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Did you know that Shirley Temple said of her relationship with her favorite dance partner Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (both pictured): "It was kind of a magic between us"?
Did you know that academic and philanthropist Guido Goldman convinced West German chancellor Willy Brandt to set up and endow the German Marshall Fund on the 25th anniversary of the Marshall Plan?
Did you know that the Wallace rule of nines to calculate the area of a burn was introduced by A. B. Wallace of Bangour General Hospital?
Did you know that "Filipino Baby", a song about a sailor's love for a Filipino girl, described as "my treasure and my pet", was a top-five hit for three different artists in 1946?
Did you know that 50 years ago today, a military tribunal handed down six controversial death sentences to members of the Basque separatist group ETA?
Did you know that Canadian modernist architect and urban planner Geoffrey Massey was part of a movement that prevented freeways from being built in Vancouver?
Did you know that William Gates LeDuc led a bison through the streets of New York City as part of the Minnesota exhibition at the 1853 World's Fair?
Did you know that modified mRNA (mRNA translation depicted) is a key technology in the Moderna and BioNTech/Pfizer vaccines against COVID-19?
Did you know that British general John Hunter Littler (depicted) had two horses shot from under him during the 29 December 1843 Battle of Maharajpore?
Did you know that Max Crabtree's "Big Daddy" was his brother Shirley?
Did you know that Soedardjat Nataatmadja's instruction for parliamentary observers to wear traditional Sundanese clothing cost him his reelection?
Did you know that a stereotypical True Pole is a Roman Catholic?
Did you know that during the 1973 oil crisis, material scientist Henry Ehrenreich assessed photovoltaic cells and was an advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy?
Did you know that in the ballet West Side Story Suite, some of the dancers also sing?
Did you know that the colonial bryozoan Beania magellanica, widely distributed in the Southern Hemisphere, has recently turned up in the Mediterranean Sea?
Did you know that the social study They Live on the Land was based on interviews with nearly the entire population of a rural Alabama town during the Great Depression?
Did you know that Great American Bank, based in San Diego, was the first savings and loan association founded in Southern California?
Did you know that Scottsdale, Arizona, repealed its ban on dancing so that the Safari Hotel could open a nightclub?
Did you know that black-on-black ware (example pictured) has been created by generations of Puebloan Native American ceramic artists in Northern New Mexico?
Did you know that in a pre-game ceremony before the last game of the 1972 ice hockey Summit Series, the Canadian delegation presented a totem pole to the Soviet Union?
Did you know that pioneering lesbian columnist Deb Price's same-sex wedding announcement in The Washington Post was one of the first in a major national newspaper?
Did you know that the Atlantic dancing shrimp is often associated with sea urchins or sea anemones?
Did you know that the diaries of Lady Lacoste, a 19th-century philanthropist from Montreal, give historians a rare look into how emotions impacted the lives of women in her social class?
Did you know that British Army officer Sir Augustus FitzGeorge served as equerry to his father, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, and accompanied Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on his visit to India?
Did you know that Israeli lawyer Gonen Ben Itzhak, a prominent figure in the protests against Benjamin Netanyahu, is a former Shin Bet handler of Hamas mole "The Green Prince"?
Did you know that LaVon Mercer, who was homeless as a teenager, played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League for 14 years and was its 1980–81 season MVP?
Did you know that the 1983 memoir Home Before Morning, which details the author's time as a Vietnam War nurse, is dedicated to "all of the unknown women who served forgotten in their wars"?
Did you know that the results of the 2021 Uzbek presidential election are expected to mirror those from 2016, which were widely considered illegitimate?
Did you know that volcanic fumaroles deposit more than 240 distinct, rare fumarole minerals (examples pictured)?
Did you know that Manner, a Macau entertainment company, opened a store that sells almond biscuits with condom-looking wrapping, and gives customers free beef jerky if they show a parking ticket?
Did you know that Spanish physicist Teresa Rodrigo worked on the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN and the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab?
Did you know that XO was one of the lowest-selling games in the Super Robot Wars series due to Xbox 360's unwelcoming commercial and critical reception in Japan?
