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Did you know that Serhiy Kot was the editor of Ukrainian Question, a collection of articles on the status of Ukraine in the 1930s?
Did you know that The Land We Love, a little magazine that merged into Southern Magazine (cover pictured), printed American Civil War recollections, poetry, agricultural material, and many works by female authors?
Did you know that some barns have hoods?
Did you know that Ed Jasper started all 16 games for the Atlanta Falcons in 2002, helping the team qualify for the NFL playoffs that year?
Did you know that Ilya Repin changed the main character in his painting They Did Not Expect Him from a woman because it looked too similar to another painting?
Did you know that Judy Ann Santos received the Box Office Queen award for starring in Isusumbong Kita sa Tatay Ko, the first Filipino film to earn 100 million pesos at the box office?
Did you know that Love, a sculpture by Ukrainian artist Alexander Milov, represents two wire-frame adults who appear to be alienated, but inside their bodies two children reach out to each other?
Did you know that Olga Ehrenhaft-Steindler, the first woman to earn a physics doctorate at the University of Vienna, co-founded the first Viennese commercial academy for girls?
Did you know that Tyler Zombro had a seizure and skull fracture after he was hit in the head by a 104-mile-per-hour (167 km/h) line drive?
Did you know that desert kites in the Middle East and North Africa were used as traps for wild game?
Did you know that in 2020 Barbora Mokošová won Slovakia's first medal at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
Did you know that the Bonin greenfinch is Japan's most endangered bird?
Did you know that the earliest representation of the devil might be a mosaic in San Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna from the 6th century, in the form of a blue angel?
Did you know that the music video for Matt and Kim's New Glow song "Can You Blame Me" involves fans filming themselves with iPads near their heads playing headshots of the duo lip-syncing?
Did you know that when planting vegetables, Richard Sharpe Mason once buried his glasses instead of peas?
Did you know that Angel Reese and her younger brother, Julian, both played college basketball for Maryland after competing at the same high school?
Did you know that Eyvindur P. Eiríksson has addressed modern alienation and man's relationship with nature through pagan poetry and a book about a fishing trawler?
Did you know that Manai Sophiaan asserted in his 1994 memoir that the CIA was involved in the 1965 Indonesian coup attempt?
Did you know that Melody, originally composed by Myroslav Skoryk for a 1982 Soviet film, was used in Volodymyr Zelenskyy's broadcast to the U.S. Congress in March 2022?
Did you know that Rōki Sasaki recorded 13 consecutive strikeouts during his April 10 perfect game?
Did you know that after Norwegian YouTuber Apetor's death in 2021, Czech fans lit candles in his memory outside the Norwegian embassy in Prague?
Did you know that each Dancing with Dandelions sculpture has a stone heart, some of which are engraved with messages?
Did you know that in the 960s, the Brethren of Purity wrote an epistle where Christians, Jews, and Muslims are sued by Quran-reading animals?
Did you know that the Tuca & Bertie episode "The Jelly Lakes" employs a paper-cutout animation that helps to depict abuse in a way that centers the victim's story?
Did you know that Al-Wishah fi Fawa'id al-Nikah, a 15th-century Islamic sex manual by Egyptian writer Al-Suyuti, was based on both traditional hadith literature and material influenced by Indian erotology?
Did you know that American horticulturalist Joseph Lancaster Budd traveled to England, France, Austria, Russia, and China in 1882 to discover fruit trees that could grow in Iowa?
Did you know that El Paso's Star on the Mountain is lit up every night and visible from the air up to 100 miles (160 km) away?
Did you know that Josef Venantius von Wöss, a church musician in Vienna, wrote a piano reduction of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and a thematic analysis of the work?
Did you know that Ohio SORTA owns the Oasis Subdivision?
Did you know that US radio regulators sought to shut down Ohio station WEBE, which was said to operate from the owner's bedroom using "parts of a questionable nature"?
Did you know that for an episode of BoJack Horseman, the production team added a cardboard cutout of the title character after Netflix said it did not feature him enough?
Did you know that in 1957, Burhanuddin Harahap's family members travelled from Sumatra to Jakarta, believing that he had died?
Did you know that it is purportedly hard to find a more interesting card game played with German-suited cards than Sansprendre, a variant of German Tarok?
