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Did you know that Odile Pierre, who became interested in the organ at a recital by Marcel Dupré at the age of seven, later served as the organist of La Madeleine in Paris and played around 2,000 recitals herself?
Did you know that glass (example pictured) can form naturally from supercooled volcanic magma?
Did you know that nuclear scientist Clarice Phelps has been recognized as the first African-American woman to be involved with the discovery of a chemical element?
Did you know that poet and scholar Robert L. Kahn, who escaped Nazi Germany with a Kindertransport, became a professor of German at Rice University in Houston, Texas?
Did you know that J. Hunter Guthrie, president of Georgetown University, disbanded the university's football program because he considered it unprofitable and inconsistent with a Catholic university's mission?
Did you know that Papuan-born Silas Papare, who originally held pro-Dutch views, became pro-republican after World War II and founded the Indonesian Irian Independence Party?
Did you know that although the Brimham Rocks (example pictured) were shaped naturally by erosion, Hayman Rooke conjectured that the extraordinary shapes of some stones could have been carved in part by druids?
Did you know that despite being known as the Kerry lily, the perennial plant has a much wider distribution outside Ireland?
Did you know that Edgar Wright, director of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, thinks that the film is different from other comedies because it has "a lot of funny women in it"?
Did you know that James Blunt wrote "Monsters" to express his feelings about his father and his father's illness?
Did you know that darts player Tony David won the 2002 BDO World Darts Championship despite having haemophilia, which prevents him from straightening his throwing arm?
Did you know that the Merthyr Mawr Sand Dunes in Wales doubled for the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula during the filming of Lawrence of Arabia?
Did you know that the Reverend Raphael Warnock has hosted Al Gore at his church, and been arrested at the Georgia State Capitol?
Did you know that the Seattle Center Monorail began operating 58 years ago today and still uses its original trains (example pictured)?
Did you know that Cecylia and Maciej Brogowski, a Polish Catholic couple, were posthumously recognised as Righteous Among the Nations for having sheltered a Jewish girl during the Holocaust?
Did you know that Swanwick Shore Strict Baptist Chapel, a place of worship in the borough of Fareham in Hampshire, England, was built to replace a converted wooden boatshed that flooded during high tides?
Did you know that records from the National Archives at Seattle are planned to be moved to California and to Kansas City, Missouri?
Did you know that the U.S. has imposed sanctions on Luis Parra and six other Venezuelan politicians in relation to an alleged corruption plot?
Did you know that the song "I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales" was inspired by Edna Deane being asked for a dance nine times by the future Edward VIII?
Did you know that High Peak Borough Council dyed a lake black at Harpur Hill Quarry in Derbyshire, England, to deter swimmers from entering the caustic waters?
Did you know that Senator Ted Kennedy's 1980 presidential campaign may have weakened support for incumbent U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who later lost the general election?
Did you know that besides his portrait photography, Étienne Carjat edited journals and published caricatures (example shown) in the popular press?
Did you know that during the American Civil War, Charles B. Norton offered to hide Peter Force's large library for fear of a Confederate attack on Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that the Palazzo del Governatore di Borgo in Rome was one of the first buildings to display architect Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's artistic maturity?
Did you know that the systematic deportation of Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp began on 26 March 1942, with a transport of 997 women and girls from Poprad, Slovakia?
Did you know that academic Paul Tempan said of the Twelve Bens mountain range in Connemara, Ireland, that "nobody seems to know exactly which are the twelve peaks in question"?
Did you know that due to its similarity to the coronavirus pandemic, Warner Bros.' second most successful film of 2020 so far is 2011's Contagion?
Did you know that during the 1981 Benson & Hedges Cup Final, a domestic cricket match in England, two West Indian players set new batting and bowling records?
Did you know that librarian Megan Rosenbloom, an expert in anthropodermic bibliopegy, can determine if a book is bound in human skin?
Did you know that political scientist Elizabeth Theiss-Morse has written a book on the flexibility of the American national identity?
Did you know that the "Cracked Bell of Trinity Church" in Ryde, England, died of a broken heart and wrote to a newspaper about it?
