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Did you know that when Texas judge John W. Brady heard his sentence for murdering his mistress, he cried out: "I didn't do it; I didn't do it. I do not deserve that sentence"?
Did you know that Hilmar Hoffmann, who wanted "culture for all", initiated a 15-museum complex in Frankfurt, including the first independent Jewish museum in postwar Germany?
Did you know that coached by Harendra Singh, India's field hockey teams won gold at the 2016 Men's Junior World Cup, gold at the 2017 Women's Asia Cup, and silver at the 2018 Men's Champions Trophy?
Did you know that one side of Euston Square may have "tried to bury the murderous memories attached thereto" by changing its name to Endsleigh Gardens?
Did you know that the Shadwell forgeries, crude 19th-century fake medieval artefacts, are now sought-after collectibles in their own right?
Did you know that the kings of the Alchon Huns practiced artificial cranial deformation to elongate their skulls?
Did you know that New York City's Gowanus Canal is so heavily polluted that Enterococcus, which is found in human fecal matter, has been detected at more than 100 times above safe levels?
Did you know that Petra Schmidt has performed operatic title roles such as Dvořák's Rusalka and Ponchielli's La Gioconda at the Musiktheater im Revier?
Did you know that according to a 17th-century missionary in Safavid Georgia, the literate Georgians in the province preferred to read Georgian versions of Persian works rather than religious texts?
Did you know that biochemist Chen-Lu Tsou was praised for criticizing his boss?
Did you know that despite earning the second-highest score in the 2018 U.S. Championships at junior level, Alysa Liu was too young to compete at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships?
Did you know that the same day her husband was murdered, 55-year-old Byzantine Empress Zoë Porphyrogenita married her young lover and had him crowned emperor the next day?
Did you know that the sand burrowing brittlestar is often found in association with the sea potato?
Did you know that 8-year-old Hailey Dawson wants to throw out the first pitch in all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums using her 3D-printed robotic hand?
Did you know that Technological University Dublin, or TU Dublin, is the first university of its type in Ireland?
Did you know that the reticulated pufferfish can produce and build up toxins in its skin, gonads, and liver, including tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin?
Did you know that the witch of Agnesi comes from a circle and kisses it?
Did you know that when Minna Lammert, Lilli Lehmann and her sister Marie rehearsed as the Rhinemaidens for the first performance of Das Rheingold in Bayreuth, Wagner thanked them "with tears of joy"?
Did you know that Alaska's Captain Cook State Recreation Area was a traditional salmon fishing spot for the Dena'ina people, before being used for commercial fishing?
Did you know that Fanjingshan, a sacred Buddhist mountain, was recently designated a UNESCO World Heritage site?
Did you know that an army commander in the Banat Republic of 1918 claimed it could raise 40,000 troops against the French Danube Army, but in reality it had less than 4,000?
Did you know that despite being unaffected by rabies or pseudorabies, the sea urchin Tripneustes depressus contains antivirals to these diseases?
Did you know that the siting of a trolley station in front of the new courthouse in San Diego, California, was opposed by court officials and the county sheriff?
Did you know that when Byzantine emperor Anastasius I died, he left a treasury with over 23 million gold solidi, equivalent to 420 long tons of gold?
Did you know that Antonio Banderas, who voices the character Puss in Boots in the Shrek films, stated that Puss is his alter ego?
Did you know that Grand Canyon explorer Jack Sumner intentionally castrated himself?
Did you know that Interstate 86 follows a section of the historic Oregon Trail?
Did you know that Liebe und Eifersucht (Love and Jealousy), an 1807 opera with libretto and music by E. T. A. Hoffmann, premiered in 2008?
Did you know that Liu Boli was tasked with cleaning up China's nuclear waste?
Did you know that according to Peter Wilmot-Sitwell, young well-connected stockbrokers in his firm were known as "orchids" because they were "beautiful but utterly useless"?
Did you know that the Novara-class cruisers (SMS Novara pictured) were the largest warships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy to be used by the victors of World War I?
Did you know that Cuitláhuac García Jiménez lost the 2016 Veracruz gubernatorial election to Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares, but defeated Linares' son in 2018?
Did you know that Stuart W. Jamieson pioneered pulmonary thromboendarterectomy?
Did you know that Vince Lombardi's Packers sweep has been called one of the most famous American football plays in history?
