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Did you know that Tan Tjoen Tiat, the second Majoor der Chinezen of Batavia, advised the colonial government in 1870 that women should not act as guardians for minors?
Did you know that former ballerina Miranda Esmonde-White claims that people can practice "aging backwards" through eccentric exercise?
Did you know that the German-language weekly Der Nordstern (The North Star) was founded in 1874 to serve the Minnesota area's large German immigrant community?
Did you know that Ana María Campos, who died 190 years ago today, is celebrated (monument pictured) as a heroine of the Venezuelan War of Independence?
Did you know that Floyd Bennett Field, New York City's first municipal airport, was not commercially successful due to its remoteness from Manhattan?
Did you know that John Lennon was inspired to write the song "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by his anger over the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre?
Did you know that during the American Revolution, the British stronghold of Fort Granby in the South Carolina colony was attacked with a Quaker gun?
Did you know that the full implementation of the Calais Conference proposals was thwarted by the threatened resignations of Field Marshal Douglas Haig and General Sir William Robertson?
Did you know that the regent of Karawang, Indonesia, claims to have been named after a car?
Did you know that Filipinos became the first Asians to have a documented presence in the Americas when they landed in what is now California on 18 October 1587?
Did you know that during a 15-year period researching George Washington's correspondence, William Wright Abbot read or edited more than 135,000 documents?
Did you know that passersby in Munich's Luitpoldpark may get soaked when a figure on the Pumuckl fountain spits intermittently?
Did you know that there is in excess of 150 million tons of phosphorite ore on Ioah Guyot, a seamount in the Pacific Ocean?
Did you know that Abhilasha Kumari, the first female Chief Justice of the Manipur High Court in India, served for only 13 days?
Did you know that the 2011 horror webtoon "Bongcheon-Dong Ghost" was released with a warning for "pregnant women, the elderly, and those suffering from serious medical conditions"?
Did you know that the Israeli team at the 1972 Summer Olympics attended the German production of Fiddler on the Roof as guests of its star, Israeli actor Shmuel Rodensky, the night before the Munich massacre?
Did you know that the shooting of Oscar Grant motivated Angie Thomas to write a short story that became the basis for her debut novel, The Hate U Give?
Did you know that wild Selangor silvered langur monkeys at Bukit Melawati in Malaysia sometimes touch or even climb onto human visitors?
Did you know that Valentin Peter Feuerstein created a cycle of seven stained-glass windows (three pictured) for the Überwasserkirche in Münster?
Did you know that in 1906, Russian-Jewish immigrant Abe Spring first proposed Alaska as a refuge for Jews, but the suggestion was rejected by the US Congress?
Did you know that Adam Marshall was the first Catholic chaplain in the United States Navy, albeit unofficially?
Did you know that Japanese musician May'n adopted her stage name because she wanted her fans to consider her their "main" singer?
Did you know that Theater Bremen, the state theatre in Bremen for operas, plays, dance, and student programs, was selected as opera house of the year by Opernwelt in 2007?
Did you know that an underwater mountain between Greenland and Norway has been compared to a coral reef?
Did you know that when Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean pitched DC Comics on reintroducing Black Orchid in 1988, editor Karen Berger had never heard of the main character?
Did you know that Orlande de Lassus set Psalm 134, one of the Songs of Ascents, in Latin for seven voices a cappella, using a wide range from low bass to very high soprano?
Did you know that at over fourteen hours in duration, La Flor is the longest film in Argentine cinema?
Did you know that during World War II, Huang Qingyun published the only Chinese children's magazine in Hong Kong and China, and corresponded with her readers to help them cope with life in wartime?
Did you know that white rust, a plant pathogen affecting the cabbage family, predisposes its host to develop downy mildew?
Did you know that Julia Yates, head of the New Zealand fashion label Trilby Yates, was once spat at in the street for wearing trousers?
Did you know that Mary Pitman Ailau and her brother Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman were educated at a Hilo school with other biracial students of Hawaiian descent?
Did you know that OSS agent Roderick Stephen Hall was betrayed and captured during a one-man mission in northern Italy in January 1945, and murdered by the SS?
Did you know that Reverend James Abercrombie once admonished President George Washington during his sermon for not setting an example in church by receiving communion?
