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Did you know that All Saints' Episcopal Church contains the crypt of its founder, Episcopal Bishop of Texas George Herbert Kinsolving?
Did you know that Eppa Hunton Jr. and his son, Eppa Hunton IV, the namesakes of the Hunton Student Center at Virginia Commonwealth University, served a combined 50 years on the Medical College of Virginia's board of visitors?
Did you know that Marcela Revollo's pragmatic approach to legislating led her to cooperate with both neoliberal and socialist governments on women's rights legislation?
Did you know that Tyrone Davis set a school record with 28 career touchdown receptions while playing wide receiver for the Virginia Cavaliers?
Did you know that athletic trainer Gian Piero Ventrone, nicknamed "marine" for his very hard and tiring training sessions, made his players ring a "bell of shame" when they were too exhausted to continue?
Did you know that both of Karl R. Free's New Deal-era U.S. post office murals with Native American subjects have been challenged as offensive?
Did you know that in the 1920s, Hickson Inc. had the "most elegant and expensive specialty shop" on New York's Fifth Avenue?
Did you know that pioneer radiologist Sydney Domville Rowland coined the term "skiagraphy" (example pictured)?
Did you know that the 1940 poster for Cavalcade of the American Negro anticipated 1960s Black Power iconography?
Did you know that the Konzerthalle in Bad Salzuflen, an example of spa architecture in the 1960s, is one of the regular venues of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie?
Did you know that the Nakhichevan uezd was home to more than 54,000 Armenians until they perished through the events of 1918–1920 as a result of the Russian Revolution?
Did you know that the Scottish Register of Tartans has registered district tartans for Australia as a whole, and also a state district tartan for each of Australia's six states?
Did you know that the abandoned 17th-century Grimethorpe Hall in South Yorkshire, England, has been proposed as a potential new headquarters for the Grimethorpe Colliery Band?
Did you know that Welsh footballer Jon Morgan went on to become a college principal after retiring?
Did you know that a negative review of Sky Ferreira's "Don't Forget" on Pitchfork caused a large amount of controversy?
Did you know that after serving as the speaker of the Oregon Territory House of Representatives, Lafayette Cartee moved to the Idaho Territory where he became a well-known horticulturalist?
Did you know that before entering politics, Romina Pérez worked at the Center for Legal Studies and Social Research, which "became a 'nursery' for intellectual and political cadres of the Movement for Socialism"?
Did you know that decades after its closure, the station house of the Chicago "L"'s Madison station would house a hot dog stand?
Did you know that despite his defeat at the battle of Pitgaveny, both of Duncan's sons would later rule Scotland?
Did you know that the Regensburg Botanical Society, founded on 14 May 1790, is the world's oldest extant botanical society?
Did you know that the Shiba Inu memes of NAFO have been called "an actual tactical event against a nation state"?
Did you know that the founder of the Guide to the Free World, helping people leave Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, said she was told: "It's good that you get out of Russia, but a pity that you won't be shot"?
Did you know that the hoof of Richard Thomas Glyn's horse is used as an ashtray by officers of the Royal Regiment of Wales?
Did you know that the relative rarity of the radiodont Titanokorys (video featured) in Marble Canyon suggests that the deposits in which it was found may represent the outermost edge of its distribution in life?
Did you know that when astronaut Shannon Lucid returned to Earth after six months in orbit, she was presented with a box of M&M's?
Did you know that you could place bets on a lettuce becoming the British prime minister?
Did you know that BBC radio broadcaster  Venu Chitale taught listeners how to cook without meat when it was rationed during the Second World War?
Did you know that Ball Ground, Georgia, received its name because the land was originally used by Native Americans to play stickball?
Did you know that Martini Maccomo accidentally shot someone in the eye while performing?
Did you know that Sergei Prokofiev's oratorio On Guard for Peace has been called "Kremlin music" and "Stalinist era kitsch at its most egregious"?
Did you know that William F. Hanson collaborated with Zitkala-Sa on a Sioux-inspired work called The Sun Dance Opera?
Did you know that a Florida TV station operated from an abandoned amusement park?
Did you know that a copyright infringement suit was filed against the song "How We Do (Party)" for its use of the phrase "party and bullshit"?
Did you know that on the song "Conceited", Flo Milli raps that she's been important since she was a fetus?
