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Did you know that María Teresa Sesé wrote 500 romance novels in her native Spanish, then wrote several books in Basque after studying the language for two years?
Did you know that Peter Clavelle did not face either a Republican or a Democratic opponent in the 1991 Burlington mayoral election?
Did you know that leopards live in the forest in Turkey?
Did you know that the Heiligen-Geist-Kapelle in Bruck, a unique late-Gothic chapel with a star rib vault, was almost demolished to make room for a highway?
Did you know that the Rhodesian Independence Bell, a replica of the American Liberty Bell, was inscribed "I toll for justice, civilization and Christianity"?
Did you know that the current Indonesian ambassador to Nigeria, Usra Hendra Harahap, personally led a rescue operation to free Indonesian crew members taken hostage by pirates in June 2020?
Did you know that Linnéstaty, a sculpture created by Swedish sculptor Gerda Sprinchorn, was raised as a public monument 40 years after its completion?
Did you know that Robert Jones wrote the first book about figure skating in 1772?
Did you know that the Latin American travesti gender identity has been considered to be a third gender, akin to the hijras of India and the muxe of Mexico?
Did you know that the Nooth apparatus, originally invented to produce carbonated water, was later repurposed for administering anaesthetic drugs?
Did you know that the first Black woman to receive tenure in Kent State University's College of Arts & Sciences, Angela Neal-Barnett, emphasizes social support between Black women as "an indigenous form of healing"?
Did you know that the oil lamps on the coat of arms of the British Virgin Islands represent Saint Ursula and her virgin companions, who give the islands their name?
Did you know that "She's a Woman" was the first song by the Beatles to include a reference to drugs?
Did you know that Belgian international association footballer Anaëlle Wiard, who started playing beach soccer in 2020, was the top scorer in a competition that year?
Did you know that Charlie Wheatley had a seventh-grade education and three honorary degrees in engineering from the University of Tulsa?
Did you know that Gracelino Barbosa won the first Paralympic medal in Cape Verdean history at the 2016 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that Jane Margyl began her stage career as a mime at the Folies Bergère, and became a leading singer of the Paris Opera?
Did you know that Ronald Barnes was a major force in establishing an American approach to writing music for the carillon?
Did you know that Simon Mills had to postpone his honeymoon to play in the 1989 Third Division play-off final?
Did you know that distinctly Nubian pyramids (examples pictured) were built early in the history of the architecture of Sudan?
Did you know that each chapter of the Japanese novel Kanojo ga Suki na Mono wa Homo de Atte Boku de wa Nai is themed after a song by Queen?
Did you know that in the Chinese erotic novella The Lord of Perfect Satisfaction, Empress Wu Zetian has a virgin lover whose penis is compared with snails and earthworms?
Did you know that neither holochess (dejarik) nor sabacc, two games invented for the Star Wars films, have a definitive ruleset despite several real-world licensed releases?
Did you know that the Royal Commission on Metropolitan Railway Termini of 1846 was responsible for central London being mostly free of mainline railways and led, indirectly, to the creation of the London Underground?
Did you know that Chang Chen lost 12 kilograms (26 lb) for his role in The Soul?
Did you know that Little Island at Pier 55, a new artificial island park in New York City, was described as being "in the theatrical vein of 18th century English garden follies"?
Did you know that Mexican politician Rubén Rocha Moya obtained a law degree while serving as a senator?
Did you know that Opal Lee is often referred to as the "grandmother of Juneteenth"?
Did you know that Pamela Trotman Reid, the first Black president of the University of Saint Joseph, developed the GO-GIRL program?
Did you know that a decline in the sale of stamps from the Pitcairn Islands (example pictured) led to the territory's bankruptcy?
Did you know that before she entered the U.S. Army in 1942, Jane Douglass White, a songwriter for soldier's shows, had already composed the tune which would become the official "Song of the Women's Army Corps"?
Did you know that during the 1940s, Sigge Stark became Sweden's most published, most read, as well as most criticised author?
Did you know that sculptures by Lorenzo Ghiglieri have been installed at the Royal Palace of Madrid, the White House, and Brown Bear Car Wash?
Did you know that the Basilica of Saint Maternus in Walcourt, Belgium, contains one of the oldest preserved Marian devotional statues in Western Christianity?
