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Did you know that Indian violin player Dwaram Durga Prasad Rao, a recipient of India's highest award for the performing arts, was once an apprentice to a painter?
Did you know that an Ohio radio station's satellite dish was vandalized twice in 1991, believed by the station manager to be due to the outspoken conservative stances of one of the station's hosts?
Did you know that in 2021, Uche Eke became the first gymnast to represent Nigeria at the Olympics?
Did you know that mirror neurons may explain the phenomenon of empaths?
Did you know that the popularity of Boykinia richardsonii (example pictured) with grizzly bears in Denali National Park and Preserve has earned it the common name "bearflower"?
Did you know that Joanna E. Schanz, who received a lifetime achievement award, revived broom making and basket weaving in the Amana Colonies?
Did you know that National Treasure: Edge of History lead Lisette Olivera was dissuaded from an acting career as a child but studied dance, vocals and music?
Did you know that New Zealand activist Pania Newton gave up a legal career to become an activist and spokesperson for the preservation of her ancestral lands at Ihumātao?
Did you know that Shiroi Heya no Futari is regarded as the first work of yuri, a genre of manga and other media focused on female-female romance, despite not being the first manga to depict romance between women?
Did you know that a locally developed diagnostic probe is used for breast cancer surgeries in Iran?
Did you know that one of Beverly Robertson's biggest accomplishments as CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber was attracting the Ford Motor Company's US$5.6 billion Blue Oval City complex to Memphis, Tennessee?
Did you know that Fortress of the Bear's founder raised pigs to prove he could take care of bears?
Did you know that Mad Computers' MAD-1 ran Mad MS-DOS?
Did you know that S. H. M. Byers not only coined the phrase "Sherman's March to the Sea", but also wrote Iowa's state song?
Did you know that caffoy was a fabric similar to cut silk velvet, made from wool and often used for decorations such as hangings and draperies?
Did you know that dishes at the 1888-established Hacı Abdullah Restaurant in Istanbul  are cooked in  handcrafted copper pots?
Did you know that during the First Balkan War, the capture of Lemnos by the Greek navy enabled it to blockade the Dardanelles?
Did you know that economist Robin Greenwood's work has been used to suggest the bubble nature of Bitcoin and Tesla, Inc. valuations?
Did you know that executives of American Family Corporation learned they "could never be the city's news leader" running an underperforming TV station in Columbus, Georgia?
Did you know that former Burmese actress Honey Nway Oo  turned rebel and took up arms against the military junta following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état?
Did you know that former CIA agent Bazzel Baz was hired to be a consultant for The Blacklist television series and instead became a cast member?
Did you know that tram service in Olsztyn restarted after no trams had operated in the city for more than fifty years?
Did you know that Benjamin Tompson's poem "Harvardine Quils" called for writers in New England to memorialize the loss of "whole towns and Churches" in King Philip's War?
Did you know that Iván Arias's eccentric but successful 2021 La Paz mayoral campaign involved an action figure, comics, and chocolate kisses named and styled in his likeness?
Did you know that Josiane Lima won Brazil's first Paralympic rowing medal?
Did you know that The New Yorker's purchase of stock in Teleram Communications, a maker of portable computers, was the magazine's first investment in an outside company?
Did you know that after each win, the Sacramento Kings light the beam?
Did you know that at the time, the Fountain Fire was the third-most destructive wildfire in California's recorded history?
Did you know that the United Ukrainian Ballet Company, consisting of exiled dancers based in The Hague, has toured the UK, Singapore, Australia and the US?
Did you know that the Uthmaniyya, the partisans of Uthman, the third Muslim caliph, killed his assassin Kinana ibn Bishr in the First Muslim Civil War?
Did you know that the only woman to feature in the Temple of British Worthies at Stowe Gardens is Elizabeth I?
Did you know that the rector of the University of Indonesia, Muhammad Kamil Tadjudin, introduced a non-thesis degree policy that allowed students to graduate without publishing a thesis?
Did you know that the support of conservationist Kae Miller for people recovering from mental illnesses resulted in the establishment of Te Rae Kaihau Park in Wellington, New Zealand?
Did you know that 76 beavers parachuted  into Central Idaho in 1948?