Did you know that the "father of French fighter aircraft" became interested in flying whilst suspended from the French Army following a court-martial?
Did you know that the North Carolina state auditor is fifth in the line of succession to the governorship of North Carolina?
Did you know that the Ocoee salamander (example pictured) from Tennessee is named after the Cherokee word for Passiflora incarnata (passionflower)?
Did you know that the remix of Kanye West's "Use This Gospel" was added to DJ Khaled's God Did at the last minute?
Did you know that Bochart's 1646 Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan was the first full-length book devoted to the Phoenicians?
Did you know that Cardigan Donuts has sold a Super Mario Kart–inspired rainbow doughnut with white chocolate frosting, gold walnuts, and cereal marshmallows?
Did you know that Ella van Poucke, a cellist who studied at the Kronberg Academy, returned there as a soloist, playing Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in the new Casals Forum?
Did you know that Lanfranco Cirillo is the architect of Putin's Palace, a palace complex on the Black Sea coast allegedly built for Vladimir Putin which is estimated to have cost over one billion US dollars?
Did you know that Nippon Steel, one of Japan's largest steelmakers, sold notebook computers in the U.S. in the early 1990s?
Did you know that Richard W. Conway earned a varsity letter, a Ph.D., and an endowed chair, all from the same university?
Did you know that according to two surveys, knocking on wood and 'crossing fingers for good luck' are the most popular superstitions in Britain?
Did you know that after being extensively hunted in the 19th century, southern right whales can again sometimes be seen in Mahurangi Harbour?
Did you know that board game cafés can be found across the world?
Did you know that couples can marry 'over the anvil' at Patterson's Spade Mill?
Did you know that heavy metal led Ossian D'Ambrosio to druidism?
Did you know that in 1920, Elmer Smith hit the first grand slam in World Series history?
Did you know that in 2019, the Spanish patrol boat Serviola thwarted two attempts at piracy in as many months?
Did you know that Aox Inc., a maker of computer expansion cards, was named after the founders' dog?
Did you know that Bear Witness reviewers said, "The songs were richer than the first wave of Madonna's hits"?
Did you know that Halyna Kuzmenko promoted the Ukrainization of the Makhnovist movement, successfully increasing the use of the Ukrainian language by Russian speakers?
Did you know that Jacobus Capitein, who was sold into slavery at either age 7 or 8, promoted proslavery arguments based on Christianity?
Did you know that John Allen Lewis printed the Los Angeles Star, the first newspaper to appear in Los Angeles in 1851, with two pages written in English and two in Spanish?
Did you know that Leonard Kriegel, who had polio, insisted on using the term "cripple" in his works to describe his illness?
Did you know that Rebecca Blake, Anglo-Romanian captain of the Romania women's national cricket team, also led the French team to victory in a six-team tournament?
Did you know that after Claudia Fleming's dessert cookbook went out of print due to poor sales, used copies began circulating on eBay for hundreds of dollars?
Did you know that episodes of such game shows as Double Dare, Finders Keepers, and You Bet Your Life were filmed at the Philadelphia studios of a public TV station?
Did you know that recruitment to the British Canton Coolie Corps suffered due to false rumours that men would be used as human shields in the Second Opium War?
Did you know that some evangelical Christians confess their sexual temptations to an accountability partner to maintain their sexual purity?
Did you know that the walls of the Kronberg Academy's Casals Forum are curved and covered with wood in a manner reminiscent of a string instrument?
Did you know that there is a Loch Ness Monster in Williamsburg, Virginia?
Did you know that Bruce Timm created most of the character designs for Batman: The Animated Series?
Did you know that Cheekface announced their third album via postcards sent to fans?
Did you know that Major-General Andriy Kovalchuk, commander of the 2022 Ukrainian southern counteroffensive, met his wife, a fellow officer, when she chastised him for wearing an unpolished belt buckle?
Did you know that Mike Judge's three-month tenure at the video-card manufacturer Parallax Graphics was an inspiration for Office Space?
Did you know that Mini mum is miniscule, but it is not Mini scule?
Did you know that Silvia Hauer, a singer of Rossini's Rosina and Bizet's Carmen at Staatstheater Wiesbaden, performed the mezzo-soprano solo of Verdi's Requiem in 2022?
