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Did you know that a saying in Britain states that one should "never drink in a flat-roofed pub" (example pictured)?
Did you know that the 2021 Palestinian film The Present is about a present and the present?
Did you know that a 1947 song tells you how to cook rabbit at top speed?
Did you know that after Mary Lou Godbold announced her candidacy for the Mississippi Senate, all of the other candidates withdrew from the race?
Did you know that assisted by computers, Marijn Heule helped devise a proof of Keller's conjecture in dimension seven, a 90-year-old math problem?
Did you know that historians do not agree on how Port Way entered the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum?
Did you know that photographer Benedict J. Fernandez was invited several times to the home of Martin Luther King Jr., where he was able to see him "as a man, a father, a husband"?
Did you know that rapper Pop Smoke recorded "Diana" the night before he was murdered?
Did you know that the bicolored sponge goby spends most of its life living inside sponges?
Did you know that the mayor of Málaga, Francisco de la Torre, was the first Spaniard to be awarded the Medal of Pushkin by Vladimir Putin?
Did you know that their cookhouse (example pictured) was as important to loggers as their bunkhouse or tool shed?
Did you know that Carter Hart is the youngest goaltender in Philadelphia Flyers history to record a shutout, doing so at the age of 21 years and 57 days?
Did you know that Grote Stadskerk, a church located in the historical centre of Paramaribo, is the first and the largest church of the Moravian congregation in Suriname?
Did you know that José de la Cruz Mena, who contracted leprosy at the age of 21 and was blind at 26, was described as "the pre-eminent Nicaraguan composer of his time"?
Did you know that a song of God's presence, written in 1965 in Dutch by Huub Oosterhuis, became part of the first common German Catholic hymnal, and was retained in the second by popular demand?
Did you know that after making videos on TikTok where she lip-synced Donald Trump, Sarah Cooper got a comedy special on Netflix and a TV show on CBS?
Did you know that although used as the weather vane of a church, the Söderala vane was probably originally made for a Viking ship?
Did you know that in September 2020, two labor unions both performed strike actions against the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago?
Did you know that in State v. Linkhaw, the North Carolina Supreme Court reversed the conviction of a man who sang so badly in church that a jury had found him guilty of "disturbing a religious congregation"?
Did you know that in one of Singapore's largest drainage diversions, a canal had to be redirected into steel pipes while constructing Chinatown MRT station?
Did you know that most of the coastal highway Japan National Route 101 follows the path of a road originally established by the Tokugawa shogunate?
Did you know that the greeneye spurdog, Sydney skate, grey skate and whitefin swellshark are at risk of extinction by trawling, according to a 2021 report?
Did you know that the most senior of the African-American scientists and technicians on the Manhattan Project, William Knox, supervised the otherwise-white staff of the Corrosion Section at Columbia University?
Did you know that Anka Nathanová gave birth to Eva Clarke (both pictured) at the Mauthausen concentration camp shortly before its liberation in 1945?
Did you know that English clergyman Wilfrid T. F. Castle wrote the first book-length account of the postal history of Cyprus?
Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald said that his book The Great Gatsby was a failure in comparison to Willa Cather's My Ántonia?
Did you know that Len Fisher won the 1999 Ig Nobel Prize for physics for his research on the optimal way to dunk a biscuit?
Did you know that Martin Creed's installation Work No. 227: The lights going on and off has been described as "the first truly great artwork of the twenty-first century"?
Did you know that Paul English, co-founder of Kayak, offered to pay for the vaccination of 100,000 people during the cholera outbreak following the 2010 Haiti earthquake if other funding could not be secured?
Did you know that Rosemary Crumlin, author of a 60-year history of the Blake Prize for religious art, first attended a Blake exhibition when she was a young novice with the Australian Sisters of Mercy?
Did you know that a German theologian wrote "Vertraut den neuen Wegen" to be sung at a wedding in Eisenach shortly before the fall of the Wall?
Did you know that in the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode "A Transfer", Arthur Schopenhauer's hedgehog's dilemma is mentioned?
Did you know that on the first day of the East L.A. walkouts, Vickie Castro's car was used to take down a fence at Roosevelt High School?
