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Did you know that in 1935, Indian princess Indira Devi secretly travelled to London to become an actress, telling only her two sisters?
Did you know that in the music video for her song "Wheelie", Latto shows off a diamond cryptocurrency wallet made by celebrity jeweler Greg Yuna?
Did you know that when the deputy finance minister rejected his proposal to create a national bank, Margono Djojohadikusumo tried again with the Vice President?
Did you know that Canadian brothers Graeme and Jacob Saunders learned to sail at the Chester Yacht Club, and campaigned a two-person dinghy in the 2016 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Gian Franco Bottazzo and Deborah Doniach proved that type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease?
Did you know that a livestock auctioneer and former Army sharpshooter shot and killed seven family members in the Rock Road massacre?
Did you know that since 2018, IKEA's stuffed toy shark Blåhaj has become a popular Internet meme and an icon of the online transgender community?
Did you know that when the Canadian baritone Iain MacNeal appeared as Odysseus in Dallapiccola's Ulisse at the Oper Frankfurt, a reviewer noted that he portrayed the "character's self-exegeses"?
Did you know that American educator Gilbert Eastman, who acted in and wrote American Sign Language plays, won an Emmy Award in 1993?
Did you know that Claude Debussy described his Cello Sonata, composed within a few weeks in July 1915 at a Normandy seaside town, in a letter to his publisher Durand as of "almost classical form"?
Did you know that Nirmalendu Goon shared his doubts about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's political decisions during the 1969 East Pakistan mass uprising in his poem Huliya?
Did you know that after Florida schools banned 54 mathematics books, Chaz Stevens petitioned that they also ban the Bible?
Did you know that after U.S. Navy pilot Royce Williams engaged in a solo dogfight with seven Soviet MiG-15s during the Korean War, he was ordered never to tell anyone about it?
Did you know that the unacknowledged contributions of Eunice Newton Foote to climate change research were recovered by Elizabeth Wagner Reed, whose research in genetics was also obscured?
Did you know that Ardwall House has a garden ornament in the form of an early mediaeval Pictish slab inscribed with a Celtic cross?
Did you know that a dead woman's knickers helped to solve the Charing Cross Trunk Murder?
Did you know that telegraph operator Emma Hunter may have been the world's first electronic commuter?
Did you know that the area of responsibility of the 6th Military Police Group includes all of the United States west of the Mississippi River?
Did you know that when the US government offered Bolivian president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada US$15 million to help quell riots in La Paz, he said that with that amount he couldn't even afford to pay for the cigars he smoked?
Did you know that Elizabeth Thorn was six months pregnant when she buried approximately one hundred fallen soldiers after the Battle of Gettysburg?
Did you know that Fabio Miretti received a standing ovation from Juventus fans after his Serie A debut as a starter?
Did you know that Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. was the first time a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices agreed that a challenged statute failed the rational basis test?
Did you know that Roslyn Lindheim, who designed hospitals, was the first architect to be elected to the National Academy of Medicine?
Did you know that a walrus named Freya was spotted riding a Walrus-class submarine, and later sank several boats in the Oslofjord?
Did you know that coral cores from Flinders Reef capture environmental changes caused by the use of nuclear weapons?
Did you know that the Theatre Royal, Southampton, which Jane Austen visited in 1807, was described in 2013 as having "morphed into a hideous high-rise"?
Did you know that the lineups for two songs in the single "Kaze wo Matsu" were determined by the century in which the singers were born?
Did you know that Ken Russell went on international yo-yo tours before turning to politics?
Did you know that Ryan Roberts, a defensive end for Notre Dame, was a soccer player in high school?
Did you know that Tenta's architectural remains, artefacts, human burials, flora and fauna have been "virtually unchanged for two millennia"?
Did you know that it was Caltech experimental physicist Rana X. Adhikari's idea to build a gravitational-wave observatory in India?
Did you know that many fans of Ayub Bachchu's Bangladeshi rock watched the film Loot Toraj in theaters just to hear the love song "Ananta Prem Tumi Dao Aamake"?
Did you know that the man from Del Monte never spoke on screen?
Did you know that while Moto Hagio's parents discouraged her interest in manga as "an impediment to studying", she would go on to receive a Medal of Honor for her contributions to the medium?