Did you know that while studying dance, Anca Giurchescu joined the Romanian national shooting team and won individual and team medals at the 1955 European Shooting Championships?
Did you know that Japanese voice actor Shugo Nakamura, who has voiced characters in The Idolmaster SideM and other anime series, was recognized as one of the Best New Actors at the 2019 Seiyu Awards?
Did you know that Mary Taylor Brush filed a 1917 patent (drawing shown) for a design to make aircraft "practically invisible when in the air"?
Did you know that musician Finneas made a cameo appearance as an Uber driver in the music video for Tove Lo's song "Bikini Porn"?
Did you know that sculptor Dan Lam was born in a refugee camp in Morong, Philippines?
Did you know that Corona, named after Corona, is fighting corona?
Did you know that Peter Force's library is considered to be the most important collection of military manuscripts and maps from the American Revolution?
Did you know that a 19th-century country house with a ruined monastery in Winchelsea, England, was put on the market for £4.5 million in 2015?
Did you know that before its closure, locals near St Johnston railway station relied heavily for income on Irish customs officers trying to catch smugglers heading for Londonderry station?
Did you know that soprano Jessye Norman, whose voice was described as a "grand mansion of sound", performed at U.S. presidential inaugurations and sang La Marseillaise at the French Revolution's bicentennial?
Did you know that the flowering plant Gentianella anglica is found only in Great Britain?
Did you know that Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh used slanted lines to depict rainfall in his 1889 painting Rain (shown), drawing inspiration from Japanese prints such as those by Hiroshige?
Did you know that English judoka Samantha Lowe was selected, then deselected, then reselected for the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and went on to win a gold medal?
Did you know that Gösta Neuwirth studied composition and musicology in Vienna, but wrote his dissertation on harmony in Schreker's opera Der ferne Klang in Berlin?
Did you know that Jeffrey Erickson, who was accused of robbing banks in the Chicago metropolitan area with his wife Jill, was a former police officer in Hoffman Estates?
Did you know that Shueisha, the publisher of Weekly Shōnen Jump, has produced a manga series in collaboration with Marvel Comics?
Did you know that the Whitehall Building in New York City was developed by a company headed by the inventor of Vaseline?
Did you know that Irish folklorist Bríd Mahon wrote the first of her hundreds of radio scripts for Radio Éireann as a child, discussing the history and music of County Cork?
Did you know that Klingons are positively Shakespearean?
Did you know that Maria Josep Colomer i Luque became Catalonia's first female pilot at 17 years old, and had flown thousands of Republicans out of Francoist Spain by the end of the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that Mount Hampton in Antarctica was last active over 10 million years ago, but may still emit steam?
Did you know that the CEO of CEPI, a key organisation in the race to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, has called the disease "the most frightening" that he has ever encountered in his career?
Did you know that the visual style of African-American artist Henry Speller, who was also an accomplished blues musician, was described as "blues aesthetic"?
Did you know that New York once neighbored Philadelphia?
Did you know that South Dakota once sued 15 cats?
Did you know that Volkswagen part number 199 398 500 A is typically lubricated with ketchup?
Did you know that a Briton told the European Union to fuck off 17 million times?
Did you know that a Queen of England was named after a blast furnace?
Did you know that former President Clinton said his day would be ruined if he didn't get a bacon butty and a cup of tea?
Did you know that some atheists believe in the Ten Commandments?
Did you know that you can have sex with two cans of Pepsi, though one might need to be twisted?
Did you know that Charles Villiers Stanford's Violin Sonata No. 2 was first performed in 1898, but had not yet been published when it was first recorded in the 1990s?
Did you know that Chelsea chairman Ken Bates attempted to hang a joke medal around the neck of Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson as a peace offering after the 2000 FA Charity Shield?
Did you know that as head of the War Assets Administration, retired major general Robert McGowan Littlejohn had to dispose of $34 billion worth of surplus government property?
Did you know that public primary schools in Hong Kong are required to admit siblings of current students?
Did you know that publishers have had their pre-approved books confiscated, or their stalls dismantled overnight, during the Riyadh International Book Fair?
