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Did you know that Şevket Yorulmaz scored 99 goals in 173 matches whilst playing for Beşiktaş?
Did you know that Stig Millehaugen, who had escaped or attempted escape from prison multiple times, was given a prison furlough in 2022 and failed to return?
Did you know that a journalist dubbed Olena Shevchenko as "probably the most famous lesbian in Ukraine"?
Did you know that the name of the "Mormons vs. Mullets" game was a play on the 1988 "Catholics vs. Convicts" game?
Did you know that Franziska Seidl, born 130 years ago today, finished school after her husband's death and then went on to research ultrasound (illustration pictured) at the University of Vienna?
Did you know that Lebanese LGBT rights activist Sandra Melhem, one of the foremost promoters of drag culture in Beirut, was given an award for her humanitarian relief work after the 2020 Beirut explosion?
Did you know that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first president of Bangladesh, had an appearance in the 1974 film Sangram?
Did you know that a song about an esports team went viral in Finland?
Did you know that red-boxing by American politicians is used to coordinate with Super PACs, an activity that the Campaign Legal Center called the "primary mechanism for corruption of federal campaigns in 2022"?
Did you know that Edward A. Synan, a military chaplain, wrote over eighty journal articles on subjects ranging from early patristics to late scholasticism?
Did you know that Italian football club A.C. Monza played 40 seasons in Serie B before securing promotion to Serie A – more than any other club?
Did you know that Kwaku Ohene-Frempong, an expert in sickle cell disease, decided while still in medical school to devote his life to the study of the disease, after his newborn son was diagnosed with the condition?
Did you know that Richmond station includes a "rather disquieting" artwork by William Mitchell?
Did you know that according to Bohr's law, the person who draws first in a gunfight loses?
Did you know that the Rwenzori glaciers (examples pictured) are being melted by climate change in Uganda?
Did you know that George Allsopp was arrested three times for not carrying a lantern?
Did you know that Irene Parlby was one of The Famous Five, a group of women in Canada who fought for the right of women to be considered "persons"?
Did you know that actress Hilda Hanbury was the grandmother of actors James and Edward Fox and the great-grandmother of actress Emilia Fox?
Did you know that the first Asian-American at West Point to be named First Captain of the cadets was John Tien, the current U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security?
Did you know that when the pastor of an African-American church bought the El Dorado, one newspaper wrote that "its occupants are white, and were white"?
Did you know that George Mann Niedecken was a Prairie-style interior architect who designed furniture for Frank Lloyd Wright and worked for Marion Mahony Griffin?
Did you know that Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event, but never realized it?
Did you know that Owen Jones's elaborately ornamented Book of Common Prayer "pointed to the direction that books in general were to follow in the Victorian Age"?
Did you know that Rafflesia lawangensis was previously misidentified as Rafflesia arnoldii, only to be identified as a new species in 2005 after photographs of it were sent to the National University of Malaysia?
Did you know that as a lawyer, Peter Dowding defended more than 100 Vietnam War conscientious objectors?
Did you know that in the 1917 municipal election in Minsk, Belorussian parties only won 2 out of 102 seats?
Did you know that the ancient Romans made toothpaste with human urine?
Did you know that a Pacific Cyber/Metrix's Bubbl-Dek fits into the floppy drive bay of an IBM PC, allowing it to take a bubble memory module?
Did you know that one Palestinian man criticized the beauty of West Bank Wall graffiti art (example pictured), telling Banksy: "We don't want this wall to be beautiful. We hate it. Go home"?
Did you know that the three oak saplings on the flag of Prince Edward Island represent the three counties that make up the province?
Did you know that "Hurricane" was originally intended for Chance the Rapper, who passed on the song to Kanye West?
Did you know that Filipina actress Angel Locsin was recognized for her work in disaster relief, as well as humanitarian aid for internally displaced persons in the Marawi siege?
Did you know that Hausman Baboe, a colonial district chief of Kuala Kapuas, was fired due to his anti-colonial remarks?
Did you know that in the 1980s, international LGBT organizations organized protests in Europe and the Americas in support of Belgian teacher  Eliane Morissens?
Did you know that Kuappi in Iisalmi, Finland, holds the Guinness world record for the smallest restaurant?
Did you know that Olive Llewellyn, a character in the novel Sea of Tranquility, has been called a stand-in for Emily St. John Mandel, the novel's author?
