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Did you know that Katharina Magiera, a member of the Frankfurt Opera, has appeared as Lisa, a former SS officer in Auschwitz, in Weinberg's opera The Passenger?
Did you know that in Re Bristol South-East Parliamentary Election, it was held that votes for Tony Benn were effectively "thrown away" because, as a hereditary peer, he was disqualified from sitting in the House of Commons?
Did you know that the Assyrian captivity of the Israelites was one instance of forced resettlement carried out by the Neo-Assyrian Empire?
Did you know that the Morelia and Guadalajara International Film Festivals were used as a reference for the creation of FotoFilm Tijuana?
Did you know that the UK's Trident nuclear missile submarines (HMS Victorious pictured) use a control system which the media have nicknamed "Windows for Submarines", because it is based on Windows XP?
Did you know that workplace robotics safety applies to both traditional industrial robots and emerging technologies such as robotic exoskeletons and drone aircraft?
Did you know that Peniscola Castle, in the Valencian Community of Spain, was used as a papal residence by the Antipope Benedict XIII?
Did you know that Puerto Rican actress Sol Miranda created a one-woman show about her immigrant experience in Peekskill, New York?
Did you know that a bobblehead of Sister Jean, the chaplain for the Loyola Ramblers men's basketball team, sold for more than $300 on eBay?
Did you know that after a future philologist's older brother reportedly shot their missionary mother, their reverend father said he would not let the facts be known?
Did you know that at 12–14 metres (39–46 ft) in length, Oxalaia (artist's impression pictured) is the largest-known theropod dinosaur from Brazil?
Did you know that war in the Horn of Africa may have contributed to the decline of the little brown bustard?
Did you know that Edge of the Knife will be the first feature film in Haida, an endangered language?
Did you know that Félix-Marie Abel, a Dominican priest and archaeologist, identified several battle sites from the Maccabean Revolt?
Did you know that Jubilate and Te Deum from the Morning, Evening and Communion Service in B-flat by Charles Villiers Stanford were first performed in Cambridge on 25 May 1879?
Did you know that Toronto's worst mass shooting was committed by teenagers at a block party?
Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin wrote "Old Music and the Slave Women", set on a fictional planet, after visiting a plantation in South Carolina that had once used slave labor?
Did you know that the Turkish-Cypriot women's footballer Zehra Borazancı has played international football tennis for her country?
Did you know that Teodora Krajewska, one of the first female physicians in Bosnia-Herzegovina, rode a pony to visit her patients in remote mountain villages?
Did you know that the Auburn train station also serves as the venue for a seasonal farmers' market?
Did you know that the English poet and illustrator Edward Lear is said to have built his new house on the same floorplan as his old home to avoid confusing his cat Foss?
Did you know that the Fatimid Caliphate used messages stamped on kahk, a type of cookie, as propaganda?
Did you know that the Ortiz Shift, designed to counter baseball player David Ortiz, was created on an exercise bike?
Did you know that an opera was composed for mezzo-soprano Birgit Remmert – Iokaste by Stefan Heucke – in which the mother and wife of Oedipus is the only role?
Did you know that it is possible – though potentially injurious – to blow up a hot-water bottle with your nose?
Did you know that Japanese voice actress Ayane Sakura practised sword fighting while in acting school?
Did you know that Mount Carmel East sits on land that was originally used as a farm which provided food for another hospital, Mount Carmel West?
Did you know that Panguil Bay (Port of Ozamiz pictured) in the Philippines was once described as a "never ending source of Muslim pirates"?
Did you know that Philip Woodroffe redressed all chirurgic woes?
Did you know that White House social aides are not permitted to be married?
Did you know that after being rejected by 24 publishers, Robert Schneider's first novel, Schlafes Bruder, became an international bestseller and spawned a film, a ballet, an opera, and several plays?
Did you know that the English Premiership Rugby Cup was created after the Welsh regions left the Anglo-Welsh Cup?
Did you know that 23-year-old African-American Amos Miller was lynched in 1888 in Franklin, Tennessee, on the balcony of the Williamson County Courthouse?
Did you know that Ortwin Gamber, an expert on medieval weapons and armour, is a recipient of the Theodor Körner Prize?
Did you know that during apartheid, music producer Rashid Vally owned a record shop that was among the few places in Johannesburg where people of different racial backgrounds could socialize?
