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Did you know that Christa Wolf's Der geteilte Himmel (cover pictured), published in East Germany in 1963, was called a "socialist bestseller"?
Did you know that Rosana Sullivan, director of the animated short Kitbull, said that she identified with the kitten in the film?
Did you know that though Isaac Komnenos was his oldest surviving son, John II Komnenos chose Isaac's younger brother Manuel to succeed him as Byzantine emperor?
Did you know that Hermann Herlitz, born to Jewish parents in Prussia in 1834, was pastor of the Lutheran Trinity Church in East Melbourne, Australia, for 46 years?
Did you know that a newly discovered cave has been temporarily named after a Star Wars character?
Did you know that after a spinal cord injury, Marni Abbott-Peter won three Paralympic gold medals with the Canada women's national wheelchair basketball team?
Did you know that in UK elections, it is illegal for candidates to treat the voters?
Did you know that in his book The Unending Game, Indian spymaster Vikram Sood explains that the real world of espionage is less like a James Bond movie and more like a George Smiley novel?
Did you know that six years after Zhang Yiming founded ByteDance, it surpassed Uber to become the most valuable startup company in the world?
Did you know that staghorn hydrocoral grows on a mollusc shell occupied by a hermit crab?
Did you know that Liselotte Hammes, a soprano with the Cologne Opera, appeared as Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier at the Glyndebourne Festival alongside Teresa Żylis-Gara in the title role and Montserrat Caballé as the Marschallin?
Did you know that Wayne Gretzky offered journalist Jay Greenberg a private interview after the latter was unable to ask questions during a press conference following "The Trade"?
Did you know that before joining AMD and then Intel, Raja Koduri developed hardware that enabled Apple to launch its Retina displays?
Did you know that the missionary ship Messenger of Peace was built in 15 weeks using scrap metal, ropes made of hibiscus, and sails made of matting?
Did you know that Theresa May described her leadership as "strong and stable" but her critics called it "weak and wobbly"?
Did you know that after Asman Jah represented the Nizam of Hyderabad at the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, he was promoted to prime minister of the state?
Did you know that in 2008, ethnohistorian Jennifer S. H. Brown was the first woman from the University of Winnipeg to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada?
Did you know that of the thirty-six ornamental spans in New York City's Central Park, only the Bow Bridge was intended to stand out from the surrounding environment?
Did you know that the bass-baritone Hans Günter Nöcker appeared in several world premieres of operas in Berlin, Schwetzingen, and Munich, where he created a stirring portrayal of Gloucester in Reimann's Lear?
Did you know that the hairy sea squirt is preyed on by the Oregon hairy triton?
Did you know that the inaugural MLS Cup was played in heavy rain in the aftermath of Hurricane Lili?
Did you know that Carey Wentworth Styles founded The Atlanta Constitution, then had to surrender his interest in the newspaper when he could not pay for the purchase?
Did you know that Kardaki Temple is considered to be the only Greek temple of Doric architecture that does not have a frieze?
Did you know that Katja Wulff (drawing shown) of Hamburg, who learned expressionist dance from Rudolf von Laban, was still running her dance school in Basel at the age of 90?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor's 2014 song "I'll Be Home" did not debut on the Austrian charts until January 2019?
Did you know that honeybees can be trained to search for landmines?
Did you know that newly-elected parliamentarian Gadeer Mreeh will be the first Druze woman to serve as a member of the Israeli Knesset?
Did you know that the Pan Inuit Trails Atlas database depicts traditional place names and routes in the Canadian Arctic used by the Inuit, showing connections between their communities from Greenland to Alaska?
Did you know that Fight the New Drug's advocacy against pornography uses what The Atlantic describes as "a just-some-of-the-facts approach"?
Did you know that James Curle, a Scottish mining engineer in South Africa, argued that the white race was being out-bred by other races?
Did you know that Monteverdi set the beginning of Psalm 70, traditionally opening vespers, in his Vespro della Beata Vergine as a "call to attention"?
Did you know that Shirou Emiya was initially conceived as a female character but was changed to a male in order to fit the demographic of the visual novel Fate/stay night?
Did you know that Eric Milnes has conducted Bach cantatas with the Montreal Baroque Orchestra, with singers performing one voice per part?
