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Did you know that Lingua Ignota's 2019 album Caligula has been described as "a murderous amalgam of opera, metal, and noise"?
Did you know that Swiss World War II spy Otto Pünter used crosswords and lemon juice as means of encryption?
Did you know that according to the 2019 documentary Toxic Beauty, thousands of carcinogenic and hormone-disrupting chemicals are used in cosmetic products in the U.S. without adequate government regulation?
Did you know that eight-year-old Nigerian refugee Tanitoluwa Adewumi won a New York state chess championship while his family was living in a homeless shelter in Manhattan?
Did you know that many goat towers (example pictured) have become tourist attractions?
Did you know that most branchiobdellids use crayfish as hosts, living on their heads, carapaces, or claws, but in some instances inside their gill cavities?
Did you know that the Duke of Edinburgh has been Admiral of the House of Lords Yacht Club since 1952?
Did you know that the company that built Six Pillars House also constructed Highpoint I, and the penguin enclosure at London Zoo?
Did you know that the song of the Madagascan hoopoe differs markedly from that of the African hoopoe?
Did you know that Charlotte Figi, a child who used cannabidiol to treat seizures caused by Dravet syndrome, had a medical cannabis strain named after her?
Did you know that Habsburg-era Austria's internal security office, the Secret State Police, was established in 1786 with a staff of just three?
Did you know that KILO's broadcast license allowed the University of North Dakota to get out of the commercial broadcasting business?
Did you know that Pacific Mall in Ontario, Canada, is the largest indoor Asian shopping mall in North America?
Did you know that a 1912 case in a Colorado district court yielded the first legal victory against educational segregation in the United States, although it was quickly forgotten afterwards?
Did you know that marshland around the Flushing River, considered "all but worthless", was later expanded into a park used for two world's fairs?
Did you know that populations of the slender Scotch burnet, a European moth that lives in dry, lime-rich areas, have been declining?
Did you know that the Ault Pottery is best known for making designs by Christopher Dresser (example pictured), some using second-hand moulds?
Did you know that the New South Wales Governor's Body Guard of Light Horse seemed to have been absent when Governor William Bligh was arrested during the Rum Rebellion?
Did you know that when a spectator tried to help Australia's first Olympian Edwin Flack after he collapsed during the 1896 marathon event, the athlete punched him to the ground?
Did you know that British police officer Suzette Davenport was responsible for crime in Staffordshire and intelligence in the West Midlands?
Did you know that Edwin Arlington Robinson's 1897 poem "Reuben Bright", considered good teaching material for English classes, featured a "cow-killer converted" in a realistic, vernacular narrative?
Did you know that Elie Wiesel's 1966 non-fiction book The Jews of Silence was based on his journey to the Soviet Union during the High Holidays of 1965 to report on the condition of Soviet Jewry in the post-Stalin era?
Did you know that Ernest Renan abandoned his excavations of Umm al-Amad (depicted) in Lebanon when he found that the ruins were only about two thousand years old?
Did you know that Sabine Lake initially marked the border between French Louisiana and Spanish Texas, then the United States and the Republic of Texas, and now the U.S. states of Louisiana and Texas?
Did you know that after twelve medical schools rejected her applications, partly because of her gender, U.S. congresswoman Patsy Mink became a lawyer instead?
Did you know that at New Albion, the Coast Miwok people honored Sir Francis Drake as if he were being proclaimed king?
Did you know that early drafts of the television drama "CasualtyXHolby" included a vehicle striking an electrical substation to cause a blackout, before a cyberattack was substituted instead?
Did you know that neuroscientist J. David Jentsch's car was firebombed by animal-rights activists?
Did you know that the Ethiopian army participated in the Korean War?
Did you know that the Slovak authorities suspended restitution to Holocaust survivors after the Partisan Congress riots, as many partisans were unhappy at returning property to its original Jewish owners?
Did you know that the first film entirely in American Sign Language was a 1975 vampire movie called Deafula?
Did you know that Lin-Manuel Miranda saw "hip-hop songs rising off the page" when he read Ron Chernow's book Alexander Hamilton?
Did you know that Muhammad and his followers in Medina originally faced Jerusalem as their direction for prayer?
Did you know that Nepali actress Swastima Khadka holds a three-year diploma in architectural engineering?
