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Did you know that construction workers at UC Berkeley paused their work in solidarity with the 2022 University of California academic workers' strike?
Did you know that Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day has a memorial tripod?
Did you know that aerospace engineer Sabrina Thompson founded a streetwear brand after she felt the "artist inside of me was internally starving", despite being satisfied with her career?
Did you know that musician John Mayer dismissed Taylor Swift's "Dear John" as "cheap songwriting"?
Did you know that scholars disagree about whether the closure of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations in 1953 had anything to do with McCarthyism?
Did you know that Frances Campbell-Preston, who served as lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother for nearly 40 years, was reportedly not hesitant to ask her difficult questions when others were reluctant?
Did you know that María Elva Pinckert, motivated by the murder of her brother, started her political career in local politics in 1999?
Did you know that New York City would not allow a forest in the Edgar J. Kaufmann Conference Center?
Did you know that Tom Harkin ended his 1992 presidential campaign just one month after he won a landslide victory in the Iowa caucuses, where he received over three-quarters of the total vote?
Did you know that in the 1980s, floor stands were offered to computer users to turn their horizontal desktops into towers?
Did you know that while hemmed in at Ekowe during the Anglo-Zulu War, W. R. C. Wynne attempted to respond to heliograph signals by means of a signalling screen and a balloon?
Did you know that Wilhelm Werner fled to Brazil to avoid prosecution for the 1917 murders of the crew of the SS Torrington but returned to Germany and became an SS officer on Heinrich Himmler's staff?
Did you know that in Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, Benjamin Britten assigned the tenor of Peter Pears to Abraham and the alto of Kathleen Ferrier to Isaac, with both singing in homophony as the voice of God?
Did you know that strawberry pie (example pictured) is one of the "red foods" traditionally served at Juneteenth celebrations?
Did you know that Billie Eilish had to take a break from writing a song alluding to her childhood trauma and sexual abuse?
Did you know that Smin Awa Naing's regiment mortally wounded Crown Prince Minye Kyawswa of Ava, effectively ending Ava's most serious invasion of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom?
Did you know that a football injury saved Robert Palmer from being besieged at Kut, but he died serving with the relief expedition?
Did you know that the bridge in the song "Leave the Door Open" almost split the band Silk Sonic apart?
Did you know that Azio Corghi composed his second and third operas with author José Saramago – the second for La Scala in Milan, and the third for a 1993 premiere at the Theater Münster?
Did you know that Charles Baudelaire wrote "The Pagan School" in opposition to the veneration of Pan in 19th-century France?
Did you know that Edward Thonen, one of the miners killed in the Eureka Rebellion, had gained notoriety in England as a jewellery thief prior to his emigration to Australia?
Did you know that although Blizzard's franchise Overwatch is centered around video games, its lore is mainly told through animated shorts, comics, and novels?
Did you know that during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War a British soldier committed suicide by throwing himself off the 300-foot-high (90 m) cliffs at Fort Pearson (depicted)?
Did you know that the "Poetic Essay of the Great Bliss of the Sexual Union of Heaven and Earth and Yin and Yang" argues that heterosexual sex is the "ultimate human pleasure", but affirms homosexuality as well?
Did you know that the Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges, which may have inspired the "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", is featured in a James Bond film?
Did you know that Richard Draper, printer of the The Massachusetts Gazette, used this newspaper as a Loyalist voice as the American Revolution drew near?
Did you know that Saleh Djasit was the first member of the Indonesian People's Representative Council to be arrested by the Corruption Eradication Commission?
Did you know that according to The Atlantic, "the first widely acknowledged performance" of the song "We Shall Overcome" occurred during the 1945–1946 Charleston Cigar Factory strike?
Did you know that at the Ryukyu Arc, the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting under the Eurasian Plate at 5 to 7 cm (2.0 to 2.8 in) per year?
Did you know that betrothed couple Moe and Joan were paid $50 for helping a painter with his Marriage License?
Did you know that the Dutch campaign OneLove (logo pictured) inspired football captains to wear rainbow armbands at the 2020 and 2022 European Championships?
Did you know that the Russian violinist Evgeny Sviridov, who has been concertmaster of the Baroque ensemble Concerto Köln since 2015, has made an award-winning recording of sonatas by Giuseppe Tartini?
