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Did you knowthat Mexican actress Pina Pellicer played the lover of Marlon Brando in One Eyed Jacks , the only movie Brando directed ?
Did you knowthat the oasis town of Iferouane in northern Niger was the site of the first attack carried out by the Niger Movement for Justice , which marked the beginning of the Second Tuareg Rebellion ?
Did you knowthat RAAF Beaufort squadrons fighting in New Guinea under the command of Group Captain Val Hancock were so short of ammunition in 1945 that they used captured Japanese ordnance to augment their bomb loads?
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Did you knowthat newly named U.S. Naval Academy head football coach Ken Niumatalolo is believed to be the first Pacific Islander American to be head coach at a major college football program?
Did you knowthat before the Bagratids unified Georgia , Caucasian Iberia was ruled by a succession of princes under the influence of the Byzantines , the Persians and the Muslim Caliphate from the 6th to the 9th centuries?
Did you knowthat the non-fiction book Getting It: The psychology of est was the first book to analyze Werner Erhard 's Erhard Seminars Training from a psychological point of view?
Did you knowthat English football referee Gary Willard once had to be given a police safety escort off the pitch after sending off three home team players in a single game?
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Did you knowthat the Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary has been criticized by adherents of the King-James-Only Movement for convincing some Independent Baptist groups to adopt modern Bible translations ?
Did you knowthat as a result of his role in the Peasants' War , the German Renaissance painter Jerg Ratgeb was executed by being torn apart by four horses?
Did you knowthat only eight of the planned 296 miles of the Indiana Central Canal were built, due to Indiana being bankrupted by the Panic of 1837 ?
Did you knowthat twice named All-American football tackle Robert "Brick" Wahl later became CEO of a Fortune 500 irrigation equipment company?
Did you knowthat Julian Rotter developed the locus of control theory, which has been widely used in the psychology of personality ?
Did you knowthat in chemical kinetics , Lindemann mechanisms have been used to model gas phase decomposition reactions?
Did you knowthat Lawrence Turner , who presented a Parliamentary petition calling for W. S. Gilbert 's copyright on the libretti of Gilbert and Sullivan operas to be extended indefinitely, was the grandson of comic actor George Grossmith who starred in them?
Did you knowthat hatchlings of the Cape Fear Shiner , a critically endangered minnow endemic to central North Carolina , feed off of their egg yolk for five days after they hatch?
Did you knoweven though the United States Housing Act of 1949 called for building more housing, some projects saw more housing units destroyed than built?
Did you knowthat the Polish rock band Czerwone Gitary reached the heights of its popularity in the 1960s, and was known as the Polish Beatles ?
Did you knowthat kings of the House of Alpin ruled Pictland and the kingdom of Alba , in modern Scotland , beginning with Cináed mac Ailpín in the 840s and ending with the death of Máel Coluim mac Cináeda in 1034?
Did you knowthat shortly after Captain William Day received the first gun salute to an American fighting vessel in a European port, at Brest, France , in July 1777 , he sailed home and effectively vanished from history?
Did you knowthat Vietnamese winemakers are trying to cultivate grapes such as Cabernet Sauvignon on land that till recently was still covered with landmines from the Vietnam War ?
Did you knowthat in 1607, Spanish priest and professor of music at the University of Salamanca Sebastián de Vivanco published 18 versions of the Song of Mary in the same book?
Did you knowthat ice hockey player Fred Higginbotham died of a spinal cord injury sustained during an accident when riding a pony ?
Did you knowthat the European Parliament is currently housed in Espace Léopold in Brussels , Belgium ?
Did you knowthat in polymer chemistry , the value of the kinetic chain length of a polymer can describe the polymer's chain mobility , glass transition temperature , and elastic modulus ?
Did you knowthat Ryan Holle is serving a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole for letting his roommate borrow his car that was then used in a crime ?
Did you knowthat the development of a hydrosalpinx was first recognized in the 17th century as a cause of female infertility by Dutch physician Regnier de Graaf ?
Did you knowthat Mike Vranos , a man considered by some to be the most powerful man on Wall Street in the early 1990s, was known for breaking up business meetings to issue armwrestling challenges?
Did you knowthat several prehistoric standing stones and natural stone features in Scotland are called Carlin stones , possibly from the term cailleach meaning "old hag" or " witch "?