Did you know that following his research for Epidemiology in Country Practice, William Pickles observed that "studies in epidemiology sometimes reveal romances"?
Did you know that forest fires are a threat to the fiery minivet?
Did you know that World War II servicewoman Mary Greyeyes (pictured, left) was incorrectly labeled as an "unidentified Indian princess" in a famous Canadian Women's Army Corps publicity photo?
Did you know that the Trout Creek Hill volcanic eruption approximately 340,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene, produced a lava flow that extended 20 km (12 mi), temporarily damming the Columbia River?
Did you know that the emirs of Liptako replaced the kings of Koala?
Did you know that Duck Donuts was named after Duck?
Did you know that Félicette, France's first cat to successfully travel into space, was launched from the Centre interarmées d'essais d'engins spéciaux?
Did you know that Madeleine Moreau is the only French athlete to win an Olympic medal in diving?
Did you know that Maurine Whipple's Mormon epic The Giant Joshua was the most-borrowed book in the Salt Lake City Public Library in 1989?
Did you know that Vivian Bartley Green-Armytage was an advocate of vaginal hysterectomy?
Did you know that before becoming a successful writer, James Francis Dwyer was sentenced to seven years in prison for forgery and uttering?
Did you know that in May 1917, German general Liman von Sanders organized the expulsion of the Greek population of Ayvalık, Turkey, to inner Anatolia?
Did you know that Saudi women are organising an anti male-guardianship campaign?
Did you know that according to legend, the governor who ordered the execution of 17th-century Thai poet Si Prat was later executed with the same sword, fulfilling the poet's curse?
Did you know that after winning the lottery, Jay Sommers used the money to fund a career in NASCAR?
Did you know that the United States Semiquincentennial will be celebrated in 2026?
Did you know that the slender button daisy Leptinella filiformis, thought by botanists to be extinct, was rediscovered in 1998 growing on a hotel lawn?
Did you know that within a year of its inception, members of Operation Vanguard arrested more than 1,000 illegal miners?
Did you know that 1KUNS-PF, the first Kenyan-built satellite, is to be used to monitor the country's coastline, and to help combat illegal logging?
Did you know that Gaspar Alfonso, Duke of Medina Sidonia, was imprisoned in Castillo de Coca for leading the Andalusian independentist conspiracy of 1641?
Did you know that in 1957, violinist Wanda Wiłkomirska and pianist Jadwiga Szamotulska recorded classical music for children, including concertos by Viotti and Accolay?
Did you know that monuments and memorials to the fallen in the Mexican–American War include a US national cemetery in Mexico City?
Did you know that the House of Bishops, the House of Clergy, and the House of Laity each hold veto power over proposed Measures of the General Synod of the Church of England?
Did you know that the bastard sole is a worm-eating bottom dweller?
Did you know that Lee Felsenstein originally developed the VDM-1 graphics card as a low-cost video terminal for the Community Memory bulletin board system?
Did you know that U.S. Justice Department attorney Thomas Puccio was the inspiration for characters in the films Prince of the City and American Hustle?
Did you know that the Quranic chapter Al-Mumtahanah (manuscript pictured) declares that marriages between Muslims and polytheists are invalid according to Islamic law?
Did you know that Milena Mrazović, Bosnia-Herzegovina's first journalist, was branded an "unbearable, quarrelsome, scheming woman" for refusing to do the government's bidding in her newspaper?
Did you know that Paul Gerhardt's song of thanks and praise "Nun danket all und bringet Ehr" was first published along with 17 of his other hymns in 1647, during the Thirty Years' War?
Did you know that Ryan Bollinger played professionally in Germany and Australia before his first promotion to Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Tetragonoporus calyptocephalus, a tapeworm that parasitizes whales, can grow to almost 40 m (130 ft) in length and produce billions of eggs during its lifetime?
Did you know that after being excluded from the National Front by his daughter Marine Le Pen in 2015, Jean-Marie Le Pen created the Comités Jeanne, named after Joan of Arc?
Did you know that at the Reading Railroad Massacre in July 1877, rioters burnt two cabooses, seven freight cars, a watch house, and a bridge?
Did you know that the first name of Lucy Heartfilia, the Fairy Tail manga and anime series' main female protagonist, was inspired by the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"?
