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Did you know that Wolfgang Anheisser was the leading baritone at the Cologne Opera while simultaneously a member of East Berlin's State Opera?
Did you know that a "lake" of liquid CO2 exists underground at Yonaguni Knoll IV?
Did you know that Wilfried Gruhn founded a centre for early childhood music learning in Freiburg, based on the Gordon music learning theory?
Did you know that even the manager of Indiana radio station WMCZ confused it with WMEE, leading a federal judge to order the former to change its call sign?
Did you know that the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Three's a Crowd" references Fear and Loathing writer Hunter S. Thompson?
Did you know that the UK's former chief immigration adjudicator, Judge Hubert Dunn, published a book on the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge, including some previously unseen poems?
Did you know that the tunnel boring machines that dug the London's new Northern line extension were named after the first British astronaut Helen Sharman, and British aviation pioneer Amy Johnson?
Did you know that Aung Myo Min, Union Minister of Human Rights for the National Unity Government of Myanmar, is the country's first openly LGBT minister?
Did you know that during disaster events, elites will typically shift the focus away from disaster relief towards measures of command and control, a behaviour referred to as elite panic?
Did you know that following the controversial success of Amarin Plaza, Rangsan Torsuwan went on to design the Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel in the same vein, but with Thai-style columns replacing Ionic ones?
Did you know that pacifist Theodora Wilson Wilson's science fiction book The Last Weapon was banned by the British Government in 1917?
Did you know that Sobekneferu (bust pictured) of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty is the earliest undisputed female king to reign over ancient Egypt?
Did you know that Washington State Route 971 is the highest-numbered state highway in Washington?
Did you know that an ʻape-leaf design decorates the exterior of the Mabel Smyth Memorial Building in Honolulu?
Did you know that the United Nations described Ben Enwonwu's sculpture Anyanwu as "symbolic of the rising sun" of the new nation of Nigeria?
Did you know that the name of the Squirrel Scouts section of the Scout Association in the United Kingdom was inspired in part by the thriving population of red squirrels on Brownsea Island, where Scouting began?
Did you know that the pungent and bitter yet prized Musang King has been called the "Hermès of durian"?
Did you know that 50-year-old Lieutenant Colonel John Ford Elkington was reinstated into the British Army in 1916 after winning medals for bravery while serving in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion?
Did you know that a leaked memo indicating that a government official would receive a bonus payment if she cut $667 million from Ontario's education budget contributed to the 1997 Ontario teachers' strike?
Did you know that body image disturbance is a common symptom in patients with eating disorders?
Did you know that in 1799, the federal government of the United States was evacuated to Trenton, New Jersey, due to an outbreak of yellow fever?
Did you know that in 1863, the Union Navy built a ship with an outhouse serving as the pilothouse?
Did you know that the Sharp PC-7000, compared in shape to a toaster, was manufactured in a factory that also produced Sharp's microwave ovens?
Did you know that the mayor's office building in Palembang, Indonesia, was built to function as both a town hall and a water tower?
Did you know that when H. P. Lovecraft was five years old, he was told Santa Claus did not exist and responded by asking why "God is not equally a myth"?
Did you know that one of the plaques of the Fundadores de São Paulo monument was stolen in 2004, and cannot be replaced due to incomplete records?
Did you know that one of the smallest known species of frog is Mini scule?
Did you know that the robotic enemies in the video game The Incredible Hulk were influenced by Marvel Comics' objection to the Hulk killing humanoid characters?
Did you know that Dieter Trautwein gave his 2003 autobiography the same title as his hymn "Komm, Herr, segne uns" (Come, Lord, bless us), for which he wrote the text and music in 1978?
Did you know that Elizabeth Olsen consulted on the Scarlet Witch costume that debuted in the WandaVision episode "The Series Finale" so it would be less revealing than her past Marvel Cinematic Universe costumes?
Did you know that James Milner once held the title of the Premier League's youngest goal scorer?
Did you know that John Rudzinski, defensive coordinator for the Air Force Falcons, coached high school football while stationed at Charleston Air Force Base?
Did you know that Smoke Signal Broadcasting encased their Chieftain microcomputer in faux leather?
Did you know that a dispute over bird droppings was connected to the impeachment of U.S. president Andrew Johnson?