Did you know that after his first visit to Timișoara in 1307, Charles I of Hungary rebuilt Timișoara Fortress in stone, using Italian craftsmen?
Did you know that nearly every person in Val Gagné, Ontario, died in the 1916 Matheson Fire, and the settlement was renamed to honour the heroic efforts of the parish priest?
Did you know that spiders in the genus Plato have cubical egg sacs?
Did you know that the oratorio Sankt-Bach-Passion by Mauricio Kagel, which premiered in 1985 for the tricentenary of Bach's birth, "changed the game by making Bach himself the suffering protagonist"?
Did you know that the song "Saving Light" was released as part of "Make Trance #1 Again", an initiative that encouraged fans to purchase the song on Beatport to support an anti-bullying charity?
Did you know that Enoch zu Guttenberg conducted Verdi's Requiem in a concert in Rome for Pope Benedict XVI?
Did you know that Jean-François Bony designed fabrics for the rulers of France before, during, and after the French Revolution?
Did you know that Marvel Comics published a solo comic book about the teenager Jean Grey from the time-displaced X-Men?
Did you know that Stanwood station was once served by the "Dinky", claimed by local residents to be the world's shortest steam railway?
Did you know that after Shane Filan's demo for "Beautiful in White" was leaked in 2010, it became a popular wedding song in Asia?
Did you know that the fatal shooting of her son inspired Lucy McBath to advocate for gun control and ultimately run for the United States Congress?
Did you know that Gevninge, a Danish village dating to the Viking Age or earlier, may have been the port for the seat of the Scylding kings?
Did you know that Kateryna Kasper appeared at the Los Angeles Opera as Belinda in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, staged by Barrie Kosky, and in Frankfurt as Antonida in Glinka's Iwan Sussanin, staged by Harry Kupfer?
Did you know that Sigmund Freud regularly played the popular Austrian tarot card game, Königrufen?
Did you know that William Chong Wong, the son of Chinese immigrant parents, twice served as Minister of Finance in Honduras?
Did you know that since Brett Cantor's fatal stab wounds 25 years ago today were similar to those of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, O. J. Simpson's defense team was allowed to review the police case file?
Did you know that the Donald Trump baby balloon was flown over London's Parliament Square and Edinburgh's the Meadows?
Did you know that Ninurta, the Mesopotamian god of hunting, is believed by many scholars to be the source of the biblical figure Nimrod?
Did you know that at the time of its release in 2002, economic simulations like Sea Trader: Rise of Taipan were uncommon on handheld systems like the Game Boy Advance?
Did you know that before she became a star in Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, Dee Booher's first professional match was against a 700-pound (320 kg) bear?
Did you know that scientist Gustaf Gabriel Hällström initiated the first regular meteorological observations in Finland?
Did you know that some leeches feed only twice a year?
Did you know that the Flint Public Library created the Julia A. Moore Poetry Contest to celebrate bad poetry?
Did you know that when Marcus Bibulus opposed a law proposed by Julius Caesar, he was publicly soaked with excrement?
Did you know that Averroes wrote on subjects as diverse as philosophy, Islamic jurisprudence, medicine, and astronomy?
Did you know that Catherine Gayer, who was a coloratura soprano for four decades at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, premiered Nono's Intolleranza 1960 in Venice, and Reimann's Melusine at the Schwetzingen Festival?
Did you know that in 1939, Benjamin Seielstad drew four different versions of the end of the world ("giant meteor" collision pictured) for Popular Science Monthly?
Did you know that incendiary balloons—made from condoms or party balloons—and incendiary kites have been launched from the Gaza Strip and started hundreds of fires in Israel in 2018?
Did you know that the $4 billion World Trade Center Transportation Hub, built after the September 11 attacks, has been described as the world's most expensive train station?
Did you know that Dharma Bum Temple helped organize the first Buddhist college fraternity in the United States, Delta Beta Tau (pledge class pictured), at San Diego State University?
Did you know that Sara Hershkowitz, who usually appears on the opera stage as the Queen of the Night and Zerbinetta, parodied Donald Trump in Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre at the Lowlands Festival?
Did you know that prior to the first town council elections in Loxahatchee Groves, Florida, a political forum for the candidates was hosted at a nudist resort?
