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Did you know that the Survey of Palestine was led by the man who "wants you", the man who was too late to save Gordon of Khartoum, a Jack the Ripper suspect, and the police chief who chased him?
Did you know that the serial novel and manga series Nokemono to Hanayome was inspired by the Tokyo subway sarin attack?
Did you know that the short story "I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter", intended to subvert a transphobic Internet meme, was retracted after accusations of transphobia?
Did you know that Acer diabolicum, the devil maple, gets its scientific and common names from the curly stigmas of its flowers?
Did you know that Harun el-Raschid Hintersatz, a German convert to Islam, led a Muslim SS unit comprising Turkmens and Tatars during World War II?
Did you know that Josef Protschka, who sang as a soloist in Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge at age 12, later appeared in leading tenor roles in the Mozart cycle staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle at the Cologne Opera?
Did you know that despite an early career spent with the Soviet and Russian Airborne Forces, Viktor Astapov is currently a deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy?
Did you know that drag queens Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova have hosted the entertainment series UNHhhh, The Trixie & Katya Show, and I Like to Watch?
Did you know that during a renovation of New York City's Bowne Park, some fish from its pond ended up in refrigerators of nearby homes?
Did you know that religious timekeepers employed by the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus included a 14th-century astronomer who proposed geocentric models mathematically identical to those later proposed by Copernicus?
Did you know that the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management has conducted research to improve the taste and nutrition of a children's dietary supplement distributed by the government of Kerala?
Did you know that the final of the 2020 Masters snooker tournament was interrupted by a "whoopee cushion" device?
Did you know that the first president of the University of Kentucky, James Kennedy Patterson, personally financed its first three buildings?
Did you know that there have been 49 captains in the Big Bash League?
Did you know that when the LineageOS operating system refused to integrate MicroG software, the project forked its own version, with MicroG pre-installed?
Did you know that Cueros de Purulla volcano had a large eruption 7820 years ago and was later a source of obsidian?
Did you know that Eric Bowen's paintings were inspired by tantra?
Did you know that Johann Baptist Sigl was imprisoned multiple times for publishing insulting articles about the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck and the German emperor?
Did you know that Skandinavskii sbornik (Scandinavian Review) was the principal forum for Soviet scholars of Nordic studies for 35 years until the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Thomas H. Lee, who developed the vacuum interrupter at General Electric, won an Asian table tennis championship while in college?
Did you know that Wolfgang J. Fuchs, an early German comics scholar who co-wrote a 1971 standard work on the topic, translated Garfield and Mom's Cancer?
Did you know that according to The Independent, KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps "renders the unimaginable evil of the camps relatable"?
Did you know that during the Cultural Revolution, Zhu Yuli was denounced as a counterrevolutionary and suffered beatings which caused disability in his right hand?
Did you know that hedge fund manager Jacob Gottlieb hired Status Labs to counteract negative news coverage of him over the closure of Visium Asset Management?
Did you know that the Austins Quarter of Newton Abbot in Devon, England, is named after a department store?
Did you know that the Courtois Hills region has the most rugged terrain and steepest average slopes of any sub-region of the Missouri Ozarks?
Did you know that the alga Acetabularia acetabulum resembles a green parasol?
Did you know that the differences between live versions of Rush's "Witch Hunt" were seen as an instance of "translation" à la Walter Benjamin?
Did you know that the studio building used by Oklahoma City radio station KJEM was the last structure that was demolished to make way for the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building?
Did you know that David Roberts's The Holy Land, a collection of 250 orientalist lithographs (example shown), has been called the "most pervasive and enduring" 19th-century depiction of the East in the West?
Did you know that Fort Tryon Park, located on steep terrain in Manhattan, was designed as a landscaped park with the Cloisters museum as the main point of interest?
Did you know that Iranian women's rights activist Mastoureh Afshar organized the second Eastern Women's Congress, held in Tehran in 1932, which drew delegates from Afghanistan to Zanzibar?
Did you know that Italian Renaissance artist Raphael died in 1520 in his palace on the now demolished Borgo Nuovo in Rome?
Did you know that Jean Bégin was the first coach in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League to make three appearances at the Memorial Cup?
Did you know that Mar Field Fen is "one of the best examples of fen habitat in the Vale of York"?
Did you know that V. S. Lelchuk joined dissident and revisionist historians in a "historical glasnost" during the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that during her final performance at the 1994 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Louisiana Creole singer Inez Catalon chastised female audience members for dressing immodestly?
Did you know that salmon conservation measures are threatening the survival of a fishing technique first brought to Britain a thousand years ago by the Vikings?
Did you know that television station WETV in Key West, Florida, was forced off the air by an act of Congress?
Did you know that the title of the book A Very Stable Genius comes from a tweet by Donald Trump?