Did you knowthat 78 soldiers of the Soviet 25th Rifle Division were awarded the title, Hero of the Soviet Union , the highest honorary title and the superior degree of distinction of that nation ?
Did you knowthat Claudia Blum de Barberi is a Colombian politician and psychologist , who became the first woman to ever be elected President of the Congress of Colombia ?
Did you knowthat every World Chess Champion before Garry Kasparov except Bobby Fischer played at the Hastings International Chess Congress ?
Did you knowthat U-boat commander Reinhard Hardegen deliberately placed his submarine in danger during the sinking of the SS Gulfamerica by refusing to risk hitting civilians onshore?
Did you knowthat under the Sino - Portuguese Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau , Communist China would guarantee complete autonomy and democratic self-government in Macau up to 2049 ?
Did you knowthat the Fabergé invoice for the Karelian Birch egg addressed the abdicated Nicholas II of Russia as "Mr. Romanov Nikolai Aleksandrovich" instead of the previous "Tsar of all the Russias"?
Did you knowthat college football running back Butch Woolfolk was named MVP of both the Rose Bowl and the Bluebonnet Bowl in the same year?
Did you knowthat the Chilean wine grape Pais is believed to have descended from the "common black grape" that the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés brought to Mexico in 1520?
Did you knowthat Jaroslav Jiřík became the first player from an Eastern Bloc nation to play in the National Hockey League when he appeared in three games with the St. Louis Blues in 1970 ?
Did you knowthat the French Committee of National Liberation formed by Gens. Henri Giraud and Charles de Gaulle officially became the provisional government of France after its liberation from Nazi Germany in 1944?
Did you knowthat Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury , as the first Health Minister of Bangladesh , worked to eradicate mosquitoes from that country?
Did you knowthat when yellow crystals of mosesite , a very rare mineral found in deposits of mercury , are heated to 186 °C (367 °F), they become isotropic ?
Did you knowthat Joseph R. Bodwell , the 40th governor of Maine , worked on the farm and also as a shoemaker when he was a child ?
Did you knowthat systematic mapping of the Michelangelo quadrangle on Mercury has revealed the presence of four nearly obliterated multi-ring impact basins , possibly the oldest features in the mapped areas of the planet?
Did you knowthat a team of Canadians assembled to play for the new Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team in England were sent home without playing a game due to the outbreak of World War II ?
Did you knowthat crystals of Paulingite , a rare zeolite mineral found in vesicles in the basaltic rocks from the Columbia River , form a perfect clear rhombic dodecahedron ?
Did you knowthat scarps , ridges , and troughs , such as the 650 km (400 mi) long and 2 km (1.2 mi) high Discovery Rupes cutting through the Rameau crater , are common features in the Discovery quadrangle on the planet Mercury ?
Did you knowthat in 1578 the 3rd Dalai Lama converted the Mongol leader Altan Khan , who persuaded Mongols to convert, built Mongolia 's first monastery, and within 50 years most Mongols were Buddhist ?
Did you knowthat the visual novel Myself ; Yourself was adapted into an animated television series consisting of thirteen episodes ?
Did you knowthat a nutating disc engine is a novel internal combustion engine comprising fundamentally only one moving part?
Did you knowthat Jamie Morris of the Washington Redskins , originally considered too short to be a running back , holds the NFL record for the most rushing attempts in a game with 45?
Did you knowthat the Beethoven crater in the Beethoven quadrangle on Mercury is the eleventh largest named impact crater in the Solar System ?
Did you knowthat before penning Number Ones for Kenny Chesney and Rascal Flatts , country music songwriter Neil Thrasher charted a country single in 1997 as half of the duo Thrasher Shiver ?
Did you knowthat the Zentrale Stelle (Central Office) was established in 1958 by the West German government to investigate war crimes committed outside Germany by Nazi forces ?
Did you knowthat Montgomery Ward president Robert J. Thorne was an unpaid assistant to the Quartermaster General during World War I , and won the Distinguished Service Medal for reorganizing the U.S. Army 's supply system?
Did you knowthat the bells of St Giles Church in Wormshill , England were restored in 1995 after a collection started in 1944 with only ten shillings ?
Did you knowthat when Frankish Crusaders ran out of food after the Siege of Maarat in 1098, they proceeded to massacre the city's Saracen inhabitants and eat them ?
