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Did you know that plant scientist Norman C. Deno's research on seed germination techniques resulted in him writing a book with germination methods for thousands of species?
Did you know that the 1959 short story "Now: Zero", while sharing some concepts with the popular 2003 manga Death Note, has been described as one of J. G. Ballard's weakest works?
Did you know that the 1996 book Breton Ballads studies examples of the Breton genre of gwerz, and discusses the Barzaz Breiz controversy?
Did you know that the American reality TV series The Bachelor took 18 years and 25 seasons to star its first black man?
Did you know that while waiting to film London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck for Netflix, London Hughes talked about the word dick in History of Swear Words?
Did you know that writer James Kendall Hosmer chose to fight on the front lines in the American Civil War instead of serving on the staff of General Nathaniel P. Banks?
Did you know that Anwoth Old Church, where Samuel Rutherford preached in the early 17th century, was used as a location in the shooting of the classic horror film The Wicker Man?
Did you know that Sadhana Mahila Sangha protected Bangalore sex workers from the police and from HIV, but they now help feed them during the pandemic?
Did you know that Singapore's Punggol station is the longest station on the North East line, at 320 m (1,050 ft)?
Did you know that after going viral, Robin Schreiber danced at the 2017 NBA All-Star Weekend with Stephen Curry, who later wore shoes featuring designs in her honor?
Did you know that in 2021, Christina Soontornvat became the first author to win two Newbery Honors in the same year for both fiction (A Wish in the Dark) and nonfiction (All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team)?
Did you know that pitcher Tom Acker, who had a keen interest in horses, worked at the Meadowlands Racetrack after his Major League Baseball career?
Did you know that the Venkateswara Temple only allowed male barbers to shave off the ton of hair that is donated every day until Kagganapalli Radha Devi challenged the rules?
Did you know that the music video for "Fantastic Baby" by Big Bang is the first by a K-pop boy band to reach 100 million, 200 million, and 300 million views on YouTube?
Did you know that the studio of Francis Chit, the first Thai professional photographer, was in a floating raft-house?
Did you know that Andréa Guiot appeared internationally in French soprano roles such as Mireille, Marguerite, Manon, and Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen, which she recorded alongside Maria Callas in the title role?
Did you know that Elliot Mazer's only taste of Neil Young's music before meeting him was his girlfriend incessantly playing "After the Gold Rush"?
Did you know that Krishna Yadav's journey from finding jobs for her family growing vegetables in Delhi to creating jobs for others won her an award on International Women's Day?
Did you know that after Turkey's environment ministry granted a one-year temporary licence to reopen the coal-fired Çatalağzı power station, the Right to Clean Air Platform complained that it was still emitting thick smoke?
Did you know that after being told that women could not compete in athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics, the FSFSF set up their own Women's Olympiad?
Did you know that the Jaffna Stallions took home the trophy for the inaugural season of the Lanka Premier League in 2020, besting the Galle Gladiators, the Dambulla Viiking, and the Kandy Tuskers, despite failing to record a win against the Colombo Kings?
Did you know that the New York Stock Exchange opposed making its building a New York City landmark?
Did you know that Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Time's Arrow" from 1950 predicted that paleontologists may learn about dinosaurs by analyzing their footprints before the method was implemented in real science?
Did you know that Edward McClaren was one of only three black doctors in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1950?
Did you know that Kristoffer Domeij set a record when he died after 14 tours of duty in more than 10 years as a Special Operations Ranger?
Did you know that South African association footballer Amanda Sister has played for clubs in Hungary and Italy?
Did you know that William Wernigk performed four roles in Der Rosenkavalier during his decades at the Vienna State Opera, including the Innkeeper on a 1933 recording conducted by Robert Heger?
Did you know that a group of Dayak burned a Golkar party office after their gubernatorial candidate, Yurnalis Ngayoh, failed to receive an endorsement from the party?
Did you know that aviation medicine pioneer Jarnail Singh's work launched the first ultra long-haul flight between Singapore and New York in 2004?
Did you know that philanthropist George McDonald founded the advocacy group Doe Fund after his homeless friend "Mama Doe" died in the cold on Christmas day after she was ejected from New York's Grand Central?
