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Did you know that Tonatiuh Bravo Padilla stepped down as rector of the University of Guadalajara to seek a return to elected office as a Mexican federal deputy?
Did you know that a former island is named after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
Did you know that a pyemotid mite, commonly known as the straw itch mite, has been investigated for use in biological pest control?
Did you know that after being rejected by European and Chinese teams, DeMario Mayfield began his professional basketball career in an Iraqi league?
Did you know that as a child in Pontianak, Indonesia, Sutarmidji used to hawk newspapers close to the mayor's office that he would later occupy?
Did you know that soldiers from the Axis powers of Germany and Italy committed more than 5,000 war crimes in Italy during World War II?
Did you know that while the filters added to the chimneys of the Windscale Piles were mocked as "Cockcroft's Follies", they prevented what might have been a disastrous radioactive accident?
Did you know that Dorothy Papadakos, the first female organist at New York's Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, wrote a musical portraying Roman life in ancient Pompeii when it was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius?
Did you know that Helen Woodrow Bones, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's first cousin, became a "surrogate First Lady" for 16 months between the death of his first wife and his second marriage?
Did you know that Mark Aubry is a lecturer on concussion awareness, a team physician for the Ottawa Senators, and the chief medical officer of Hockey Canada and the International Ice Hockey Federation?
Did you know that The New York Times published the anonymous essay "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" despite its history of publishing few such works?
Did you know that despite the Democratic Republic of the Congo's $24 trillion in mineral reserves, more than 80% of its residents live in extreme poverty?
Did you know that during Operation Mosaic, Group Captain Stewart Menaul flew a Canberra bomber through a nuclear fallout cloud?
Did you know that science fiction writer Harlan Ellison's earliest known published work was a fan letter to the comic book Real Fact Comics?
Did you know that the bluegrass billbug feeds on maize and other grain crops as well as on Kentucky bluegrass?
Did you know that Brian Kershisnik's experiences of the births of his children inspired his painting Nativity?
Did you know that FRoSTA, the largest frozen food company in Germany, suffered huge losses when it adopted sustainable sourcing and eliminated food additives from its products?
Did you know that Kalākaua restored the hula, which had previously been banned from being publicly performed, and sponsored other Native Hawaiian traditions in the first Hawaiian Renaissance?
Did you know that brownies, helpful household spirits from British folklore, are said to leave a house forever if offered a gift of clothing?
Did you know that during the Wars of the Roses, the son of William Bonville was killed at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460, and Bonville himself was executed a few months later after the Second Battle of St Albans?
Did you know that flowers of the long-stalk spiderhead produce a sweet smell late in the afternoon?
Did you know that the TARDIS's Fast Return Switch featured in the Doctor Who serial The Edge of Destruction appeared to have a label written in felt-tip pen?
Did you know that Austrian fencer Ernst Königsgarten once performed in front of King Edward VII?
Did you know that General Frisbie accidentally sank two ships and disabled a third, was renamed Commander, and then turned into a salmon cannery?
Did you know that Israa al-Ghomgham could become the first Saudi woman to be beheaded as punishment for defending human rights?
Did you know that a verse from Psalm 36 is seen as endorsing animal welfare and animal rights?
Did you know that after Australian rules footballer Nathan Murphy was drafted by Collingwood, cricketer Shane Warne rang club president Eddie McGuire to commend the selection?
Did you know that the suspected Mexican drug lord José González Valencia possessed an official passport that had all the security features needed for international travel, issued under a false name?
Did you know that National Hot Rod Association Altereds were notorious for running sideways?
Did you know that The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, a 1991 Newbery Honor book, was written in the style of a 19th-century travelogue?
Did you know that Walter Freudenthal distinguished between the skin conditions keratoma senile and verruca senilis, before leaving Nazi-occupied Europe?
Did you know that deserters from the South Sudanese army embarked on a long march north, across the border into Sudan, to escape their former comrades?
Did you know that in 1944, educator Bazoline Estelle Usher became the first African American to have an office at Atlanta City Hall?
Did you know that singer Elise Barensfeld is a possible dedicatee of Ludwig van Beethoven's Für Elise?
Did you know that the cover of Houses of the Holy was designed by Hipgnosis and based on photographs taken at the Giant's Causeway?
Did you know that Manuel Torres was the first foreign diplomat to die in the United States?