Did you knowthat in Steve Morrison ' s first year as Brother Rice defensive coordinator they won a MHSAA football championship and in his first year as Western Michigan linebacker coach one of his linebackers led the nation in sacks ?
Did you knowthat recent studies estimated that 34% of total electricity consumption in the Dominican Republic was not paid for, as poor service and high prices have induced theft through illegal connections and non-payment of electricity bills?
Did you knowthat Shaun Alexander , the 2005 NFL MVP Award winner, was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the 2000 NFL Draft ?
Did you knowthat Fernandina's Flicker (Colaptes fernandinae) , a woodpecker endemic to Cuba , is threatened by habitat loss and now there are fewer than 800 left in the world?
Did you knowthat the amorphous phosphate mineral santabarbaraite was named after the Italian mining district Santa Barbara where it was discovered in 2003, but its name also honors Saint Barbara , the patron saint of miners ?
Did you knowthat the Transcontinental Motor Convoys inspired Dwight D. Eisenhower to support the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 ?
Did you knowthat the 1994 Intelligence Services Act revamped the Apartheid-era security agencies of South Africa and ensured the future preservation of civil liberties ?
Did you knowthat the Caloris Basin on Mercury , one of the largest impact basins in the Solar System , is surrounded by a series of geological formations believed to have been produced by the basin's ejecta ?
Did you knowthat former United States Border Patrol Agent Jose Compean is  the focus of a 130,000 name petition seeking to free him from prison?
Did you knowthat in 1886, Wilhelm Steinitz won the first official World Chess Championship ?
Did you knowthat the Odriíst National Union was a 1960s Peruvian political party based on a cult of personality focussed on former President Manuel A. Odría ?
Did you knowthat British historian Plantagenet Somerset Fry refused treatment for bowel cancer and suffocated himself with a plastic bag ?
Did you knowthat the Anarchist Exclusion Acts forbade anyone holding anarchist views to enter the United States?
Did you knowthat former Governor Samuel Cony served twice as a member of the Maine House of Representatives —first as a Democrat , and nearly 30 years later as a Republican ?
Did you knowthat Colura zoophaga , a species of liverwort native to Kenya , traps ciliates in microscopic structures formed by fusion of the leaf edges, but scientists do not know whether it is a carnivorous plant ?
Did you knowthat José Ortega Spottorno established the now-bestselling Spanish newspaper El Pais to advance liberal values at a time when the country was undergoing a painful transition from fascism to democracy ?
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Did you knowthat the first volume of printed strips from the furry " Slice-of-life " webcomic A Doemain of Our Own won the 2006 Ursa Major Award for "Best Anthropomorphic Other Literary Work"?
Did you knowthat the suffering caused by 19th century floods and famines in Mymensingh District , presently in Bangladesh , led to the sale of human beings for around the price of a maund of rice ?
Did you knowthat the US Coast Guard cutters Seneca and Ossipee endured a collective total of five torpedo near misses in World War One ?
Did you knowthat Simone Ortega has received prizes from both France and her native Spain for her bestselling range of cookery books, one of which has been updated 48 times and sold millions of copies in Spanish and English?
Did you knowthat although Howard Johnson became an opponent of animal cruelty, he had earlier called for the British army to deploy flamethrowers to eliminate the seaweed breeding grounds for a type of fly ?
Did you knowthat Paul Hornung , a NFL Hall of Famer , was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the first round of the 1957 NFL Draft ?
Did you knowthat the south pole of the planet Mercury is located in the Bach quadrangle ?
Did you knowthat the stagecoach line running between Kelton, Utah and several gold mines in Idaho and Montana was robbed more often than any other stage line in the Old West ?
Did you knowthat The Prodigal Son by Arthur Sullivan was the first sacred music setting of this story from the Gospel of Luke ?
Did you knowthat serial killer Nannie Doss was given the moniker "The Jolly Black Widow" after confessing to the murder of four of her five husbands?
Did you knowthat when the Nazis began requiring all Jews in the occupied Netherlands to wear the yellow badge , Dutch Christian Casper ten Boom voluntarily wore one also?
Did you knowthat the planet Mars appears red primarily because of a ubiquitous layer of dust containing nanophase ferric oxides ?
