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Did you know that François Noël's translations of classic Chinese texts were banned in the Papal States and Germany but praised by historian Jean-Baptiste Du Halde?
Did you know that Marjorie Husted, as the radio voice of homemaking authority Betty Crocker, interviewed Joan Crawford in her home?
Did you know that a former chapel built in 1888 was one of eleven studios involved in the recording of Adele's bestselling album 21?
Did you know that after the 1962 Sino-Indian War, the Chinese returned Param Vir Chakra recipient Joginder Singh's ashes to his battalion with full military honours?
Did you know that in the 1929 NFL season, players on the Orange Tornadoes, including Heinie Benkert, wore letters on their uniforms instead of numbers?
Did you know that the Javan frogmouth may be more common than generally thought?
Did you know that the Witcham Gravel helmet is the only known Roman helmet of its kind?
Did you know that the Zombie Hut was a fictitious tiki bar in the 1945 Abbott and Costello film Zombies on Broadway, as well as a real tiki bar that opened in Sacramento, California, that same year?
Did you know that the jean jacket was invented by Levi Strauss in around 1880?
Did you know that American pianist Joe Sample died from mesothelioma prior to completing his parts for the collaborative album Christmas With Friends with India Arie?
Did you know that Azerbaijan stored ammunition inside Ghazanchetsots Cathedral during the Nagorno-Karabakh War?
Did you know that Dellatorre, who currently plays for Cypriot club APOEL FC, was the top scorer of the 2011 São Paulo Junior Football Cup?
Did you know that Henry Buttelmann was the youngest flying ace of the Korean War, at just over 24 years old?
Did you know that Israeli scholar Yehuda Liebes claims that the central prayer of the Jewish liturgy includes an allusion to Jesus?
Did you know that Thomas Johnston made the first historical print engraved in America?
Did you know that adult pale crackers feed on rotting fruit, carrion, and mud?
Did you know that before Margaret L. Curry introduced vocational training and education for women prisoners in Colorado, their only activity was washing and ironing the clothes of the male prisoners?
Did you know that before becoming chair of the Millennium Development Authority, Yaa Ntiamoah Badu worked at the University of Ghana as a zoologist?
Did you know that in healthy adults, HMB has been shown to increase exercise-induced gains in muscle size, muscle strength, and lean body mass, reduce muscle damage, and speed recovery from exercise?
Did you know that the Revolution on Granite was the first major political protest held in Kiev's Independence Square, and its methods were copied in the Orange Revolution and the Euromaidan?
Did you know that the motet In Exile for double choir by Herbert Sumsion was premiered at Gloucester Cathedral?
Did you know that HMS Roebuck rescued HMS Rippon after the latter grounded during an attack on Basse-Terre in 1759?
Did you know that Isopogon mnoraifolius was named for the resemblance of its foliage to a menorah?
Did you know that Margaret O'Flynn and her husband John Foley were the first wife-and-husband fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists?
Did you know that Merkel Landis, while a treasurer at a bank in Pennsylvania, originated the first Christmas Savings Club?
Did you know that during World War II, the United States Navy's Glomb project evaluated the use of gliders as flying bombs?
Did you know that in an attempt to catch Celia Cooney, the New York City Police Department launched what was at the time the largest manhunt in the city's history?
Did you know that some historians believe Elisabet Ney's full-length statue of "Mad King Ludwig" of Bavaria was created as part of a Prussian scheme to unify Germany?
Did you know that the Eero Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Center airport terminal was designated a landmark and is being redeveloped into the TWA Hotel at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City?
Did you know that the German Christmas carol "Freu dich, Erd und Sternenzelt" is based on a Czech song derived around 1500 from a Latin model (manuscript pictured)?
Did you know that Andy's Diner was partly constructed from a railcar that once carried Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Did you know that Canadian football player Archie Amerson was described as both halves of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' "one-two punch"?
Did you know that Joint Task Force Empire Shield consists of soldiers and sailors of the New York National Guard and New York Naval Militia, tasked with the defense of New York City?
Did you know that Marie Grice Young, piano instructor for Theodore Roosevelt's children, is speculated to have been one of the LGBT passengers on the RMS Titanic?
Did you know that Vice-Admiral Herbert King-Hall called the example of the tugboat HMS Blackcock during the sinking of the Imperial cruiser Königsberg "most praiseworthy"?