Did you know that the National Institutes of Health's first mycologist, Chester W. Emmons, demonstrated that fungal infections were common and widespread?
Did you know that the theme song for Guilty's live-action television series is Toshi's first original song in 22 years?
Did you know that Big Bang's G-Dragon switched his mini-album's title track from "Bullshit" to "Untitled, 2014" on the day of its release?
Did you know that Doja Cat and her directors used Blade Runner and The Fifth Element as reference points while making the music video for "Need to Know"?
Did you know that Elizabeth Mburu's book African Hermeneutics seeks to bring a uniquely African approach to interpreting the Bible?
Did you know that Hugh Leatherman effectively controls the state of South Carolina's budget?
Did you know that Mormon missionaries in Japan converse with each other in a specialized cant known as Senkyoshigo?
Did you know that ballerina Pippa Moore's last role was as Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria's youngest daughter?
Did you know that in 1991, the Church of Christ, Scientist published a book it had previously rejected as blasphemous to obtain a $97 million bequest needed to repay its financially disastrous expansion into television?
Did you know that in her debut novel, The Paper Magician, fantasy author Charlie N. Holmberg followed Brandon Sanderson's advice to limit her characters' magical powers?
Did you know that large parts of the 11th-century Irish Shrine of Miosach (detail pictured) were added during a 16th-century refurbishment?
Did you know that one of the arguments made by the Simla Deputation for increasing Muslim representation in Indian politics was that they had ruled India under the Mughal Empire?
Did you know that the George W. Vanderbilt Residence has been occupied by American Express, Olympic Airlines, and Versace, but never by Vanderbilt himself?
Did you know that the blacktail snapper is commercially fished in Kiribati and the Ryukyu Islands?
Did you know that when Robert Saunders Jr.'s predecessor died, Saunders took his job but not his home?
Did you know that Chris Gittens's father refused to attend any of his professional baseball games until he was promoted to the major leagues?
Did you know that Homestead, Florida, radio station WOIR was credited with saving the lives of hundreds of farmworkers in a labor camp before the arrival of Hurricane Andrew?
Did you know that Josh Phillips, who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering his eight-year-old friend when he was fourteen, is eligible for resentencing in 2023?
Did you know that Max Liebling and his three brothers, Georg, Emil, and Sally Liebling, were all successful concert pianists and composers who trained under Franz Liszt?
Did you know that The City in the Middle of the Night, a 2019 climate-fiction novel by Charlie Jane Anders, is set on a tidally locked planet?
Did you know that after her election as Florida's agriculture commissioner, Nikki Fried was sworn into office using the first Hebrew Bible published in the United States?
Did you know that official guests of the Swiss Confederation stayed at the Lohn Estate, a manor in Kehrsatz, in the Canton of Bern, between 1942 and 1994?
Did you know that the 130th Regiment of Foot, raised by George Pigot in 1794, was disbanded just two years later after suffering heavy losses due to tropical disease?
Did you know that the fan disc of the visual novel Kichiku Megane includes a salacious typing game?
Did you know that the red-billed pied tanager is not a tanager?
Did you know that "the very first words of encouragement [Edgar Allan Poe] ever remember[ed] to have heard" were in The Yankee?
Did you know that 9,000 Greek Jews were targeted by the 1942 Eleftherias Square roundup, and those who collapsed were attacked by dogs?
Did you know that Joan Boada was named a principal dancer at the Cuban National Ballet at age 16, but later defected and ended up at the San Francisco Ballet?
Did you know that June Fernández wrote "I Wanted Sex But Not Like That"?
Did you know that Marja Kubašec was both the first Sorbian woman to receive a formal teacher training and the first woman to write a novel in Upper Sorbian?
Did you know that Patric and Rosalie Carey built New Zealand's first theatre  for professional repertory on the back of their house?
Did you know that although the "Daisy" advertisement was aired only once, it is considered to be one of the most important factors for victory in Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign?
Did you know that prior to winning their first of nine consecutive titles in the 1965–66 season, Celtic had not been champions of the Scottish Football League for 12 years?
Did you know that Abeer Odeh was the first woman to serve as Minister of National Economy in Palestine?