Did you know that Bishop Monkton Ings in North Yorkshire, England, provides a habitat to the semi-parasitic marsh lousewort?
Did you know that Bonanza City, New Mexico, was founded in 1880 and largely abandoned by 1890?
Did you know that Capricorn Seamount is an underwater mountain that is breaking up as it enters the Tonga Trench?
Did you know that Edwin S. Votey, while president of the Farrand & Votey Organ Company with William R. Farrand as partner, is credited with inventing the first practical player piano?
Did you know that Esther Lurie used photographs of drawings to reconstruct most of her artwork that did not survive World War II?
Did you know that Kapoli Kamakau, who composed music with a future queen and a princess, later contracted leprosy and died in exile?
Did you know that Richard Scrob built Richard's Castle, one of the few castles in England built before the Norman conquest?
Did you know that Supreme Court of British Columbia justice Dev Dley previously served as commissioner of the Western Hockey League?
Did you know that even after narrowing the list of suspects in Geetha Angara's unsolved killing, 15 years ago today, down to three men, police could not charge any of them?
Did you know that 115 truckloads of construction sand were used to create 150 sand sculptures (example pictured) at the Mysore Sand Sculpture Museum?
Did you know that Gai Mizuki and Takeshi Matsu are among the artists featured in Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who Make It, the first English-language anthology of gay manga?
Did you know that Ivan Ustinov, a Soviet officer of the NKVD and SMERSH during the Second World War, threatened to shoot any soldier who wanted to surrender?
Did you know that John Papworth created the plasterwork on the ceiling of the Greenwich Hospital chapel in London when it was rebuilt in the 1780s after a fire?
Did you know that Nick Nolte, who voices Kuiil in the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian, was seriously considered for the role of Han Solo over 40 years earlier?
Did you know that Sitka Sedge State Natural Area, a pristine estuary in Oregon, almost became a golf course?
Did you know that after the devastating 2010 and 2011 Christchurch earthquakes, the New Zealand government "red-zoned", purchased, and demolished 8,000 houses?
Did you know that before the release of The Baseball Encyclopedia, a Major League Baseball committee passed a rules interpretation that would have altered Babe Ruth's home run total, before reversing its decision?
Did you know that different versions of the song "Danzen! Futari wa Pretty Cure" by Mayumi Gojo were used in the first two seasons and the 25th movie of the Pretty Cure anime franchise?
Did you know that epidemiologist Li Lanjuan was the first to propose a lockdown of Wuhan during the present coronavirus outbreak?
Did you know that equipment from defunct television station WTVI in Fort Pierce, Florida, was sold to start an unrelated WTVI in Charlotte, North Carolina?
Did you know that participants in one of Dirshu's intensive study programs are tested on their knowledge of all 2,711 pages of the Talmud at the end of the seven-and-a-half-year Daf Yomi cycle?
Did you know that the American Express Building in Manhattan replaced a pair of brownstone structures that were described as being "among the ancient landmarks" on Broadway?
Did you know that French historian Jean Delumeau was a prominent figure in the history of mentalities?
Did you know that Maria, Königin des Friedens, a Brutalist pilgrimage church in Neviges, Germany, has become architect Gottfried Böhm's signature building?
Did you know that Marisol loves Julio, but not enough to die for him?
Did you know that Russia's Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School (cadets pictured) celebrates its 80th anniversary today?
Did you know that Swedish pianist Putte Nelsson has backed up Ricky Martin, Mariah Carey, and Mary J. Blige?
Did you know that WCAE, the first educational television station in Indiana, received more support from viewers in Illinois than in its own state?
Did you know that award-winning typeface designer Colin Brignall had no formal training in typography?
Did you know that the 1939 defeat of Republican Spain in the Spanish Civil War marked the end of the "classical era" of the history of anarchism?
Did you know that the Australian national cricket team's 1999 tour of the West Indies was the first four-match series in the history of Test cricket to finish 2–2?
Did you know that Castle Folds is surrounded by Great Asby Scar?
Did you know that Dagmar Schmidt, elected to the Bundestag shortly after giving birth to a son with Down syndrome, stated in a debate about prenatal testing that there should be a "right not to know"?
Did you know that Die Wolke ('The Cloud'), a young-adult novel by Gudrun Pausewang written after the Chernobyl disaster, was translated into English as Fall-Out?
Did you know that Fry's vegan meat was created by a former livestock trader?
Did you know that Le Than Bwa, a 15th-century commander-in-chief of Ava forces, left the battle scene after receiving a large bribe from the enemy, forcing King Nyo to flee Ava shortly afterwards?
Did you know that Ma Guoqiang, the top government official in Wuhan, served as chairman of China's largest steelmaker until less than two years ago?
Did you know that Neil Robertson won the 2020 European Masters snooker tournament in a 9–0 whitewash, the first time since 1989 that a two-session finalist did not win a frame?