Did you know that the board game Glory to Rome, despite being well-received, led to its publisher's bankruptcy in the mid-2010s and has been out of print since?
Did you know that when Lurie Children's Hospital moved within Chicago to a new location in June 2012, it took more than 10 hours to transfer nearly 200 children?
Did you know that 23-year-old Michael Oliver refereed the 2009 Football League One play-off Final at Wembley Stadium the day after his father had officiated the 2009 Football League Two play-off Final?
Did you know that Candace Brightman was the Grateful Dead's longtime lighting engineer?
Did you know that Joachim Herz was the stage director of an unconventional production of the Ring cycle at the Leipzig Opera, completed in 1976, and of the opening performance of the restored Semperoper in 1985?
Did you know that John Rennie the Elder built Ken Bridge twice?
Did you know that Millwall finally gained promotion through the play-offs on the sixth attempt after winning the 2010 Football League One play-off Final?
Did you know that Mus'ab ibn al-Zubayr, the Zubayrid governor of Iraq during the Second Fitna (680–692), fought the Umayyad army at the Battle of Maskin almost alone?
Did you know that Pius Schwert died after giving a speech announcing his candidacy for mayor of Buffalo, New York?
Did you know that Stop AAPI Hate was formed in 2020 in response to increased racially motivated violence against Asian people, which now includes the murder of Vicha Ratanapakdee?
Did you know that a 1994 manga series by artist Gengoroh Tagame was the first gay comic in Japan to turn a profit?
Did you know that anti-vaccine activist Simone Gold participated in the storming of the U.S. Capitol?
Did you know that the 10th Texas Field Battery fired at a courthouse during the Battle of Pine Bluff?
Did you know that the Bach Archive in Leipzig, directed by Peter Wollny, acquired in 2021 Gustav Mahler's copy of the Bach edition, in 59 volumes with handwritten annotations by Mahler?
Did you know that urine can enter the pleural cavity (x-ray pictured) through pores in the diaphragm?
Did you know that when Big Red Envelope was released, nearly half of its audience came from fourth-tier Chinese cities?
Did you know that Chris Redd won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2018 for co-writing a song about Barack Obama?
Did you know that George Balanchine choreographed the ballet Vienna Waltzes as a tribute to Austria, using music by Johann Strauss II, Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss?
Did you know that Girma Bekele Gebre finished third at the 2019 New York City Marathon, despite not having a coach or sponsor, and having to pay to enter the race?
Did you know that Governor Greg Abbott initially blamed the 2021 Texas power crisis on frozen wind turbines?
Did you know that Moroccan oud player Driss El Maloumi participated in the project The Routes of Slavery at New York's Lincoln Center?
Did you know that Wycombe Wanderers secured back-to-back promotions when they won the 1994 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
Did you know that a landmarked house on Abolitionist Place in Downtown Brooklyn may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad?
Did you know that after winning Olympic bronze in bobsleigh, "Paddy" Green went on to RAF night-fighter fame that won him awards from the US and Soviet Union?
Did you know that billionaire Julia Koch once worked as a fashion designer's assistant and did fittings for Nancy Reagan?
Did you know that in support of Allied logistics in the Southern France campaign, engineers repaired a bridge using the carriage of a German railway gun?
Did you know that tens of thousands of British city dwellers engaged in trekking during the Blitz, with most doing so to get a good night's sleep in nearby towns and rural areas?
Did you know that "Lob Gott getrost mit Singen" (Praise God confidently with singing), the first line of a 1544 hymn by the Bohemian Brethren, was used for the title of a songbook aimed at senior citizens?
Did you know that Brian Lee Durfee, a prison guard at Utah State Prison, has a painting in the permanent collection at the Grand Canyon National Park visitor center?
Did you know that Covington Hall was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World and the Sons of Confederate Veterans?
Did you know that Turkish psychologist Doğan Cüceloğlu contemplated suicide due to his poor command of English while a doctoral student at the University of Illinois, and later taught 16 years at CSU Fullerton?
Did you know that a line from the 1899 poem "Sympathy" provided the title for Maya Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?
Did you know that a three-metre-tall (10 ft) statue of a five-toed cockerel in Dorking is a frequent target of yarn bombers?
