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Did you know that during World War II, Polish-Jewish economist Ludwik Maurycy Landau conducted undercover research into the economic conditions in occupied Poland?
Did you know that during the topping-out ceremony for 1 Wall Street, while workers hoisted an evergreen tree to its pinnacle, a hot rivet fell onto the street and caused a fire?
Did you know that in R v Zora, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the offence of breaching bail conditions requires subjective mens rea?
Did you know that the 7th-century drama Bhagavadajjukam is the earliest-surviving satirical play in Sanskrit literature?
Did you know that the Asian freshwater leech Barbronia weberi has invaded North Carolina?
Did you know that the British government funded Crossroads, the first Kazakhstani soap opera, to promote the country's transition to a free-market economy after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the Jamai Palace in Fez was originally the residence of a grand vizier, but was later seized by the state, sold, and converted into a hotel?
Did you know that the Spanish government blocked the sale of a stake in digital television licensee Sociedad Gestora de Televisión Net TV to Viacom?
Did you know that the whole of Topo Islet, in Portugal's Azores, is protected as a nature reserve?
Did you know that Ed Warren, the 35th and 41st mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was an actor and one of three Cheyenne mayors to have played on Broadway?
Did you know that Joshna Chinappa has won the Indian national squash championship a record 18 times?
Did you know that Maurício Camuto, the incoming bishop of Caxito in Angola, was the director of a commercial radio station that exposed human rights abuses in the country?
Did you know that Taroc l'Hombre imported bidding from the world's most successful card game, Ombre, a feature that was crucial to the future of Tarot games outside Italy?
Did you know that a Spanish woman was arrested for carrying a bag that read "A.C.A.B." accompanied by the phrase "All Cats Are Beautiful"?
Did you know that a large, elderly, "decently behaved" Russian brown bear once lived in the Leeds suburb of Headingley?
Did you know that after years of fan lobbying, the director's cut of Zack Snyder's 2017 film Justice League will be released on HBO Max?
Did you know that on their display in Chicago in 1893, the vases of the Khalili Imperial Garniture were described as "the largest examples of cloisonné enamel ever made"?
Did you know that one private company, Lexipol, writes the policy manuals for 3,500 law and public service agencies in the U.S.?
Did you know that program tapes were sent to KUAC, the first public radio station in Alaska, by overnight Pan Am flights from Oregon?
Did you know that the Who set the world record for the loudest concert on their The Who by Numbers Tour?
Did you know that "Meine engen Grenzen" ("My narrow limits"), a new hymn with text by Eugen Eckert and a melody by Winfried Heurich, was recorded with a band?
Did you know that Connie Carberg, the NFL's first female scout, made mock drafts as a hobby while growing up?
Did you know that NASA mechanical engineer Aaron Yazzie has compared the surface of Mars to the landscape near his birthplace in the Navajo Nation?
Did you know that Stanley Matthews vowed to never work in management again after one year as Port Vale F.C. manager?
Did you know that after Sweden defeated the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Lemberg, the Polish troops joined Sweden and were stationed in the city they had just lost?
Did you know that amid the George Floyd protests, New York City implemented its first nighttime curfew since the Harlem riot of 1943?
Did you know that army ambulances were deployed during the 1989–90 British ambulance strike?
Did you know that during the first few days of the launch of the internet bench, two teenagers phoned the local council and Bill Gates after discovering that it could be used to make international calls?
Did you know that in a 2013 ranking compiled by the political editors of Verdens Gang, Astrid Gjertsen was rated the ninth-most important woman in Norwegian history?
Did you know that most Nepali families disapprove of inter-caste marriage because they are afraid of becoming social outcasts?
Did you know that negotiations to end the 1942 Betteshanger miners' strike took place at Maidstone Prison, as three of the union officials had been imprisoned there?
Did you know that stories by Marie Hassenpflug were a source for the Brothers Grimm fairy tales "Little Red Riding Hood", "Sleeping Beauty", and possibly "Snow White"?
Did you know that the Chinese policy of Five Fingers of Tibet considers Tibet to be China's right-hand palm, with five fingers—Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and Arunachal Pradesh—that must be "liberated"?
