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Did you know that when Sarah Bavly arrived in Jerusalem to open a nutrition department in a new health center, she was forced to hide in the building for a week due to the outbreak of the 1929 Palestine riots?
Did you know that Chloë Sevigny portrays the accused ax-murderer Lizzie Borden in the upcoming film Lizzie?
Did you know that King Razadarit's decision to keep the one-time flower seller Piya Yaza Dewi as his chief queen consort led to the suicide of his first wife, Queen Talamidaw?
Did you know that Mount Berlin, a volcano in Antarctica, has had large Plinian eruptions in the past and is still fumarolically active through towers of ice?
Did you know that as CEO of Intel Israel, Maxine Fassberg encouraged women, Arabs, Druze, and Haredi Jews to enter the high-tech sector?
Did you know that cars once drove through the Pioneer Cabin Tree, which drew thousands of visitors annually?
Did you know that during the 1952 steel strike, Clarence B. Randall criticized President Harry S. Truman for what he considered "shocking distortions of fact"?
Did you know that the Nanjing Metro system in Nanjing, China, has a total of 139 stations, with transfer stations counted once for every line they serve?
Did you know that Al-Jahith's Treasury, an Amman bookstore chain, may have been named for theologian al-Jahiz, who was supposedly crushed by a stack of books?
Did you know that Dwain Worrell's debut screenplay The Wall is also Amazon Studios' first original spec script?
Did you know that Emany Mata Likambe, Zaire's former ambassador to Poland, was discovered homeless and living on the streets of Warsaw in 1994 after his government had failed to pay him for over two years?
Did you know that Francis Poulenc placed an ode to liberty at the end of his Figure humaine, a cantata for a twelve-part choir, composed in occupied France and premiered by the BBC?
Did you know that Jean Davies, then a junior officer in the Women's Royal Naval Service, attended Winston Churchill's 69th birthday party along with President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet Marshal Josef Stalin?
Did you know that Maryland state legislator William Daniel was a Whig, a Know Nothing, and a Republican before finally joining the Prohibition Party in 1884?
Did you know that Mormon photographer Charles Ellis Johnson made artistic nudes and risqué stereoviews (example pictured)?
Did you know that after the Bugis prince Arung Palakka supported the Dutch East India Company in the Makassar War, he became the most powerful man in South Sulawesi?
Did you know that at one point, some street signs in Salt Lake City were written in the Deseret alphabet?
Did you know that both Madame de Pompadour and Coco Chanel loved Coromandel lacquer?
Did you know that during the 1873 mutiny of the Royal Guards of Hawaii, the Hungarian drillmaster Captain Joseph Jajczay and the adjutant general Charles Hastings Judd were attacked?
Did you know that the Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse, a U.S. government program established in 1790 to finance foreign covert operations, had by 1793 grown to consume 12 percent of the government's budget?
Did you know that "Merchant Prince and Princely Merchant" John Plankinton built a mansion as a wedding gift for his daughter Elizabeth, but she refused to live in it because her fiancé, Richard Henry Park, ran off with a dancer?
Did you know that Alex Vincent's role in Cult of Chucky (2017) is his first principal role in the franchise since Child's Play 2 (1990)?
Did you know that Gwen Stefani and Justin Timberlake's song "What U Workin' With?" was first revealed through a surprise post on Timberlake's Instagram account?
Did you know that Ted Meines assumed the identity of a deceased minister to avoid arrest in the Netherlands during World War II?
Did you know that Woody Harrelson's Lost in London became the first film broadcast into theaters live?
Did you know that in 1999 Lucy Dudko hijacked a helicopter to break out her lover from Silverwater Correctional Complex in Sydney?
Did you know that the 1859 by-election in Dunedin, New Zealand, was won by James Macandrew, who had precipitated it with his resignation from office?
Did you know that the blue-winged parrot is one of three species of parrot that make regular yearly migrations over a sea or ocean?
Did you know that "to rob Peter to pay Paul" means to eliminate one debt by incurring another?
Did you know that Major General James N. Post III flew over 4,000 hours in the F-16 Falcon?
Did you know that Vanda Hybnerová was named Best Actress in a Play at the 2004 Thalia Awards for her performance in Proof?
Did you know that approximately 80% of residents of Lusaka, Zambia, live in kombonis?
