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Did you know that Georg Dohrn conducted at the Konzerthaus Breslau the premiere of Reger's Der 100. Psalm, Mahler's Eighth Symphony, and Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto with Vladimir Horowitz?
Did you know that although New York City's Spring Creek Park was mostly built on a landfill, part of the park is located in a U.S. national protected area?
Did you know that the fumarolically active volcano Solimana has been identified as the site of an Inca oracle?
Did you know that A. R. "Babe" Schwartz fought to have the Westgate Tower condemned in the Texas Legislature, only to move into the building himself fifteen years later?
Did you know that Hari Kondabolu's documentary The Problem with Apu started as a one-minute comedy segment?
Did you know that Harimia Ahmed was the first female lawyer in the Comoros?
Did you know that Lake Cahuilla, with a maximum surface area of 5,700 square kilometres (2,200 sq mi), covered parts of Southern California less than 500 years ago?
Did you know that in 1995, Nigerian activist Sokari Ekine set up the Black Sisters Network electronic mailing list?
Did you know that in Hoysala architecture, the emblem of the empire – a warrior stabbing a lion – is often sculpted on the sukanasa of Hindu temples (example pictured)?
Did you know that Olga FitzGeorge, a granddaughter of Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, established a manicure and beauty salon on New Bond Street in London?
Did you know that in 2017, a team of refugees won the Sporting Inspiration Award at the Laureus World Sports Awards?
Did you know that Jenny Morton discovered that sheep can recognise human faces?
Did you know that Suzanne Jambo helped draft the Constitution of South Sudan?
Did you know that approximately one-third of the adult Jewish population of Winnipeg, Canada, attended the funeral of Chief Rabbi Israel Isaac Kahanovitch in 1945?
Did you know that before becoming a deputy for the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan, Almasbek Akmatov obtained three different degrees from three different universities?
Did you know that show creator Tony Jordan wanted HolbyBlue to emulate the American police dramas Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue?
Did you know that the Advent song "Macht hoch die Tür" is number 1 in the German Protestant hymnal?
Did you know that the purple "jewels" in old sidewalks are pavement lights, which bend daylight into the basement below?
Did you know that Diana Beck performed brain surgery on Winnie-the-Pooh author A. A. Milne?
Did you know that Mary Munson Runge was the first female and first African-American president of the American Pharmacists Association?
Did you know that Nelly Mbangu co-founded an organisation for survivors of sexual and domestic violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Did you know that Up from the Cradle of Jazz chronicles the evolution of rhythm and blues in New Orleans?
Did you know that in the annual Balotsav of India, children compete in many categories including elocution?
Did you know that marine biologist Marie Darby, the first New Zealand woman to visit the Antarctic mainland, sailed to the Ross Sea on a tourist boat that ran aground on its first trip?
Did you know that under adverse conditions, the fluffy sculpin can leave its rock pool and breathe air?
Did you know that Johann Sebastian Bach sang as a choir member for two years at St. Michaelis in Lüneburg, a brick Gothic former abbey church?
Did you know that Robert Sickinger, the father of Chicago's "off-Loop" theater scene, ended up running a telemarketing company?
Did you know that Alice Ouédraogo runs the International Labour Organization's HIV/AIDS programme?
Did you know that Harold Strachan has painted pictures, written books, made bombs, served two prison sentences, and completed an ultramarathon?
Did you know that Universal Paperclips is an incremental game where the goal is to convert the entire universe into paperclips?
Did you know that Vi Lyles is the first African-American woman to be Mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina?
Did you know that the British aerobatics pilot Paul Bonhomme has won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship a record three times?
Did you know that the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad built the Bergen Tunnels due to congestion in the competing Erie Railroad's tunnels?
Did you know that two similarly named Burmese chronicles, Mon Yazawin and Mon Yazawin by Shwe Naw, are about the Mon-speaking kingdom of Hanthawaddy?
Did you know that Gideon Brooke's grave was unmarked for 136 years?
Did you know that Mitzi Johanknecht, the new sheriff of King County, Washington, was the first female deputy to lead the county's SWAT team?
Did you know that Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah writes a blog on African women's sexuality entitled Adventures from the Bedrooms of African Women?
Did you know that offerings of cucumber are left at the Kappa-dera Temple to appease Kappas?
