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Did you knowthat the chairman of the Tennessee House of Representatives ' Judiciary Committee, Rob Briley , was arrested for vandalism and driving under the influence of alcohol after a 100 mph car chase?
Did you knowthat fossilised crinoid columnals from Lindisfarne which were strung together as a necklace or rosary became known as St Cuthbert's beads ?
Did you knowthat one reviewer of Mary Wollstonecraft 's Rights of Men apologized for his harsh review once he discovered a woman had written the book?
Did you knowthat Rush Street , now known for its nightlife , has had four bridges over the Chicago River connecting the Loop to the Near North Side and once handled 50% of Chicago 's north-south traffic ?
Did you knowthat the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Army is the only airmobile unit of the Ukrainian Airborne Forces which has BMD-1 and BMD-2 airborne infantry fighting vehicles?
Did you knowthat the annual Gorolski Święto is the largest cultural and folklore festival in the Zaolzie region of Eastern Europe ?
Did you knowthat hotels in Mannum, South Australia served patrons in boats from the second floor when floodwaters rose during the 1956 Murray River flood ?
Did you knowthat Kentucky governor William S. Taylor was implicated in the assassination of William Goebel , his political rival, and fled to Indiana to avoid indictment ?
Did you knowthat the efforts by Taiwan to distinguish itself from mainland China have their roots in the Cold War of the 1950s?
Did you knowthat Chinatown, San Francisco 's waiter Edsel Ford Fong is fondly remembered for calling patrons "retarded" and "fat", slamming food on tables, groping female patrons, telling patrons to "sit down and shut up" and clearing tables before diners were finished?
Did you knowthat the Palace under the Four Winds in Warsaw was owned by an heir to an enormous fortune who went bankrupt after the lost war of independence with Russia ?
Did you knowthat the ancient Egyptians believed that a false door allowed the spirits of the dead  to receive offerings and to enter and exit the world of the living?
Did you knowthat after spending a billion dollars developing borane -enriched " zip fuels " to power a new generation of jet engines , the US Air Force realized the entire idea was unworkable and had to abandon it all in 1959?
Did you knowthat Libya 's Sirte Basin —which in some places lies more than 47 metres below sea level —contains roughly 80% of the country's known crude oil reserves?
Did you knowthat pianist Glenn Gould later criticized his own 1956 recording Bach: The Goldberg Variations , which had made him instantly famous?
Did you knowthat the U.S. Federal Government 's largest provider of HIV / AIDS services, the Ryan White Care Act , is named after Ryan White , a teenager who was expelled from his Indiana middle school in 1985 for having AIDS?
Did you knowthat in 2006, nearly 50,000 people were marooned in Labhpur and surrounding areas of Birbhum district in West Bengal because of floods?
Did you knowthat the military doctrine of the cult of the offensive was one of the main causes of World War I ?
Did you knowthat Buddhist monk Ekai Kawaguchi was the first Japanese citizen to travel to Nepal ?
Did you knowthat Harriet Howard was not only Louis Napoleon 's mistress, but also financed his successful 1851 coup d'état ?
Did you knowthat the supply of natural gas and electricity in New Orleans , Louisiana ceased as a result of the General Strike of 1892 , plunging the city into darkness for four nights?
Did you knowthat the Doctorfish tang has the largest range of its genus , which includes 38 species from three oceans ?
Did you knowthat the Plaza film theatre in Bangalore , India was modelled after the Piccadilly Circus in London ?
Did you knowthat Parke County, Indiana bills itself as the Covered Bridge Capital of the World because it has more covered bridges than any other county in the United States ?
Did you knowthat Igo Sym , one of the most popular actors of interbellum Poland , was executed in 1941 by the Polish resistance for cooperating with German occupiers?
Did you knowthat Clayton Jacobson II , a banker from Arizona , is credited with inventing the personal water craft ?
Did you knowthat the memo calling for the 1907 International Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam went unsigned by French anarchists , as many rejected the very idea of organized collaboration?
Did you knowthat an advertising spot immediately following Xinwen Lianbo , a daily news programme shown by most terrestrial television stations in mainland China , can sell for an estimated US$ 100,000?
Did you knowthat Colonel Gerardo Huber , a former DINA agent in charge of buying military supplies for the Chilean Army , disappeared in 1991 shortly after weapons disguised as humanitarian aid were discovered in Budapest ?