Did you know that Panasonic's Senior Partner and Executive Partner portable computers weighed between 28 and 31 lb and featured built-in printers?
Did you know that a Hawaii radio station couldn't buy a KISS?
Did you know that fourteenth-century Buddhist monk Tuệ Tĩnh is referred to as a founding father of traditional Vietnamese medicine?
Did you know that the 2022 Ticketmaster controversy over Taylor Swift's the Eras Tour has triggered investigations by several U.S. state attorneys general and the federal Department of Justice?
Did you know that the New Yorker Hotel once had the largest private power plant in the United States?
Did you know that Delaware politician Armwell Long was said to have once outranked his close friend, George Washington? (See discussions regarding this hook at Talk:Armwell Long.)
Did you know that at the conclusion of the AFL Women's season seven Grand Final, winning captain Daisy Pearce placed her premiership medal on a young girl?
Did you know that the Maria Advocata is one of the oldest icons of Mary, mother of Jesus, and that according to legend it was painted by Luke the Evangelist?
Did you know that "Weird Al" Yankovic wrote the song "Bob" entirely in palindromes, and sang it in the style of Bob Dylan?
Did you know that Rick Rehm attributed his surprise victory in an Alabama election to grassroots campaigning, while his opponent attributed it to straight-ticket voting?
Did you know that in the Book of Mormon, the city of Ammonihah kills Christians by fire as a deliberately twisted reference to a warning that spiritual death is like a "lake of fire and brimstone"?
Did you know that prior to kickoff, the Bahamas Bowl announced that the winner of a regular season game between Miami and Ball State would earn a bid to the 2022 edition of the game?
Did you know that the axial parallelism (diagram pictured) of the Earth's tilted axis is the reason we have winter, spring, summer and fall?
Did you know that the name of Boudica may have been an honorific title?
Did you know that Kim de l'Horizon, winner of the 2022 German Book Prize, shaved their head during the award ceremony in solidarity with those protesting in Iran?
Did you know that despite their song "Freaks" going platinum after becoming popular on TikTok, members of Surf Curse said they neither understood nor used the app?
Did you know that pigeon racer "Biff" Bangs previously played for two different teams in Rose Bowl football games?
Did you know that the Bohemian harp spread to Western Europe after a fire hit the town of Přísečnice?
Did you know that American legal scholar John Hart Ely penned a law review article castigating the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, despite being pro-choice?
Did you know that I. M. Pei said that his sons' architecture firm "came of age" while designing the Bank of China head office in Beijing?
Did you know that Sonia Levitin was inspired to write Boom Town after reading about a California girl who baked $11,000 worth of pies during the Gold Rush?
Did you know that despite losing almost one thousand men capturing Malacca in 1641, the Dutch East India Company did not invest much time or energy into it afterward?
Did you know that the Bern Disputation of 1528 led to the Swiss canton becoming the second Protestant canton in the Swiss Confederacy?
Did you know that the crannogs of Milton Loch, although similar in design, span a time period of around 1,000 years?
Did you know that John J. Ray III, the chairman of Enron during its bankruptcy, said he had never before seen "such a complete failure of corporate controls" upon becoming CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX?
Did you know that Marc-Antoine Charpentier composed the midnight mass Messe de minuit pour Noël based on the melodies of ten French Christmas carols?
Did you know that Shahid Afridi broke the record for the quickest century in ODI cricket during his first international innings?
Did you know that a scene in "Axe and Grind", an episode of Better Call Saul, was supposed to be filmed with a crane but was changed because the cameraman declined to execute it?
Did you know that before being named jach'a mallku cantonal, Samuel Plata worked as an auto mechanic in El Alto?
Did you know that Mendelssohn's 1831 Christmas cantata Vom Himmel hoch, influenced by Bach's chorale cantatas, was based on a 1539 carol composed by Martin Luther?
Did you know that Navidades by Luis Miguel was the first Spanish-language album to enter the  Billboard Top Holiday Albums since 1966?
Did you know that Santa Claus really did on one occasion deliver coal?
Did you know that Starbucks raised money for HIV/AIDS research using their red holiday cups?
Did you know that the horses in Signorelli's Adoration of the Magi have been said to be "badly-drawn ... with curious mannerisms of too closely-placed nostrils, and human eyebrows"?