Did you know that Windham William Sadler made the first crossing of the Irish Sea by balloon in 1817, five years after his father had failed to achieve the same feat?
Did you know that after journalist Adele Ferguson's criticism of the U.S. Navy's sex discrimination attracted nationwide attention, she was offered a personal tour of a nuclear submarine?
Did you know that at 6 by 22 metres (20 by 72 feet), Zeitlaich is Jonas Burgert's largest oil painting?
Did you know that in 1993, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld West Virginia's largest punitive damages award in history, awarding $10 million – 526 times larger than the compensatory damages?
Did you know that it was rumoured that "R.I.P." was initially intended for Rihanna, but it became a song for Rita Ora instead?
Did you know that Hasanpaşa Gasworks escaped its demolition through the resistance of local residents, became a festival venue for a time and was finally transformed into a museum after redevelopment?
Did you know that Martin Pipe's training methods for steeplechasers were so effective, he was investigated twice for cheating?
Did you know that Matthias Hanke, an organist and choral leader by age 14, in due course became responsible for all Protestant church music in Württemberg?
Did you know that The Bone People by Keri Hulme nearly ended up as a doorstop instead of a Booker Prize-winning novel?
Did you know that a Halloween-themed protest was held at the former Regent Cinema, urging the owners to "raise [it] from the dead"?
Did you know that mushroom synagogues helped many Jews celebrate the High Holidays?
Did you know that the Chicago "L"'s Laflin station had an elevator for caskets?
Did you know that the limited radio airplay of "Get Together" in the US spawned a petition, outrage, and conspiracy theories among Madonna fans?
Did you know that the steamboat carrying the 9th Missouri Sharpshooter Battalion back from its military service sank in the Red River of the South?
Did you know that Dale Haney has walked presidential pooches from Richard Nixon's King Timahoe to Joe Biden's Commander and safeguarded George W. Bush's pets during the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that Japanese jazz cafés often require customers to be silent?
Did you know that Lindsay Ring regained control of his family catering firm and went on to become Lord Mayor of London?
Did you know that Liz Truss's rise to power went from "astonishing" to "explosive" a day before she resigned as prime minister?
Did you know that Panama cross-banded tree frog males synchronize their mating calls to confuse predators that locate them by sound?
Did you know that Saint Augustine died during the Vandal conquest of Roman Africa?
Did you know that Samuel Hall established Salem's first newspaper, The Essex Gazette, in 1768, using it to support the colonial cause against British taxation?
Did you know that organizations have been successfully sued for not using the alt attribute correctly on their websites?
Did you know that some scientists believe we may live in a "dark forest"?
Did you know that the elephant of Henry III, which arrived in England in 1255, was the first to set foot in that country since the Roman invasion of Britain?
Did you know that the heads of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and Jacobite Syrian Christian Church certify their bishops by giving them a sthathicon?
Did you know that "Kommt herbei, singt dem Herrn" is a Christian hymn that Diethard Zils wrote in 1972 as a paraphrase of Psalm 95 to an Israeli melody?
Did you know that Clara MacBeth lived on a cruise ship for over a decade?
Did you know that Ted Heaton advertised himself as "Liverpool's famous swimming master"?
Did you know that Zail Singh was the first Sikh and the first person from a backward caste to become President of India?
Did you know that a scene featuring Michael Fassbender kissing himself in Alien: Covenant was cut from the Chinese release due to censorship?
Did you know that according to the Open Syllabus Project, Diana Hacker is the second most-read female author on college campuses after Kate L. Turabian?
Did you know that compositions by Graham Waterhouse range from the beginning of his String Sextet, Op. 1, in 1979 to the Fantasia Ucraina for two violins in 2022?
Did you know that run-pass option plays used in college football allow quarterbacks to pass the ball farther downfield than those used in the NFL?
Did you know that the 1947 World Snooker Championship was the first world snooker championship where the winner wasn't Joe Davis?
Did you know that the Iowa Cow War started due to bovine tuberculosis testing?
Did you know that the New York City Board of Estimate voted to demolish Fort Clinton six times before the fort became a U.S. national monument?
Did you know that Denver's oldest building continuously used for Protestant worship, the Evans Memorial Chapel, is now also used by Catholics?
