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Did you know that Super Lemon Haze is an award-winning cannabis strain that commonly exhibits limonene, an organic compound also found in lemons?
Did you know that it was reportedly Elizabeth Willing Powel who asked Benjamin Franklin whether the United States was to be "a republic or a monarchy", to which he responded: "A republic ... if you can keep it"?
Did you know that the specific name of Pterophorus pentadactyla, commonly known as the white plume moth, comes from the Greek for 'five fingers'?
Did you know that Gustav Brecher, who conducted the world premieres of Jonny spielt auf and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Leipzig Opera, was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933?
Did you know that Ron Berteling is the first Dutch ice hockey player to be knighted by the Netherlands?
Did you know that a painting by N. C. Wyeth portraying George Washington's reception at Trenton was the most expensive gift ever given to Thomas Edison State University?
Did you know that on this day in 1814, a tsar, a king, and a prince met at Troyes to discuss their war against Napoleon?
Did you know that Al Ahed FC became the first Lebanese association football club to win the AFC Cup?
Did you know that Hildegard Heichele, a soprano of the Oper Frankfurt known for performing Mozart roles, appears as Adele on a DVD of Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus from the Royal Opera House?
Did you know that Michael Waltrip's 2019 documentary film Blink of an Eye has been called "NASCAR's answer to Senna"?
Did you know that The Patient Assassin, a biography of Udham Singh by Anita Anand, uses evidence from documents released under the UK's Freedom of Information Act?
Did you know that after being treated for uterine cancer, Ai Kidosaki taught cooking to hospital employees?
Did you know that in 2003, a painting by Nazlı Ecevit was hung in the workplace of the Turkish prime minister, an office that her son Bülent Ecevit had previously held?
Did you know that the flag of Spokane, Washington, was taken to the summit of Mount Everest in 1981?
Did you know that Enno Stephan's book Geheimauftrag Irland caused embarrassment in Ireland when it revealed details of Nazi espionage in the country?
Did you know that Scandinavian sagas were the first to use Eistland as a name for Estonia?
Did you know that rappers Future and Drake worked at McDonald's for a day?
Did you know that the Leeds-based software company Visionware represented a management buyout success story from the failure of a once much larger British company?
Did you know that the laciniate conch (shell pictured) is able to flip itself off the seabed using its muscular foot?
Did you know that New York City's Downtown Athletic Club, for white-collar workers of Lower Manhattan, did not accept female members for 51 years?
Did you know that Werner Herzog, who plays The Client in The Mandalorian, has called the show's producers "cowards" for considering the use of computer-generated imagery for "Baby Yoda"?
Did you know that a lookout known as a huer would be posted to the Huer's Hut in Newquay, Cornwall, to watch for the arrival of pilchards?
Did you know that cricketer Atharva Ankolekar's father placed a cricket bat near his crib on the day he was born?
Did you know that in 1965, U.S. civil rights activist John Hulett became one of the first two black voters in Lowndes County, Alabama, in more than six decades?
Did you know that in his 1831 chorale cantata Verleih uns Frieden, Mendelssohn set Luther's German prayer for peace to a new melody?
Did you know that 2019 concerts in the 19th-century Bergkirche in Wiesbaden, Germany, included Pärt's Passio and Handel's Messiah?
Did you know that Abwehr agent and Nazi propagandist Oscar Pfaus once served in the U.S. Army?
Did you know that Chun Chik-yu, a descendant of Hawaiian chiefs, served as governor of Guangdong province in China?
Did you know that Dorothy Doolittle, winner of the inaugural Chicago Marathon, was later an assistant coach for the U.S. team at the 1992 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Vint Cerf performed a striptease in a three-piece suit during the Protocol Wars?
Did you know that Deno Vourderis promised Coney Island's Wonder Wheel to his future wife as a gift 36 years before buying it?
Did you know that Suki Lopez auditioned for Sesame Street by having a heart-to-heart conversation with someone performing as Elmo?
Did you know that Wei Zhongquan, the chief designer of the Fengyun-2 satellite (model pictured),  was rescued by his colleagues when it burst into flames on the eve of its scheduled launch?
Did you know that in addition to its retail operations, Japanese used goods chain K-Books operates a butler café?