Did you know that conservationist Frank H. Wadsworth supported and worked with efforts to recover the endangered Puerto Rican parrot?
Did you know that the McLaren MCL35 was the first McLaren race car to be wrapped?
Did you know that Charles Alban Buckler, an artist, topographer, author, and officer of arms, rebuilt Arundel Castle?
Did you know that Ingrid Andress came up with "Lady Like" after being rejected by a man when she brought politics up?
Did you know that John Yelland was insulted by Admiral Hyde Parker's offer of a position aboard his flagship?
Did you know that Nero's divorce of Claudia Octavia caused public outcry – so he had her executed instead?
Did you know that Science Park station was built despite the objections of the operating agency?
Did you know that a 1955 satirical comedy play by Kasymaly Jantöshev was one of the first signs of the relaxation of Soviet literary restrictions after the death of Joseph Stalin?
Did you know that the Enterprise, a black newspaper in Omaha, supported a separate African American department at the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition?
Did you know that Alfons Koziełł-Poklewski, dubbed the "vodka king of Siberia", was actually Polish?
Did you know that Avtar Singh Jouhl took Malcolm X to a segregated pub in Smethwick as part of his campaign to end the colour bar?
Did you know that J. Michael Miller, the archbishop of Vancouver, who turns 76 today, starred in a high school production of Our Town opposite Mary Lou Finlay?
Did you know that despite having reportedly been destroyed in 1946, the 16-ton granite ball that once sat on top of the Columbia University sundial reappeared in a Michigan field in 2001?
Did you know that the developer of 15.ai claims that as little as 15 seconds of a person's voice is sufficient to clone it up to human standards using artificial intelligence?
Did you know that American conservationist Paul Lester Errington reshaped perception of predators?
Did you know that American drag queen James Herndon donated funds and resources into black and LGBTQ+ communities in Lexington, Kentucky?
Did you know that Brewer Hicklen hosts an annual youth baseball camp in Alabama?
Did you know that Mess L, a multipurpose building in Banjarbaru, Indonesia, was historically used to house Soviet workers?
Did you know that the 19th Junior Eurovision Song Contest was held on 19 December with 19 participating countries – but the EBU had to choose between three competition scenarios due to COVID-19?
Did you know that the Irish Bee Conservation Project is helping to rewild native bees with bee lodges on the estate of the historic Dunsany Castle?
Did you know that Hans van Manen's ballet Adagio Hammerklavier is inspired by a recording of the Beethoven score that was played at an exceptionally slow tempo?
Did you know that Israel's mixed cities don't have much mixing?
Did you know that The Tale of Genji's Kaoru Genji has been called literature's first antihero?
Did you know that in Jackson, Tennessee, there was a 50–50 chance a reference to Dixie was about a radio station?
Did you know that it took seven years for Gwazi, a pair of dueling wooden roller coasters, to be refurbished into the hybrid roller coaster Iron Gwazi?
Did you know that prior to Mary Manhein's forensic-anthropology work in Louisiana, unidentified bones (examples pictured) "usually ended up in a box"?
Did you know that Ekaterina Novitskaya, then aged 16, became the first female ever to win the Queen Elisabeth Competition for piano?
Did you know that dozens of mammals and birds were first described from specimens collected by "Orii of the Orient"?
Did you know that politician John D'Orazio helped to secure a three-year trial of daylight saving time in Western Australia?
Did you know that the 1944 SCR-720 radar system was used only briefly by the USAAF, but was a primary RAF system into the late 1950s?
Did you know that the Red Hill water crisis has caused a water shortage in Honolulu?
Did you know that based on the biblical principle of omnia sunt communia, Thomas Aquinas argued that theft is not a sin if the thief genuinely needs what they are stealing?
Did you know that jazz fusion and funk musician Mark Lettieri graduated with a degree in marketing?
Did you know that spiritual jazz originated in the 1960s, partially due to the civil rights movement?
Did you know that the Beacon Theatre, once described as "a true bit of Bagdad on Broadway", later gained a reputation as a rock venue?
Did you know that the US Mint released the 1909-S VDB Lincoln Cent on August 2, 1909, and discontinued it on August 5 because it showed the initials of engraver Victor David Brenner?