Did you know that a one-eyed figure shown on one of the Torslunda plates is possibly the Norse god Odin?
Did you know that after the unsuccessful Mudéjar revolt of 1264–66, Castile expelled the surviving Muslims?
Did you know that following its recent rediscovery, Dora Saker's 1917 book Practical Cheddar Cheese-making has "quickly acquired cult status amongst farmhouse cheese-makers" (cheese press pictured)?
Did you know that public art at University of Washington station includes a mural inspired by symbols on geologic maps?
Did you know that the actress Martina Mayne published an English translation of the work of the German poet Paula Ludwig?
Did you know that the engines of Jagdgeschwader II could not tolerate artificial castor oil?
Did you know that the first discovery of copper in the state of Victoria, Australia, was made at Coopers Creek in the 1860s?
Did you know that the high Byzantine title of sebastokrator was invented for Isaac Komnenos, who was described by his niece as an "emperor without the purple"?
Did you know that American construction company RMK-BRJ trained 200,000 Vietnamese workers in construction and administrative trades during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that Gudy Gaskill, the driving force behind the creation of the 567-mile (912 km) Colorado Trail, was honored by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush for her volunteerism?
Did you know that Jim Benedict was knocked out during his first professional batting practice?
Did you know that Richard Strauss's art song "Freundliche Vision" describes a waking dream?
Did you know that because of the 2016–17 video game voice actor strike, voice actress Ashly Burch could not reprise her role in the Life Is Strange prequel, Before the Storm?
Did you know that in 2009 the British construction industry was urged to Never Waste a Good Crisis?
Did you know that low-turbulence enclosures developed for the pharmaceutical industry are also suitable as engineering controls for nanomaterials?
Did you know that male Nylanderia pygmaea ants were trapped in amber while climbing plants for their mating flight?
Did you know that missile scientist Song Jian was the architect of China's one-child policy?
Did you know that the "silly shirt" chosen for the 2001 APEC forum—the tangzhuang—launched a fashion craze in China?
Did you know that the English footballer Tammy Abraham was the first player to win Bristol City's Player of the Year, Young Player of the Year, and Top Goalscorer awards in the same season?
Did you know that the La Loche Formation can include clasts of Precambrian gneiss?
Did you know that the secular Bach cantata Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten, BWV 202, scored for a soprano soloist, oboe, strings and continuo, pictures the transition from winter to spring?
Did you know that "Erde, singe" ("Earth, sing") was a carol in ten stanzas derived in the 19th century from a pastoral lullaby, but appears in the current hymnal in four stanzas, alluding to Christmas only once?
Did you know that Nana Otuo Siriboe II, a Ghanaian electrical engineer and paramount chief, is the chairman of the advisory council to the President of Ghana?
Did you know that Ninian Park, the home stadium of Cardiff City F.C. for 99 years, was built on the site of a former rubbish tip?
Did you know that before becoming a New York Supreme Court justice, Irwin Untermyer successfully argued to preserve the New York City Subway's five-cent fare in a U.S. Supreme Court case?
Did you know that people of Japanese ancestry may have trouble metabolizing rabeprazole (3D representation pictured)?
Did you know that the 2017 film Dunkirk was conceived in the mid-1990s when writer and director Christopher Nolan sailed with Emma Thomas across the English Channel, as did many small boats during the Dunkirk evacuation?
Did you know that the Canadian bluegrass band The Dead South often refer to themselves as "Mumford and Sons' Evil Twins"?
Did you know that the RAF pushed to introduce IFF Mark III after a Short Stirling was shot down by a Bristol Beaufighter, which was in turn shot down by another Beaufighter?
Did you know that the authors of the 1940 Frisch–Peierls memorandum were assigned to research nuclear weapons because, as enemy aliens, they could not work on secret military projects?
Did you know that the watershed of the West Kill (Diamond Notch Falls pictured) has the steepest slopes and highest overall elevation of any subbasin of New York's Schoharie Creek?
Did you know that "Stern über Bethlehem" is a German song created in 1964 and often sung by star singers?
Did you know that Barnes Brook lacked any habitats for fish in 2001, but is now being considered for addition to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission's list of wild trout streams?