Did you know that Christa Ludwig, known for fiction for young horse-lovers, received a prize after her novel about Else Lasker-Schüler's late years in Jerusalem was published?
Did you know that Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln, the German archive for documents related to dance on stage, holds around 400 estates of dancers, choreographers and photographers, such as Mary Wigman and Kurt Jooss?
Did you know that Harriet Tyce's novel Blood Orange became popular during COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020?
Did you know that Ian Ang, the co-founder and CEO of the gaming chair company Secretlab, was a StarCraft II champion?
Did you know that Róbert Berény's 1927–1928 oil painting Sleeping Lady with Black Vase was lost until 2009, when it was spotted being used as set dressing in the film Stuart Little?
Did you know that Serbian actress Branka Veselinović, whose career started in 1938, still performs aged 102?
Did you know that Steve Bennett's write-in candidacy for election to the Ventura city council was endorsed by Patagonia, Inc.?
Did you know that in a court case, William Gregson was awarded £30 for every enslaved person that his crew had murdered in the Zong massacre?
Did you know that many Broadway stars went to Therapy on Monday nights?
Did you know that photographing Elliot Page for the cover of Time "really meant the world" to Canadian photographer Wynne Neilly?
Did you know that the Microphones' 2003 album Mount Eerie uses different people and vocal styles to represent distinct, individual characters?
Did you know that the anti-apartheid anthem "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" was "bastardised" by being adapted as a yoghurt advert song titled "Gimme Yop, Me Mama"?
Did you know that "The Stars and Stripes Forever", a march composed by John Philip Sousa, was made the National March of the United States in 1987?
Did you know that Alec Tyree won two Navy Crosses commanding USS Bowfin, and his voice now speaks to those who visit the museum ship?
Did you know that Liu Yu has been called "one of China's best-known America-watchers" and "China's de Tocqueville"?
Did you know that Mark Selby took more time over a single shot at the 2019 Northern Ireland Open than the fastest ever maximum break?
Did you know that Russian artist Natalia Goncharova used a Cubo-Futurist style in her 1913 painting Cyclist?
Did you know that The Traveling Man was commissioned by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) to replace murals that were destroyed for the construction of DART Light Rail in Deep Ellum?
Did you know that iron and steel magnate Thomas J. Bray wanted to canalize the Beaver, Mahoning and Shenango rivers?
Did you know that "All Ghillied Up" is considered one of the best levels in first-person shooter games?
Did you know that Barbara Hepworth instructed people to "walk in" to her sculptures?
Did you know that Benjamin Rathbun constructed more than one hundred buildings in Buffalo, New York, in the 19th century, and was later jailed for forged endorsements?
Did you know that Darul Uloom Deoband's first edict against terrorism in 2008 was signed by Habibur Rahman Khairabadi?
Did you know that Helen Maria Williams's Letters Written in France praised the French Revolution even though she was imprisoned during the Reign of Terror for being English?
Did you know that Mariano Fiallos Oyanguren refused to participate in an attempt to rig the 1990 Nicaraguan presidential election?
Did you know that Nilima Arun Kshirsagar developed and patented liposomal amphotericin B, which was used to treat "black fungus" during the COVID-19 pandemic in India?
Did you know that Willem van Ruytenburch became more famous after his death, as the "man dressed in yellow" in Rembrandt's The Night Watch, than he was during his life as a Dutch social climber?
Did you know that the 1911 benefit game for Addie Joss was an all-star game that included nine members of the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Did you know that the first troposcatter communications system, Pole Vault (antenna pictured), linked Pinetree Line radars along 2,250 km (1,400 mi) of wilderness in Labrador?
Did you know that there was an assassination attempt on the president-elect during the presidential transition of Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Did you know that "I Found a Way", written by Drake Bell and Michael Corcoran, became the theme song for the Drake & Josh show?
Did you know that Amee-Leigh Murphy Crowe was the top try scorer at the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, the first time the feat had been achieved by someone not from Australia or New Zealand?
Did you know that Annita Demetriou is the first woman and youngest person elected as Speaker of Cyprus' House of Representatives?
Did you know that B. Max Mehl, a coin dealer in Texas who made the hobby popular, advertised his "Mehl-ing list" in the 1920s?