Did you know that Given will be the first yaoi anime series to be broadcast on Noitamina, Fuji TV's anime programming block?
Did you know that R. Kelly's 19-minute song "I Admit", which contains no criminal admissions, was described as an act of trolling and compared to O. J. Simpson's book If I Did It?
Did you know that Teide Cableway climbs more than 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) in 8 minutes to the top of Spain's tallest mountain?
Did you know that in 1990, Forbes named Carmen Thomas one of the 100 most influential women in Germany for running Hallo Ü-Wagen, a weekly travelling talk radio show with audience participation?
Did you know that the Silesian Wars made Frederick "Great"?
Did you know that 53,034 people attended the 2019 AFL Women's Grand Final, a record for a standalone women's sporting event in Australia?
Did you know that Japanese singer Alisa Takigawa's debut song "Season" was originally a demo that was not intended to be her debut release?
Did you know that King's Cross Thameslink railway station, then known as King's Cross Metropolitan, was one of the initial seven stations on London's first underground line?
Did you know that Noel Marshall directed and starred with his family in Roar, promoted as "the most dangerous movie ever made" for its many on-set injuries to the cast and crew working with more than 100 big cats?
Did you know that the murder of American musician Dimebag Darrell occurred on the 24th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon?
Did you know that Fiji won a record-breaking fifth consecutive title at the 2019 Hong Kong Sevens?
Did you know that Satya Rhodes-Conway is the first openly gay politician to serve as Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin?
Did you know that Vera Deakin's missing persons bureau issued 400,000 responses to enquiries from the families of Australian soldiers during World War I?
Did you know that during the siege of Leningrad, citizens were warned that "this side of the street is the most dangerous"?
Did you know that only one of the gang that carried out the gold bullion robbery in 1935 at Croydon Aerodrome was convicted, and the gold was never found?
Did you know that Margaret Hayden Rorke named the color of Mamie Eisenhower's inaugural ball gown "First Lady Pink"?
Did you know that Michael Osterholm and Mark Olshaker's book Deadliest Enemy provides a nine-point plan to defeat "killer germs"?
Did you know that Ukrainian journalist Mykola Semena was found guilty of separatism by Russian courts for his coverage of the annexation of Crimea for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty?
Did you know that the Khan of Manavadar Ghulam Moinuddin Khanji played in the Indian hockey team at the Western Asiatic Games?
Did you know that Charles Darwin contributed funds to the building of New Zealand's oldest surviving church?
Did you know that Martin Luther wrote "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" as a close paraphrase of the Latin hymn "Veni redemptor gentium", with a melody derived from the plainchant?
Did you know that Tim Morgan's Veins are made of steel and glass?
Did you know that after being influenced by Wahhabism, Mubarez-ud-Daulah wanted to overthrow the Nizam of Hyderabad and the British in India?
Did you know that despite spending the majority of his career with the Russian Northern Fleet, Aleksandr Moiseyev was appointed commander of the Black Sea Fleet in 2018?
Did you know that the 1897 supernatural novel Gulabsinh by Gujarati-language writer Manilal Dwivedi is an adaptation of the mystical novel Zanoni by English writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton?
Did you know that Oriana Wilson discovered a new species of bat, which was then named after her?
Did you know that POW/MIA activist Ted Sampley discovered that the Vietnam War Unknown Soldier was in fact Michael Blassie?
Did you know that Redoshi, a West African woman who lived in Alabama and died in 1937, was the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade?
Did you know that although KGTO-TV in Fayetteville, Arkansas, signed on as an NBC affiliate, it received no network compensation for carrying its programs?
Did you know that forest ranger Nels Bruseth turned down an offer to become mayor of Darrington, Washington, due to his ineligibility as a federal employee?
Did you know that in a 2016 portrait, Queen Elizabeth II is depicted with someone else's bust?
Did you know that Wolfgang Meyer, who recorded Mozart's Clarinet Concerto on a historical basset clarinet, played his last concert with jazz saxophonist Peter Lehel?
Did you know that crinoids (example pictured) are closely related to sea urchins and starfish?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court case of Bowen v. Georgetown University Hospital held that federal agencies cannot promulgate retroactive rules without express authorization by Congress?
Did you know that Vice-Admiral Georgy Stepanov of the Soviet Navy was sentenced to ten years in prison for passing technical secrets to the Allies?