Did you know that the purple eagle ray (Myliobatis hamlyni) was named after Ronald Hamlyn-Harris, director of the Queensland Museum?
Did you know that the sport of duck netting may be unique to the Imperial House of Japan?
Did you know that an illegal Jewish organization in an Axis puppet state proposed an ambitious scheme to bribe Heinrich Himmler into halting the systematic extermination of European Jews?
Did you know that the creeping comb jelly lives on the surface of a starfish in the family Echinasteridae?
Did you know that the developers of Vampyr chose to include only one save slot, so that the player's actions would have "real, meaningful impact"?
Did you know that Franz Schubert, a prolific composer of songs, symphonies and other works, gave only one public concert presenting his own works?
Did you know that John Davy Rolleston highlighted the seriousness of otitis media as a complication of scarlet fever?
Did you know that Kelly M. Quintanilla, the first person in her family to attend a university, became the first female president of Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi?
Did you know that Maria and Bogdan Kalinowski were recognized as the most avid filmgoers in Poland, having seen more than 13,000 movies together?
Did you know that butyrolactol A, a polyketide derived from Streptomyces rochei, demonstrates broad antimicrobial activity against fungi, including Candida albicans?
Did you know that the mangrove kingfisher, found in Africa, migrates away from mangroves to breed?
Did you know that Scott Smith's management and marketing of international events was cited by the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a reason for the growth of Hockey Canada?
Did you know that after Isaac Stevens, the governor of Washington Territory, was found guilty of contempt over his conduct during martial law in Pierce County, he pardoned himself?
Did you know that despite being portrayed favorably in a Soviet propaganda film, Konstantin Petrovich Nechaev was later accused by Leon Trotsky of supporting Chinese monarchism?
Did you know that the announcement of Steel Division 2 came after half the team at Eugen Systems, the video game's developers, went on strike?
Did you know that the pinkish-red portion of the flag of Sioux Falls represents the Sioux Quartzite stone which was quarried nearby and used to build early Sioux Falls buildings?
Did you know that verses 2 to 6 of Psalm 97 in Czech were set to music by Antonín Dvořák in his Biblical Songs?
Did you know that Carrie Goldberg, who is representing two women accusing Harvey Weinstein of sexual abuse, once served as a case manager for Holocaust victims?
Did you know that Malala Yousafzai's 2013 autobiography I Am Malala was banned in 152,000 private schools in Pakistan?
Did you know that US Senate page boys were required to wear knickers when the film Adventure in Washington‎ was made in 1941?
Did you know that in 1918, Richard Strauss composed Sechs Lieder, Op. 68, based on poems by Clemens Brentano, with the voice of Elisabeth Schumann in mind?
Did you know that jewel anemones split apart but stay together?
Did you know that the conjoined liver of the Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker is on display at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia?
Did you know that Clifford Braimah, head of the Ghana Water Company, is a supporter of Operation Vanguard and its mission to end illegal mining?
Did you know that Governor-elect of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, was the first winning gubernatorial candidate to come from the Movimiento Ciudadano party?
Did you know that each of the sixty geese in Michael Snow's Flight Stop is decorated with the image of the same dead Canada goose culled from Toronto Island?
Did you know that the mezzo-soprano Carla Henius performed in the premiere of Luigi Nono's Intolleranza 1960 at La Fenice, and had a composition by Dieter Schnebel written for her voice?
Did you know that Deutsche Reiterliche Vereinigung, the governing body for the majority of equestrian sports in Germany, promotes the status of the horse as a cultural asset?
Did you know that Erinea Garcia Gallegos, one of the first college-educated Hispanic women in Colorado, was appointed postmistress of the city of San Luis by President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Did you know that the Torrance Barrens is Canada's first dark-sky preserve?
Did you know that the history of the Jews in Atlanta dates to 1845, the same year the city changed its name from Marthasville?
Did you know that the sea chubs Graus nigra and Medialuna ancietae, the Chilean sandperch, and the Galápagos sheephead wrasse all live in the forest?
Did you know that Mexico was represented by a single athlete at the 2014 Winter Paralympics?
Did you know that Neocalanus plumchrus is able to uptake dissolved glucose directly from seawater despite its exoskeleton?
Did you know that Teuira Henry reconstructed her English missionary grandfather's lost manuscript describing Tahitian history by using his notes?