Did you know that while the 2020 Triumph Tiger 900 shares a name with a previous model (the 1998 Tiger 900) and looks similar to its predecessor (the 2010 Tiger 800), it shares its design with neither?
Did you know that Bob's Your Uncle, a Hong Kong YouTuber, began cooking while he was an international student after he found the food from Chinese restaurants in London unappetising?
Did you know that Doug Sahm's posthumous album The Return of Wayne Douglas was his first to feature only country music songs?
Did you know that Fragonard won the Prix de Rome for painting Jeroboam Sacrificing to Idols (detail pictured) in 1752, when he was 20 years old?
Did you know that Hastings station had neither platforms nor shelter for waiting passengers?
Did you know that Plandemic was criticized for its professional-style production?
Did you know that after Erna Schlüter had appeared as Elektra at the Royal Opera House, the composer, who was in the audience, told her that she was the fulfilment of the character?
Did you know that as the only woman in the 1923 Utah State Senate, Antoinette Kinney introduced bills to increase the number of state-sponsored scholarships and to establish public health regulations?
Did you know that at one point, the Consulate-General of Japan in Vladivostok was housed in what is now the Vladimir K. Arseniev Museum of Far East History?
Did you know that the Thousand Islands Parkway was the final two-lane section of Highway 401?
Did you know that the death of Serbian politician Vladimir Cvijan, which occurred in January 2018, was not publicly known until March 2021?
Did you know that the pioneering Turkish soprano Mesude Çağlayan was presented a tiny doll of "Madama Butterfly" by the government of Japan for performing the Japanese title role in Puccini's opera?
Did you know that Captain John Fenwick Hutchings was in charge of Operation Pluto, the project to construct submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel during World War II?
Did you know that Diane Damiano, a biomedical scientist and physical therapist, helped create a robotic exoskeleton designed to aid children with cerebral palsy to learn how to walk?
Did you know that Frank Sinatra was "very, very angry" after being told that he would not be singing "Lonely Town" on film?
Did you know that Guadalupe College president David Abner Jr. declined lucrative positions at northern U.S. colleges so that he could continue "conducting a school for the colored youths of the south"?
Did you know that Jessie Carney Smith spent more than twenty years researching the three volumes of Notable Black American Women, which profiled 1,100 figures?
Did you know that Joseph Taylor Goodsir accused Rudolph Virchow, "the father of modern pathology", of plagiarism?
Did you know that Lionel Fleury brought minor ice hockey and a recreational facility to Quebec City during the Great Depression?
Did you know that Pop Smoke references Manu Ginóbili, a former basketball player with the San Antonio Spurs, in the lyrics for "Hello"?
Did you know that Port Vale F.C. captain Tom Conlon's great-great-grandfather played for the club more than a century ago?
Did you know that Robert Webb planned his first book to be about Top Gear and other topics of lad culture before it became How Not to Be a Boy, a memoir about masculinity?
Did you know that despite the European Commission organising COVID-19 vaccine supplies for the whole bloc, a shortage of vaccines caused several member states to obtain their own supplies from Russia and China?
Did you know that during a renovation of New York City's 2 Broadway, some funds were embezzled and sent to two crime families?
Did you know that some Brexit supporters have called for the UK to transform itself into a deregulated, low-tax "Singapore-on-Thames" to prosper outside of the EU?
Did you know that the music video for Oh Land's "Listen a Little Less" was filmed entirely on a Samsung Galaxy S21 smartphone?
Did you know that Games Research Inc licensed Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger's favorite game, in 1960 after the board game's creator unsuccessfully tried to get multiple publishers to accept it?
Did you know that Kathy Hudson, an expert in science policy and genetic discrimination, helped assemble a team that led to the passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act?
Did you know that Marion Macfarlane, the first deaconess in the Anglican Church of Australia, later converted to Catholicism and joined the Sisters of the Good Shepherd?
Did you know that Paul McCartney's psychedelic 1972 Wings Tour Bus ended up in a garden in Tenerife before returning to the UK for restoration?
Did you know that a contributor to Hell Is a Very Small Place, a 2016 book about solitary confinement, was denied access to a copy of the book while in prison?
Did you know that hockey player Kevin Hayes came within two hours of needing his leg amputated due to compartment syndrome?
