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Did you know that Tony Blair felt later that the sobriquet "people's princess" sounded "corny" and "over the top", but "at the time it felt natural"?
Did you know that a Turkish court banned a Hrant Dink Foundation conference about the social, cultural and economic history of Kayseri?
Did you know that ancient Spartans ate black soup?
Did you know that in April 2020, the Somali health minister, Fawziya Abikar Nur, announced the death of Somalia's second COVID-19 victim, a state justice minister?
Did you know that photography video games often play like non-violent shooter games, with the player equipped with a camera instead of a gun?
Did you know that 219 East 49th Street contains windows with 12-by-12-inch (300 by 300 mm) glass bricks, larger than any others manufactured at the time?
Did you know that Amasa Eaton wrote the first law review article to be cited in a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States?
Did you know that Canada's Bill C-10 has faced criticism for potentially classifying social media services as broadcasters?
Did you know that Clarence Lushbaugh claimed that God gave him permission to take Cecil Kelley's organs?
Did you know that Sinikka Luja-Penttilä published a novel in the same year that she retired from the Finnish parliament?
Did you know that Yonenaga's Atlantic spiny rat produces a secretion from its anal gland that has been described as smelling like tutti frutti?
Did you know that a potential buyer of the Rockefeller Guest House, trying to bid on the house while in a tunnel, found that the house was already sold when he emerged?
Did you know that author Chris Colfer described A Tale of Magic... as a "manifesto of compassion"?
Did you know that during World War II, 150,000 carillon bells were stored in "bell cemeteries" (German: Glockenfriedhöfe) before being melted down to make shell casings and armaments?
Did you know that on 18 October 2020, all previous United Nations arms resolutions on Iran expired based on Security Council Resolution 2231?
Did you know that while performing their song "Sing" on Top of the Pops, Scottish band Travis engaged in a pie fight?
Did you know that Bruce Baillie's short film All My Life was shot in one continuous take?
Did you know that Charles Strum, the obituaries editor of The New York Times, seldom employed the terms "first" or "last" in an obituary to avoid issues with contradictory stories?
Did you know that Gao Jiamin is commonly known as the "Queen of Taiji"?
Did you know that Luke Bond, the organist for a royal wedding and a royal funeral at Windsor Castle, played Poulenc's Organ Concerto in Cape Town?
Did you know that Margaret Thatcher's usage of the royal we was interpreted as an example of her "pseudo-royal grandiosity"?
Did you know that Meeri Kalavainen, Finland's first minister of culture, helped end a schism in the women's branch of the Social Democratic Party?
Did you know that Republic of Ireland youth-team international footballer Jaden Charles is the son of former England international Gary Charles?
Did you know that camping is prohibited at Reynolds Wayside Campground?
Did you know that modern art in Sudan was suppressed from the 1980s until its revival in the Sudanese Revolution?
Did you know that the World War II tank landing ship USS LST-1081 was brought back into service with the US Navy because of the Korean War?
Did you know that Jean-Honoré Fragonard's Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid, presented to Louis XV at the Palace of Versailles in 1753, was painted when the artist was 21 years old?
Did you know that Philipp Harnoncourt initiated the restoration of a Gothic chapel with a triangle floorplan, originally dedicated to the Trinity and reopened on Trinity Sunday 2020?
Did you know that Pop Smoke's debut album Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon was released nearly five months after his death?
Did you know that Winterset City Park has a six-ton granite boulder that commemorates the discovery of the Red Delicious apple in Madison County, Iowa, in 1872?
Did you know that a proposal was made to build a shoe factory on Waterloo Park?
Did you know that pitcher Hal Stowe won a baseball game without throwing a pitch?
Did you know that social worker Mary Treglia died before the Mary J. Treglia Urban Renewal Project razed the neighborhood of immigrants in Sioux City, Iowa, whom she had helped?
Did you know that the 2017 film Suburbicon was inspired by Daisy Myers's family,  who faced racially charged harassment and violence in all-white Levittown, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that the DK Atlas of World History includes maps on the spread of agriculture and the movement of indentured servants?
Did you know that the editor of the Pixar film Soul directed its prequel short film 22 vs. Earth?