Did you know that the Lekhapaddhati, a guidebook written in Sanskrit, includes specimens of letters and documents intended to be used by administrators during Chaulukya rule in Gujarat, India?
Did you know that Ba Than founded what became Japanese Burma's main public hospital after the Imperial Japanese Army reserved Rangoon General Hospital for its exclusive use?
Did you know that Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin claimed that he had prevented another Holocaust by bombing an Iraqi nuclear reactor?
Did you know that a courier was once robbed of nearly £300 million in the City of London?
Did you know that abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock considered the greatest painting in North America to be a mural of Prometheus at Pomona College by Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco?
Did you know that business leaders tried to ban the Depression anthem "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" for being "a dangerous attack on the American economic system"?
Did you know that in Algeria potatoes are grown in sand in the Sahara desert?
Did you know that neuroscientist Michela Gallagher's research group showed that the epilepsy drug levetiracetam is a candidate to reduce mild cognitive impairment in patients with Alzheimer's disease?
Did you know that the 1997 historical drama Balidaan (Sacrifice) was banned in 2005 by King Gyanendra's government for its portrayal of Nepal's communist movement?
Did you know that the Jimi Hendrix guitar solo which Beautiful People sampled for their 1993 single "Rilly Groovy" had to be cut into about forty pieces and rearranged to fit the beat?
Did you know that the first state superintendent of schools for Georgia was a one-armed former dentist?
Did you know that the languorous voice of television character Paulina de la Mora is seen as a socioeconomic commentary on the Mexican stereotype of high-class young women?
Did you know that the musicologist Ulrike Liedtke, who founded and directed the Rheinsberg Music Academy, became president of the Brandenburg state parliament in 2019?
Did you know that when Nigerian women's rights activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was banned from organizing demonstrations, she organized "picnics" and "festivals" instead, drawing up to 10,000 participants?
Did you know that "Island Home" is the anthem of Jersey, but has been disliked and sometimes substituted with a song that mentions France?
Did you know that A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, the new album by rock group Sparks, contains lyrics that appear to foreshadow COVID-19, even though it was recorded before the onset of the pandemic?
Did you know that Charles Kingston O'Mahony's selection of murderers in his 1927 book Enemies of Society includes five doctors?
Did you know that Kessler R. Cannon, who later became an Oregon state representative, interviewed Oregon pioneers for his popular 15 Minute Histories radio program broadcast on KBND in the 1950s?
Did you know that a report by Chinese journalist Chen Jieren on university students turning to prostitution to pay for their tuition fees sparked a major debate about prostitution in China?
Did you know that in order to write his novel Mr. Monster, Dan Wells researched the offender profiling and embalming processes?
Did you know that the German police were called to investigate Deutsches Reichsbräu beer because of the Nazi-style imagery on its logo?
Did you know that the district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, sued the U.S. Department of Justice after it refused to cooperate with his investigation of the shooting of Jamarion Robinson?
Did you know that today at 09:27 UTC, the direction to Mecca can be determined by looking at the shadow cast by a stick (diagram pictured)?
Did you know that Fred Sargeant was one of the gay rights activists who proposed the first Christopher Street Liberation Day—now the NYC Pride March—to commemorate the Stonewall riots?
Did you know that John Whitworth, a singing lay vicar at Westminster Abbey for 22 years, was praised for his "voice of great beauty, rich in the lower register, trumpet-toned in the upper"?
Did you know that according to one Korean creation narrative, there was a time when noodles grew on shrubs and rice cakes grew on leaves?
Did you know that although Damien O'Connor, the minister of agriculture, stated that "the image of pastoral farming is the one New Zealand promotes", he called the ANZCO Foods feedlot (drone footage featured) at Wakanui "innovative"?
Did you know that among the 444 songs in the hymnal Cantate!, published by the pedagogue Heinrich Bone in 1847, was his "Komm, Schöpfer Geist, kehr bei uns ein" ("Come, Holy Spirit, visit us")?
Did you know that an 18th-century court case may support altered ways of signing and witnessing English wills during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that at the 2005 World Snooker Championship, a player turned up without his cue stick and with a hangover?
Did you know that the Emilio López Zamora dam in Ensenada, Baja California, almost overflowed on March 4, 1978?