Did you knowthat Żeligowski's Mutiny , which resulted in the creation of the Republic of Central Lithuania in late 1920, was in fact staged and carried out with the knowledge of Polish leader Józef Piłsudski ?
Did you knowthat Glafira Dorosh is the only recipient of a Soviet Order for a culinary recipe?
Did you knowthat Portland General Electric CEO Peggy Y. Fowler is blind in one eye?
Did you knowthat Yoky Matsuoka , a neuroscience and robotics researcher, was once the 21st ranked tennis player in Japan?
Did you knowthat Augustine Podmore Williams , a British mariner who urged his fellow-officers to abandon a crowded vessel in stormy seas in 1880, served as the inspiration for Joseph Conrad 's fictional character Lord Jim ?
Did you knowthat after the Fall of Constantinople , the Ottomans demolished the Column of Justinian to symbolize their capture of the city?
Did you knowthat Italian aerodynamicist Antonio Ferri took to the hills in 1943 with a trunk load of scientific documents to turn over to the Allies ?
Did you knowthat despite being Porsche 's primary factory-backed competitor in the World Endurance Championship from 1983 to 1986, the Lancia LC2 won only two races?
Did you knowthat the work of Cornificia , a Roman poet of the first century BC , was read for centuries, but has since been lost entirely?
Did you knowthat snocross riders travel up to 130 feet (40 meters) off jumps before they touch the ground?
Did you knowthat in 1759 , François Thurot ' s ship set out to create a diversion from an invasion of Britain only to learn, after months of storms and starvation, that the invasion fleet had been defeated before it even left France?
Did you knowthat Congolese dancer and choreographer Faustin Linyekula is the winner of the 2007 Principal Award of the Prince Claus Foundation ?
Did you knowthat India 's Red and White Bravery Awards were renamed the Godfrey Phillips National Bravery Awards after protests claimed it provided surrogate advertising for Red and White brand cigarettes ?
Did you knowthat Garland Rivers was the only true freshman to earn a varsity letter on the 1983 Michigan Wolverines football team?
Did you knowthat despite the torpedoed Soviet merchant SS Stalingrad sinking in under four minutes, 66 of her crew still managed to survive?
Did you knowthat Bradford Kelleher started the Metropolitan Museum of Art 's gift shop ?
Did you knowthat the spread of Christianity in Asia is believed to have reached China during the Tang Dynasty , where it was known as the Luminous Religion ?
Did you knowthat Clarence Williams had 646 rushing yards and 102 receiving yards without scoring a touchdown during the 1998 NCAA college football season ?
Did you knowthat the most recent of the six different methods of total synthesis of the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel , a drug originally derived from the rare Pacific Yew , was developed at the Tokyo University of Science in 1999?
Did you knowthat one egg laid in a clutch of two by the White-breasted Robin of Western Australia is much paler than the other?
Did you knowthat the first major anti-nuclear demonstrations in Germany took place in 1975 in opposition to the construction of a proposed nuclear power station in Wyhl ?
Did you knowthat Dave Murray , a Canadian alpine skier and member of the Crazy Canucks , was ranked third in the world in downhill skiing in 1979?
Did you knowthat the dominant feature in the Shakespeare quadrangle is the 1300-km wide Caloris Planitia , the largest and best preserved impact basin on Mercury observed by the spacecraft Mariner 10 ?
Did you knowthat surface plasmons are the basis of a spectrography technique known as surface plasmon resonance ?
Did you knowthat St Barnabas Church , one of the few Grade II*-listed churches in the city of Brighton and Hove , was dismissed by its architect John Loughborough Pearson as "one of my cheap editions"?
Did you knowthat the Tolstoj crater , a 400-km (240 mile) wide impact crater on the planet Mercury has an extensive, and remarkably well-preserved, radially-lineated ejecta blanket?
Did you knowthat Eduardo Serra Rexach is the only person to have held public office with all three governing parties of democratic Spain ?
Did you knowthat Aloysius C. Galvin , a former president of the University of Scranton , served aboard a U.S. Navy submarine chaser in the Aleutian Islands during World War II ?
Did you knowthat ornithologist Charles Foster Batchelder ' s last words to one of his friends were "Glad to have known you"?
Did you knowthat Operation Resurrection was the planned take-over of Paris in May 1958 by French Army paratroopers and armored units to overthrow the French government and facilitate the return of Charles de Gaulle to power?