Did you know that John Thomas Baldwin, a botanist at the College of William & Mary, fined a group of students $100 after they cut down one of his specimens for use as a Christmas tree?
Did you know that Mark Williams won a snooker match at the 2020 World Grand Prix despite suffering from gout?
Did you know that South Korean businessman Chung Mong-won, an honorary consul of Slovenia, will be inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 2020?
Did you know that Vice-Admiral Viktor Sokolov was thanked by the chief of the Russian general staff for commanding a naval task force during the intervention in Syria (naval operations shown)?
Did you know that Calamagrostis intermedia is the dominant plant of the grassy páramo in Ecuador's El Cajas National Park?
Did you know that India's Shikhar Dhawan and England's Jack Burnham are the only players to have scored three centuries in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup?
Did you know that Yang Xin, the vice director of the Palace Museum in Beijing, collaborated with his counterpart at the National Palace Museum in Taipei for the first joint publication by the two museums?
Did you know that YouTuber and public piano performer Dr K considers a Holocaust survivor who became an international concert pianist to be his mentor?
Did you know that a man shouted "This is madness!" during a production meeting for The Goes Wrong Show?
Did you know that during the Storming of Farnham Castle, the Royalist defence was so minimal that one contemporary claimed they "deserved not the name of a garrison"?
Did you know that Amazon plans to build its tallest office tower in the Bellevue suburb of Seattle, Washington?
Did you know that Guangdong native Chun Lung attended Yale University in 1879 after being educated in Hawaii's Punahou School?
Did you know that Sefer ve Sefel, a second-hand bookshop in Jerusalem, stocks more than 26,000 titles?
Did you know that former college basketball star Amy Langville is an expert in ranking systems, and has applied her ranking expertise to basketball bracketology?
Did you know that in today's 2020 EFL Cup Final at Wembley, Manchester City retained the EFL Cup for the third consecutive year with a 2–1 victory against Aston Villa?
Did you know that tenor Roberto Saccà has portrayed opera characters such as Haydn's Orfeo, Pfitzner's Palestrina, and Herbert Willi's Elias?
Did you know that "Anyone" by Demi Lovato became the most downloaded song of the day in the U.S. after she performed it at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards?
Did you know that Asumiko Nakamura, the author of the manga series Classmates, sought to create a story about a "slow, serious love" that was "cliché" and "almost hackneyed"?
Did you know that KBCQ-FM in Roswell, New Mexico, was traded on two separate occasions, for television stations in Amarillo, Texas, and in Richmond, Virginia?
Did you know that Tayseer Sboul, one of Jordan's most celebrated writers, wrote some erotic poems?
Did you know that shōji (examples pictured), like other traditional Japanese partitions, serve as doors, windows, and walls, both interior and exterior?
Did you know that tenants of the Bowling Green Offices Building in New York City have included the owners of the RMS Titanic, and the Erie Railroad?
Did you know that Moff Gideon of The Mandalorian has been compared to Darth Vader?
Did you know that Ocean Wind, a planned offshore wind farm in the U.S., may use infrastructure at a closed nuclear power plant to access the electrical grid?
Did you know that the Danish Trade Union Confederation, the country's largest trade union centre, promotes a model in which pay and working conditions are negotiated without state involvement?
Did you know that the Summa de arithmetica (title page shown), thought to be the first printed work on algebra, contains the first published description of double-entry accounting?
Did you know that the worm Phyllodoce lineata is a predator and scavenger, feeding mostly on other polychaetes?
Did you know that Alasdair Cochrane's Sentientist Politics was the first book dedicated to extending cosmopolitan political theory to include animal rights?
Did you know that North Seattle's waste transfer station has a viewing room and a playground?
Did you know that Swedish actress Julia Dufvenius had a role specially written for her in director Ingmar Bergman's last film, Saraband?
Did you know that Texas radio stations KMJR, KXAI, and KBPA are part of a three-station facility change that will give the Educational Media Foundation a city-grade signal in San Antonio?
Did you know that tenor and voice teacher Eliodoro Bianchi (depicted) performed in many world premieres of operas, with Rossini expressly writing two roles for him?
Did you know that the Zulu taunted the British during the action at Sihayo's Kraal, asking: "Why don't you come on up?"