Did you knowthat investment analyst Martin Fridson is often referred to as the "Dean of high-yield debt "?
Did you knowthat ADP-ribosylation , a posttranslational protein modification , is involved in the actions of several bacterial toxins in diseases such as cholera and whooping cough ?
Did you knowthat Vera Pezer , current Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan , is a four-time Canadian Ladies' curling champion and a member of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame ?
Did you knowthat a woman , chamberlain Urszula Mayerin , was among the most influential figures at Sigismund III Vasa 's court , signing official state documents in his name and receiving foreign ambassadors during his illness?
Did you knowthat Jay Barbree is the only journalist to have covered every manned space flight in the United States , beginning with Alan Shepherd 's maiden voyage in 1961 ?
Did you knowthat between 1872 and 1876 the buildings of Tampico, Illinois ' central business district were destroyed by fire three times and tornado once?
Did you knowthat Duke University Fuqua School of Business Professor , financial economist and regular CNBC Closing Bell guest, John Graham was nominated for four Journal of Finance best paper awards before winning?
Did you knowthat the Classic Veracruz culture of pre-Columbian Mexico was obsessed with human sacrifice as part of the Mesoamerican ballgame ?
Did you knowthat The Harvey School , a rural school in New York , was established to give an education to the founder's handicapped son?
Did you knowthat Garth Butcher was a member of Canada 's first-ever gold medal team at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships before becoming a pest and setting team records for penalty minutes in the National Hockey League ?
Did you knowthat Harvard Business School associate professor and financial economist Randolph Cohen has published research on the valuation of baseball star Alex Rodriguez ?
Did you knowthat the Arly-Singou ecosystem shelters the largest remaining population of lions in West Africa ?
Did you knowthat the Irish politician the O'Gorman Mahon commanded a Chilean fleet, fought thirteen duels , and won a by-election aged 87?
Did you knowthat Norman Williams shot down eight German aircraft while serving as an air gunner in Halifax bombers in the Second World War , becoming the most highly decorated non-commissioned officer in the RAAF and its only " ace " who was not a fighter pilot?
Did you knowthat Fischer Black Prize , first awarded in 2003, is the finance analogue to the Clark Medal in economics and the Fields Medal in mathematics , introduced in 1947 and 1936, respectively?
Did you knowthat a Lesser Caymans iguana was the longest living Cyclura lizard ever at thirty-three years?
Did you knowthat The Encyclopædia of Ball Juggling contains completely cross-referenced A to Z article indexing , complemented by Charlie Dancey ’s light-hearted writing and cartoon illustration style?
Did you knowthat St. Anne's Church in Warsaw was the place of execution of Bishop Józef Kossakowski during the Warsaw Uprising of 1794 ?
Did you knowthat according to "Believe It or Not", Florian ZaBach played " The Flight of the Bumblebee " faster than any known violinist?
Did you knowthat the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge in the southwestern United States was established in 1939 to protect Desert Bighorn Sheep and the name Kofa is a contraction of King of Arizona ?
Did you knowthat in 1745 William Cleghorn won a University of Edinburgh position after his rival, David Hume , was described by the town council as amoral , an atheist , and a sceptic ?
Did you knowthat Saskatchewan Deputy Minister of Agriculture F. H. Auld ' s personal papers are among the few records that chronicle the drought years of the 1920s and 1930s in Alberta ?
Did you knowthat cultivated Christmas trees are susceptible to such pests and diseases as the Balsam woolly adelgid and sudden oak death ?
Did you knowthat Kellom Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska is the alma mater of Fred Astaire , Gale Sayers and Bob Gibson , as well as home to youth programs once led by Whitney Young ?
Did you knowthat Kumaran Pathmanadan , former chief procurer of arms for the Tamil Tigers rebel group, used over 200 passports and at least 23 pseudonyms to evade Interpol , CIA and MI-5 ?
Did you knowthat the first public interest litigation case to be heard in the Karnataka High Court in India was to prevent the demolition of the very building from which it was functioning?
Did you knowthat after the retreat of the Wisconsin glaciation , postglacial Lake Michigan used to drain through Mackinac Falls , which are now completely submerged under Lake Huron ?
Did you knowthat Peggy McKercher was the first woman to serve on the Corman Park Council ?
Did you knowthat each year over 1000 research papers are submitted for academic publishing in the Journal of Finance ( finance 's most cited journal) of which only five are awarded Smith Breeden or Brattle Prizes ?
