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Did you know that James Strachan-Davidson, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, believed that the college should be as "wife and children" to its fellows?
Did you know that Leeds Civic Trust has created a trail of rainbow plaques (example pictured) to commemorate individuals, significant places, and events which have contributed to the LGBT+ history of Leeds?
Did you know that although Eric Thorne was never a big star in London's West End, he was "a great favourite in the provinces", including as Baron Popoff in The Merry Widow?
Did you know that in 1917, the crew of HMS Terror had to abandon ship after the captain refused to sail the damaged ship stern first?
Did you know that pediatrician Samuel Z. Levine was summoned by the White House in 1963 to treat President John F. Kennedy's premature baby son?
Did you know that the Indian film Chand Bujh Gaya (The Moon Is Eclipsed) was denied a censor certificate for fear of "inciting communal violence" and "communal disharmony"?
Did you know that the Northern Ireland subsidy is greater than the United Kingdom's annual net expenditure on the European Union before Brexit?
Did you know that the Slovak periodical Svedectvo (Testimony) receives a government subsidy, despite having published apologist articles defending convicted war criminals?
Did you know that the fictional village of Kattegat in the television series Vikings is located at the base of Luggala in County Wicklow, Ireland?
Did you know that the founder of the media watchdog organization Ad Fontes Media has compared low-quality news sources to junk food?
Did you know that the in-development fangame Bionicle: Quest for Mata Nui was praised for having better animation than the direct-to-video Bionicle films?
Did you know that three of the 34 stanzas of "Jesu Leiden, Pein und Tod", a Passion hymn by Paul Stockmann, were included in Bach's St John Passion?
Did you know that Clint Hocking was the level designer, game designer, and scriptwriter for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell?
Did you know that FTI Consulting has concluded with "medium to high confidence" that Jeff Bezos's phone was hacked by a file sent from the Saudi Arabian crown prince's WhatsApp account?
Did you know that after the demolition of much of the elevated Myrtle Avenue Line, service on New York City's B54 bus route was increased by 700 percent?
Did you know that although the Alvvays song "Archie, Marry Me" did not chart, it is still considered to be the band's breakout hit?
Did you know that in the Danish card game of Brus, if a seven is led, the player risks it being beaten by the beggar king?
Did you know that paneling from the east room of the Hynson–Ringgold House, the current official residence of the president of Washington College, was sold to the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1932?
Did you know that public reaction to Agatha Christie's eleven-day disappearance in 1926 included speculation the incident was an attempt to frame Archie Christie, her then husband, for murder?
Did you know that the Arizona dampwood termite exclusively colonizes dead parts of standing trees?
Did you know that the Buruciye Medrese is considered one of the best examples of Seljuk architecture in Anatolia?
Did you know that the bookseller George Robinson paid Ann Radcliffe £500 in 1794 to publish The Mysteries of Udolpho – equivalent to £58,735 today?
Did you know that the communications satellite LES-1, launched in 1965, spontaneously began transmitting again in 2012 after more than 40 years of silence, making it one of the oldest zombie satellites?
Did you know that volcanoes in Honolulu (example pictured) were active within the last 80,000 years, and future eruptions are possible?
Did you know that Albert Camus's novel The Plague is based on an epidemic in Oran, Algeria, and examines how a government could turn tyrannical?
Did you know that Alexander H. Flax, the future chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force, was part of a small team of engineers who developed the Piasecki HRP Rescuer, the first true twin-rotor helicopter?
Did you know that Carol Brightman first gained inspiration for her book Sweet Chaos from her younger sister, who worked as the Grateful Dead's lighting director and literary agent?
Did you know that Megaceroides algericus is one of only two deer species known to have been native to Africa, alongside the Barbary stag?
Did you know that Michael Boddenberg, the minister of finance of the German state of Hesse, once directed a school for butchers and bakers?
Did you know that a draft condition of the Treaty of Lutatius to end the First Punic War, stipulating that Carthage pay Rome 57,000 kg (126,000 lb) of silver, was rejected as insufficient?
Did you know that a large statue of a cottontail rabbit in Minneapolis was outfitted with a cloth face mask during the COVID-19 pandemic in Minnesota?
