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Did you know that Quaker abolitionist David Cooper's anonymously authored 1783 tract condemning slavery was distributed to the New Jersey State Assembly, the Confederation Congress, and George Washington?
Did you know that after the 1924 abolition of the Caliphate (illustration shown), numerous leaders vied unsuccessfully to resurrect the title of caliph for themselves?
Did you know that in 1919 a race riot broke out in Norfolk, Virginia, during a homecoming celebration for African-American veterans of World War I?
Did you know that new Austrian Finance Minister Eduard Müller began his career as a tax inspector?
Did you know that the lesser seedcracker enjoys rice and the large, hard seeds of carrycillo?
Did you know that "Let Nature Sing", a single consisting of nothing but unedited bird song, reached number one on the UK Singles Sales Chart?
Did you know that 50,000 years ago a Neanderthal defecated on an old campfire in El Salt, Spain, and proved the Neanderthal diet also included plants?
Did you know that Australian rules footballer Callum Wilkie, who had been overlooked in four previous national drafts, was working as an accountant when he was selected by St Kilda?
Did you know that Helen Appo Cook, an African-American activist, publicly admonished Susan B. Anthony in 1898 for failing to support universal suffrage?
Did you know that Yvette Lévy has returned to the Auschwitz concentration camp more than 200 times with students, to teach them about her experience at the camp where she survived the Holocaust?
Did you know that a prize for contemporary art of Styria is named after Viktor Fogarassy, the managing director of a department store?
Did you know that among the musical roles performed by Anke Sieloff at the Musiktheater im Revier are Maria in West Side Story, and a witch in the first German production of The Witches of Eastwick?
Did you know that during the 1960s, Harold Finger was in charge of the development of NASA's nuclear rocket and nuclear power systems, including generators left on the Moon by Apollo missions?
Did you know that indigenous people in the Ecuadorian highlands sometimes mark special occasions with a pampa mesa, a communal meal eaten from a cloth spread on the ground?
Did you know that there are no longer any chimpanzees in Marahoué National Park?
Did you know that Gujarati writer Manilal Dwivedi was invited to present a paper at the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions, but was unable to attend due to financial constraints?
Did you know that Jörg Breiding, only the second leader of the Knabenchor Hannover in its 69-year history, conducted the choir and the Canadian Brass quintet in folk song arrangements in 2019?
Did you know that Leonard Fryer's designs included a stamp for the Falkland Islands featuring Gentoo penguins?
Did you know that Mark Hamill had his first regular voice-acting job on the 1973 television series Jeannie?
Did you know that New York City's 407-acre (165 ha) Shirley Chisholm State Park, named after the first black Congresswoman in the U.S., was created on a landfill?
Did you know that Rathindranath Tagore, the first vice-chancellor of Visva-Bharati University, initially became involved with the school at the urging of his Nobel Prize-winning father?
Did you know that according to legal theorist Jiang Shigong, China has two constitutions?
Did you know that after their beloved Canadian leader, Captain Dyer, died, his Slavo-British unit took to carrying a massive portrait of him and would later murder all of the unit's other officers?
Did you know that during the 1960s and 1970s, Project Rover tested nuclear-powered rocket engines (example pictured) at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station at Jackass Flats?
Did you know that the Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton moved to Ohio from Bethesda, Maryland, in part because their building was about to be lost to termites?
Did you know that the toxic bark of a Madagascan tree species has been used as a poison in trials by ordeal?
Did you know that toxic vacuolation, the presence of vacuoles inside certain types of white blood cells, can be a sign of sepsis?
Did you know that when Virginia suffragist Anna Whitehead Bodeker was not allowed to cast a ballot in the 1871 municipal election in Richmond, she put a note in the ballot box claiming her right to vote?
Did you know that British author Harold Clunn saw the destruction done by the Blitz as a blessing in disguise?
Did you know that Charity Lamb was the first woman convicted of murder in the Oregon Territory?
Did you know that John Shearer was the second African-American staff photographer at Life and a neighbor of the first, Gordon Parks?
Did you know that Kris Knoblauch accumulated 298 wins over seven years as a head coach in the Canadian junior ice hockey leagues before becoming head coach of the Hartford Wolf Pack?
