dealing in cocaine , former quarterback of the Oklahoma Sooners Charles Thompson managed to win a national championship with Central State University ?
Did you knowthat Major-General F.F. Worthington , father of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps , was buried with his wife in his own memorial park at Canadian Forces Base Borden , which also serves as home to the tank collection of the Base Borden Military Museum ?
Did you knowthe Shuka Saptati , written originally in Sanskrit , is a collection of seventy erotic tales narrated by a parrot to prevent its mistress from committing adultery while her husband is away from home?
Did you knowthat a Chicago urban legend states that 90,000 people died in Chicago of typhoid fever and cholera in 1885?
Did you knowthat Polmos Łańcut , one of the oldest vodka distilleries in Poland, was established by Duchess Lubomirska and existed already in 1784 ?
Did you knowthat Wyndham Robertson , a Virginia politician who was a member of the Committee of Nine that helped Virginia be re-admitted to the Union after the American Civil War , was a descendant of Pocahontas ?
Did you knowthat Brian Cappelletto won the World Scrabble Championship in 2001 but has not played in the event since?
Did you knowthat the librettoes for Tchaikovsky 's operas Vakula the Smith and Cherevichki were adapted from Gogol 's stories by the poet Yakov Polonsky ?
Did you knowthat the Castilian Civil War resulted in the removal of many Jewish people from high offices of state?
Did you knowthat Indian entrepreneur Jamsetji Tata conceptualized Tata Steel , Tata Power and the Indian Institute of Science , but that they were only established after his death in 1904 ?
Did you knowthat twirling is a key component of many artforms , hobbies , and sports where an object, such as a pen , baton or stick is spun or rotated to achieve the desired effect?
Did you knowthat since the genome sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was published in 1996 , the complete genome sequences of over 50 other eukaryotes have been completed?
Did you knowthat the Civilian War Memorial in Singapore was built in 1967 in memory of the civilians massacred during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore from 1942 to 1945?
Did you knowthat Dmitry Chernov ' s discovery of the polymorphous transformations in steel has been thought to mark the transition of metallurgy from an art to a science?
Did you knowthat Chillingham Cattle have lived as an isolated herd for 700 years, and are believed to be closely related to the aurochs , an extinct species domesticated in the Stone Age ?
Did you knowthat the English explorer and geologist Sir Vivian Fuchs led the first successful overland expedition across Antarctica in 1958—a journey of 2,158 miles (3,453 km )?
Did you knowthat the fictional goat Koziołek Matołek has been a popular Polish children's literature character since first appearing in 1933?