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Did you know that Naomi Dattani played for a local boys' team before joining the Middlesex Women cricket team?
Did you know that in the 1920s, "the mouthpiece of Bloomsbury liberalism" was published in London's Great James Street?
Did you know that judge Frank Park volunteered to provide 100 "fat possums" captured from the wilds of his county for a "Possum and 'Taters" dinner honoring president-elect William Howard Taft?
Did you know that poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath spent their wedding night in a flat on London's Rugby Street?
Did you know that the film Alexander the Last, which was shot with a Handycam, credits the lead actors as also being the screenwriters?
Did you know that the flower buds of the woolly thistle can be eaten in a similar way to artichokes?
Did you know that the name of the former Palestinian village al-Zahiriyya al-Tahta may have been a tribute to the Mamluk sultan al-Zahir Baybars?
Did you know that while the title track of Crazy features the signature sound of South Korean girl group 4Minute—a hip hop– and trap-infused dance number—its lead single was a ballad?
Did you know that A Piece of Eden was filmed at the director John D. Hancock's home, with the main location being his apple orchard?
Did you know that Devolver Digital requested that the video game Serious Sam Double D be a "Contra on acid"?
Did you know that President Ronald Reagan once phoned television host Truman Taylor on the air to praise his "creative" Job-A-Thon show?
Did you know that Samuel Schwarz rediscovered a community of crypto-Jews in Belmonte, Portugal, who had kept their faith secret for centuries?
Did you know that after reading a book by Katharine Lee, D. H. Lawrence began to use the phoenix as his personal emblem?
Did you know that sport stars Donncha O'Callaghan and Roy Keane faced The Young Offenders' Hilary Rose to determine exactly "how Cork" they were for RTÉ Does Comic Relief?
Did you know that students and adults of three different religions visited the Armenian church in Kuzguncuk, Istanbul, as part of a social activity organized by the local women residents of these religions?
Did you know that the Korean folk story of Princess Bari (illustrated), a seventh daughter abandoned by her parents who nonetheless saves their lives, is seen as a subversion of Confucian patriarchy?
Did you know that the publication of Cantate!, Heinrich Bone's 1847 hymnal with a title translating to Sing!, was followed five years later by an edition with melodies?
Did you know that "Freuet euch der schönen Erde", an 1827 hymn about the beauty of nature, became successful with a melody composed by Frieda Fronmüller 100 years later?
Did you know that Cobra King was the first tank to break the Siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge?
Did you know that Muhammad al-Qunawi wrote a Turkish edition of Al-Khalili's tables because, according to him, "some of our sons wanted, from this poor man, to learn about sine tables"?
Did you know that Reminiscence of the Tempyō Era features a  kugo harp modelled on one in the Shōsōin treasure house?
Did you know that a short film made by Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann at university was screened at both the Telluride Film Festival and South by Southwest?
Did you know that in June 2020, Southern Virginia University removed the name of Robert Lee Durham from its main academic building in the wake of the George Floyd protests, citing his racist views?
Did you know that the French peanut is native to Brazil?
Did you know that the song "Catallena" by South Korean girl group Orange Caramel interpolates a sample of the Punjabi folk song "Jutti Meri"?
Did you know that Hokkaidō Heritage includes the Teshio River, named after the Ainu for "river full of fishing weirs"?
Did you know that Tolulope Oluwatoyin Sarah Arotile, the first female combat helicopter pilot in the Nigerian Army, died in a freak car accident?
Did you know that VikkiKitty casted the first ever Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament?
Did you know that a portrait of English prostitute Elizabeth Read is said to allude to the social mobility enjoyed by convicts in colonial Australia?
Did you know that before Kanye West sampled "Hey Young World" by Slick Rick on a track in 2018, his frequent collaborator Jay-Z had sampled it back in 2002?
Did you know that during his acting career spanning over 60 films, Jack Nicholson received 12 Academy Award nominations, more than any other male actor?
Did you know that the Embassy of the Philippines in Mexico City was badly damaged in the 2017 Puebla earthquake?
Did you know that the Mandinka douga, the "dance of the vulture" described in 20th-century African literature, may go back to Sundiata, and reach across to American Gullah culture, buck dance, and the minstrel show?