Did you know that although remaining a little-known monument in Neuquén, Argentina, the Fotheringham Crossing Pyramid, inaugurated in 1947, is considered to be a symbol of the neighborhood of Sapere?
Did you know that dress reformer Ada Ballin warned of the dangers of poisonous dyes and tight lacing in women's clothing?
Did you know that geographer J. Russell Smith worked with the USDA to make 20 new varieties of Chinese chestnut, with the aim of creating a blight-resistant tree?
Did you know that in 2020, Jasmin Taylor broke the record for the most medals won by a British skier at the World Cup and World Championships?
Did you know that several candidates running on the ticket of the new political party Force for Mexico were previously members of the National Regeneration Movement?
Did you know that the 2014 film Fires on the Plain, which includes madness, murder, and cannibalism, was intended to warn younger Japanese audiences of the horrors of war?
Did you know that the Rod Serling–hosted television production The Great Gatsby (1958) was described as being "neither 'Great' nor 'Gatsby'"?
Did you know that the upcoming SNLE 3G-class nuclear ballistic-missile submarines could remain in service with the French Navy until 2090?
Did you know that Amber McReynolds's advocacy for vote-by-mail supported US states' expansion of absentee balloting during the COVID-19 pandemic so millions of people could vote from home in the 2020 elections?
Did you know that Charles Sweeny was expelled from West Point twice, but went on to became a Polish Army brigadier general, a US Army lieutenant colonel, and an officer in the Royal Air Force and the Foreign Legion?
Did you know that Elvis Presley's song "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" features a theme common to country music: "passive acceptance of the singer's fate"?
Did you know that RealSports Baseball, part of Atari's response to an Intellivision marketing campaign fronted by George Plimpton, won a best sports game award for 1983?
Did you know that at the 2019 London Marathon, the total raised for charities surpassed £1 billion since the first race in 1981?
Did you know that in After Us, or the World as it Might Be, surgeon John Lockhart-Mummery proposed that women should only be allowed to breed with physically perfect men?
Did you know that the 1991 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final was the first Football League play-off to be decided by a penalty shoot-out?
Did you know that the Japan Romantic Road was so popular that signs (example pictured) were altered on a road in Germany?
Did you know that the Rhodesian African Rifles' march "Sweet Banana" was created after their soldiers stopped to buy some bananas in South Africa?
Did you know that the Rolls Royce Battle of Britain Memorial Window commemorates the pilots of the Royal Air Force and the contributions of Rolls-Royce engineering to the Battle of Britain?
Did you know that the cyberpunk setting of New Gods: Nezha Reborn is based on a mixture of 1920s–1930s Manhattan and Republic of China–era Shanghai?
Did you know that the music video for "Shake the Room" was Pop Smoke's first posthumous visual after he was shot and killed at the age of 20 during a home invasion?
Did you know that the producers of The Jet Propelled Couch hired "Miss Color TV", Vampira (pictured in black and white), and several Miss Americas to portray attractive creatures inhabiting an imaginary planet?
Did you know that when Mark Coles started coaching the Pakistan women's national cricket team, he was not being paid, and he later lived in a compound with snipers on the roof?
Did you know that "For the Night" was Pop Smoke's first single to reach the top ten on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number six?
Did you know that Darktown Comics, a series of racist caricatures (example pictured), was a perennial bestseller for Currier and Ives and by 1884 represented a third of the company's production?
Did you know that Kids See Ghosts and Ty Dolla Sign were sued for allegedly sampling "The Spirit of Marcus Garvey (Garvey speaks to an all-Black audience)" in their song "Freeee (Ghost Town, Pt. 2)"?
Did you know that Swansea City made two appearances at the Millennium Stadium in 2006, winning the Football League Trophy but losing the Football League One play-off Final?
Did you know that during the German occupation of Poland, the Polish dramatic actress Irena Solska worked with Żegota and helped to hide and rescue Jews?
Did you know that during the Great Depression, Ernest R. Fatland led an organization that helped Oregonian farmers reduce their mortgage payments and other debts to save their farms from foreclosure?
Did you know that the US government once mailed rural school districts scale models from which carpenters could construct actual two-room schools?