Did you know that George Case was the co-owner of the slave ship whose crew perpetrated the Zong massacre?
Did you know that Mahmut Bozteke, whose arms were partially disabled in an accident, started performing Para Taekwondo upon the advice of his physiotherapist, who commented that he can use his legs very well?
Did you know that despite most of the polls and 50 major political writers predicting victory for Thomas E. Dewey, Harry S. Truman won the 1948 presidential election (candidates pictured)?
Did you know that in his ruling in Miller v. Bonta, Judge Roger Benitez compared AR-15s to Swiss Army knives?
Did you know that many Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters were able to reunite with their kidnapped families after the 2021 Battle of Sambisa Forest?
Did you know that the Bank of England has a device to prevent unwanted deposits?
Did you know that the Goethe-Gymnasium, founded as the first school of higher education for girls in Dortmund in 1867, is now focused on competitive sports?
Did you know that the Society of Catholic Scientists sponsors Gold Masses, following the tradition of Red Masses for lawyers, White Masses for those in healthcare, and Blue Masses for public-safety professionals?
Did you know that the Tiféret Israel Synagogue, the oldest in Caracas, Venezuela, was profaned during the 2008–2009 Gaza War?
Did you know that the seagrass asterina is a sequential hermaphrodite, starting life as a female and later becoming a male?
Did you know that three generations of a Muslim family were killed in London, Canada, last month?
Did you know that "Lass uns in deinem Namen, Herr" is a 1964 Christian hymn with text and music by Kurt Rommel, praying for the courage to take the necessary steps?
Did you know that Neha Narkhede, co-creator of the open source software Apache Kafka, also helped found Confluent, a company valued at $4.5 billion?
Did you know that Peter Brownell's victory in the 1993 Burlington mayoral election was the last time a Republican won an election for Burlington, Vermont's mayoralty?
Did you know that The Angel with Golden Hair is one of Russia's oldest icons?
Did you know that William Davenport was one of the world's most prolific slave traders?
Did you know that William Lovelady, who wrote Incantations for guitar, set Psalm 104 as a cantata on a request from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh?
Did you know that coral reef restoration can include growing fragments of coral in nurseries, attached to frames or lines?
Did you know that government-funded non-profits are not subject to a special motion to strike, and so are exempt from California's anti-SLAPP law?
Did you know that in the 1920s Edward A. Everett, with help from his stenographer Lulu G. Stillman, concluded that the Iroquois had been defrauded of their land, but their report was "buried" until the 1970s?
Did you know that in the United States, Black people are twice as likely as the general population to identify as vegan?
Did you know that rugby league's Hull F.C. forced rugby union's Hull KR out of their home ground by paying triple the rent before the teams became part of rugby league's Hull Derby?
Did you know that the size of Le Castellet allowed the 2021 French Grand Prix to host more spectators than other events during the COVID-19 pandemic in France?
Did you know that when María Elena Medina-Mora Icaza was appointed to lead the psychology department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, she proposed a "zero tolerance" policy for gender violence?
Did you know that Chinese-descended mining federations in Indonesia, like the Santiaogou Federation, fought bitter battles with the Dutch to preserve their democratic forms of government in the early 19th century?
Did you know that General Sir Charles Reid shot the celebrated, but probably not man-eating, Leeds Tiger?
Did you know that Homobiles has been called "Uber for drag queens"?
Did you know that Kate Baker arranged to republish the Australian novel Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy after locating half of the original manuscript under some lumber in the offices of The Bulletin?
Did you know that Lebanese academic Zahia Kaddoura was the first woman to be appointed a dean at the Lebanese University?
Did you know that Leonard Woods, a Black miner accused of killing a white mine foreman from a prominent family, was possibly lynched to prevent a trial that could have tainted the reputation of the foreman and his family?
Did you know that St Gregory's Church, Sudbury, has the mummified head of Archbishop Simon Sudbury, beheaded by a mob in 1381, preserved in a niche in the vestry?
Did you know that Theodolinda Hahnsson is the first known Finnish-language female author?
Did you know that a Midtown Manhattan townhouse at 46 West 55th Street, once occupied by doctors, was later bought by a clothing store and a fashion firm?
Did you know that for the morning song "Die güldne Sonne voll Freud und Wonne", the poet found a new metre, and the composer a new melody, to reflect the many meanings of "rising"?
