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Did you know that clinical trials in India must have government-regulated ethics committees oversee their research?
Did you know that the case of Adelia Silva, an Afro-Uruguayan teacher who was removed from three different schools due to her race, generated national attention and disciplinary action against one of the principals?
Did you know that 2b2t, a no-rules Minecraft multiplayer server running since 2010, has seen more than 580,000 distinct Minecraft players join and explore its nine-terabyte map?
Did you know that a fire destroyed 70,000 Jōmon period artifacts found at the Ōfune Site?
Did you know that in The Cellist, a ballet about cellist Jacqueline du Pré, the cello is personified by a male dancer?
Did you know that the city flag of Columbus, Ohio, is undergoing a redesign process due to its heavy use of Christopher Columbus imagery?
Did you know that Andrew J. Stofan was an expert on sloshing?
Did you know that Kylie Minogue was credited as co-writer for the first time on her third studio album Rhythm of Love?
Did you know that William E. Miller was awarded the Medal of Honor after disobeying orders during the Battle of Gettysburg?
Did you know that at the Siege of Tunis, a Carthaginian general was crucified on the same cross to which he had previously nailed a rebel leader?
Did you know that in a 2009 case, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a group of school officials violated the U.S. Constitution when they strip-searched a 13-year-old middle-school student?
Did you know that knowing only a surname and a continent, author Hanoch Teller tracked down a boy photographed at the liberation of Auschwitz 70 years earlier for the award-winning cover of Heroic Children?
Did you know that the Hawaiian happy-face spider can change color based on its diet?
Did you know that Dámasa Cabezón was contracted by the Bolivian government to establish a school for girls in La Paz after having done so in Santiago de Chile?
Did you know that Georgies is known as "the gay Cheers"?
Did you know that a fatberg heavier than an African elephant was removed from a sewer beneath Cadogan Place?
Did you know that as part of a famous priority dispute, E. T. Whittaker's 1953 book claimed that Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz developed the theory of special relativity before Albert Einstein?
Did you know that journalist Robert Sam Anson, assigned to cover boxer Joe Frazier, instead got into the ring with him and suffered a broken leg or dislocated shoulder as a result?
Did you know that on the second day of Tihar each year, Nepali people worship dogs (example pictured) to please Yama?
Did you know that "Levels" samples the intro from the Etta James song "Something's Got a Hold on Me"?
Did you know that Busiri Suryowinoto was the first governor to propose splitting the province of Papua?
Did you know that Newton Collins was enslaved, manumitted, re-enslaved, and emancipated before becoming a successful businessman and landowner?
Did you know that Sam Quek played in all of England's games at the 2014 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy despite breaking two ribs in their opening match?
Did you know that although the bronze-leaved clerodendrum is an ornamental garden shrub, it sometimes becomes naturalised and may become an invasive species?
Did you know that the Chapel at the United Nations is a popular site for interfaith marriage ceremonies?
Did you know that the early French science-fiction novel Memoirs of the Year 2500 was one of the most popular titles of the 18th century, despite being banned by the Holy See and the Inquisition?
Did you know that Faustas Latėnas, vice-minister of Lithuania's Ministry of Culture, composed incidental music, film scores, and a string quartet subtitled "In loving memory"?
Did you know that a newly discovered species of green pit viper, Trimeresurus salazar, was named after Salazar Slytherin from the Harry Potter series?
Did you know that an effort to build a nuclear shaped charge was called the Casaba Howitzer (warhead type illustrated) because General Atomics was "on a melon kick that year"?
Did you know that despite the biggest missing-person investigation in the history of the Toronto Police Service, no physical evidence regarding the 1985 disappearance of Nicole Morin was ever found?
Did you know that medieval Russians sometimes built churches in one day to ward off epidemics?
Did you know that serial entrepreneur John Teeling broke the monopoly in Irish whiskey held by Irish Distillers by launching Cooley Distillery?
Did you know that Rhian Sugden, Priyanka Chopra, and Pete Buttigieg have all been the subject of controversy due to social-media photographs taken at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe?
Did you know that a rare microscope designed by Joseph Zentmayer is on display at the Delaware County Institute of Science?
Did you know that one of the inhabited initials of the 12th-century Necrologium Lundense illuminated manuscript shows influences from Viking art?