Did you know that Jordan Gray added the technical name for spider silk to her name due to the UK not having a process to change honorific from Mr to Miss?
Did you know that Manuel Carpio's 1849 poem is the earliest literary depiction of the weeping ghost La Llorona?
Did you know that Pride Month is held in commemoration of the Stonewall riots?
Did you know that accessible yoga was formed as a way for people with disabilities to be able to perform yoga?
Did you know that meadow knapweed (example pictured) is a hybrid between black knapweed and brown knapweed, which were both introduced to North America?
Did you know that the Paradise of Wisdom, an early Islamic medical encyclopedia, describes an abortion-causing stone?
Did you know that the cover art for "True Love" features handwritten notes by XXXTentacion?
Did you know that there was an initial agreement for chimpanzees from the private zoo of Rosalía Abreu to be part of an experiment to breed a humanzee?
Did you know that "Look at the world" is a 1996 choral harvest anthem with text and music by John Rutter, written for CPRE "on the theme of the environment and our responsibility towards it"?
Did you know that Andrea Bonetti was Juventus U16's most prolific player of the 2018–19 season, with 16 goals?
Did you know that City Pier A's clock tower was the first memorial to World War I casualties in the United States, according to a New York City government spokesperson?
Did you know that Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg (pictured in his concentration camp uniform) was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his efforts recognizing the Polish war-time rescue of Jews?
Did you know that Rockstar Lincoln used to keep live tarantulas at its offices?
Did you know that The Essex Gazette was established in 1768, becoming Salem's first newspaper, and was used as a voice against British rule just before the American Revolution?
Did you know that a "frustration walk" connected Chicago Union Station with the rapid transit Canal station?
Did you know that during the Avar Wars, disease killed 90 per cent of Charlemagne's horses?
Did you know that ten-sided gaming dice (examples pictured) have kite-shaped faces?
Did you know that the United States severed diplomatic ties with Finland in 1944 because of a personal letter sent to Hitler?
Did you know that the three lines of the traditional German round "Lobet und preiset, ihr Völker, den Herrn" are based on verses from three psalms?
Did you know that Şebnem Korur Fincancı, a drafter of a United Nations guideline on the documentation of torture, was arrested after she suggested an investigation into the use of chemical weapons?
Did you know that Arthur Bown designed Harrogate's Jubilee Memorial to commemorate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee?
Did you know that Florence Walton and Maurice Mouvet became the first American dancers to appear by command of British royalty when they performed at the 1914 Kenwood House ball?
Did you know that Jay Owen Light aspired to be an astronaut before becoming the dean of Harvard Business School?
Did you know that Sulayman Pasha al-Azm lifted his 1742 siege of Tiberias to lead the Hajj pilgrim caravan to Mecca?
Did you know that The Immaculate Collection was the first album to use QSound?
Did you know that View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11 taken on the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center was not published until 2005 because it seemed too pretty to its creator Thomas Hoepker?
Did you know that in the music video for the song "Anti-Hero", Taylor Swift imagines a scenario in which she is killed by her own daughter-in-law?
Did you know that it took 90 years to replace the "unconvincing" original proof of Roberts's triangle theorem, on the number of triangles formed by systems of lines, with a correct proof?
Did you know that rather than warning those downriver of the impending failure of the Walnut Grove Dam, a messenger got drunk, leading to the deaths of more than 100 people?
Did you know that te lapa, an unproven and unexplained oceanic light phenomenon, might have been used by Polynesians to find islands in the Pacific Ocean?
Did you know that Ausma Malik is the first hijab-wearing Muslim woman to be elected to public office in Canada?
Did you know that Carol Wilson had to pretend that she was a schoolteacher when unofficially representing England at the 1971 Women's World Cup?
Did you know that Cumulus Computer Corporation was sued over alleged unpaid T-shirts?
Did you know that Michigan defensive end Eyabi Okie, ranked number 3 in the 2018 college football recruiting class, changed his surname from "Anoma" to recognize his mother who lives in Africa?
Did you know that the Aegis BMD at Deveselu Military Base, intended to intercept missiles from Iran, has been called a "direct threat" by Russian officials?
Did you know that the Algonquin Hotel keeps a cat in its lobby?
Did you know that the Israeli song "HaSela haAdom", about illegal trips to Petra, was banned in Israel?