Did you know that water polo player Jack Ferguson performed in a circus throughout Britain  as a child?
Did you know that American legislator Uriah F. Abshier rescued his son from an 1894 Christmas Eve fire in Silver Lake, Oregon, that killed 43 people, including his wife?
Did you know that Jim Johnson scored the first goal in Philadelphia Flyers history during an exhibition game?
Did you know that Joe Ligon is America's longest serving juvenile lifer?
Did you know that John Ruskin wrote that "all cut glass is barbarous, for the cutting conceals its ductility and confuses it with crystal"?
Did you know that Leon Hale, who would have turned 100 today, was rejected from the US Navy and the Marine Corps during World War II partly due to the odd placement of his eye?
Did you know that Stephen Chow initially declined to become Bishop of Hong Kong, but relented after receiving a handwritten letter from Pope Francis?
Did you know that the international numbered-node cycle network (example sign pictured) gives more freedom to cycle arbitrary routes across Europe?
Did you know that the mushroom Macrocybe gigantea has been found growing on elephant dung in Kerala?
Did you know that the music of Jade Bird was called a "young Londoner's spin on modern Americana" by Rolling Stone?
Did you know that the original video about the slang term "cheugy" didn't go "TikTok viral", but two months later, a New York Times article about the video did?
Did you know that the video game Football Glory features its developers in the Croatia national football team?
Did you know that there are more than thirty Eagles around the world?
Did you know that Harry Harper refused to play baseball on Sundays?
Did you know that J. L. Granatstein's 1998 book Who Killed Canadian History? has been described as the pinnacle of Canada's "history wars"?
Did you know that Kid Canfield is the first known person to die live on radio?
Did you know that Masayoshi Soken composed the music for Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker while battling cancer?
Did you know that critics compared John Lennon's first book, In His Own Write, to the writings of James Joyce, even though Lennon had never read him?
Did you know that more than 80 percent of Greek Jews were killed during the Holocaust in Greece?
Did you know that some Polish military cooperatives, formed to provide supplies to service personnel at low prices, issued their own coins?
Did you know that the "pits" in trachoma are named for Herbert Herbert?
Did you know that the Bishop of Bath and Wells said that "there is not a more dangerous woman in the West" than Mary Speke?
Did you know that the Museum of French Art once exhibited Napoleon's penis?
Did you know that American politician Alexander Warner held elected political offices in three different states?
Did you know that Cuddles Marshall, the "handsomest twirler" on the New York Yankees, turned down a movie contract from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer?
Did you know that Kenneth Robinson, the second of three Robinsons to present Points of View between Robert Robinson and Anne Robinson, was fired from that programme for the frivolous way he described bananas?
Did you know that Meredith Clark is "the go-to person about Black Twitter", according to NPR?
Did you know that SC East Bengal became the first club in Indian football to activate the force majeure clause in their 2020–21 season?
Did you know that after Haier bought the Greenwich Savings Bank Building, it turned the large banking hall into a showroom for refrigerators and air conditioners?
Did you know that although ballerina Cynthia Harvey spent most of her career with the American Ballet Theatre, she was also the first American principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London?
Did you know that around a fifth of all Filipinos served by the Philippine consulate in Barcelona protested its closure on Facebook?
Did you know that in Egyptian mythology, the god Horus offered his own eye (symbol pictured) to be eaten by his father Osiris?
Did you know that the village of Pstrąże is known as the "Polish Chernobyl" due to its reputation as a ghost town and a former storage site for nuclear weapons?
Did you know that Canadian cyclist Bernie Willock, who missed out on competing at the Olympics due to the 1980 Summer Olympics boycott, later owned furniture stores?
Did you know that Herman Schiller and Marshall Meyer cofounded the Movimiento Judío por los Derechos Humanos, a Jewish human-rights organization in Argentina that denounced the National Reorganization Process?
Did you know that Mirror, a Hong Kong Cantopop music group which does not want to go for a "K-pop feel", performed Korean pop songs at a concert?
Did you know that ballerina Margaret Tracey performed for Bill and Hillary Clinton when Maria Tallchief received a Kennedy Center Honor?
Did you know that in Hall v. Decuir, the Supreme Court of the United States "all but endorsed segregation"?