Did you know that during the Quasi-War, the Inspector General of the United States Army, Alexander Hamilton, acted as the de facto head of the United States Army?
Did you know that the Israeli actor Topol, who won a Golden Globe for his performance as Tevye in the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof, played the role in shows and revivals about 3,500 times?
Did you know that the Old Harbor U.S. Life Saving Station, built in 1897 to rescue shipwrecked mariners, was itself rescued from the sea and given a new lease of life?
Did you know that the Stratford Dialectical and Radical Club, formed in 1880, was one of the first openly socialist societies in London?
Did you know that the name of Melimoyu, a volcano in Chile, means "four breasts"?
Did you know that Honoka Inoue and her mother Kikuko provided the voices of a daughter and mother in the original net animation Pokémon Generations?
Did you know that Moses Brown is the top-ranked player in a UCLA Bruins incoming class that also includes the son of a Basketball Hall of Famer?
Did you know that in 1904, Dawson Williams, editor of the British Medical Journal, commissioned research from Edward Harrison that exposed numerous medications as "valueless"?
Did you know that the 31 acoustic panels on the ceiling of the Central University of Venezuela's Aula Magna auditorium were originally meant to be an art installation in the outside corridor?
Did you know that the Trump presidential campaign filed for arbitration against the publication of Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House by Omarosa Manigault Newman?
Did you know that the tiny nematodes Panagrolaimus detritophagus and Plectus parvus were revived after more than 30,000 years frozen in permafrost?
Did you know that Campanino apples are used to make a sweet-and-hot condiment, mostarda di Mantova, that has been eaten since the Middle Ages?
Did you know that Manshuk Mametova was the first Kazakh woman to become a Hero of the Soviet Union, after she refused to follow the rest of her unit in retreating from battle in Nevel?
Did you know that Vijay Shastri has written more than 200 short stories in Gujarati?
Did you know that a loop from the anthem O clap your hands, a setting of verses from Psalm 47 by Ralph Vaughan Williams for choir, brass, organ and percussion, was used by the Beatles for "Revolution 9"?
Did you know that a successful Peninsular War charge led by Thomas Hawker was said to prove that the use of carbines by cavalrymen was "nothing short of insanity"?
Did you know that Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1969 song "It Came Out of the Sky" was one of the first to criticize Ronald Reagan?
Did you know that Derek Holmes said the purpose of Hockey Canada was to beat the Russians?
Did you know that Kloster Gnadenthal (building pictured) was a Cistercian nunnery from 1235, a Protestant women's Stift from 1564, and became an ecumenical community in 1969?
Did you know that Rudolf Sellner engaged Richard Wagner's grandson to stage a Verdi opera as part of the opening of the Deutsche Oper Berlin?
Did you know that English rock band XTC hired a 40-piece orchestra for their 1999 album Apple Venus Volume 1, to get a sound akin to "Vaughan Williams with a hard-on"?
Did you know that Manuel Añorve Baños was appointed by his cousin, the interim Governor of Guerrero, Mexico, to serve as the interim mayor of Acapulco?
Did you know that Olivia Giacobetti popularized the use of figs in perfumery?
Did you know that the Rose Street Club in 19th-century Soho has been described as bridging the political gap between an earlier generation of chartists and a newer trend towards anarchism and socialism?
Did you know that the longest-lived member of the British royal family is Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, who died aged 102 years and 309 days?
Did you know that Adivasi-organized protests in Plachimada, India, succeeded in removing a Coca-Cola factory that was polluting the groundwater?
Did you know that Horatio Seymour did not want to be the 1868 U.S. Democratic presidential nominee, but was given the nomination anyway?
Did you know that during his long acting career, Walter Renneisen has presented Patrick Süskind's Der Kontrabaß (The Double Bass) in his own touring production?
Did you know that during the attack on Pearl Harbor, USS Trever left her captain behind when she put to sea?
Did you know that the game of Grasobern (card deck pictured) is easy to play, without the mental or psychological demands of other Bavarian card games like Schafkopf and Watten?
Did you know that the venom of the speckled brown snake is 1.6 times more toxic than that of the Indian cobra?
Did you know that while mayor of Torreón, Mexico, Miguel Riquelme Solís led the construction of a cable car to the Cristo de las Noas statue which he dedicated as governor of Coahuila?