Did you know that Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo dancer George Verdak was awarded an honorary doctorate by Butler University?
Did you know that Hayley Kiyoko aimed for a fully LGBT cast while casting the video for her song "For the Girls"?
Did you know that The Twins, a 1930 story by Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari, was called the first Saudi Arabian novel?
Did you know that William George Carlile Kent was court-martialled for disobeying deposed Governor William Bligh's order to destroy Sydney?
Did you know that at the request of Regine Velasquez, her former manager Ronnie Henares directed the concert Twenty?
Did you know that ice hockey commentator Jack Michaels began his career announcing an ostrich race?
Did you know that in Crippled, author Frances Ryan describes a disabled British woman who was unable to afford heating or her specialist meals due to an austerity programme that began in 2010?
Did you know that in the concert Songbird Sings the Classics, Regine Velasquez paid homage to the music of Burt Bacharach, Leonard Bernstein, Michel Legrand, Henry Mancini, and Barry Manilow?
Did you know that the Acoustic Atlas at Montana State University Library helped to create a public domain archive of sounds from Yellowstone National Park?
Did you know that the Scilly Boys' idea to try and beat the transatlantic rowing record was started while they were at the pub?
Did you know that the poor of ancient Rome were compared to dogs by the Roman writer Martial?
Did you know that when the new church of St. Martinus in Hattersheim was built in 1915 with Jugendstil elements, the architect incorporated parts from the earlier church?
Did you know that Baer's pochard (example pictured), found in eastern Asia, has seen a population decline of more than 99 percent in past decades, and is no longer migratory in central and eastern China?
Did you know that Federico Gatti went from playing in the Italian sixth division and doing menial jobs to joining Juventus and playing for the Italy national team?
Did you know that George Balanchine's ballet Scotch Symphony, set to Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony, evokes the style of La Sylphide, a romantic ballet set in Scotland?
Did you know that Jim Dillard declined an offer to play in the National Football League?
Did you know that Mario Fiorentini was Italy's most decorated World War II resistance fighter?
Did you know that Suay Sew Shop plans to be owned by its sewers?
Did you know that as the reality of Venus's harsh surface conditions became known from the mid-20th century, the early tropes of adventures in Venusian tropics gave way to more realistic stories?
Did you know that the 18th-century "Danket, danket dem Herrn", a thanksgiving round based on Psalm 106:1, has been described as one of the most widespread rounds in German?
Did you know that the Caldecott Honor–winning illustrations for Going Down Home with Daddy contain Adinkra symbols that represent various concepts in Ghanaian culture?
Did you know that the Indianapolis Community Food Access Coalition was created to resolve food deserts in the city of Indianapolis?
Did you know that "Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen" is a 1697 Lutheran hymn, translated into English by Catherine Winkworth in 1863 as "Jehovah, let me now adore Thee"?
Did you know that Alice Kuperjanov was one of the founders of the Estonian women's movement and assisted military efforts during the Estonian War of Independence?
Did you know that John Dique constructed the machine used by the first Australian patient to receive dialysis?
Did you know that Youlgreave in Derbyshire is one of only a few villages in the United Kingdom to be supplied by its own private waterworks?
Did you know that contrary to Shakespeare's play, Macbeth was not killed during the Battle of Dunsinane?
Did you know that the East Louisiana Railroad, which removed Homer Plessy from a train, actually did so to help him start Plessy v. Ferguson, an attempt to overturn segregation in the United States?
Did you know that the design of the train for the roller coaster Tigris was revealed in the form of a cake?
Did you know that the subject of the painting Vladimirka is a road that was used to transport prisoners to Siberia on foot?
Did you know that until Rufina Peter and Kessy Sawang's election in August 2022, Papua New Guinea was one of only three countries without a woman in parliament?
Did you know that "Arnold's Christmas", now considered one of the most memorable episodes from the animated series Hey Arnold!, was almost rejected by network executives because it depicted the Vietnam War?
Did you know that 17 State Street, near the southern end of New York City's Manhattan Island, was described as "quite literally a beacon for Lower Manhattan"?
Did you know that Blue Ridge Sanatorium was once a prizewinning pig farm?
Did you know that Bob Dylan rhymes "Angelina" with "concertina", "hyena", "subpoena", "Argentina" and "arena"?