Did you know that the human-like behaviour of Jenny (depicted), a resident of London Zoo, reinforced Charles Darwin's view that humans were "created from animals"?
Did you know that Abel Azcona is known as the "enfant terrible" of Spanish contemporary art?
Did you know that Indian writer Malayanil was a pioneer of modern short-story writing in the Gujarati language?
Did you know that U.S. Representative John Conyers proposed legislation to create a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. during every session of Congress from 1968 to 1983, when the bill finally passed?
Did you know that four men sued the city of West Bend, Wisconsin, for the right to burn Baby Be-Bop publicly in 2009?
Did you know that the Breton saint Goulven of Léon may have been confused with a legendary murderer and rapist featured in the poem "Gwerz Skolan", giving rise to a number of place names with elements of both individuals?
Did you know that white-throated round-eared bats (example pictured) roost in cavities in active termite mounds excavated by the males?
Did you know that "Catch It, Bin It, Kill It" (poster shown), a slogan first used in 2007, has been revived to fight the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Canadian rancher William Roper Hull is credited with the first use of fences in cattle ranching in Calgary?
Did you know that Holy Trinity Church in Crockham Hill, Kent, regained ecclesiastical independence after a vicar was translated there from St Mark's Church in Royal Tunbridge Wells?
Did you know that Nigerian-American Christian hip hop artist Wande became interested in rapping after her biology teacher allowed her to compose a rap about cellular transport?
Did you know that flatter mires in montane regions of Europe are often dominated by deergrass and cottongrass?
Did you know that Alice Birch's play Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. was inspired by Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto?
Did you know that Diether de la Motte, who taught composition and music theory in Berlin and Vienna, wrote an opera that premiered at the Staatsoper Hannover in 1970?
Did you know that Gregory Peck's screen roles included Captain Ahab, Abraham Lincoln, and Josef Mengele?
Did you know that after ceasing operations, the owner of television station KETX in Tyler, Texas, was sued for nearly $6,000 in unreturned film rentals?
Did you know that the white-browed tit-warbler has been found to practice cooperative breeding?
Did you know that three members of the Harrison family of Virginia served as President of the United States?
Did you know that when the shopping parade and accompanying flats in Northgate, West Sussex, were first built, every flat was mistakenly given the same door lock and key?
Did you know that ice hockey goaltender Cale Morris won Big Ten Player of the Year and Big Ten Goaltender of the Year after going undrafted into the United States Hockey League?
Did you know that in eight years, the Somerset Coal Canal used three different ways of climbing a 130-foot (40 m) valley—first with caisson locks, then an inclined plane, and finally a flight of 22 locks?
Did you know that in the 1657 hymn "Morgenstern der finstern Nacht" with text by Angelus Silesius, the glory of Jesus is likened to a thousand suns?
Did you know that most species in the palm genus Desmoncus climb using grappling hook–like structures called acanthopylls?
Did you know that the layout and workings of the "human laundry" at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp can be found in a London medical student's diary?
Did you know that Teikō Shiotani photographed View with Weather Forecast (shown) from his upstairs window, exaggerating the curvature of the horizon by bending the photographic paper under the enlarger?
Did you know that Three Latin Motets, Charles Villiers Stanford's only church music not in English, was dedicated to Alan Gray, who succeeded him as organist at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the college's choir?
Did you know that experts on the World Health Organization's emergency committee believe that COVID-19 could be the first Disease X?
Did you know that Allie X gained inspiration for her album Cape God after watching a documentary about the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts?
Did you know that Cheung Chung-kiu has agreed to buy 2–8a Rutland Gate in London for more than £200 million, making it easily the most expensive house sold in the UK?
Did you know that Laura Knight's painting Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring was painted at ROF Newport in Wales and features one of the factory's workers?
Did you know that Operation Harvest Festival was the largest single massacre by German forces during the Holocaust?
Did you know that during the 1952 U.S. presidential election, the Constitution Party gave its presidential and vice-presidential nominations to Douglas MacArthur and Harry F. Byrd, respectively, without their permission?
Did you know that the Houston Chamber of Commerce and the Southern Pacific Railroad invited Japanese farmers to advise them about rice production in Texas?