Did you know that the 1906–1907 weekly Der nayer veg (The New Path) contained some of the earliest critical scholarly writings on Yiddish language and literature?
Did you know that the unusual given name of Chilean travel writer Maipina de la Barra commemorates the Battle of Maipú, in which her father fought?
Did you know that American fashion designer Michelle Smith created the dress chosen for Michelle Obama’s official portrait?
Did you know that Jean Ritchie formed her own record label "out of self-defense" following distribution problems with None but One?
Did you know that after awarding a controversial goal in the 1902 FA Cup Final, referee Tom Kirkham took refuge in a broom cupboard to evade angry goalkeeper William "Fatty" Foulke?
Did you know that the Marri rose in rebellion in Balochistan in 1918 because they heard rumours of British defeats in the First World War?
Did you know that the parasitic wasp Diadegma semiclausum can help to control the diamondback moth, a pest that has become resistant to many insecticides?
Did you know that Daisy Yen Wu helped establish the new field of nutrition research at Peking Union Medical College?
Did you know that Moneyball depicted Grady Fuson being fired by the Oakland Athletics, though in reality he left voluntarily?
Did you know that a Carthaginian army trapped 40,000 rebels and starved them into cannibalism before attacking and killing every man at the Battle of the Saw?
Did you know that bishop Hermann of Schleswig was never actually bishop of Schleswig?
Did you know that when Mandy Patinkin played Inigo Montoya in a 2020 virtual live dramatic reading of the Princess Bride script, he used the six-fingered sword from the 1987 film?
Did you know that Edgar Claxton helped set up electrification of the UK mainline railway in the 1960s, and was awarded an MBE?
Did you know that before Carole Dawn Reinhart was appointed professor of trumpet at the Vienna Music Academy, she performed in several of Al Hirt's Fanfare shows in 1965?
Did you know that sheep were traditionally used to carry salt from Tibet to Nepal (traders pictured)?
Did you know that the character of Swiss-type cheeses comes from originally being made on high alpage pastures, as part of the historic culture of Alpine transhumance?
Did you know that Anna May Wong had the starring role in Daughter of the Dragon (poster pictured), but was paid half as much as the non-Asian actor who played her father?
Did you know that after 28 years away from public media, José Antonio Álvarez Lima was tapped in 2019 to head the Mexican television channel Canal Once?
Did you know that only the refrain of "Herr, wir bringen in Brot und Wein", a 1970 offertory hymn written after Huub Oosterhuis, appeared in the first edition of Gotteslob, but the complete text in the second?
Did you know that table-tennis player Isabelle Li received a standing ovation despite losing the final at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics?
Did you know that the Royal Navy cutter HMS Surly carried almost £96,000 in coin between Dublin and London in 1825?
Did you know that Benjamin Britten composed Children's Crusade, with text by Bertolt Brecht, as a piece to be performed by children about a group of children in wartime Poland?
Did you know that Victor Jory's first major screen role as a lecherous landlord in the 1933 film Sailor's Luck was praised as "deliciously slimy" and "insanely funny"?
Did you know that although the suffix automaton, a data structure used in computer science, was introduced in 1983, it appeared in a 1973 scholarly article as an auxiliary structure?
Did you know that the architect who was hired to remodel 5 Columbus Circle's lower stories later expressed regret for the renovation?
Did you know that when he is sworn in next year, Mark Robinson will become the first Black lieutenant governor of North Carolina?
Did you know that Giovanni's Room both influenced and appears in the 2020 novel Swimming in the Dark, a gay love story set in the last years of the Polish People's Republic?
Did you know that James Bond introduced himself for the first time on film at Les Ambassadeurs Club?
Did you know that Jerome Robbins was commissioned by the New York City Ballet to choreograph the ballet Fanfare in celebration of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II?
Did you know that an estimated 12 percent of those who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primaries voted for Donald Trump in the general election?
Did you know that despite opposing the establishment of Georgetown College, Francis Neale later became its president?
Did you know that the black-cowled oriole (example pictured) hangs its woven nest under a large Heliconia, palm, or banana leaf?
Did you know that American diplomat John B. Stetson Jr. gave a book bound in human skin to Harvard's Houghton Library?
Did you know that Maddalena Mariani Masi performed the title role of Ponchielli's La Gioconda in the 1876 world premiere at La Scala?