Did you know that the newly reported 6th-century Devunigutta Temple in Telangana, India, only came to international scholarly attention when images were posted on social media in 2017?
Did you know that the step sequence is a required element in men's and women's single skating, pair skating, and ice dance?
Did you know that Ditshwanelo has been campaigning for over twenty years against capital punishment in Botswana?
Did you know that Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Julia Collier Harris was present at both the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and the Scopes Trial in 1925?
Did you know that Yoko Taro jokingly threatened to destroy the servers of Final Fantasy XIV as part of a Nier: Automata crossover story he wrote for Shadowbringers?
Did you know that during their 1925–26 season, Cardiff City suffered the heaviest league defeat in the club's history, losing 11–2 to Sheffield United?
Did you know that educator Mildred Hope Fisher Wood was the originator of learning-disability courses, which she taught to prospective teachers at the University of Northern Iowa?
Did you know that hockey executive Cecil Duncan helped introduce the centre red line of an ice hockey rink to allow more passing and create excitement?
Did you know that in 1992, Leo J. O'Donovan was ordered by a Vatican ecclesiastical court to revoke the funding of an abortion-rights group at Georgetown University?
Did you know that the Serbian Orthodox Church denounced Bishop Grigorije Durić for suggesting that the Serbian government should fund hospitals rather than churches during the COVID-19 pandemic in the country?
Did you know that the song and visual images in the music video for "Bola Maya" express the pain of those who lose their loved ones in foreign lands?
Did you know that 1.6 million students in Delhi practice mindfulness, one of the components of the Happiness Curriculum, every day?
Did you know that Bruus, once the national card game of Hamburg, rewards players for "daring and tormenting" certain top trumps, and that such tactics lend the game "a certain charm"?
Did you know that Kashmiri poet Madhosh Balhami lost 30 years of his poetry in a clash between militants and the Indian government?
Did you know that Mozambique-born Violet Dias Lannoy, called "the lost Goan/Indian/African novelist" by Peter Nazareth, came from a Goan family, worked with Mahatma Gandhi, and hung out with Richard Wright?
Did you know that Taylor Swift wrote the lyrics to the song "Cardigan" to co-writer Aaron Dessner's music in around five hours?
Did you know that Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro tweeted "Thanks Iran" after the Persian Gulf state sent the first of six oil tankers to aid Venezuela's chronic fuel shortage?
Did you know that West Park United Reformed Church of Harrogate, England, has twelve heads of historical characters, including John Bunyan, carved on its wall?
Did you know that a former firehouse and church on Long Island now houses a permanent display of nine fluorescent-light sculptures by Dan Flavin?
Did you know that a voice recording of World War I soldier Edward Dwyer was featured in the contemporary ballet Dust?
Did you know that after the mishandling of a call to the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office that might have prevented a woman's murder, Florida mandated additional training for 9-1-1 dispatchers?
Did you know that following the Kent State shootings, Robert J. Henle suspended the remainder of the 1970 academic year at Georgetown University?
Did you know that people used to drive by John and Mary Pappajohn's house to look at the sculptures in their yard before they were donated for the Pappajohn Sculpture Park?
Did you know that the archive at the Het Nieuwe Instituut contains more than 18 km (11 mi) of architectural resources?
Did you know that Acorn Creek is named after an extinct Creek Indian village and plantation on the Chattahoochee River?
Did you know that Bert Nievera, dubbed the Johnny Mathis of the Philippines, encountered the real singer who watched him perform "Misty", the latter's signature song?
Did you know that Christian missionary Moritz Hall was ordered to cast artillery for the Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II?
Did you know that Elizabeth Throsby (depicted) survived an 1809 massacre in which her mother and 65 other Europeans were cannibalized by Māori?
Did you know that Leicester Hemingway, the brother of Ernest Hemingway, was elected president of a floating raft called New Atlantis?
Did you know that Maxine Dunlap, the first licensed female glider pilot in the U.S., began her flight training after catching "lindberghitis"?
Did you know that Molly Neptune Parker was able to support her family, buy a home, and pay for her grandchildren's education through basket weaving?
Did you know that in 1851, Wilson Armistead from Leeds hosted escaped slaves Ellen and William Craft when they fled the United States after the Fugitive Slave Act?