Did you know that Adrienne Maree Brown writes for Bitch?
Did you know that Afro-Cuban poetry reciter Eusebia Cosme performed only in Spanish, but packed American venues such as Carnegie Hall?
Did you know that Home and Away actress Sarah Roberts met with gambling addicts as research for Willow Harris's storylines?
Did you know that Nordhausen concentration camp (survivors pictured), where more than a thousand corpses were found, was described as "the most horrifying example of Nazi terrorism imaginable"?
Did you know that Orthodox Jewish sports agent Marc Kligman organizes Hanukkah candle-lighting for Jewish attendees at the baseball Winter Meetings?
Did you know that Neeru Chadha is the first Indian woman to be elected as a judge to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea?
Did you know that US Army combat medic Ronald J. Shurer's Silver Star commendation for service in Afghanistan is being upgraded to a Medal of Honor today?
Did you know that after the arrest of suspected drug lord El 85, shootouts, burning vehicles, and roadblocks were staged in Guadalajara, Mexico, possibly to allow his allies to escape undetected?
Did you know that heavy metal vocalist Jill Janus performed at the World Trade Center the night before the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that in 1887, eleven Lepidodendron stump fossils were discovered in the Fossil Grove in Glasgow, Scotland, during excavation work?
Did you know that the boys choir Wiesbadener Knabenchor has performed as an "ambassador" of Wiesbaden, Germany, including in Bulgaria and Australia?
Did you know that Aglantha digitale has a slow swimming action but a rapid escape response?
Did you know that Justin I arrived at Constantinople as an illiterate teenage peasant and died as Emperor of Byzantium?
Did you know that one of the two temples visited most often by the Buddha was built by Visakha, a wealthy aristocratic woman who was considered his chief female lay disciple?
Did you know that the Scottish Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean asked Douglas Young to destroy some of the poems in Dàin do Eimhir, now regarded as MacLean's masterpiece?
Did you know that Harry Kupfer, the stage director at the Komische Oper Berlin for decades, presented Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer at the 1978 Bayreuth Festival as a psychological drama?
Did you know that Quodlibet is a card game played by student fraternities with William Tell cards, where the dealer is known as the "beer king"?
Did you know that Wally Schirra, one of the original seven astronauts in NASA's first manned spaceflight program, was Walter Cronkite's co-anchor during the seven Moon landing missions?
Did you know that Wilma Mankiller faced sexism during her campaign for Deputy Chief of the Cherokee Nation, despite Cherokee society being traditionally matrilineal?
Did you know that despite Alexis Sánchez's seven goals in qualification, Chile failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup?
Did you know that in 1889, the Edinburgh College of Medicine for Women was established in direct competition with Sophia Jex-Blake's School of Medicine for Women?
Did you know that the Hungry Tree in Dublin is "eating" a park bench?
Did you know that when the Colonial Plaza shopping center opened in 1956 in Orlando, Florida, its sidewalks were tinted green to reduce glare?
Did you know that Bob Lowes is a two-time winner of the Coach of the Year Award in the Canadian Hockey League?
Did you know that one of the dogs belonging to Imran Khan, the Pakistani prime minister, accompanies him on his daily helicopter ride to the office and in official meetings at his home?
Did you know that the palace theatre Schlosstheater Schönbrunn (hall pictured), commissioned by Maria Theresa, opened on 4 October 1747, her husband's name day?
Did you know that to create the fireball effect in episode 1094 of Casualty, the show's production team packed ten different explosions into one blast?
Did you know that upon its completion in 2016 at SeaWorld Orlando, Mako became the tallest, longest, and fastest roller coaster in the Orlando area of Florida?
Did you know that Lucius Neratius Marcellus was involved in the establishment of the defensive line that later became Hadrian's Wall?
Did you know that Our Lady of Pompeii in New York City was founded in 1892 as a church for Italian immigrants?
Did you know that Sam Frost received death threats after her Home and Away character Jasmine Delaney's first scenes were aired?
Did you know that overfishing of European pilchard and anchovy in the Adriatic Sea can cause dramatic changes in the ecosystem?
Did you know that tenor Daniel Behle had a single day to learn rarely performed romantic duets when he stepped in at short notice for a 2018 Rheingau Musik Festival concert with Annette Dasch?