Did you know that Brad White was a potato farmer who went on to play six years in the National Football League?
Did you know that Eliane Capobianco's election to the Bolivian Constituent Assembly reflected the propensity of the country's agribusiness elites to occupy positions that granted them influence over land reform policy?
Did you know that New Zealand composer Maewa Kaihau sold her rights to the song "Now is the Hour" for £10, a decade before it became a hit in the United Kingdom and United States?
Did you know that The Exposé's false claims that COVID-19 was created by Moderna were republished by Chinese state media outlets?
Did you know that in 2010, Lauren Mitchell became the first Australian female artistic gymnast to win a world title?
Did you know that the 1919 Rockwood & Company shipping department fire (location pictured) in New York City led to a flood of chocolate and butter sufficient to "float a rowboat for two blocks along Flushing Avenue"?
Did you know that the 1948 novel The Corner That Held Them uses subversion of history that includes a nun who enjoyed the Black Death?
Did you know that Gil Scott-Heron's 1975 song "Johannesburg" was banned in South Africa during apartheid?
Did you know that Irene Desmet, a Liverpudlian paediatric surgeon, was described by one of her trainees as "an iron fist in a velvet glove"?
Did you know that Peter Corby's electric trouser press used technology designed for Concorde?
Did you know that Pliny used the term insania to describe a Roman art collector's love of citron tables?
Did you know that William White's last NFL game was Super Bowl XXXIII, in which he made a team-high nine tackles for the losing Atlanta Falcons?
Did you know that a Virginia radio station built a house to raise money for operations?
Did you know that a practice known as jieba, in which a Buddhist monk has scars ritually burned into his head, was banned by the Chinese government for 300 years?
Did you know that at its premiere at Symphony Hall, Leonard Bernstein described his suite Divertimento as a "fun piece" that "reflects my youthful experiences here where I heard my first orchestral music"?
Did you know that at over 2,800 kilometres (1,700 mi), Antar Lintas Sumatera's Medan-to-Jember service is the longest bus route in Indonesia?
Did you know that cosmetic chemist Balanda Atis created the foundation worn by Lupita Nyong'o in advertisements for Lancôme?
Did you know that when Winifred Brown arrived for the King's Cup air race in 1930, she was not allowed to stay at the aero club but still won the race?
Did you know that Canadian architect Barry Downs contributed to the redevelopment of the Expo 86 site in Vancouver, the largest private development in North America at the time?
Did you know that Cursed to Golf  has been referred to as the "Dark Souls of golf" due to its difficulty?
Did you know that Herb Roedel retired from professional football after only one season to become an engineer?
Did you know that Judith Schiff, as chief research archivist at the Yale University Library, helped determine that skeletons exposed by a tree uprooted by Hurricane Sandy dated to the 18th century?
Did you know that Mama Lee lived for more than a decade on a cruise ship?
Did you know that Oskar Kokoschka's painting The Duchess of Montesquiou-Fezensac was confiscated by the Nazis after his work was labelled "degenerate"?
Did you know that Stanford's E. J. Smith, son of Emmitt Smith, the National Football League's all-time rushing leader, was named a 2022 breakout candidate at his father's position?
Did you know that getting bitten by an eel led Sean Barber to become an umpire?
Did you know that members of a 250,000-strong crowd sang the refrain of the Christian hymn "Ich lobe meinen Gott, der aus der Tiefe mich holt" during the 2015 Kirchentag?
Did you know that the Eyes of Buddha is a Buddhist symbol commonly painted on stupas in Nepal?
Did you know that the founder of the magazine Shōjo Club (issue pictured) hoped that the publication would instill in its readership the "inner modesty and fortitude of samurai women"?
Did you know that 2022 Commonwealth Games women's squash gold medallist Georgina Kennedy was once a promising runner, ranked number one in England at the 1500 metres, before focusing on squash?
Did you know that Creekfinding was inspired by epidemiologist Michael Osterholm's efforts to restore a creek that had been diverted decades earlier?
Did you know that Ingrid Andress said that she wished she had included a parrot which startled her in the music video for her single "The Stranger"?
Did you know that according to one account, planners put a dome above the United Nations General Assembly Building (interior pictured) so the UN headquarters could be funded more quickly?
