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Did you know that the fringe belief of serpent seed claims that the Serpent mated with Eve in the Garden of Eden, and their offspring was Cain?
Did you know that the protest initiative Omas gegen Rechts (Grannies against the Right) was awarded a prize for civil courage by the Central Council of Jews in Germany?
Did you know that "one of early Australia's biggest manhunts" was organized to catch Chinese Australian bushranger Sam Poo?
Did you know that Franček Gorazd Tiršek, a para-shooter from Slovenia, won three silver medals at the Summer Paralympic Games, the most recent one in Tokyo?
Did you know that Sir Hardman Earle, 1st Baronet's father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all slave traders?
Did you know that method of moments is one of the most common simulation techniques in RF and microwave engineering (example pictured)?
Did you know that the Beach Boys' song "Rollin' Up to Heaven" had a chorus that consisted of the lines "alley-oop", "fuck her", and "big tits"?
Did you know that Tanz im August, an annual international festival of contemporary dance in Berlin, was founded by Nele Hertling in 1988?
Did you know that a television in the film Day of Reckoning includes scenes from Big Ass Spider!?
Did you know that actual play shows have helped to improve the representation of women, people of color, and LGBT people in tabletop gaming?
Did you know that the Chevelon Creek Bridge, built in Arizona in 1912–1913, was part of one of America's first national highways?
Did you know that the Harvard step test, developed by Lucien Brouha in 1942, is still used as a reference when developing fitness tests?
Did you know that the Southern Lebanese villages of Safad El Battikh, Kafra and  Ayta al-Jabal were mentioned in 1596 Ottoman tax records?
Did you know that King Edward's Place, once a love nest for King Edward VII, later became a children's activity centre?
Did you know that Leo Kestenberg, a concert pianist, initiated a large-scale reform of music education in Prussia, but had to flee the Nazis first to Prague and then to Tel Aviv?
Did you know that Thomas Lord Busby's portrait of the busker Billy Waters inspired Derby and Staffordshire figures?
Did you know that during the American Civil War, Charles K. Prioleau made a fortune by smuggling arms to the Confederacy on board the blockade runner Bermuda?
Did you know that garden refugees can become invasive in the wild?
Did you know that Fraser Patrick likened playing in the 2019 Q School to being in a boxing match with Anthony Joshua?
Did you know that Joe Hill, the last opera by Alan Bush, contains four songs by the real Joe Hill?
Did you know that Joe Murphy's civil-engineering firm was known colloquially as "Grey Murphy" to distinguish it from that of his brother, which was known as "Green Murphy"?
Did you know that Plevna in Tampere, Finland, was the first building in the Nordic countries and the Russian Empire (of which Finland was part at the time) to be lit by electric lights?
Did you know that after Michele Anne Harris disappeared 20 years ago today, her husband was tried four times for her murder before being acquitted?
Did you know that after being hijacked, United Airlines Flight 175 almost had two mid-air collisions with other aircraft before crashing into the South Tower of the World Trade Center?
Did you know that the New Zealand tree tarahinau has evolved to develop thinner leaves as it matures, probably as a result of the high winds of the Chatham Islands?
Did you know that Bessie Anstice Baker, a convert to Catholicism, was the first Australian woman to receive a Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medal?
Did you know that Characteres generum plantarum, a work about the botany of the second voyage of James Cook, contains an apology for only including 75 new genera?
Did you know that Suzanna Hext chose to compete in swimming rather than equestrian at the delayed 2020 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that Tyler Gilbert threw a no-hitter in his first Major League Baseball start?
Did you know that as documented in The Presidential Vote, 1896–1932, fewer than a quarter of the United States' counties voted for the same party in every presidential election from 1896 to 1932?
Did you know that "the most accurate contemporary picture of conditions" on slave ships is an illustration of the Marie Séraphique?
Did you know that Bill Pinkney was the first African American to sail around the world solo via the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn?
Did you know that New Zealand choreographer and dancer Louise Potiki Bryant was coated in clay by sculptor Paerau Corneal in their interdisciplinary work Kiri?
Did you know that Operation Romeo was one of the causes of the Nepalese Civil War?
Did you know that after decades of being a central hub for river dredging operations, Stony Island's population was reduced to a caretaker and his two dogs?