Did you know that Olivier Latry, organist at Notre-Dame de Paris, played a concert at St. Martin in Lorch am Rhein in 2019?
Did you know that Will Dismukes, a 29-year-old member of the Alabama House of Representatives, is also an ordained minister and former baseball player, and suffered a massive stroke at the age of 22?
Did you know that Zhuo Renxi developed the anti-fog coating for Mao Zedong's crystal coffin that is displayed in his mausoleum?
Did you know that after a friend told Toni Sharpless 10 years ago today that she was too drunk to drive, Sharpless ordered her out of the car and has not been seen since?
Did you know that although Spitzeln was also called German l'Hombre, it had little more in common with the most successful card game ever invented than the fact that it was played by three players?
Did you know that the cannonball and white-flowered black mangroves are among the ten species of mangrove listed as occurring in Mozambique?
Did you know that the executive producer of Women of '69, Unboxed was a member of the 1969 all-woman graduating class of Skidmore College, on which the film focuses?
Did you know that the original article describing Berlekamp's root finding algorithm did not contain a proof of correctness?
Did you know that unlike The 1975's previous eponymous songs, all of which use the same set of lyrics, their fourth eponymous song is a spoken-word protest about climate change by Greta Thunberg?
Did you know that Alejandro Finocchiaro, Argentina's current Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology, produced the 2008 documentary Mujeres de la Shoá ('Women of the Holocaust')?
Did you know that Betty Cantor-Jackson recorded over 1000 tapes of the Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Jerry Garcia Band, and Old & In the Way, but lost them when she could not pay the storage fees?
Did you know that Garçon Wines produces a wine bottle designed to fit through a letter box?
Did you know that Hermin Esser performed 14 tenor roles at the Bayreuth Festival dedicated exclusively to stageworks by Richard Wagner, beginning in 1966 as Froh and ending in 1981 as Tristan?
Did you know that Sophie Luff, who captained the boys' cricket team whilst at school, was named the "most promising young female cricketer" of 2015?
Did you know that West Palm Beach, Florida, was the site of the 2000 U.S. presidential election recount, which led to the Bush v. Gore decision giving Florida's 25 electoral votes to George W. Bush?
Did you know that footballer Craig Bellamy was the first player to score for seven different teams in the Premier League?
Did you know that the Maple River State Game Area contains the only known inland salt marsh in the state of Michigan?
Did you know that the Qutb Minar complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Delhi, houses the tomb of one of Muhammad's descendants?
Did you know that the different types of combined hormonal contraception include a pill, a patch, an injection, and a vaginal ring?
Did you know that voice actress Yuki Nakashima is a public relations officer for Japan's Wakayama Prefecture?
Did you know that Donald Dean Jackson, known for his editing of the George Washington papers, originally felt he did not have the proper background and hesitated to act in that capacity?
Did you know that Donald Trump's official musical adviser is Jason Fettig?
Did you know that R. K. Wilson, the surgeon behind the hoax "surgeon's photograph" of the Loch Ness Monster, was later awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Order of Orange-Nassau?
Did you know that Yuri Korolev led the Soviet Union national ice hockey team's research group for 28 years while the team won 17 Ice Hockey World Championships and 7 Winter Olympic Games gold medals?
Did you know that a young woman who went missing in a Rosemont, Illinois, hotel was later found dead inside a walk-in freezer?
Did you know that in 1968, students at Columbia University protested against their college's proposed construction of a gym at Morningside Park?
Did you know that in 2001, Ben Kimondiu became the first pacesetter to win the Chicago Marathon?
Did you know that the bush cricket Ruspolia nitidula is commonly eaten in Uganda, where the price per unit weight is periodically higher than that of beef?
Did you know that the opera Behold the Sun by Alexander Goehr, about the Anabaptists in Münster, was premiered in an abridged version in German, but the BBC aired it in full in English?
Did you know that when Egon Schiele's painting Dämmernde Stadt was auctioned for US$24.6 million in 2018, the descendants of two former owners shared the proceeds?
Did you know that Charles X of France donated a painting of the incredulity of St Thomas by François Dubois to St Thomas's Church in the small Scottish town of Keith, Moray?
Did you know that Cynthia Whitchurch's discovery of a novel role for DNA in nature is credited with creating a paradigm shift in the study of biofilms?