Did you know that getting the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit (launch pictured) consumed far less fuel than was planned, effectively doubling its expected operational life?
Did you know that hedge fund manager Patrick Degorce was an early investor in Moderna, with the hope that they could find a cure for his wife's stage-IV lung cancer?
Did you know that the Alabama Crimson Tide's loss to the LSU Tigers in their 2019 football game broke a 31-game home winning streak?
Did you know that the German conductor Kai Bumann was the music director of the Warsaw Chamber Opera, and toured Japan with the company twice?
Did you know that the owner of a Montana TV station changed the name of his company because he was asked why his license plate read "SUNBELT"?
Did you know that the writer of Elden Ring compared the game's mythology to using a dungeon master's handbook in a tabletop RPG?
Did you know that 280 Broadway, once called the "cradle of the department store", later hosted The Sun newspaper and then the New York City Department of Buildings?
Did you know that Aymara legislator Rafael Quispe's humorous style of political activism led one Bolivian parliamentarian to describe him as the "Chapulín Colorado" of the Legislative Assembly?
Did you know that CLODO's initialism is also a French slang term for 'bum' or 'homeless'?
Did you know that after playing professional football, Furlong Flynn became an aviation pioneer?
Did you know that an auction of the art collection of Welbore Ellis Agar was abandoned when all of it, including works by Velazquez, Poussin, Lorrain, Murillo, and  Rubens (example pictured) was bought by Earl Grosvenor?
Did you know that before Godley & Creme were one half of 10cc, they were Frabjoy & the Runcible Spoon?
Did you know that medieval literature scholar Theodore Silverstein's unit in World War II took over the Eiffel Tower to intercept communications of German aircraft?
Did you know that the tallest captive elephant in Asia has been commemorated in verse, sculpture and film?
Did you know that while Joseph Longworth thought that he would be remembered only as "the son of his father and the father of his son", there is today a wing of the Cincinnati Art Museum named for him?
Did you know that Bumper Pool legally changed his name to Bumper when he was 16 because of his father's childhood love for bumper pool?
Did you know that David Dexter, who wrote the New Guinea volume in the series Australia in the War of 1939–1945, was a commando who served in East Timor and New Guinea?
Did you know that Sacco Saito, who arranged and performed the theme song for Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation, was not told the content of the game until after the song had been recorded?
Did you know that Turkish prime minister Bülent Ecevit's first order in office was to send the minister of transport to the crash site of Turkish Airlines Flight 301 (aircraft pictured)?
Did you know that a Kansas City TV station sold for $1 in 1953?
Did you know that a pending case at the United States Supreme Court, Haaland v. Brackeen, "could completely erase tribal sovereignty"?
Did you know that damage patterns on Alnus parvifolia fossil leaves (example pictured) were initially misidentified as flea beetle eggs?
Did you know that the Assembly Rooms in Belfast, which housed a branch of the Belfast Banking Company for more than 100 years, were the venue for the court-martial of leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798?
Did you know that Bob Dylan's "4th Time Around" has been interpreted as a parody of the Beatles' song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"?
Did you know that KECH 22 was associated with two simultaneous bankruptcy proceedings?
Did you know that Michelle O'Bonsawin is the first Indigenous person appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada?
Did you know that Puerto Rico's Willie Hernández became the highest paid player in Detroit Tigers history after winning Cy Young and Most Valuable Player awards and a World Series?
Did you know that The Story of Mr Sommer, a 1991 novella by Patrick Süskind with illustrations by Sempé, has been described as "a children's tale for adults"?
Did you know that Univision bought a Chicago TV station that wasn't for sale?
Did you know that Yesenia Yarhui, the youngest parliamentarian in Bolivian history, was sworn into the Chamber of Deputies at just 19 years old?
Did you know that a two-year-old food bank contributed 150 semi-trucks of supplies to relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina?
Did you know that before he made his Major League Baseball debut, Nate Fisher worked as a commercial lending analyst for the First National Bank of Omaha?
Did you know that in the history of opera in Ukraine, Mykola Lysenko's historical Taras Bulba (title character pictured) was the first grand opera, but not performed during his lifetime because he refused a performance in Russian?