Did you know that a ranking of the greatest double-entendre songs of all time included "Big Long Slidin' Thing" by Dinah Washington, "Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl" by Bessie Smith, "It Ain't the Meat (It's the Motion)" by the Swallows, "Keep On Churnin' (Till the Butter Comes)" by Wynonie Harris, and "Big Ten Inch Record" by Aerosmith?
Did you know that in 1982, a Magnificat in German composed in 1707 for soprano, traverso, strings, and continuo and attributed to Bach and Telemann, was identified as a composition by Melchior Hoffmann?
Did you know that the 1988 Bruges speech by Margaret Thatcher has been described as "setting the UK on the path to Brexit"?
Did you know that 6,000 square feet (560 m2) of development rights above the Art Students League Building cost $31.8 million?
Did you know that Enid Szánthó, a leading contralto of the Vienna State Opera, appeared as Erda in Wagner's Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival in 1930, but was no longer invited by 1938?
Did you know that Panchkuta Basadi, in the Humcha Jain temple complex, houses a golden-coloured idol of Padmavati carrying a lotus, a goad, and a noose?
Did you know that U-710 was sunk only ten days after beginning her first patrol?
Did you know that US civil-rights leader John Warren Davis was the longest-serving president of West Virginia State University and helped to establish the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund?
Did you know that as a Porto Alegre city councillor, Rodrigo Maroni proposed a bill that would have imposed life imprisonment on offenders who commit cruelty to animals?
Did you know that climate journalist Kendra Pierre-Louis is a critic of mayonnaise?
Did you know that Mildred Mottahedeh's personal collection of porcelain was described by Nelson Rockefeller as "utterly fabulous, an artistic and cultural treasure without comparison in its field"?
Did you know that Oregon state representative John H. Carkin was unanimously elected Speaker of the Oregon House in 1927, with support from all Democratic House members as well as his fellow Republicans?
Did you know that messages could be sent by pneumatic tube in central Paris until 1984?
Did you know that the Ava Prince Thray Sithu led two ceasefire negotiations with Hanthawaddy during the Forty Years' War?
Did you know that the British film Life in Her Hands (scene pictured) was produced to recruit women into nursing?
Did you know that Choctaw was one of only three semi-whaleback ships ever built?
Did you know that Gertrude Degenhardt illustrated her brother-in-law Franz Josef Degenhardt's song albums in the 1960s, and created art books such as Women in Music and Vagabondage in Blue in the 1990s?
Did you know that View of El Paso at Sunset, a 22-foot-long (6.7 m) painting by Audley Dean Nicols, spent years in a janitor's closet at El Paso High School?
Did you know that armed robbers stole an estimated $30–45 million worth of paintings from Sweden's Nationalmuseum in December 2000, including two Renoirs and a Rembrandt?
Did you know that social projection may explain political polarization?
Did you know that the Strokes lose a game of baseball by a score of 56–1 against a team of robots in the music video for their song "The Adults Are Talking"?
Did you know that Anton Colella was named the chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland even though his only qualifications were in teaching Catholic theology?
Did you know that Gernot Roll, considered an expert in literary adaptations, was the cinematographer for the 11-part television series The Buddenbrooks based on Thomas Mann's novel?
Did you know that Laura Purser-Rose became the first woman to sign her name on the Green Monster at Fenway Park?
Did you know that Lenín Moreno, who was elected president of Ecuador in 2017, is not seeking re-election in the 2021 general election?
Did you know that according to a 2005 biography, Max Born, the author of the classic textbook Principles of Optics, felt dejected when he did not share in the 1932 Nobel Prize that was given to his assistant Werner Heisenberg?
Did you know that according to historian Stefan Ihrig, the Nazis sought to emulate Turkey, which they viewed as a "postgenocidal paradise"?
Did you know that although fracking is banned in Maryland, state officials support the Eastern Shore Pipeline, which carries fracked gas?
Did you know that dissections for Gray's Anatomy were carried out at the medical school in London's Kinnerton Street?
Did you know that in "Body", Megan Thee Stallion name-drops animal-rights activist Carole Baskin, who had previously criticized the rapper's use of big cats as props in a music video?
Did you know that in a 2018 U.S. district court case, software company Stardock unsuccessfully tried to claim trademarks for the names of aliens from the game Star Control?
Did you know that in his first run for Texas House of Representatives, El Franco Lee had to pay a $400 fee to remain on the ballot because his nominating petition did not have enough verifiable signatures?