Did you know that in the 1930s, the Baroque parterre of the Schlosspark (aerial view pictured) in Brühl, part of a World Heritage Site, was restored according to the original 1728 plans?
Did you know that last summer, Martin Rundkvist discovered 22 gold foil figures (example pictured) while excavating a "Beowulfian" mead hall in Sweden?
Did you know that sniffing for coffee was once a highly paid job?
Did you know that the North Korean song "Where Are You, Dear General?" plays every morning at 6 a.m. through Pyongyang's loudspeakers?
Did you know that Charles Scott Napier graduated from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1916, but could not be sent overseas until he turned nineteen in 1918?
Did you know that Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite (advertisement pictured) took place at midnight in Hawaii to match the prime time of its target audience in Asia and Oceania?
Did you know that Marion Miley, a 1930s amateur golfer ranked second in the United States, was murdered at the age of 27?
Did you know that Michael Hampe, who directed the Cologne Opera for 20 years, was the stage director for the world premiere of Henze's adaptation of Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria at the Salzburg Festival?
Did you know that The Top 100 Drugs can fit in a pocket?
Did you know that Vikram Phadnis designed around 800 costumes for the Bollywood film Salaam-e-Ishq?
Did you know that attending the first Women in Print Conference inspired Carol Seajay to create Feminist Bookstore News?
Did you know that genderless fashion in Japan was inspired by K-pop groups, visual kei, and 1980s–1990s American fashion?
Did you know that the "fairy-tale palace" Harry F. Sinclair House, once home to magnates Isaac D. Fletcher and Harry F. Sinclair, later contained the Ukrainian American Institute?
Did you know that the remote Burt Township Schools, covering 258 square miles (670 km2) in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, implemented a novel telephone teaching program that included electronic blackboards in 1984?
Did you know that Abdallah Oumbadougou, the "godfather of all the present-day Tuareg musicians in Niger", distributed illegal cassette tapes of banned ishumar music while in exile from 1984 to 1995?
Did you know that MLS Cup 2000 was the first championship game in league history not to feature D.C. United?
Did you know that Silver Hill station may have been named for rumors of Captain Kidd's treasure – or just a stand of trees?
Did you know that Tranmere Rovers players were each promised a £10,000 bonus for winning the 1991 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
Did you know that XYYY syndrome, a chromosome abnormality in which a man has two extra Y chromosomes, has only been recorded twelve times?
Did you know that Zahra Mohamed Ahmad, who gives legal advice at the Somali Women Development Centre, is said to be a Woman of Courage?
Did you know that according to Nepalese folklore, Pimbahal Pond was built by a demon?
Did you know that an owner of Wyoming radio station KATI donated the station to the University of Wyoming, only to be "disappointed" when the university opted not to use his gift?
Did you know that ballerina Unity Phelan danced in the films John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum and I'm Thinking of Ending Things?
Did you know that one legend on the origin of the coat of arms of Naples claims that it alludes to the colors of the sun and moon cult practiced by the city's pre-Christian inhabitants?
Did you know that the settling of Martensdale, California, went so badly that the town's namesake spent the rest of his life as a fugitive?
Did you know that Barbara Yancy, who succeeded her husband in the Mississippi Senate after his death, later became an advocate for other widowed homemakers?
Did you know that Frances Theresa Peet Russell may have written the first book to examine satire in Victorian literature?
Did you know that a number of live grenades remain on the moon as part of the Active Seismic Experiment, flown on Apollo 14 and Apollo 16?
Did you know that ballerina Elena Lobsanova broke the "curse of Marie" at the National Ballet of Canada?
Did you know that despite looking like the other frogs in its genus, Boophis entingae has a very different call?
Did you know that following his career with the Headhunters, Paul Jackson moved to Japan and established a voluntary concert to familiarize students with African-American history?
Did you know that former baseball player Tacks Latimer was sentenced to life imprisonment for second-degree murder, but was pardoned for his heroism in stopping a prison break?
Did you know that in 1846, Emma Willard represented all of human history in a graphic resembling an Ancient Greek temple?
Did you know that in the music video for "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)", Lil Nas X gives Satan a lap dance?
Did you know that the 1923 film The Abysmal Brute (advertisement pictured) included comedic episodes that were not in the 1911 story by Jack London on which it was based?