Did you know that many post-World War II anti-Jewish attacks in Slovakia were committed by former anti-Nazi partisans?
Did you know that on Good Friday 2020, Benedikt Kristjánsson sang all roles in a chamber arrangement of Bach's St John Passion, broadcast live from the composer's burial place?
Did you know that plague victims are depicted as hopeful of relief in Rubens's altarpiece, but in despair in David's painting?
Did you know that radio station WSID, located in a suburb of Baltimore, claimed that a city court had no jurisdiction over it?
Did you know that some countries charge visitors a departure tax?
Did you know that the pencil sketch for Little Girl Observing Lovers on a Train is in the private collection of George Lucas?
Did you know that Charles Kelman, the inventor of phacoemulsification for cataract surgery, was also a Broadway producer and a jazz musician with a musical comedy routine?
Did you know that Jon Godfread is the world's tallest politician, according to Guinness World Records?
Did you know that Mustafa Wahbi Tal, Jordan's most prominent poet, was arrested in 1926 for displaying the Bolshevik emblem, getting drunk in a bar, and publicly reciting a poem that insulted the Emir?
Did you know that Nico Rosberg announced his retirement from Formula One motor racing five days after winning the 2016 World Championship?
Did you know that actress Ruth Warrick was said to have "stolen the show" as a sweet young bride who grows into a disillusioned, middle-aged woman in the 1950 Christian film Second Chance?
Did you know that although the 2018 release Hamari Paltan was promoted as the last film of veteran Indian actor Tom Alter, another one featuring him premiered later that same year?
Did you know that author Clinton Heylin flew from England to California to hear Bob Dylan perform "Idiot Wind" live?
Did you know that during the Battle of Boulogne on 23 May 1940, a shell from the British ship HMS Venomous made a German tank turn "over and over, like a child doing a cart-wheel"?
Did you know that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the hymn "O Licht der wunderbaren Nacht" by Georg Thurmair was recommended for a celebration of Easter Vigil at home?
Did you know that during the rule of the Greek military junta, archaeologist and museum curator Semni Karouzou was banned from conducting research in the National Archaeological Museum because of her political views?
Did you know that the New York City Subway stations at 9th, 25th, 59th, and Union Streets, as well as Prospect Avenue, were opened with a competition between two trains heading to Coney Island?
Did you know that with the growth of the Werl pilgrimage to a statue of Mary, a large Romanesque Revival basilica was built adjacent to the former Baroque style church?
Did you know that Droitwich Water Tower has been described as "one of the first things you see when you enter the town"?
Did you know that Jerry Bradley is the third member of his family to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Robert De Niro won the first of his two Academy Awards for his portrayal of the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II?
Did you know that U.S. general George Mathews attempted a failed annexation of Spanish Florida just months before the outbreak of the War of 1812?
Did you know that a golden statue was erected in Taiwan in honor of bank robber and murderer Lee Shih-ke?
Did you know that after his side defeated Leeds United in the FA Cup, Cardiff City chairman Sam Hammam had two BBC reporters forcibly removed and had an altercation with the opposing manager?
Did you know that at a cost of $25 billion, Hudson Yards in Manhattan is one of the most expensive real-estate developments ever built in the United States?
Did you know that despite being known as the Mexican hydrangea, Clerodendrum bungei is neither from Mexico nor a species of hydrangea?
Did you know that effigies of Soedjono Hoemardani, a personal assistant to Indonesian president Suharto, were burnt by students protesting foreign investment?
Did you know that most potato farmers in Nigeria rely on hoes rather than tractors?
Did you know that populations of the Canada lynx undergo cyclic rises and falls in line with those of the snowshoe hare?
Did you know that the American-built clipper ship Gravina was named after a Spanish admiral who fought with the French at the Battle of Trafalgar?
Did you know that the developers of Elsinore, a video game based on Hamlet, drew inspiration for the game's time-loop mechanic from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, anime, and visual novels?
Did you know that CIA officer Howard Bane proposed that the Special Operations Group storm the Chinese embassy in Ghana and kill all its occupants during the 1966 coup?
Did you know that Dalma Iványi has won ten Hungarian women's basketball championships and played for three teams in the WNBA?