Did you know that the first time The Witcher universe was portrayed outside the novels was in the 1993–1995 Polish comic book series of the same name?
Did you know that Eileen Collins was the first woman Space Shuttle pilot and the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission?
Did you know that Jim Pappin was credited with the 1967 Stanley Cup-clinching goal in exchange for giving Pete Stemkowski unlimited access to his backyard pool?
Did you know that The Lord of the Ice Garden, a Polish novel series mixing elements of fantasy and science fiction, has been compared to The Witcher?
Did you know that food YouTuber Mike Chen also runs a channel documenting strange phenomena?
Did you know that some bells are replaced by a wooden clapper for three days in a year?
Did you know that the Fischer quintuplets had six other siblings?
Did you know that the prologue to The Polymath was written by Martin Kemp, a leading expert on Leonardo da Vinci?
Did you know that Australian communist Harry Stein was personally invited by Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ to tour South Vietnam?
Did you know that James T. Sears called the novels The White Paper (1928), Street of Stairs (1968), and Boychick (1971), three "pederastic erotic classics"?
Did you know that a cheat code in the video game Spyro: Year of the Dragon grants access to a near-complete copy of Crash Bash?
Did you know that a study published in the journal Celebrity Studies examined Pippa Middleton's buttocks using Marxist and Freudian analyses?
Did you know that after LaVere Redfield's death, 12 tons of silver dollars were found hidden in his garage and home?
Did you know that the Akebono elephant (tooth pictured) is one of four Stegodon species that roamed Plio-Pleistocene Japan?
Did you know that Ursula Sillge's attempt to organize a 1978 national lesbian gathering in East Germany led to the banning of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf's venue for LGBT meetings?
Did you know that according to Rogers Smith, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the Ku Klux Cases was its only ruling "markedly favorable to black voting rights" in the post-Reconstruction era?
Did you know that research on short-finned pilot whales (example pictured) by Natacha Aguilar de Soto is leading scientists to reassess foraging models for the behavior of marine predators?
Did you know that the Spirit of Norfolk caught fire while carrying 89 schoolchildren?
Did you know that the novel June Rain was described by one critic as "a 'whodunit' without a 'who'"?
Did you know that Pooja Sharma employs 150 women in a bakery that she started in a reputedly haunted mansion?
Did you know that The Great Wave off Kanagawa has been described as "possibly the most reproduced image in the history of all art"?
Did you know that a guerrilla garden established atop an abandoned railroad in Long Island City became legally recognized by the MTA?
Did you know that a statue of Serenidus, the brother of Serenicus, is called the "little pissing saint" because a spring issues from below it in the Oratory of Saint Cénéré?
Did you know that counterterrorism expert Esperanza Casteleiro used to work in human resources?
Did you know that the American card game of Six-Bid Solo originated in southern Germany?
Did you know that the Broadway Theatre is one of Broadway's few Broadway theaters?
Did you know that three men resigned from the Executive Council of Nova Scotia upon Mather Byles Almon's appointment?
Did you know that under a new Connecticut law, abortion providers in the state can countersue anyone who sues them under the Texas Heartbeat Act?
Did you know that Chrysina limbata has a reflective silver color because of layers of chirped chitin coating?
Did you know that Dee Dawkins-Haigler ran in four elections in four months for the same seat?
Did you know that Ernst Jacobi, known for portraying Gauleiter Löbsack in Volker Schlöndorff's film The Tin Drum, played more than 200 roles as a television actor?
Did you know that Mary Baines, credited as one of the founders of the palliative care movement, initially thought it "very odd, this idea of caring for the dying"?
Did you know that a Florida resident was arrested after posting on RateMyCop.com?
Did you know that an erroneous claim that the neural language model LaMDA is sentient has generated conversations on the efficacy of the Turing test?
Did you know that in 2007, Arthur Gray's £2 Kangaroo and Map stamp sold for a world record price for a single Australian stamp?
Did you know that in 2021, Wishma Sandamali, who was detained for overstaying her visa after seeking police protection for domestic abuse, became the 17th person to die in Japanese immigration detention since 2007?
Did you know that people with woolly hair may also have tooth decay?
Did you know that public health authorities are still not exactly sure how Alaskapox virus, a recently discovered relative of Monkeypox virus, has spread to humans from animals?