Did you know that Ben LaBolt is the first openly gay White House communications director?
Did you know that Byzantine emperor Maurice was executed at the Harbor of Eutropius?
Did you know that Chickaboom!, by country musician Tami Neilson, was nominated for both Canadian and New Zealand music awards?
Did you know that Formed Police Units (example pictured) may be used by international organizations like the United Nations, European Union, and African Union when military intervention could be excessive?
Did you know that Hurricane Henri, a minimal category 1 hurricane, set a rainfall record in New York City's Central Park?
Did you know that Ida Ospelt-Amann led the revival of dialect poetry in Liechtenstein and was awarded the Golden Cross of Merit?
Did you know that Lake Street station was originally on Pond Street?
Did you know that archeologists disagree about whether the ancient necropolis discovered in Khirbet Kurkush (tomb pictured) was used by Jews, Samaritans or pagans?
Did you know that in response to the death of Tyre Nichols, Justin J. Pearson has pushed for a law banning officers with criminal records from transferring between police departments?
Did you know that the song "Balladen om killen" was unusually released on two record labels, CBS Records International and Mercury Records, around the same time?
Did you know that Pronto Computers' System 16 was one of the first computers in the tower form factor?
Did you know that Rubel Phillips was the first Republican to run in the Mississippi gubernatorial election since 1947 when he ran in 1963?
Did you know that a rare 1958 Gibson Flying V guitar named Amos appeared in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap?
Did you know that an unidentified ancient temple may be the finest example of a "high place" in the Galilee?
Did you know that at the 2020 Olympics, Lee Chih-kai became the first gymnast competing for Chinese Taipei to win an Olympic medal?
Did you know that for the 50th anniversary of the word game Lexicon, the publisher organised a Golden Jubilee weekend that included an alphabet soup dinner?
Did you know that the Buddha is said to have sat under a charoli tree (example pictured) at Bodh Gaya for seven days without eating, drinking, washing, excreting, or lying down?
Did you know that the Ilford Park Polish Home in Stover, Devon, is the last surviving of 45 camps established from 1947 to cater for Polish veterans and their dependants in the UK?
Did you know that the New York Yankees were first named after a Scottish regiment?
Did you know that the Storrie Fire was started when Union Pacific Railroad workers were repairing train tracks at the Feather Canyon?
Did you know that the discovery of anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski's diary after his death sparked what was called "a moral crisis of the discipline"?
Did you know that the propaganda poster "Women of Britain Say 'Go!'" was part of an attempt to ignore pre-war advances by women and reinforce gender stereotypes?
Did you know that upon being named the head football coach at Central College, C. A. Clingenpeel declared that "we will win one game this year" – and was correct?
Did you know that Fionula Brennan's experiments with cytokines led to new therapies to treat rheumatoid arthritis?
Did you know that Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to people with disabilities by the Queen, but received her award from the King?
Did you know that a bill poster for the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad ended up robbing the Railroad's own Division station?
Did you know that according to media outlet WLOS, surveillance footage appears to contradict the initial police account of the shooting of Jason Harley Kloepfer at his home in Murphy, North Carolina?
Did you know that after anti-apartheid activist David Rabkin was sentenced to prison in South Africa, he gave the courtroom the clenched-fist black power salute?
Did you know that footballer Samuel Iling-Junior was involved in two goals for Juventus within eight minutes of debuting in the UEFA Champions League?
Did you know that micronations have claimed territory in Antarctica, in international waters, and in space?
Did you know that the Constitutional Court of the State of Berlin (building pictured) voided the 2021 Berlin state election and ordered a repeat election?
Did you know that the jumbotron at a 2022 Illinois football game displayed a tribute to the piebald squirrel Pinto Bean?
Did you know that the last Fatimid caliph, al-Adid, came to the throne as a child, was dominated by his viziers, and died a few days after Saladin abolished the Fatimid regime?
Did you know that two years after Instagram's Dear White Staffers started out as a small meme account, it was credited with kickstarting the unionization of U.S. congressional staff?
Did you know that Charles Dickens's talking raven Grip inspired the poem "The Raven"?
Did you know that French astrochemist Christine Joblin co-created a webcomic to popularize her research on the origins of cosmic dust?