Did you know that media promotions for the film Blood Friends were not allowed to mention that cast member Nina Makino is part of the girl group NiziU?
Did you know that mountaineer and geographer Caleb George Cash was instrumental in preserving essential documents pertaining to the first known atlas of Scotland?
Did you know that the short-lived English football club Dingley Dell F.C. was named after a fictitious village in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens?
Did you know that Adolphe Jacquies was arrested for publishing a poem?
Did you know that Anne Hatchard was voted best on ground at the 2022 AFL Women's Grand Final?
Did you know that Indian gynaecologist and reproductive medicine pioneer Baidyanath Chakrabarty, who performed over 4,000 IVF procedures, was a cricket fan who thought Virat Kohli and Ashwin were "such good boys"?
Did you know that Yuki Fumino's relationships with hearing-impaired friends and acquaintances inspired her to create I Hear the Sunspot?
Did you know that many fictional depictions of Mercury feature the now-disproven belief that it always points the same side towards the Sun (actual orbital resonance pictured)?
Did you know that one music critic said that despite being "noisy, banal, fundamentally insincere", Dmitri Shostakovich's symphonic poem October was nonetheless "enjoyable trash"?
Did you know that the British film Strippers vs Werewolves opens with a different band playing the song "Hungry Like the Wolf" by Duran Duran?
Did you know that the captain of CSS Pontchartrain was twice detached from the ship to fight in land battles?
Did you know that the game of slosh shares the name with an English batter and sausage dish?
Did you know that Associate Justice John McLean is suspected of leaking internal United States Supreme Court deliberations in the landmark Dred Scott v. Sandford case to the New-York Tribune?
Did you know that Binggrae, a South Korean food and beverage company, was the official ice cream supplier of the 1988 Seoul Olympics?
Did you know that Garland Boyette, a two-time American Football League All-Star who was also a track and field All-American, said that he "never felt safe on that aluminum pole"?
Did you know that Inna Derusova was the first woman to be posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine?
Did you know that James Goldberg co-founded the Mormon Lit Blitz, an annual writing competition for very short works of Mormon fiction?
Did you know that South African physician Tlaleng Mofokeng is the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to health, and was named one of the BBC's 100 Women?
Did you know that fashion journalists joked that it was "a miracle" that no models fell while walking the runway in the 12-inch (30 cm) armadillo shoes designed in 2010 by Alexander McQueen?
Did you know that the 1988 closure of WLEE, once one of the top radio stations in Richmond, Virginia, also took WBBL, a church station in existence for nearly 65 years, off the air for good?
Did you know that the Times Square Theater, proposed for redevelopment since 1990, remained empty three decades later?
Did you know that when asked by the king to choose the weapon by which he would be executed, the outlaw Nga Tet Pya replied "I choose your most beautiful queen Saw Omma"?
Did you know that while he was a teacher in France, George Buchanan wrote a school play about Jephthah's sacrifice of his daughter?
Did you know that Celia Kaye won the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 1965 for her starring role in Island of the Blue Dolphins?
Did you know that Craig Braun's Grammy-nominated album packaging for School's Out had to be recalled for including underwear that constituted a fire hazard?
Did you know that Erratus  was one of the earliest-known arthropods to show the origins of lungs and limbs?
Did you know that Isachar Zacharie, podiatrist and confidant of Abraham Lincoln, helped him accept the idea of a homeland for the Jewish people?
Did you know that Sofia Halechko's first language was Polish, but she fought in World War One to create a country for Ukrainian-speaking people?
Did you know that Södermanland Runic Inscription 113 was found in 1856 when a burial mound was dug up as part of new cultivation?
Did you know that Thomas Hall made an electric train that received power from the rails on which it travelled instead of onboard batteries, a new technology at the time?
Did you know that an abandoned building in Cheorwon, South Korea, used to be the base of operations for the Workers' Party of North Korea?
Did you know that by winning the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League Final, Seattle Sounders FC became the first Major League Soccer team to win the competition?
Did you know that during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the singing of the Catalan national anthem was banned?
Did you know that it took Isaac Levitan four years to paint Fresh Wind. Volga?