Did you know that roughly 15,000 copies of the anonymously published essay "Queers Read This" were distributed at the June 1990 New York Gay Pride Parade?
Did you know that the 1956 article "My Last Wonderful Days", about an Iowa woman accepting terminal cancer, funded an Iowa State University scholarship program?
Did you know that the RoadRunner, a laptop from 1983, loaded and stored data from cartridges?
Did you know that Alfred Egerton Cooper, a war artist who lost the use of an eye in World War I, painted airships (example pictured)?
Did you know that COVID-19 lockdown restrictions caused a 37-percent increase in infections of dengue fever in Singapore's 2020 outbreak?
Did you know that before his Major League Baseball career, Leo Posada represented Cuba internationally in cycling?
Did you know that in the 1980s, NBC was given several hundred million dollars' worth of incentives to stay at 30 Rockefeller Plaza?
Did you know that model Tyra Banks produces Generation Drag, a TV series which follows five children preparing for a drag show?
Did you know that only one boat successfully made it through the Duckport Canal?
Did you know that the favourite role of Wilma Schmidt, who performed at the Staatsoper Hannover for more than five decades in German, Italian and Slavic operas, was the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier?
Did you know that when Divine's song "Lately" topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1998, it became the first number-one single for the performers, the songwriters, the producers, and the record labels?
Did you know that Catherine Ribeiro's 1972 album Paix contains a 25-minute-long song about meeting a female personification of death?
Did you know that Christchurch smells?
Did you know that Evgenia Debryanskaya, the lesbian activist who co-founded Russia's first gay-rights organization, was the first wife of Aleksandr Dugin, Vladimir Putin's "Rasputin"?
Did you know that German SA officer Walter Heck was paid only 2.50 ℛℳ (about US$2) for designing the Nazi SS double rune symbol?
Did you know that Liu Zhaohua was a Chinese drug lord who produced and trafficked over 18 tonnes of methamphetamine?
Did you know that at the 2022 British Athletics Championships, Daryll Neita became the first woman since 2010 to win both the 100- and 200-metre events?
Did you know that in an 1854 war with the Jicarilla, William S. Messervy, the acting governor of the New Mexico Territory, desired either "their extinction or their settlement in pueblos"?
Did you know that indie musician Sufjan Stevens composed the score for the 2014 ballet Everywhere We Go, choreographed by Justin Peck for the New York City Ballet?
Did you know that the Indy Bag Ladies, one of the oldest AIDS fundraising organizations, is a group of activist drag queens in Indianapolis who have raised more than $1 million for AIDS patients?
Did you know that the Reactive Scientific Research Institute developed the Katyusha rocket launcher (examples pictured)?
Did you know that the unveiling of the statue of Captain Cook in Hyde Park, Sydney, in 1879 was declared a public holiday, with an estimated 60,000 people in attendance?
Did you know that when the Candler Building opened, it was the tallest building around Times Square?
Did you know that Danish-born soprano Louise Janssen appeared at the Grand Théâtre de Lyon as Eva in the French premiere of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg?
Did you know that HMS Chichester was designed to carry 44 guns but never carried more than 22?
Did you know that Irving L. Branch  headed the X-15 rocket program and the first test flight of the B-70 Valkyrie supersonic bomber?
Did you know that Kiyoe Yoshioka, the vocalist of the band Ikimonogakari, voiced an Eevee in the film Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened?
Did you know that a South Dakota radio station once played nothing but various recordings of "Amazing Grace"?
Did you know that after finding success in Poland and South America, soprano Adalgisa Gabbi performed at La Scala as Eva in the Italian premiere of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg?
Did you know that despite its name, the white-nosed saki actually has a reddish-pink nose?
Did you know that the Morris County Park Commission in New Jersey oversees over 20,000 acres (8,100 ha) of land, including a marina, an ice skating arena, a horse stable, a historical farm, and a gristmill?
Did you know that the first line to STU48's "Hana wa Dare no Mono?", which imagines a world without borders, is often misheard as wishing for a world without Tokyo?
Did you know that the perceived tameness of LGBT Pride Month gave rise to Wrath Month?
Did you know that touch-screen technology, pay-at-the-pump, car phones, and Coca-Cola Cherry were shown at the 1982 World's Fair?
Did you know that "Supermodel" is about a fictional character inspired by people Måneskin met in Los Angeles?