Did you know that the 1993 Football League First Division play-off Final was estimated to be worth £20 million to the winners Swindon Town?
Did you know that the Swedish warship Oscar II, the first Swedish vessel named after the ruling monarch since 1824, was autographed by the king shortly after being commissioned in 1907?
Did you know that the Turkish women's league seasons of 2019–20 football and 2020 rugby sevens were named to commemorate Özge Kanbay, a football referee and rugby player, who died in 2019 at age 22 from cancer?
Did you know that the former building of the Chinese embassy in Jakarta was turned into a parking lot?
Did you know that the video game Iron Harvest, set in a 1920+ alternate universe inspired by the Polish–Soviet War, has a dieselpunk and mecha theme?
Did you know that under the Republic of Venice, the Procuratie in St Mark's Square included apartments and shops that were rented out to finance maintenance on public buildings and provide assistance to the poor?
Did you know that Dona Joaninha, which had hauled sugar cane across Brazil since 1940, was sold to a scrap dealer and then became a monument?
Did you know that South Carolina radio station WDAB sold its former call letters to Michael Bloomberg, then named itself after an owner who had not yet bought the station?
Did you know that U.S. federal judge Miranda Du came to the United States as a child after her family fled Vietnam?
Did you know that William Bishop and Noël Poynter's biography of John Symcotts, sometime physician to Oliver Cromwell, provides a record of the life of a medical practitioner, whose work usually goes unrecognised?
Did you know that a statue of Hans Christian Heg, a Union soldier and abolitionist, was torn down by protesters, decapitated, and thrown into a lake following the arrest of a Black Lives Matter member?
Did you know that because of its isolated, moorside location, Wells House, Ilkley, is the only building by Cuthbert Brodrick known to have been surrounded by a designed landscape?
Did you know that in 1264, the Genoese captured an entire Venetian trade convoy after tricking the Venetian fleet into thinking that they had sailed for the Levant?
Did you know that more than 70 buildings designed by Paul Max Bertschy, the city architect of Liepāja for over 30 years, are still extant?
Did you know that students in the Baranovich Yeshiva, a premier Torah institute in pre-war Europe, spent years learning to understand the simple meaning of the Talmud?
Did you know that there is a boiling lake in Morne Trois Pitons National Park?
Did you know that BTS's song "Mic Drop" was inspired by former US president Barack Obama's mic drop at his last White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2016?
Did you know that Italian bandit Graziano Mesina, known as the "king of kidnappers", has escaped from the authorities at least ten times?
Did you know that Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume is the French version of The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?
Did you know that WILS-TV in Lansing, Michigan, featured a singing weather girl and pianist dressed appropriately for the next day's forecast?
Did you know that after throwing himself on the mercy of King Peter of Castile, Sultan Muhammad VI of Granada was killed by the Castilian king himself?
Did you know that in 2014, the government of Bangladesh removed 2,367 former communist guerrilla fighters from the official listing of freedom fighters, but this move was overruled by the High Court?
Did you know that the antibiotic ertapenem can dramatically reduce the concentrations of an anti-seizure drug in blood plasma?
Did you know that the forward-facing incisors of the extinct dolphin Ankylorhiza (restoration pictured) may have been used for ramming their prey, similar to a hunting method used by modern orcas?
Did you know that yōga exponent Wada Eisaku, who quit as a professor to enroll as a student in the same department, painted Red Fuji?
Did you know that Canadian dentist Frank Sandercock founded a hockey organization for Calgary, which had no local leagues before he arrived in 1913?
Did you know that King Ram Shah of Gorkha introduced criminal codes to the kingdom?
Did you know that Mary Clarke raised eight children and managed an estate whilst corresponding by letter with philosopher John Locke?
Did you know that Mooky Greidinger, now CEO of Cineworld, began in the cinema industry by working for his father as an usher?
Did you know that R. Luke Concanen, the first Roman Catholic bishop of New York, died before he could set foot in New York?
Did you know that Saint Blaesilla has been described as the first recorded victim of anorexia nervosa?
Did you know that Stonegate, a street in York, is "narrow, quite long, and with a variety of good things"?
Did you know that five-year-old Jacob Philadelphia asked US president Barack Obama (both pictured) if his "hair is like mine"?