Did you know that Women's Barracks (cover pictured), regarded as a classic of lesbian pulp fiction, was banned in Canada and became the first paperback-original bestseller in the United States?
Did you know that in Ainu mythology, it is believed that a gigantic octopus god lives in Uchiura Bay?
Did you know that the Book of Ezekiel prophesied Nebuchadnezzar II's Siege of Tyre, which lasted 13 years?
Did you know that the costumes of the ballet In Creases are modified from old leotards from another ballet and unused unitards?
Did you know that two Royal Navy ships named HMS Surly were launched within a year of each other: an 1855 mortar vessel and an 1856 gunboat?
Did you know that 42 new MPs were elected to the 53rd New Zealand Parliament: 23 for Labour, including Arena Williams, Ibrahim Omer, Helen White, Neru Leavasa, Ingrid Leary, Rachel Brooking, Anna Lorck, Tracey McLellan, and Shanan Halbert (all pictured); 5 for National, including Joseph Mooney, Simon Watts, and Penny Simmonds; 9 for ACT New Zealand, including Toni Severin, Simon Court, Brooke van Velden, and Chris Baillie; 3 for the Greens, including Ricardo Menéndez March and Teanau Tuiono; and 2 for the Māori Party, including Rawiri Waititi?
Did you know that Pierre Bleuse, who learned conducting after a career as a violinist, was chosen by composer Michael Jarrell to lead his opera Cassandre, starring Fanny Ardant?
Did you know that the 1990 Hindi film Drishti, which follows the story of a married couple who divorce and later meet again, has been praised for its "harsh look at monogamy"?
Did you know that the Fijian fruit fly feeds on the yum-yum tree?
Did you know that Chris Lines has won five promotions during his professional football career?
Did you know that NGC 4848, a spiral galaxy, lost most of its hydrogen gas as it passed through the Coma Cluster due to ram pressure?
Did you know that an estimated tens of thousands of U.S. federal workers could lose due-process job protections by being shifted into Schedule F appointments?
Did you know that firefighters were able to save the campground at Alaska's Hidden Lake from the 2019 Swan Lake Fire by creating a back burn with driptorches?
Did you know that in For the beauty of the earth, a 1978 anthem for choir and orchestra, John Rutter gave a 19th-century hymn text a new melody, marking it to be sung "Happily"?
Did you know that the video game Serious Sam Advance simulates 3D computer graphics on the Game Boy Advance?
Did you know that the Hokersar wetland is the largest bird reserve in the Kashmir Valley?
Did you know that the Japanese mezzo-soprano Mihoko Fujimura, who appeared as Fricka at the Bayreuth Festival in 2002, toured Mahler's Resurrection Symphony with the CBSO conducted by Andris Nelsons?
Did you know that the ancient city of Prusias ad Hypium in Asia Minor was visited by the Roman emperors Hadrian, Caracalla, and Elagabalus?
Did you know that the ǃUriǁʼaekua used their cattle to defeat the Portuguese Empire decisively at the Battle of Salt River?
Did you know that upon taking command of the Fourth United States Army in 1989, James R. Hall became the highest-ranking military officer in the Midwestern United States?
Did you know that years before their Neon Genesis Evangelion series became famous, Gainax's first anime, Royal Space Force, was marketed in Japan by staging a Hollywood premiere?
Did you know that 13 years after it was initially announced, Jay Electronica released his album Act II: The Patents of Nobility (The Turn) because it had leaked online?
Did you know that Major will be the first rescue dog to live in the White House?
Did you know that a round bezel ring from the West Yorkshire Hoard rattles when moved and may contain a relic?
Did you know that although he was the eldest son of Byzantine emperor Andronikos I Komnenos, Manuel Komnenos was not named as heir, as he opposed his father's policies?
Did you know that during the 2018 Grande Tema incident, four stowaways threw faeces and urine and made threats to kill the ship's crew?
Did you know that in 1997, Princess Diana donated her entire wardrobe to a charity auction organized by AIDS activist Marguerite Littman, which raised more than $3 million?
Did you know that the lady beetle Cryptognatha nodiceps helps control coconut scales and coconut whiteflies?
Did you know that "Macht weit die Pforten in der Welt", written for the Basel Mission, was included with a new melody in Kirchenlied to proclaim Christ the King in opposition to the Nazi regime?
Did you know that Jane Withers rose to child stardom in the 1930s playing mischievous little girls, "tomboy rascals", and "America's favorite problem child"?