Did you know that street racing was once prevalent along the Tokyo area's Bayshore Route?
Did you know that Peter Fleischmann directed the cult film The Hamburg Syndrome, which foresaw a scenario similar to the COVID-19 pandemic as early as 1979?
Did you know that South Carolina's first television station, WCOS-TV, "could not stand the economic gaff" and folded less than three years after starting up?
Did you know that a review by Alan Blyth of tenor Christoph Strehl's performances described him as singing "with a Wunderlich-like strength and beauty"?
Did you know that in terms of performance, wool has been advertised as a "miracle fabric"?
Did you know that when it was sold in 2002, a painting of the Ojibwe performer Maungwudaus was the second-most expensive artwork ever sold in Canada?
Did you know that Muhammad Sadiq's photographs were the first ever taken of the Islamic holy sites in Mecca and Medina?
Did you know that RSS Panglima was the first ship of  the Republic of Singapore Navy?
Did you know that director Steve Kloves was reluctant to cast Beau Bridges as the brother of Jeff Bridges's character in The Fabulous Baker Boys because he thought it sounded like "a gimmick"?
Did you know that the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, a symphony orchestra founded and conducted by Heribert Beissel, has a tradition of playing a series of concerts at more than ten major halls in Germany?
Did you know that the cast and crew of the zombie film Junk, which made use of real meat for its gore effects, were sometimes unable to stomach meat for dinner after spending hours filming?
Did you know that American historian Donald R. Hickey was referred to as "the dean of 1812 scholarship" by The New Yorker?
Did you know that since he was able to cure goitre, which local shamans could not do, Naga Thein Hlaing was recognized by the Naga people as Naga Nat and worshiped as a deity?
Did you know that the Alfred Fischer Hall, built as the machinery hall for a 1912 coal mine, was the venue for a concert performance of Beethoven's Fidelio in 2021?
Did you know that the last commanding officer of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Charlie Aust, described himself as "seedy moustache, glasses and intensely ugly" so soldiers knew how to identify him?
Did you know that Bell Labs' TD-2 microwave-relay system (tower pictured) was used to carry television signals and telephone calls across North America?
Did you know that OpenAI Codex's use of licensed code as training data has raised questions about the copyright status of machine learning models?
Did you know that Sally Fox found a picture of a French sculptor and decided to create a picture collection (example pictured) of thousands of other women?
Did you know that an army commanded by Hannibal's father was saved from defeat when part of the enemy force deserted and fought alongside him?
Did you know that music producer Mylo briefly posted two of his rejected tracks for Kylie Minogue's tenth studio album X online, before the album release?
Did you know that social psychologist Lotte Bailyn, the first woman faculty member at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is an expert in work and family dynamics?
Did you know that some music scholars have suggested that the Chaconne in G minor, widely attributed to Tomaso Antonio Vitali, is a musical hoax?
Did you know that the Protestant Church in Borgholzhausen features a 1501 carved stone altar with scenes from the Passion of Jesus?
Did you know that the name of the Noises, a group of islands in New Zealand, is a corrupted version of Les Noisettes ("the Hazelnuts")?
Did you know that when conductor Hans Drewanz, a personal assistant to Georg Solti at the Oper Frankfurt, became Generalmusikdirektor in Darmstadt, he was the youngest GMD in Germany?
Did you know that while Allen Hutt was a Communist journalist who became a Royal Designer for Industry for newspaper design, his son Sam is a doctor and country and western singer under the stage name Hank Wangford?
Did you know that Jonathan Trichter, a registered Democrat, was the Republican nominee for New York State Comptroller in 2018?
Did you know that Mariner 1, the United States' first interplanetary probe, was lost in 1962 due to the miscoding of a single character in its software?
Did you know that Prince Charles donated money to help repair the Cambus O' May bridge after it was badly damaged by Storm Frank in 2015?
Did you know that after Bishop Sycamore High School lost a televised football game 58–0, it was reported that the school did not teach its students?
Did you know that in 1908, you could "throw a cat through the cracks" of the dynamite shanties on Powder House Island?
Did you know that in 2020, scientists confirmed that the southern greater glider, northern greater glider and central greater glider were not one species as had previously been believed?