Did you know that Hawaiian princess Likelike died under mysterious circumstances in 1887 amid rumors that she had been malevolently "prayed" to death?
Did you know that Major Jim Gant of the U.S. Army Special Forces has been compared to both T. E. Lawrence and Colonel Kurtz?
Did you know that Telegraph Plateau was so named because it seemed to be an ideal route for a transatlantic telegraph cable?
Did you know that a royal deer park in Sweden was made into a nature reserve in 2001 to protect a species of beetle?
Did you know that after England won the 1993 Women's Cricket World Cup Final, women's cricket received unprecedented coverage in the English press?
Did you know that during the Battle of McDowell, Confederate soldiers attempted to use the dead bodies of their comrades to build breastworks?
Did you know that it took more than eight hours to apply makeup for the first time to the actor playing the character Bib Fortuna in Return of the Jedi?
Did you know that only nine pieces (example pictured) produced by the earliest French porcelain factory, which operated in Rouen around 1673 to 1696, are thought to survive?
Did you know that readings of The Crime and the Silence, a book about the Jedwabne massacre, have been picketed by the book's opponents?
Did you know that Dmitri Smirnov composed the Triple Concerto No. 2 for the centenary concert of the London Symphony Orchestra, with the principal violinist, harpist, and double bassist as soloists?
Did you know that Galveston Bay, the largest of the estuaries of Texas, is home to the second busiest port in the United States?
Did you know that Otis Barrett introduced Artocarpus integer, claimed to be superior to jackfruit, to Puerto Rico?
Did you know that a series of bollards mark the route taken by the 2nd Armoured Division during the liberation of France?
Did you know that art patron and collector São Schlumberger had her portrait painted by Warhol and Dalí, but did not like the one by Dalí?
Did you know that meerkats (examples pictured) use alarm calls that can identify the type of predator posing the risk, the level of danger, and the caller itself?
Did you know that the Hoby treasure found in Denmark contains two Roman silver cups with scenes from the Iliad?
Did you know that two separate contests were held to determine the words and the music of the national anthem of Guyana?
Did you know that Detroit-style pizza (example pictured) is traditionally baked in automotive drip trays?
Did you know that James Blake spontaneously wrote the song "You're Too Precious" in his home studio after waking up at 4 a.m.?
Did you know that Lassington Wood, owned by the Guise family since the 13th century, was given to Gloucester County Borough Council in 1921?
Did you know that Lund Cathedral has been called the "most powerful representative" of Romanesque architecture in the Nordic countries?
Did you know that Nasser Khalili's 1,400-piece collection of Meiji-era Japanese art (object pictured) is equalled only by the Japanese imperial collection in size and quality?
Did you know that Ole Børud's guitar music on the album Sonrise, by the band Schaliach, was likened to a "metal symphony"?
Did you know that Quentin Edwards was asked not to return to Bradfield College after a schoolmaster found passionate letters sent to him by John Mortimer?
Did you know that Venezuela won its first Olympic medal in 1952 with triple jumper Asnoldo Devonish, who competed while injured?
Did you know that after Congress limited presidential power granted by the Forest Reserve Act of 1891, President Theodore Roosevelt quickly protected 16 million acres of forest while the bill sat on his desk?
Did you know that after a disgruntled worker dumped parts of 140 Broadway's air-conditioning system into a tank, 10,000 workers were "uncomfortably warm" for weeks until scuba divers retrieved the components?
Did you know that after the 7th Infantry Regiment captured Hitler's Berghof on 4 May 1945, its commander, Colonel John A. Heintges, took Hermann Göring's 1941 Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet B for his personal use?
Did you know that citizen journalist Chen Qiushi went missing while reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan?
Did you know that the first monks at Villeneuve Abbey arrived in 1200 from Buzay?
Did you know that Australian actress Betty Bryant was honoured by Hillary Clinton for her humanitarian service?
Did you know that Linda Liau has developed a personalized vaccine against brain cancer?
Did you know that Möngke Khan was the only khagan to die in an attack on the Sichuan anti-Mongol fortresses?
Did you know that Takapūneke, which is sacred to the Māori and may become a national reserve of New Zealand, is the site of Akaroa's sewage-treatment plant?