Did you know that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel shot down a helicopter, hijacked 39 vehicles, and burned multiple banks, gas stations, and businesses in a single day?
Did you know that the first World Day of the Poor, observed on 19 November 2017, was established by Pope Francis in his Apostolic Letter celebrating the end of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy?
Did you know that Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in New York City hosted two world's fairs?
Did you know that Manka Dhingra's election to the Washington State Senate gave Democrats complete control of the state's government?
Did you know that Marcus Beck added Joseph Lister's antiseptic techniques to surgical textbooks after seeing soldiers die of infection in the Franco-Prussian War?
Did you know that Regina Mañe Ela was the only female member of Severo Moto Nsá's Equatorial Guinean government-in-exile?
Did you know that the Fengtian clique's Zhili Army included, besides professional soldiers, surrendered enemies, provincial militiamen, bandits, and martial artists?
Did you know that the Temagami Iron Range takes jasper in iron past snakes and turtles?
Did you know that Bangkok's city gates were enchanted in order to ward off evil spirits?
Did you know that Sheila Hibben supplied author Rex Stout with menus for his fictional character Nero Wolfe?
Did you know that South African lawyer Sibongile Ndashe was arrested in Tanzania for advocating against an anti-gay law that limited treatment for HIV/AIDS?
Did you know that the Zanzibar butterflyfish feeds exclusively on coral polyps, but the Japanese butterflyfish will eat anything?
Did you know that today's MLS Cup 2017 soccer final between Toronto FC and Seattle Sounders FC is a rematch of the 2016 Cup, and will be played at the same venue?
Did you know that Bill Gates plans to build a "smart city" near Phoenix, Arizona?
Did you know that Johann Balthasar König, the church musician of the Katharinenkirche and director of music in Frankfurt, published a hymnal with 1,913 melodies?
Did you know that Sir John Minsterworth, who joined the French army during the Hundred Years' War, was later returned to England and hanged, drawn and quartered in 1377 for "wilful support" of the enemy?
Did you know that one of the greatest mountain ranges in China is made up of multiple individual tectonic blocks, dividing north and south China?
Did you know that the Bacon Super T-6 was described as looking like the result of "an illicit hangar affair between a T-33 and a T-6"?
Did you know that Australian prime minister Harold Holt's death by drowning has been commemorated by a warship, a naval installation, and multiple swimming pools?
Did you know that Femi Claudius Cole offers free health checks as she campaigns to become President of Sierra Leone?
Did you know that Nicole Grobert, professor of nanomaterials at the University of Oxford, was awarded a Royal Society Industry Fellowship in 2016, her third fellowship from the Royal Society?
Did you know that a tomb in Yavne is claimed as the site of burial of Abu Hurairah by Muslims and Gamaliel II by Jews, despite both claims being highly unlikely?
Did you know that in divergent double subduction, an ocean shrinks and sinks?
Did you know that it took Salma Ismail, the first Malaysian Malay woman to qualify as a doctor, 11 years to complete her medical studies?
Did you know that Abadi Bano Begum, a prominent voice in the Indian independence movement, pawned her personal jewelry to educate her sons?
Did you know that Célia Posser issued the first private radio broadcast licenses in São Tomé and Príncipe?
Did you know that Yang Shoujing published the most complete and scholarly historical atlas of China of his time, and "revolutionized" Japanese calligraphy?
Did you know that a highrise building replacing part of The Seattle Times' headquarters will have historic headlines etched into its facade?
Did you know that the Nitze criteria for a successful ballistic missile defense gained "the status of holy writ" within the Reagan administration?
Did you know that the North China Craton was partially destroyed by thinning?
Did you know that Colombian footballer Luis Muriel became Sevilla's most expensive-ever signing when he joined the club for a reported fee of €20 million?
Did you know that little yellow ant colonies raise the larvae of agricultural pests, including aphids, in their own nest?
Did you know that the exotic metal lutetium-176 decays to the heavy metal hafnium, so it can be used to date ancient rocks?
Did you know that the owners of Code Blue, the Professional Bull Riders' 2009 World Champion bucking bull, fed him waffles?
Did you know that 'Neile Alina 'Mantoa Fanana was the first female ombudsman of Lesotho?
Did you know that Arlinda Locklear was the first Native American woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court?