Did you know that a foundation set up by Pragya Prasun has supported more than 250 survivors of acid attacks?
Did you know that although "O Captain! My Captain!", written on the death of Abraham Lincoln, was one of Walt Whitman's most popular poems, he grew to be "almost sorry" he wrote it?
Did you know that social activist Lee Hyo-jae's efforts helped abolish South Korea's patriarchal naming system, allowing people to use both parents' surnames?
Did you know that the Overa-Aru Wildlife Sanctuary lies within the distributional range of the critically endangered Kashmir stag?
Did you know that the old baptismal font of the Vaxholm Church became a bird bath?
Did you know that Kwangchul Youn, a bass from South Korea, appeared as Gurnemanz in Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival, as Mephisto at the Vienna State Opera, and as King Marke at the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that Mauree Turner is the first publicly non-binary individual elected to a U.S. state legislature?
Did you know that White House correspondent Bryson Rash started in radio at the age of 12 by voicing Buster Brown?
Did you know that the annual Indian sports awards ceremony at the Presidential Palace includes awards for adventure, for the top-performing university, and for sports promotion?
Did you know that the architect of the Armenian genocide, Talaat Pasha, is buried under a monument dedicated to "heroes of the fatherland"?
Did you know that Bodashtart, King of Sidon, left some 30 dedicatory inscriptions at the Temple of Eshmun?
Did you know that Saint Ninnoc (depicted) is often shown with a stag lying at her feet, said to represent the at-risk women who came under her guardianship?
Did you know that Sydney D. Bailey, an expert on international affairs and author of 17 books, left school by the age of 16 and taught himself political science?
Did you know that the Gainsborough Studios, a cooperative apartment for artists, was legally classified as a hotel to circumvent zoning restrictions on residential building heights?
Did you know that the Porcupine Freedom Festival has been described as "the libertarian version of Burning Man"?
Did you know that Britain's 1977 Coal Queen won her weight in Babycham?
Did you know that David Bonnar, the incoming bishop of Youngstown, served as chaplain of the Pittsburgh Steelers and editor of The Priest?
Did you know that Hermann Wiedemann, who sang the role of Beckmesser in Toscanini's recording of Die Meistersinger, appeared as Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier at the Vienna State Opera 196 times?
Did you know that James M. Canty became the first Superintendent of Mechanical Industries at West Virginia State University following a recommendation from Booker T. Washington?
Did you know that Japan National Route 281 served as an evacuation route for the city of Kuji following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami?
Did you know that Swiss bass Peter Lagger performed in the world premieres of Louise Talma's Die Alkestiade at the Oper Frankfurt and of Penderecki's "Magnificat" at the Salzburg Festival?
Did you know that actress Norma Shearer posed for a glamor photoshoot to convince her producer-husband Irving Thalberg (both pictured) that her sexual allure would translate to film for the lead role in The Divorcee?
Did you know that during the Napoleonic Wars, Donat Henchy O'Brien escaped French captivity at Bitche and rejoined the Royal Navy at Trieste?
Did you know that music critic Greg Kot described "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang" as "despicable misogyny", but listed it among his guilty pleasures because the "rawwwk doesn't get much rawer"?
Did you know that the developers of the video game Serious Sam: Next Encounter kept up morale by sharing their highscores via internal message boards?
Did you know that when news reporters were accused of trying to force the outcome of the 1967 North Sumatra gubernatorial election, one of them said he was prepared to be shot if found guilty?
Did you know that Arsenal Women's 11–1 win over Bristol City at Meadow Park in 2019 was the widest margin of victory in the history of the FA Women's Super League?
Did you know that Coretta Scott King condemned the music video for Public Enemy's "By the Time I Get to Arizona", which depicts violent revenge for her assassinated husband?
Did you know that Dolores Cabrera y Heredia, a Spanish Romantic poet and novelist, was a prominent member of Hermandad Lírica (Lyrical Sisterhood)?
Did you know that Leonardo DiCaprio actually set actors on fire with his flamethrower in the 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Did you know that Rudolf Gerlach-Rusnak was the stage name of a tenor from Ukraine, with the first name chosen for his favourite role in La bohème?
Did you know that due to the living instrument doctrine, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that "it is no longer considered to be necessary or appropriate" to criminalize homosexuality?