Did you know that actress Chloe Howman compared her Casualty character Rita Freeman to a Jack Russell Terrier?
Did you know that after winning the 2001 Austrian Grand Prix, driver David Coulthard refrained from spraying champagne on the podium out of respect for Ilmor Engineering's Paul Morgan, who had died the day before?
Did you know that from 1867 to 1869 Albert Estcourt built the "most elaborate Victorian house in Gloucester"?
Did you know that the dancer and cabaret artist Hedi Schoop emigrated to California with her husband, the composer Friedrich Hollaender, where she created and manufactured pottery?
Did you know that the top trumps in Knüffeln, the centuries-old national card game of Frisia, are the five "Old Ones"?
Did you know that El Drago Milenario, located in Parque del Drago, Tenerife, is the largest and oldest known specimen of Dracaena draco?
Did you know that Giselher Klebe's opera Das Märchen von der schönen Lilie, with a libretto by his wife based on Goethe's fairy tale, was premiered at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen 50 years ago today?
Did you know that Saint Petersburg's Red Square is now Alexander Nevsky Square?
Did you know that a nine-day-old citizen of the United States, Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, is seventh in the line of succession to the British throne?
Did you know that in 1987, Royal Society of Canada fellow Kathryn Brush was one of the first women to be hired for a full-time position in art history at the University of Western Ontario?
Did you know that the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius co-ruled with his adoptive brother Lucius Verus in the first joint rule between Roman emperors, and later co-ruled with his own son Commodus?
Did you know that the remains of missing Israeli soldier Zechariah Baumel were discovered in a cemetery in the Yarmouk refugee camp near Damascus, Syria, nearly 37 years after he disappeared in the 1982 Lebanon War?
Did you know that Australian rules footballer Haneen Zreika is the first Muslim to play in the AFL Women's?
Did you know that Emil Spiridonov, commander of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, was among the sixteen admirals and generals killed in the 1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash?
Did you know that Michael Jordan broke one of the unwritten rules of baseball?
Did you know that after Chief Justice Xiao Yang implemented reforms requiring all capital punishment cases to be reviewed by the Supreme Court, death sentences in China dropped by 30% in a year?
Did you know that basic economy fares can cause airline passengers to pay more to fly?
Did you know that the Hotel International Prague was built to strengthen ties with the Soviet Union?
Did you know that the earliest permanent Filipino American residents settled in Louisiana's bayou country?
Did you know that the journal Minnesota History covers topics ranging from the Dakota War of 1862 and cholera in the state to root beer stands of the Midwest?
Did you know that Shah Jahan II's food, clothes, and meetings were decided by the powerful Sayyid brothers who had chosen him as the Mughal emperor?
Did you know that Wenona Giles helped 59 people in the Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, earn a Certificate of Completion in Educational Studies from Canada's York University?
Did you know that Xiong Zhaoren, whose battle experience was adapted into two films, lived to 107, the longest among China's founding generals?
Did you know that for the first six months that Janis Ian performed the song "At Seventeen", she closed her eyes because she was afraid the audience would laugh at her?
Did you know that some ancient trees of the olive cultivar Bidni have been recognised as "national monuments" in Malta?
Did you know that the 100th anniversary of the Memorial Cup (trophy pictured) was celebrated by the Canadian Hockey League with a commemorative coin, a postage stamp, and a Santa Claus parade?
Did you know that the girls of the Mädchenkantorei Limburg joined a women's choir to perform sacred choral music by contemporary composers at a 2019 concert in Limburg Cathedral?
Did you know that Edwin Clarke combined research into the structure, functions, and diseases of the human nervous system with "impressive rhythm on the dance floor"?
Did you know that Kyrgyzstani author Tugelbay Sydykbekov won the Stalin Prize in 1949 for the novel People of our Time, which simultaneously embraced Soviet-style communism and traditional culture including Islam?
Did you know that Watford's appearance in today's FA Cup Final is their first since 1984?
Did you know that according to a US Supreme Court decision, the Fourth Amendment does not always apply to searches at the border?
Did you know that the 1919 Australian federal election was the first to use preferential voting?
Did you know that the Disher Challenge Cup, an annual rowing race, is named after Clive Disher, who rowed for the winning Australian eight in the 1919 Henley Royal Peace Regatta?