Did you know that the trumpeting of Karnabo, a figure from Ardennes folklore with an elephant's trunk, is said to be heard during thunderstorms?
Did you know that Hylozoic Ground, an interactive architecture model presented in the 18th Biennale of Sydney, is an example of architextiles?
Did you know that Karl-Heinz Petzinka, the rector of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, designed the Stadttor in Düsseldorf?
Did you know that Show Me the Father is the fourth consecutive film produced by the Kendrick brothers to earn an "A+" grade on CinemaScore?
Did you know that Wanda Maximoff was referred to as the "Scarlet Witch" for the first time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the WandaVision episode "Previously On"?
Did you know that William M. King, who was born in Connecticut, lived and worked in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Missouri before becoming the third speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives?
Did you know that during the First World War, Senegalese Tirailleurs would be withdrawn from the Western Front to overwinter in camps in the south of France or northern Africa?
Did you know that the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate included a staged sea-battle between Christian and Turkish ships in the River Thames?
Did you know that Anoscopus albifrons males can only be differentiated from other species in its genus by examining their aedeagi?
Did you know that Anton Josef Reiss created a marble Pietà sculpture for Cologne's St. Gereon?
Did you know that after John Oliver remarked that "the city of Danbury, Connecticut, can eat my whole ass", they named a sewage plant after him?
Did you know that monsoons in Asia may contribute to the dry climate of the Mediterranean during summer?
Did you know that the 1909 Forbes Log sent speed measurements remotely to the gunnery calculators used by the Royal Navy?
Did you know that the Proseminar in Homophile Studies, one of the first university courses about homosexuality, was held only once?
Did you know that the racially themed time-travel comedy Timewasters was developed under the working title Black to the Future?
Did you know that Thomas Foxcroft sold 307 people for £9,858?
Did you know that civil-rights lawyer Ni Yulan, sentenced after recording the forced demolition of homes to make way for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was prevented from leaving China to accept awards?
Did you know that in downtown Seattle, approximately 8,000 bananas are given away daily by Amazon "banistas" under the supervision of their "bananagers"?
Did you know that mondeghili became popular during the Spanish domination of the Duchy of Milan?
Did you know that the Science Fiction Awards Database also covers fantasy and horror?
Did you know that "The Epic Split" featured an actor performing a gymnastic split between two backwards moving trucks?
Did you know that Benedict Cumberbatch was originally expected to have a cameo appearance as Dr. Strange in the WandaVision episode "Breaking the Fourth Wall"?
Did you know that L. P. Hollander & Company filed for bankruptcy less than two years after moving its New York City store to 3 East 57th Street?
Did you know that Schneider's marmoset is one of three primates newly described in the 2020s?
Did you know that Anne Wyllie, also known as the "Spit Queen", now has a Wikipedia biography because a healthcare executive asked who she was?
Did you know that Iyopawa Island's golf course, despite being on an island, has no water hazards?
Did you know that Ryan Johnson became Stevenage's youngest player in the club's English Football League history in May 2014, debuting at 17 years and 215 days old?
Did you know that in the browser game Neurocracy, players explore a fictional successor to Wikipedia launched in 2049?
Did you know that the fixed anvil temperature hypothesis proposes that anvil clouds do not remove excess radiation as the Earth's surface temperature increases?
Did you know that Faith No More's "Evidence" has drawn comparisons to Burt Bacharach?
Did you know that Low is higher than its surroundings?
Did you know that after Polish commander Julian Filipowicz was tortured and pronounced dead by the Gestapo, he escaped from the morgue?
Did you know that of the many Insular croziers (example pictured) made between c. 800 and 1200, fewer than 20 survive fully intact?
Did you know that the brown rock sea cucumber has been used in regeneration research?
Did you know that Muang Thong Thani (street pictured), intended as a satellite city of Bangkok, has been called "one of the greatest planning disasters of the 20th century"?
Did you know that a painting of a Nigerian princess, unseen for more than 40 years, was discovered in 2017 and sold for more than £1 million?
Did you know that as a result of David Albala's lobbying, Serbia became the first country to endorse the Balfour Declaration?
Did you know that the famous campaign slogan "I Like Ike" was associated with the 1952 Draft Eisenhower movement?