Did you know that indie rock band Walk the Moon worked with AT&T and the Deaf Professional Arts Network to create an American Sign Language video for "Different Colors"?
Did you know that many antipsychotics are available as long-acting depot injections?
Did you know that one of the survivors of the Battle of Fakhkh, Idris ibn Abdallah, went on to establish his own dynasty in Morocco?
Did you know that scientists accidentally created a hybrid of two endangered fish species, called the sturddlefish?
Did you know that scientists are studying an underwater sinkhole off the Florida coast named the Green Banana Hole?
Did you know that the flag of Raleigh, North Carolina, was designed to be given to USS Raleigh, yet no records exist of the ship ever receiving it?
Did you know that the title of Ava Max's song "Sweet but Psycho" was inspired by her parents telling her "you're sweet, but you're a little psycho" when she was younger?
Did you know that Andrew Niikondo, acting vice-chancellor of the Namibia University of Science and Technology, completed his secondary school education only at age 30?
Did you know that Elks Lodge 878, which boasted a peak membership of 6,600, controlled politics in the New York City borough of Queens for many years?
Did you know that Yin May, the first Burmese obstetrician, founded and ran the country's main maternity hospital during the Japanese occupation of Burma?
Did you know that a resolution proposed by Bob Dearing calling for CBS not to cancel The Mississippi was unanimously passed by the Mississippi Legislature?
Did you know that analytical chemist N. Howell Furman was part of a secret team of Princeton scientists – including John Archibald Wheeler – who "disappeared to Shangri-La" to work on the atomic bomb?
Did you know that in 1983, Fanaura Kingstone became the first woman appointed to the Cabinet of the Cook Islands?
Did you know that in Siddhantasara, Manilal Dwivedi refutes the idea of the Genesis creation narrative as told in the Old Testament?
Did you know that linguist Esther T. Mookini translated many works of 19th-century native Hawaiians, including the 1838 Anatomia, the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language?
Did you know that the Native American Osage Battalion (captain pictured) was one of the last Confederate units to surrender during the American Civil War?
Did you know that the Tayway 73 between Dundee and Arbroath is the only UK bus route outside London to retain conductors?
Did you know that the all-woman announcing staff of Spokane, Washington, radio station KPEG all used the first name Peg on air?
Did you know that the royal palace complex of Moulay Ismail in Meknes was so extensive that it was nicknamed the "Moroccan Versailles"?
Did you know that there are plans to reconstruct Villa Wolf in Gubin, Poland, which was built in 1926 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and destroyed during World War II?
Did you know that Hawona Sullivan Janzen's Rondo Family Reunion uses lawn signs with photographs and poetry to commemorate the historically Black Rondo neighborhood torn apart by the construction of I-94 in Minnesota?
Did you know that Jarosław Kaczyński, an adviser to the prime minister of Poland, claimed that equality marches (example pictured) are "a real threat to ... the Polish state"?
Did you know that John Lockwood Kipling worked on the capitals and cornices of Bombay's Neo-Gothic Royal Alfred Sailors' Home, now the Maharashtra Police Headquarters?
Did you know that Rheinsberg, a 1912 "picture book for lovers", was promoted by author Kurt Tucholsky and illustrator Kurt Szafranski by offering a free schnaps with each purchase of a copy?
Did you know that St. Stephanus in Bork, a Baroque church built in the 1720s, received a large former wayside cross in the 20th century?
Did you know that a large Pepsi-Cola sign faces the United Nations?
Did you know that in the 1570s in Ghent, Hendrik van den Keere pioneered a "narrow, dense and sharp" new style of typeface, later called the Dutch taste?
Did you know that three 200-year-old Persian Torah scrolls were gifted to the Synagogue of Deal, a Syrian Jewish congregation in New Jersey, at its dedication in 1973?
Did you know that Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League implemented a playoff system for three seasons that resulted in no playoff series being played?
Did you know that in Billie Eilish's song "Bitches Broken Hearts", she pretends that she no longer needs or cares about her former lover?
Did you know that when Georgia was given Rhodes Hall as a state archives building, the donor asked that it always be occupied, so state historian Ruth Blair moved into the house herself?
Did you know that a former owner of Atlanta-area radio station WIGO took its name from Isaiah 40:31?