Did you know that the Sunshine Protection Act would make daylight saving time in the United States become permanent?
Did you know that the title of Welsh musician The Anchoress's album The Art of Losing was inspired by American poet Elizabeth Bishop's poem "One Art"?
Did you know that Arthur Schüller founded the discipline of neuroradiology?
Did you know that Darrell Blocker, "The Spy Whisperer", began playing live music in Senegal as part of his espionage duties?
Did you know that Dottie Ray interviewed 32,397 guests over 55 years on more than 14,000 broadcasts of her daily show on KXIC radio in Iowa City?
Did you know that Forest Glen Park was among the earliest residential subdivisions in Montgomery County, Maryland, and was described by its developer as "Washington's most desirable suburb?"
Did you know that Humphrey Jennings's 1939 film Spare Time showed an American audience how the British working classes spent their free time?
Did you know that Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my joy), a motet by Bach, has a complex symmetrical structure in which six hymn stanzas alternate with five Bible verses?
Did you know that as part of her influential research on the garden strawberry, Vivian Lee Bowden discovered the unpublished drawings of early French botanist Antoine Nicolas Duchesne?
Did you know that future Atomic Kitten member Jenny Frost represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 as part of the group Precious?
Did you know that the Lucifer Dékou-Dékou Biological Reserve, the largest wilderness area of France, is divided in two by land which includes the country's biggest mining project, the Montagne d'Or mine?
Did you know that the towers of Shimao Cross-Strait Plaza are inspired by sails and bougainvilleas?
Did you know that when Joachim Philip delivered an ultimatum to the British in Grenada during Fédon's rebellion, the militia had to restrain his sister, Susannah, who otherwise would have "torn him to pieces"?
Did you know that Addison Rae's debut single "Obsessed" is about self-love?
Did you know that Anja Petersen performed the role of the leading woman in the world premiere of Arnulf Herrmann's Der Mieter at the Oper Frankfurt?
Did you know that Burnley won the 1994 Football League Second Division play-off Final after two opposition players were sent off?
Did you know that Gianluigi Colalucci is credited with restoring the "dazzling splendour" of both the Sistine Chapel ceiling and Michelangelo's The Last Judgment?
Did you know that Pikrolimni is the only salt lake in Greece, mentioned by Plato and Pliny, and nowadays known for its therapeutic mud baths?
Did you know that concrete bus shelters in Canberra, Australia, now considered an icon of the city, were initially labelled as "lunatic" by a reporter for The Canberra Times?
Did you know that on Holocaust Memorial Day in 2014, Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu claimed that "there is no trace of genocide in our history" – thus denying the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that the San Diego Trolley passes through the James R. Mills Building?
Did you know that the combined no-hitter at the Los Angeles Angels' memorial game for Tyler Skaggs was the first combined no-hitter in California since the day Skaggs was born?
Did you know that the critically endangered chestnut-capped piha is locally known as the "little herdsman of Antioquia" because its call sounds like the whistles made by horsemen herding cattle?
Did you know that the success of the children's poetry book Alligator Pie led to the author, Dennis Lee, being named "Canada's Father Goose"?
Did you know that trees keep the trains running at Kominato Station?
Did you know that when SS Birma responded to the sinking of the Titanic, RMS Carpathia told them to "shut up"?
Did you know that Benjamin Kapelushnik, also known as "Benjamin Kickz", sold sneakers at age 16 to celebrity clients such as DJ Khaled, Drake, Travis Scott, Floyd Mayweather and Kevin Hart?
Did you know that Colin Powell was regarded as the "architect of Jersey's finance industry"?
Did you know that Hey Lady! is Jayne Eastwood's first leading role in a 50-year career?
Did you know that Myth and Religion of the North by Gabriel Turville-Petre has been described as the best work on Norse mythology in English?
Did you know that Turkish anthropologist Ayşe Gül Altınay was sentenced to 25 months in jail due to her support for a peaceful resolution of the Kurdish–Turkish conflict?
Did you know that former U.S. president Bill Clinton made a guest appearance on a television reunion episode of The West Wing to encourage voter turnout in the 2020 United States elections?