Did you know that in 2004, the Israel Antitrust Authority declared that a copyright collective for authors and musicians was essentially a monopoly?
Did you know that in 2018, police raided the house of former Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, and confiscated a letter written by the 19th-century national hero José de San Martín?
Did you know that as the Salton Sea dries up, the gryphons are multiplying?
Did you know that the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt, built to house trams, is now a theatre which staged the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth's Lost Highway?
Did you know that the procession after the 1920 funeral of William G. Blakely reportedly included the longest line of automobiles ever seen at a funeral in Kingman, Arizona?
Did you know that Jean Yancey was known in Denver as "the mother of all businesswomen", having helped more than 1,000 women launch their own startups?
Did you know that Michael Frenzel, the former CEO of European tourism group TUI, escaped from East Germany with his father when he was nine years old?
Did you know that the Kaiser Franz Joseph I-class cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth accompanied Archduke Franz Ferdinand on his circumnavigation of the world between 1892 and 1893?
Did you know that the Padule di Fucecchio massacre, in which at least 174 Italian civilians were murdered, has been described as "one of the worst Nazi atrocities in Italy"?
Did you know that Benedicite, composed by Andrew Carter for choir, children's choir, and orchestra, was inspired by restored ceiling bosses in York Minster?
Did you know that Doom was Dutch?
Did you know that Minneapolis surgeon George G. Eitel was falsely rumored to have been shot at sunrise at Fort Snelling?
Did you know that in 2017, Willem de Kooning's Woman-Ochre was found for sale in a New Mexico antique store, 32 years after it was stolen from the University of Arizona Museum of Art?
Did you know that several Major League Baseball teams adopted the "opener" strategy during the 2018 season?
Did you know that "The Witch's Promise" is the only Jethro Tull single to feature a Mellotron?
Did you know that Israeli songwriter Rachel Shapira's first hit song was set to music without her knowledge?
Did you know that Jos Canale won the CHL Coach of the Year Award and led Team Canada to a gold medal at the World Juniors?
Did you know that Neatsville, Kentucky, has been relocated twice?
Did you know that SS-Untersturmführer Karl Friedrich Titho was dubbed the "Executioner of Fossoli" by the Italian media for his role in the execution of 67 prisoners at Fossoli di Carpi?
Did you know that a section of U.S. Route 97 Alternate in central Washington state was rebuilt on higher ground in the 1950s to prevent inundation from a new hydroelectric dam?
Did you know that the designs for the Doctor Who serial The Sensorites were inspired by Antoni Gaudí's design of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, which has no right angles?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers defensive tackle Dave Roller, who weighed 270 pounds (120 kg) at the time, was carried off Lambeau Field by fans after a victory against the Detroit Lions?
Did you know that Robert of Nantes was "an old and venerable man aged eighty years" when he was imprisoned along with Louis IX of France during the Seventh Crusade?
Did you know that Saturday Zoo host Jonathan Ross was described as "humour-resistant Teflon"?
Did you know that basketball player Donte Ingram owns at least 50 pairs of sneakers?
Did you know that having located a beetle larva in dead timber, the female parasitic wasp Stephanus serrator may take several hours to drill a hole towards it in which to lay its egg?
Did you know that in his opera Tri sestry (Three Sisters), composer Péter Eötvös wants the three sisters from Chekhov's play to be sung by countertenors?
Did you know that military officer Francisco Javier Arana, who briefly ruled Guatemala as part of a three-person junta, was subsequently killed in a shootout after threatening a coup?
Did you know that the volcanic Oasis of Mosquitoes in the Sahara has multicoloured lakes (example pictured) and can be seen from space?
Did you know that when suspected Mexican drug lord Raúl Meza Ontiveros was arrested, police found he was storing 348 kilograms (767 lb) of cocaine?
Did you know that Charles XI of Sweden tried mounting his cavalry on moose?
Did you know that Heinrich Himmler may have given permission for the Red Cross to visit the family camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, just a few hundred meters from the gas chambers?
Did you know that Victoria Lederberg was a SimCity mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, before becoming a state supreme court justice?
Did you know that in 1934, the Austrian biochemist Regina Kapeller-Adler developed an innovative test for early pregnancy based on the presence of histidine in urine?