Did you know that Manfred Jung is remembered as Siegfried in Bayreuth's Jahrhundertring, but also sang all other tenor roles in The Ring?
Did you know that Methylophaga muralis, a species of bacteria, was first discovered on marble in the Moscow Kremlin?
Did you know that Xenophon's Polity of the Lacedaemonians is the only surviving constitution of ancient Sparta?
Did you know that the Tower of Rivers and Mountains proved its worth soon after construction by protecting the Chen family from roving bandits?
Did you know that "The Luck of the Irish" received an Apple Records catalogue number despite never being released as a single?
Did you know that Marijke Nel represented South Africa in rugby union and Canada in tennis?
Did you know that UNESCO has added East Rennell to its List of World Heritage in Danger?
Did you know that before becoming director of the United States Census Bureau, Martha Farnsworth Riche earned a doctorate in French literature?
Did you know that more than 2,100 years after Lady Gouyi was ordered by the emperor to die, her mausoleum was robbed and more than 1,100 artifacts were stolen?
Did you know that the goal of the Science Moms documentary is to challenge the anti-GMO, anti-vaccination, pro-alternative medicine culture affecting parents?
Did you know that Chanju Samantha Mwale was the first female lawyer to join the Malawian Defence Force?
Did you know that Chinese classical musician Lui Tsun-Yuen adapted the English ballad "Greensleeves" for the pipa?
Did you know that Hainan Island is dominated by rocks that crystallized from melts?
Did you know that Zhang Shengmin led a thousand troops to participate in the reconstruction work after the 2010 Yushu earthquake?
Did you know that the tropical tree Axinaea sclerophylla is pollinated by birds such as the masked flowerpiercer?
Did you know that Clotilde Niragira is secretary-general of the truth and reconciliation commission investigating the Burundian genocides?
Did you know that Marjorie Hahn, a retired mathematics professor and international senior-level tennis player, approaches tennis games with the same plan that she uses for mathematical proofs?
Did you know that Max Schmalzl was called "the Bavarian Fra Angelico"?
Did you know that in 2017, St. Jakobus in Rüdesheim held services, concerts, and an exhibition to celebrate 70 years since the church was rebuilt following damage in World War II?
Did you know that the Northern Ireland women's national football team captain Marissa Callaghan went to university in the United States on a football scholarship?
Did you know that the female Asian emerald cuckoo lays her eggs in the nests of birds such as the crimson sunbird and the little spiderhunter?
Did you know that the first proposed site for a ferry wharf at Rhodes in Sydney, Australia, was scrapped after objections from the community, lobbyists, and the ferry operator?
Did you know that Eunice Silva organised a nationwide vote to determine the seven wonders of Cape Verde?
Did you know that General Li Shangfu spent 31 years at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, where he supervised the launch of the Chang'e 2 lunar probe?
Did you know that Peter G. Davis wrote after a performance of Risurrezione that Fiora Contino "may be the last conductor on earth with the music of Alfano and his generation in her bloodstream"?
Did you know that Ge Jianxiong, who did not go to college, and Zhou Zhenhe, a mining engineer, were awarded China's first two doctoral degrees in humanities?
Did you know that Rachel Skinner "fell into engineering completely by chance" before being named as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering?
Did you know that Saudi Arabia's government has been accused of detaining Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, following his abrupt resignation while in Saudi Arabia?
Did you know that Steven Soderbergh's Mosaic is both a mobile app and a television miniseries?
Did you know that skin-to-skin contact can help to augment low milk supply in breastfeeding women?
Did you know that the wildlife of Malawi includes so many species of cichlid that Lake Malawi National Park has been inscribed as a World Heritage Site?
Did you know that Andrew David Urshan, an ethnic Assyrian from Persia, conducted Pentecostal revivals in the Midwestern United States?
Did you know that Ellie Miles captained Tunbridge Wells RFC's under-18 girls team after her father had captained and coached the men's team?
Did you know that Jordan (capital Amman pictured) fought against Palestinian fighters and Syria in 1970 during Black September?
Did you know that after the Embargo Act of 1807 had throttled foreign imports, the state of New York passed a law to expedite the incorporation of new domestic manufacturers?
Did you know that the milky white mushroom is being grown commercially in its native India?
Did you know that you can count lines in dinosaur teeth to determine their age?
Did you know that Dandara Touré served only 34 days in the Council of Ministers of Mali due to the 2012 coup?