Did you know that the 1980s-themed cover for Muse's album Simulation Theory was made by Stranger Things artist Kyle Lambert?
Did you know that American surgeon Dallas B. Phemister created a bone grafting technique which now bears his name?
Did you know that Cruz Pérez Cuéllar ran for Governor of Chihuahua, Mexico, in 2016 on a platform that called for voters to decide if the governor should be removed midway through his term?
Did you know that Velters Cornewall Berkeley infuriated some of his fellow British officers by failing to engage the 130-gun Santisima Trinidad?
Did you know that a Chinese Indonesian billionaire became the oldest medal winner for that country at the 2018 Asian Games?
Did you know that the No. 19 pastrami on rye at Langer's Deli in Los Angeles has been called "the Marilyn Monroe of pastrami sandwiches"?
Did you know that the release of Led Zeppelin III was held up for two months because of its volvelle-based sleeve design?
Did you know that the sandalled anemone reproduces by longitudinal fission?
Did you know that Cristin Milioti describes her character Nanette Cole from the Black Mirror episode "USS Callister" as "a woman in charge [fighting] against a small-minded, misogynist bully"?
Did you know that a section of Washington State Route 24 through Hanford was closed to traffic during World War II, and never reopened?
Did you know that children from the Białystok Ghetto panicked when their hair was cut and they were told to undress and shower upon arriving at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, because they knew about gas chambers?
Did you know that most of footballer Laurence Abrams's transfer fee for his move from Hearts was never paid, after Chelsea claimed it would force them to fold?
Did you know that the Hindu goddess Matangi is worshipped with the taboo offering of leftovers?
Did you know that Chao­phraya Phra­sadet Suren­thara­thibodi wrote a manual on etiquette in order to teach proper manners to Siam's newly educated class?
Did you know that Eleonore Trefftz was the second woman to become a scientific member of the Max Planck Society?
Did you know that Working with Lemons participated in an event in Provo, Utah, that broke the world record for most people participating in a live nativity scene re-enactment?
Did you know that Zena Edosomwan was the first top-100 high school basketball recruit to commit to Harvard?
Did you know that in "Mein Gott, wie schön ist deine Welt", a 1936 hymn by Georg Thurmair, every stanza declares three times, "How beautiful is Your world"?
Did you know that ships of Thomas King's firm Camden, Calvert and King carried more than 20,000 slaves from West Africa to the Caribbean?
Did you know that the unsolved killing of a Chinese immigrant family in Guilderland, New York, four years ago today was the first quadruple homicide in the state's Capital District?
Did you know that "Beatles-ologist" Kolya Vasin proposed a 210-foot (64 m) tall "temple" be constructed in Saint Petersburg in honour of John Lennon?
Did you know that Soulard Farmers Market is reputed to be the oldest public market in the US west of the Mississippi River?
Did you know that despite the party's anti-smoking faction, the Sturmabteilung was funded by a Nazi cigarette company (advertisement pictured)?
Did you know that in 2015, Maya Krishna Rao became the first artist to return the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award?
Did you know that in his 1994 opera La Belle et la Bête, Philip Glass wrote dialogue and music for soloists and ensemble to match the 1946 film by Jean Cocteau?
Did you know that to receive a work permit to play in Luxembourg, Bosnian footballer Sanel Ibrahimović had to pretend to be a specialist in his country's cuisine?
Did you know that Baby Rani Maurya, who in August 2018 was sworn in as the seventh governor of Uttarakhand, India, is the second woman to hold that post?
Did you know that Claude Debussy dedicated a piano piece to Yvonne Lerolle in 1894, and included it in his suite Pour le piano in 1901?
Did you know that Pietro Bandini, a Catholic priest, established Tontitown, Arkansas, as a colony of Italian immigrants in 1898?
Did you know that according to family lore, George FitzGeorge Hamilton, a godson of George V, was killed in a World War I bombing raid while retrieving his leave pass?
Did you know that at age 14, Luc Van Slooten was the youngest player at the 2016 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship?
Did you know that pieces of the original New York Penn Station have been found at a recycling center in the Bronx, underneath the New Jersey Meadowlands, and in other U.S. states?
Did you know that the flooding of a tunnel on the Singapore MRT, causing more than S$2 million in damages, was blamed on falsified maintenance records?
