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Did you know that Cathy Whims has opened several restaurants in Portland, Oregon, including the Nostrana, which has been described as "Portland's capital of the Negroni"?
Did you know that Michalis Rakintzis said that he "came close to throwing down [his] microphone and walking off the stage" during his performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2002?
Did you know that Tim Allen debuted in the 1988 film Tropical Snow?
Did you know that at Capa House, photographer Robert Capa captured The Picture of the Last Man to Die, of American soldier Raymond J. Bowman?
Did you know that grantees of ranchos of Los Angeles County submitted hand-drawn maps known as diseños (example pictured) when making their land claims to the U.S. government?
Did you know that in her first year with San Diego State, basketball player Tina Hutchinson set NCAA freshman scoring records and led the Aztecs to their first NCAA tournament?
Did you know that German president Joachim Gauck, a former Lutheran pastor, visited St. Francis Cathedral in Xi'an, China, 300 years after construction began?
Did you know that Xiphophorus milleri only rarely eats its young?
Did you know that a 3.5-kilometre (2.2 mi) section of the N54 road in the Republic of Ireland cannot be reached without first travelling through Northern Ireland?
Did you know that an FBI investigation contributed to the cancellation of the Kentucky Derby Festival Basketball Classic, which had been the longest-running U.S. high school all-star basketball game?
Did you know that in 1976, William F. Matthews became the first bookbinder to receive the Insignia Award of the City and Guilds of London Institute?
Did you know that the Sluishuis has a publicly accessible jetty where boats can moor?
Did you know that Christopher W. Shaw has called for the return of banking at the United States Postal Service?
Did you know that English-speaking elephants can be okay on Neptune in fiction, but a solid surface is not?
Did you know that Théodore Géricault's paintings of Haitian-born model Joseph (example pictured) are unusual in portraying him as "an actual, distinct person"?
Did you know that Wanda Szuman, a pioneer of special education in Poland, was also active in underground education?
Did you know that one reviewer said that her favorite part of Cassette Beasts was that it is not "forced to cater to younger children", unlike Pokémon?
Did you know that the incorruptibility of Wihtburh's body was considered a miracle?
Did you know that Lucy Salani is considered the only known Italian transgender person to survive the Nazi concentration camps?
Did you know that during the early-access period of Hogwarts Legacy, the game set a new record on Twitch with the largest number of concurrent viewers for a single-player game in history?
Did you know that parishioners collected the stones used to build St. Mary's Church from the iron mines where they worked?
Did you know that the USC Trojans team that won the 2022 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship had been compared to the Marvel Comics' Avengers?
Did you know that two Americans, Jeff Yass and Arthur Dantchik, are large funders of the Kohelet Policy Forum, an  intellectual driving force of the controversial 2023 Israeli judicial reform package?
Did you know that Celine-Marie Pascale's work focuses on how race and class impact the way "business practices and government policies create, normalize and entrench economic struggles" to benefit the wealthy?
Did you know that marrying Plautia Urgulanilla may have helped Claudius get first-hand information for Tyrrhenika, his work about the Etruscans?
Did you know that transgender activist Ky Schevers transitioned to male, detransitioned to female, then retransitioned as transmasculine and genderqueer?
Did you know that vanadium was named after the Norse goddess Freyja?
Did you know that Chadd Cumberbatch, a Montserratian poet and playwright, wrote a play called 1768 to tell the story of the island's St Patrick's Day slave rebellion?
Did you know that Kyren Wilson won the first four frames in all of his snooker matches at the 2023 Tour Championship?
Did you know that Winchester United Church, a place of worship in the City of Winchester District, Hampshire, was built into the walls of the former county jail?
Did you know that according to scholarship published in 2023, Maria de Knuijt, rather than her husband, was actually the main patron of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (work pictured)?
Did you know that in winning the 2021 College Football Playoff National Championship, Alabama head coach Nick Saban broke the record for the most Division I college football national championships as a coach?
Did you know that American aviator John Moisant crashed his plane twice before participating in the 1910 International Aviation Meet at Belmont Park?
Did you know that Angel Aquino received two nominations for Best Supporting Actress at the 2014 Gawad Urian Awards?