Did you know that Amtrak called the Vermont Rail System the worst host railroad in the country in 2010 due to delays on the Ethan Allen Express?
Did you know that Glacialisaurus, meaning 'icy lizard', got its name from its discovery site in the Beardmore Glacier?
Did you know that Talia Or, who sang as the Voice of a Falcon at La Scala, was born in Israel and is based in Germany?
Did you know that after winning a discrimination lawsuit against the Honolulu Police Department, Lucile Abreu became its first female detective?
Did you know that one of the Wolfe-class ships of the line was destroyed by a storm before she had even been launched?
Did you know that the Brooklyn Nine-Nine storyline about Rosa Diaz's bisexuality was heavily influenced by the bisexuality of her portrayer?
Did you know that while the Apion family held extensive power over Byzantine Egypt, they largely remained in Constantinople as absentee landlords?
Did you know that Benjamin F. Gue, who co-founded Iowa State University, allowed women to become students there despite much opposition?
Did you know that Prince Bernhard's titi monkey is known locally as zog-zog?
Did you know that the Franklin Street Terminal (tracks pictured) was constructed by gutting two floors of two buildings and running elevated tracks into the resulting void?
Did you know that Junior Colson, the leading tackler on the 2022 Michigan Wolverines football team, lived in a Haitian orphanage prior to his adoption at age nine?
Did you know that Richard Gerald Jordan has been sentenced to death four times?
Did you know that certain Coccinellidae species (example pictured) lay extra infertile trophic eggs along with their fertile eggs so that their larvae can have a backup food source?
Did you know that some people who are not Spanish citizens have the right to vote in elections for local public officials in the municipalities of Cantabria?
Did you know that the film Farha, which depicts the killing of a Palestinian family by Israeli soldiers during the Nakba, became the subject of a downvoting campaign?
Did you know that the runway show for the Alexander McQueen collection The Widows of Culloden ended with an illusion of Kate Moss that brought the audience to a rowdy standing ovation?
Did you know that Ben Bell was elected at the age of 23 as New Zealand's youngest-ever mayor during the 2022 local elections?
Did you know that Ganggang, an Indianapolis-based cultural development firm for Black artists, created a fine art fair called "Butter" that also included a dance party called "Melt"?
Did you know that real calf brains were used during the production of the 1988 comedy horror film Brain Damage?
Did you know that the French law of 29 December 1915 established the right for French soldiers to be buried in individual graves (examples pictured)?
Did you know that "Citizen Erased" was Muse's first song to include a seven-string guitar?
Did you know that Vivian Smith was the first black student to earn a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Northern Iowa?
Did you know that a bear ate 75 pounds (34 kg) of cocaine in 1985, and was nicknamed Pablo Eskobear?
Did you know that the release of the Compaq Deskpro 386 marked the first time a company other than IBM revised a major component of their PC standard?
Did you know that Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump, played football for Liverpool?
Did you know that the Apple II game Pentapus was developed by Jeremy Sagan, son of astronomer Carl Sagan?
Did you know that the British Museum's 2012 exhibition Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam included textiles from the Kaaba (example pictured) that were described as bringing "a visceral artistic buzz to the display"?
Did you know that Burton Raffel called Arthur Cooper's translation of a poem by Du Fu "exceedingly lame"?
Did you know that Union Pacific 4014 has been the only Big Boy locomotive operating in the United States since 2019?
Did you know that all three of playwright Oliver Hailey's Broadway productions closed after one regular performance?
Did you know that at the height of the war between Iraq and the Islamic State, diplomats of the Philippine embassy in Baghdad agreed to die together rather than be taken hostage?
Did you know that in Mother and Child, composed in 2002 by John Tavener for the vocal ensemble Tenebrae, organ and temple gong enter for the climax?
Did you know that Abdul Hamid al-Zahrawi, a former member of the General Assembly of the Ottoman Empire, was executed in 1916 for his support for Arab nationalism?
Did you know that Paul Dini was a writer for both the animated television series Batman: The Animated Series and the video game series Batman: Arkham?
Did you know that Perry County is the least densely populated county in Tennessee?
Did you know that Romeo and Juliet both served in the Union Navy?