Did you know that Hans-Georg Münzberg continued to work on the development of the Snecma Atar engine in France despite being a professor at the Technical University of Berlin?
Did you know that Slovak ice hockey referee Juraj Okoličány translated the international ice hockey rules into his native language?
Did you know that historian Charles Henry Ambler earned his PhD using the first eight chapters of his book, Sectionalism in Virginia from 1776 to 1861, for his dissertation?
Did you know that in 1905, Scottish photographer Robert M. Adam was among the last to photograph Mingulay island before it was abandoned?
Did you know that in the nocturnal Battle of Kapetron, the Byzantines in the flanks defeated their Seljuk opponents, but on the next morning learned of their Georgian allies' defeat in the centre?
Did you know that the ancient Jewish text of Perek Shirah asserts that spiders and rats praise God using verses from Psalm 150?
Did you know that the earliest-known paintings on fabric in China (example pictured) were artifacts of the Changsha Kingdom?
Did you know that there has been a boom in LGBT+ cinema produced in Latin America, in contrast to its traditionally religious and machismo culture?
Did you know that when Jessie Grayson played Mrs. Higbee in Cass Timberlane, it was the first time an African-American had been addressed on screen by the honorific "Mrs."?
Did you know that Chicago's WCLM radio was investigated for leasing an audio channel without permission to a service that broadcast horse racing results to bookies, later losing its license over other violations?
Did you know that Coxton Tower (illustration shown), despite having been uninhabited since the 1860s, was used to house Canadian troops stationed in Scotland during the Second World War?
Did you know that Iggy Azalea joked with Peppa Pig on Twitter over My First Album's release date?
Did you know that Jill Martin was the only actor to appear in all three West End runs of the musical My Fair Lady?
Did you know that Thomas Perkins Abernethy's dissertation The Formative Period in Alabama, 1815–1828 earned him a doctorate from Harvard University and was published in book form?
Did you know that Turkish television and film actress Serenay Aktaş was once a women's footballer?
Did you know that department store chain Kastner & Öhler, based in Graz, began as a shop for mercery in 1873, and was the first in Central Europe to introduce fixed prices and run a mail order service?
Did you know that teenage CEO Alina Morse's sugar-free candy company had US$6 million in sales when she was thirteen years old?
Did you know that the Argus tortoise beetle is named after the mythical Greek giant Argus Panoptes?
Did you know that Algernon Burnaby won the Quorn Hunt's Midnight Steeplechase in 1890?
Did you know that The Debut was Jackie Evancho's eighth consecutive release on the Billboard Classical Albums chart to reach number one?
Did you know that William R. Crawford Jr. was appointed as U.S. ambassador to Cyprus after Rodger Davies, his predecessor, was assassinated?
Did you know that because of their pristine, rugged nature, the Carp Hills in western Ottawa, Canada, are called an "ecological jewel"?
Did you know that in 1968, Mark E. Silverman and John Willis Hurst used what they described as a "Sherlock Holmesian approach" to show that the condition of the heart might be found in clues in the hands?
Did you know that peregrine falcons live at the top of New York City's Throgs Neck Bridge?
Did you know that the 1920s–1930s interior design style Curzon Street Baroque (example pictured) was also known as Buggers' Baroque?
Did you know that the Redoute in Bad Godesberg, which opened in 1792 when Beethoven played in the orchestra, was used for receptions of the President of Germany?
Did you know that the Ross Volunteers are the military escort for the Governor of Texas?
Did you know that Jīvaka, a child left behind on a trash heap, later became the physician of the Buddha?
Did you know that MDR Rundfunkchor, the radio choir of the MDR in Leipzig, performed Dvořák's Stabat Mater in the opening concert of the 2019 Rheingau Musik Festival at Eberbach Abbey?
Did you know that Misty Talley, who directed shark horror films for Syfy, edits about five feature film projects at a time?
Did you know that Pollichia campestris was first described in 1789 by the Scottish botanist William Aiton in the publication Hortus Kewensis, a catalogue of all the plants then being cultivated at Kew Gardens?
Did you know that Swarup Rani Nehru appealed to women to make salt in defiance of the salt laws in British India?
Did you know that Thomas M. Owen founded the Alabama Department of Archives and History, the first such agency in the U.S. to become a distinct department of a state government?
