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Did you know that the web series Avrodh: The Siege Within meticulously details the planning for India's retaliatory military strike following the 2016 Uri terrorist attacks?
Did you know that Arab cryptologist Ibn 'Adlan wrote about the cryptanalysis of ciphers with no space symbol, three centuries before it was first done in the West by G. B. Porta?
Did you know that as a minister of the Polish government-in-exile during World War II, Stanisław Kot composed the first Polish public statement about the Katyn massacre?
Did you know that in a 1949 war plan, the United States targeted 70 Soviet cities with 133 nuclear weapons, of which eight would be dropped on Moscow and seven on Leningrad?
Did you know that the American Surety Building, built at a time when skyscrapers were generally criticized, has been called an "outstandingly fine early skyscraper"?
Did you know that two stanzas from the hymn "O Jesu Christe, wahres Licht", written by Johann Heermann during the Thirty Years' War, were used in Mendelssohn's oratorio Paulus?
Did you know that Drew Perkins served as the majority leader, vice president, and president of the Wyoming Senate?
Did you know that Farrah Fawcett's iconic 1976 red swimsuit poster, regarded as the best-selling poster, is exhibited in the Smithsonian together with the swimsuit?
Did you know that Kirkandrews in Dumfries and Galloway used to host an annual fair, dedicated to St Lawrence, that a 17th-century minister complained was full of drink, debauchery, and "great lewdness"?
Did you know that in July 2020 the Chinese Consulate-General in Houston, the People's Republic of China's first consulate in the United States, was given just 72 hours to close down?
Did you know that the Washington District is entirely in Virginia?
Did you know that the orchid Acampe rigida is pollinated by raindrops?
Did you know that 21-year-old university student and pro-democracy activist Jordan Pang defeated an incumbent pro-Beijing politician in the 2019 Hong Kong local elections?
Did you know that India's first metro, the Kolkata Metro, was first proposed in 1919 but became operational only in 1984?
Did you know that Portrait of Jacob de Gheyn III by Rembrandt has been stolen four times from the same place?
Did you know that a hostile review of Uncle Tom's Cabin likened the book to a witch from Horace's Epodes?
Did you know that as a medical missionary, pediatrician Ruth Robertson Berrey helped reduce Nigeria's incidence of leprosy?
Did you know that fossils identified as Pentacentron sternhartae may actually be the fruits of another fossil species?
Did you know that some of the men of Ruffner's Missouri Battery were executed by Union forces after being captured at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry?
Did you know that the Corbin Building was one of several "smaller infill buildings" in New York City that "experiment[ed] with new forms and unusual compositions" during the late 19th century?
Did you know that the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, which starts today, was created to allow English domestic women's cricket to be played in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that under India's new education policy, students will be allowed to combine fashion studies with physics, or baking courses with chemistry?
Did you know that with Flight Pattern, Crystal Pite became the first woman to choreograph for the Royal Ballet's main stage in 18 years?
Did you know that American naturalist William Harvey Brown, who went to Africa to collect specimens, ended up fighting in two wars there?
Did you know that explorer Matsuura Takeshirō wanted his one-mat room to be cremated along with him?
Did you know that in 2018, Guyanese politician Charrandas Persaud voted against his own government coalition in a no-confidence motion, causing the coalition to fall by one vote?
Did you know that the lyrics of BTS's song "DNA" compare love to a mathematical formula and divine providence?
Did you know that the rosy spindle cowry, a species of sea snail, lives exclusively on gorgonians?
Did you know that to guide the direction of Star Control 3, Legend Entertainment compiled a "bible" based on the series, and consulted its original creators Fred Ford and Paul Reiche?
Did you know that two Northumbrian kings, Ælla and Osberht, were killed by Vikings in 867 at the Battle of York?
Did you know that when New York City's St. Paul Building was demolished, part of the facade was preserved in Indianapolis?
Did you know that Five Movements, Three Repeats features a modern dancer and three ballet dancers?
Did you know that Laguna Pueblo educator Susie Rayos Marmon was the inspiration for a character in her grandniece Leslie Marmon Silko's book Storyteller?
Did you know that Nasser Khalili assembled the Khalili Collection of Swedish Textiles (item pictured) because he felt that art historians undervalued works by anonymous creators?