Did you know that folklorist and archaeologist Ethel Rudkin was the first to quantify and categorise sightings of ghostly black dogs?
Did you know that the 1985–86 Hormel meatpacking plant strike was the subject of both an Academy Award–winning film and a stage play by the Children's Theatre Company?
Did you know that the primarily glass facade of 510 Fifth Avenue was said to have "led the banking profession out of the cellar and onto the street"?
Did you know that the submarine Sadko carries up to 40 tourists and has 22 underwater portholes?
Did you know that 185 Spanish-language radio stations aired the astronomy program Universo produced by KXCR of El Paso, Texas?
Did you know that Christ Church, Marylebone, is now a sports centre?
Did you know that Kylie Minogue wore a Hysteric Glamour minidress on the cover of her fourth studio album, Let's Get to It?
Did you know that Mary Fowkes's autopsies on COVID-19 victims helped identify long-term debilitating effects of the virus, including its impact on the heart and the brain?
Did you know that Nazi officials took advantage of national indifference to sign more people up to the Volksliste?
Did you know that Oxonmoot is an annual conference and fan convention in Oxford dedicated to the life and works of J. R. R. Tolkien?
Did you know that Polish abstract painter Piotr Potworowski influenced the creative thinking of British painters at the Bath Academy of Art?
Did you know that Tarabya I of Pakhan became governor of Pagan despite his subpar performance in the Forty Years' War?
Did you know that after Swampy was evicted from Jones Hill Wood, rare barbastelle bats were discovered to be living there?
Did you know that as Master of Pierson College at Yale University during World War II, Arnold Wolfers recruited students for the Office of Strategic Services?
Did you know that on this day in 1914, W. F. Taylor became the first president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association?
Did you know that prolific actress Barbara Stanwyck received four Best Actress nominations without a win, and was given an honorary Oscar in 1982 for her contributions to the film industry?
Did you know that Andrew Clyde became involved in politics after being subject to a civil asset forfeiture of nearly $1 million by the Internal Revenue Service?
Did you know that Arsenal footballer Vivianne Miedema is the all-time leading scorer in the FA Women's Super League and has scored more goals at the international level than any other Dutch player?
Did you know that Chorabari Lake no longer exists?
Did you know that Hermann Schey, a Jewish bass-baritone, travelled regularly from Berlin to Amsterdam to perform in Bach's St Matthew Passion, and went into hiding there during World War II?
Did you know that Maine's Lewiston Daily Sun and its successor, the Sun Journal, were owned by the same family—Louis B. Costello, his son, and grandson—for more than 70 years?
Did you know that as the governor of North Sumatra, Ulung Sitepu donated 2,400 bottles of passion fruit drinks for the inaugural Games of the New Emerging Forces?
Did you know that despite ample epigraphic evidence mentioning his name, nothing is known about Phoenician king Yatonmilk's reign?
Did you know that in the 17th-century card game of Penneech, named after its highest card, the seven of diamonds, the trump suit changes with each trick?
Did you know that the Plessey AR-3D made use of the annoying problem of "squint" to produce a simple 3D radar?
Did you know that the themes of violence in The Last of Us Part II were inspired by Neil Druckmann's memories of watching footage of the 2000 Ramallah lynching?
Did you know that to promote their 2011 concept album David Koresh Superstar, based on the 1993 Waco siege, UK indie rock band the Indelicates created the video game Super David Koresh Attack?
Did you know that "Nun singt ein neues Lied dem Herren" is a 1967 paraphrase of Psalm 98 by the Catholic theologian Georg Thurmair set to a 16th-century melody?
Did you know that Abraham Pais's 1982 biography of Albert Einstein was the first to focus on Einstein's scientific contributions as opposed to his life as a popular figure?
Did you know that Cloudwater Brew Co's name is a translation of the Zen Buddhist term unsui, meaning "cloud, water"?
Did you know that Donald Trump, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Alex Jones have all been described as Extremely Online?
Did you know that Galician Jewish scholar Reuven Fahn wrote about the Karaite community of Halicz?
Did you know that Paul Foley, who played one match in his first-class career, went on to co-found the Minor Counties Cricket Championship?
Did you know that Priscilla Jana, a South African human-rights lawyer of Indian descent, was the first woman to hug Nelson Mandela in 13 years of imprisonment on Robben Island?