Did you know that Ruth Northway is the United Kingdom's first professor of learning disability nursing?
Did you know that Whistling Dick was "of rather modest proportions"?
Did you know that the Church of St. Jacob, which had been used for centuries by Prussian Lithuanians in Klaipėda, was demolished by soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces using tanks in 1959?
Did you know that Bob Dylan played the song "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" 748 times in concert performances between 1976 and 2010?
Did you know that Tim Watson-Munro was the psychologist responsible for treating mass murderer Julian Knight?
Did you know that a Connecticut TV station was dedicated to the state's first female governor, Ella Grasso, whose son was a minority owner?
Did you know that language creator Edgar de Wahl escaped deportation by the NKVD by being placed in a psychiatric hospital?
Did you know that no law establishes whether a sitting U.S. president can be prosecuted?
Did you know that the Los Angeles Sparks have the most wins and highest winning percentage in WNBA history?
Did you know that when the dance permit for El Monte Legion Stadium was revoked, Johnny Otis accused the local city council of racism and, with the ACLU and NAACP, successfully reversed their decision?
Did you know that John Sebastian composed the song "Rain on the Roof" after he spent a night listening to the rain with his wife?
Did you know that Satrio Sastrodiredjo and Moerachman, both former mayors of Surabaya, Indonesia, were held as political prisoners in the same prison after the 30 September Movement in 1965?
Did you know that a photograph inspired by one of Leonardo da Vinci's paintings shows 14 Israeli soldiers and was described as a "homoerotic challenge to Israeli machismo"?
Did you know that in 1994, Anthony Pople created two computer programs to analyse classical music?
Did you know that the 2019 South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball recruiting class is known as the Freshies after the name of the group chat they created before their freshman year?
Did you know that Montserratian playwright Edgar Nkosi White only wrote his first play after he was dared by actor Martin Sheen?
Did you know that YouTuber Joey Santore is known for his "Bill Swerski–esque" Chicago accent and use of profanity on his channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't?
Did you know that makwerekwere is the South African equivalent of "barbarians", an offensive and derogatory slur used to refer to foreigners?
Did you know that the first intercontinental weapon was not a missile, but a Japanese balloon (example pictured)?
Did you know that Jesse Marcel claimed that he recovered extraterrestrial debris from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico?
Did you know that the coffin of Elizabeth Siddal was exhumed at her widower's request to retrieve a book of poetry?
Did you know that the microscopic organism Cafileria is the only living being that connects its nucleus to its mitochondria?
Did you know that Aristotle's system of logic formed the foundation of logical thought in the Western world for more than 2,000 years until the advent of modern symbolic logic?
Did you know that Blood on the Floor uses scaffolding as an instrument?
Did you know that Dafne Navarro was the first trampoline gymnast to represent Mexico at the Olympics?
Did you know that Dubuque, Arkansas, was destroyed in the American Civil War and is now covered by the waters of Bull Shoals Lake?
Did you know that Japanese singer Noa became interested in music after watching the 2006 film High School Musical?
Did you know that in 1967, the world's first ATM was installed at a branch of Barclays Bank in north London?
Did you know that the Pimlico tube station is the deepest station below sea level on the Victoria line?
Did you know that the art of Irma Blank, of "drawing languages without words" and including sounds, was recognised in the 1970s but fell into obscurity until a rediscovery in the 2010s?
Did you know that Polish-Jewish Post-Impressionist painter and Dadaist Marcel Słodki was arrested by the Germans in France and died in Auschwitz concentration camp?
Did you know that Rembrandt drew heavily on two copperplate engravings of earlier works by other artists for the composition of Tobit and Anna with the Kid?
Did you know that Valley Public Television once raffled off a 1961 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud, according to the wishes of the man who bequeathed it to the station?
Did you know that Vanessa Feltz's ex-fiancé Ben Ofoedu sang on hits by Benz, Phats & Small, and Intenso Project?
Did you know that Asia Abdelmajid, a pioneering Sudanese actress, was killed in crossfire during the 2023 Sudan conflict?
Did you know that actress Katharine Hepburn threatened to remove her name from a garden in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza when New York City officials said they would not widen the plaza?
Did you know that confectioner William Westerfeld hired architect Henry Geilfuss to design his home in San Francisco, and then died in it?