Did you knowthat Patience Strong was the pen name by which the English poet Winifred Emma May was best known?
Did you knowthat the annual delivery of fur tribute to the Tsar was followed by a state-sponsored feast and distribution of royal gifts to the Siberian natives ?
Did you knowthat Omaha, Nebraska's Krug Park was the site of a 1930 roller coaster accident, the worst in U.S. history?
Did you knowthat New York State Route 20SY is the only route in the state to have ever had the "SY" suffix?
Did you knowthat Time predicted 1973 to be a " gilt -edged year" for the stock market, just three days before the stock market crash of 1973–4 began—wiping 45 percent off the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average ?
Did you knowthat Fort Delaware State Park , once a Civil War prisoner-of-war camp , is now home to one of the largest heronries north of Florida ?
Did you knowthat though Theodore Thurston Geer was the tenth Oregon governor , he was the first native Oregonian to serve in that office?
Did you knowthat Nicholas Bethell, 4th Baron Bethell resigned as a government whip to sue Auberon Waugh who claimed that his translation of Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward was unauthorised, and helped lead to Solzhenitsyn's arrest?
Did you knowthat German physicist Walter Gerlach helped prove the fact that electrons spin ?
Did you knowthat prospector Reuben D'Aigle missed finding a huge gold deposit by only a few feet, and his boot print was found pressed into the vein when the Porcupine Gold Rush started in 1909 ?
Did you knowthat during Ted Snyder's six-year tenure as dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business , the business school has relocated two of its four campuses ?
Did you knowthat the crest for the World Association of Ugly People features a reclining man smoking a pipe with the slogan: "Ugliness is a virtue, beauty is slavery"?
Did you knowthat Edward Kerr Turner was a delegate for Saskatchewan agriculture in both national and international affairs?
Did you knowthat Germany is the European leader in Christmas tree production ?
Did you knowthat the Lyre River provides the only spawning grounds for the endemic Beardslee trout ?
Did you knowthat the second redaction of Lithuanian Chronicles started the myth of Lithuanian Roman origin?
Did you knowthat Mitică , a character in the works of Romanian writer Ion Luca Caragiale , has become, especially in Transylvania , a stereotype of both Bucharesters and Wallachians ?
Did you knowthat University of Chicago Graduate School of Business professor Toby Moskowitz won the Fischer Black Prize as the top finance researcher under 40 after a 4 year hiatus with no worthy candidates?
Did you knowthat Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was indicted for the 1976 assassination of Spanish diplomat Carmelo Soria ?
Did you knowthat until the 1930s and 1940s people in the United States and Canada obtained their Christmas trees mostly from native forests ?
Did you knowthat the 17th century Jesuit Church in Warsaw was one of many buildings razed to the ground by the Germans after the Warsaw Uprising ?
Did you knowthat the Core Pacific City mall in Taipei , Taiwan , is the largest mall in Asia at 204,190 square meters of total floor space?
Did you knowthat Nathaniel Ames , publisher of the first annual American almanac , avoided arrest by replacing his vituperative cartoon of local judges with a biblical quotation?
Did you knowthat the hills in the south of the English Lake District are known as the Southern Fells and they include England's highest peak?
Did you knowthat the Italian sculptor Giovanni Duprè began his career carving fakes of Renaissance works of art?
Did you knowthat anti-ganglioside antibodies may cause peripheral neuropathies and that their levels correlate with Guillain-Barré syndrome ?
Did you knowthat yellowtail trumpeter , a coastal marine fish tolerant to a very wide salinity range, because of its poor taste is considered a nuisance in Australia by many fishermen who target bream in estuaries?
Did you knowthat the Underfall Yard takes its name from a unique system of sluices designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel to remove silt from Bristol Harbour ?
Did you knowthat the coat of arms of Catalonia is one of Europe's oldest, dating back to the 1150 seal used by Ramón Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona ?
Did you knowthat an Irish immigrant to America who settled on New Jersey 's Pettys Island in 1851 was later proclaimed " king " of the island?
Did you knowthat the appearance of several Nero impostors may have given rise to the passage of the Book of Revelation about the Beast , which is mortally wounded and then miraculously heals?
Did you knowthat Italian film director Marco Ferreri hired actor Michel Piccoli almost immediately after the two first met for his art house masterpiece Dillinger Is Dead ?