Did you know that during change of command ceremonies of the United States Marine Band, the John Philip Sousa Baton is transferred from the outgoing to the incoming director?
Did you know that shortly after the arrest of the leaders of the Indonesian National Party, Sartono disbanded it and founded the Indonesia Party?
Did you know that the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame commemorative coins may become the United States Mint's first color coinage?
Did you know that the wildlife of Uganda includes the Ugandan kob, the Uganda mangabey, and the Ugandan musk shrew?
Did you know that there will be a women's Twenty20 cricket tournament for the first time at the 2022 Commonwealth Games?
Did you know that when Zhai Xiangjun's teaching career was interrupted by dental surgery, he began writing English textbooks, two of which have since been adopted by most Chinese universities?
Did you know that African-American educator Jennie Porter refused to let teachers at her all-black school join the NAACP after its local leaders criticized her views on segregation?
Did you know that Barbara Zechmeister, who appeared in world premieres at the Oper Frankfurt, portrayed Clarissa in a recorded production of Weber's Die drei Pintos at the 2004 Wexford Festival?
Did you know that Claude Batchelor, a former trumpet player with the 1st Cavalry Division Band, was convicted on charges related to collaboration with China during the Korean War?
Did you know that Neanderthals in the Valencian Valldigna valley hauled young elephants up a 100-metre (330 ft) climb to the Bolomor Cave, for use as food?
Did you know that Nicholas Emery tried to negotiate the sale of Maine's northern territory to the American government for one million acres (4,000 km2) of the Michigan Territory?
Did you know that Wayne and Shuster's comedy sketch "Rinse the Blood Off My Toga" recasts Shakespeare's Julius Caesar as a detective story?
Did you know that forests in the Guineo-Congolian region of Africa include patches dominated by a single species of tree, such as Brachystegia laurentii, Julbernardia seretii, Michelsonia microphylla, or Gilbertiodendron dewevrei?
Did you know that in 1999, Pam Coats was promoted to senior vice president of creative development at Walt Disney Animation Studios, becoming the highest-ranking woman at the company?
Did you know that one royal christening gown (pictured in 1903) was worn by 62 British royal babies over its 163-year history?
Did you know that the National Salt Satyagraha Memorial honors the participants of the Salt Satyagraha, a nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930?
Did you know that the historic wooden Kruszyniany Mosque was targeted in 2014 during a wave of attacks on mosques in Poland?
Did you know that when an angry mob overran the palaces in Granada in 1309, the sultan was spared, but his vizier, Abu Abdallah ibn al-Hakim, was killed?
Did you know that Bruce McCandless II flew in space for the first time in February 1984, nearly eighteen years after being chosen as a member of NASA Astronaut Group 5?
Did you know that FreeConferenceCall.com faced a public backlash for trying to change its hold music?
Did you know that John Pierce has performed Wagner roles internationally, such as Tannhäuser and Lohengrin at the Stadttheater Minden, and Tristan in Prague, Rotterdam, and Rio de Janeiro?
Did you know that Tong Daoming wrote plays without antagonists?
Did you know that Tonic Trouble, released in 1999, was the first video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal?
Did you know that Vicky Knight, who played an acid-attack victim in her debut film role, works as a healthcare assistant in the hospital where she was treated as a child?
Did you know that legal scholar Wang Jiafu gave lectures to China's top leaders, including President Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng?
Did you know that the Natal cycad and the dune false currant are among the 1,900 endemic plant species found in the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany Hotspot?
Did you know that voice actress Ai Fairouz's interest in anime and manga was influenced by her reading the series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in online Skype sessions?
Did you know that when Pehr Kalm explored North America in the mid-1700s, he reported being served apple dumplings at every meal?
Did you know that Jebel ech Chambi, the highest mountain in Tunisia, is one of the few places in which the Cuvier's gazelle survives?
Did you know that Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi ordered his air force to attack a city during the Uganda–Tanzania War, but his bomber instead hit a game reserve and killed antelopes?
Did you know that Patricia Marshall's role in the 1947 film Good News was originally meant for Gloria DeHaven?
Did you know that Prince Min Nyo of Kale seized the throne of Ava by having his lover, Queen Shin Bo-Me, assassinate his eight-year-old nephew, King Min Hla?