Did you know that Charlie Lee created Litecoin in his spare time while working at Google?
Did you know that Kynance Mews has been the home to anonymous crooks, scandalous characters, a hostage taking, and Julie Andrews?
Did you know that Sơn Tùng M-TP's misspelling of the word "tattoo" inspired a hit song?
Did you know that Titus Awotwi Pratt, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, was commissioned as a minister by his father, who at that time headed the church in Ghana?
Did you know that several different versions of the flag of the British South Africa Company (example pictured) were used in Rhodesia under Company rule?
Did you know that Fleurs de Marécage by the Dutch poet J. Slauerhoff, containing French poems and a translation of a poem by the Irish poet W. B. Yeats, was published in Belgium?
Did you know that Microsoft's Brad Smith has filed multiple data privacy lawsuits against the Federal government of the United States?
Did you know that Wolfgang Straßmann hid in the bed of a servant girl in Meno Burg's house in Berlin while his comrades were executed by Prussian troops?
Did you know that about half of knee dislocations (example pictured) spontaneously relocate before the person arrives at hospital?
Did you know that body horror, originally a subgenre of horror films and literature, now appears in video games, comics, anime, and manga?
Did you know that sewage from Canon de los Laureles flows into the United States?
Did you know that the Northwest Cannabis Solutions Satsop facility is operated by the largest grower of legal cannabis in the U.S. state of Washington at the site of a canceled nuclear power plant?
Did you know that Indian actor Ranbir Kapoor played a character based on Arjuna and Michael Corleone in the 2010 political thriller Raajneeti?
Did you know that Tom Hom was the first non-Caucasian elected to the San Diego City Council?
Did you know that according to the book Passing on the Right, conservative professors in the U.S. often have to employ "coping strategies that gays and lesbians have used in the military and other inhospitable work environments"?
Did you know that despite gathering an emperor, six kings, and numerous princes at the Conference of Dresden, Napoleon was largely preoccupied with planning his invasion of Russia?
Did you know that despite having no official role, the British town crier Tony Appleton is internationally famous for his announcements of royal events such as the birth of Prince Louis of Cambridge?
Did you know that in Philippine mythology, anito spirits can harm human beings by "greeting" them?
Did you know that African-American civil rights activist Pauline Short Robinson broke the color barrier at the Denver Public Library?
Did you know that Novell BrainShare moved from the University of Utah to the Salt Palace?
Did you know that Ojos Locos has waitresses called "chicas" and has been described as a "Mexican Hooters"?
Did you know that according to legend, Hinulugang Taktak, a national park and protected landscape in Rizal, Philippines, gets its name from a bell thrown in the waterfall?
Did you know that despite writing extensively about women's rights and being the first Croatian author to feature a feminist character, Jagoda Truhelka remains best known for her children's literature?
Did you know that during Bob Nicholson's tenure as president of Hockey Canada, national teams won 44 gold medals in international ice hockey competition?
Did you know that Benjamin Franklin was one of the first five historical figures to appear on a Panama Canal Zone postage stamp?
Did you know that Dirom Grey Crawford's roll of the Indian Medical Service includes the biographies of 6,156 officers?
Did you know that Japanese voice actress Haruka Tomatsu appeared as herself in the television series Koe Girl!?
Did you know that professional baseball player Ronny Rodríguez is also a rapper?
Did you know that the term sharia is mentioned only once in the Quran, in a verse in its 45th chapter?
Did you know that Sabhyata Dwar, an arch monument, bears inscriptions of Megasthenes, Ashoka, Buddha, and Mahavira?
Did you know that at oral argument in NIFLA v. Becerra, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan questioned whether a California law was "gerrymandered" in order to discriminate against crisis pregnancy centers?
Did you know that at the age of 52, Englishman Wilfred Rhodes is the oldest cricketer ever to play in a Test match?
Did you know that contemporary artist Vladimir Kokolia has his own wiki, called Kokopedia?
Did you know that eccentric dancer Betty Knox, of Wilson, Keppel and Betty, later became a war correspondent and reported on the Nuremberg trials?
Did you know that the French Socialist Party unsuccessfully called on its own candidate to step down in order to stop the National Front from winning the regional council of Grand Est?
Did you know that the engine of the Buick XP-300 concept car could run on either gasoline or methanol?