Did you know that the 18th-century Great Pagoda in London is considered the most important surviving example of Chinoiserie: Chinese-inspired design in Europe?
Did you know that the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western once stockpiled 15,000 train cars of coal at Gravel Place, Pennsylvania, to be able to operate through a miners' strike?
Did you know that the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art includes an exceptionally large 17th-century astrolabe commissioned by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan?
Did you know that the UT Arlington Mavericks men's wheelchair basketball team was coached by Jim Hayes from 1976 to 2008?
Did you know that 110 taxa are classed as being extinct on the Japanese Red List, including the Hokkaido wolf?
Did you know that Acer spitzi is one of seven fossil maples first found in the Klondike Mountain Formation?
Did you know that Kartini Hermanus, the first female general in the Indonesian Army, outranked her husband after being promoted in 2000?
Did you know that Sindee Simon studied ancient amber to show that glass does not flow?
Did you know that a former DJ at radio station WKOP in Binghamton, New York, was convicted of arson for setting fire to the studios?
Did you know that landslides caused by Tropical Storm Talas delayed a realignment project on Japan National Route 424?
Did you know that the Star Wars Rebels episode "Twin Suns" took inspiration from the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai?
Did you know that the bones of Dante were to be taken to Mussolini's intended last stand against the Allies at the Valtellina Redoubt?
Did you know that the ships of the 1773 Phipps expedition towards the North Pole got stuck in ice north of Svalbard?
Did you know that when the sheriff in Helena, Arkansas, was asked to arrest Owen Flemming, an African-American man accused of killing a white overseer on June 8, 1927, he allegedly said "I'm busy. Just go ahead and lynch him"?
Did you know that British sailor Eilidh McIntyre, who has qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, is the daughter of a former Olympic gold medallist?
Did you know that Frederick Manfred ate insects and mice as research for his 1954 novel about mountain man Hugh Glass, titled Lord Grizzly?
Did you know that Gretchen Campbell's research on Bose–Einstein condensates may provide insight into the expansion of the early universe?
Did you know that Izkia Siches, who was re-elected as president of the Chilean Medical College in 2020, has ruled out running for President of Chile in 2021?
Did you know that soprano Estelle Liebling, the voice teacher of Beverly Sills and Meryl Streep, performed in more than 1600 concerts with John Philip Sousa and his band?
Did you know that the Flag of FR Yugoslavia was the last national flag in Europe to have a red star removed from it?
Did you know that the paintings and letters sent home by "Inkerman hero" Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Tippinge helped document the Crimean War?
Did you know that the two Romanesque towers of St. George's Basilica in Prague are nicknamed "Adam" and "Eve"?
Did you know that "Wo Menschen sich vergessen" was the first song in the opening service of the 2021 Ecumenical Church Assembly in Frankfurt, held as an open-air livestream?
Did you know that Charles Irving's apparatus for the distillation of seawater was used during James Cook's 1772–1775 voyage round the world?
Did you know that Kathleen Rubins has voted while in space—twice?
Did you know that Robin Ransom, the first African-American woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Missouri, said that she was "really happy I didn't like law school"?
Did you know that Western media treated Egyptian activist Gihan Ibrahim as a face of the Egyptian revolution of 2011, but rarely mentioned her revolutionary-socialist political views?
Did you know that ancient Egyptians carried boats in pieces across the Eastern Desert, reassembling them when they reached the Red Sea to embark on trading expeditions?
Did you know that the American Schools at War program (promotional poster pictured) raised over $2 billion (over $28 billion today) to help pay for World War II?
Did you know that the Shrine of St. Paulina is dedicated to the first female saint from Brazil?
Did you know that the Supreme People's Procuratorate, China's highest agency for investigation and prosecution, was abolished for three years during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that the presidential transition of John F. Kennedy saw Kennedy, the youngest individual elected president, prepare to assume power from Dwight D. Eisenhower, at the time the oldest individual to have served as president?
Did you know that the rugby league teams of the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force play in the Challenge Cup with Great Britain Police?
Did you know that Fontainea venosa is a vulnerable rare plant in Australia?
Did you know that Hercules hosted a live-streamed talk show during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that Lord Byron lay in state for two days at a house in Great George Street, Westminster?