Did you know that Northern Dancer was the first Canadian-bred horse to win the Kentucky Derby, setting a new track record of two minutes flat?
Did you know that a documentary and a board game have been made about the New York City Subway's 14th Street Tunnel shutdown?
Did you know that surgical masks provide effective protection against diseases spread by respiratory droplets (examples pictured), but not those spread by airborne transmission?
Did you know that the 1988 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, held at the 90,000-capacity Melbourne Cricket Ground, had an attendance of 3,326?
Did you know that the Valley of the Volcanoes in Peru, with its many lava flows and scoria cones, is of interest both to tourists and scientists?
Did you know that the construction of Gappo Park in Aomori, Japan, led to the death of its designer in 1885?
Did you know that the design of the Japanese–Italian fusion restaurant Kissa Tanto was inspired by Hotel Okura Tokyo, Italian architect Gio Ponti, and covers designed by John Gall for Haruki Murakami's novels?
Did you know that when the Ansbach Tests pitted attack and scout helicopters (examples pictured) against tanks, the outcome was so lopsided that some claimed the era of the primacy of the tank was over?
Did you know that Charlton Miner Lewis was a lawyer before becoming an English professor at Yale, and the first judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets?
Did you know that Egypt's Deputy Minister of Culture Mohsen Shaalan was imprisoned for a year in connection with the unsolved theft of Van Gogh's Poppy Flowers?
Did you know that Kanuni is Turkey's third drillship?
Did you know that Making a New World, a concept album by Field Music about the after-effects of World War I, originated from a commission by the Imperial War Museum?
Did you know that Naiguatá was recently sunk in a skirmish with the RCGS Resolute?
Did you know that after the Battle of Prairie Grove, the bodies of dead soldiers had to be protected in homemade enclosures to prevent feral hogs from eating them?
Did you know that angels seen radiating outward on an experimental radar led to the discovery of a curious flocking behavior of starlings?
Did you know that some of the early church murals in Sweden (example pictured) may have been commissioned by Danish kings?
Did you know that the Northern line, which already served the southernmost station on the London Underground, was proposed to be extended southward to North Cheam in 1946?
Did you know that the scale insect Saissetia coffeae attacks many other plants besides coffee?
Did you know that Addison E. Southard attended the coronation of Haile Selassie, served as a witness to the wedding of Lydia Liliuokalani Kawānanakoa, and was captured by the Japanese during World War II?
Did you know that Irish Hawaiian James Washington Lonoikauoalii McGuire designed the peacock feathered dress worn by Queen Kapiʻolani at the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887?
Did you know that John Oliver purchased the erotic furry watercolor Stay Up Late for $1,000, plus a $20,000 donation to a food bank?
Did you know that Nepali director Nischal Basnet based Loot's lead character on himself?
Did you know that Palo Alto station was styled after a streamlined passenger train?
Did you know that a Suara journalist was partially blinded while covering the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests?
Did you know that a line of stone monuments (example pictured) marks the limit of the German advance on the Western Front in 1918?
Did you know that as executor to the estate of Sir Sidney Herbert, one of Sir George Sidney Herbert's tasks was to ensure a locked tin box was "destroyed unopened by cremating"?
Did you know that of the 41 active Broadway theaters, only 3 are actually on  Broadway?
Did you know that older adherents of the Hindu sect Ramnami Samaj have the word "Ram" tattooed over their entire bodies?
Did you know that the Holden Block is the best-preserved example of Italianate architecture in Chicago's Near West Side?
Did you know that "Seht, er lebt" (Look, he lives) is a German Easter hymn by Lothar Zenetti sung to a traditional melody from Israel?
Did you know that , although in ruins, the Forty Saints Monastery in Sarandë, Albania, still retains some religious importance for the local Greek Orthodox population?
Did you know that 48 Wall Street's cornerstone was laid on Alexander Hamilton's 171st birthday, and the building opened exactly one year later?
Did you know that Australian racing driver Mark Webber was given an impromptu podium ceremony for finishing fifth at the 2002 Australian Grand Prix?
Did you know that Elzie Odom was the first black postal inspector in Texas, and the first black mayor of Arlington?