Did you know that Johann Adam von Questenberg, who worked for the Austrian Imperial Court, was an amateur lutenist who made his palace a music centre?
Did you know that Zenith equipped the floppy-only models of the Eazy PC with power supplies too weak to accommodate a hard drive?
Did you know that in his sculptures for the Daily Mirror, Ben Enwonwu carved a "religious group" flying news all over the world?
Did you know that the Chief Examiner, who first appeared in Questprobe featuring The Hulk, was modeled after game designer Scott Adams?
Did you know that the Düben collection contains the sole surviving copies of many works by Dieterich Buxtehude?
Did you know that the tiny bivalve mollusc Montacuta substriata attaches to the spines of the purple heart urchin, where it resembles a grain of sand?
Did you know that "Oxytocin" was recorded expressly to "be insane live"?
Did you know that Blue Chip Electronics' low-cost Blue Chip PC was manufactured by Hyundai?
Did you know that Clan Mother Catharine Brant had the right to nominate the Tekarihogen, the most important civil chief of the Mohawk nation?
Did you know that Horselunges Manor was featured in the film The Song Remains the Same about Led Zeppelin?
Did you know that Laura Jean McKay's 2020 novel about a fictional pandemic was first written in 2013?
Did you know that ahead of the iPhone 4S's launch, Apple retail store workers in Rome went on strike using the slogan "Strike Different", a play on words on Apple's "Think Different"?
Did you know that in 1919, Ukrainians were using regular-issue paper money issued in denominations of 0.30, 0.40, 0.90, 1.80, 3.60 and 18 hryvnias?
Did you know that the historic facade of Henry Miller's Theatre is preserved at the base of the Bank of America Tower, while the theater's interior was rebuilt underground?
Did you know that Ham House contains a rare Charles I–era cabinet room, created for the display of miniature paintings?
Did you know that Jo Walton's An Informal History of the Hugos, which opines that the Hugo Award has a 69-percent success rate, was itself nominated for a Hugo?
Did you know that in 1345 and 1346 the English repeatedly defeated the French in both north and south-west France?
Did you know that many 15th- and 16th-century European paintings included a conspicuous depiction of a common fly (example pictured)?
Did you know that the bonfires lit on the night of La Venuta recall the miraculous flight of the Holy House of Nazareth to Loreto?
Did you know that the debate in "Game On" invokes the beer question?
Did you know that Kanye West's "Diamonds" was re-recorded as "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" after Q-Tip informed him about blood diamonds in Sierra Leone?
Did you know that Michael Herbig, director of the 2018 film Balloon about the 1979 East German balloon escape, would not have made it without the blessing of the families who carried it out?
Did you know that at least one man was killed during the Grand Jubilee of 1814 when a pagoda in St James's Park burnt down?
Did you know that the Marsh Family's parody of Les Misérables's "One Day More" required pizza?
Did you know that Margaret Thatcher had to wait while a series of parish ministers objected before she could give her "Sermon on the Mound"?
Did you know that Peter Macari extorted $500,000 from Qantas Airways, and that more than $200,000 remains unaccounted for?
Did you know that Stinson Jarvis believed druids controlled history?
Did you know that Tungia Baker owned a cloak given to her by King Korokī Mahuta?
Did you know that the Gabby Petito disappearance has led to renewed media interest in the June 2021 disappearance of Lauren Cho?
Did you know that the Haukilahti water tower has a water container inspired by The Jetsons?
Did you know that the owners of New York City's Grand Prospect Hall produced and starred in cheaply shot commercials, parodied on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Saturday Night Live?
Did you know that 1980's Space Encounters video game was the first that Midway Games offered in their "mini myte" arcade game cabinet?
Did you know that Edward Parr's slave ship was once surrounded by 10 war canoes?
Did you know that Leland Kirkemo, the skipper of the ship that recovered the crew of Apollo 13, was played by Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell in the movie?
Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Rawlins proposed that the Rhodesian Army employ witchdoctors as psychological warfare during the Rhodesian Bush War?
Did you know that Max Creutz, director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld from 1922, acquired modern art including a painting by Max Ernst and a large collection of Bauhaus creations?
Did you know that Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword was designed to be an origin story for the Master Sword?