Did you knowthat three different languages that used to be spoken in Nicaragua are now extinct ?
Did you knowthat because of low rainfall, poor soils , and the growth of the oil industry , Libya 's domestic agriculture can only cover 25% of the country's food demand and accounts for just 5.6% of the GDP ?
Did you knowthat the 1998 Puerto Rican general strike paralyzed the island for two days, when 500,000 people took to the streets to protest against privatizing the Puerto Rico Telephone Company ?
Did you knowthat the original scatological lyrics of Leck mich im Arsch , a canon composed by Mozart , were only rediscovered in 1991?
Did you knowthat in 1526, with the heirless death of Janusz III Mazowiecki , last of the Masovian Piasts , the Duchy of Masovia was reunited with Poland ?
Did you knowthat Kentucky governor Ruby Laffoon bestowed the honorary title of " Kentucky colonel " the most times in the state's history, including KFC founder "Colonel" Harland Sanders ?
Did you knowthat many of the specific allergens of wheat causing gluten allergies have not yet been characterized?
Did you knowthat in order to fight in the Spanish Civil War , American biologist Clement Markert stowed away aboard a freighter?
Did you knowthat the embankment dam at Backwater Reservoir was the first in Britain to employ chemical grouting in order to form a waterproof barrier beneath the embankment?
Did you knowthat while performing the Viking ritual of Heitstrenging Harald Hairfair swore not to cut or comb his hair until he conquered all of Norway ?
Did you knowthat James Jurin used statistical studies to show the probability of death from smallpox vaccine was significantly less than from smallpox ?
Did you knowthat the Illinois Freedom Bell was submerged underwater in Geneva Lake for over 40 years before being surfaced and adopted as the official freedom bell of Illinois ?
Did you knowthat William Frankena "played an especially critical role in defense of fundamental academic freedoms during the McCarthy era " while chair of the philosophy department at the University of Michigan ?
Did you knowthat the website HardwareZone initiated the first court case in Singapore over a domain name , which was settled after just four days?
Did you knowthat the father of The Simpsons ’ creator Matt Groening was a founding director of the American Advertising Museum in Portland, Oregon ?
Did you knowthat the Storz , Krug , Willow Springs and Metz breweries were regarded as Omaha, Nebraska 's "Big 4" breweries?
Did you knowthat former Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney's Memoirs: 1939-1993 criticises another Canadian PM, Pierre Trudeau ?
Did you knowthat the Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park in Scotland covers an area of 108 square miles of Inverclyde , North Ayrshire and Renfrewshire , stretching from Greenock in the north, down the coast to Largs and West Kilbride and inland to Dalry and Lochwinnoch ?
Did you knowthat the wife of troubadour Raimon Jordan joined the sect of the Cathars , while the troubadour himself declared in a poem that he would give up eternity in Paradise for one night with his desired lady (not his wife)?
Did you know Amri Hernandez-Pellerano , a Puerto Rican electronics engineer and scientist, designed the power systems electronics for the NASA WMAP mission?
Did you knowthat the Independent Royalist Party of Estonia ' s election campaign costs for the 1992 elections of Riigikogu , the first post- Soviet occupation parliamentary elections in Estonia , were 25 Estonian cents per pair of seats?
Did you knowthat poet Forceythe Willson believed he was clairvoyant and that he could serve as a medium for communication with the dead?
Did you knowthat Epimachus of Athens , an ancient Athenian engineer, constructed the Helepolis , which remains the largest siege machine ever built, at over 60 feet in width and 125 feet in height?
Did you knowthat swimmer Katherine Rawls , Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year for 1937, flew in the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron during World War II ?
Did you knowthat the Dutch National Labor Secretariat once lost many members because each union received one vote but had to pay dues for each member, severely disadvantaging larger unions?
Did you knowthat Keremane Shivarama Heggade , the founder of folk-art troupe Idagunji Mahaganapathi Yakshagana Mandali was the first Yakshagana artist in India to receive the Rashtrapati Award ?
Did you knowthat English actor Ronald Magill played Amos Brearly , landlord of The Woolpack public house in ITV 's soap opera Emmerdale , for 19 years?
Did you knowthat Meng Xuenong was sacked as mayor of Beijing during the SARS crisis , but has now made  a comeback as governor of Shanxi province?
Did you knowthat Mahakala , a small dromaeosaurid from Mongolia , is named after Mahakala , one of the eight protective deities ( dharmapalas , "Protectors of the Law ") in Tibetan Buddhism ?