Did you know that Julia Azari has shown that U.S. presidents increasingly defend their legitimacy by claiming to have a political mandate?
Did you know that Kalavati Devi has built 4,000 toilets so that people in Kanpur would not be subjected to a "living hell"?
Did you know that Morningside Heights in Manhattan became known as the Academic Acropolis of New York City following the development of colleges such as Columbia University?
Did you know that Sampson Mathews was nicknamed the "master driver of cattle" for transporting more than 100 cattle 160 miles (260 km) through the Allegheny Mountains in 19 days for the Battle of Point Pleasant?
Did you know that the Netflix miniseries Unorthodox was inspired by Deborah Feldman's memoir Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots?
Did you know that the deaths of the leading Muslim commanders in Syria from the plague of Amwas in 639 paved the way for the establishment of the Umayyad Caliphate?
Did you know that "Spam" played a key part in the design of the urinals on the Royal Navy's Swiftsure-class submarines?
Did you know that Lewis Grant-Ogilvy had the entire village of Cullen demolished and rebuilt so that he could improve his garden at Cullen House?
Did you know that Rip Rapson, CEO of The Kresge Foundation, helped organize the "grand bargain" to rescue Detroit from bankruptcy and save the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts from liquidation?
Did you know that jue were small bronze vessels used for serving wine in ancestor-worship ceremonies in Bronze Age China?
Did you know that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, the most common liver disorder worldwide, is present in approximately 25 percent of the world's population?
Did you know that the American-led coalition has partially withdrawn troops from Iraq because of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country?
Did you know that the northern plains gray langur monkey (example pictured) is killed in India for food and to prevent crop raiding, despite being considered sacred by Hindus?
Did you know that with her victory at the 2001 Women's World Snooker Championship, Lisa Quick became the first person to win world titles in both pool and snooker?
Did you know that British-Hawaiian chieftess Maria Beckley Kahea served as lady-in-waiting to two queens, and was appointed keeper of the Royal Mausoleum?
Did you know that a path up the Col de la Loze, the seventh highest mountain pass in France, opened one year ago today and was first used in professional cycling during the 2019 Tour de l'Avenir?
Did you know that according to one theory, Xia Ruifang was killed for his Chinese translations of the Bible?
Did you know that in Minneapolis, a 1,199-pound (544 kg) cherry sits atop a 5,800-pound (2,630 kg) spoon?
Did you know that in the 1993 textbook Quantum Theory, "uncertainty principle" appears only once in the index, and its entry points back to itself?
Did you know that the Twenty One Pilots song "Level of Concern" frequently references the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that the first observed underwater explosive volcanic eruption (example pictured) occurred in 2004 at NW Rota-1?
Did you know that the flag of Manitoba (shown) was adopted in 1965 to counteract the replacement of the Canadian Red Ensign with the Maple Leaf flag?
Did you know that Horizon, once called "the most automated self-service store in Canada", went defunct less than seven years after it opened?
Did you know that Indian child actress Taruni Sachdev was nicknamed the "Rasna girl"?
Did you know that a Malaysian sultan gave "The Singing Bishop" a marble statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary as a token of their friendship?
Did you know that during the 17th-century heyday of French Nevers faience, its painted decoration drew from Italy, Turkey (example pictured), Persia, and China, as well as the Court style of Louis XIV?
Did you know that in the final movement of Die Sintflut (The Flood), a cantata for eight-part unaccompanied choir by Willy Burkhard, the voices paint Noah's rainbow?
Did you know that most of the tallest buildings in Myanmar are located in Yangon, where skyscrapers are not allowed?
Did you know that the banning of Sargon of Akkad from Patreon led to the creation of a new social networking service called Thinkspot?
Did you know that the largest maars (example pictured) on Earth, found at the Alaskan volcanic field of Espenberg, formed when magma explosively interacted with ice in the ground?
Did you know that the peaks of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks, Ireland's highest mountain range, are all on private property?
Did you know that three Japanese emperors were imprisoned at Kongō-ji?
Did you know that video game developer Be-Rad Entertainment created Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack! using code repurposed from Lame Castle, its previous release?
Did you know that when the New York City Board of Aldermen voted to end Tammany Hall's 38 years of control over the board, politician Augustus Pierce collapsed and died from shock in the chamber?