Did you know that Adrian Long's FlexiArch precast-concrete bridge arch can be installed in a single day?
Did you know that Alan Swallow started his own solo publishing imprint, Alan Swallow Press, and published novels by Janet Lewis and Anaïs Nin?
Did you know that Asmundtorp Church, built between 1895 and 1897, was financed with returns from Swedish farmsteads that were donated to the church during the Middle Ages?
Did you know that Australian brigadier Arthur Blackburn ordered his men to shoot less in the Battle of Leuwiliang, so that when they withdrew, their Japanese enemies would not realize it?
Did you know that Emily Swallow did not know that she was auditioning for a Star Wars television series when she tried out for the part of the Armorer?
Did you know that in her song "Bad Idea", Ariana Grande calls herself "Ari-chan" in reference to her admiration of Japanese culture?
Did you know that the Wiener Hofmusikkapelle, founded by Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in 1498, was a forerunner of the Vienna Boys' Choir?
Did you know that 110 North Wacker in Chicago replaced a building that was eligible for the National Register of Historic Places?
Did you know that President Idi Amin ensured the Uganda Army's loyalty with the so-called "whisky run"?
Did you know that baritone Michael Volle has appeared as Wagner's Hans Sachs at the Bayreuth Festival and was awarded Der Faust for portraying Wozzeck?
Did you know that dillegrout was so delicious that it earned the cook a manor, but to keep it he and his descendants had to serve the dish at every future English coronation?
Did you know that infectious disease specialist Daniel R. Lucey has hypothesised that the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak may have been quietly circulating among humans since at least November 2019?
Did you know that the Strokes revealed the release date for their sixth album The New Abnormal while performing at a rally for U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders?
Did you know that three Roman Catholic bishops of Hong Kong have been elevated to the College of Cardinals, even though the diocese is nominally only a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Guangzhou?
Did you know that "The Country Without a Post Office" describes Kashmir as "a land of doomed addresses", because postal services were stopped for seven months during an armed uprising?
Did you know that Jon Favreau, creator of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian, also voiced the character of Paz Vizla?
Did you know that after Indian-American lawyer Sakharam Ganesh Pandit represented Bhagat Singh Thind in a 1923 U.S. Supreme Court case, the U.S. government attempted to revoke his citizenship?
Did you know that in 1953, American scientist Winston Price isolated the first rhinovirus, the most prevalent cause of the common cold?
Did you know that the 2000 Canadian hip-hop song "Money Jane" is credited with launching Sean Paul's international music career?
Did you know that when Gessner Harrison was a student at the University of Virginia, he declined Thomas Jefferson's invitation to Sunday dinner, saying that it would be a violation of the Sabbath?
Did you know that Angelina Atyam was awarded the 1998 UN Prize in the Field of Human Rights for campaigning for the release of captive children, including her own daughter kidnapped by Ugandan guerrillas?
Did you know that Belgian teacher and physician Marie Rennotte became a women's rights activist in Brazil?
Did you know that Frieda Nadig, one of the four "mothers" of the German constitution, proposed to include the sentence "men and women have equal rights", but was initially voted down?
Did you know that Heidi Cruz, wife of U.S. senator Ted Cruz, is the primary breadwinner of the family?
Did you know that neuroscientist Cristina Alberini uses both mammals, and invertebrates such as sea slugs, to study memory?
Did you know that the 2005 BBC documentary Dead Mums Don't Cry follows Grace Kodindo's efforts to stem the maternal mortality rate in Chad, where pregnant and childbearing women had a 9 per cent chance of dying?
Did you know that Toyota won the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans, becoming the first Japanese car manufacturer to win the race since Mazda in the 1991 edition?
Did you know that former slave Dorothy Thomas purchased her own manumission, but later employed slaves as hucksters?
Did you know that industrialists John Huntington, Hinman Hurlbut, and Horace Kelley each independently bequeathed funds that would be used to form the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1913?
Did you know that the Hebrides Terrace Seamount, west-southwest of the Scottish Hebrides, hosts "coral gardens" where numerous other animals live?
Did you know that the Washington Building was described as "probably the first building to attract the foreigner" who arrived in Manhattan?
Did you know that three communities in New Hampshire vote at midnight during the state's presidential primaries and elections?