Did you know that crab apples were regarded as talismans against Wen Shen, the Chinese god of pestilence?
Did you know that on this day in 1574, Elizabeth I and her court saw a play about the rape victim Timoclea acted by London schoolboys?
Did you know that the bass Thomas Thomaschke appeared as Wagner's Hunding at La Scala, as Mozart's Sarastro in Glyndebourne, and recorded Bach's Mit Fried und Freud with Harnoncourt?
Did you know that the girl with peaches married the future chief prosecutor of the Most Holy Synod?
Did you know that China's Five Water Gods may have originated from a misunderstood surname?
Did you know that Jaffna kingdom lost sovereignty over Mannar Island after the first invasion by the Portuguese in 1560?
Did you know that Mary Jackson became the first black female engineer at NASA after successfully petitioning the City of Hampton, Virginia, to allow her to attend required graduate courses at a whites-only school?
Did you know that according to historian Stefan Winter, al-Makzun al-Sinjari is "perhaps the most prominent individual in Alawite history"?
Did you know that the East German actress Sonja Kehler, who was known for singing Brecht, taught acting in Denmark?
Did you know that the Map of Hell by Botticelli is the subject of the 2016 documentary film Botticelli Inferno?
Did you know that the bisexual journalist Edith Shackleton Heald was W. B. Yeats' mistress, and lived with the openly lesbian artist Gluck for 32 years?
Did you know that while English composers often combine "Mag and Nunc", Arvo Pärt set his Magnificat for Berlin and his Nunc dimittis later for the Edinburgh Episcopal Cathedral?
Did you know that Cho Hŏn, a Joseon dynasty official and righteous army leader, died in the Imjin War?
Did you know that Estocolmo is the first Argentine television series to be premiered by Netflix?
Did you know that Giovanni Antonio da Brescia probably made the first print of Laocoön and His Sons, the famous statue excavated in Rome in 1506?
Did you know that James Braidwood, superintendent of the London Fire Engine Establishment, was killed during the 1861 Tooley Street fire?
Did you know that Yamuna Eri, a Sri Lankan monument in Jaffna, is so named for the sacred waters added to it from India's Yamuna River in the thirteenth century AD?
Did you know that from the 9th to the late 11th centuries, the droungarios of the Imperial Fleet headed the main fleet of the Byzantine navy, stationed at Constantinople?
Did you know that siderography, a process to produce counterfeit-resistant banknotes, was submitted for an 1817 Bank of England contest in an era when English banknotes were known as "filthy rags"?
Did you know that the 1960 crime film Private Property was "condemned" by the National Legion of Decency?
Did you know that the anti-cancer drug ixazomib can be metabolized by at least eight different enzymes?
Did you know that the catalogue of compositions by Francis Poulenc, published in 1995 by Carl B. Schmidt, contains Concert champêtre, FP 49, inspired by the harpsichordist Wanda Landowska?
Did you know that the real name of the 16th-century Italian printmaker Master I.B. with a Bird (monogram pictured) was long suspected to be bird-related, but this was only demonstrated in 1936?
Did you know that Amy Richlin teaches ancient sex?
Did you know that Saint Anne's Guest Home is reputed to be haunted by a nun?
Did you know that St. Peter's Church, Colombo, was previously used as a banquet hall by the Dutch?
Did you know that a documentary on Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen's troubled 1972 concert tour was completed in 1974 but released theatrically in 2017?
Did you know that a megaflood from ancient Lake Atna 17,000 years ago may have contributed to the devastation caused by the 1964 Alaska earthquake?
Did you know that educational video game Opening Night allowed young players to direct their own plays?
Did you know that the dome cars of the Train of Tomorrow were inspired by a ride in the Rocky Mountains in either an F-unit or a caboose's cupola?
Did you know that the extinct Tsukada davidiifolia (leaf fossil pictured) from Washington State is related to the living dove-tree?
Did you know that the six-year reign of the caliph al-Muktafi saw the Abbasid Caliphate recover the territories of Egypt and Syria, marking the last revival in its fortunes before its collapse?
Did you know that Benedetto Montagna's engravings (example pictured) are rated more highly than his paintings, but he stopped making them around 1523, when he inherited his father's workshop?
Did you know that John Henry Wise was the first Native Hawaiian to play college football?
Did you know that Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, one of the first Nepali women to climb K2, was named after the first Nepali woman to climb Everest?