Did you know that Ronald Graham, a star in the original Broadway casts of musicals by Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, and Arthur Schwartz, began his career in radio after winning a national singing contest in 1931?
Did you know that after buying a view camera in the 1880s, Marie Hartig Kendall took over 30,000 photographs?
Did you know that due to COVID-19 lockdowns in India, the science-fiction short film 55 km/sec was directed remotely, and the lead actors Mrinal Dutt and Richa Chadda filmed themselves through their own devices?
Did you know that early in her career, Maria Calegari danced principal roles in every ballet performed one weekend by the New York City Ballet?
Did you know that in translating the short story "Xianü" by Pu Songling, Herbert Giles omitted the protagonist's homosexual relationship with a fox spirit?
Did you know that jelly rolls are sensitive to interest rates?
Did you know that the Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora, passed in 1964, established the first international rules for wildlife conservation in Antarctica?
Did you know that the Dolmen de Soto is one of about 1,650 neolithic burial sites in Andalusia, and assumed to have been built between 4,500 and 5,000 years ago?
Did you know that the proverb "speech is silver, silence is golden" has been attributed to "wise men of old", and traced to Arabic texts more than a millennium old?
Did you know that the red-headed, rose-throated and flame-colored tanagers are not tanagers but cardinals?
Did you know that Ester Wajcblum and other Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz smuggled gunpowder out of a munitions plant and successfully destroyed a crematorium at Birkenau during the Sonderkommando revolt?
Did you know that Frank Lloyd Wright's 1905 plan for a Wisconsin Badgers Crew boathouse was shelved but the design was used in 2007 for the West Side Rowing Club in Buffalo, New York?
Did you know that Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi sought plant species from Indian forest conservationist S. G. Neginhal to be planted at the memorial of his mother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi?
Did you know that Royal Ballet dancer Fumi Kaneko danced Princess Aurora in a cinema relay of The Sleeping Beauty, even though she was supposed to portray the Lilac Fairy?
Did you know that Sharon Choi, the Korean–English interpreter for film director Bong Joon-ho, is herself a director?
Did you know that Swedish artist Gerda Höglund painted her first altarpiece in South Africa before creating a similar work in Sweden?
Did you know that Tishaura Jones, the new mayor of St. Louis, once started a GoFundMe fundraiser to take down a Confederate monument?
Did you know that Tom Jones's 2021 album Surrounded by Time marked the first time in his career that he recorded music in his home country of Wales?
Did you know that Walter Gladwin was the first black New York state assemblyman from the Bronx?
Did you know that avant-garde artist Hu Zhiying's master's degree was denied after his thesis was labeled as "not in line with Marxist principles"?
Did you know that the only way for litigants in California to appeal most pre-trial rulings before a final judgment – and the only way to appeal some rulings at all – is by suing the court that issued the order for a writ of mandate?
Did you know that tourists on holiday trips arranged by the Finland travel agency Keihäsmatkat were encouraged to drink alcoholic beverages, partly to avoid culture shock?
Did you know that "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues", a humorous account of a real-life event in which more than 20 people were injured on a boat trip, was one of Bob Dylan's first popular songs?
Did you know that Anisomeles malabarica plants are defended from unwanted foragers by carpenter bees?
Did you know that Kühkopf-Knoblochsaue is a large Naturschutzgebiet in Hesse, Germany, protecting the ecology of the floodplains where the Rhine formerly meandered?
Did you know that Peter Swan became only the third Englishman to be sent off at Wembley Stadium when he was dismissed in the 1993 Second Division play-off final?
Did you know that Robert Chapman and Louis O. Coxe's play Billy Budd (title role pictured), adapted from a novella by Herman Melville, won the Donaldson Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play in 1951?
Did you know that Sonny Bloch invested $500,000 in improvements to Connecticut radio station WCNX, only to be unable to complete the purchase after he was arrested on federal fraud charges?
Did you know that as part of the type certification process, aircraft manufacturers routinely fire dead chickens at windshields with a chicken gun in order to simulate bird strikes?
Did you know that on June 8, 1826, rioters destroyed William Lyon Mackenzie's printing press in the Types Riot?