Did you know that Eugene C. Barker was involved in the "biggest bear fight" in Texas history with Governor James E. Ferguson, but Barker kept his job and Ferguson was later impeached?
Did you know that Kakwkylla (depiction shown), a female saint venerated in Sweden and Germany during the late Middle Ages, may have originated from a misunderstanding of an Irish abbot's gender?
Did you know that copies of the video game The Race Against Time were recalled due to the unauthorized use of Jesse Owens's likeness on its packaging and advertising?
Did you know that horse surfing involves a person surfing while being towed by a horse?
Did you know that reflective writing is a good way to increase empathy in medical students?
Did you know that the British regulator Ofcom received more than 400 complaints over the Pussycat Dolls' decision to wear sheer PVC outfits during their live performance of "React" on a family programme?
Did you know that the musicologist Georg von Dadelsen wrote his dissertation on the chronology of Bach's compositions, and influenced the Neue Bach-Ausgabe, the second complete edition of his works?
Did you know that Mary Helen Johnston was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal before being selected as an astronaut, but has never gone into space?
Did you know that O salutaris hostia (O saving victim), a setting of a Eucharistic hymn for mixed choir by Vytautas Miškinis, was performed in Brussels when Lithuania held the EU Council presidency?
Did you know that a course in Spanish North American history that Nettie Lee Benson took at the University of Texas inspired her lifelong interest in teaching and building libraries for Latin American studies?
Did you know that asphaltite powers Şırnak Silopi?
Did you know that the nucleoid keeps the bulk of a bacterium's DNA both compact and well organized?
Did you know that trailers for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End were shown before select screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?
Did you know that Charles E. Mills had dual careers in banking and explosives?
Did you know that in the collection Madwoman, Jamaican-American poet Shara McCallum uses both English and Patwa, a creole she heard while growing up but never saw in writing?
Did you know that the upcoming debut album Kid Krow by Conan Gray grew out of his experiences as a mixed-race child in Texas?
Did you know that Arthur and Mary Sellwood had the idea for a book (cover shown) on Victorian railway murders in the 1940s, but did not write it until after a "violent incident on a night train" in the 1970s?
Did you know that Joywave's third album Possession incorporates samples of audio from the Voyager Golden Record into its songs?
Did you know that Pope Francis's apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia does not explicitly endorse married Catholic priests, despite being called for by the Amazon synod?
Did you know that future president John F. Kennedy came in second to Senator Estes Kefauver in the 1956 Democratic vice-presidential ballot?
Did you know that in a January 2020 Premiership Rugby match, referee Luke Pearce appointed Manu Vunipola as Saracens captain, after Pearce decided that he did not want to speak with Jackson Wray?
Did you know that police officers once arrested a Mexican Panther who was involved in drug trafficking?
Did you know that Gordon Falcon was one of the British officers who boarded the USS Chesapeake (depicted) to search for Royal Navy deserters during the Chesapeake–Leopard affair?
Did you know that Vasily Savvin was the last commander of the Internal Troops of the Soviet Union, and the first commander of the Internal Troops of Russia?
Did you know that Walter M. Giffard was a member of the Republic of Hawaii's Committee to Destroy Postage Stamps, Postcards and Stamped Envelopes?
Did you know that comedian Bill Burr disliked Star Wars and regularly mocked the franchise until he portrayed a character in it?
Did you know that production designer Kristi Zea created the visual imagery for The Silence of the Lambs, including a scene that the script described only as "a snapshot from hell"?
Did you know that the 1977 Dry Blackthorn Cup was the first snooker event to be held at Wembley Conference Centre?
Did you know that Dubarry Park hosted the Irish rugby union team's home matches in the Six Nations Under 20s Championship between 2005 and 2015?
Did you know that Frieda Caplan, a pioneer of the specialty-produce industry in the U.S., introduced the kiwifruit to the American market?
Did you know that Haraguchi Kensai led the Imperial Japanese Army's 13th Division in the invasion of Sakhalin?
Did you know that Liberty County Jail in Hinesville, Georgia, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was once described by the state governor as a "rotten, filthy rathole"?
Did you know that Nikolai Moskvitelev, a former officer in the Soviet Air Defence Forces, was still flying in old age – including a Sukhoi Su-30 on his 80th birthday, and a Yakovlev Yak-52 just before his 90th?