Did you know that in the Mediterranean Sea, recruitment of the bryozoan Callopora lineata takes place in February and March, whereas in the Isle of Man, it takes place all year round?
Did you know that the existence of the painter known as the Master of the Lille Adoration (painting detail pictured), active in 16th-century Antwerp, was only proposed in 1995?
Did you know that Bechevinka, an abandoned Soviet submarine base in Kamchatka, is now a ghost town that attracts tourists?
Did you know that Christine Nagel once created a strawberry-and-popcorn perfume for Dior?
Did you know that Elaine Van Blunk finished third at the 1994 Chicago Marathon, her second marathon event?
Did you know that KAVU-TV in Victoria, Texas, did not know their signal was being seen on cable in Corpus Christi until family of station employees living there said that they had enjoyed that morning's newscast?
Did you know that Openload, a defunct file-sharing site that once received more traffic than Hulu, was labelled a notorious market?
Did you know that Shanti Stupa, Delhi, was inaugurated by the Dalai Lama in 2007?
Did you know that Taylor Swift offered to postpone the release date of Evermore by one week so as not to coincide with Paul McCartney's McCartney III?
Did you know that William Cline Borden wrote the first American textbook on X-rays?
Did you know that an obituary of Neil Peart said he was "sent to Earth to destroy drummer jokes"?
Did you know that construction of the Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Memorial Interchange in Los Angeles in the 1950s displaced an entire neighborhood primarily inhabited by people of color?
Did you know that vaccines are commonly administered via intramuscular injection?
Did you know that when designing the character Madoka Kaname, Ume Aoki used Yuno, the protagonist of her manga series Hidamari Sketch, as a basis?
Did you know that DTM is the largest gay club in Northern Europe?
Did you know that Derrick Tovey recognised early cases of smallpox during an outbreak in Bradford in 1962?
Did you know that LiDAR can be used to make a digital terrain model?
Did you know that Massachusetts-born activist Almira Hollander Pitman was given credit for the passage of a bill for women's suffrage in Hawaii?
Did you know that Molly Gray, the new lieutenant governor of Vermont, is a former competitive skier and the daughter of an Olympic skier?
Did you know that Rosl Zapf, a mezzo-soprano of the Oper Frankfurt who took part in world premieres, appeared at the Salzburg Festival in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte conducted by Georg Solti?
Did you know that Socrates Nelson sold a block of land to the city of Stillwater, Minnesota, for $5 in 1867 for the building of a new county courthouse?
Did you know that Sunny Lam, a Hong Kong singer-songwriter, performed a love song with Siri?
Did you know that at 21.5 tonnes, the recumbent at Aikey Brae stone circle is one of the largest in Aberdeenshire?
Did you know that bathrooms in some German bars have vomiting basins?
Did you know that despite receiving 30,000 monthly fan letters, top box-office silent-film star Clara Bow was convinced that talking pictures would ruin her career?
Did you know that during a spacewalk, Jean-Pierre Haigneré, a French spationaut and crew member of the Mir space station, deployed Sputnik 99 onto its orbit by simply releasing the satellite by hand?
Did you know that fossils of the cypress Taxodium dubium have been found as far north as Spitsbergen and Denali?
Did you know that the Butler mansion was built with parquette oak floors, elaborate frescos, wainscot paneling—and a fireproof wing to store the archives of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey?
Did you know that the Law for the Protection of Macedonian National Honour, created during World War II to quash opposition to Macedonian nationalism, remained in force until 1991?
Did you know that Canadian ethnomusicologist Judith R. Cohen dispels the myth that Judeo-Spanish songs have medieval origins and are unique to Sephardic Jews?
Did you know that Ethiopian runner Helen Bekele Tola has stated a desire to compete for Switzerland at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Fran Todman, who fundraised for the Retina Foundation for decades, was honored with an electrophysiology laboratory at the Schepens Eye Research Institute being named for her?
Did you know that Shanghai-born lawyer Ezekiel Toeg formed leading collections of the stamps of the British West Indies?
Did you know that after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Montana abortion law in Mazurek v. Armstrong, state courts struck down the law as a violation of the Montana Constitution?
Did you know that at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Jutta Lampe played Ophelia "as if in a trance", and male and female roles on a time voyage as the only actor in the premiere of Robert Wilson's Orlando?