Did you know that Bill Dubuque's scripts for The Judge and The Accountant were both featured on the Black List of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood?
Did you know that Rome's first emperor, Augustus, adopted his grandsons Lucius and Gaius?
Did you know that Wang Zhongyu was one of China's most powerful figures in the 1990s, with authority over reforming state-owned enterprises?
Did you know that from September 1918 to August 1919, when it left France, American Base Hospital No. 57 (operating room pictured) treated 8,505 surgical and medical cases, and 7,292 dental cases?
Did you know that over seven hours of rain delays resulted in the 1998 NAPA 500 becoming the first night race held at Atlanta Motor Speedway?
Did you know that the U.S. Army's Plato and FABMDS programs for anti-ballistic missiles evolved into the well-known Patriot missile?
Did you know that "What a Beautiful Name" represents the first Grammy nomination for Hillsong Worship?
Did you know that 50 million trees could be planted to form the Northern Forest in England?
Did you know that Doug McMurdy was the inaugural winner of the Red Tilson Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in the Ontario Hockey League each season?
Did you know that Major General Miles Graham was Monty's logistics supremo in both North Africa and North-West Europe during the Second World War?
Did you know that SCA1 was the first genetic defect found to cause ataxia?
Did you know that a Let's Save Togo protest rally in August 2012 called for a week-long sex strike by women to encourage men to oppose Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé?
Did you know that activist Mandisa Thomas was recognized in the bill officially proclaiming October 15, 2017, as the 16th annual celebration of California Freethought Day?
Did you know that after contracting diphtheria, John Hunt believed he was one of the last cases in England to have his tonsils painted with cocaine and then removed by guillotine?
Did you know that in the 1937 program The Three Garridebs, Louis Hector became the first actor to portray Sherlock Holmes on television?
Did you know that prior to serving as executive fashion director for Cosmopolitan and Seventeen, and as a judge for Project Runway: Junior, Aya Kanai considered careers in puppetry and fine art?
Did you know that the Jaguar multi-stage sounding rocket was designed to be launched using a toss bombing maneuver from a B-57 bomber?
Did you know that the Queens Building at Heathrow Airport was one of the most visited London attractions in 1956?
Did you know that the seed pods of Hardenbergia comptoniana (flowers pictured) make an audible 'pop' as they release the seed?
Did you know that Belfast pub-owner and freemason William Braithwaite donated Winter and Spring by Pieter Breughel the Younger to the Ulster Museum?
Did you know that Chen Junsheng's investigative report resulted in his superior losing his job and getting "promoted"?
Did you know that Cider with Rosie could not be filmed in Slad, where the story takes place, as the village had changed too much?
Did you know that Galco's Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles carries more than 700 different soft drinks?
Did you know that Mesembrinella caenozoica is the first unambiguous fossil described in the fly superfamily Oestroidea?
Did you know that Shmuel Abba Twersky's immigration to Canada from Ukraine – to serve as Makarover Rebbe of Winnipeg in the 1920s – was held up by two years of bureaucratic red tape?
Did you know that a porter at Blossom's Inn was revived by treatment that included bleeding, brandy, and a turpentine enema?
Did you know that during the height of the Cold War, an American visiting Russia received a seven-year sentence for spying?
Did you know that horse carcasses, and trash from three of New York City's boroughs, were once processed at Barren Island, Brooklyn?
Did you know that in his review, IGN's Craig Harris called Elite Forces: Unit 77 the "perfect storm of gaming mediocrity"?
Did you know that the Coatzacoalcos Underwater Tunnel, which took 13 years to complete, has been described as a "monument to corruption"?
Did you know that the elm seed bug produces an unpleasant smell reminiscent of bitter almonds?
Did you know that the physician George Abercrombie once won a game of chess against world champion José Raúl Capablanca?
Did you know that while chief justice of the Colony of Cape Breton, Richard Gibbons founded a group that was later banned as being a possible "Seed of Rebellion"?
Did you know that Ilona Durigo, one of the leading concert contraltos of her time, performed in the first recording of Bach's St Matthew Passion, conducted by Willem Mengelberg?
Did you know that Mildred Dilling's first fee for a harp performance was a dozen carnations and a jar of pickles?
Did you know that Oneco referred to the gift of a ceremonial sword from Charles II of England as proof of the legal equality of the Mohegan sachemate with the English monarchy?