Did you know that Otto Hahn was the sole recipient of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded for the discovery of nuclear fission?
Did you know that Rhythm Is It! is a 2004 documentary film about 250 public school students trained by Royston Maldoom to dance Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps with the Berlin Philharmonic?
Did you know that a mysterious island appeared in France after a 2009 cyclone?
Did you know that during the 1972 concert Four for McGovern, Barbra Streisand pretended, as she had before in Las Vegas shows, to smoke a joint?
Did you know that in 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel, chess pieces can move between different versions of the board in time, hence creating "parallel timelines"?
Did you know that the Park Row Building was described as "detestable" and "a monster"?
Did you know that the failed Manistee Town Center shopping mall in Glendale, Arizona, appeared in the 2002 film Eight Legged Freaks, with one of its anchor stores serving as a sound stage?
Did you know that the world premiere of the Second Violin Sonata by Paul Hindemith was performed in Frankfurt in 1920 by violinist Max Strub and pianist Eduard Zuckmayer?
Did you know that Carl Linde, a Swedish football Hall of Fame inductee, also participated in the founding of the International Table Tennis Federation?
Did you know that Catholic priest Herbert Leuninger, a co-founder and speaker of Pro Asyl, is remembered as a "loudspeaker" for the interests of refugees?
Did you know that Royal B. Lord collected money for the 1931 Army–Navy Game at Yankee Stadium in Evangeline Booth's tambourine?
Did you know that almost a century after African-American brothers Irving and Herman Arthur were burnt alive at a fairground in Paris, Texas, their names were listed on a lynching memorial?
Did you know that before the Sunday Service Choir's "Revelations 19:1" rendition was released, Kanye West sampled it on his song "Selah"?
Did you know that in 1921, before the partition of Ireland, Fermanagh County Council did not recognise the government of Northern Ireland and pledged allegiance to the Dáil Éireann?
Did you know that the Alexandra Girls' English Institution in Mumbai was named after Alexandra of Denmark, as its founder believed that she would be an "ideal" for the girls to look up to?
Did you know that the first superadobe earth dome (replacement pictured) at the Pomona College Organic Farm was built by students without authorization and was demolished by the college administration?
Did you know that the tower of St. Michael, a church begun in the 12th century, dominated Fürth's skyline for centuries?
Did you know that transmission of COVID-19 is known to occur through respiratory droplets, contaminated surfaces, kissing, and aerosol-generating medical procedures?
Did you know that Argentinian LGBT-rights activist Carlos Jáuregui had a station named after him on the Buenos Aires Underground?
Did you know that D'Alton Corry Coleman was the first Canadian Pacific Railway president who was not listed in Burke's Peerage, and was described by Maclean's as "the Great Commoner"?
Did you know that Theodor Scheidl, who participated in the pentathlon at the 1906 Olympic Games and in the 1928 Bayreuth Festival, appeared as Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca to celebrate his 75th birthday?
Did you know that a medal depicting Minerva, sometimes identified as the East India Company's Monghyr Mutiny Medal, may in fact be a Freemasons' award?
Did you know that after the army he served in mutinied, Mathos became the leader of a 90,000-strong force in a war against ancient Carthage?
Did you know that although nowadays neccio is considered a dessert, peasants used to eat it with salty food?
Did you know that in 1911, George V killed 21 tigers, 8 rhinos, and 1 bear in Nepal?
Did you know that in 1977, three ex-members of the Byrds formed a rock supergroup partly modeled after Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young?
Did you know that in Eurovision Song Contest history, over 1,500 songs, representing 52 countries, have been performed?
Did you know that some medicines, such as vancomycin, may require higher doses in critically ill patients, due to augmented renal (kidney) clearance?
Did you know that the adoption of early contractor involvement was a recommendation of the 1994 Latham Report into systemic failings in the British construction industry?
Did you know that Mark Williams won the most successive frames at the 2003 World Snooker Championship, despite losing the first two?
Did you know that Pomona College's "missing president", Franklin La Du Ferguson, is the only past president not honored by the college with a portrait?
Did you know that Stella Immanuel claims that space alien DNA is used in medical treatments, that reptilians run the United States government, and that she uses hydroxychloroquine to cure COVID-19?