Did you know that one threatened species of plant endemic to the North Island of New Zealand is colloquially known as a forget-me-not?
Did you know that the parliamentary sign-language interpreter could not make out what South African MP Joan Fubbs tried to say in her tribute to President Cyril Ramaphosa?
Did you know that C. J. Phipps, the leading theatre architect of the age, was found responsible for the deadliest-ever UK theatre disaster?
Did you know that Michelle Lyons has personally witnessed nearly 300 executions?
Did you know that Wilhelmine Key studied wasps as a child, and as an adult she kept them as pets?
Did you know that Aaron Stark's life may have been saved by a friend inviting him in for a blueberry-peach pie?
Did you know that Fuccbois' crew won awards, while Fuccboi's prose received both praise and criticism?
Did you know that Gene Cipriano played the saxophone part for Tony Curtis's character in the film Some Like It Hot?
Did you know that Imam Munandar once proposed releasing prisoners to kill them?
Did you know that Rhea Seehorn wanted the sprinkler in the cold open to the Better Call Saul episode "Hit and Run"  to sound like a machine gun?
Did you know that Sao Sanda, the last princess of Yawnghwe, is one of only two living princesses to have attended the 1947 Panglong Conference?
Did you know that after being made of reinforced concrete to conform with orders from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Monument to the Founders of Kyiv (depicted) partially collapsed?
Did you know that after leaving his job promoting Qatar ahead of the 2022 World Cup, Marc Bennett alleged he was tortured before being found hanged in his hotel room?
Did you know that the Allman Brothers Band's well-known 1971 interpretation of "Done Somebody Wrong" had four songwriters listed in the credits, but not Eddie Kirkland, who wrote the original song?
Did you know that the medieval baptismal font of Löderup Church in Sweden contains a depiction of a ship with a dragon's head at the stem, similar to a Viking ship?
Did you know that when Westminster City Council in London agreed to use "global majority" as a more inclusive term than BAME or "ethnic minority", a Conservative MP called it "deeply sinister"?
Did you know that Atlanta's "quicker picker-upper" aired martial arts movies, professional wrestling, jazz music, and Japanese-language programming?
Did you know that Cincinnati hired Louisville's head football coach to replace their own outgoing head coach just days after the two teams were announced as opponents for the 2022 Fenway Bowl?
Did you know that Claude C. Robinson was supposed to pick the star-of-the-game, but he left early when struck in the head by a hockey puck?
Did you know that George Balanchine said that a solo in his ballet Episodes should evoke the image of a fly in a glass of milk?
Did you know that George Jameson was the highest-scoring New Zealand night fighter pilot of World War II?
Did you know that L. J. Potts translated the Poetics as Aristotle on the Art of Fiction, a title accused of "[narrowing] dangerously the wide gap between Aristotle and ourselves", but later called "creative genius"?
Did you know that Manny's Deli in Chicago received national recognition for its popularity among politicians, including Barack Obama?
Did you know that after Domen Križaj from Slovenia was a prize winner in the singing competition Neue Stimmen, he moved to the Oper Frankfurt where he appeared as Massenet's Albert and Mozart's Papageno?
Did you know that artist Isaac Sailmaker (painting shown) was referred to in contemporary journals and books as "the father of British sea painting"?
Did you know that despite published scholarship to the contrary, Andrew Planta neither received a doctorate nor taught mathematics at Erlangen?
Did you know that when serving as Governor of Riau, Soeripto helped found the province's first daily newspaper?
Did you know that while at high school, Johann Georg Seidenbusch declared to Our Lady: "ad carissimam Sponsam te eligo" (I choose thee as my dearest Bride)?
Did you know that American Elmer Carlson brought a roller-skating mule to the 1964 Democratic National Convention?
Did you know that Austin Reed's 497 passing yards in the 2022 New Orleans Bowl set a New Orleans Bowl record?
Did you know that Concentricities, a 2019 clarinet–cello–piano trio by Graham Waterhouse, musically depicts a theme of circular, spiraling, or oscillating concentric phenomena in nature and human structures?
Did you know that Debbie Friedman and Drorah Setel's Mi Shebeirach for healing, written by the couple amidst the AIDS crisis, has become "the emotional highlight of synagogue services" for many Jews?