Did you know that in My Memoir, former United States first lady Edith Wilson detailed how she became Woodrow Wilson's gatekeeper after his stroke, prioritizing his official duties?
Did you know that in The Trouble With Gravity, Richard Panek suggests that our universe's gravity originates in a parallel universe and is leaking into our own?
Did you know that mercy dogs (example illustrated) were trained during World War I to comfort mortally wounded soldiers as they died in no man's land?
Did you know that the Cominform Resolution of 28 June 1948 publicly announced the Tito–Stalin split?
Did you know that the Idalion bilingual, one of six Phoenician inscriptions found in 1870 at Dali, Cyprus, was the "Rosetta Stone" for the decipherment of the Cypriot syllabary?
Did you know that the demesne of Rostellan contains an 18th-century folly, built by the landowner in honour of the actress Sarah Siddons?
Did you know that the social theory of distinction could explain why the more popular the perfume Santal 33 became, the less some people liked it?
Did you know that voice actor Justin Roiland got drunk to record the part of Rick in the Rick and Morty episode "Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender"?
Did you know that Harper Pass, a remote hiking trail crossing the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana in New Zealand, was once the most important overland connection between Canterbury and the West Coast?
Did you know that Industry faces Therapy?
Did you know that after ice hockey executive Hanson Dowell suspended players on Cape Breton Island, local coal miners threatened to strike in protest?
Did you know that in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had members of Congress distribute millions of free seed packets to Americans?
Did you know that the judiciary of the Philippines has recognized the legal standing of dolphins?
Did you know that the kinetic sculpture Stockton Flyer appears at 1 pm each day in Stockton-on-Tees High Street?
Did you know that vaudeville performer Clarence E. Willard could add 7+1⁄2 inches (19 cm) to his height by stretching?
Did you know that while Ute Trekel-Burckhardt was a leading mezzo-soprano of the State Opera of East Berlin, she appeared as the Rosenkavalier in Vienna, and in the premiere of Sutermeister's Le roi Béranger in Munich?
Did you know that while it is now considered a classic work of girls' comics, the 1974 manga series The Heart of Thomas was almost cancelled five weeks into serialization due to poor initial reader response?
Did you know that "Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit", a 17th-century morning hymn, has been variously translated as "Come, Thou Bright and Morning Star", and as "Dayspring of Eternity"?
Did you know that Archie Andrews has been described as the "simpiest of the simps"?
Did you know that Callimachus's Aetia explains how a lock of hair became an astronomical constellation?
Did you know that Louis Prima being credited as a featured artist on Kids See Ghosts' "4th Dimension" marks the third time Kanye West has given this type of posthumous credit?
Did you know that Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne (both pictured) had such a strong rapport on screen that some people believed that they were married in real life?
Did you know that Paper Mario: Color Splash was accidentally playable two weeks before its launch?
Did you know that Rosalynn Carter's 1984 memoir First Lady from Plains outsold her presidential husband Jimmy Carter's 1982 memoir?
Did you know that after discovering a giant larva on the fourth Dana expedition, Anton Frederik Bruun said, "I believe in the sea serpent", and lectured on its possible existence?
Did you know that as the health commissioner of Chicago in the 1920s, Herman Bundesen advocated the distribution of prophylactics by the city to combat sexually transmitted diseases?
Did you know that hermit crabs such as Paguristes puncticeps raid octopus middens, both for food and for empty mollusc shells?
Did you know that league executives voted ice hockey player Mitchell Miller as one of the best blueliners in the United States Hockey League?
Did you know that the M42 sub-basement was featured in a navy training film as the safest place in New York during a nuclear strike?
Did you know that the People's Liberation Army in China developed the Dongfeng EQ2050 armored vehicle after seeing the Humvee in action on television during the Gulf War?
Did you know that women's rights activist Mebrure Aksoley founded an elementary school before serving for more than 40 years in the Turkish parliament, Constituent Assembly, and Senate?
Did you know that Atalanta reached the semifinals of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1988 while playing in the Italian second tier?
Did you know that Rohana Muthalib, the first Indonesian cosmetologist, was also the first woman mayor of Pontianak?