Did you know that King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's "cli-fi" thrash metal album addresses a mix of current ecological threats and attempts to find another planet to live on?
Did you know that Larry Kennedy played professional baseball while serving as his town's mayor?
Did you know that Nazi concentration camp commandant Otto Hantke was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1974 at the age of 67 for his acts during the Holocaust?
Did you know that Pat Cronin, a 19-year-old man, died after he was struck just once on his head during a pub fight?
Did you know that after the Seongsu Bridge collapsed in Seoul, radiographic testing found that 110 of the 111 connections in the bridge were filled with defects?
Did you know that in 1998, David Bowie launched BowieNet, a pioneering internet service provider which offered exclusive access to audio recordings, music videos, an online chat, and a virtual world?
Did you know that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Suzhou has both the tallest Catholic church building in China and the first ever Chinese bishop to meet the pope?
Did you know that the Spanish priest Baltasar Calvo was denounced as a "Valencian Robespierre" for leading an 1808 massacre of French residents in Valencia?
Did you know that the developers of The Pale Beyond were inspired by stories from historical Antarctic and Arctic expeditions?
Did you know that the walls of the Paper House are made from newspaper?
Did you know that Japanese Breakfast released versions of their song "Be Sweet" in both Korean and Simlish?
Did you know that Japanese pianist Nagaoka Nobuko, a child prodigy called an "absolute genius", was killed in the final American firebombing of Tokyo?
Did you know that Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam was at the centre of controversy in Sudan?
Did you know that Nixon's "Slaughtergate" scandal involved selling kangaroo meat as beef?
Did you know that Saint John's Island was the site of one of the British Empire's largest quarantine centres and held one of the first experimental drug rehabilitation centres?
Did you know that The Embrace, a monument to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was deemed phallic?
Did you know that after their Apple II clone was seized by U.S. Customs, CompuSource released a portable Apple II clone that was also IBM PC compatible?
Did you know that at the Grand Slams in tennis, Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková are on a 24-match winning streak?
Did you know that in 2015, GracePointe Church, Nashville, Tennessee, became one of the first evangelical megachurches to openly support full equality for LGBTQ people?
Did you know that the wildlife of Sudan includes leopards, giraffes, crocodiles, water hyacinth and the umbrella thorn acacia?
Did you know that 19th-century construction of the bathing ghat at Bulandshahr was delayed because an executive engineer deemed it an "eye-sore"?
Did you know that Aly Tewfik Shousha, a founding member of the World Health Organization, died while attending the WHO executive meeting in Geneva?
Did you know that Bit House Saloon's menu featured Rocky Mountain oysters?
Did you know that Clement Ligoure treated hundreds of blast victims at his home clinic following the Halifax Explosion in 1917?
Did you know that according to some Shi'i Muslim authors who wrote under the name of al-Mufaddal ibn Umar al-Ju'fi, unbelievers will be reincarnated into animal, vegetable, or mineral bodies?
Did you know that the 14th-century St Mary's Church, Mablethorpe, in Lincolnshire, England, is constructed of material classified as random mixed rubble, red brick and slate?
Did you know that Esmond Venner Keogh was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in World War I and later protested against the Vietnam War?
Did you know that Frank Gadsby, nicknamed "Peggy", was a one-legged British stunt diver during the early 20th century?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor announced her song "Mother" while 21 weeks pregnant?
Did you know that Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life includes a skull with missing teeth as a reminder of human mortality?
Did you know that all stable group 5 elements are silvery-blue refractory metals?
Did you know that attempts to locate Stonewall Jackson's arm with a metal detector failed?
Did you know that excavations led by archaeologist Judith Marquet-Krause disproved that the Book of Joshua was a factual account of the city of Ai?
Did you know that in a lawsuit over Mike Tyson's face tattoo, a judge found it "just silly" to say that tattoos cannot be copyrighted, but refused to delay The Hangover Part II?
Did you know that jazz composer Duke Ellington worked on his only opera, Queenie Pie, from the 1930s until his death in 1974 without finishing it?
Did you know that the country house Penrhyn Castle (interior pictured) is a mock castle?