Did you know that Bulgosuchus gargantua, a giant early temnospondyl from the Triassic, is known only from Long Reef, New South Wales?
Did you know that Captain Hume was present at the Battle of Alma, the Battle of Inkerman, and the Siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War, before serving during the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
Did you know that Orgelbau Mebold built a new organ in the church of St. Martin in Idstein in 2006, which has attracted organists such as Kalevi Kiviniemi and Matthias Eisenberg to perform there?
Did you know that P. K. Sen led the first human heart transplant in India?
Did you know that despite being a Serb, Tatjana Ljujić-Mijatović stayed in Serb-besieged Sarajevo and became the only woman member of the wartime Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina?
Did you know that 10th-century monk Adso of Montier-en-Der wrote a biography of the Antichrist?
Did you know that Iva Despić-Simonović, court sculptor to King Alexander and Queen Maria of Yugoslavia, had to buy a cow to support her family during the Second World War and hid it in her atelier?
Did you know that Rubens' painting Hercules' Dog Discovers Purple Dye (detail pictured) depicts the wrong kind of snail?
Did you know that the 1565 motet "If Ye Love Me" by Thomas Tallis was performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle?
Did you know that Robert Mugabe said that hunger in Zimbabwe might occur because Zimbabweans are "not potato eaters"?
Did you know that US President Jimmy Carter spent the majority of his childhood on a farm in Archery, Georgia?
Did you know that historians generally agree that Gilgamesh was a historical king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk?
Did you know that soprano Christina Gerstberger recorded the role of Lisida in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Liebe und Eifersucht in a performance at the Ludwigsburg Festival?
Did you know that the Rood Building is the only remaining High Victorian Gothic commercial building in Grand Rapids, Michigan?
Did you know that the little-known 1758 Methodist hymn "Sun of Unclouded Righteousness" asks God to send the doctrine of the "Unitarian fiend ... back to hell", referring to both Islam and Unitarianism?
Did you know that Elias Polk, one of U.S. President James K. Polk's slaves, became a conservative political activist after the Civil War?
Did you know that Gilmore, the flying lion, was named after the Gilmore Oil Company?
Did you know that mezzo-soprano Hedwig Fassbender, who also appeared in soprano roles such as Wagner's Isolde, has been an influential voice teacher in Frankfurt?
Did you know that the design of Cincinnati's new soccer stadium features homages to Allianz Arena in Munich?
Did you know that two weeks before its release, retailers had already reportedly bought more than half a million copies of Action Comics #1000?
Did you know that Ryan Watts, whose parents were split on political ideology, does not state his party affiliation in a campaign video for the US House of Representatives?
Did you know that an experiment by Harry Buckwalter led to a landmark decision allowing the first admission of X‑ray evidence into a court of law?
Did you know that the Scottish surgeon John Spencer Login was entrusted with the protection of the Koh-i-Noor diamond?
Did you know that the leech Erpobdella punctata sometimes hitches a ride on a salamander?
Did you know that the shoot 'em up video game Star Goose was originally envisioned as a first-person racing game?
Did you know that the song "Nun, Brüder, sind wir frohgemut" was written by Georg Thurmair in 1935 for processions to Mary in the Altenberger Dom, in subtle opposition to the Nazi regime?
Did you know that Roza Papo, who nearly lost an eye in an air raid in 1942 after refusing to take shelter, later became the first woman general in the Balkans?
Did you know that Vickers Valiant XD818 dropped the first British hydrogen bomb as part of Operation Grapple?
Did you know that WSFN, "Which Stands for Nothing", was created to control robots?
Did you know that a former streetcar powerhouse in New York City is now a library building for Baruch College?
Did you know that Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa's feminist group New Wave Feminists was removed as a partner of the 2017 Women's March after organizers discovered the group was pro-life?
Did you know that The Nun Jerónima de la Fuente, one of Diego Velázquez's earliest portraits, was mistakenly attributed to Luis Tristán?
Did you know that Virginia Fraser, the Long-Term Care Ombudsman for the state of Colorado, created a bingo game that teaches nursing home residents about their rights?
Did you know that the Organ Grinder Restaurant's Wurlitzer pipe organ included such effects as a submarine dive alarm?
Did you know that the tennis ball theorem concerns curves that, like the seam of a tennis ball, cut the surface of a sphere into two equal areas?
Did you know that 9:05 takes only five minutes to finish?