Did you know that the chancery of the Embassy of the Philippines in Kuala Lumpur was formerly the home of Tunku Abdul Rahman, the first prime minister of Malaysia?
Did you know that the title of the 2020 Nepali comedy–drama film Senti Virus was changed from Anti Virus on the advice of an astrologer?
Did you know that to bypass censorship in Poland, some authors turned to self-censorship, Aesopian language, and the Polish underground press?
Did you know that Ethel McGhee Davis, an alumna of Spelman College, later served as the school's first African-American dean and was a member of its board of trustees for 24 years?
Did you know that Leila Hassan edited the journal Race Today and was a member of the British Black Panthers and the Black Unity and Freedom Party?
Did you know that South Dakota TV station KRSD-TV's signal was so poor that it sparked an "uprising" of calls and cancellations from cable viewers?
Did you know that a bail fund was started by the American Civil Liberties Union in 1920 to release people arrested for sedition?
Did you know that a song by Belarusian rock band Molchat Doma reached number two on the Spotify Viral 50 chart after it was frequently used as background music on video sharing platform TikTok?
Did you know that diamonds were featured on the flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines because the previous breadfruit leaf was hard to recognise from afar?
Did you know that in the 1970s, Indian retailer Anokhi, which produces hand-printed garments, helped revive traditional Rajasthani woodblock printing?
Did you know that money Spain provided to the Hong Kong Junta as part of a peace deal was used to buy weapons to fight Spain?
Did you know that sculptor Antonio Berti designed the bronze casket used to house the wooden coffin of Pope Pius XI?
Did you know that the Amazon parrot (depicted) was implicated as a source of the great parrot fever pandemic of 1929–30, in which more than 100 people died?
Did you know that the Jonas Brothers wrote and recorded the song "Only Human" mostly via FaceTime?
Did you know that Jan Otrębski, who knew nothing of the Lithuanian language until his adulthood, is honored in Lithuania for his studies of the language?
Did you know that Pita Limjaroenrat, the current leader of Thailand's Move Forward Party, was the first Thai student to receive an international student scholarship from Harvard University?
Did you know that Thomas Powell was one of several exceptionally fast Hudson River steamboats of the 1840s powered by the marine engineering works of T. F. Secor?
Did you know that in 2018, hair stylist Johann Peries became the first Sri Lankan man to summit Mount Everest?
Did you know that one of the 11 museums and art installations maintained by the Dia Art Foundation is a room in New York City filled with 250 cubic yards (190 m3) of soil?
Did you know that the Federal Communications Commission disapproved of a potential buyer's plans for North Carolina television station WANC-TV, finding them a wasteful use of spectrum?
Did you know that the quality of Bruce Edwards's repartee with his co-star in the 1947 film serial The Black Widow has been compared to the verbal sparring of Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday?
Did you know that the record 56-game hitting streak of Major League Baseball player Joe DiMaggio, which ended 79 years ago today, is considered unbreakable?
Did you know that the video for "Angels Ain't Listening" by Basshunter features a mentally unstable man modeled after Joaquin Phoenix's 2019 portrayal of the Joker?
Did you know that to avoid prosecution, managers of illegal opioid prescription centers known as "pill mills" tend to run their facilities like pop-up stores?
Did you know that when Antje Weithaas played Max Bruch's Violin Concerto, a reviewer from The Guardian wrote that she reminded her, "with quiet and compelling eloquence, why it's a masterpiece"?
Did you know that Brooklyn-based activist group El Grito de Sunset Park frequently photographs the police?
Did you know that Emily Sheffield, the new editor of London's Evening Standard, left British Vogue as part of what was called a "posh girl exodus"?
Did you know that Joseph Ngolepus finished third at the 2003 London Marathon, one second behind the winner, in the closest London Marathon finish in history?
Did you know that Operation Gideon, an attempt to infiltrate Venezuela by sea and remove Nicolás Maduro from office, was stopped before it got further than the beach?
Did you know that Priyanka Chopra planned her wedding to Nick Jonas in between filming scenes for The Sky Is Pink?
Did you know that a thirst trap (selfie pictured) can lead to harassment and bullying?
Did you know that after the American Civil War, Reconstruction-era laws enabled black suffrage, but in practice African Americans still faced obstacles to voting?
Did you know that as the pianist for the ensemble Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler, Gerhard Erber was among the first East German musicians to tour beyond the Iron Curtain?
Did you know that in a January 1939 speech, Hitler predicted "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe"?
Did you know that in the tell-all book Too Much and Never Enough, Donald Trump's niece Mary L. Trump alleges that he mistreated his father Fred Trump after Fred developed Alzheimer's disease?
Did you know that technology executive Scott A. McGregor was the lead developer of Windows 1.0?
Did you know that the "bad apples" metaphor has changed from a warning not to interact with corrupt individuals to a claim that bad apples are not representative of an entire group?
Did you know that the "gaudy" stylised floral paintings (example pictured) used to decorate narrowboats and their fittings may have originated from decorations on Romani wagons?
Did you know that the base of 712 Fifth Avenue contains the historic Coty Building, which has the only documented architectural work by René Lalique in the United States?
Did you know that the film Chasing 3000 was meant to premiere at the 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, but was held back since the filmmakers wanted a better chance to secure a distribution deal?
Did you know that 47 million copies of Dwight D. Eisenhower's People of Western Europe speech were printed for distribution during World War II?
Did you know that American rapper 2 Black 2 Strong is best known for his song "Burn Baby Burn" about the right to burn the flag?
Did you know that Bruce Lewandowski, the incoming auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, worked with the activist group BUILD to create a parish identity card for undocumented immigrants?
Did you know that How to Be an Antiracist topped The New York Times Best Seller List in the Hardcover Nonfiction category after a surge in sales following the killing of George Floyd?
Did you know that Mark Ormrod was the first UK soldier to survive a triple amputation during the War in Afghanistan?
Did you know that Nature's Fynd, producer of microbe-based meat substitutes, is working with NASA to develop a bioreactor for use in space travel?
Did you know that O sacrum convivium! is one of the best-known works by Olivier Messiaen, but he declared that it was not representative of his compositional style?
Did you know that for its 2020 tourism campaign, the Government of Nepal proposed building 108 sculptures of the Yeti painted by 108 different artists?
Did you know that in 2019, Helalia Johannes became Namibia's first-ever female medallist at the World Athletics Championships?
Did you know that it was said that Crawfish Spring supplied water to the "entire" Union Army during the Battle of Chickamauga?
Did you know that some typefaces used in Thai typography are designed to resemble Latin sans-serif, and the Thai characters พ, ร, and บ (pictured in two fonts) may look just like the English letters W, S, and U?
Did you know that the 1994 film Fresh Kill is noted for its influence on hacker subculture, with a 1995 article about the film containing one of the first recorded uses of the term "hacktivism"?
Did you know that Adolf Hitler and members of his staff who survived the 20 July plot to assassinate him were treated in the former Carlshof Institutions?
Did you know that Hetty Spiers, who wrote screenplays for silent films as early as 1917, is included on Columbia University's list of "Unhistoricized Women Film Pioneers"?
Did you know that a LinkedIn license contract compelled UpCounsel, an online marketplace for legal services, to close but it ended up remaining in business?
Did you know that in his reading of the June 6, 1944, order of the day (recording featured), Dwight D. Eisenhower reportedly sounded like Clark Gable?
Did you know that the 379-year-old dance musical play Kartik Naach (video clip featured) is performed every year in Nepal?
Did you know that the choir of Reigate St Mary's School in England sang in the film Angels & Demons and was featured on the soundtrack of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland?
Did you know that the flag of the 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) is on display at the Museum of the Confederacy?
Did you know that when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis instructed the first director general of television station Canal 21 to position the station "between nude women and the Sunday Mass"?
Did you know that Indiana radio station WFCI engaged in a five-year battle to increase its transmitting power, facing opposition from a local TV station?
Did you know that Lauren Boebert encourages her servers to openly carry firearms inside her restaurant in Rifle, Colorado?
Did you know that Real Life, Brandon Taylor's debut novel, is an American campus novel about a gay, black doctoral student in a mostly white PhD program?
Did you know that Zico's "Any Song" dance challenge went viral on TikTok after several South Korean celebrities including Hwasa, Chungha, and Lee Hyori participated in the trend?
Did you know that at age 17, French basketball player Théo Maledon became the youngest player ever to compete in the LNB All-Star Game?
Did you know that carnivorous wildlife of North Macedonia as small as the Balkan lynx have been reported to attack not just livestock, but humans too?
Did you know that the author of the hymn "Das Jahr steht auf der Höhe" wrote his reflections of midsummer in 1978 to a 16th-century melody of a love song?
Did you know that the depiction of Catholicism in Japan in Kids on the Slope, an anime series adapted from a manga by Yuki Kodama, has been compared to The Singing Nun and Sister Act?
Did you know that the sea slug Discodoris boholiensis exhibits photokinesis?
Did you know that the statue of Mary Seacole in London honours a woman voted the greatest black Briton?
Did you know that when his enemy Alfonso XI succumbed to the Black Death while besieging Gibraltar, Yusuf I of Granada (coin pictured) ordered his forces not to attack Alfonso's army as they carried the body home?
Did you know that when originally organized, the 9th Missouri Infantry Regiment contained only eight companies, which violated Confederate regulations?
Did you know that American space rock band Hum released Inlet, their first album in 22 years, as a surprise on June 23?
Did you know that Belgian academic and judge Étienne Cerexhe was a co-founder of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso?
Did you know that Britney Spears's song "Mood Ring" was originally written as a collaboration between Spears and the Chainsmokers?
Did you know that Charles Rolls's first car showroom, Lillie Hall, was on the site of a disused skating rink?
Did you know that Cheech Marin of Cheech & Chong, a collector of Mexican-American art, is helping develop The Cheech, a center for Chicano art in Riverside, California?
Did you know that Edmund Kurtz's edition of Bach's cello suites, published in 1983, is recognized as one of his greatest achievements?
Did you know that Manuel Ellis can be heard in a recording through the Tacoma, Washington, police dispatch radio on March 3, 2020, shouting "I can't breathe!" before his death?
Did you know that Mexican music is common in Chile (ranchera singer pictured) during the national day celebrations of Fiestas Patrias?
Did you know that Moral, part of a loose trilogy of feminist films directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya, was initially dismissed by critics but is now regarded as one of the best Filipino films ever made?
Did you know that Nyma Tang sheds light on colourism in the beauty industry through her YouTube series The Darkest Shade?
Did you know that Turkish soldier Abdur Rahman Peshawari was appointed as Turkey's ambassador to Afghanistan in part due to his knowledge of Pashto and Persian?
Did you know that in 1548, the parish of Egginton sold two church bells to fund repairs to the Monks Bridge?
Did you know that in a new book, Wolf Gruner argues that the collaborationist Czech government played a significant role in the persecution of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia?
Did you know that the Ente Nacional de Comunicaciones, the communications and media regulator of Argentina, was created despite a court ruling blocking the act?
Did you know that the genus Pterodactylus (species depicted), the scientific name for a pterodactyl, had been considered a "wastebasket taxon" as many species were assigned to it and later reassigned?
Did you know that Adesh Kumar Gupta, the current president of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Delhi unit, was once arrested and imprisoned for a year for his association with the Ram Janmabhoomi Movement?
Did you know that Isaiah McKinnon, an African American, decided to join the Detroit Police Department after he was beaten by racist police officers?
Did you know that a Missouri Confederate infantry regiment lost many men on Graveyard Hill?
Did you know that development of the Republic XP-69 aircraft was canceled due to problems with its liquid-cooled radial engine?
Did you know that during the French naval visit to Kronstadt, which started on 23 July 1891, Emperor Alexander III of Russia stood to attention for the singing of La Marseillaise (scene depicted), despite his disapproval of France?
Did you know that in 2016, LGBT and women's rights activist Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala became the first Sri Lankan to summit Mount Everest?
Did you know that more than 60 percent of the members of the 2nd and 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) became casualties at the Battle of Franklin?
Did you know that only Ifugao consented to be part of an autonomous region in the Philippine Cordillera in a 1990 plebiscite?