Did you know that Richard J. Daley suffered his only electoral defeat when he ran for sheriff of Cook County, Illinois, in 1946?
Did you know that SS Petriana was wrecked 200 metres (660 ft) off the Australian coast, but its crew were not allowed to land in Australia?
Did you know that according to legend, the so-called Immortal Piano was partially built with wood from the pillars of Solomon's Temple?
Did you know that aspects of Star Wars character Fennec Shand's personality, costume, and hairstyle were inspired by the fennec fox?
Did you know that some ants herd scale insects (example pictured)?
Did you know that British Rail's Automatic Train Protection system was estimated to cost £11 million per life saved, more than the £4 million per life to be considered good value for money?
Did you know that Dutch soprano Jo Vincent appeared in Willem Mengelberg's 1939 recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion, and in the world premiere of Britten's Spring Symphony in 1949?
Did you know that Hieronymus Bosch's painting Christ Crowned with Thorns (shown) contains hidden symbolism?
Did you know that according to Luke the Evangelist, the last words of Jesus on the cross came from Psalm 31?
Did you know that the capture of the southern caverns of Cappadocia and Ancyra by Maslama ibn Hisham around 739 marked the Umayyad Caliphate's last territorial gains against the Byzantine Empire?
Did you know that Ailladie, an 800-metre-long (2,600 ft) limestone sea cliff in the Burren, has been called "the mecca for rock-climbing in Ireland"?
Did you know that Juan Guaidó, president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, tried to climb over a fence to vote in the 2020 committee elections after being blocked from entering the building?
Did you know that Willigis Jäger, a German Benedictine friar, studied Zen for six years with Yamada Koun in Japan and introduced it to his order?
Did you know that birds, bats and humans are the main hosts of members of the bed bug family?
Did you know that industry analysts have predicted that up to 75 percent of independent restaurants in the U.S. will not survive the coronavirus pandemic?
Did you know that the MAX Light Rail system in Portland, Oregon, includes North America's deepest transit station, at 260 ft (79 m) below ground?
Did you know that Hiyori Nitta was inspired to become a Japanese voice actress after watching HeartCatch PreCure!, the only anime that she was allowed to watch while studying for her examinations?
Did you know that I Will Mention the Loving-kindnesses is an 1875 Easter anthem by Arthur Sullivan for solo tenor, mixed choir, and organ, setting a passage from the Book of Isaiah?
Did you know that in a 1902 U.S. Supreme Court case, a ship owner alleged that the real purpose of Louisiana's quarantine laws was to keep Italian immigrants out of New Orleans?
Did you know that the 1775 Easter hymn "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" became popular in both the United Kingdom and the United States, albeit with different words?
Did you know that the New York Life Building is topped by a six-story roof tiled with 22-karat gold?
Did you know that Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter drew artistic inspiration from hallucinations that he experienced while taking psychedelic drugs in a program covertly sponsored by the CIA?
Did you know that Paul Mägi, principal conductor of the Estonian National Opera, conducted the first recording of Eino Tamberg's opera Cyrano de Bergerac?
Did you know that a letter written by John Peyton to his wife contains one of the few surviving first-hand accounts of the Battle of the Nile?
Did you know that fossils from twenty-one species of mammals have been identified at Whitecliff Bay on the Isle of Wight?
Did you know that people failing to observe containment measures during the Malta plague epidemics of 1592–93, 1675–76, and 1813–14 were liable to the death penalty?
Did you know that the essay "It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers" has been described as an ode to autumn?
Did you know that the roof of the Town Lake Gazebo in Austin, Texas, is in the shape of a hyperbolic paraboloid?
Did you know that Coventry City defeated Football League Cup holders Nottingham Forest 5–4 in 1990, with a player from each team scoring a hat-trick before half-time?
Did you know that Eugene W. Chafin, the Prohibition Party presidential candidate in 1908 and in 1912, had a brick thrown at him during the Springfield race riot?
Did you know that King Henry VII of England extracted £48,000 worth of "loving contributions" from his subjects in 1491, despite the practice having been outlawed seven years earlier?