Did you know that while the termite Pterotermes occidentis inhabits dead blue palo verde in the Sonoran Desert, Marginitermes hubbardi prefers dead saguaro?
Did you know that Britons are being urged to clap for their carers every Thursday evening during the country's COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that Hans Herbert Jöris conducted the world premiere of Giselher Klebe's one-act opera Das Rendezvous, composed for the 125th anniversary of the Staatsoper Hannover?
Did you know that an original illustration from the manga series Ai to Makoto, believed lost in 1974, was discovered after being listed in an online auction by the Japanese retailer Mandarake (store pictured) in 2018?
Did you know that despite winning the First Battle of Newtonia, the Confederate army retreated from Missouri?
Did you know that in a 2014 case, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that a group of police officers acted reasonably when they fired fifteen shots to end a high-speed car chase?
Did you know that in the song "12.38", Childish Gambino sings about a psilocybin trip while 21 Savage raps about police harassment?
Did you know that investigative journalist Jessica Lussenhop has written articles on corruption in the standardized-testing industry, and the murders and disappearances of Indigenous women?
Did you know that the churchyard of the Church of St Thomas à Becket in Box, Wiltshire, includes a pyramidical tombstone (pictured, right) said to have been contrived to prevent the deceased's wife from dancing on his grave?
Did you know that the granting of a franchise to the Ogden Gas Company was referred to as "the most disgraceful act" in the history of the Chicago City Council?
Did you know that the tree Barteria fistulosa is associated with Tetraponera aethiops, an aggressive species of ant that lives in its hollow branches and twigs?
Did you know that Franz Klarwein, a tenor at the Bavarian State Opera from 1942 to 1977, appeared in world premieres such as those of Capriccio by Richard Strauss and Die Harmonie der Welt by Paul Hindemith?
Did you know that Leal Douglas was once called perhaps the most beautiful vampire on the English screen?
Did you know that Miller's langur, one of the rarest primates in Borneo, was feared to be extinct until a 2012 study rediscovered it in an area where it was previously unknown?
Did you know that Richard Grenfell Thomas and Isabel Bear scientifically described the smell of rain, for which Thomas coined the term "petrichor"?
Did you know that Taunton bus station, built in the 1950s, was described as "a rare survivor" just five years before it was closed?
Did you know that Travis Scott's guest appearance in Jay Electronica's song "The Blinding" has been described as "a cynical attempt to attract younger listeners"?
Did you know that an officer continued to send wigwag flag signals (example flags pictured) with a bedsheet after the flagman retreated during Pickett's Charge in 1863?
Did you know that in the early 20th century Plaza Cervantes, then the financial district of Manila, was likened to a scene out of Othello or The Merchant of Venice?
Did you know that the wet nurse of Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, was named Madame Poitrine, which can be translated as 'Madame Bosom'?
Did you know that Jordan Henderson is the first Liverpool captain to win the FIFA Club World Cup?
Did you know that King Kalākaua's committee to revive the Hale Nauā secret society consisted of nine women, and only one man other than himself?
Did you know that Kosala by Bhalchandra Nemade is regarded as the first existentialist novel in the Marathi language?
Did you know that Martin Scorsese created his first film, What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, as part of a summer program?
Did you know that Ole Børud is featured on a song by a choir project that involved recordings from around the world because of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that Tatiana Calderón increased her neck measurement through strength training by 9 cm (3.5 in) to cope with the g-forces generated by driving a Formula One car?
Did you know that Tetraponera tessmanni, a very aggressive ant, is able to establish dominance over the whole of the liana in which it lives, which may be 50 m (164 ft) long?
Did you know that according to Oliver Heaviside, the law of squares does not mean that an electric current knows where it is going?
Did you know that despite overcrowding at the Nostrand Avenue station in Brooklyn, two of its entrances remained closed for several decades?
Did you know that flying ace Brian van Mentz survived the Battle of Britain, but was killed by a bomb that fell on a pub?
Did you know that most of the known Gigantopithecus fossils are of teeth because the other bones are likely to have been eaten by porcupines?
Did you know that no admiral has ever lived at Admiral's House in Hampstead?
Did you know that the fallacy of using ad hominem arguments was first discussed by Aristotle in his Sophistical Refutations?