Did you know that the whaleback barge 104 was the first ship of its kind to be lost on the Great Lakes?
Did you know that while at Fiorentina, Mohamed Salah chose the shirt number 74 in honour of the victims of the Port Said Stadium riot?
Did you know that Al "Two Gun" Gettel rode a horse onto the baseball field in full Western wear for a game?
Did you know that Andrew Bahr drove a herd of 3,000 reindeer from Nome, Alaska, to Reindeer Station, earning the nickname "The Arctic Moses"?
Did you know that Femme au béret et à la robe quadrillée (Marie-Thérèse Walter), an oil-on-canvas painting by Pablo Picasso, was one of the most expensive paintings ever sold at an auction in Europe?
Did you know that French rugby union player Audrey Forlani scored a try in the decisive match of the 2016 Women's Six Nations Championship, after which France won the tournament?
Did you know that Geoffrey Kirk captained a fishing boat before becoming a professor of ancient Greek at Cambridge University?
Did you know that a 1958 promotion by Nashville radio station WKDA, in which a "purple people eater" climbed a hotel sign, prompted the police chief to ask the station "never to pull a trick" like it again?
Did you know that ballerina Kay Mazzo created roles in three ballets choreographed by George Balanchine during the New York City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival in 1972?
Did you know that during the first public reading of Wolfdietrich Schnurre's short story Das Begräbnis, part of the audience left the room in protest?
Did you know that the Sixth Symphony by Sergei Prokofiev was said to depict the "private world of modern man against the terrifying machinery of universal destruction"?
Did you know that the opening of a new church in Guston, Colorado, was said to have brought fire and "divine intervention" on a rival neighboring community?
Did you know that the owners of Kettlethorpe Hall used a relocated 14th-century chapel as a boathouse, and the chapel's remains are now in a public park?
Did you know that Chang Yun Chung, formerly the world's oldest billionaire, was captured during the Japanese occupation for aiding anti-Japanese resistance in Malaya?
Did you know that Governor Andrew Cuomo, who was initially praised for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, is now implicated in a scandal related to it?
Did you know that Irish sportswoman Carol Breen has played internationally in both association and Australian rules football?
Did you know that KSBK, which has been described as the most influential radio station in Okinawa in the 1960s, became a casualty of the reversion of the Ryukyu Islands to Japan and closed in October 1973?
Did you know that The Ghost Inside's self-titled 2020 album was their first release since a deadly tour bus crash in 2015?
Did you know that a three-minute segment of Boonie Bears: The Wild Life took an average of 20 hours per frame to render?
Did you know that ballerina Patricia Delgado danced in a music video for indie rock band the National?
Did you know that footballer Billy Hardy is Cardiff City F.C.'s record appearance holder, having played in 590 matches between 1911 and 1932?
Did you know that teenager Jyoti Kumari travelled 750 miles (1,210 km) on a bicycle with her injured father, during India's COVID-19 lockdown?
Did you know that the Khalili Collection of Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage has a 16th-century manuscript showing Alexander the Great praying at the Kaaba?
Did you know that the music video for the Taylor Swift song "Delicate" was accused by internet audiences of plagiarizing an advertisement for Kenzo?
Did you know that when a fire broke out at 1 Hanover Square's basement restaurant, engine crews simultaneously fighting a fire across the street got confused?
Did you know that Icelandic footballer Þórdís Hrönn Sigfúsdóttir has had to self-isolate on four occasions during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that James McHenry Jones was the president of a university, a leader of a fraternal organization, and a director of one of the first African American–owned fossil-fuel companies?
Did you know that Tamar, an epic poem by American writer Robinson Jeffers, makes references to the Books of Samuel in the Old Testament?
Did you know that attorney Mark F. Pomerantz, who supervised the prosecution of mob boss John A. Gotti, is now assisting a criminal investigation into Donald Trump's finances?
Did you know that on Saint Patrick's Day in 2003, Catholic Worker Clare Grady broke into an Army recruiting center and poured her blood on the walls, windows, and a US flag in a protest against the invasion of Iraq?
Did you know that the Koegas mine was once the largest producer of blue asbestos (example pictured) in the world?