Did you know that Russian painter Karl Bryullov inserted himself into his picture of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in The Last Day of Pompeii?
Did you know that Wolfram Röhrig, who was responsible for "entertaining music" including jazz for the broadcaster Süddeutscher Rundfunk, recorded Max Reger's Der 100. Psalm?
Did you know that before its destruction, Hampi, whose central ruins (partly pictured) are now a UNESCO world heritage site, was the world's second-largest medieval city after Beijing?
Did you know that the orange-necked partridge, native to southern Vietnam and eastern Cambodia, was discovered in 1927 but was "lost" until its rediscovery in 1991?
Did you know that J. P. Crawford was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies major league baseball team with the expectation of eventually superseding Jimmy Rollins?
Did you know that a silverback gorilla sat on Hilary Swarts' head?
Did you know that the Macdonald hotspot may have formed numerous volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean as well as the Macdonald seamount, which may become an island in the future?
Did you know that the bells of St Stephen's in Ealing (belfry and spire pictured) caused complaints, were later moved to the Docklands, and were finally installed in St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen?
Did you know that the first test flight of the TD2N Gorgon target drone ended in a crash due to a failure of the aircraft's radio control?
Did you know that Daniel Rump closely modeled the beginning of his Advent song "Der Morgenstern ist aufgedrungen" after a Tagelied, a wake-up call for lovers?
Did you know that Megachile chomskyi, a species of bee named after the linguist Noam Chomsky, has a tongue that is more than half the length of its body?
Did you know that Poydras Street hosts many of New Orleans' tallest and historic buildings, including 930 Poydras, the first residential high-rise constructed in the city after Hurricane Katrina?
Did you know that in 2015, the Indian army motorcycle acrobatic team performed for the Chinese army at Daulat Beg Oldi, one of five Border Personnel Meeting points?
Did you know that temples on Mount Mian in Shanxi, China, observe an annual Cold Food Festival?
Did you know that the asteroid 11441 Anadiego was named after Ana Teresa Diego, an Argentine student activist who was forcibly disappeared?
Did you know that Calabria was once attached to Sardinia before it migrated to Sicily?
Did you know that Hollywood studio head Frank Price's decision to film Ghostbusters (1983) was initially considered a "terrible mistake" by industry insiders?
Did you know that Nicki McNelly, who spent most of her working life as an army wife, later became provost of an Episcopal cathedral?
Did you know that Queen Victoria was displeased after an organist played an unfamiliar tune for the Advent hymn "Lo! He comes with clouds descending" at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle ("Helmsley" tune pictured)?
Did you know that the Advent hymn "Wie soll ich dich empfangen" with lyrics by Paul Gerhardt had a melody by Johann Crüger when he published it in 1653, but Bach used a different melody in his Christmas Oratorio?
Did you know that the final episode of the six-part BBC Television adaptation of John Masefield's The Box of Delights was broadcast on Christmas Eve 1984?
Did you know that the gold Christmas beetle is prized by collectors?
Did you know that "Long Ago, Prophets Knew, Christ would come born a Jew" was one of about 50 hymns written after 1950 that were included in The New English Hymnal?
Did you know that Rosemary Biggs and her colleagues discovered the Christmas factor?
Did you know that a traditional Christmas carol has the chorus "We will rock you"?
Did you know that the musicologist Willi Gundlach, who founded the chamber choir of Dortmund University, trained volunteers to sing a Bach cantata in one day, including Part I of Bach's Christmas Oratorio?
Did you know that two Nativity scenes attributed to Zanobi Strozzi (example pictured) probably belong to an altarpiece now spread between five museums, with some parts missing?
Did you know that you won't find any Ba humbugi on Christmas Island?
Did you know that Steven Universe is the first Cartoon Network series created solely by a woman, Rebecca Sugar?
Did you know that two of Smash Mouth's U.S. top-ten hits are associated with a big green ogre?
Did you know that under terms of the Quebec Agreement, the United States had to seek British agreement to use nuclear weapons against Japan?
Did you know that Ivo van Hove wrote and directed the 2014 play The Fountainhead, turning Ayn Rand's 1943 epic novel into a four-hour-plus production?
Did you know that Johannes Kalitzke adapted an Edgar Allan Poe novel into an opera whose score "could be a musical representation of the world of Hieronymus Bosch"?