Did you knowthat the Chilean biochemist Eugenio Berríos , involved in the Letelier case and in the Soria case , also produced black cocaine and sarin gas for Augusto Pinochet ?
Did you knowthat alphabet books were one of the earliest forms of American literature ?
Did you knowthat Fritz Bleyl was one of the four founders of Die Brücke art group in 1905, but left two years later and never exhibited again?
Did you knowthat Belarus Free Theatre is an underground theatre project created to oppose Belarusian government pressure and censorship?
Did you knowthat the merged Rainbow/PUSH is an outgrowth of Jesse Jackson 's 1984 Presidential campaign and a factional split in Operation Breadbasket , an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ?
Did you knowthat Deganga , in West Bengal , where ground water is affected by arsenic contamination , will have to wait till 2009 for a supply of piped arsenic-free water?
Did you knowthat although he contributed to an anti-militarist resolution at a congress of the Second International in 1891, Christiaan Cornelissen was one of a few syndicalists to support the Allied effort in World War I in 1914?
Did you knowthat the Battle of Nisibis in 217 AD , the last battle fought between the Roman Empire and the Parthians , lasted for three days and ended in a draw?
Did you knowthat Robert Desoille guided patients through waking dreams as a form of psychotherapy ?
Did you knowthat the European Union directive about anti-smoking warnings on cigarette packs has led to a surge of sales of cigarette cases ?
Did you knowthat Samuel Rivera , mayor of Passaic, New Jersey , was permitted to take office despite the fact that he had been convicted of a felony in his native Puerto Rico in the 1970s?
Did you knowthat Eduardo Malapit , mayor of Kauai , Hawaii , from 1974 to 1982 , was the first mayor of Filipino descent in the United States ?
Did you knowthat abrasion has destroyed the 14th century Church in Trzęsacz , Poland , near the Baltic Sea , except for part of its southern wall?
Did you knowthat the proposed BBC television special Planet Relief , created to raise awareness of climate change , was cancelled before it was made, for fear that it would be biased against climate sceptics ?
Did you knowthat retired General Volney F. Warner has publicly criticized the Iraq War ; his granddaughter , First Lieutenant Laura Margaret Walker, served in Afghanistan and was the first female graduate of West Point to die in combat ?
Did you knowthat the 1952 Farnborough Airshow DH.110 crash is the last time spectators were killed in an accident at a British air show ?
Did you knowthat Kentucky governor Flem D. Sampson declined the Du Pont family 's offer to purchase Cumberland Falls and donate it to the state for a state park?
Did you knowthat Nayachar Island in the Hooghly River was chosen as the location for a major chemical hub based on experience in developing Jurong Island in Singapore ?
Did you knowthat bellboy Johnny Roventini was paid $1 to  page a hotel lobby for a "Call for Phillip Morris", unknowingly performing a screen test for a 40-year career as living trademark?
Did you knowthat wind assistance has caused the non-ratification of many potential world records in athletics ?
Did you knowthat judge Otto Richard Skopil, Jr. was nominated to the federal district court by a Republican U.S. President and to the federal court of appeals by a Democratic President?
Did you knowthat the Fique is a natural fiber obtained of furcraea plants, typical of Colombia , which is used in the fabrication of ropes, fabrics, tapestry and handcrafts?
Did you knowthat French Canadian ornithologist Charles-Eusèbe Dionne became an elective fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union before he ever received a college degree ?
Did you knowthat during an emergency, U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules cargo planes can be modified with the Modular Airborne FireFighting System and used to help fight forest fires?
Did you knowthat during the Western Schism Thomas de Rossy , Franciscan friar and Bishop of Galloway , challenged any bishop of England to fight in single combat ?
Did you knowthat Ah Jook Ku , a journalist and writer based in Hawaii , was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press , as well as the first Asian American female reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin ?
Did you knowthat the shrub Stirlingia latifolia is commonly known as "Blueboy" because wall plaster turns blue if made using sand taken from where the plant occurs?
Did you knowthat the disastrous defeat of Yaroslav the Wise 's sons at the Alta River led to a popular uprising in Kiev and dethronement of Grand Prince Iziaslav ?
Did you knowthat Mercedes Reaves , a Puerto Rican research engineer and scientist , is responsible for the design of a viable, full-scale solar sail at the NASA Langley Research Center ?