Did you know that 17-year-old cyclist J. Nash McCrea, nicknamed "Crash", caused a major crash at the 1904 Olympics?
Did you know that H. G. Wells wrote the majority of The War of the Worlds while living in Woking, and much of the novel is set in the local area?
Did you know that Michael Stuart raised three sons to play in the National Hockey League, then established a sled hockey team?
Did you know that NASA astronaut Bonnie J. Dunbar flew on five space missions and has spent more than 50 days in space?
Did you know that Sanaullah Bhat is considered the father of journalism in Kashmir?
Did you know that The Scout Mindset, a book about being able to change one's mind, took five years to be published partly because author Julia Galef changed her mind about what to write?
Did you know that due to a dispute over who owned a road in Delta County, Michigan, eight school children missed two weeks of school?
Did you know that due to events during the Kinks' 1965 U.S. tour, the American Federation of Musicians blocked the band from performing in the U.S. for the next four years?
Did you know that physicist Sabine Hossenfelder's book Existential Physics discusses whether free will, the multiverse, the existence of God, and the meaning of life are topics that science can answer?
Did you know that the 2023 Huwara rampage, a late-night spree of arson and vandalism by hundreds of Israeli settlers, was the worst flare-up of Israeli settler violence in the northern West Bank in decades?
Did you know that the melody of "Dokdo Is Our Land" is commonly used by South Korean students as a study tool?
Did you know that the rapid development of the region of Gangnam in Seoul was spurred by the 1968 North Korean assassination attempt on military dictator Park Chung-hee?
Did you know that through their participation in the Liberian National Transitional Government, warlords could gain access to state resources whilst continuing hostilities between each other?
Did you know that while defending Zaw Myint Maung following his arrest by the Myanmar junta, lawyer Ywet Nu Aung was herself arrested and charged?
Did you know that Abdul Ghani Azhari wrote Qadim Tarikh-e-Gujjar in Urdu, detailing the ancient history of Gujjars in India?
Did you know that Alex Mivedor, who had been seen as the number two in the ruling RPT party in Togo, was purged from the party leadership in 1983?
Did you know that Gloria Cameron was the first native Jamaican in the UK to appear on the British television programme This Is Your Life?
Did you know that a Texas man who, on his front porch, fatally shot a police officer, was acquitted of murder?
Did you know that at 23, Roman Mejia reached the rank of principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, where his father had also danced?
Did you know that director Kunihiko Ikuhara created the anime series Revolutionary Girl Utena after becoming frustrated by his lack of creative control as a director of the anime series Sailor Moon?
Did you know that electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) is used to characterise polycrystalline materials at the micro and nano-scale (example pictured)?
Did you know that naming every character "Bob" was common in the play-by-mail game Mobius I?
Did you know that on his 1994 song "London's Brilliant Parade", Elvis Costello used a Dobro guitar as an homage to the Kinks' "Lola"?
Did you know that the 2022 essay and short story collection Kilometer 101 was published shortly after the author fled Russia due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Did you know that the Williamsburg Bray School – the "oldest extant building in the United States dedicated to the education of Black children" – was moved a second time in February 2023?
Did you know that the post-apocalyptic novel The Mercy Journals was inspired by the Gombe Chimpanzee War, the Rwandan genocide, and the Bible?
Did you know that when investigative journalist Dan McCrum published his findings of the Wirecard scandal, German authorities investigated him instead of the company?
Did you know that Helene Scheu-Riesz created the first German translation of Alice Through the Looking-Glass but struggled with Lewis Carroll's made-up words?
Did you know that Satoko Kishimoto is the first elected female mayor of Suginami, Tokyo?
Did you know that a condominium conversion of Manhattan House cost US$1.1 billion and took ten years?
Did you know that adultery was commonplace within Edward VII's Marlborough House set but divorce was considered unacceptable?
Did you know that baseball player Joey Marciano is a cousin of world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano?
Did you know that composer Igor Stravinsky fled Russia after the October Revolution, but returned once in 1962 to conduct in Moscow and Leningrad, meeting Nikita Khrushchev during the visit?
Did you know that despite being accused of cowardice at the 28 March 1879 Battle of Hlobane, John Cecil Russell rose to become a major-general?