Did you know that Donald Liebenberg experienced 74 minutes of totality aboard a Concorde during the solar eclipse of June 30, 1973?
Did you know that The Hexer, the first attempt to portray The Witcher universe in film, was "crushed by the reviewers and laughed out by fans", and has since been described as "the film we all want to forget"?
Did you know that between 1933 and 1936, Max Troll betrayed hundreds of fellow communists to the Bavarian Political Police, a forerunner of the Gestapo?
Did you know that following the July Revolution in France, Heinrich Heine wrote a history of emancipation in Germany, beginning with Luther's Reformation?
Did you know that satyrs (example pictured) are male nature spirits in Greek mythology known for their mischievous and bawdy behavior?
Did you know that the citizens of Târgoviște, Romania, put a jinx on boyar Emanoil Băleanu, which was seen as being fulfilled when his wife died in childbirth?
Did you know that Mary Paton Ramsay argued for the influence of medieval mysticism on the poetry of John Donne?
Did you know that a reviewer came to like John Rutter's anthem O clap your hands better, many years after he first found the jollity of its beginning "a bit relentless"?
Did you know that by pushing a glass tube into his ear, pioneering biotremologist Frej Ossiannilsson discovered that the leafhopper inside the tube produced faint vibrations?
Did you know that decorative patterns using isosceles triangles date back to the Early Neolithic?
Did you know that the Indonesian actor Adipati Dolken adopted his stage name from the owner of the villa where he stayed on vacation in Puncak?
Did you know that this photograph was taken to glorify the SS men who suppressed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, but helped convict them of murder?
Did you know that Akshay Nanavati is a US Marine Corps veteran who overcame drug abuse and alcoholism to publish a book endorsed by the Dalai Lama?
Did you know that John Lennon and Yoko Ono were heckled for not riding in a hot air balloon?
Did you know that Oded Muhammad Danial, as the deputy mayor of Bandung, Indonesia, established a program for dakwah in city buses?
Did you know that Praeludium, a 1992 composition by Graham Waterhouse, has been described as a "dramatic concert piece"?
Did you know that after the withdrawal of German forces, left-wing partisans defeated and summarily executed some 400 to 2,500 Nazi collaborators in Meligalas, Greece?
Did you know that the Day of the Dead was commemorated by Betsabeé Romero in Mexico City in 2016 with an installation of 103 trajineras (example pictured) decorated as memorial offerings?
Did you know that the inter-governmental Working Definition of Antisemitism has generated controversy over its inclusion of examples of criticism of Israel?
Did you know that most Germans who committed war crimes in Italy during World War II never faced justice?
Did you know that on her hundredth birthday, British soprano Carrie Tubb was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Music?
Did you know that the Brooklyn Naval Hospital treated almost a quarter of Union casualties during the American Civil War?
Did you know that the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, a royal theatre for operettas in the 19th century, presented the German premiere of Harold Rome's musical Fanny in 1955?
Did you know that the Wisconsin School is a school of thought that uses economic interpretations to explain much of American diplomatic history?
Did you know that Jobst Oetzmann directed the film The Loneliness of the Crocodiles, presented at international film festivals, and the award-winning 484th episode of the police crime drama Tatort?
Did you know that Mount Judd is also known as the "Nuneaton Nipple"?
Did you know that Nanchang Qingyunpu Airport, once China's largest airport, was destroyed during the Second Sino-Japanese War?
Did you know that Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Lou Reed considered the guitar-playing on Neil Young's "Danger Bird" to be the best he had ever heard?
Did you know that because the court described him as a "simpleton", Stefan Baretzki's admission that he knew the Holocaust was a crime was used to convict other defendants at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials?
Did you know that during its time 200 million years ago, Ledumahadi's estimated weight of 12 tonnes (26,000 lb) made it the largest animal to have lived on Earth?
Did you know that in 1931, William Robins carried a colour of Barrell's Regiment in a ceremony to unite it with that of Clan Stewart of Appin, their adversaries at the 1746 Battle of Culloden?
Did you know that Greg Fitzgerald, the CEO of Bovis Homes, started his career in construction as a tea boy?
Did you know that Victorian cook Avis Crocombe (pictured, right) prepared "dead man's leg" for the servants' hall at Audley End House?