Did you know that Maria van Pallaes allowed both Catholics and Protestants to live in her almshouses, which was unusual for the time?
Did you know that Sweden has the largest amount of preserved medieval stained glass (example pictured) among the Nordic countries?
Did you know that a Tower Records store at 360 Newbury Street, Boston, was the largest record store in the United States upon its opening in 1987?
Did you know that Enderby Jackson, the founder of the traditional British brass band contest, was raised to be a tallow chandler?
Did you know that United States Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens cited political scientist Kristin Goss in a case related to gun control?
Did you know that if climate sensitivity is on the high end of scientists' estimates, it may be impossible to achieve the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F)?
Did you know that students at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania, asked for President Clyde A. Lynch's name to be removed from a memorial hall as it reminded them of lynching?
Did you know that the Fulham Pottery, founded in London in 1672, operated for over 300 years?
Did you know that the sponge Aplysina cavernicola has been used as a model organism to monitor the presence of isotopes such as americium-241 in seawater?
Did you know that when the Third Avenue/125th Street Line was extended across Manhattan, it was celebrated with a seven-day carnival in Harlem?
Did you know that 7,000 residents of Brighton, England, ate plum pudding and roast beef and played kiss-in-the-ring at The Level to celebrate Napoleon's defeat in 1814?
Did you know that Bishops Pond in Wales is destined to become a meadow?
Did you know that Czechoslovak Communist politician Václav Kopecký "distinguished himself with antisemitic diatribes" and stage-managed an antisemitic show trial?
Did you know that a Mughal painter described himself in his self-portrait as "the lowly, needy, insignificant, Daulat"?
Did you know that after suspected coronavirus patients in Maharashtra, India, started fleeing hospitals, the government directed officials to stamp the left hand of those quarantined at home using indelible ink?
Did you know that many homes in the neighborhood of Sunset Park were "inexpensive imitations" of upper-class brownstones elsewhere in Brooklyn?
Did you know that unlike most other flagship smartphones in 2020, the Sony Xperia 1 II smartphone includes a 3.5 mm audio jack?
Did you know that American journalist Bessie Van Vorst (depicted) worked undercover at a pickle factory and other worksites to expose labor conditions for women and children in the early 1900s?
Did you know that Cornell University student Charles Spencer Francis, who later became the U.S. ambassador to Austria, set the world record for intercollegiate single-scull rowing in 1876?
Did you know that Oxford Circus was once London's busiest pedestrian crossing?
Did you know that the Caha Mountains in south-west County Cork are notable for the presence of Minuartia recurva, a montane sandwort not otherwise found in Ireland?
Did you know that the second of Henry Purcell's two settings of Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts was composed in an earlier style for the funeral of Queen Mary II of England?
Did you know that Austrian industrialist Hans Lauda was critical of his grandson Niki's Formula One ambitions, as he believed that "a Lauda should be on the economic pages of the newspaper, not the sports pages"?
Did you know that Josephus C. Vines, the former Prohibitionist mayor of Brighton, Alabama, shot and killed a man who was drinking on his doorstep?
Did you know that Kateryna Skarzhynska founded Ukraine's first private museum, housing archaeological artifacts, scientific books, and her collection of more than 2,100 Ukrainian Easter eggs (examples pictured)?
Did you know that a collection of kimono (example pictured) assembled by Nasser Khalili covers four periods of Japanese history?
Did you know that although the alpine bartsia has a wide range in Europe and North America, it is known in the British Isles only from a few locations in northern England and the central Scottish Highlands?
Did you know that in the film Dick Johnson Is Dead, director Kirsten Johnson has her elderly father act out different ways – some of them violent "accidents" – in which he could die?
Did you know that the Maas Brothers store at Port Charlotte Town Center was never opened due to the bankruptcy of its parent company Allied Stores?
Did you know that 18 spans of the Kobe Route collapsed in 1995 due to the unprecedented strength of the Great Hanshin earthquake and various structural flaws?
Did you know that American physician Max C. Starkloff used social distancing to fight the 1918 flu pandemic in St. Louis?
Did you know that Ayushmann Khurrana learned to play the piano and make omelettes blindfolded for one of his performances?