Did you know that despite Missourians voting for Henry Clay, Missouri representative John Scott voted for John Quincy Adams?
Did you know that several composers wrote coloratura arias specifically for the voice of Italian opera singer Maria Giustina Turcotti?
Did you know that the ancient Romans kept leopards in captivity to be used in the executions of criminals?
Did you know that Crying Ladies and Donsol, films starring Angel Aquino, were Philippine submissions for Best International Feature Film at the 77th and 80th Academy Awards, respectively?
Did you know that the Game Boy–released game Monster Max was considered by critics to be the closest in quality to The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening?
Did you know that the Otoskwin–Attawapiskat River Provincial Park, protecting the Otoskwin and Attawapiskat Rivers in Ontario, Canada, has archaeological and historical sites dating from 3000 BC to the 1800s?
Did you know that to learn the rules of American football, Australian Adam Korsak, who was named the best college punter in 2022, played Madden NFL 06 and watched Any Given Sunday?
Did you know that while Philippine Spanish has been described as an endangered language, a new generation of speakers has emerged?
Did you know that Anggara Wicitra Sastroamidjojo, a regional councillor in Jakarta, Indonesia, received media attention for bringing his seven-month-old child into the legislative chamber?
Did you know that Dierk Raabe received €2.5 million from the European Research Council to work on Green Steel?
Did you know that the word 'tissue' in textiles refers to types of fabric that are delicate, lightweight, and sheer in nature?
Did you know that "London shrunk" garments can go for several weeks without needing ironing?
Did you know that French Army infantrymen wore red trousers (example pictured) from 1829 until 1914?
Did you know that Jordan St. Cyr, a Christian songwriter from a small town in Manitoba, won the first Juno Award for which he was nominated?
Did you know that Katharina von Schnurbein is the European Commission's first coordinator on combatting antisemitism, having served in the role since 2015?
Did you know that Zayn al-Din Qaraja was imprisoned and executed by the Mamluk Sultanate after he declared the independence of the Beylik of Dulkadir?
Did you know that a giant sculpture of melting whipped cream with a cherry on top transmitted a live feed of passers-by in Trafalgar Square, London?
Did you know that Edward D. Boone was the last surviving member of his 1851 graduating class from the  College of the Holy Cross?
Did you know that before becoming a legislator, Bettina Petzold-Mähr played volleyball for Liechtenstein when they defeated Lichtenstein?
Did you know that one NFL scout compared watching Marvin Harrison Jr. to "window shopping at a Lamborghini dealership for the model that doesn't come out until next year"?
Did you know that one abolitionist said that William L. Breckinridge's anti-slavery views would "disqualify [him] from political usefulness"?
Did you know that the Easter composition Surrexit a mortuis ('He rose from the dead') was scored for choir and two organs by Charles-Marie Widor, the organist at Saint-Sulpice in Paris?
Did you know that the Locumba uprising was thought by many to be a cover for the escape of Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's de facto leader from 1990 to 2000?
Did you know that the Standseilbahn Linth-Limmern, the funicular railway with the highest transport payload capacity (215 tonnes), was built to move four transformers 882 m (2,894 ft) uphill?
Did you know that Russian artist Igor Grabar dug a trench in snow to paint February Azure?
Did you know that Samuel Dexter Lecompte, the pro-slavery chief justice of Kansas Territory before the Civil War, administered oaths to the Fugitive Slave Act instead of the United States Constitution?
Did you know that crew members had to sign non-disclosure agreements to stop them revealing that the Inside No. 9 episode "Hold on Tight!" was fake?
Did you know that records of transgender people in Finland stretch back to the 19th century?
Did you know that scientists initially could not determine which direction Weywot was orbiting?
Did you know that Roy McGrath, who was the chief of staff to Maryland governor Larry Hogan, was wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was killed during a shootout by agents?
Did you know that of approximately 140 men stranded after a shipwreck on Wager Island in 1741, only 36 returned alive to Britain, according to Rear Admiral C. H. Layman?
Did you know that the 2003 book  The Reconstruction of Nations describes how "national reconciliation is possible after even the most terrible conflicts", including ethnic cleansing?