Did you know that a ruling by the European Court of Justice allowing employers to ban staff from wearing the hijab has been described as a normalization of hijabophobia?
Did you know that despite being only 8 miles (13 km) long, Washington State Route 546 is considered a major freight highway due to its connections to Interstate 5 and the Canadian border?
Did you know that despite playing as a defender, Ildefons Lima is the leading goalscorer in the history of the Andorra national football team?
Did you know that the complete Psalm 131 and the first verse of Psalm 133 in Hebrew comprise the text of the last movement of Chichester Psalms by Leonard Bernstein?
Did you know that Maurice Rossel's report on Theresienstadt concentration camp has been described as emblematic of the failure of the Red Cross during the Holocaust?
Did you know that historian Catherine Kerrison thinks beauty is still important for any woman in the public eye?
Did you know that in 1997, the annual Children's Book Award for children's fiction was renamed in honor of Josette Frank?
Did you know that the assassination of John F. Kennedy overshadowed the launch of the first season of Doctor Who?
Did you know that 65 percent of internees at the Topaz War Relocation Center were American-born citizens of Japanese descent?
Did you know that Roman Twardy conducted the Wiesbadener Knabenchor in the first recording of a rediscovered Passion oratorio by Johann Mattheson?
Did you know that Wen Fong co-founded the first Ph.D. program in Chinese art and archaeology in the United States, at Princeton University?
Did you know that a steel sculpture at the entrance to the University of Surrey's Stag Hill Campus was strength-tested before being placed to ensure it could bear the weight of students attempting to climb it?
Did you know that the crab Zebrida adamsii lives among the spines of a sea urchin?
Did you know that Donald Trump "accidentally" contributed to a children's book?
Did you know that Wing Commander Alfred George Pither established a network of radar stations (example pictured) in northern Australia?
Did you know that in the UEFA matches played by Athletic Bilbao in European football, the club used only one player who was a full international for a country other than Spain?
Did you know that one of the earliest accounts of the use of cocaine for spinal anaesthesia was given by William Keiller, anatomy professor at Galveston, Texas?
Did you know that Ann Thomas Callahan was one of the first indigenous graduates of the Winnipeg General Hospital's nursing school?
Did you know that Brigadier Leonard Cuthbert Lucas was decorated for his part in the construction of facilities for the British Operation Totem nuclear tests at Emu Field, South Australia?
Did you know that despite opposition from within his resistance group, Andrej Steiner orchestrated the arrest of Jewish collaborator Karol Hochberg?
Did you know that during storms on 1–2 July 1968, hailstones the size of tennis balls fell in Cardiff and blood-red rain covered Southern England?
Did you know that in the fairy-tale opera Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin by Udo Zimmermann, two orchestras play on stage, representing two empires in conflict?
Did you know that the Chalfont Viaduct (pictured in 2009) on the M25 motorway was famous for its graffiti slogan "Give Peas A Chance"?
Did you know that Anne Ratna Mustika, her husband, and her uncle all served as regents of Purwakarta, Indonesia?
Did you know that despite clear orders to fire only if fired upon, the German torpedo boat Albatros crippled the Norwegian ship Pol III after being rammed, thus firing the first shot of the Norwegian Campaign?
Did you know that despite the coral Stylophora pistillata being a common species with a wide distribution, and Stylophora madagascarensis being common around the coast of Madagascar, the IUCN has assessed one as "near threatened" and the other as "endangered"?
Did you know that in 1976, the Gilling sword was found in a river by a nine-year old boy, and was subsequently awarded its own Blue Peter badge?
Did you know that the Mexican Army leaked a picture of Misael Torres Urrea that ended up popularizing several drug ballads?
Did you know that the main statue of Martin Luther in the 1868 Luther Monument in Worms appears in several copies in the United States, including in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that Leslie Joy Whitehead, a Canadian woman, enlisted in the Serbian Army as a man so that she might get closer to the front lines in World War I?
Did you know that during the First World War, the British Ministry of Munitions proposed trading rubber for German binoculars?
Did you know that the First World War memorial at Woodvale Park in Belfast is cut to resemble a stone from Giant's Causeway?
Did you know that the purple remembrance poppy was created to commemorate animals that served during wartime, but is not endorsed by The Royal British Legion which sells the official red remembrance poppy?