Did you know that radio station WADK debuted its first talk show after a local businessman told the owner that "the great pastime of Rhode Island ... is talking politics"?
Did you know that the Portrait of Madame Jacques-Louis Leblanc was exhibited at the Salon in 1834 without its pendant?
Did you know that the Wilder Brigade Monument, which honors the Lightning Brigade, was damaged by a lightning strike?
Did you know that Raimund Hoghe, who was awarded the German Dance Prize in 2020, made a self-portrait documentary film Der Buckel (The Hunchback)?
Did you know that South Korean boy band Shinee's song "View" (2015) is regarded as K-pop's first foray into deep house?
Did you know that a recent Jersey court case found that the usage of an ancient Norman Clameur de Haro, which includes a recitation of the Lord's Prayer in French to legally apply an injunction, was used incorrectly?
Did you know that after police beat, choked, pepper-sprayed, and dragged Ronald Greene face down while shackled, saying "that shit hurts, doesn't it?", a trooper was initially reprimanded for violating courtesy rules?
Did you know that although the two sponges look similar, sediment rarely settles on the surface of Polymastia boletiformis (example pictured), whereas Polymastia penicillus often appears dirty?
Did you know that saxophonist Jerry Jumonville was usually part of any band featured in the 1970s television series Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley?
Did you know that the 1935 New York anti-lynching exhibitions included Death (modeled after the lynching of George Hughes), Necklace (by Aaron Goodelman), This Is Her First Lynching, and The Law Is Too Slow, and were intended to support anti-lynching legislation, while earlier similar proposed legislation was supported by the NAACP using the lynching of Henry Lowry?
Did you know that the consumption of poppy seeds, known as the "poppy seed defence", is a recognised medical defence for failing a drug test?
Did you know that the rock band Blur were the wedding band for the reception of journalists  Jane Suiter and Leo Finlay in Dublin in 1990?
Did you know that you can't be .sexy in private?
Did you know that Barrackpore Trunk Road, the oldest metalled road in India, was built in 1775 to connect the first British cantonment in India with Calcutta, then the country's capital?
Did you know that Brentford were promoted via the English Football League play-offs for the first time in ten attempts when they won the 2021 EFL Championship play-off Final?
Did you know that Presbyterian football head coach Kevin Kelley won nine state championships as a high school coach by rarely punting and almost always attempting fourth down conversions?
Did you know that Robert Ward was the longest-serving caucus leader in the history of the Connecticut General Assembly?
Did you know that Thomas Flatley compared closing WNHT television in Concord, New Hampshire, to putting down his dog?
Did you know that WMEB-FM had to move its transmitter because its signal was interfering with equipment in physics laboratories at the University of Maine?
Did you know that some of the most celebrated Dutch Golden Age artists who worked in glass engraving (example pictured) were women?
Did you know that the Jubilate by Benjamin Britten was written in 1961 for St George's Chapel at the request of the Duke of Edinburgh, and performed there for some of his birthdays and his funeral?
Did you know that the houses at 5, 7, 11, 13 and 15 West 54th Street form the only remaining "real strip of mansions" in Midtown Manhattan?
Did you know that the post office for Wises Landing, Kentucky, was established in June 1878 but did not receive a postmaster until January 1879?
Did you know that Asfaw Yemiru's school educated over 120,000 Ethiopian students?
Did you know that Japanese manga artist Riyoko Ikeda was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government for her manga series The Rose of Versailles?
Did you know that Kaʻelepulu Pond, formerly a 200-to-400-acre (81 to 162 ha) Hawaiian fish pond, is now about 95 acres (38 ha) and polluted after having been partially filled in for a housing development?
Did you know that New Zealand singer Fanny Howie composed the song "Hine E Hine", which aired on New Zealand television every night from 1981 to 1994?
Did you know that between 1979 and 1994 the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati were a full day ahead of the country's eastern Phoenix and Line Islands?
Did you know that in his debut first-class cricket season, Jack Carson took the most wickets of any Sussex player in the 2020 Bob Willis Trophy?
Did you know that radio station WDOV missed its own sign-on date because a boiler failure cut power to the entire city of Dover, Delaware?
Did you know that the 51st Defense Battalion, formed during World War II, was the first African-American unit in the United States Marine Corps?