Did you know that a voyageur shot himself while taking a gun out of his canoe in Abitibi-De-Troyes Provincial Park?
Did you know that in the 2021 case Fedotova and Others v. Russia, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled that lack of legal recognition for same-sex couples violated human rights?
Did you know that the Twin Pagodas of Suzhou have been compared to ink brushes?
Did you know that the facade of 4 Times Square, made partly of glass and partly of stone, was compared to the two-faced god Janus?
Did you know that the first prayer of "Hilf, Herr meines Lebens", a Christian song written when its author was age 85, is not to be on earth in vain?
Did you know that the giant piano-shaped staircase at Polanco metro station is fully interactive?
Did you know that the perpetrators of the Kennin Rebellion surrendered when one of their commanders, a female samurai, was wounded?
Did you know that African American Ivory Winston sang for President Harry S. Truman's birthday and was "Iowa's First Lady of Song"?
Did you know that Allen Ravenstine, who used a synthesizer to emulate the sound of an airplane's engine on "30 Seconds Over Tokyo", later became an airline pilot?
Did you know that Hoodoo Volcano formed largely under glacial ice in the last 100,000 years?
Did you know that KNUZ-TV produced a remote telecast from the HMS Sheffield when it visited Houston?
Did you know that Salu was one of seven cotton cloths explicitly mentioned in the Ain-i-Akbari, together with Khasa, Tansukh, Doriya, Bafta, Dupatta, and Panchtoliya?
Did you know that Shawnee leader John Lewis often wore a "peace medal" given to him by U.S. president Thomas Jefferson?
Did you know that The Bees Army, a Saudi opposition movement, was supported by Jamal Khashoggi?
Did you know that Whoopee Camp, the developer of Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return, dissolved while making their next game?
Did you know that William Henry Vanderbilt spent US$2 million on the lavishly designed Triple Palace, but his son found the decor unfashionable?
Did you know that anti–Vietnam War protesters occupied Shinjuku Station in 1968, causing the equivalent of US$18 million in financial losses?
Did you know that the 1974 song "Manchmal feiern wir mitten im Tag" claims that we sometimes celebrate resurrection in the middle of a day?
Did you know that Ed White was the first American to perform a spacewalk?
Did you know that Kanye West performed "Heartless" with altered lyrics at a youth ball for Barack Obama's first inauguration?
Did you know that artist-activist group Suohpanterror remixed the "We Can Do It!" Rosie the Riveter poster to signify Sámi feminism?
Did you know that in the 2017 case Bayev and Others v. Russia, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russian laws against  "promotion of homosexuality" violate freedom of speech?
Did you know that in the Kelmscott Press's acclaimed Complete Works of Chaucer, illustrator Burne-Jones depicts a house "made of twigges" in an unusually literal style?
Did you know that more than 22,000 earthquakes occurred in the eight days before the 2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption?
Did you know that the World War I memorial in Pierson, Iowa, was rededicated in 2018 by the Pritzker Military Museum & Library?
Did you know that the country song "Beer Beer, Truck Truck" was based on a viral TikTok video by Erynn Chambers intended to satirize country music?
Did you know that when Gene Scott was forced to close San Francisco TV station KVOF-TV, he called its successor "the Tower of Babel religious brigade"—then proceeded to buy air time on it?
Did you know that while Alexander Hamilton may not have broken the tie in the election of 1800, he did break the tie in "The Election of 1800"?
Did you know that 100 years after Mary Emily Sinclair wrote a master's thesis in mathematics on the discriminants of quintic polynomials, Helaman Ferguson based a sculpture on her work?
Did you know that Fernhill House has been home to a butter merchant, an Ulster Volunteer Force armoury, a Grand National-winning racehorse and the world's largest collection of Orange Order memorabilia?
Did you know that a newly opened ferry in 1968 attracted "vodka tourists" to Estonia?
Did you know that as secretary of the NAACP, May Childs Nerney has been credited with "laying the fundamental groundwork" for "the most powerful organization battling racial injustice"?
Did you know that the 1940 NCAA Basketball Championship Game began a run of three straight NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament title games held at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri?
Did you know that the Antlers' 2021 album Green to Gold was made after lead singer Peter Silberman suffered temporary total hearing loss and lesions on his vocal cords?