Did you know that the bird subspecies Alcippe dubia genestieri is named after Annet Genestier, a French missionary-botanist in China who also built Zhongding Catholic Church in 1908?
Did you know that the carbatinae (examples pictured), shoes worn in ancient Greece and Rome, were single pieces of leather tied onto the foot?
Did you know that the historical-romance novel My Tender Matador includes a fictionalized version of the attempted assassination of Augusto Pinochet?
Did you know that Vietnam War photojournalist Art Greenspon was wounded in the face by a shot that had first passed through colleague Co Rentmeester's hand?
Did you know that actress Eula Morgan performed opera in her 1940s film roles, such as Madame Rinaldi in The Great American Broadcast?
Did you know that the four sons of Horus were believed to have protected deceased people in the afterlife by creating a specialized connection with the deceased's internal organs?
Did you know that the ownership group of San Diego's MLS team includes a Native American tribe and baseball player Manny Machado?
Did you know that Thinzar Shunlei Yi hid in the Burmese jungle for a month and joined a rebel militia following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état?
Did you know that at the 1978 World Snooker Championship,  Fred Davis reached the semi-finals at the age of 64?
Did you know that in the 1930s Alfred Verdross, an Austrian international lawyer and future judge of the European Court of Human Rights, sympathised with National Socialism?
Did you know that the 1892 Milwaukee Cold Storage Co. Building  has very few windows, and walls which are two feet (0.6 m) thick?
Did you know that the Venetian admiral Angelo Emo invented floating artillery batteries on rafts during his campaign against the Beylik of Tunis?
Did you know that Keith Carradine met his future wife, actress and model Hayley DuMond, on the set of the 1999 film The Hunter's Moon?
Did you know that Linda Yaccarino, Twitter's new chief executive officer, created an advertising campaign for COVID-19 vaccines that featured Pope Francis?
Did you know that during the Polish–Soviet War, Lithuanian-Belorussian Soviet Republic People's Commissar for Justice Yitzhak Weinstein-Branovsky organized revolutionary militias in villages near Utena?
Did you know that in a segment filmed for The Late Report, comedian John Safran got frisked by police after going to a McDonald's restaurant dressed up as Ronald McDonald?
Did you know that only 45 per cent of babies born in 1851 in Victorian-era Liverpool, England, lived to be 20 years old?
Did you know that the Passive Seismic Experiment Package recorded one of the first instances of humans littering on another planetary body?
Did you know that walk-on basketball player Josh Bartelstein was the captain of the national runner-up 2012–13 Michigan Wolverines?
Did you know that Gator Rivers dribbled a basketball around chairs and under tables in a closet when trying out for the Harlem Globetrotters?
Did you know that Jacques-Louis David's Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki from 1781 has been described as one of his masterpieces?
Did you know that Lonzo Anderson "grew up rather like a rabbit" while unsupervised outdoors, anticipating his work on Two Hundred Rabbits?
Did you know that Pete Johnson was the first Republican to hold statewide office in Mississippi since the Reconstruction era?
Did you know that as a teenager in a B'nai B'rith camp in Canada, Holocaust survivor and future Canadian ambassador Fred Bild learned English from his camp counselor, future actor William Shatner?
Did you know that the Kölner Domchor from Cologne Cathedral sang Palmeri's Misa a Buenos Aires at a 2013 festival in Rome dedicated to Pope Francis, with the composer at the piano?
Did you know that the experimental film 13 Lakes, which consists of 13 ten-minute-long static shots of different lakes in the United States, was deemed to be significant by the Library of Congress?
Did you know that though Mohamed Oufkir was appointed as Minister of Defence as a result of the 1971 Moroccan coup d'état attempt, he would later organize his own coup?
Did you know that Lord Snowdon and Princess Margaret spent much time at his family's Welsh country mansion Plas Dinas, but after his father's death the estate went to Snowdon's younger half-brother?
Did you know that Michael Block, a club professional who charges $150 per hour for golfing lessons, scored a hole in one on his way to finishing joint 15th at the 2023 PGA Championship?
Did you know that one critic called Patrician IV a "very dry affair"?
Did you know that the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels' first female fighter jet demonstration pilot, Amanda Lee, uses the call sign "Stalin"?