Did you know that Patrick Eagar took photographs at 325 Test matches, including 98 Ashes matches?
Did you know that Scott McCloud's webcomic The Right Number requires readers to zoom in on each panel to view the next one?
Did you know that TLC member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes threatened to wear black tape over her mouth on the music video for "Creep" because she opposed the song's lyrical content?
Did you know that democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz was toppled by a CIA-sponsored coup in 1954?
Did you know that during the Wilcox rebellion of 1889, Robert Napuʻuako Boyd was shot and wounded in the head, but survived to testify against his fellow conspirators?
Did you know that stockpiles of United States Marine Corps weapons and equipment are stored in caves in Norway as part of a Marine Corps Prepositioning Program?
Did you know that Carlos Enrique Díaz de León, president of Guatemala for two days, once refused a bribe of US$200,000?
Did you know that Elijah, archbishop of Nisibis, befriended the Abbasid vizier and recorded their conversations in his Book of Sessions?
Did you know that Tilo Medek set Lenin's Decree on Peace for speaking voice and four percussionists, and wrote an opera based on a Böll novel?
Did you know that during an October 2016 tornado in Manzanita, Oregon (damage pictured), the local branch of the National Weather Service issued a record ten tornado warnings in a single day?
Did you know that the composer Peter Janssens subtitled his Menschensohn (Son of man) a "Sacro-Pop-Musical"?
Did you know that the white-browed robin-chat sometimes nests on occupied buildings' walls and trellises covered with climbing plants?
Did you know that under the 1850–1903 Oudh Bequest, six million rupees were transferred from the Indian kingdom of Oudh to the Shia holy cities of Najaf and Karbala?
Did you know that you can go directly from Aqueduct Racetrack to Manhattan, but not directly back?
Did you know that Charoen Krung Road was built because foreign consuls complained of not having a road for their carriages in Bangkok?
Did you know that George Drumm wrote "Hail, America" while riding the New York City Subway?
Did you know that emotional lability can be seen in conditions such as personality disorder, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and alcohol intoxication, or after a stroke?
Did you know that high school teacher Gertrude Hull tutored Douglas MacArthur in preparation for passing his entrance examination to West Point?
Did you know that the Canadian government invests millions of dollars in First Nations communities to close the digital divide in Canada?
Did you know that the Neurological Society of India was founded in 1951 by Jacob Chandy, Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi, S. T. Narasimhan, and Baldev Singh, pioneers of epilepsy surgery in India?
Did you know that the character Komui Lee in the manga series D.Gray-man is based on the author's boss?
Did you know that while the wild cucumber and the oneseed bur cucumber both grow in North America, one has been used in a love potion and the other to treat sexually transmitted infections?
Did you know that Carlos Fernández Gondín fought against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and the United States in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, and afterwards helped found the Communist Party of Cuba?
Did you know that New York's Constitution Marsh, an Important Bird Area, is adjacent to what was once "the most cadmium polluted site in the world"?
Did you know that by royal edict, only members of certain families could be masters in the guild for makers of Limoges enamel?
Did you know that freedom of the press in South Korea has declined since 2010?
Did you know that poems by Martin Greif inspired music by Max Reger, Alban Berg, Anton Webern, and possibly Gustav Mahler?
Did you know that the English peace campaigner Betty Tebbs was arrested at the age of 89 for participating in anti-Trident protests?
Did you know that the Ethiopian Debo Band was founded by amateur klezmer musicians?
Did you know that the Maximilian Chapel, atop Cerro de las Campanas, is built in a style that "has nothing to do with Mexican buildings"?
Did you know that the Sulaymi commander Abu'l-A'war led the Arabs to a major naval victory over the Byzantines in the Battle of the Masts?
Did you know that the design of the Roosevelt dime has remained almost intact through its more than 70 years of production?
Did you know that "Wär Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit", a hymn by the Protestant reformer Martin Luther based on Psalm 124, appears in the current Protestant hymnal only partly, within stanzas from a colleague's hymn?
Did you know that Canadian artist Emily Carr felt unable to look at her painting The Indian Church because she was embarrassed when people complimented her on her work?
Did you know that John I Doukas, ruler of Thessaly, sneaked out of his fortress during a siege, disguised as a groom seeking a stray horse?