Did you know that the Westland Explorers' Monument, placed within an intersection, was seen as an obstruction and relocated, only to be replaced with an even larger monument?
Did you know that the dog in A Man and His Dog was modelled after Thomas Mann's real-life dog Bauschan?
Did you know that the music video for Taylor Swift's song "Bejeweled" hints that her 2010 album Speak Now would be her next re-recording?
Did you know that the orange chocolate chip lichen was given its common name because of its fruitbodies that look like chocolate?
Did you know that Chinese court painter Su Hanchen is known for his paintings of children?
Did you know that Four Epigraphs after Escher is a 1993 piano trio by Graham Waterhouse for viola, heckelphone and piano based on four graphic artworks by M. C. Escher including Reptiles?
Did you know that Tammy Wynette once toured on a bus labeled "Mr. and Mrs. Country Music" with her husband George Jones?
Did you know that after 2014 horror film The Babadook was listed as an "LGBT film" by Netflix, the titular monster was adopted as a gay icon in internet memes?
Did you know that despite not ever performing in the country, Lil Yachty rapped about taking the wock to Poland?
Did you know that one of chairman and CEO Brendan Bechtel's first jobs was to install security cables for laptops at Bechtel headquarters in San Francisco when he was 14 years old?
Did you know that one scholar compared the importance of Zork to that of Homer's Iliad?
Did you know that the Ukrainian composer Borys Lyatoshynsky composed his second opera, Shchors in 1937–38, about a military figure from Ukraine who fought for the Soviet Red Army in the Ukrainian–Soviet War?
Did you know that the letters on the platform walls of Wibaut­straat metro station refer to the offices of Dutch newspapers that were located on the street above?
Did you know that Fire Shut Up in My Bones, a 2019 opera by Terence Blanchard, was the first by a black composer to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera since its founding in 1883?
Did you know that Helmut Reimer, who was professor of microelectronics at the Technische Universität Ilmenau from 1971, began in 1992 to make TeleTrusT a competence centre for applied cryptography and biometrics?
Did you know that Rabia Balkhi is the first known Persian woman poet?
Did you know that Rockstar New England is based in Andover, Massachusetts, because it is the founder's "favorite place"?
Did you know that Taylor Swift said that her first live album, Speak Now World Tour – Live, was meant to capture what she wanted to "show [...] my kids and my grandkids"?
Did you know that Tibetan art (example pictured) has been described as "almost unbelievably conservative" over the last thousand years?
Did you know that in 1772, Gowan Pamphlet was ordained while still a slave?
Did you know that in 2021, two asteroids hit Mars, each leaving craters over 100 meters (330 feet) across and being felt as marsquakes by the InSight mission thousands of kilometers away?
Did you know that the Wood River Branch Railroad was once sold for $301?
Did you know that the constitution of Arkansas contained text opposing racial integration for 34 years until it was repealed in a 1990 amendment?
Did you know that you can keep a snowflake in a browser tab?
Did you know that Ed Miliband retweeted "Chaos with Ed Miliband" with a clown emoji during the October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis?
Did you know that Edward V. Boursaud was the first American assistant secretary to the Jesuit Superior General for the English-speaking world?
Did you know that Gürdal Duyar's 1976 Seyrani Monument became a symbol of the Develi district?
Did you know that Handan Chun wrote a poem on the game of pitch-pot?
Did you know that Hollywood Golden Age actress Gloria Dea was the first magician to perform on the Las Vegas Strip, at the El Rancho Vegas hotel and casino on May 14, 1941?
Did you know that Mexican poet Francisco de Terrazas was praised by Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes?
Did you know that Sung Min Song, who was an informatics engineer in Seoul until age 26, performed the extreme tenor role of Arnold in Rossini's Guillaume Tell as his debut at the Saarländisches Staatstheater?
Did you know that The Breakwater Light was the first newspaper in the first town in the first state?
Did you know that What Hath God Wrought, the 2007 history of Jacksonian America written by Daniel Walker Howe, is dedicated to Andrew Jackson's "political nemesis" John Quincy Adams?
Did you know that according to Tlingit legend, the Stikine River once flowed under a glacier?
Did you know that as a young midshipman Martin Wemyss, arriving late at a function and using the wrong entrance, bumped into George VI and was invited to dance with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret?