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Did you know that Billie Holiday was paid $35 for her first recording?
Did you know that Galactic Radiation and Background (GRAB) was the first successful U.S. orbital surveillance program (satellite pictured), revolutionizing American understanding of Soviet air defense radar capabilities?
Did you know that Turkey threatened that Jewish lives would be put in danger if the 1982 International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, which covered the Armenian Genocide, was not cancelled?
Did you know that a Deats plow (illustrated), patented by John Deats in 1828 and manufactured by his son Hiram Deats, was donated by his grandson Hiram Edmund Deats to Rutgers University for an agricultural museum in 1929?
Did you know that a U.S. Supreme Court case involving the French vessel Euryale considered whether Napoleon III, as a foreign emperor, could bring cases in American courts?
Did you know that actress and tennis player Filiz Taçbaş, tired of city life, purchased agricultural land and obtained a farming certificate, and now grows olives and lemons?
Did you know that during Francis Reynolds's command of HMS Augusta, the ship ran aground and exploded with such force that the blast was heard 30 miles (48 km) away?
Did you know that in The Autistic Brain, Temple Grandin suggests that the rise in autism diagnoses has been due to an inaccurate definition in the DSM-5 which groups other conditions under the term?
Did you know that it is popularly believed that the Pointer descends from Old Spanish Pointers introduced to England in 1713 by soldiers returning from Spain after the Peace of Utrecht?
Did you know that television station WKAB-TV of Mobile, Alabama, broadcast for less than two years before it went off air due to financial difficulties?
Did you know that the Lectures on Theoretical Physics are based on thirty years of lectures given by Arnold Sommerfeld, a man Wolfgang Pauli once described as "the epitome of the scholar and the teacher"?
Did you know that the Nukegate scandal was precipitated by the largest business failure in the history of South Carolina?
Did you know that Adele Rose wrote 457 scripts for the British soap opera Coronation Street, more than any other contributor?
Did you know that Katherine Loker donated $30 million each to Harvard and USC, and millions more to develop university, medical, and cultural programs in California?
Did you know that Oscar Fritz Schuh created a new style to direct Mozart operas at the Vienna State Opera, focused on the psychology of the characters?
Did you know that President Barack Obama celebrated his 50th birthday by playing basketball with Shane Battier, LeBron James, Magic Johnson, Maya Moore, Alonzo Mourning, Joakim Noah, Chris Paul, and Derrick Rose?
Did you know that Siegfried Pank, the director of the International Telemann Association, was a cellist of the Gewandhausorchester and professor of cello and viol?
Did you know that The Gospel of Afranius, a 1995 Russian novel and polemic challenging an American evangelical apologist text, has not yet been translated to English?
Did you know that comedian Blaire Erskine's mock interview duped Michael Moore into believing she was a Donald Trump supporter stranded and freezing after his Omaha, Nebraska, rally?
Did you know that in the 1930 United States Senate election in Illinois, Ruth Hanna McCormick was the first woman ever nominated for the U.S. Senate by a major party?
Did you know that prior to the arrival of the Year 24 Group, most girls' comics in Japan were written by men?
Did you know that the 2008 FA Cup Final between Cardiff City and Portsmouth holds the record for the highest attendance for a football match at the new Wembley Stadium, with 89,874?
Did you know that the National Library of France was able to buy the book of hours of Joan of France (detail pictured) thanks to private donations?
Did you know that the defenses of the soft coral Leptogorgia virgulata are useless against the barnacle Conopea galeata?
Did you know that Barack Obama's 2020 book A Promised Land took longer to write than any other presidential memoir in the past hundred years?
Did you know that Lucy Burwell Page Saunders's novel Dora Lee features a French-speaking macaw named Fanchon, inspired by Dolley Madison's pet parrot, who attacks three different characters in eight pages?
Did you know that Saint Émilie de Rodat founded the Sisters of the Holy Family of Villefranche in 1815, a French religious order that provides free education for poor girls?
Did you know that Taylor Swift's 2020 song "Marjorie" has been described as "a heart-rending tribute" to her grandmother, opera singer Marjorie Finlay, who inspired Swift's musical career?
Did you know that The Ur-Quan Masters, an open-source remake of the 1992 science-fiction game Star Control II, has been listed several times as one of the best free PC games ever?
Did you know that after releasing their debut album Black Focus, the English band Yussef Kamaal was denied entry to the United States because one member's visa was revoked by the Trump administration?
Did you know that attorney Styles Hutchins was the first African American to argue a case in a court in Georgia?
Did you know that in Playing the Whore, Melissa Gira Grant contends that categorizing all sex work as exploitation or empowerment creates a false dichotomy?
Did you know that the clouded leopard (example pictured) is the first cat that diverged from the common ancestor of the Felidae more than four million years ago?
Did you know that the flameback coral shrimp is often found in close proximity to the yellow-edged moray eel, suggesting that they may have a cleaning symbiosis?
Did you know that Chinese bandit Ma Xiang raised a thousands-strong rebel army in just one or two days, conquered three commanderies, and declared himself emperor, only to be killed by a much weaker opponent?
Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Theme and Variations as a tribute to the imperial Russian ballet style?
Did you know that Georgina Schuyler led the campaign to have the poem "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus placed inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty?
Did you know that Iqbal Qureshi composed the music for the 1964 film Cha Cha Cha, the first Indian film to feature Western dance?
Did you know that Matt Czuchry, who plays Logan in Gilmore Girls, recommended season 5's "You Jump, I Jump, Jack" as a good episode for new viewers to begin with?
Did you know that The Burton Cooper was moved inside a shopping centre in 1994 despite objections from the Burton upon Trent civic society?
Did you know that a mental-health hotline in Puerto Rico recorded a spike in calls leading up to Hurricane Beryl?
Did you know that according to a chaplain at Nonnberg Abbey, an abbot was immediately struck blind after stealing one of Saint Erentrude's relics 300 years after her death?
Did you know that during the reigns of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliʻuokalani, attempts were made to change the constitution to grant women of the Hawaiian Kingdom the right to vote?
Did you know that the gill chambers of the tiger lucine, the dwarf tiger lucine, and the Pennsylvania lucine contain symbiotic bacteria which help them live in sediments not suited to other bivalves?
Did you know that upon completing their apprenticeships, British printers might be doused in ink and paper shavings and paraded through the streets?
Did you know that Bianca Smith, the first Black female coach in professional baseball history, has a JD degree and an MBA in sports management?
Did you know that Blackburn Rovers won the Premier League three seasons after winning the 1992 Football League Second Division play-off Final?
Did you know that Izaac Hindom, a Papuan himself, actively promoted the assimilation of Javanese and Papuans, describing the latter as backward and self-centered?
Did you know that John Clark Mayden's images of African Americans were extolled by James Baldwin as capturing the "majesty of black life" by portraying people who are "weary but not cast down"?
Did you know that after meeting Mira Mendelson, Sergei Prokofiev described his future wife as "just some girl who wants me to read her bad poetry"?
Did you know that the first Cincinnati Marine Hospital was taken by the Department of War, and the second by environmental health scientists?
Did you know that the kusarigama (examples pictured), a traditional Japanese weapon, was more useful against a sword than against a spear, a naginata, or a bō?
Did you know that the site of the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. later became part of the South Main Street Historic District?
Did you know that the wreck of the freighter Vernon is one of the deadliest ever to have occurred in Wisconsin?
Did you know that when Riot Games approached investors to fund the development of League of Legends, publishers were baffled by the game's free-to-play business model?
Did you know that Bernie Sanders was the first socialist mayor in New England since Jasper McLevy?
Did you know that Columbia University's small press Columbia Global Reports has been described as "somewhere between a magazine and book publisher"?
Did you know that Japanese business executive Minoru Makihara credited his association with activist shareholder Robert Monks, his roommate at Harvard, for some of the reforms at Mitsubishi Corporation?
Did you know that New Zealand–born musician Millie Lovelock wrote her English literature master's thesis on One Direction?
Did you know that Travancore Radio's first English-language broadcaster, Indira Joseph Venniyoor, was paid 69 rupees (then equivalent to US$14.50) for her broadcasts in 1949?
Did you know that after the Dreikönigs­kirche escaped destruction in World War II, it became Frankfurt's leading venue of church music performances (example pictured)?
Did you know that the 2009 Nova episode "Darwin's Darkest Hour" was filmed for the bicentennial anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his work On the Origin of Species?
Did you know that the 2017 book Priest of Nature analyses theological writings of Isaac Newton that were never published due to his heretical views?
Did you know that the Japanese-pop song "Snow Halation" by μ's has a music video animated by Sunrise?
Did you know that the philosopher Andy Lamey challenges "new omnivorism", according to which it is permissible to eat animals even if they have moral status?
Did you know that "I Love You" by 2NE1 integrates traditional Korean trot music with electronic to create a different sound and "new genre" of music?
Did you know that Dua Lipa's livestream concert Studio 2054 had a record-breaking attendance of five million paid viewers?
Did you know that Emil Aaltonen went from being a 13-year-old shoemaker's apprentice to owning and running the largest shoe manufacturing business in the Nordics?
Did you know that George H. W. Bush drowned a rat in the White House swimming pool?
Did you know that Hannah J. Patterson and other suffragists hauled a replica of the Liberty Bell across Pennsylvania to gain the right to vote?
Did you know that Jincheon Gilsangsa is a shrine dedicated to the portrait of General Gim Yu-sin?
Did you know that KEVT, the first Spanish-language radio station in Tucson, offered English lessons from a University of Arizona professor?
Did you know that Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman did not think she would be believable as Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, but her performance added a Primetime Emmy to her awards shelf?
Did you know that someone ate Koos van der Merwe's cake?
Did you know that the Royal Victoria Arcade, Ryde, had an underground market that is now used as a local history museum?
Did you know that the Theodore Roosevelt desk was the first desk used by a US president in the Oval Office?
Did you know that Dominic Thiem, winner of the 2020 US Open, is the first player since the 2004 French Open to come back from two sets down in a Grand Slam final to win the title?
Did you know that Texas Motor Speedway's president once "just laughed" at the idea of NASCAR at COTA?
Did you know that Veronica Maggio's 2011 song "Jag kommer" was accused of plagiarizing the Strokes' "Reptilia", but the singer denied any connection?
Did you know that according to Amnesty International, pre-trial detentions, bans on gatherings, and censorship have occurred in Chad in the lead-up to the 2021 presidential election?
Did you know that according to legend, Växjö Cathedral in Sweden was founded by an English saint?
Did you know that associate justice William Johnson was the first member of the U.S. Supreme Court who was not a member of the Federalist Party?
Did you know that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Japanese cheer screenings, which encourage audience participation, have been replaced by viewers' text messages being superimposed on the screen?
Did you know that figurative artist Hilda Annetta Walker (work pictured) objected to Modernist works because she found it difficult to tell what they represented?
Did you know that most Russian cities were destroyed as a result of the Mongol invasion?
Did you know that the lake freighter Edward L. Ryerson is not only the last steam-powered freighter built on the Great Lakes, but also the last built without a self-unloading boom?
Did you know that Anna Feldhusen was for a long time the only female German artist to acquire a business license?
Did you know that Eli Wallach agreed to play the role of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly immediately after watching the main title sequence of For a Few Dollars More?
Did you know that Kehinde Wiley wanted to express "absolute joy – break dancing in the sky" when he created Go?
Did you know that Minnesota's Winsted Municipal Airport once hosted a country-music festival?
Did you know that Professor Shabir Madhi, who led trials of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa, did not originally want to study medicine?
Did you know that a U.S. secretary of commerce wrote of the Richards Building, "were there such a function as a public incendiary, these buildings are among the first that should receive his official attention"?
Did you know that a fake family tree was created for Jeyran, the beloved wife of Naser al-Din Shah of Persia, linking her to the Sassanids and the Ilkhans?
Did you know that both Jochen Klepper and Hildegard Schaeder sought solace amidst the horror of the Nazi regime in Paul Gerhardt's 17th-century New Year's song "Nun lasst uns gehn und treten"?
Did you know that the First World War Zanzibar Volunteer Defence Force included practically every able-bodied British man residing in the protectorate?
Did you know that the discrimination Vilma Núñez experienced as a child born out of wedlock motivated her career as a Nicaraguan lawyer and human-rights activist?
Did you know that the freighter John V. Moran and her sister ship were both sunk by ice on Lake Michigan, ten years apart?
Did you know that the manga anthology Nanohana was inspired by efforts in Chernobyl and Fukushima to use plants to absorb radioactive material?
Did you know that to record his narration for A Perfect Planet at home, David Attenborough hung duvets from his dining room walls to make a sound stage, and bought a hut for the sound recorder?
Did you know that Artémis, cœur d'artichaut is a female buddy film inspired by Greek mythology, Carl Jung and Éric Rohmer?
Did you know that Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, who succeeded C. P. E. Bach as the music director of Hamburg, edited an early publication of the The Well-Tempered Clavier in which the first prelude had an extra measure?
Did you know that Svetlana Lloyd accidentally became a model for Christian Dior, after wandering into his Paris boutique looking for a receptionist job?
Did you know that U.S. senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan proposed an expansion of New York Penn Station as a homage to the original station, where he had once shined shoes?
Did you know that Zintkala Nuni, who survived the Wounded Knee Massacre, gave birth to a stillborn boy in Nebraska's Milford Industrial Home, at one time the only state-funded institution in the US for unmarried pregnant women?
Did you know that due to Brian Crabtree's closeness with his brothers in professional wrestling, Kendo Nagasaki once refused to wrestle "Big Daddy" Crabtree with Brian refereeing?
Did you know that during the trial of Francis Gary Powers, Kansas radio station KBTO presented summaries of Radio Moscow broadcasts alongside other international reports?
Did you know that members of the Nyasaland Volunteer Reserve fought in the first naval action of the First World War?
Did you know that northern masked owl (example pictured) chicks hiss to ask for food, while adults hiss to defend nests?
Did you know that the McDonnell Douglas DC-X experimental SSTO rocket was launched twelve times but never flew higher than 3.14 kilometres (1.95 mi)?
Did you know that the defeat of the consul Gaius Porcius Cato by a Celtic tribe in 114 BC led to the last human sacrifices in ancient Rome?
Did you know that the two participants in a yaoi relationship are referred to as seme ('top') and uke ('bottom'), terms derived from martial arts that were later appropriated as Japanese LGBT slang?
Did you know that Antoinette Dinga Dzondo, Minister of Social Affairs and Humanitarian Action of the Republic of the Congo, set up a fund to help refugees in the country return home?
Did you know that Kyren Wilson set fire to his cue stick at the 2021 Masters?
Did you know that Mat and Savanna Shaw's cover of "The Prayer" went viral at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, after which they released their debut album that was ranked 54th on the Billboard 200?
Did you know that Setiadi Reksoprodjo, who was appointed Minister of Information at the age of 25, had a junior minister twice as old as him?
Did you know that a body-shaming comment from a New York Times critic led to ballerina Jenifer Ringer's appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show?
Did you know that after the Morning Star sank on Lake Erie, the death toll was unknown because many of the passengers were not on the ship's manifest?
Did you know that before the creation of Good Job!, Paladin Studios had wanted to collaborate with Nintendo for about a decade?
Did you know that clergyman David Williamson's time as an outlaw is commemorated in the traditional Scottish song "Dainty Davie"?
Did you know that the Christuskirche in Idstein-Walsdorf received this name in 1993, 600 years after a first chapel in the village was mentioned?
Did you know that the Hearst Tower was built nearly eight decades after its base was completed?
Did you know that Eleanor Keaton, who at age 21 became the third wife of silent-film comedian Buster Keaton, was widely credited with rehabilitating his life and career?
Did you know that Gotthilf Fischer founded the Fischer-Chöre, who appeared with 1,500 singers at the final of the 1974 FIFA World Cup?
Did you know that Manjappada, a supporters' group of Kerala Blasters FC, coordinated and brought forty-one busloads of their fans across Kerala to the venue for the opening match of the 2019–20 season?
Did you know that Napoleon's penis, which was cut off after his death, has been described as comparable to a "piece of leather or a shriveled eel"?
Did you know that The Magic of Chocolate's volumes are ordered alphabetically rather than numerically?
Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt conducted one of his last bison hunting excursions at Yule Ranch?
Did you know that after Saint Eustadiola, a 7th century abbess in Bourges, France, prayed with her nuns for rain during a drought, they got drenched before they were able to return to the convent?
Did you know that by paying attention to mundane decision-making among activists, the critical theorist Eva Haifa Giraud troubles the notion of staying with the trouble?
Did you know that despite James Snyder having taught at a women's college for over 20 years, his Northern Renaissance Art of 1985 was criticized for using gender stereotypes?
Did you know that with "Homura" and Leo-Nine, LiSA became the first female artist in 16 years to debut a song and an album simultaneously at number one in Japan since Utada Hikaru?
Did you know that "New Year's Day" by Taylor Swift was recorded in "scratch takes" that did not filter out unwanted sounds from the outside environment?
Did you know that American local car dealer Sigmund Strochlitz was a confidant of Elie Wiesel and a leader in the Holocaust remembrance movement?
Did you know that Bob Wells created a Burning Man for retirees?
Did you know that during the Yamagata Hanagasa Festival, ten thousand people sing and dance on Japan National Route 112?
Did you know that former New York City Ballet principal dancer Janie Taylor appeared in the film Center Stage as a background dancer, and served as a motion caption dancer for Barbie of Swan Lake?
Did you know that in Islamic art, the shamsa is found in places as diverse as on carpets, inside domes (example pictured), and forming the frontispiece of books?
Did you know that places of worship in Elmbridge, Surrey, include the "ferocious" Weybridge United Reformed Church?
Did you know that the Ringturm, a 65-year-old skyscraper in Vienna, has been wrapped by artists in summer, such as Mihael Milunović's Vision in 2017?
Did you know that the formation of the Central Irian Jaya province in Indonesia, which was headed by Herman Monim, caused a civil war between the supporters and opponents of the province?
Did you know that 6,800 Columbia University students and faculty signed a petition to remove an entrance to the 116th Street–Columbia University station?
Did you know that Jerome Kohl, a music theorist of the University of Washington, was recognized internationally as an authority on the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, publishing a book on his Zeitmaße in 2017?
Did you know that Julio César Gandarilla Bermejo, a founder of the Cuban National Revolutionary Militia, ignored instructions from the Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel to make a Twitter account?
Did you know that Olga Petit – the first female lawyer in France – was a Russian?
Did you know that Radio Quarantine was founded in India by a group of professors, directors and PhD students in response to social isolation protocols following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic?
Did you know that an artificial turf soccer field in New York City's Red Hook Park, donated by the Norwegian government, was destroyed by arson ten days after its dedication?
Did you know that in the 1948 Illinois gubernatorial election, Adlai Stevenson II won with a 572,067-vote margin of victory, a record at the time for Illinois gubernatorial elections?
Did you know that one of the most recognizable video-game glitches, a bug that forced Mahatma Gandhi in Civilization to use nuclear weapons heavily, never actually existed?
Did you know that pioneering Chicago abolitionist Mary Richardson Jones helped hundreds of people escape slavery via the Underground Railroad?
Did you know that the soft crafting materials used in Judith Weinshall Liberman's artworks were described as providing "an important contrast to the Holocaust tragedy"?
Did you know that Kathleen Heddle was one of two Canadians to win three gold medals at the Summer Olympic Games?
Did you know that Leszek Sibilski was supported by Turkmenistan in establishing World Bicycle Day?
Did you know that Lisa Nishimura started out in the music industry before producing Netflix documentaries including Chef's Table and Making a Murderer?
Did you know that Michael Cretu of Enigma has been accused of putting satanic content into the band's debut album MCMXC a.D.?
Did you know that Minnie Lou Crosthwaite, the first Black woman to pass the teacher exam in Nashville's segregated school system, and Minnie Lee Crosthwaite, one of Kansas City's first Black social workers, both attended Fisk University?
Did you know that Nima Yooshij was threatened with death for presenting his school of poetry, She'r-e Nimaa'i?
Did you know that Overdrawn at the Memory Bank was recorded on videotape instead of photographic film so as not to be as expensive as Blade Runner?
Did you know that art historians disagree as to whether two figures in a painting (detail pictured) by the Master of Delft are saints or sibyls?