Did you know that the Jersey Maritime Museum (part of collection pictured) displays a 7.5-million-stitch tapestry depicting life under Nazi occupation that was worked on by thousands of islanders?
Did you know that the title of La Passion selon Sade, an opera by Sylvano Bussotti (pictured with star Cathy Berberian), caused a scandal at its premiere and had to be changed for the next performance?
Did you know that German cavalry carried steel lances (examples pictured) throughout the First World War?
Did you know that IBM originally designed the Palm Top PC 110 to be closer in shape to a VHS cassette but narrowed it when testers kept using their thumbs to type?
Did you know that Iggy Pop's second studio album Lust for Life was written, recorded, and mixed in eight days?
Did you know that Philip Michael Thomas compared himself to Santa Claus upon releasing his album Living the Book of My Life?
Did you know that a flat in London's Basil Street was the scene of the first meetings that led to Monty Python's Flying Circus?
Did you know that philosopher George Pitcher adopted a stray dog and her puppy that he took everywhere, including on a trip to France aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2?
Did you know that the 1887 execution of George Flaxman may have inspired Rudyard Kipling's poem "Danny Deever"?
Did you know that the Steel River, in Northern Ontario, Canada, is one of the few rivers along Lake Superior's north shore never used for log drives?
Did you know that the first railroad in New England was powered by horses?
Did you know that two feet-one hand syndrome is the combination of two athlete's feet and fungus in one hand?
Did you know that "The Supremes" was said to have foreseen the conflict following the death of Antonin Scalia, twelve years later?
Did you know that Azerbaijan has been a member of the Council of Europe, an organization promoting human rights, for more than twenty years, despite holding political prisoners and rigging elections?
Did you know that Frederick Marten Hale designed the bomb that brought down Zeppelin LZ 37 in mid-flight on 7 June 1915?
Did you know that Johan Zulch de Villiers was the first mayor of Johannesburg until Johannesburg's surrender during the Second Boer War?
Did you know that Māori fiction written in English, now a key part of New Zealand literature, only emerged in the 1950s?
Did you know that Times Square Tower and 5 Times Square, across the street from each other, were built for rival accounting firms during a redevelopment of New York City's Times Square?
Did you know that a Gelae donut has large, protruding eyes?
Did you know that in Magic Desk I, the icons within the main screen for the phone, the calculator, the spreadsheet, and the Rolodex do nothing?
Did you know that reconstruction of Nebraska's Interstate 180 was disrupted by the discovery of nesting migratory birds?
Did you know that reporter O. Kay Henderson, who has interviewed U.S. presidential candidates, is considered by national media to be an Iowa political authority?
Did you know that since the formation of the United Democratic Alliance, Nagaland has had no parliamentary opposition?
Did you know that taxidermist Harry Brazenor mounted the Salford tiger in 1914?
Did you know that the Frente de Liberación Homosexual viewed all forms of oppression as interconnected, and believed that homosexuality was subversive because it challenged patriarchy?
Did you know that the Temagami River in Ontario, Canada, is an outstanding water route with twenty sets of whitewater rapids rated CI to CIII?
Did you know that 3 Times Square was likened to an "identity crisis"?
Did you know that Africae Tabula Nova depicts the Niger River passing underground for about 60 miles (97 km), in accordance with a Latin legend?
Did you know that Albert Einstein was hired as a technical expert during the gyrocompass patent dispute between Anschütz and Elmer Ambrose Sperry?
Did you know that David Bowie wrote his 1971 track "Life on Mars?" as a parody of Frank Sinatra's "My Way"?
Did you know that Gladue courts, part of Ontario's court system, apply distinctive principles when sentencing Indigenous offenders?
Did you know that Kenneth Lawson, who was disbarred after dealing with addiction, teaches subjects including professional responsibility at the William S. Richardson School of Law?
Did you know that Singapore's Upper Thomson MRT station is decorated with 88 animal figures, most of which are crab-eating macaques?
Did you know that Singaporean activist Thum Ping Tjin called the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act an attempted coup?
Did you know that United States Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg wrote an essay in 2000 on Bernie Sanders, his future competitor in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries?
Did you know that in 1929, the world press proclaimed Teleilat el Ghassul to be the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah, but Father Alexis Mallon, the site's excavator, disagreed?