Did you know that more than fifty years after Hilde Scheppan appeared in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the 1943 Bayreuth Festival, reviewer Alan Blyth called her "a dream of an Eva"?
Did you know that scouring in wool is among the essential pre-treatments of textiles that prepares them for subsequent processes such as bleaching, dyeing, and printing?
Did you know that the sea anemone Metridium dianthus is parasitised by the sea spider Pycnogonum litorale?
Did you know that to portray "drunk" Vision in the WandaVision episode "Don't Touch That Dial", Paul Bettany took inspiration from Dick Van Dyke's drunk acting in The Dick Van Dyke Show?
Did you know that "Nun saget Dank und lobt den Herren", a 16th-century German hymn based on Psalm 118, was rewritten and shortened in the 20th century for a hymnal of the Swiss Reformed Church?
Did you know that Brian O'Neill said in his tribute to Leslie Daiken: "He was always busy, always with a half dozen irons in the fire, always trying to give a hand to some Irish writer who needed it"?
Did you know that British M-class destroyers such as HMS Obdurate were built to counter German ships that did not exist?
Did you know that a temporary two-lane viaduct was built along Cross Street to replace the closed lanes during the construction of Singapore's Telok Ayer MRT station?
Did you know that after the Paralympics, Gambian athlete Isatou Nyang continued to train at night, and during the day she would beg to support herself?
Did you know that the Temple of Jupiter Apenninus near Scheggia is depicted on the Tabula Peutingeriana (detail pictured)?
Did you know that to animate conquistadors in Jungle Cruise, frogs were recorded in a Costa Rican forest?
Did you know that Monique Corzilius did not realize that she was the girl featured in the famous "Daisy" advertisement until the 2000s, when she searched for the commercial on the Internet?
Did you know that extreme event attribution estimates how much climate change causes weather events, such as the 2021 Western North America heat wave?
Did you know that photographers in Saint Paul, Minnesota, sold thousands of cartes-de-visite of "Old Betz", a Dakota woman who they said was 120 years old?
Did you know that the Australian music festival Isol-Aid takes place entirely on Instagram?
Did you know that the Green Guerillas threw "seed grenades" into abandoned lots in New York City?
Did you know that Abraham O. Woodruff married a second wife 11 years after his father, Wilford Woodruff, issued the 1890 Manifesto that banned the practice of plural marriage?
Did you know that Brookside character Margaret Clemence was featured in a female same-sex kiss that was rebroadcast during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Mack Trucks adopted the Bulldog as its corporate logo after World War I British soldiers nicknamed the Mack AC (example pictured) the "Bulldog", a reference to the model's tenacity and stub nose?
Did you know that Niccolò Paccanari was sentenced to a decade in prison by the Inquisition for mismanaging the religious congregation he founded?
Did you know that River Works station is only for the use of GE Aviation employees?
Did you know that Spud Island was sold for US$15,000?
Did you know that despite not initially being selected for the 2020 Summer Paralympics, British equestrian Georgia Wilson won two bronze medals at the Games?
Did you know that following the Report on the Restitution of African Cultural Heritage, the President of France promised to return African artworks (example pictured) looted during colonial times?
Did you know that four Altars for Peace, fashioned out of large trees by George Nakashima, have been placed on different continents?
Did you know that the Concerto for Two Cellos, RV 531, Antonio Vivaldi's only concerto for two cellos, begins unusually with the two soloists entering alone in fast imitation?
Did you know that the WandaVision episode "Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience" employed a variety of live special effects such as wire rigs to emulate television series of the 1950s and 1960s?
Did you know that there are tens of thousands of Polish proverbs, the oldest known of which dates to the year 1407?
Did you know that when England moved to take over the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1664, a delegation met at Stuyvesant Farm to negotiate the Articles of Surrender?
Did you know that Britain's Imperial Air Routes, 1918 to 1939 by Robin Higham shows how commercial aviation (route map pictured) connected the colonies of the British Empire?
Did you know that Lawrence Watt-Evans's The Cyborg and the Sorcerers was his first work in the hard science fiction genre, but mixed in elements of fantasy?
Did you know that Mal Benning is one of only 0.25 per cent of professional footballers in England to be British Asian?
Did you know that Willi Brokmeier, who participated in the world premiere of Die Soldaten at the Cologne Opera, appeared as Beethoven's Jaquino on a tour to Japan?