Did you know that Pamela Cunningham Copeland was honored by the Garden Club of America for her vision in preserving rare and endangered plants at Mount Cuba?
Did you know that Sophie Molineux won the inaugural Betty Wilson Young Cricketer of the Year Award at the 2017 Allan Border Medal Ceremony?
Did you know that at the establishment of Bahía Portete National Natural Park, Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos said, "Biodiversity is to Colombia what oil is for the Arabs"?
Did you know that historical comet observations in China as far back as 12 BC have been used to study changes in the brightness of Halley's Comet?
Did you know that offensive lineman Ian Allen retired from professional football to pursue a music career?
Did you know that one edition of Lenni Brenner's book Zionism in the Age of the Dictators has on its cover a medal commemorating a visit to Palestine by Nazi SS Officer Leopold von Mildenstein?
Did you know that the Aztec thrush, a vagrant to the United States, was first recorded there more than 100 years after it was described in Mexico?
Did you know that the Swiss government made detailed plans to acquire and test nuclear weapons during the Cold War?
Did you know that 17th-century Polish poet Anna Stanisławska wrote about her life and three marriages as a series of 77 laments?
Did you know that Antonio Fantuzzi's "mildly licentious" etching of Mars and Venus Bathing (c. 1543) probably copies a painting in the six-room bath suite of the Palace of Fontainebleau?
Did you know that Sept répons des ténèbres, sacred music by Francis Poulenc, was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and premiered after the composer's death?
Did you know that Sir John Rogerson's Quay, a private development in 18th-century Dublin, became home to a 19th-century diving bell used to further develop Dublin's quays?
Did you know that the Pompeii Lakshmi is an Indian ivory statuette of the Hindu goddess, excavated at Pompeii?
Did you know that the U.S. government temporary funding bill passed in December also contained provisions to expedite the approval process for James Mattis as Secretary of Defense?
Did you know that the constellation Frederici Honores was established to honour Frederick the Great?
Did you know that while he was trained in classical French cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu, Israeli chef Erez Komarovsky prefers to cook with "couscous, olive oil, and goat cheese"?
Did you know that Acer ferrignoi was named for James Ferrigno, who supplied access to Smithsonian fossils to scientists describing the extinct maple?
Did you know that United States Navy officer Jesse Iwuji played college football for the Naval Academy and currently races in NASCAR?
Did you know that Van Cortlandt Park contains both the Bronx's oldest building and the United States' oldest public golf course?
Did you know that as a result of the Suhl card reader case, an amateur psychic spent years in prison?
Did you know that during Krishnapada Ghosh's term as Labour Minister in the second United Front government of West Bengal, police were instructed not to intervene against striking workers?
Did you know that following the tradition of Urdu poets, Bollywood lyricist Naqsh Lyallpuri took his surname from his birthplace, and his family also adopted it?
Did you know that the Carmo Planetarium in São Paulo, Brazil, uses 9,000 optical fibres and 109 lenses to portray the night sky?
Did you know that the extinct sweetgum Liquidambar changii was described from the "Hi hole" location in Central Washington State?
Did you know that the lyrics of Tove Lo's song "Not on Drugs" compared falling in love to being under the influence of drugs?
Did you know that weaver ants were being used to control citrus pests in China as early as 304 A.D.?
Did you know that when the  USS Albany disappeared off the coast of Venezuela in 1853, its crew included the offspring of several prominent politicians?
Did you know that Hrithik Roshan topped Eastern Eye's listing of the "50 Sexiest Asian Men" in 2011, 2012, and 2014?
Did you know that Ian McTaggart-Cowan was considered "the father of Canadian ecology"?
Did you know that India annually celebrates Navy Day on 4 December to mark the victory of Operation Trident?
Did you know that John Clive Ward has been called "the father of the British H-bomb"?
Did you know that Magong's Mazu Temple claims to be the oldest temple in Taiwan?
Did you know that Phillip Henry Bridenbaugh's 265–65–25 record was believed to be the best in the history of Pennsylvania high school football?
Did you know that a chapel in the village of Medstead was mentioned in the Domesday Book?
Did you know that according to the 1997 book Policy Design for Democracy, "degenerative policy making" is a major feature of the United States political system?
Did you know that playwright and journalist Refik Erduran's fourth marriage, to his third wife's daughter from an earlier marriage, was annulled after six years by court decision for being immoral?