Did you know that the first episode of the British television drama series Ackley Bridge was re-edited following the Manchester Arena bombing, as scenes showed a student at the centre of a bombing hoax?
Did you know that the machine-learning model DALL-E, widely reported on for its "surreal" and "quirky" output, also learned to solve Raven's Matrices (a form of IQ test) without being specifically taught to do so?
Did you know that the song "I Didn't Know", representing San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, was written by a composer and a lyricist who had never met each other in person?
Did you know that the southern brown howler is considered to be a vulnerable species, partly because of the monkey's susceptibility to yellow fever?
Did you know that the violinist Rudolf Deman, concertmaster of the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera, took part in the first German radio broadcast from Berlin in 1923?
Did you know that Art Potter once ordered the "unusual scene" of five ice hockey players beginning a game in the penalty box?
Did you know that Elsa Dreisig appeared at the Berlin State Opera in soprano roles from Diane in Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie to Natascha in the world premiere of Beat Furrer's Violetter Schnee?
Did you know that Idaho's first television station, KFXD-TV, was a two-man operation that lasted less than two months?
Did you know that Manuel L. Quezon defeated the National Socialist Party and the communist-backed Republican Party in 1935?
Did you know that New York City's Hudson Terminal, once billed as the world's largest office building by floor area, was demolished as part of an agreement to develop the World Trade Center?
Did you know that a copy of Estella Hijmans-Hertzveld's poem "Stemmen en zangen" was gifted to Hans Christian Andersen during his 1866 visit to the Netherlands?
Did you know that a decade after passing on the opportunity to build a radio station, the owner of the Okmulgee Daily Times newspaper instead bought KOKL?
Did you know that former masonic grand master Tobias Watkins served nine months in prison for embezzling $3,050 from the U.S. Treasury, then two more years for failing to pay it back?
Did you know that fossil echinoids (example pictured) can be used to date the various chalk strata of the White Cliffs of Dover?
Did you know that many locations in the manga Aria are based on real-life Venice?
Did you know that rugby coach Peter Thorburn, who had a keen interest in Thoroughbred racing, owned two horses that won multiple Group I races?
Did you know that the Comanche Springs pupfish no longer lives in Comanche Springs?
Did you know that the original Pittsburgh U.S. Marine Hospital became a saloon?
Did you know that Allen Mawer was the driving force behind the establishment of the English Place-Name Society, which conducted a systematic survey of English place names?
Did you know that Claude McKay's poem "If We Must Die" has been cited as marking the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance?
Did you know that John Morkel captained the Rhodesia national rugby team to a victory over the All Blacks?
Did you know that Maha Jaafar, a Sudanese-Iraqi dentist who started producing YouTube videos to "have fun with her friends", has attracted almost two million views for a video mimicking Arabic dialects and stereotypes?
Did you know that in Begum v Home Secretary, Lord Reed quoted from Eleanor Roosevelt: "justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both"?
Did you know that live huhu grubs have been served at the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival?
Did you know that oversimplifying a fictional character over the course of a show's run is called Flanderization, after Ned Flanders of The Simpsons?
Did you know that the co-founders of the Black College Football Hall of Fame attended the same historically black university and were both quarterbacks in the National Football League?
Did you know that the song "August" was written by Taylor Swift from the perspective of a girl who falls in love with somebody already in a relationship?
Did you know that the song of the black-chinned sparrow is said to resemble the sound of a dropped ping-pong ball?
Did you know that when Ebenezer Teichelmann, Henry Newton and Alec Graham made the first ascent of Douglas Peak in New Zealand in 1907, they took more than 25 kg (55 lb) of camera equipment?
Did you know that Ángel Mangual's walk-off single in the 20th inning on July 9, 1971, ended the longest scoreless game in American League history?
Did you know that Ava Cherry, David Bowie's partner and muse, spent a year searching for him in Europe after he cancelled a tour of Japan on which she was to be a backup singer?
Did you know that Chuck Connors, star of the ABC show The Rifleman, was an investor in TV station KNBS, an ABC affiliate, in Washington state?
Did you know that Dennis Howard Green was such a productive book reviewer for the Modern Language Review that they implemented a rule called Lex Green, which limits the number of reviews per person to three per year?