Did you know that Wu Dao has ten times as many parameters as GPT-3?
Did you know that at one point in Odessa's history, Jews comprised 89 percent of the city's population?
Did you know that black rails live on Tule Island?
Did you know that in 1999, hundreds to tens of thousands of people protested for 53 days against the flag of Vietnam and a portrait of Ho Chi Minh in Little Saigon?
Did you know that the Great Dover Street woman might be the skeleton of a female gladiator?
Did you know that the manager of CitySpire was fined US$220 after the building was found guilty of whistling loudly?
Did you know that the play-by-mail game Starweb, first published in 1976, is still available today through postal mail or email?
Did you know that there is a monument of a photocopier in the Indonesian village of Atar, commemorating the involvement of migrants from the village in the trade?
Did you know that "Another Body Murdered", a collaboration between Faith No More and Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., has been described as having "a chest-puffing, smack-talking energy that’s undeniable"?
Did you know that George Lauder, a surgeon in the Jacobite Army under Bonnie Prince Charlie, treated the wounded of both sides after the Battle of Prestonpans?
Did you know that KWEM-LP in West Memphis, Arkansas, was established as a tribute to a radio station that in the late 1940s and 1950s helped launch the careers of B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf and Johnny Cash?
Did you know that a feng shui consultant convinced Donald Trump not to use a gold color for New York City's Trump International Hotel and Tower?
Did you know that adults and larvae of the green weevil damage a wide range of plants?
Did you know that for the construction of the US$200 million Axa Equitable Center, the Equitable Life Assurance Society spent $7.5 million on artwork?
Did you know that in 1914 the Royal Navy acquired ninety-seven Foster-Daimler tractors (example pictured) to tow the BL 15-inch howitzer, with eight tractors required to tow each howitzer?
Did you know that rockets (example pictured) are one of the classic methods of space travel in science fiction?
Did you know that the second match of South Africa women's tour of England in 2018 was the first time a women's international cricket match had featured three centuries?
Did you know that the slave trader John Knight transported more than 26,000 Africans to the Americas?
Did you know that Admiral Benjamin William Page was tasked with announcing the start of the Napoleonic Wars to the East Indies, using HMS Caroline?
Did you know that Aline Abboud is the first woman born in the German Democratic Republic to present Tagesthemen, a German daily news magazine?
Did you know that Faith No More's "Ricochet", originally earmarked as a B-side, contains "one of the band's most memorable lines"?
Did you know that Jean-Paul Jeannotte, founder and first artistic director of the Opéra de Montréal, performed the role of Bobino more than 100 times, in the premiere on CBC TV and on stages on a Canada tour?
Did you know that John U. Monro resigned as dean of Harvard College to work at a then-unaccredited, historically black college in Alabama?
Did you know that Trump won 28 times more shadow docket requests per year than Bush and Obama?
Did you know that according to Christopher Bollen, much of his 2020 novel A Beautiful Crime was written in a 17th-century monastery?
Did you know that director Matt Shakman filmed footage specifically for the opening of the 1970s-inspired WandaVision episode "Now in Color", deviating from typical sitcoms of the era that used stock footage in their openings?
Did you know that over his long career in aviation, Andy Carswell was shot down over Germany, made two famous rescues, met Queen Elizabeth II, and upset the Canadian transport safety establishment?
Did you know that the Sawmill Fire of 2017, which burned more than 45,000 acres (18,000 ha), was started at a gender reveal party?
Did you know that Anna Apostolaki, the first Greek woman to work as a professional archaeologist, was also a feminist educator who promoted women's traditional crafts?
Did you know that Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany wore comic-book-accurate Scarlet Witch and Vision Halloween costumes in the WandaVision episode "All-New Halloween Spooktacular!"?
Did you know that Faith No More's "Digging the Grave" was featured on both Beavis and Butt-Head and Top of the Pops?
Did you know that Haripriya Banoth is the youngest member of the Telangana Legislative Assembly?
Did you know that Poles who fought in the Russian Partition during the January Uprising were detained as political prisoners in Magdeburg and Graudenz, Prussia, even though the uprising never crossed the border?
Did you know that Schlosspark Biebrich, the garden at a former residence of the Duchy of Nassau on the Rhine, is the venue of the Internationales Pfingstturnier Wiesbaden?