Did you know that Amund Dietzel, sometimes called the "Rembrandt of the rind", learned to tattoo after he went to sea at the age of 14?
Did you know that Julia Dawson's first Clarion Van was named for Scottish socialist Caroline Martyn?
Did you know that Matthew Healy and George Daniel of The 1975 helped make Pale Waves's debut single, "There's a Honey", "sonically bigger"?
Did you know that South African mayor Marlene van Staden was re-elected through a coin toss?
Did you know that a Phoenix radio station served as the springboard for future Arizona governor Jack Williams and comedian Steve Allen?
Did you know that an episode of the children's TV show Arthur featuring a same-sex wedding was not aired on Alabama's PBS network?
Did you know that soprano Sarah Traubel appeared as Inanna in Jörg Widmann's Babylon for the opening of the 2022 Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden?
Did you know that the CIA shipped color TV sets to Japan to broadcast propaganda for the Liberal Democratic Party?
Did you know that the original Green Goblin suit, created by Amalgamated Dynamics for Spider-Man, was scrapped after being deemed "too creepy" by studio executives?
Did you know that Bruno Pereira, an expert in the indigenous people of Brazil, and journalist Dom Phillips were killed while on a trip in the Vale do Javari?
Did you know that Carver Court in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, was built to house African-American steelworkers during World War II?
Did you know that Erasmus Schöfer chronicled the resistance in Germany, from the protests of 1968 to German reunification, in a tetralogy of novels?
Did you know that French soprano Marguerite Vaillant-Couturier created the role of Micaëla in the world premiere of Lecocq's Le coeur et la main in Paris in 1882?
Did you know that Gita Sarabhai was among the first women to play the pakhavaj (example pictured), a traditional musical instrument of India?
Did you know that displaced aggression is experienced by humans and animals?
Did you know that the 2022 Marmolada serac collapse was caused by climate change in Italy?
Did you know that the 2022 USFL playoffs and championship game could not be played in Birmingham, Alabama, as the rest of the season was, due to the 2022 World Games?
Did you know that the defiant owner of a Miami TV station kept its marquee lit for 18 months after losing its license?
Did you know that the film Evangeline, based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was praised by Longfellow's daughter?
Did you know that Bob Dylan poked Emmylou Harris when he wanted her to start singing during the recording of "One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)"?
Did you know that Park Avenue Plaza is not on Park Avenue and does not have a plaza?
Did you know that Stanley Shaldon upset manufacturers by reusing dialysis machines?
Did you know that a pontiff in pontificals may pontificate with a pontifical at a Pontifical during his pontificate?
Did you know that the Messe brève no. 7 by Charles Gounod is an 1890 Missa brevis that he derived from an earlier work for only two voices and organ?
Did you know that the National Agrarian Union opposed the introduction of female suffrage in Sweden?
Did you know that the hiking track through the Pororari River gorge has become part of New Zealand's newest Great Walk, the Paparoa Track (video featured)?
Did you know that the soundtrack for the 2016 film Arrival, composed by Jóhann Jóhannsson, was ruled ineligible for contention at the 89th Academy Awards due to the film's prominent inclusion of a Max Richter piece?
Did you know that two Argentine commandos were awarded their nation's highest honour for the Skirmish at Top Malo House?
Did you know that 1920s and 1930s radio show actress Artie Belle McGinty played the original radio advertisement voice for Aunt Jemima?
Did you know that Adele decided never to perform "To Be Loved" live as it upset her to the point of having to leave the room?
Did you know that Mabel Cheung won the 5th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Director with her debut film The Illegal Immigrant?
Did you know that The Kreutzer Sonata was reproduced to promote Tabu?
Did you know that William Forsythe's ballet The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude is so difficult to dance that a ballerina said she would rather give birth again?
Did you know that a plaza called the Channel Gardens was planted between British and French buildings at Rockefeller Center?
Did you know that discrimination based on nationality is an exception to anti-discrimination laws in many countries?
Did you know that operations at Mirador mine were shut down in June 2022 by protests in Ecuador?
Did you know that the painted portrait series Ishūretsuzō features Ainu chieftains (example pictured) in Qing robes, Russian military coats, and as an "Ininkari bear" (white brown bear)?
Did you know that the pine tree on the flag of Norfolk Island is native to the territory and is its official tree?