Did you know that Vera Little from Memphis, Tennessee, was for four decades a member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she appeared as Bizet's Carmen and in the world premiere of Henze's Der junge Lord?
Did you know that eight judges recused themselves from proceedings following the fatal shooting of Greg Gunn?
Did you know that having routed their Scottish opponents at the Battle of Dunbar 370 years ago today, the cavalry of the English New Model Army sang the 117th Psalm?
Did you know that in the 1942 film Johnny Doughboy, former child stars Bobby Breen, "Alfalfa", and "Spanky" play themselves as members of a club of Hollywood "has-beens"?
Did you know that it sometimes took Mary Cassatt and a printer eight hours to make eight or ten coloured prints using à la poupée inking (example pictured)?
Did you know that the verse "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" was left out of the slave bible due to fears that it could incite rebellion?
Did you know that when the sea cucumber Holothuria hilla reproduces by fission, the regenerated part is often paler in colour than the original one?
Did you know that Alice Sheldon authored two stories in the feminist science fiction collection Aurora: Beyond Equality, as the editors were unaware that her two pseudonyms represented the same person?
Did you know that Kanye West asked the collaborators on his album Jesus Is King not to engage in premarital sex?
Did you know that Kurt Szafranski, who was responsible for the success of the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung in Germany, emigrated to the United States in 1935 where he co-founded the Black Star photo agency?
Did you know that Rembrandt's later prints make great use of surface tone, by leaving a thin film of ink on parts of the printing plate?
Did you know that Ugandan commander Godwin Sule was reportedly run over by one of his own tanks, contributing to the Ugandan defeat during the Battle of Lukaya?
Did you know that a 1618 work by scholar Juan Márquez claims that Saint Francis of Assisi (depicted) was probably an Augustinian hermit?
Did you know that a 1967 promotion by Virginia radio station WHIH, anticipated to receive 15,000 entries, instead received nearly 180 million?
Did you know that a U.S. Republican candidate criticized rappers Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's song "WAP", stating that it made him want to "pour holy water" in his ears?
Did you know that death squad commander Otto Ohlendorf claimed that the extermination of 90,000 Jewish men, women, and children was a justified act of self-defense?
Did you know that despite an extensive history of Islam in the Arctic, the first mosque in the Canadian Arctic was only built in 2010?
Did you know that in 1975, Dick Bond introduced legislation to ban the sale of intoxicating beverages on university, college, and community campuses in Washington?
Did you know that in both his 2010 film roles, Kjartan Hewitt's characters notably attend a Broken Social Scene concert?
Did you know that the Indiana Hoosiers' victory in the 1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game completed the last undefeated season in NCAA Division I men's college basketball?
Did you know that "fap" as an onomatopoeia for masturbation originates from the manga series Heartbroken Angels?
Did you know that Coventry City's promotion following the 2018 EFL League Two play-off Final was their first for 51 years, since they were guided into the 1967–68 Football League First Division by Jimmy Hill?
Did you know that Hamilton McWhorter III (Congressional Gold Medal pictured) was the first F6F Hellcat pilot to achieve double-ace status?
Did you know that Juan Mateos and Alonso Martínez de Espinar, both writers on hunting in Spanish Baroque literature, are depicted in Prince Baltasar Carlos in the Riding School by Diego Velázquez, whose half-length portrait of Mateos was similarly identified from an engraving by Pedro Perete, son of Pieter Perret?
Did you know that Mübeccel Argun, a Turkish-language presenter for the BBC World Service in London for 25 years, was formerly a physical-education teacher and one of the first female athletes in her country?
Did you know that Stuart Threipland's 18th-century medical chest is preserved in the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh?
Did you know that World War II war correspondent James R. Shepley has been called the "father" of HBO?
Did you know that in Switched on Pop, a musicology professor uses the Britney Spears song "Oops!... I Did It Again" to explain counterpoint?
Did you know that the 1986 Soviet song "Khochu Peremen" is frequently sung by opponents of Alexander Lukashenko during the ongoing 2020 Belarusian protests?
Did you know that the Nazis blamed the Jews for starting World War II?