Did you know that Quasar Data Products' ruggedized QDP-300 microcomputer alerts the user if it is potentially overheating by sounding an alarm?
Did you know that although the First World War ended with the armistice of 11 November 1918, twenty-one generals are recognised as having died for France after this date, some as late as 1923?
Did you know that the malahai (example pictured) served as a protective helmet, even though it is a fur hat?
Did you know that the opening of the first bud of a horse chestnut tree in Geneva, as recorded by the secretary of the Parliament, announces the beginning of spring?
Did you know that the show The Thing About Pam is based on Pam Hupp's involvement in the murder of Betsy Faria?
Did you know that Akshata Murty, the wife of British prime minister Rishi Sunak, reportedly has more personal wealth than King Charles III?
Did you know that Chinese physician Gao Ruona's son, son-in-law, and student all served as editors at the Song government's Bureau for Editing Medical Texts?
Did you know that Ephraim E. Lisitzky wrote an epic poem in Hebrew based on Native American legends?
Did you know that Michael S. Farbman's reporting of the Russian Civil War in winter 1917–18 was described by The Observer as "one of the outstanding successes of the time in special correspondence"?
Did you know that Ye Olde White Harte, reputed to be "one of Hull's most haunted pubs", has a skull of unknown provenance in the bar?
Did you know that after a CCTV system was installed at the 59th Street–Columbus Circle station, crime went up?
Did you know that despite being in force for more than 100 years, no known prosecutions were made under the Seamen's and Soldiers' False Characters Act 1906?
Did you know that the Paul Delvaux Museum exhibits not only Paul Delvaux's paintings, but also a collection of model trains?
Did you know that the first public usage of the term "ongoing Nakba" is widely credited to Hanan Ashrawi, who referenced it in a speech at the 2001 World Conference against Racism?
Did you know that when launched in 1896, the freighter Sir William Siemens and her sister ships were the longest vessels on the Great Lakes?
Did you know that Kamibox's video game A Joke That's Worth $0.99 is permanently on special offer because Itch.io does not allow $0.99 as a regular price?
Did you know that Lady Gaga said she was in a dark state of mind when writing the song "Free Woman" but got over it after completing the song?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor wrote her song "Bad for Me" with strangers?
Did you know that National Football League player Grant Hermanns won his state high-school wrestling championship just months after a near-fatal staph infection?
Did you know that Sigismund Mohr lit the first electric street lamps in Quebec City to a crowd of 20,000 spectators?
Did you know that according to Viktor Kožený's lawyer, Fox Hill Prison in the Bahamas is known for "breaking even the toughest of men"?
Did you know that one of the districts in the city of Astrakhan is named after Bolshevik leader Aleksandr Trusov?
Did you know that the Mercedes-Benz CLK LM won every single event it entered in the 1998 FIA GT Championship?
Did you know that the neutron has a magnetic moment even though it lacks an electric charge?
Did you know that two railroad boxcars were needed to ship William W. Jefferis's vast mineral collection to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History?
Did you know that Kyiv's Central Post Office was built after military forces deliberately destroyed its predecessor less than a year after it was completed?
Did you know that Robert Spencer Finkbine spent 13 years as the superintendent of construction of the Iowa State Capitol?
Did you know that diplomat Lê Thị Tuyết Mai studied at three different universities in three different countries?
Did you know that the 1961 Indonesian census was the country's first since 1930 and the first since gaining independence from the Netherlands?
Did you know that the Douglas branch's Roosevelt station went from having more than 700,000 riders in 1910 to only 50,000 in 1950?
Did you know that the feedback sounds in the Yardbirds' "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" were later "swiped" by Jimi Hendrix?
Did you know that the first day of filming of the psychological thriller Farah coincided with the beginning of the 2019 Lebanese protests?
Did you know that the government of Victoria, Australia, has a program to remove 110 level crossings by 2030, the fastest rate in the state's history?
Did you know that the name Zenock is misspelled in almost every published edition of the Book of Mormon?
Did you know that the developers of Among Us VR said that the game could have been too spooky?
Did you know that Adib Pishavari likened Britain to an old fox?
Did you know that Bethune: The Making of a Hero, once Canada's most expensive film, had a documentary about its troubled production shown at the 1988 Toronto International Film Festival instead of itself?