Did you know that medical doctor Brian McMahon was named "ANZAC of the Year" in 2011?
Did you know that prolific Italian forger Tobia Nicotra once toured the United States impersonating conductor Riccardo Drigo, who had died two years earlier?
Did you know that the Romans would advertise their goods with a type of inscription known as Titulus pictus?
Did you know that Chief of the General Staff Zdravko Ponoš began military cooperation between Serbia and Ohio?
Did you know that nine songs from Mary Lou Williams's Zodiac Suite were composed during a live radio improvisation?
Did you know that no elvers (examples pictured) are eaten during the Elver Eating World Championships?
Did you know that one witness claimed that not even God could have prevented the Battle of Omagh?
Did you know that rugby union flanker Gavin Thomas had his contract cancelled by the Scarlets after he missed more than 26 weeks of the 2008–09 season due to a ruptured Achilles tendon?
Did you know that the design of Cheetah Hunt was inspired by a Star Wars film?
Did you know that the first woman mayor in Metropolitan Toronto, Beth Nealson, ran against True Davidson in a 1966 mayoral race called the "Battle of the Belles"?
Did you know that the founder of a Massachusetts radio station credited Gayle King, then a local news anchor, for mentoring her to pursue a broadcast license?
Did you know that while experimenting for the music of Red Dead Redemption, Woody Jackson recorded the heartbeat of his unborn daughter on his iPhone?
Did you know that Fannie Salter was personally appointed keeper of Turkey Point Light by U.S. president Calvin Coolidge?
Did you know that Peachtree Arcade, a shopping arcade in the U.S. state of Georgia, was conceived after a local businessman visited the Cleveland Arcade?
Did you know that Washington College is investigating the possibility of turning the Chestertown Armory into a bed and breakfast?
Did you know that a report commissioned by the Jews of Color Initiative described "Jews of color" as "an imperfect, but useful umbrella term"?
Did you know that after Mehmet Şerif Fırat helped the Turkish military defeat the Sheikh Said rebellion, he was internally exiled with relatives of the leaders of the rebellion?
Did you know that customers at Karen's Diner pay to be insulted?
Did you know that fictional depictions of Jupiter have portrayed human habitation on the planet and its moons both by altering the environment to suit humans and altering humans to be suited to the environment?
Did you know that papyrologist Walter Cockle produced a new edition of a tragedy by Euripides based on fragments found in the Oxyrhynchus Papyri?
Did you know that the Shady Rest Golf and Country Club was the home of John Shippen, the first African American to compete in the U.S. Open?
Did you know that the word "dirge" for funeral hymns can be traced to primer prayer books?
Did you know that "Spotlight", the best-selling digital single in Chinese music history, saw its Douban rating drop from 10.0 to 3.2 less than two days after its release?
Did you know that Constance Fozzard was told during her surgical training that women with children could not become consultants?
Did you know that Eli N. Evans authored three books about the culture and history of Jews in the American South?
Did you know that Lài dogs were instrumental in the Vietnamese Lam Sơn uprising against Ming China in 1418–1428?
Did you know that Matti Lehtinen, a baritone of the Finnish National Opera and professor of singing at the Sibelius Academy, was the voice of God at age 93?
Did you know that Melissa Clark-Reynolds, who was awarded the Insignia of an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, developed the now-defunct virtual world MiniMonos?
Did you know that Shenseea almost named Alpha after her dead mother?
Did you know that according to art historian Margaretta M. Lovell, Captain John Purves and His Wife reflects the late eighteenth century's turn toward companionate marriage?
Did you know that eleven years after serving as a Super Bowl usher, Rodney Parker came back to the game as a player?
Did you know that the Polish science fiction novel Extensa marked the growing recognition of its writer, Jacek Dukaj, in Poland?
Did you know that the melting of the Platigliole Glacier in Italy has revealed artefacts of the White War, including clothing and hay more than 100 years old?
Did you know that the selection of Palu as capital of Palu Regency led to protests from the nearby town of Donggala, concerned they would lose out on economic development?
Did you know that Brizlincote in Burton upon Trent, England, was formerly known as "Little Switzerland" for its charm and recreational use by locals?
Did you know that Buford Dam is maintained in part by a "Chew Crew" of sixteen goats?