Did you know that Gujarati folk singer Diwaliben Bhil was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India?
Did you know that actress Jan Pearson's favourite storyline as Holby City character Kath Fox was a love affair with a priest?
Did you know that after Cuba seized the freighter Johnny Express, Manuel Noriega helped negotiate the release of the captain?
Did you know that the Washington State Convention Center, which opened 30 years ago today, was built over a section of Interstate 5 in Seattle?
Did you know that the bar-bellied cuckooshrike was initially thought to be a crow?
Did you know that China is the world's largest producer of potatoes?
Did you know that Franz Seraph von Kohlbrenner, a civil servant at the Bavarian court, published a hymnal that contained the mass ordinary in German?
Did you know that Oregon rancher Bill Brown, known as the "Horse King of the West", often wrote checks on newspaper margins and soup can labels—which bankers would cash without question?
Did you know that U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Alma M. Grocki played a key role in the creation of breast insignia for the engineering duty officer role?
Did you know that sea urchins can go bald?
Did you know that the deaths of Alloura Wells and Tess Richey, reported one day apart, renewed fears of a serial killer in Toronto's gay village?
Did you know that Flame Con, the first LGBTQ comic convention in New York City, kicks off its annual event with a dance party and drag performances?
Did you know that Hedgewar Smruti Mandir is a memorial to K. B. Hedgewar, the founder of the Hindutva organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh?
Did you know that the Rio Grande sometimes runs dry and has been labelled an endangered river?
Did you know that the marine biologist Walter Kenrick Fisher illustrated the book The Salinas: Upside Down River written by his wife Anne B. Fisher?
Did you know that Mormon novelist Mette Ivie Harrison attributes part of her success in writing to her autism, which forces her to closely analyze human behavior?
Did you know that bakers of sfenj, a Maghrebi doughnut, are often nicknamed "Hitler"?
Did you know that low-key photography (example pictured) consists of shooting dark-colored scenes while emphasizing light only on specific areas in the frame?
Did you know that the first radio station in Aberdeen, South Dakota, operated from the sixth floor of the Alonzo Ward Hotel?
Did you know that Eunice Lam, called the "prodigal daughter" of Hong Kong, was the sister-in-law of Bruce Lee?
Did you know that Irish author Sally Rooney has been described as "Salinger for the Snapchat generation"?
Did you know that a candidate in a 1981 congressional special election in Mississippi was kicked out of his leadership position with the Ku Klux Klan after going to a house party attended by neo-Nazis?
Did you know that a decade after suggesting that opera houses should all be "blown up", the French composer Pierre Boulez conducted the centenary production of Wagner's Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival?
Did you know that it was claimed that "Day Trip to Bangor (Didn't We Have a Lovely Time)" was originally about a trip to Rhyl?
Did you know that the flightless weevil Lyperobius huttoni may have rafted between the North and South Islands of New Zealand?
Did you know that the indigenous people of northern Australia ate the flowers of the kapok bush?
Did you know that Giulia Bongiorno, a defense lawyer in both the Giulio Andreotti trials and the Amanda Knox trial, is now the Italian Minister of Public Administration?
Did you know that Klinger, a United States Army horse serving with the 3rd Infantry Regiment, has participated in more than 5,000 full-honor military funerals?
Did you know that after a 1995 subway collision, speed limits were lowered across the New York City Subway system, contributing to widespread train delays?
Did you know that the 1876 hymn "Ein Haus voll Glorie schauet" is used for festive occasions such as the millennium of the Bamberg Cathedral, but with drastically changed text?
Did you know that the London firm of Mary Hayley arranged the shipment of tea involved in the Boston Tea Party?
Did you know that the caldera of the volcano Sollipulli is filled with ice?
Did you know that the composer of Rocket League used his old music to create the game's original soundtrack?
Did you know that Leiden Law School is housed in the former laboratory of  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, a physicist and Nobel laureate?
Did you know that Pope Martin I was abducted and tried for high treason because of his opposition to the Type of Constans?
Did you know that a theory that English nursery rhymes such as "Hark, Hark! The Dogs Do Bark" could be understood by translating sound-alike Dutch words back into English was called "ingenious if somewhat addlepated"?
Did you know that after winning a USD$266 million Mega Millions jackpot, Gil Cisneros became a philanthropist?