Did you know that Thomas Brodie may have been in command of HMS Arrow at the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen, not William Bolton as often recorded?
Did you know that a DV4 electric dustcart (example pictured) continued to run after being hit by a bomb during the Second World War?
Did you know that a normally closed entrance to Hynes Convention Center station is opened for Boston Marathon spectators and anime fans?
Did you know that in her self-made music video for "Mooo!", Doja Cat raps in front of a green screen that alternates between cartoon GIFs of food, farms, and bouncing anime breasts?
Did you know that interior designer Valerian Rybar's dining room was lined with 400 fake books with titles about episodes in his life, including International Boredom, allegedly about his ex-wife?
Did you know that music academy director Hermann Reutter composed "Hymne an Deutschland", which President Theodor Heuss suggested as a new German national anthem after World War II?
Did you know that the audiobook Talking to Strangers has its own theme song, "Hell You Talmbout"?
Did you know that Lady Bathurst, once described as "the most powerful woman in England, without exception other than royalty", lived in relative obscurity for the last four decades of her life?
Did you know that Tove Lo's song "Cool Girl" was inspired by the monologue of the same name by a character in the 2014 film Gone Girl?
Did you know that U.S. presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Obama vowed "never again" (memorial pictured), but genocide took place during each of their presidencies?
Did you know that a 2013 study by the National Park Service determined that the First Battle of Newtonia Historic District was not suitable for inclusion in its list of official units?
Did you know that a redundant jail, saved from demolition when an author bought it for $25 for use as his writing studio, later became the Old Jail Art Center?
Did you know that members of the fly family Apystomyiidae (example depicted) have been found in Late Jurassic sediments in Kazakhstan?
Did you know that months into the Philippines' coronavirus quarantine, the Bureau of Immigration Bicutan Detention Center remained grossly overcrowded, with only two pregnant women having been bailed?
Did you know that residents of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, blocked access to a local goldmine over fears of COVID-19, even though Nunavut had no confirmed cases?
Did you know that the hymn "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier", a prayer for illumination because the human mind is "shrouded in darkness", became popular in English as "Blessed Jesus, at your word"?
Did you know that the men of Wade's Battery attempted to tunnel beneath enemy lines during the Siege of Vicksburg?
Did you know that the unlit tunnel at Salem station was "happily known as the 'Kissing-Bridge'" of the rail line?
Did you know that Badluram's body is buried, yet we get his rations?
Did you know that Robin Denselow of The Guardian called Orlando Julius "one of the heroes of Nigerian music"?
Did you know that William Henry Harrison III and William Henry Harrison served simultaneously in the Wyoming House of Representatives, and both had sons named William Henry Harrison?
Did you know that actress Natalie Portman was nominated for an Oscar for playing the First Lady of the United States?
Did you know that after a 20-year search, a gun barrel from the HMAS Sydney and a gun shield from the HMAS Adelaide, discovered on a rubbish tip, were fitted together and put on display at Leighton Battery?
Did you know that damage to the Verizon Building during the September 11 attacks, though substantial, was limited by its heavy masonry construction?
Did you know that on MTV's The Unplugged Collection, Volume One, Neil Young rescored "Like a Hurricane" using harmonica and pump organ?
Did you know that the birthplace of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr in the Welsh Streets, Liverpool, was nearly demolished in the 2000s?
Did you know that the spiral galaxy NGC 3393 hosts the nearest known pair of supermassive black holes?
Did you know that the sun bear is the smallest of all bear species?
Did you know that with his victory at The Big House 9, Zackray became the first Japanese player to win a premier-tier Super Smash Bros. tournament held outside Japan?
Did you know that Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mount Everest, created her own climbing equipment from scratch out of old curtains and the cover of her car?
Did you know that Lim Ban Lim, Singapore's most wanted fugitive, stole at least $2.5 million in his career but was found with only $1.40 on him when he was killed by police?
Did you know that a Court of Minstrels, led by a King of the Minstrels, regulated the trade of travelling musicians in parts of the medieval English Midlands?
Did you know that a five-year-old boy, using paper and his mother's cigarette lighter, started a fire that consumed the transmitter of Florida radio station WEAR?