Did you know that the Lovecraftian Zalgo text is a common aspect of "surreal memes"?
Did you know that the sea cucumber Holothuria poli may have reached the Red Sea by travelling through the Suez Canal?
Did you know that Aga Mikolaj, a soprano who studied with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, appeared as Mozart's Donna Elvira from San Francisco to Tokyo, and sang the Four Last Songs with "a degree of abandon and rapture"?
Did you know that Nadodrze in Poland was used by Steven Spielberg as a filming location for a spy drama set in Berlin?
Did you know that Rogers Lehew was influential in starting the Calgary Stampeders tradition of featuring a horse at the sidelines during games at McMahon Stadium?
Did you know that Senegalese artist and actress Younousse Sèye, who is best known for her mixed-media works incorporating cowrie shells, is considered to be Senegal's first woman painter?
Did you know that Wyche Pavilion, a two-story historic building in Greenville, South Carolina, was originally intended to serve as a paint shop for the Greenville Coach Factory?
Did you know that historian of the Middle East George Eden Kirk's first book was praised for excelling in objectivity while his last was criticised for bias and bitterness?
Did you know that the Stinnes–Legien Agreement was named after a trade union leader and an industrialist?
Did you know that the historic Statue of Laxmi-Narayan was on display in the Dallas Museum of Art for 37 years despite having been stolen?
Did you know that the miracles that established Saint Glodesind's claim to sainthood did not begin until 25 years or more after her death, and many of them occurred over 200 years later?
Did you know that when he was younger, the Duke of Windsor wanted to be an "up-to-date" king?
Did you know that writer Mark Twain frequently used Cooper station to meet with a friend?
Did you know that Ben Connor, who competed in his first marathon in October 2020, has qualified for the marathon race at the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Kate Clark wrote the children's book A Southern Cross Fairy Tale, which used Northern Hemisphere Christmas imagery but featured the natural features and animals of New Zealand?
Did you know that Madame Gavaudan, a soprano of the Opéra-Comique in Paris, created the role of Benjamin in Étienne Méhul's Joseph?
Did you know that The Wolf of Wall Street set a Guinness world record for the most instances of swearing in a film, with the word "fuck" said a total of 569 times?
Did you know that a head was displayed in the Seagram Building's plaza in 1968?
Did you know that all three albums in the discography of the emo band American Football are eponymous, so the media and Polyvinyl Records refer to them as LP1, LP2, and LP3?
Did you know that despite his side winning the 1998 Football League Second Division play-off Final, Grimsby's Alan Buckley said "Anybody who says they enjoy play-offs aren't football managers"?
Did you know that during the 2020 Zagreb flash flood, residents broke into a dam control building to drain floodwaters from the city?
Did you know that in 1984, a Spanish fishing trawler sank after being fired upon by the Irish patrol vessel Aisling?
Did you know that since Henry E. Parker ran for office in 1974, the Democratic Party has always nominated an African American for Connecticut State Treasurer?
Did you know that the Hunterdon Art Museum, located in a historic stone mill, was described as the "most charming and picturesque" museum in New Jersey?
Did you know that the Shinan shipwreck, the first major discovery of Korean maritime archaeology, has been described as possibly "the richest ancient shipwreck yet discovered"?
Did you know that the almost 50-million-year-old fossil leaves of Comptonia columbiana (example pictured) preserve evidence of moth feeding?
Did you know that Chava Shapiro published the first feminist manifesto in Hebrew, lamenting the absence of women's voices in the language's literature?
Did you know that Kristen Stewart played a young woman with Friedreich's ataxia in the 2007 film, The Cake Eaters?
Did you know that Plunton Castle, although well defended by gun loops, a ditch and a 9-foot (2.7 m) wall, had a very rare security flaw in the arrangement of its ground-floor rooms?
Did you know that Two-Way Mirror, the first full biography of English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 30 years, portrays the poet as a daring Victorian sensation and dismisses her image as an invalid?
Did you know that after Musical Youth reworked the song "Pass the Kouchie" into "Pass the Dutchie" by replacing cannabis references with food references, the word "dutchie" later became a cannabis reference as well?
Did you know that four religious denominations meet in one district of Wrocław?
Did you know that stones have been found in the stomachs of some Whitehead's trogons?