Did you know that a newly appointed count of the Székelys was entitled to a horse from each of the Székely seats?
Did you know that of the six known Anglo-Saxon helmets, the Shorwell helmet was originally mistaken for a pot, the Pioneer helmet for a bucket, and the Coppergate helmet for a rock?
Did you know that the Edict of Milan, an agreement between Constantine and Licinius to treat the Christian Church peacefully, was issued during the pontificate of Pope Miltiades?
Did you know that the Western Australian shrubs Persoonia elliptica and Persoonia saccata are known as snottygobbles?
Did you know that the comic "Shoot", originally scheduled for publication in a 1999 issue of Hellblazer, was not published until 2010?
Did you know that the first shipment of books for the Washington Territorial Library traveled around Cape Horn from New York City?
Did you know that the inconvenience of getting to Yanmen Pass makes it one of the less crowded AAAAA-rated sites along the Great Wall of China?
Did you know that French politician Véronique Hammerer, a member of La République En Marche!, said it was "terrible" that her husband could not buy a Porsche Cayenne for fear of public criticism?
Did you know that The Colossus of Rhodes, a painting by Salvador Dalí, is heavily influenced by an article by the sculptor Herbert Maryon?
Did you know that Thyonicola dogieli, a parasite of sea cucumbers, is the longest gastropod in the world?
Did you know that Yves Volel was Anderson Cooper's math teacher at the Dalton School in Manhattan before returning to Haiti to run for president, where he was assassinated?
Did you know that at two million words, Men of Good Will by Jules Romains is one of the longest novels ever written?
Did you know that in 1918, infected crew members aboard HMS Mantua inadvertently spread the Spanish Flu to Africa?
Did you know that the footballer Robin Turner scored twice on his home debut for Swansea City, equalling the number of league goals he scored for former club Ipswich Town in nine seasons?
Did you know that when Cristo Rey OKC high school opens in fall 2018, students will be able to work for Boeing, Love's Travel Stops, and more than 30 other employers as part of work-study?
Did you know that Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong met for the last time during the Chongqing Negotiations?
Did you know that Isaiah Livers won the closest Mr. Basketball of Michigan vote in history?
Did you know that Nikolaus Herman based the melody of his Christmas carol "Lobt Gott, ihr Christen alle gleich" on the Gregorian hymn "Puer natus est nobis"?
Did you know that Ollagüe has a vigorous steam plume that is visible from tens of kilometres away?
Did you know that the Seattle Sounders FC were second-to-last when they hired coach Brian Schmetzer, but finished the season by winning the MLS Cup?
Did you know that the Twinnies would play accordion and sing while rollerblading?
Did you know that while pushing for the repeal of New Jersey's obscenity laws, Assemblyman Walter Kern argued that "adults should be able to purchase whatever their perverted hearts desire"?
Did you know that Janet Napolitano, a former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, sued her own agency?
Did you know that Rick Kirby's Sutton Hoo Helmet is 360 times heavier than the original?
Did you know that after making a portrait bust of Giuseppe Garibaldi, sculptor Elisabet Ney is thought to have provided him with military intelligence during the Third Italian War of Independence?
Did you know that the first Edison incandescent lamp-illuminated home was James Hood Wright's residence in New York City in 1881?
Did you know that the horseshoe shrimp Hutchinsoniella macracantha is the first example of a new class of crustaceans that was given the name Cephalocarida?
Did you know that the night before the 2003 Football League Second Division play-off Final, the Queens Park Rangers' team hotel was targeted by a malicious false fire alarm?
Did you know that Palazzo Corpi, the longtime United States consulate in Istanbul, was acquired by the American government in a poker game?
Did you know that a portrait of the Cavalier Viscount Grandison caused a sensation at Detroit, but later turned out to be that of another man?
Did you know that during the Siege of Katsurayama, the castle garrison poured rice from their walls to fool the besiegers into thinking they had ample water?
Did you know that filming of the two-episode event "Gorilla City" on the third season of the 2014 television series The Flash was moved south of the original filming location, due to prolonged snowfall in Vancouver?
Did you know that Donna Kennedy became the world's most-capped women's rugby player in 2004, and by 2007 was also the most-capped player in Scotland, retiring in 2010 with 115 caps?