Did you know that the Argentinian mezzo-soprano Alicia Nafé appeared in her signature role as Bizet's Carmen alongside Plácido Domingo in San Francisco, and at the Metropolitan Opera with Domingo as conductor?
Did you know that the Samec'niero, written by Iase Tushi, contains one of the earliest examples of a Georgian–Persian dictionary, and is the earliest Georgian manuscript so far discovered in Iran?
Did you know that Mexican federal deputy Carlos Hermosillo Arteaga and his wife were found to own six properties worth a total of 14 million pesos in the state of Chihuahua?
Did you know that despite being a crustacean, a parasitic copepod found on a flying fish was described as a "gill-worm" by Hans Severin Holten, the Danish naturalist who discovered it?
Did you know that in 1965, Benjamin Steinberg, a violinist in the NBC Symphony Orchestra with Arturo Toscanini, started the first racially integrated symphony orchestra in America, the Symphony of the New World?
Did you know that the Sycamore Gap Tree has been featured in a Hollywood blockbuster, a Bryan Adams music video and a TV crime drama?
Did you know that the University Hospital in Pleven was the first hospital in Bulgaria to perform robot-assisted surgery?
Did you know that the blazar TXS 0506+056 is the first identified source of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos?
Did you know that in July 2018, U2 topped the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart for the first time in seventeen years with "Love Is Bigger Than Anything in Its Way"?
Did you know that plastic surgeon Patrick Clarkson had the idea for the Hand Club to help injured airmen, and established the Children's Burns Unit at Guy's Hospital?
Did you know that the frescos in Fulltofta Church were discovered in 1907 after being hidden since the Reformation?
Did you know that Chinese spy Zheng Pingru, who was executed after an assassination attempt on a Japanese collaborator, is believed to have inspired the novella Lust, Caution, and its film adaptation?
Did you know that Michael Martin, project director of the recently completed £1.4 billion Queensferry Crossing, was inspired to study engineering through reading back issues of New Civil Engineer?
Did you know that Wood-Tikchik State Park, the largest state park in the United States, is sometimes staffed by a single ranger?
Did you know that Badr Shirvani, a Persian poet from Shirvan in the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan, received patronage from numerous rulers at the same time?
Did you know that Gheorghe A. Lăzăreanu-Lăzurică, a self-proclaimed "Voivode of the Gypsies", supported Romania's far-right groups, beginning with the National Agrarian Party?
Did you know that Marie Lehmann, one of the Rhinemaidens at the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876, sang the soprano solo in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the groundbreaking of the Bayreuth Festival Theatre?
Did you know that Old North, built between 1794 and 1797, is the oldest standing academic building on Georgetown University's campus?
Did you know that the Wirral Model Engineering Society operates a raised railway track for fine scale models of full-size steam locomotives at Royden Park?
Did you know that the plot of the 1994 comic book Archie Meets the Punisher was modeled after the 1948 film Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein?
Did you know that when King Kamehameha III died in 1854, the throne of Hawaii passed to his nephew Kamehameha IV instead of his son Albert Kūnuiākea?
Did you know that American video game producer Ben Judd is fluent in the Japanese Kansai dialect?
Did you know that Atlantis moved from Ireland to Colombia?
Did you know that Loggerheads Country Park has a corn mill with a restored water wheel?
Did you know that Mary Fenton, the first Anglo-Indian actress of the Parsi, Gujarati, and Urdu theatre, was introduced to acting by her husband, Kavasji Palanji Khatau?
Did you know that during the Cuban Missile Crisis, each of Britain's "V force" squadrons kept one nuclear-armed V bomber (Avro Vulcans pictured) and crew at 15 minutes' readiness?
Did you know that the South African composer Stefans Grové wrote a setting of Psalm 138 for choir, children's choir, African drums, marimba, and string orchestra?
Did you know that Charles Darwin made descriptive notes on the Brazilian sandperch after a specimen was caught with hook and line off the coast of Patagonia during the voyage of Beagle?
Did you know that Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 2 contains as its third movement a Marche funèbre, which was composed earlier than the other music?
Did you know that Indian Railways runs loss-making trains on the Patna–Digha Ghat line to prevent encroachment?
Did you know that South Dakota architect Harold Spitznagel designed the original Mount Rushmore visitor center with Cecil Doty as part of Mission 66, providing a setting for Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film North by Northwest?