Did you know that the adult male Masoala fork-marked lemur has a cutaneous gland on the throat which is rubbed against the female during social grooming?
Did you know that the flea was illustrated by Robert Hooke in 1665 in his pioneering book Micrographia?
Did you know that August Buchner, a professor of poetry and rhetoric at the University of Wittenberg, wrote the libretto for a lost ballet-opera by Heinrich Schütz?
Did you know that Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration, has been awarded 21 times, of which 14 were made posthumously?
Did you know that Saturday Night! – The Album was described as "artless" in The Washington Post?
Did you know that an Indian Police official called the Ordnance Factory Board Mine Protected Vehicles (example pictured) "coffins on wheels"?
Did you know that at age 21, Jewell Jones became the youngest state representative in Michigan history?
Did you know that the 1994 New Jersey Rockin' Rollers, led by Manon Rhéaume, defeated Erin Whitten and the Pittsburgh Phantoms, in the first professional roller hockey game with two women as goaltenders?
Did you know that the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine suggested that the depopulated Palestinian village of Dayr Muhaysin was a Crusader village, held as a fief of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?
Did you know that the desert bighorn sheep, cougar, and threatened Mojave Desert tortoise are among the animals whose habitat is protected in the Gold Butte National Monument in southeastern Nevada?
Did you know that the first use of a transfer function matrix in control systems was on development of gas turbine engines for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics?
Did you know that the oviraptorid dinosaur Nemegtomaia brooded its eggs?
Did you know that Paul Dibb formulated an eponymous report of Australia’s defence capabilities?
Did you know that Yazh Nool, an important research work on the ancient Tamil musical instrument known as yazh, describes six types of forgotten instruments?
Did you know that after gaining a partial victory over the Jaffna kingdom in 1560, the Portuguese successfully defeated their enemy in the invasion of 1591 and installed their own king?
Did you know that gospel street singer Flora Molton performed in downtown Washington, D.C., into her eighties?
Did you know that in 1782, the Qianlong Emperor enquired "lacquer is cause for ten officials to protest; what if it is also carved?" (example pictured)
Did you know that in the Christian centre of meditation and spirituality in Frankfurt, visitors can walk through a labyrinth of burning tealights one Saturday each year?
Did you know that the Kaʻahumanu Society, originally founded in 1864 by Hawaiian royalty Victoria Kamāmalu, Bernice Pauahi Bishop, and Liliuokalani, was rechartered by a lady-in-waiting in 1905?
Did you know that Dutch television maker and author Teun van de Keuken started Tony's Chocolonely, which sells what is called "slave-free chocolate"?
Did you know that Jean Tatlock had a romantic relationship with Robert Oppenheimer, introducing him to poetry and politics?
Did you know that according to a commentator, fiddle player Joe Thompson "was the inspiration for a national revival of stringband music"?
Did you know that at a cost of £2.5 million (US$3.2 million), the opening scene for "The Holy Trinity", the first episode of The Grand Tour, was the most expensive scene in television history?
Did you know that establishing the chemical structure of apparicine was a notable early use of nuclear magnetic resonance decoupling?
Did you know that only two chiefs of the Indian Army have ever been promoted to field marshal?
Did you know that the British anthropologist Karin Barber started her academic career at the University of Ife, where she was required to teach in Yoruba?
Did you know that the Indian Government Mint in Noida is one of the four mints in the country and the only one established since independence in 1947?
Did you know that the Miami Dolphins have not won a playoff game since the 2000 season?
Did you know that the desert hare can produce up to 30 offspring in a year?
Did you know that whilst carrying out High Explosive Research, British scientists developed atomic weapons?
Did you know that "Get Enough" had a commercial release limited to 2,000 7" vinyl singles?
Did you know that Anisa Mohammed is the only cricketer to take five five-wicket hauls in women's One Day Internationals?
Did you know that in an air stripline, air is used as an electrical insulator to reduce transmission losses?
Did you know that scientists have proposed four models to describe the arrangement of the layers of rock before the collision of India with Asia that formed the Himalayas?
Did you know that the Professor Aristóteles Orsini Planetarium in São Paulo, opened in 1957, was the first planetarium in Brazil?
Did you know that Britannia Mines (concentrator pictured) in British Columbia had the greatest copper ore concentrate output in the British Empire from 1925 to 1930?