Did you know that the poem "Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust" was first set to music by Schubert, and became a popular German Volkslied with the melody by Carl Friedrich Zöllner?
Did you know that Aminé delayed the release of the music video for the song "Riri" from his album Limbo in order to participate in the George Floyd protests?
Did you know that Joaquín Bilbao first studied drawing, watercolour, and law before launching a career as a sculptor with works such as the equestrian statue of Ferdinand III of Castile located in Plaza Nueva, Seville?
Did you know that Patriarch Joseph el-Ruzzi promulgated the use of the Gregorian calendar in the Maronite Church, the first Eastern Christian church to do so, in 1606?
Did you know that Providence College president Brian Shanley invited Rhode Island Public Radio to broadcast over the college's station, WDOM, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy?
Did you know that imam Mahmoud Dicko, one of the most influential political figures in Mali today, announced that he was leaving politics despite never having run for office?
Did you know that in the 1815 Secret Treaty of Vienna, Britain and Austria sided with their former enemy France against former allies Prussia and Russia?
Did you know that married actors Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman (both pictured) fronted for the Malibu Mafia?
Did you know that prior to his singing career, Thanasit Jaturaput was an international exchange student in Boise, Idaho, through the AFS Intercultural Programs?
Did you know that the 1998 books Jews and the American Slave Trade and Jews, Slaves and the Slave Trade rebut the earlier work The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews, calling it a "handbook of hate" and "nine parts fable"?
Did you know that "a rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings"?
Did you know that Edward B. Foley described the blue shift, a phenomenon in US elections showing that provisional ballots are more likely to be for Democrats and can change projected results after election day?
Did you know that Jewish homes in the Diaspora often feature a mizrah wall hanging (example pictured) to indicate the direction of prayer towards Jerusalem?
Did you know that Kanon Shizaki, the second voice actress for BanG Dream!'s Rinko Shirokane, was quickly embraced by fans and her Roselia bandmates, as her shyness mirrors her character's personality?
Did you know that Sir Robert Fletcher rose to command the East India Company's Madras Army, despite being cashiered for his involvement in the 1766 Monghyr Mutiny?
Did you know that a portion of the 2017 ballet The Times Are Racing is inspired by the video game Dance Dance Revolution?
Did you know that cellist, composer, and conductor Rudolf Hindemith was the brother of the famous Paul Hindemith, with whom he played in the Amar Quartet, but later used pseudonyms to hide the relation?
Did you know that elastomeric respirators are used not only to protect against COVID-19 and tear gas, but also as fashion items (example pictured)?
Did you know that sculptor Alfred Gilbert fled England twice—once for love, once for money?
Did you know that the founder of Reynolds Brothers retired as chairman on his 100th birthday?
Did you know that to raise desperately needed money, the first president of Pomona College, Cyrus G. Baldwin, built the first hydroelectric power station with high-voltage transmission in California in 1892?
Did you know that 4chan owner Hiroyuki Nishimura claims that 2channel, once "Japan's most popular online community", was stolen from him?
Did you know that Alfredo Di Stéfano scored 6 international goals for Argentina and 23 for Spain?
Did you know that Florence "Johnny" Frisbie's 1948 autobiographical children's novel, Miss Ulysses of Puka-Puka, was the first published literary work by a Pacific Islander woman author?
Did you know that Matthias Hölle, a regular bass singer at the Bayreuth Festival, appeared in the world premieres of Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht and Samstag aus Licht at La Scala in Milan?
Did you know that New York City's Liberty Tower, now a residential building, was once occupied by Franklin D. Roosevelt's law office and by German spies plotting to intervene in World War I?
Did you know that professional Super Smash Bros. player Axe is known for a "lightning-quick" style of play with Pikachu, which enables him to predict his opponent's attacks and swiftly retaliate?
Did you know that the 2000 anime film Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! draws inspiration from WarGames, Speed, and Dr. Strangelove?
Did you know that the Maypole in the Strand ended up being Isaac Newton's telescope stand?
Did you know that the first item of the Havering hoard, the largest Bronze Age hoard found in London, was discovered by a 23-year-old archaeologist only four weeks into a temporary contract?
Did you know that the hashtag #KHive, used by an online support community for Kamala Harris which defends her from racist and sexist attacks, is a play on a hashtag used by fans of Beyoncé?