Did you know that the editorial staff of online news startup The Messenger includes former editors-in-chief of Gizmodo, Entertainment Weekly, People, and Self?
Did you know that İbrahim Çolak's 2019 gold medal in still rings was Turkey's first at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
Did you know that Leonie ter Braak made her film debut in The Marriage Escape, the film of Dutch origin with the most cinema ticket sales in 2020?
Did you know that after the renovators of the Dorilton could not afford to restore its cornices, they painted optical illusions instead?
Did you know that decoy geese spent more than 15 years trying to attract real geese to the Powell Marsh Wildlife Area?
Did you know that the theme from Curb Your Enthusiasm, a former ringtone of Steven Spielberg, has been used as the backing to a Snoop Dogg song?
Did you know that Caroline Breese Hall and her father, who were both pediatricians, wrote a book together?
Did you know that M. Jeff Thompson described the Confederate ship named after himself as being "the largest and best, but slowest boat of the fleet"?
Did you know that around 1,500 anti-Jewish laws were enacted by Nazi Germany in the years leading up to the Holocaust (victims pictured)?
Did you know that in Strauss's Elektra, Aile Asszonyi was said to be convincing as a woman close to madness?
Did you know that patriarchal gender roles become more sharply defined for England in the High Middle Ages, with some of that to do with the new feudal system?
Did you know that Australiformis semoni is a parasite that infests marsupials in Australia and New Guinea and whose infestation could cause debilitating ulcerative granulomatous gastritis?
Did you know that spectators climbed up to Fortitude, Justice, and Liberty on College Street, Dublin, to get a view of Queen Victoria?
Did you know that the F-16XL aircraft was built as a possible successor to the F-111 Aardvark, but after being rejected it served as part of NASA's High Speed Civil Transport project instead?
Did you know that A&E Networks filed a lawsuit against the producers of On Patrol: Live, alleging that it was a "blatant rip-off" of their show Live PD?
Did you know that Chris Kreider scored his first five NHL goals before ever playing a regular season game?
Did you know that Der Bialistoker Shtern's unique spelling policy combined standard Soviet Yiddish orthography with the traditional final forms of Hebrew letters?
Did you know that Geoff Bent, one of Manchester United's Busby Babes, saved a child from drowning in a canal?
Did you know that Zakir Husain was the first Muslim and the first governor of a state to be elected President of India?
Did you know that the Republican Palace Museum in Khartoum was originally a cathedral?
Did you know that George Griffith's 1901 novel A Honeymoon in Space contains what may be the first space suits in fiction?
Did you know that Oscar James Campbell Jr., an American scholar of Shakespeare, complained in 1926 that PhD students of English had to read "masses of stupid and essentially insignificant material"?
Did you know that a university student sought counseling from his pastor after attending a guest lecture on sexuality by lesbian and former novice Joanne Marrow?
Did you know that the prime minister of Serbia signed the 1918 Geneva Declaration after intervention from the President of France?
Did you know that to prevent bishops from opposing the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer, reformers had the entire papalist party arrested during a debate?
Did you know that Karen Hanghøj, the 2023 winner of the William Smith Medal for applied geology, became the first female director of the British Geological Survey, 183 years after it was founded?
Did you know that NBA players commonly struggle with sleep deprivation (player pictured)?
Did you know that in 1987, Michael Denneny started Stonewall Inn Editions at St. Martin's Press, the first LGBT trade paperback imprint at a major publishing house?
Did you know that while filming the Doctor Who serial The Myth Makers, William Hartnell was jealous of being upstaged by the other actors?
Did you know that Mavis Paterson, an octogenarian grandmother, has cycled more than 10,000 miles (16,000 km) for charity?
Did you know that although the Wilbraham was built as an apartment building for bachelors, more women than men lived there by 1929?
Did you know that football player Dee Winters, who helped bring TCU to a national championship appearance and was selected in the 2023 NFL Draft, grew up in a small town with only one gas station?
Did you know that hiding power can be measured?
Did you know that in A [For 100 Cars], an orchestra of cars play the note A for 28 minutes?
Did you know that red teams are used to test airport security?
Did you know that the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre, which is 70 years old this year, once had an earthquake processing system called "WurstMachine"?