Did you know that it is controversial whether knowledge is the same as justified true belief?
Did you know that some families feel pressure to reclassify their child to compete with their peers who have repeated a grade?
Did you know that the season finale of The Last of Us used real giraffes?
Did you know that Alia Bhatt's first screen appearance was as the younger version of Preity Zinta's character in the 1999 horror film Sangharsh?
Did you know that Bella Ramsey struggled to hold a real rifle while filming the eighth episode of The Last of Us?
Did you know that Frances Helen Prideaux's  skill convinced Sir William Gull that women were intellectually capable of being doctors?
Did you know that Saint Barbara in Palma Vecchio's Polyptych of Saint Barbara has been said to express the noble serenity of a saint who is still a woman?
Did you know that a temple once housed the New York City Opera and New York City Ballet?
Did you know that although previews called Panzer Dragoon Orta's story a sequel to Panzer Dragoon Saga's, developers have said that it might reflect an alternative timeline?
Did you know that as a member of the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies, Shirley Franco presented a bill that would penalize street harassment with up to eight hours in jail and a 500-boliviano fine?
Did you know that the Benjamin N. Duke House, owned by the same family for more than a century, was later sold to a former taxi driver?
Did you know that the doll company American Girl published The Care and Keeping of You, a book explaining puberty, after receiving thousands of letters from children asking about it?
Did you know that "Spelling on the Stone", released in 1988 by an uncredited vocalist purporting to be Elvis Presley, inspired a number of Elvis sightings eleven years after his death?
Did you know that Cora Slocomb di Brazza designed the peace flag adopted by the International Council of Women, and her mother Abby Day Slocomb designed the Connecticut state flag?
Did you know that Linn County clerk Del Riley established Oregon's vote-by-mail system, now used as the only voting method in the state?
Did you know that Parkville lost out on becoming the Colorado Territory's capital by eleven votes and is now a ghost town largely buried under mining waste?
Did you know that Tolkien was not sure if Orcs were made of slime or were corrupted Elves?
Did you know that Vermont folk musician Pete Sutherland hosted concerts at his house for $10—or $9 if you brought your own chair?
Did you know that girls at a school for children deemed "educationally subnormal" were given far less freedom than boys in order to prevent "sexual misbehaviour"?
Did you know that in 2019 the South African army's Natal Carbineers were renamed the Ingobamakhosi Carbineers, after a Zulu regiment that had fought against them at the 1879 Battle of Isandlwana?
Did you know that when unable to catch Cyrtodactylus santana (holotype pictured) during the day, surveyors returned to its caves under the cover of darkness?
Did you know that within 15 minutes of the Battle of Bronkhorstspruit, all the British officers in the battle were either killed or seriously wounded?
Did you know that Elisabeth Whittle, a garden historian, considers the gardens at Powis Castle to be the most important and magnificent in Wales?
Did you know that No, Ma'am, That's Not History, Hugh Nibley's rebuttal to Fawn Brodie's divisive biography of Joseph Smith, started a trend of polemics in Mormon apologetics?
Did you know that in 1981, New Zealand prime minister Robert Muldoon controversially published a list of "subversives", including many members of the Workers' Communist League?
Did you know that in 2006, U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir became the first male skater to win the U.S. Nationals three times in a row since Brian Boitano in the late 1980s?
Did you know that niwar, a material used for weaving cots, was once produced in Indian jails?
Did you know that prior to serving in the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies, rancher Osney Martínez sought to be elected the mayor of San Borja, as his mother had been before him?
Did you know that saxophonist Braxton Cook appeared in three Tiny Desk concerts for NPR as a sideman, before performing as a featured artist in 2020?
Did you know that the Brisbane Lions' AFL women's team in the AFL Women's season seven became the first AFLW team to score more than 200 points across the first three rounds of a season?
Did you know that the investigation of Team Jorge, an Israeli disinformation outfit, led to the suspension of a prominent French news anchor?
Did you know that the owner of a Pennsylvania radio station compared his job to that of Lee Iacocca at Chrysler?
Did you know that Ron Brown, the United States secretary of commerce, leased equipment to a TV station in Washington, D.C., whose owner turned out to be his lover?