Did you know that the teaser trailer for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War features fragments of an interview with real-life KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov?
Did you know that American industrialist Roy James Carver's company supplied self-priming pumps to the United States and Allied Forces navies during World War II?
Did you know that American logistics in the Northern France campaign was impacted by a critical shortage of jerrycans, more than 2 million of which had been discarded or abandoned in Normandy?
Did you know that Autobahnkirche Siegerland, a 2013 road church on the A 45 that looks like a piece of folded paper, is always open?
Did you know that Gary Moore bought Peter Green's Gibson Les Paul for around £100?
Did you know that Go Nagai toned down the character of Akira Fudo, a human-like demon, in the manga Devilman in order to convey an anti-war message?
Did you know that Hanna Ludwig appeared in the title role of Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna State Opera, and in five roles at the first Bayreuth Festival after World War II?
Did you know that Shirley MacLaine served as an usher at her brother Warren Beatty's political concert Together for McGovern, and he returned the favor at her political variety show Star-Spangled Women for McGovern?
Did you know that a brass rod with a length of 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) was inserted into the ground as a permanent art installation in Kassel, Germany?
Did you know that a print of Badnam Basti, often described as India's first gay film, was discovered in 2019 after having been lost for 40 years?
Did you know that elements of the video game Fall Guys were inspired by the game shows Takeshi's Castle and Total Wipeout?
Did you know that footpaths in Knutsford, England, built intentionally narrow by Jane Stanley to prevent 18th-century couples walking arm-in-arm, were only replaced in 2014?
Did you know that six years before releasing Total Freedom, Kathleen Edwards quit creating music and opened a coffee shop called Quitters?
Did you know that the A479 is one of Wales's most dangerous roads?
Did you know that the hazards of artificial intelligence include algorithmic bias, blaming humans for machine errors, and human–robot collisions?
Did you know that LaNada War Jack, a leader of the Third World Strike at UC Berkeley and the Occupation of Alcatraz during her student days, is today a distinguished professor of Native law and governance?
Did you know that a painting of Ekaterina, officer Adam Laxman's vessel on his 1792 expedition to Japan, may be found at Nemuro City Museum of History and Nature in Hokkaido?
Did you know that among the U.S. women's high school basketball class of 2016, ESPNW ranked Crystal Dangerfield as the best point guard?
Did you know that contralto Simone Schröder performed as a soloist at the Bayreuth Festival while she was still studying, and went on to sing there in three different productions of Parsifal?
Did you know that finishers of the Sheffield Star Walk were rewarded with a hot mug of Oxo?
Did you know that of the four set-piece land battles during the 23 years of the First Punic War, Hasdrubal took part in three as a general?
Did you know that stuntwoman Betty Danko earned $35 for riding the Wicked Witch's smoke-spewing broomstick in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, and was hospitalized for eleven days after it exploded on her?
Did you know that supplied-air respirators, unlike N95 masks, can be used in atmospheres that are oxygen-deficient or immediately dangerous to life or health?
Did you know that the 500 brass rods that make up Walter De Maria's The Broken Kilometer are polished every two years?
Did you know that the sea slug Felimida krohni can sequester toxins from the sponges on which it feeds?
Did you know that Durbin Feeling was named a Cherokee National Treasure for his contributions to the preservation of the endangered Cherokee language?
Did you know that Helen Reddy said that her single "No Sad Song" sold poorly "because it put down men too much"?
Did you know that Johanna André, who appeared in dramatic soprano roles such as Wagner's Isolde, took part in the 1882 world premiere of Parsifal?
Did you know that Thomas Edward Wilkinson was made Bishop of Zululand after his predecessor in South Africa, John Colenso, was excommunicated?
Did you know that a Christian writer claimed to have seen Yusuf II of Granada putting on a poisoned tunic, which caused the Sultan's death within thirty days?
Did you know that after the Battle of Leptis Parva, the losers were spared—except for their commander, who was tortured to death?
Did you know that during the 2018 Women's Cricket Super League, Tash Farrant took a hat-trick, but her team still lost the match?
Did you know that the August 2020 Midwest derecho destroyed millions of acres of Iowa corn and soybean crops in just 14 hours?