Did you know that Luciano Burti's 111G crash at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix led to a ban on creating holes in racing helmets for drinking tubes and radio communication wires?
Did you know that Mary Stuart Fisher, a Temple University professor of radiology who was named Physician of the Year in 1996, was discouraged from following her chosen career path by her father, a physician himself?
Did you know that Soviet admiral Yuri Panteleyev was appointed a Companion of the Bath by the British for his role in supporting attacks against the German battleship Tirpitz?
Did you know that although the Grünbaum–Rigby configuration has been studied since 1879, it was not depicted in its realization as three overlaid heptagrams until 1990?
Did you know that more than twenty species of cetaceans have been stranded on the mudflats of Bahía Lomas?
Did you know that the motto of Midleton College, Spartam nactus es, hanc exorna, is a mistranslation of a line from a Greek play by Euripides?
Did you know that George Bernard Shaw wondered why Douglas Guthrie excluded osteopaths, herbalists, and homoeopaths from his History of Medicine?
Did you know that in 2015, Jeff's Gourmet Sausage Factory (veal bratwurst sandwich pictured) opened the first glatt kosher hot dog stand at Dodger Stadium?
Did you know that novelist Ismith Khan's relative obscurity may reflect the fact that he was not based in London, the "literary capital" of the English Caribbean?
Did you know that on the day Bill Aylett was first elected to the Australian Senate, he knocked down a voter with his car?
Did you know that when several of the small bivalve molluscs Lasaea rubra occupy the same rock crevice, they are likely to be clones?
Did you know that Fields Medal-winning mathematician Klaus Roth performed so poorly on the Mathematical Tripos that his tutor suggested he take "some commercial job with a statistical bias"?
Did you know that Massachusetts Bay settler Robert Coles was sentenced to wear a red letter "D" for drunkenness, which some scholars have argued later inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter?
Did you know that Princess Natalya Golitsyna acquired the nicknames the "Moscow Venus" and the "Queen of Spades"?
Did you know that explorer Guo Kun led the construction of China's first Antarctic research base, parts of which have been declared Historic Sites and Monuments in Antarctica?
Did you know that the B-side to Chris Sievey's 1983 single "Camouflage" contained code for the song's music video for the ZX81 home computer?
Did you know that the Nubra River rises from the Siachen Glacier, the second longest non-polar glacier in the world?
Did you know that Alfred Kirchner directed the world premiere of Martin Walser's play Ein Kinderspiel in 1971, and the U.S. premiere of Henze's We Come to the River at the Santa Fe Opera in 1984?
Did you know that a 2019 Iranian drama tells the true story of Abdolhamid Rigi, a member of the Jundallah terrorist group who killed his wife on the orders of his brother?
Did you know that according to Buddhist texts, Sumedha decided to become the Buddha while lying in the mud in front of his teacher?
Did you know that approximately 4,000 handmade personalised patchwork skirts have been registered as official national liberation skirts (example pictured) in the Netherlands?
Did you know that film pioneers Alice Guy-Blaché, Georges Méliès, and Charlie Chaplin all made films about women's suffrage?
Did you know that the small crustacean Pseudamphithoides incurvaria builds itself a home out of forded sea tumbleweed, a brown seaweed that is distasteful to fish?
Did you know that ProRodeo Hall of Fame bucking horse War Paint was insured for $10,000 with Lloyd's of London?
Did you know that a documentary film of Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace concert in 1972 languished in a studio vault for decades because the director did not use a clapperboard?
Did you know that during World War II, Wang Daheng quit his doctoral studies to help develop optical glass in the UK, and later became the "father of optical engineering" in China?
Did you know that newly elected Israeli Knesset member Omer Yankelevich was named for the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer, her birthday?
Did you know that the 1854–55 Royal Commission on the Inns of Court recommended that the inns combine into a single university of law?
Did you know that while a red Irish lord can change color, it is not a yellow Irish lord?
Did you know that C. W. Stephens was the architect of Claridge's (drawing pictured), Harrods, and Harvey Nichols?
Did you know that Celestina Casapietra, an Italian soprano at the Berlin State Opera, and the conductor Herbert Kegel were regarded as the glamour couple of the GDR in the 1960s?