Did you know that a BBC executive boasts that actors of the Corporation's Radio Drama Company can be "mice, ants, naiads or dryads, men morphing into hares, maggots in a fisherman's sack, or even a tray of fancy cakes"?
Did you know that before one pharaoh could construct his own monument, the Pyramid of Nyuserre, he had to complete the three monuments to his mother, father, and elder brother?
Did you know that the African weaver ant has been used to control the coconut bug?
Did you know that the Skydart target rocket used the same launching rails as the missiles used to shoot it down?
Did you know that the upcoming film Paul, Apostle of Christ features Jim Caviezel's first appearance in a biblical film since he portrayed Jesus in The Passion of the Christ?
Did you know that Celia M. Burleigh became the first woman pastor ordained into the Unitarian ministry?
Did you know that Humphrey IV of Toron married Isabella of Jerusalem (marriage ceremony pictured) in Kerak Castle in 1183, but a siege by Saladin disturbed the wedding?
Did you know that an archaeological find identified as a 10th-century Viking helmet has been alleged to actually be a World War II Luftwaffe helmet?
Did you know that the Rahway River Parkway, designed by Olmsted Brothers in the 1920s, was a project of the newly-formed Union County parks commission?
Did you know that German author Natalie Grams set out to write a scientific defense of homeopathy, but instead discontinued her homeopathic practice and wrote a book called Homeopathy Reconsidered?
Did you know that New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, barely escaped burning in a fire, was lost for decades, and then was found in a damp basement heavily water damaged and chewed by rodents?
Did you know that four years ago today, 2,000 passengers stranded in China's Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport during a snowstorm rioted over delayed flights, destroying check-in desks and assaulting staff?
Did you know that the New Zealand Māori folk song "Tūtira Mai Ngā Iwi" was hijacked by British and Irish Lions rugby fans?
Did you know that the Republic SD-4 and Fairchild SD-5 reconnaissance drones were designed to provide targeting data for tactical ballistic missiles?
Did you know that though the Saleh Kamboh Mosque of Lahore was built during Mughal emperor Aurangzeb's reign, it has architectural features of the Shah Jahani era?
Did you know that HPgV-2 is the second human pegivirus ever discovered?
Did you know that King Abdullah II of Jordan, who claims to be a 41st-generation direct descendant of Muhammad, funded the restoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in 2017?
Did you know that despite director John Frankenheimer's preference for the first ending he had shot for Ronin, the test audience "hated it"?
Did you know that fourteen players have scored an international hat-trick for the Wales national football team?
Did you know that the Easton Area Public Library holds what is believed to be the original Flag of Easton that was flown in the town during the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence?
Did you know that Blanche Georgiana Vulliamy was fond of portraying bats, goblins, and other reclusive and grotesque creatures?
Did you know that Russian serial killer Mikhail Popkov has confessed to murdering more people than either Andrei Chikatilo or Alexander Pichushkin?
Did you know that in a recent court case, the Minnesota Supreme Court resolved a dispute between the state's legislative and executive branches for the first time in its history?
Did you know that the Chrysler Turbine Car could burn a variety of unusual fuels, ranging from furnace, peanut, and soybean oils to tequila?
Did you know that Aileen Hernandez was once told that she would have to hire a "black" taxi if she was going to travel to the traditionally African-American Howard University?
Did you know that New York-style pizza is most commonly ordered by the slice in New York City?
Did you know that at age 12, Edin Šehić became the youngest footballer to sign a scholarship contract with NK Zagreb?
Did you know that in 1953, the council architect's department of the London County Council employed more than 1,500 people?
Did you know that in Nazi Germany, Karl Maria Zwißler conducted major works by composer Igor Stravinsky regarded as degenerate music, including the ballet The Firebird and the German premiere of Dumbarton Oaks?
Did you know that the Mediterranean Sea may have been filled by a giant flood with a discharge rate about 1,000 times larger than that of the Amazon River?
Did you know that "Irish villagers" and "girls in clinging lace costumes" could once be seen along the boardwalk of Bergen Beach, a residential neighborhood in New York City?
Did you know that Robin Lee Wilson project-managed the installation of an  Archimedes' screw water turbine at the 18th-century Coultershaw Wharf and Beam Pump to supply electricity to the National Grid?