Did you know that an industry observer noted that Perkin-Elmer's Micralign aligner "literally made the modern [integrated circuit] industry"?
Did you know that future Bolivian president Evo Morales was present at the 1988 Villa Tunari Massacre, in which nine to twelve protesting coca growers were killed?
Did you know that the Park Avenue Viaduct, designed to take traffic around New York City's Grand Central Terminal, caused gridlock soon after opening?
Did you know that Bernard Ładysz, a bass-baritone who performed in world premieres of Krzysztof Penderecki's music in Hamburg and in Salzburg, was the only Polish singer to appear with Maria Callas?
Did you know that Helen Ballard was a hellebore horticulturist?
Did you know that The Delectable Negro describes how Nat Turner's body was turned into "medicinal" grease?
Did you know that according to the game's best player, you can make more money working at McDonald's than by winning major Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournaments?
Did you know that the Cabinet of Folksongs, which contains all the Latvian folksongs collected by Krišjānis Barons, was included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register?
Did you know that the Duke of Tuscany allied with Ali Janbulad, the Kurdish chief and rebel governor of Aleppo, to destroy the Ottoman Empire and establish Ali as "Prince of the Kingdom of Syria"?
Did you know that the headmistress of the progressive school St Trinnean's was heartbroken by its satirical parody?
Did you know that until a distinct white ensign was adopted in 1968, Royal New Zealand Navy vessels at sea might have been indistinguishable from British vessels?
Did you know that Cuban historian Eusebio Leal preferred to identify himself as a "Fidelist" rather than a Marxist?
Did you know that Jeanne Givens was the first Native American woman elected to the Idaho House of Representatives?
Did you know that Symbolon, composed by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, was the first piece of American orchestral music to be premiered in the Soviet Union?
Did you know that despite a law against public statues of Francisco Franco, there is one in Melilla because it depicts him before the Spanish Civil War?
Did you know that in a 2020 speech, U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo said that Hollywood self-censors when it comes to China?
Did you know that in the early 20th century near Kirkandrews in Scotland, a herd of twelve cows lived in their own palace?
Did you know that the Indian folktronic duo Hari & Sukhmani combine traditional Punjabi folk music and Sufi poetry with electronic music?
Did you know that Christians belonging to the Oriental Orthodox Churches pray at seven fixed prayer times?
Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel Min Sein was the first Burmese dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Rangoon University?
Did you know that cellist Ludwig Hoelscher, who played string quartets at home at age nine, performed world premieres of more than 50 compositions?
Did you know that conte, a literary genre which includes fairy tales and philosophical stories, became merged with the short story in the 1800s?
Did you know that in 2021, the dwarf periodical cicada is due to emerge in parts of eastern North America, not having been seen for 17 years?
Did you know that American abolitionist Margaret Mercer freed the slaves she inherited from her father, Maryland governor John Francis Mercer, and sent six of them to Liberia?
Did you know that Belva Cottier proposed and took part in the first occupation of Alcatraz in 1964 to claim the island for the Sioux?
Did you know that Julián Podoba's research on iodine deficiency led to the introduction of iodised salt and the disappearance of cretinism in Slovakia?
Did you know that Mandeep Dhillon was offered a role by Ricky Gervais after telling him that she was scared by his character?
Did you know that the Kreuzkapelle above Bad Camberg, a pilgrimage chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross, has a floor plan of a Greek cross?
Did you know that the fossil sumac Rhus boothillensis is named for a public fossil digging site in Republic, Washington?
Did you know that the Żegota Monument in Warsaw was unveiled by Władysław Bartoszewski, the last surviving member of Żegota, an organization dedicated to rescuing Jews during the Holocaust?
Did you know that while in many countries the government cannot finance its deficit by creating new money, it may still borrow from the central bank, which can?
Did you know that Bledsoe's Missouri Battery was the only artillery battery of the Confederate States Army present at the Battle of Raymond?
Did you know that Bryan Donkin was a physician to Karl, Jenny, and Eleanor Marx?
Did you know that Japan National Route 12 has the longest straight section of highway in Japan?
Did you know that Lady Red Couture, known as "the largest live-singing drag queen", stood 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) in heels?
Did you know that the restaurateur who developed yangnyeom chicken created the dish after analyzing his customers' leftovers?