Did you know that Wolfgang Marschner was the violinist in the first public performance of a work by Karlheinz Stockhausen, his Sonatine, with the composer as the pianist?
Did you know that an album of poetry read by John Wayne reached the number-13 spot on Billboard's Hot Country Albums chart?
Did you know that it took Zachary Levi an average of twenty minutes to get into costume as the titular character in Shazam!?
Did you know that radio station WWBC in Cocoa, Florida, was forced to remove its transmitter tower from the Indian River when the site was sold to condominium developers?
Did you know that six different dams were proposed for the lower Sanpoil River?
Did you know that the Khalili Collection of Aramaic Documents (example pictured) includes the earliest known use in Aramaic of the name "Alexandros" to refer to Alexander the Great?
Did you know that the biographies Uncertainty and Beyond Uncertainty show, contrary to popular belief, that there is no evidence that Werner Heisenberg impeded the German nuclear weapons program to prevent Hitler from obtaining a bomb?
Did you know that the environmental journalist Swati Thiyagarajan investigated claims of interspecies communication made by the conservationist Anna Breytenbach?
Did you know that "Macorina", the first erotic song dedicated to one woman by another, became a "lesbian hymn"?
Did you know that Cristin Milioti appears in Death to 2020 as a stereotypical "Karen", having previously worked with its creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones in Black Mirror episode "USS Callister"?
Did you know that Iti Tyagi said, "I urge every woman to come out of their shells and to break the stereotype" after receiving the Nari Shakti Puraskar?
Did you know that Masochistic Ono Band was created by two Japanese voice actors as the house band for their radio program Dear Girl: Stories?
Did you know that a few years after Pacini's opera La schiava in Bagdad premiered in Turin, Rosalbina Caradori performed the title role of the slave girl in London?
Did you know that according to his 2020 biography, Atomic Spy, Klaus Fuchs felt that passing secrets from his work on the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union was for "the betterment of mankind"?
Did you know that competitive swimmer Meenakshi Pahuja encountered water snakes in one river race at Murshidabad, and a corpse in another?
Did you know that during Sir George Smith's term as governor of Nyasaland, the area of land used for the cultivation of tea, cotton, and tobacco increased a hundredfold?
Did you know that the Scottish gynaecologist Benjamin Philip Watson was examined in surgery by Joseph Bell, the model for Sherlock Holmes?
Did you know that the music video for Taylor Swift's single "Willow" avoids showing some dancers' faces because they were wearing masks as a COVID-19 precaution?
Did you know that the poet Konrad von Altstetten (depicted) is shown in the Codex Manesse splitting his attention between his falcon and his lover?
Did you know that the video game Bad Rats was a popular gag gift on Steam?
Did you know that "Fujiyama Mama", an American rockabilly song that compared a woman's energy to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was a number-one hit in Japan in 1958?
Did you know that 2NE1's "I Am the Best" topped the Billboard World Digital Songs chart after being featured in a Microsoft commercial?
Did you know that Adi Utarini was listed as one of Nature's 10 in 2020 after she released infected mosquitoes all over Yogyakarta to control dengue fever?
Did you know that Esat Uras, a major perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide, later wrote "the ur-text of Turkish denialist 'scholarship'"?
Did you know that Governor of Papua Lukas Enembe pledged financial support to send Indonesian military commander Herman Asaribab to the United States Army Command and General Staff College?
Did you know that Joseph Bachelder III, pioneer of the golden-parachute executive compensation structure, represented John Sculley at Apple Inc., Jamie Dimon at Citigroup, and Louis Gerstner at RJR Nabisco and IBM?
Did you know that at 5,593 pages, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 is the longest bill ever passed by the U.S. Congress?
Did you know that both Elfriede Jelinek's 2013 play Die Schutzbefohlenen and the ancient Greek play that inspired it deal with refugees fleeing to Europe?
Did you know that campaigners to save the Happy Man Tree, named England's Tree of the Year for 2020, presented an axe made from papier-mâché to the mayor of Hackney?
Did you know that the 2020 EFL League Two play-off Final is believed to be the first competitive match played behind closed doors at Wembley Stadium?
Did you know that the conchfish conceals itself in the mantle cavity of a living mollusc?
Did you know that the new slender, super-tall skyscrapers in New York City are known as pencil towers (examples pictured)?