Did you know that Peniscola Castle, in the Valencian Community, Spain, was used as a papal residence by the Antipope Benedict XIII?
Did you know that the New York City Board of Aldermen was at different times in its history an upper house and a lower house?
Did you know that the whiteknee hermit crab is benefitted by the presence of the hedgehog hydroid but harmed by the barnacle Clistosaccus?
Did you know that "Afrikaners Landgenote", an Afrikaans translation of "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles", was proposed as the co-national anthem for South Africa alongside "God Save the King"?
Did you know that Hannelore Elsner, who first appeared in film in 1959, received international attention for her role in No Place to Go at the Cannes Festival in 2000?
Did you know that Soedarpo Sastrosatomo joined the Socialist Party of Indonesia, but later founded a business conglomerate?
Did you know that a classic example of moral progress is the abolition of slavery?
Did you know that in 2007, a painting (shown) of British socialite and real tennis player William Marshall Cazalet was sold at auction for US$1.8 million?
Did you know that the tiddlywinks rivalry of Larry Kahn and Dave Lockwood is so intense, it has been compared to that of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazer?
Did you know that Troy is the first Turkish opera composed by a foreigner, the Romanian conductor Bujor Hoinic?
Did you know that a pink Molly Goddard dress worn in the Killing Eve episode "I'll Deal with Him Later" inspired a trend of pink dresses worn to the 91st Academy Awards?
Did you know that after Chinese General Dai Anlan died in the Burma Campaign, the United States awarded him the Legion of Merit, which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and reissued by President Reagan?
Did you know that hundreds of houses for artisans, built by George Worrall Counsel in the Gloucester suburb of Clapham in the 1820s, were demolished a century later during slum clearance?
Did you know that in 2008, Geraldine Heaney, Angela James, and Cammi Granato became the first three women ice hockey players inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame?
Did you know that the "rigidly posed" figures in English pottery pew groups of the 1740s (example pictured) may play musical instruments, or take snuff?
Did you know that to be one of those buried in the Lazarevskoe Cemetery originally required permission from Peter the Great?
Did you know that Kaylee Davidson-Olley survived an infant heart transplant to win gold in a 4 × 100 metres relay?
Did you know that Nepal's first officially recorded tornado occurred in March 2019?
Did you know that during construction of the tower for Oklahoma City's KLPR-TV station, a worker was trapped 200 feet (60 m) in the air for more than an hour?
Did you know that the traditional north German card game of Fipsen is played in the village of Thedinghausen for currant buns called Hedewigs (example pictured)?
Did you know that while chief engineer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Ramesh Sumant Mehta implemented what was at the time the largest municipal drainage system in India?
Did you know that Lawrence Minard has a business journalism award named after him?
Did you know that Washington State Route 99 passes under downtown Seattle in a tunnel that was excavated by the world's largest tunnel boring machine?
Did you know that at the premiere of The End, audience members shouted at the film and threw their chairs?
Did you know that despite previously being at war with the Kingdom of the Aurès, the Byzantine Empire supported them during the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb?
Did you know that the internal organs of Elizabeth de Burgh, wife of Robert the Bruce, were buried at Cullen Old Church?
Did you know that the riff for "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", the Rolling Stones' first number-one hit, came to Keith Richards in his sleep?
Did you know that when directing Der Ring in Minden, Wagner's Ring Cycle at a municipal theatre, Gerd Heinz focused on the psychology in the interactions of the characters?
Did you know that Buddhists consider the precept against killing any living being the most important of the five basic ethical precepts?
Did you know that D. Geraint James was known as the "King of Sarcoid"?
Did you know that Elisabetta Sirani's 1663 painting Virgin and Child was selected for the United States Postal Service's Christmas holiday stamp series in 1994?
Did you know that Huang Yihe created the CCTV New Year's Gala, which has become the most-watched television show in the world, with one billion viewers in 2018?
Did you know that Mahendra Nath Pandey, who was imprisoned during the Emergency, went on to become an Indian government minister?
Did you know that a virtual K-pop group composed of video game characters topped Billboard's World Digital Song Sales chart in November 2018?
Did you know that Clark Hubbs was notorious for his collection of clothing depicting fish?
Did you know that Dieter Mathoi and David Chipperfield designed the department store Kaufhaus Tyrol in the historic centre of Innsbruck, causing much controversy?