Did you know that as CEO of Denver Health, Dr. Patricia A. Gabow streamlined operations, improved patient care, and cut excessive spending using a system based on the Toyota Production System?
Did you know that ethnic Croat journalist Štefica Galić has been called the "Schindler of Ljubuški" for helping save an estimated two-thirds of the town's Bosniaks during the Croat–Bosniak War?
Did you know that members of the Djajadiningrat family fought on both sides of the Indonesian Revolution?
Did you know that the painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan has been attacked and damaged twice (damage pictured)?
Did you know that Madonna's 1991 song "Rescue Me" made the highest debut for a song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart since the Beatles' "Let It Be" 21 years earlier?
Did you know that air conditioning refrigerant HFO-1234yf, developed by a team led by Barbara Haviland Minor, is believed to be used in 50% of new vehicles produced in 2018, to help counter global warming?
Did you know that in 1394, John "Eleanor" Rykener was apprehended for committing a "detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice" in Cheapside and later confessed to having had sex with both friars and nuns?
Did you know that the publisher of Life with My Sister Madonna, a tell-all book by the singer's younger brother, sold it to retailers without revealing the title or the subject matter in order to create a media stir?
Did you know that Brugada syndrome is known in the Philippines as Bangungut, or "a scream followed by sudden death during sleep"?
Did you know that John F. Kennedy suggested the State of Washington replace its unofficial motto "Alki" with "For You and Me, a Destiny", a lyric from "Washington, My Home", the state song?
Did you know that Leonard Owen oversaw the building of Calder Hall, the world's first nuclear power station to produce electricity on a commercial scale?
Did you know that the candy striped flatworm appears to glide across the seabed, being moved by cilia on its underside?
Did you know that Jenny Sabin's installation Lumen is knitted from solar active yarns that absorb light energy during the day and release it at night?
Did you know that Mindy Alper, the visual artist featured in Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405, helped Mary Stuart Masterson prepare for her role as a mentally ill woman in the 1993 film Benny & Joon?
Did you know that Stanwood, Washington, was formed by the consolidation of two rival towns in order to fund a modern sewage treatment system?
Did you know that Vicars Bell was the "village chronicler" of Little Gaddesden?
Did you know that the factory producing Capodimonte porcelain (snuffbox pictured), including forty workers and nearly five tons of material, was moved from Naples to Madrid in 1759?
Did you know that the flowers of the common sunshine conebush are pollinated by beetles?
Did you know that Ensign Robert Duncan was the first person to shoot down a Mitsubishi A6M Zero with a Grumman F6F Hellcat?
Did you know that Eric Rose performed the first successful paediatric heart transplant?
Did you know that Matthias Rauchmiller, the son of a butcher, designed both the Plague Column in Vienna and the oldest statue on Prague's Charles Bridge (clay model pictured)?
Did you know that Telfair Hodgson was the original financial backer and first managing editor of The Sewanee Review, the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the United States?
Did you know that a pair of yellow "dolphin-like creatures" from a 7th-century hanging bowl finds its closest parallel in manuscript art?
Did you know that flying fox teeth are used as currency on Makira?
Did you know that the first screening of Venom and Eternity ended early following director Isidore Isou's attempt after the first scenes to play only its soundtrack to a darkened theatre?
Did you know that Narmakosh, compiled by Narmad, is the first monolingual dictionary of the Gujarati language?
Did you know that Sir Cusack Patrick Roney was knighted for his role as secretary to the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853?
Did you know that minutes after a world record was set for Super Mario World, SethBling completed a faster run, validating a technique used previously only on an emulator?
Did you know that penis worms very similar to Priapulus caudatus created trace fossils in the early Cambrian period?
Did you know that the flag of the Romani people was a triband, before the red stripe was removed over suspicions that it stood for communism?
Did you know that Alexa Bank is probably a drowned atoll?
Did you know that Alfons Tracki, a German-Albanian Christian martyr, worked to eradicate Gjakmarrja (blood feuds) from Northern Albania?
Did you know that Jack Kirby created many famous comic book characters including Captain America, but his conception of Spider-Man was rejected for being too heroic?
Did you know that Mimi Mondal is the first writer from India to be nominated for a Hugo Award?