Did you know that in the surreal art game Islands: Non-Places, a bus stop may become an egg incubator and a fountain may conceal a vast underground space?
Did you know that the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, plans to construct some 57 km (35 mi) of safe cycling routes within its central urban area?
Did you know that when Queen Anne became too infirm to follow her pack of Buckhounds (examples pictured) on horseback, she had paths cut through Windsor Forest so she could follow the hunt in a carriage?
Did you know that Annie Kanahele opposed the addition of diacritics to a reprint of the Bible in Hawaiian, arguing that the original exemplified the written Hawaiian language at the time of translation?
Did you know that Brazilian goalkeeper Lucas Covolan scored an equalising goal in injury time during the 2021 National League play-off Final?
Did you know that Lee Tze Chung, in a pro-China paper, criticized the government's response to the Tiananmen protests?
Did you know that Mahmud Jamal is the first person from a visible minority group to be nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada?
Did you know that Obed Dickinson, an abolitionist pastor in Oregon in the mid-1800s, was pressured into resigning for advocating for racial equality?
Did you know that during the Soviet economic blockade of Lithuania, queues to petrol stations were observed to reach several kilometres?
Did you know that initially given little chance of winning during his 1976 presidential campaign, Jimmy Carter overcame 16 Democrats to become his party's nominee?
Did you know that the "only consolation" Brigitte Manceaux said she found in dying was the hope of being reunited with her uncle, the composer Francis Poulenc?
Did you know that the 2021 Challenge Cup Final between Castleford and St Helens today will be played at a half-full Wembley Stadium?
Did you know that the Campanha da Legalidade was a mobilization led by Governor Leonel Brizola to guarantee the inauguration of João Goulart as the 24th president of Brazil?
Did you know that the blossoms of Symphyotrichum lateriflorum (examples pictured) have been used by the Meskwaki as a smudge "to cure a crazy person who has lost his mind"?
Did you know that the province of Central Kalimantan was created after the Indonesian government was harried by the paramilitary organization Mandau Talawang Pancasila?
Did you know that the snapping shrimp Alpheus armatus clears sand from a sea anemone's lair?
Did you know that A Beast the Color of Winter describes the author, Douglas H. Chadwick, being gored by a mountain goat?
Did you know that Charlie N. Holmberg developed the idea for her novel The Paper Magician after studying Japanese and learning about the art of origami?
Did you know that Ebba Atterbom was the first person to translate the work of Irish novelist James Joyce into Swedish?
Did you know that Kake has been described as "a sort of Johnny Appleseed ... spreading the seeds of liberated, mutually satisfying, ecstatically explicit gay sex"?
Did you know that U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville Fuller's mustache was denounced as "deplorable" by the New York Sun, which claimed that it distracted lawyers and debased the court's dignity?
Did you know that a group of men killed Robert Corrigan because they did not like his decisions as a judge of an agricultural fair?
Did you know that donors withdrew $4 million in funding from Vote.org after its board fired its founder and CEO, Debra Cleaver?
Did you know that hunts for the yeren, a Chinese apeman cryptid, were some of the largest involvements of peasants in scientific endeavors?
Did you know that one apartment at New York City's One57 was purchased for a two-year-old girl?
Did you know that the Royal Rhodesian Air Force Ensign originally had three assegais, but this was reduced to one following the break-up of the Federation?
Did you know that James A. Gilmore reorganized the Federal League, hoping that it would become a third major league?
Did you know that John Rolph was arrested while trying to solve Euclid's geometry problems?
Did you know that Jojo Rabbit director Taika Waititi, a Polynesian Jew, also starred in the film as an imaginary Adolf Hitler?
Did you know that Peter Pernin was disciplined by the Catholic diocese of Green Bay for spending too long away publishing his memoir of the Peshtigo fire?
Did you know that Rani Kumudini Devi was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Hyderabad?
Did you know that Survivalcraft, a game inspired by Minecraft, was once one of the most downloaded games on Windows Phone and iPad?
Did you know that The Hidden People by Alison Littlewood is based on the 1895 incident in Ireland where Bridget Cleary was burnt alive by her husband, who believed she was a fairy changeling?