Did you know that Oliver B. Shallenberger invented the first successful electric meter, predecessor to the modern meter used today?
Did you know that an entomologist cried "Aha!" when he discovered a new genus of Australian wasp, and that became its name?
Did you know that 22 August 1914, the date of the Battle of the Frontiers, was the deadliest single day on the Western Front in World War I?
Did you know that Ana Lucía Armijos, president of the Ecuadorian Monetary Board, went into hiding for a year after the Supreme Court of Ecuador called for her arrest in the case of a $200 million bank bailout?
Did you know that My Journey into the Heart of Terror was authored by Jürgen Todenhöfer, the first western journalist to be invited to travel to the self-proclaimed caliphate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria?
Did you know that Rudolf Peierls was awarded the Medal of Freedom, but was later refused entry to the United States because he was suspected of being a spy?
Did you know that the Rotonda de Sampaloc, now the Nagtahan Interchange, originally demarcated the boundary between Manila's suburbs and its urban core?
Did you know that the underground journey of a metamorphic rock can be shown with a pressure-temperature-time path?
Did you know that Australia has the earliest mineral grains of Earth's history in the form of Hadean zircons?
Did you know that British logistics in the Falklands War depended on ships that were STUFT?
Did you know that Darnell Hunt, Dean of Social Sciences at UCLA, believes Hollywood should use the Rooney Rule to increase the share of African-American writers?
Did you know that FVB Mice are used for genetic research because they produce large litters and their eggs have enlarged nuclei?
Did you know that Hans Otto Jung was a jazz musician during World War II, ran a winery from the Boosenburg, and was co-founder of the Rheingau Musik Festival?
Did you know that Perry Askam was the only professional singer in the Hollywood musical Sweet Kitty Bellairs?
Did you know that scientific research demonstrates that perspective-taking may lead to reduced stereotyping?
Did you know that the millet butterflyfish and the bluestripe butterflyfish are both endemic to the Hawaiian Islands and nearby atolls?
Did you know that Antoinette Montaigne left her position as city councillor in France to become a minister in the government of the Central African Republic?
Did you know that Chiyuki Urano, a soloist and choir member of the Bach Collegium Japan, recorded songs by Russian amateur composers including Diaghilev with pianist Lera Auerbach?
Did you know that Luke Fildes' painting The Doctor (detail pictured) was used to promote state-run healthcare in Britain and to campaign against it in the United States?
Did you know that Xiong Huizhen, who spent 22 years completing his teacher's unfinished work, was admired by historian Gu Jiegang for his devotion?
Did you know that Human Nature is Brought Forth by Decree, an ancient Chinese philosophical text, was rediscovered about 2,300 years after it was buried?
Did you know that Itunu Hotonu, the first female admiral in Africa, joined the Nigerian Navy only because she was rejected by the army?
Did you know that Salsa Big Band by Panamanian artists Rubén Blades and Roberto Delgado & Orquesta won the 2017 Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year?
Did you know that the dual systems model seeks to explain why young people do stupid things?
Did you know that the highwayman Tom Cox kicked the ordinary and hangman out of the cart taking him to be hanged at Tyburn?
Did you know that "feminists must have been horrified to discover" what Sylvie Vartan's song "Comme un garçon" was about?
Did you know that Doo Aphane successfully challenged a law that prevented married women from owning property in their own names in Swaziland?
Did you know that Gunday (2014) became one of the lowest-rated films on IMDb following a vote brigading social-media campaign by Bangladeshis?
Did you know that Indian sprinter Amiya Kumar Mallick trained under Usain Bolt's coach Glen Mills in 2014 and broke the 100 metres national record in 2016?
Did you know that Joseph Stalin asked Franklin D. Roosevelt for aluminium, implying enough of it would bring him victory in World War II?
Did you know that an illustration of the Cartwrightia scarab Cartwrightia cartwrighti was printed on the invitations for entomologist Oscar Ling Cartwright's retirement party?
Did you know that Pascual Abaj, near Chichicastenango in Guatemala, is a sculpted stone idol that survived the Spanish conquest but was badly damaged in the 1950s by religious activists?
Did you know that after serving as Ghana's ambassador to Iran, Cuba, and Denmark, Hassan Ahmed is now director of protocol for the President of Ghana?