Did you know that the wasp Nealiolus curculionis is a parasitoid of the sunflower stem weevil?
Did you know that Beerbohm, a cat owned by the Gielgud Theatre, became famous for entering actors' dressing rooms, attacking props, and wandering across the stage during performances?
Did you know that Frogmore Paper Mill is the oldest surviving mechanical paper mill in the world?
Did you know that Türkan Rado was the first female professor of law in Turkey?
Did you know that despite John Fogerty's agreement with hippie generation political concerns, his lyrics for Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Don't Look Now (It Ain't You or Me)" were critical of hippie attitudes?
Did you know that American missionary Clarissa Chapman Armstrong led Bible study meetings for Queen Kalama in Hawaii while her husband served as Minister of Public Instruction under King Kamehameha III?
Did you know that East Sutherland Gaelic has just one remaining native speaker?
Did you know that Emil Mattiesen, a composer of lieder, chamber and organ music, also wrote books on parapsychology?
Did you know that Galán, one of the largest exposed calderas in the world, contains the Laguna Diamante lake, where life has to tolerate extreme environmental conditions?
Did you know that Großtarock, a card game played with a 78-card Tarot pack that originated in Germany and spread to the Netherlands and Scandinavia, has survived only in the Danish variant known as Tarok?
Did you know that Miami University's Herron Gymnasium, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was demolished and replaced with a parking lot?
Did you know that at the age of 13, Madeleine Thompson was the youngest wheelchair basketball player ever to represent Great Britain?
Did you know that Giovanni Fornasini, an Italian priest murdered by the Nazis in 1944, was posthumously awarded Italy's Gold Medal of Military Valour and is a candidate for sainthood?
Did you know that after his ban on playing League of Legends was lifted, Loltyler1's return set a new record for viewership on Twitch.tv?
Did you know that footballer Sandy Allan was the first player to score a headed hat-trick in a European club competition?
Did you know that humans carved petroglyphs into the cooled lava flows of the Cima volcanic field?
Did you know that in his Berceuse, Chopin created a lullaby for piano in 16 continuous variations on an ostinato ground bass?
Did you know that the spot-winged glider is a migratory dragonfly?
Did you know that today is No Bra Day, on which women are encouraged to go braless to promote breast cancer awareness and gender equality?
Did you know that Bontecou Lake, near Millbrook, New York, is divided between two drainage basins, making it a bifurcation lake?
Did you know that Matt Mobley set an Atlantic 10 basketball tournament record with nine 3-pointers in a victory over Richmond?
Did you know that Max Jessner travelled to Buriat-Mongolia as part of the Soviet-German Syphilis Expedition?
Did you know that in 1903, the 25-year-old daughter of an illiterate Irish immigrant became the first woman to stand for the Australian House of Representatives?
Did you know that in the mid-18th century, small "Toys" inscribed with "amorous suggestions" (example pictured) were made in Chelsea?
Did you know that the hymn "Mein ganzes Herz erhebet dich", a paraphrase of Psalm 138 based on the Protestant Genevan Psalter, is also sung by German-speaking Catholics?
Did you know that Don Raimondo Viale was honoured as Righteous Among the Nations for assisting Jews who had escaped from the Borgo San Dalmazzo concentration camp?
Did you know that Greek water-carrier Spyridon Louis became a national hero as a result of winning the inaugural modern Olympic men's marathon?
Did you know that Henry G. Hanks left Cleveland to join the California Gold Rush, only to end up selling paint and studying mineralogy?
Did you know that Wandersong was one of the first GameMaker Studio titles to be released on the Nintendo Switch, along with Hyper Light Drifter and Undertale?
Did you know that basketball player Trey Lewis transferred to Louisville with hopes of reaching the NCAA Tournament, but the team declared itself ineligible for the tournament after he joined?
Did you know that the Harvard Graduate Students Union, a labor union representing 5,000 student workers at Harvard University, is affiliated with the United Automobile Workers?
Did you know that Pope Pius XII did not condemn the roundup and deportation of more than a thousand Jews "under his very windows" 75 years ago today?
Did you know that Reggie Upshaw was considered one of Tennessee's best high school athletes in American football, basketball, and the high jump?
Did you know that Schloss Weilburg, a Baroque garden palace, contains a Renaissance palace (engraving pictured)?