Did you know that the hunting lodge that gave its name to Jaktstuguskogen Nature Reserve in Sweden was built to resemble a Viking house?
Did you know that Austrian engineer Ernst Lauda, who worked on preventing the Danube from flooding, was granted his own coat of arms (depicted)?
Did you know that Hurricane, built in Hoboken by Isaac C. Smith in 1851, was reputedly the most extreme clipper ever constructed?
Did you know that Italy helped to renovate a bridge between Israel and Jordan?
Did you know that Riverside Park, designed by Central Park's architects, suffered from outdoor sewerage, squatters' shacks, and coal emissions in the late 19th century?
Did you know that a foul was given at the 2009 World Cup of Pool due to an arm-hair touching the cue ball?
Did you know that an annual church service is said to have been held at the Gospel Oak in Polstead, Suffolk, for more than 1,000 years?
Did you know that five people have received Nobel Prizes for direct and indirect studies of vitamin B12?
Did you know that interest in network synthesis research is now greater than at any time since the 1950s due to its new applications in mechanics, particularly in Formula One?
Did you know that mesophyletid weevils have only been found in Burmese amber?
Did you know that the Norwegian band Vardøger formed, recorded music, disbanded, re-formed to release Whitefrozen, disbanded again, re-formed to release Ghost Notes, and then disbanded yet again?
Did you know that the producers of the 1990 American comedy film Home Alone were threatened with legal action by the French director of 3615 code Père Noël, who alleged that it was a remake of his film?
Did you know that the role of Antonio Crutta, the interpreter for Polish king Stanisław August in the 1787–1792 Russo-Turkish War, was to "melt the suspicions of the Turks without arousing those of the Russians"?
Did you know that while researching for the role of Arthur Morgan for Red Dead Redemption 2, actor Roger Clark was inspired by the stoic but humorous demeanor of Toshiro Mifune's characters?
Did you know that Charity Anderson and her contemporary-dance partner Andres Peñate earned the first perfect score on a routine in the history of World of Dance?
Did you know that PewDiePie's first YouTube video, "Minecraft Multiplayer Fun", has been viewed more than 14 million times?
Did you know that Pyrocephalus, the genus name of the vermilion flycatcher (example pictured), literally means 'fire head'?
Did you know that Yan, a fourth kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period of China, was conquered only one year after its establishment in 237?
Did you know that every sixth person in the world who has diabetes is from India?
Did you know that in some situations, saying "please" may yield worse outcomes?
Did you know that shortly after the Battle of Cape Hermaeum, most of the victorious Roman fleet was destroyed in a storm, with the loss of over 100,000 lives?
Did you know that the book The Pink Swastika has been described as a product of American culture wars?
Did you know that the most straightforward way to ascend Carrauntoohil, Ireland's highest mountain, is via the Devil's Ladder?
Did you know that three nights of riots at Marsh Farm in Luton in 1995 came to an end when the Exodus Collective organised a nearby rave?
Did you know that unlike most U.S. custom houses, which face the waterfront, the Alexander Hamilton Custom House in Manhattan faces inland?
Did you know that Barbara H. Bowman was one of the scientists who discovered the genetic difference responsible for variations in haptoglobin, a human blood protein?
Did you know that Boston and Skegness is estimated to have the highest percentage of "Leave" votes in the 2016 EU referendum of any parliamentary constituency in the UK?
Did you know that due to Pakistani actress Saeeda Imtiaz's role in Redrum, one of the film's producers said, "I am worried if my film will see the light of day"?
Did you know that in the Australian Journal of Herpetology, a first-year student and a high school teacher reassessed the taxonomy of Australia's entire reptile class, naming 33 novel genera and 214 new species?
Did you know that the ships MV Coelleira, MFV Elinor Viking, SS Ben Doran, and SV Illeri were all wrecked on the Ve Skerries in Shetland, Scotland?
Did you know that there was once a 35 km-long (22 mi) glacier in Gusinje Municipality, Montenegro?
Did you know that violinist Hellmut Stern, whose family escaped Nazi Germany to Harbin, China, worked for 23 years to achieve his dream of a Berlin Philharmonic tour of Israel?
Did you know that Christian television station KBFI-TV permanently ceased operations at 2 a.m. on Christmas Eve?