Did you know that the canoe routes through Obabika River Provincial Park are part of Temagami's 2,400-kilometre-long (1,500 mi) network of portages and waterways, many of which are traditional indigenous routes?
Did you know that Cardiff-based classicist Kathleen Freeman also wrote detective fiction, publishing under four separate pseudonyms?
Did you know that Diminish and Ascend has been called a real-life M. C. Escher drawing?
Did you know that Luise Duttenhofer died in 1829 after more than a thousand papercuts?
Did you know that during the Great Flood of 1951, the United States Air Force airlifted a transmitter to put Kansas radio station KTOP back on the air within 24 hours?
Did you know that photographer Greta Pratt's Nineteen Lincolns exhibition featured members of the Association of Lincoln Presenters?
Did you know that the Ottmar Hitzfeld Arena is the highest football pitch in Europe with the competing teams accessing it by cable car?
Did you know that when public radio stations aired Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in solidarity with Ukraine on 10 March 2022, the bass voice of Anthony Robin Schneider was heard live from Frankfurt and recorded from Auckland?
Did you know that "it is almost impossible to find fault" with London's exclusive private dining club, Harry's Bar – until one receives the bill?
Did you know that 'Til Kingdom Come, a documentary film about evangelical Christian Zionism in the United States, was blocked from airing on PBS due to its editing of a speech by Donald Trump?
Did you know that James Edward Smith won the mayoralty of Toronto by one vote?
Did you know that Nazi war criminal Kurt Weigelt could not be directly employed by Deutsche Bank after World War II, so he reestablished Lufthansa?
Did you know that Village East by Angelika is the only remaining Yiddish theater building in what was once the center of New York City's Yiddish Theatre District?
Did you know that after the 1918 season, some Major League Baseball owners wanted the National Baseball Commission to be replaced by former president William Howard Taft?
Did you know that Joshua George Beard was a member of the first Toronto City Council and the first Toronto School Board of Trustees?
Did you know that Magna Lykseth appeared as Isolde when Wagner's Tristan und Isolde was first performed at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1909?
Did you know that Sunday-school classes were once held in the transmitter building of New Mexico radio station KCLV?
Did you know that on the day the Conrad Bangkok hotel opened in 2003, ten people climbed up its walls dressed as Spider-Man?
Did you know that until the 1970s, most shōjo manga (Japanese girls' comics) were written by men?
Did you know that Kenneth E. Fields was in command of the engineers at the Ludendorff Bridge during the Battle of Remagen?
Did you know that Moses Cohen Belinfante founded the first Dutch Jewish newspaper?
Did you know that although George Balanchine set Raymonda Variations to musical excerpts from the ballet Raymonda, his new ballet does not follow the plot of the original?
Did you know that the "favorable comparisons of Lenin to Confucius, Buddha, and Allah" in Dmitri Shostakovich's Loyalty were said to have "achieved new levels of ludicrous flattery"?
Did you know that the Göğceli Mosque in Turkey, constructed  in 1206 with stacked planks without using nails, is still in use?
Did you know that Hein Eersel added "genuine Surinamese expressions" in his adaptation of the play The Barber of Seville?
Did you know that during his mayoralty, Fiorello La Guardia appointed the first black woman judge in the United States?
Did you know that the "most famous picture of a lunch break in New York history" was actually a publicity stunt?
Did you know that the band behind two expletive-laden UK top-five singles about Boris Johnson released a follow-up about Prince Andrew?
Did you know that we don't know if peak beard has ended?
Did you know that when Nadja Stefanoff portrayed the title role of Giordano's Fedora at the Oper Frankfurt, one reviewer complimented the brilliance and agility of her voice, assertive even when singing softly?
Did you know that when a fire broke out next to studios of Oklahoma radio station KVSO, reporters had to rush in to report the blaze and then out to breathe fresh air?
Did you know that Bea Alonzo had her breakout role at the age of 15 in the 2002 drama series Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay, in which she played a lawyer?
Did you know that Brassey's, "said to be the oldest established name in defence publishing", traces its history back to The Naval Annual in 1886?
Did you know that Nutan, the lead actress of the 1951 A-rated suspense thriller Nagina, was not allowed to enter the film's premiere because she was underage?
Did you know that Thomas Seavey Hall's banjo signals caused a judge to declare him the father of American automatic electric railroad signaling?
Did you know that a giant breast destroying a spaceship Mark Zuckerberg in the music video for "Ay mamá" is a criticism of Meta's censorship of female nipples?
Did you know that it is rumored that the Puente de Fierro in Mexico was designed by Gustave Eiffel?
Did you know that due to U.S. support for Saudi-led operations in Yemen, both Saudi Arabia and the United States may be held responsible for war crimes?
Did you know that the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra brought music by three Ukrainian composers to concert halls in Poland and Germany in April 2022, including the Berlin Philharmonie and the Kurhaus Wiesbaden?
Did you know that the newly named Cirsium funkiae honors the describer's mentor, Vicki Funk, and the plant's funky appearance?
Did you know that "Segne, Vater, diese Gaben", a round for saying grace of unknown authorship, has appeared in German collections for kindergarten, schools and events for young people?
Did you know that The Most Dangerous Animal in the World was an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in 1963?
Did you know that XO, Kitty, based on the film series To All the Boys I've Loved Before, is planned to be the first Netflix series to be spun off from a Netflix original film?
Did you know that during the Qarmatian invasion of Iraq, the Abbasid Caliphate raised an army of more than 40,000 men to protect Baghdad, but did not engage the few thousand Qarmatians in battle?
Did you know that shortly before sports shooter William Riedell was to compete in the 1936 Olympics, he had his pistols confiscated by the New York police because the precinct chief had decided there were "too many guns"?
Did you know that the judging committee of the Manga Taishō, an annual manga prize, is composed primarily of bookstore workers?
Did you know that Abishabis claimed that he could create a map to heaven?
Did you know that French broadcast regulators failed to mediate a dispute between four Jewish radio stations in Paris sharing the same frequency: Judaïques FM, RCJ, Radio J, and Radio Shalom?
Did you know that George Balanchine stated that he choreographed Divertimento No. 15 as he forgot his previous ballet to the same Mozart composition, but some dancers said the two works are nearly identical?
Did you know that John Hutchison, in his role as Mayor of Toronto, signed the city's bid to become the capital of the Province of Canada?
Did you know that the blind cave eel is the longest cavefish in Australia?
Did you know that "What do you hope to achieve with this?" were the last words of the Nigerian college student Deborah Yakubu while being lynched for alleged blasphemy?
Did you know that Charles Turzak's book of woodblock prints presenting the life of Abraham Lincoln (example pictured) was the first ever such life of a historic figure presented only in images?
Did you know that Darien, Connecticut, was once home to a train station built inside a cemetery?
Did you know that Japanese voice actress and singer Sora Amamiya's song "Jōnetsu no Te Amo" was heavily influenced by Latin music, including the use of a Spanish guitar?
Did you know that the Anglo-Saxons may have used a mixture of garlic, another Allium, wine, and bovine bile as an eye medicine?
Did you know that the Astor family's plans for 200 Madison Avenue were delayed for years because of J. P. Morgan Jr., who lived across the street?
Did you know that the Carib Theatre in Kingston, Jamaica, was the British West Indies' first building to offer air conditioning upon its opening?
Did you know that Anne Baker's book Wings over Kabul: The First Airlift describes the first significant use of airpower in an insurgency campaign?
Did you know that Friedrich Oberschelp founded and conducted for five decades the Bielefelder Kinderchor, a children's choir that filled the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle in Bielefeld for Christmas concerts several times each season?
Did you know that Hanna Dmyterko was among 34 Ukrainian women who fought in World War I?
Did you know that Representative Paul Gosar once posted an anime video on Twitter depicting him killing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Joe Biden?
Did you know that Taylor Swift initially wrote "This Love" as a poem, turning it into a song only when she came up with a melody?
Did you know that Visigothic noblewoman Sara al-Qutiyya took back the land her uncle stole by travelling to Damascus and petitioning the caliph?
Did you know that Wayne Cooper, who played in two NBA Finals, finished his career with exactly 7,777 points?
Did you know that after travelling around 8,300 km (5,200 mi) from Afghanistan to Ireland, Muzamil Sherzad was named a member of Ireland's squad for the 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup?
Did you know that an underground home was featured at the 1964 New York World's Fair?
Did you know that homes in urban areas must have earthquake insurance before being connected to electricity in Turkey?
Did you know that in her performances of "Supper Time", Ethel Waters drew on her experience of staying with the family of a man who had been lynched?
Did you know that one New Hampshire TV station was reportedly dying since its first moment on air?
Did you know that Russ Davis hit the first home run at Safeco Field?
Did you know that according to The Wire, the web application Tek Fog was used to "amplify right-wing propaganda" among Indians?
Did you know that according to legend, dogs who travelled through a passage between Piper's Hole in Tresco and Piper's Hole in St Mary's emerged without most of their fur?
Did you know that an Alabama mayoral candidate received "his head on a platter", according to winning candidate Dave Thomas?
Did you know that as a result of the crisis of the late 16th century in Russia, many service-class landowners were left with no peasants working their land?
Did you know that beginning in 2024, some California stores will be required to have a gender-neutral children's section?
Did you know that botanist William West's elder son William West Jr assisted him with fieldwork, and his younger son George Stephen West collaborated with him on numerous scientific publications?
Did you know that fashion designer Ouigi Theodore's anvil-horn-shaped beard inspired his alter ego, "The Bearded Man"?
Did you know that some severe environmental impacts of the invasion of Ukraine can be seen from space?
Did you know that the Maloja Wind in Switzerland can produce a narrow and elongated low-lying cloud known as the "Maloja Snake"?
Did you know that Chabacano metro station has a composition named after it and it served as a film location for the 1990 film Total Recall?
Did you know that Dorothy Binney Palmer built two houses that are on the United States' National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that Kim E. Nielsen trained as a historian of women and politics, and came to disability history and studies via her discovery of Helen Keller's political life?
Did you know that ballet dancer William Bracewell has portrayed Louis XIV, Romeo, a salamander, and a caterpillar?
Did you know that development of the British UB.109T cruise missile was given "super-priority" in 1951 to ward off an expected attack by the Soviet Union, only to be cancelled after the attack never came?
Did you know that during a renovation of 4 Park Avenue, workers found a sealed room with women's clothes and shoes that was not in the building's blueprints?
Did you know that the 2002 Russian pop song "A Man like Putin" inadvertently became adopted as propaganda?
Did you know that the first recording of Bach's Kreuzstab cantata was a 1939 Dutch live broadcast sung by Mack Harrell, 25 years before the 1964 German recording by his protégé Barry McDaniel?
Did you know that the screenwriter of Under the Christmas Tree, the network Lifetime's first lesbian Christmas film, also wrote the channel's first gay male Christmas film the year before?
Did you know that the two varieties of Celmisia major (one variety pictured) are "certainly not" closely related?
Did you know that Clotworthy Upton, an illegitimate child, could not inherit his father's barony?
Did you know that Diamond Miller is the all-time leading scorer on her high-school basketball team – a record previously held by her sister?
Did you know that Paul Delvaux's painting The Sacrifice of Iphigenia has been interpreted as a work about the little death?
Did you know that Solomon Hughes was a Harlem Globetrotter before he played a Laker in film?
Did you know that new forms appearing in 15th-century Italian Renaissance sculpture (example pictured) include the medal and the plaquette?
Did you know that the British rap song "Jiggle Jiggle" by filmmaker Louis Theroux has been used in more than two million TikTok videos?
Did you know that the Oshima Brothers started singing together in the bathtub?
Did you know that the Storia de Mahometh contains the earliest Latin translation of any part of the Quran?
Did you know that the chicken turtle is one of the shortest-lived turtle species in the world?
Did you know that Albania's first professional woman painter was Androniqi Zengo Antoniu, who painted impressionist portraits and landscapes, as well as religious art in churches?
Did you know that Canadian cricketer Divya Saxena was accused of obstructing the field in an international match but was ruled "not out"?
Did you know that Justus H. Rathbone, founder of the Knights of Pythias, served as a hospital steward during the American Civil War?
Did you know that Nicholas Jakubovics holds a patent on the use of L-arginine to remove dental plaque?
Did you know that Synapturanus danta has been described as a "smooth lil fella"?
Did you know that a 1 a.m. phone call resulted in financier George D. Gould joining the efforts to stave off New York City's near-bankruptcy in 1975?