Did you know that Professor Lu Yonggen was named by Harvard Kennedy School as the second most generous Chinese philanthropist of 2017 after donating his entire life savings to South China Agricultural University?
Did you know that The Urology Foundation carried out a survey of how often British men check their testicles?
Did you know that a critic described the song "Lover" as a throwback to Taylor Swift's "country days"?
Did you know that after suffering a heart attack at the age of 27, relief pitcher John Hiller made a comeback and broke Major League Baseball's record for saves in a season?
Did you know that as state health commissioner of Indiana, Woody Myers supported the right of Ryan White, a teenage boy with HIV/AIDS, to return to public school in the face of anti-AIDS discrimination?
Did you know that in Su Shuyang's tragedy depicting the last day of Lao She's life, the celebrated writer converses with dead characters from his own works before committing suicide?
Did you know that the Beaver Falls Cutlery Company manufactured the "largest knife and fork in the world" of its time in 1876?
Did you know that the Spanish idiom "¿Cuándo hemos comido en el mismo plato?" ('When have we eaten from the same dish?') is used as social commentary about poor manners or incivility?
Did you know that Ali Sayyad Shirazi, deputy chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, was assassinated in 1999 by a Mojahedin-e Khalq agent disguised as a street cleaner?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor's 2019 EP The Love Train was promoted through a press release which drew controversy because of its "graphic nature and bizarre phrasing"?
Did you know that UCLA football player Joshua Kelley's career-high 289 rushing yards against USC last season were the most by any player on either team in the history of the schools' crosstown rivalry?
Did you know that Yola Letellier is widely believed to be the model for the main character in Colette's story Gigi?
Did you know that in his opera Sirenen – Bilder des Begehrens und des Vernichtens, Rolf Riehm included instruments such as archaic wood planks, a musical saw, an accordion, and a piano?
Did you know that in some Polish homes, an image of a Jew holding a coin (example pictured) hangs to the left of the doorway, and is customarily turned upside down on the Sabbath so that good fortune may fall upon the household?
Did you know that the depiction of the ruins of the leper colony Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium in Atsushi Fujiwara's 2015 photobook Poet Island was inspired by the poetry of Kaijin Akashi, who lived, wrote, and ultimately died there in 1939?
Did you know that the work of C. Doris Hellman on the Great Comet of 1577 led historians of science to recognize the comet's key role in the success of the Copernican Revolution?
Did you know that upon its completion one hundred years ago this month, the Brooklyn Army Terminal was the world's largest concrete building complex?
Did you know that when National Basketball Association revenue in Canada grew 224 percent in five years, vice-president Dan MacKenzie attributed it to marketing strategy and the sport's appeal to young Asian Canadians?
Did you know that when offered the award of the Iron Cross from Nazi Germany, Leo Skurnik, a Jewish major in the Finnish Army, refused, reportedly saying "I wipe my arse with it"?
Did you know that Beth Van Duyne, the mayor of Irving, Texas, from 2011 to 2017, initially became involved in politics due to a zoning dispute?
Did you know that British actress and scriptwriter Betty Paul wrote for the first rural soap opera, Weavers Green, in collaboration with her third husband?
Did you know that a cholera outbreak was ultimately responsible for the development of Hamburg's Kontorhaus District (building pictured)?
Did you know that after the U.S. Congress passed a resolution urging the IOC to reject Beijing's bid for the 2000 Olympics, the city's vice mayor Zhang Baifa threatened to boycott the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta?
Did you know that in 1877, the Wellington County House of Industry and Refuge spent less than Can$0.76 per week on the care of each resident?
Did you know that shortly after serving as President of Georgetown University, David H. Buel quit the Jesuits and secretly married?
Did you know that the Lebanon women's national football team's first official qualification campaign took place eight years after their inception?
Did you know that the Palembang Light Rail Transit, which opened last year, is the first operational light-rail system in Indonesia?
Did you know that while Carlisle Military Academy was nominally a school for boys, it also accepted a "limited number of girls" (female students pictured)?
Did you know that Aleksei Grishin (depiction shown) put his 2010 Winter Olympics gold medal—Belarus' first gold in the Winter Olympics—up for auction to raise money for another person's surgery?