Did you knowthat Russell Walter Fox , a former chief judge of the Australian Capital Territory , wrote what is considered in Australia as the most extensive environmental report on uranium mining ?
Did you knowthat Edward Barrett played rugby union for England , and cricket for the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States ?
Did you knowthat each time Eric Kattus caught more than three receptions in a game during his Michigan Wolverines football career, at least one of them was a touchdown ?
Did you knowthat 1933 Michigan Wolverines football All-Americans Ted Petoskey and Whitey Wistert debuted for the Major League Baseball Cincinnati Reds two days apart in September 1934?
Did you knowthat Anthony Browne was the first British illustrator to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award ?
Did you knowthat the Sussex Railroad was the last independently operated New Jersey railroad to be incorporated into the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad system?
Did you knowthat the nursing pin had its original design patterned after the Maltese cross of the Knights Hospitaller and the Order of Saint Lazarus ?
Did you knowthat ridges and escarpments in the Victoria quadrangle of the planet Mercury have been associated with the stresses caused by the sun slowing Mercury's rotation through tidal forces ?
Did you knowthat Tetsuya Ota won a lawsuit against race organizers of the now infamous 1998 JGTC race at Fuji Speedway , despite signing a pledge not to seek compensation?
Did you knowthat Dominic de la Calzada is the patron saint of civil engineers because he built a causeway to aid pilgrims on the Way of St. James ?
Did you knowthat undefeated national champion 1997 Michigan Wolverines football team rushing leader and Hula Bowl MVP Chris Howard was released after fumbling five times in the preseason of the 1998 NFL season ?
Did you knowthat Jack Womack 's novel Let's Put the Future Behind Us emerged from a failed Soviet - American film project of William Gibson that was to star the late rockstar Victor Tsoi ?
Did you knowthat surface science studies show that Stranski-Krastanov growth is one of three primary ways in which thin films grow on crystals ?
Did you knowthat though the Steel Military Egg and the Order of St. George Egg were relatively modest designs in the spirit of World War I austerity, the two Fabergé eggs made for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia were still priced at more than 13,000 rubles ?
Did you knowthat former Hampshire wicketkeeper Adi Aymes went on to manage football club Fleet Town F.C. , and is the current fitness coach of Havant and Waterlooville ?
Did you knowthat both former German Federal Minister of Labor Norbert Blüm and former Secretary of State of France Alain Vivien have been recognized with the Leipzig Human Rights Award ?
Did you knowthat Webb Miller , whose reporting of the Salt Satyagraha raid on the Dharasana Salt Works was credited for helping turn world opinion against British colonial rule in India , was kidnapped by Morton Salt co-founder Mark Morton ?
Did you knowthat the first major effort to study the climate of the Arctic was undertaken during the First International Polar Year in 1882-83?
Did you knowthat in the 1947 college football rankings, southern voters refused to vote for the integrated Michigan Wolverines football team with black stars such as Gene Derricotte ?
Did you knowthat Qadas was one of seven Metawali villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war ?
Did you knowthat according to legend, the relics of Saints Ferreolus and Ferrutio were discovered in 370 by a military tribune whose dog chased a fox into a cave near present-day Besançon , France ?
Did you knowthat gender-bending party promoter Andre J. appeared on the November 2007 cover of French Vogue wearing a women’s neoprene trench coat and ankle boots?
Did you knowthat due to both lengthening seasons and freshmen eligibility, college football statistical leaders such as Michigan Wolverines football receiving or passing leaders are controversial?
Did you knowthat the Stourbridge fair , first held in 1211 in Cambridge , England , was once the largest fair in Europe ?
Did you knowthat the dinosaur fossil Dakota is so well-preserved it has caused researchers to revise their estimates of the appearance, size, and speed of a whole group of dinosaurs known as hadrosaurs ?
Did you knowthat the north pole of the planet Mercury is located in the Borealis quadrangle ?
Did you knowthat of 36 merchant vessels that set out in June 1942 as part of Britain 's disastrous Convoy PQ-17 , 27 never returned including SS Pan Kraft ?
Did you knowthat Red Kellett , former President and General Manager of the Baltimore Colts , was never a professional football player, but an infielder for the Boston Red Sox baseball club in his playing days?