Did you know that for more than a decade, wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya's father travelled daily from his village to Delhi to deliver milk and fruits to him?
Did you know that 26 Broadway, the former New York City headquarters of Standard Oil, has a pyramidal tower that once contained a kerosene-burning cauldron?
Did you know that David Leleo Kinimaka was the first member of the Royal Guards of Hawaii to voluntarily leave the ranks during an 1873 mutiny at ʻIolani Barracks?
Did you know that Ripon Parks is noted for its colonies of the parasitic common toothwort, as well as for the yellow star-of-Bethlehem?
Did you know that the 3-metre-high (9.8 ft), 6th-century Parel Relief, with seven figures of Shiva, was found in Mumbai during road building in 1931, and is now worshipped at a local temple?
Did you know that the premiere of the television series Arrow's fourth season is the first time that the title character is referred to by his comics moniker Green Arrow?
Did you know that the residents of Ely, Cardiff, rioted over the sale of bread in 1991?
Did you know that violinist Günter Kehr, director of the Peter Cornelius Conservatory from 1953, founded the Kehr Trio, a string trio that toured South America, North Africa, and the Near East?
Did you know that African-American physician Emerson Emory hung both a Confederate flag and a photograph of Hillary Clinton in his office?
Did you know that Charles Carroll MacTavish, the great-grandson of a signatory of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, was briefly a member of the British House of Commons?
Did you know that Latvian folklorist Anna Bērzkalne wrote her 1942 doctoral thesis in English instead of German as a form of non-violent resistance to the Nazi occupation of Latvia during World War II?
Did you know that composer Payal Dev used multiple instruments in the 2019 Hindi ballad "Tum Hi Aana" to "give it the right amount of emotions"?
Did you know that the Irish Central Committee for the Employment of Women, which operated from 1914 to 1919, paid Irish women the same as their British counterparts?
Did you know that Aditi Kapil's Imogen Says Nothing is inspired by a ghost character in Much Ado About Nothing?
Did you know that Eva Lee Kuney was one of the children used to fill out the background of Munchkin scenes in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz?
Did you know that Union Station in Walpole, Massachusetts, was the site of the last semaphore signals in New England?
Did you know that a man suspected of carrying coronavirus in Nepal ran away from the hospital?
Did you know that IXI Limited was one of many computer companies to sprout from an acorn?
Did you know that Jan Yager's artwork American Ruff is made from discarded crack-cocaine vials and caps?
Did you know that Llerena Friend, the first director of the Barker Center for Texas History, lived in 24 different homes during her youth?
Did you know that Pier 40, a sports facility in New York City's Hudson River Park, was formerly a cargo terminal?
Did you know that negotiations for the Indonesia–Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement were hindered by spying and executions?
Did you know that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority twice built new lines bypassing JFK/UMass station, only to add platforms later?
Did you know that J. Havens Richards, the president of Georgetown University, successfully petitioned Harvard Law School to admit the graduates of some Catholic colleges?
Did you know that neither William nor John Deans, pioneers of Canterbury, New Zealand, lived to move from their 1843 cottage to the 1856 homestead built on their estate?
Did you know that television station KTVE in Longview, Texas, broadcast the 1954 World Series without permission, and was ordered to cease and desist by the NBC network?
Did you know that the Washington Hall hotel was destroyed during the Battle of Atlanta as part of General Sherman's scorched-earth policy?
Did you know that "Democracy Dies in Darkness" is the first slogan ever to be adopted by The Washington Post?
Did you know that Edward Kamakau Lilikalani filed a petition with President Theodore Roosevelt claiming to be "the sole heir to the Kamehameha rights to the Crown lands" of Hawaii?
Did you know that Russia and Belarus fought an eleven-day Milk War?
Did you know that a 1978 Jammu and Kashmir law enacted by Sheikh Abdullah was eventually used to detain his son and his grandson?
Did you know that mass graves in the Orkney and Shetland islands of Scotland might contain bodies from a tsunami 5,500 years ago?
Did you know that "Baby Yoda" is considered the breakout character of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian?
Did you know that Mariya Takeuchi's 1984 song "Plastic Love" saw an international resurgence in 2017?