Did you know that Tlalli will replace a monument to Christopher Columbus, not to "erase history", but to "deliver social justice"?
Did you know that Windsor Gardens station was built to serve a single apartment complex?
Did you know that most of the Timurid 15th-century Musalla complex (remains pictured) was destroyed in 1885 by the British and the Emir of Afghanistan, Abdul Rahman Khan?
Did you know that playwright Carol K. Mack wrote the thriller novel The Chameleon Variant in 1980 with Rutgers University biologist David Ehrenfeld?
Did you know that Dorans Lane in Liverpool is named after Felix Doran, who "seems to cling ghost-like to the area"?
Did you know that Impa is one of the oldest characters in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series?
Did you know that during Tag des offenen Denkmals, Germany's largest annual cultural event, thousands of historic monuments are opened for free?
Did you know that the Canadian Police and Peace Officers' Memorial had to be redesigned after six years to accommodate more names?
Did you know that the WandaVision episode "We Interrupt This Program" was pitched like an episode of CSI, deviating from the sitcom genre of preceding episodes?
Did you know that when acting in HBO television series Big Little Lies, Darby Camp received suggestions from Reese Witherspoon, who plays her onscreen mother?
Did you know that Lori Gramlich, a survivor of sexual abuse in her childhood, introduced legislation that made it easier for sexual abuse survivors in Maine to file civil lawsuits against their abusers?
Did you know that Monika Salzer, a systematic psychotherapist and Protestant pastor, was a columnist for the Kronen Zeitung and appeared on television in Dancing Stars?
Did you know that Turkey's Anadolu Shipyard signed a contract with India's Hindustan Shipyard to transfer technology for the building of five fleet support ships for the Indian Navy?
Did you know that in their book about molybdenum, American chemists Arthur Linz and David H. Killeffer complained that previous works included the true and the false, the probable and the fantastic?
Did you know that the crane shots at the end of the opening sequence for the WandaVision episode "On a Very Special Episode..." were added as an homage to Full House?
Did you know that "why" is the only lyric of "Why"?
Did you know that Jan Hecker influenced the foreign policy of Angela Merkel?
Did you know that Jay-Z was re-added to "Jail" by Kanye West after initially being replaced with DaBaby?
Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II sat for Ben Enwonwu on twelve occasions as he created his sculpture of her?
Did you know that astronaut James McDivitt saw a UFO during his first spaceflight?
Did you know that the 1992 championship of Vince McMahon's World Bodybuilding Federation consisted of "two of the silliest hours in the history of live sports"?
Did you know that Dinah John was one of an estimated fifteen Native American women from New York state to serve in the War of 1812?
Did you know that Richard McGeagh did not receive a gold medal, even though he set an Olympic record in the 4×100 metre medley relay at the 1964 Olympics?
Did you know that Saul Soliz was known as "the godfather of Texas MMA"?
Did you know that a 15-year-old boy died after falling from the top of a 142-foot high (43 m) mast?
Did you know that the 1911 fire at the New York State Capitol destroyed over 700,000 items held by the New York State Library, creating a "hole in [New York's] cultural heritage"?
Did you know that the Morowali Industrial Park is the largest center of nickel industry in Indonesia, the world's top nickel producer?
Did you know that the artist Robert Smithson suggested that the boulder in the center of his piece Broken Circle/Spiral Hill was a "warning from the Ice Age"?
Did you know that the winner of the men's race at the 2004 London Marathon fell during the race on cobblestones?
Did you know that Nigel Bonner, an Antarctic marine mammal specialist and Polar Medal recipient, researched the Antarctic fur seal and published "the first modern scientific study of the species" in 1968?
Did you know that The Rolling Stones' single "Good Time Women", released in 2010, formed the basis for their 1972 hit single "Tumbling Dice"?
Did you know that Winchester Highlands station was used for church meetings in the 1880s?
Did you know that Zhang Shangwu, a two-time gold medal gymnast at the Universiade, turned to stealing and begging in the streets after his competitive career ended with an injury?
Did you know that criticism of armchair theorizing in anthropology has resulted in scholars "coming down off the verandah"?
Did you know that Jimmy Carter reported that he had seen a UFO?