Did you know that after 250 years of production, the Rouen faience industry (example pictured) was greatly reduced in the 1790s by competition from English creamware?
Did you know that an extension of the New York City Subway to Broad Street station cost three times the normal price of construction at the time, due to its location in the Financial District?
Did you know that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Camille Combal hosted episodes of Qui veut gagner des millions ? – the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – from his living room?
Did you know that in 1324, Ismail I of Granada likely directed the first use of cannons in the Iberian Peninsula?
Did you know that on the day she began filming her first starring role in Ginger, nine-year-old Jane Withers received congratulatory bouquets from W. C. Fields and President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Did you know that several hymns for Pentecost in different languages are based on the 9th-century "Veni Creator Spiritus" ("Come, Creator Spirit")?
Did you know that the City of Phoenix printed ballots on municipal water bills during a citywide vote for a logo for its new flag?
Did you know that the City of Seattle was built in Philadelphia?
Did you know that American tenor Scot Weir sang Hans Zender's contemporary version of Schubert's Die Winterreise with chamber orchestra in a performance of the Hamburg Ballet?
Did you know that Javier Bardem is the first Spanish actor to win an Academy Award, which he won for his performance in No Country for Old Men?
Did you know that Servaas Theron, a World War II fighter pilot, landed next to a stranded aircraft and siphoned fuel from his plane so that they could both fly away?
Did you know that Tamil Nadu was the first state in India to use green corridors to expedite organ transplants?
Did you know that between 1857 and the 1930s, a Russian gun captured during the Crimean War was displayed on the Hastings seafront near Pelham Arcade?
Did you know that despite being a member of the cat family, the jaguarundi has several features in common with mustelids such as otters and weasels?
Did you know that four prominent Republicans have endorsed a Democrat for president in 2020?
Did you know that gays and lesbians began using the pink triangle in the 1970s to counter "the vicious, influential myth" of a connection between Nazism and homosexuality?
Did you know that in 2016, Scientific American listed one of Lynden Archer's discoveries among their top-10 "world changing ideas" for that year?
Did you know that scientists were unsure whether the blue calamintha bee still existed until it was observed again in March 2020?
Did you know that the Lincoln Legion of Lesbians, a lesbian separatist collective in Nebraska, tried to outlaw anti-gay discrimination in 1980?
Did you know that the world's longest domestic flight, between Papeete, Tahiti, and Paris, France, a distance of 9,765 miles (15,715 km), came about because of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that Black Cap Mountain can be seen from both Bangor, Maine, and the sea?
Did you know that Ipsita Biswas led the team that developed less-lethal plastic bullets for crowd control in Jammu and Kashmir?
Did you know that Jagdschloss Kranichstein (depicted), a hunting lodge built by the landgraves of Darmstadt, served as a temporary residence for Louis IV and his wife Princess Alice?
Did you know that Jeffrey Herf found that East Germany delivered 750,000 Kalashnikov rifles to countries and militants as part of what he calls "undeclared wars with Israel"?
Did you know that TORPEDO, BATMAN, CASANOVA, ATLANTIS, and ISIS are all names of clinical trials?
Did you know that after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, Admiral José Toribio Merino described ousted President Salvador Allende's GAP security force as "Disney-movie style ... kids playing bandits"?
Did you know that it took three years to construct a subway line to 86th Street in New York City, and another nine years to extend it by one stop to 95th Street?
Did you know that journalist James Edwin Baum hunted big game in Africa for the Field Museum of Natural History?
Did you know that the Pulitzer Prize–winning opera The Central Park Five includes a role for Donald Trump?
Did you know that the vivid colors of the San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds, ranging from magenta to blue-green, come from the brine shrimp and microorganisms that thrive in the water?
Did you know that though formerly a vassal to the Mongol Empire, Eastern Xia was later destroyed by the Mongols because it rebelled against them?
Did you know that visual anthropologist David MacDougall won the Grand Prix at the Venice Film Festival for his first film, To Live With Herds, about Uganda's Jie people?
Did you know that 414 Tank Battalion, a mixed Dutch-German military unit, has been described as a step towards a European army?
Did you know that Airmail, a fresco featuring a barefoot and barechested flying mailman, was commissioned to commemorate one of the first American airmail facilities?