Did you know that when the O'Byrne-class submarines  were seized by France before their sale to Romania, the Romanian Navy had to wait 15 more years to get its first submarine?
Did you know that PSYCHLOPS has been adapted for children?
Did you know that Ptolemy I Soter (bust pictured), a companion of Alexander the Great, founded the Ptolemaic dynasty to which Cleopatra VII belonged?
Did you know that footballer Bob Jones was signed by Everton as a goalkeeper, despite originally playing as a left half, after the original goalkeeper failed to arrive at a trial?
Did you know that the novella Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts was translated as Memoirs of a Good-for-Nothing several times, the first in 1866 by Charles Godfrey Leland?
Did you know that the seed pods of Acacia ramulosa resemble horse tails?
Did you know that a museum in the Bedford Village Historic District occupies the former courthouse, erected in 1787 and the oldest government building in Westchester County?
Did you know that former First Lady of Slovenia Barbara Miklič Türk met her husband and former Slovenian president Danilo Türk while working as a librarian at the United Nations?
Did you know that the Dutch playwright Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken wrote very popular classicist tragedies, and sent an ode in French to George Washington, for which he thanked her?
Did you know that the first official baseball game in Germany took place under the Nazi regime at the 1936 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that under the Byzantine Empire, the Arab Christian tribe of Bahra' were tasked with guarding the Syrian holy city of Rusafa?
Did you know that Cliona orientalis is a bioeroding sponge that tunnels into such corals as Goniopora tenuidens, Dipsastraea pallida, and Astreopora listeri?
Did you know that Greenwich pensioners played one-armed versus one-legged cricket?
Did you know that Liamani Segura, who sang the US national anthem before 1,300 high school basketball fans at age six, taught herself by watching music videos on YouTube?
Did you know that Tania Tetlow is the first female president of Loyola University New Orleans?
Did you know that in 1800, a reviewer of Francis Hews's writings was unsure whether he should be sent to "Bridewell for correction, or to Bedlam for a cure"?
Did you know that the poet Edith Sitwell described Lady Angela Forbes as "an elderly gorilla affected with sex appeal"?
Did you know that the stretch limousine involved in the recent crash near Schoharie, New York, killing 20, appeared at two vehicle inspections earlier this year with different license plates?
Did you know that 694 Italians have been recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust in Italy?
Did you know that Marcel Comeau was a minor league Most Valuable Player, and a junior league Coach of the Year, but never played or coached in the National Hockey League?
Did you know that Peter Kubelka's experimental film Schwechater was originally commissioned as a beer commercial?
Did you know that Zamira Hajiyeva spent £16.3 million at the London department store Harrods over a ten-year period?
Did you know that racist graffiti on mathematician Chawne Kimber's college campus, along with George Carlin's seven dirty words, inspired her to politicize her quilting?
Did you know that the Georgetown Car Barn, opened in 1897, operated as a terminal for cable cars for less than a year?
Did you know that "Love Interruption" was the first song American musician Jack White released after the breakup of rock duo The White Stripes?
Did you know that 17-year-old Dutch chess grandmaster Lucas van Foreest has a brother, great-great grandfather, and great-great granduncle who have all been Dutch Chess Champions?
Did you know that Herman Pines, who could not attend university in Poland because of Jewish quotas, worked on developing aviation fuels that helped the Royal Air Force win the Battle of Britain?
Did you know that Joan L. Mitchell co-invented JPEG?
Did you know that according to Lea Hernandez, editor of webcomic subscription service Girlamatic, she originally wanted to call the website "ModernGirls" but the name was already taken by a porn site?
Did you know that the seeds of Acacia tenuissima were used by Indigenous Australians to make damper?
Did you know that Brennan's Criterion Bar in Bundoran, Ireland, had no television, discouraged live music, and banned swearing?
Did you know that Chang Chun-Yen, a pioneer of Taiwan's hi-tech industry, was forbidden from going abroad to study because of his father's involvement in the February 28 incident?
Did you know that King Kalākaua's 1874–75 state visit to the United States (Kalākaua pictured) made the African-American Pacific Appeal newspaper wonder if there was "a sudden abandonment of colorphobia prejudice"?