Did you know that by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, France was conscripting men shorter than five feet (1.5 m) tall?
Did you know that prior to becoming president of Loyola College in Maryland, Joseph A. Canning spent eight years as a missionary in Jamaica?
Did you know that radio station KROF derived its call sign from the three major products of Vermilion Parish, Louisiana – rice, oil, and furs?
Did you know that since its completion in 2015, Liberty Plaza in Atlanta has hosted demonstrations for both March for Our Lives and the September 2019 climate strikes?
Did you know that the 2018 American superhero film Deadpool 2 was nominated for fifteen Golden Trailer Awards?
Did you know that the child queen Margaret, Maid of Norway, died before reaching Scotland, so her place in the list of Scottish monarchs is in dispute?
Did you know that Brenda Nelson, host of the Talk of the Town interview program on KTLO-FM in Mountain Home, Arkansas, retired after doing more than 8,000 interviews over 34 years?
Did you know that Brewer, the fictional Pennsylvania city in John Updike's Rabbit novels, reflects change in American society throughout the second half of the 20th century?
Did you know that Dutch forces surrendered to Japanese invaders after their defeat in the Battle of Tjiater Pass because they did not want to fight in Bandung?
Did you know that Elin C. Danien, an expert on ancient Maya ceramics, claimed that "archaeology is the most fun you can have with your pants on"?
Did you know that Hack Fall Wood in North Yorkshire, England, hosts the rare lemon slug (example pictured)?
Did you know that The Duke's Diwan was built in 1924 as the first post office in Amman, Jordan?
Did you know that a pair of brothers – future meteorologist Tom Skilling and future Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling – worked at WLXT-TV in Aurora, Illinois, while in high school?
Did you know that a stanza from "Nun liebe Seel, nun ist es Zeit", a German Lutheran hymn, was used in Part V of Bach's Christmas Oratorio?
Did you know that after examining serial rapist Reynhard Sinaga's mobile phone, police discovered more than three terabytes of digital video evidence of his assaults?
Did you know that painter Fang Zengxian served as president of the Shanghai Art Museum, and founded the Shanghai Biennale?
Did you know that the churchyard of St Thomas à Becket Church, Warblington – a place of worship in the Borough of Havant – has two huts (one pictured) in which grave-watchers kept a lookout for body snatchers?
Did you know that American military personnel taken prisoner of war have a duty to escape?
Did you know that Edward IV of England is traditionally said to have first met his wife, Elizabeth Woodville, under the Queen's Oak in Northamptonshire?
Did you know that George Charles Moʻoheau Beckley claimed that he beat King Kalākaua of Hawaii in a game of poker and asked for a tax reduction in lieu of cash?
Did you know that Teno Roncalio, the last Democratic representative from Wyoming, had land claims along the Snake River worth an estimated US$7 billion in gold?
Did you know that Thomas Jefferson Vance Owen, the first school commissioner of Cook County, Illinois, and Chicago's first town president, was responsible for indirectly naming Grand Avenue?
Did you know that William III's first proclamation in England was made near the site of St Leonard's Tower in Newton Abbot?
Did you know that after the closure of Tranvía Villasegura, Tenerife's first tram system, in the 1950s, one of the trams was reused as a bar?
Did you know that the 1941 essay "Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson was referenced by media outlets in commentary on the 2016 U.S. presidential election?
Did you know that the Seattle high-rise building Third and Lenora lost its main tenant, WeWork, before it was completed?
Did you know that the champions of the 2015 Camellia Bowl, the Appalachian State Mountaineers, became the first team to win a college bowl game in their first year of eligibility?
Did you know that Cai Shaoqing's research showed that militarization and banditry fuelled each other during China's Warlord Era?
Did you know that Diego "had so much sex he saved his species"?
Did you know that Milton Tower was the birthplace of John Ogilvie, Scotland's only post-Reformation Catholic saint?
Did you know that Shirley Temple's mother tried to get the "notably talented and cute" Johnnie Russell fired from the set of The Blue Bird so that he would not share screen time with her daughter?
Did you know that Swedish actor Christopher Wollter started his career as a teenage reporter for the SVT children's television show Barnjournalen?
Did you know that William S. Hillyer transcribed and delivered Union Army general Ulysses S. Grant's famous words, "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted"?
Did you know that at a meeting about zoning for a tower for KUCB-FM in Des Moines, Iowa, a radio station board member hurled a wastebasket at the chairman of the city zoning board?
Did you know that two cinemas, a bank, and a pub are now used as places of worship in Portsmouth, England?
Did you know that viewers complained when the first episode of Living on the Veg, a vegan cookery programme, was broadcast with a sponsor's advertisements showing animal products?
Did you know that Anoosh Masood Chaudhry completed a medical degree before entering law enforcement and becoming an assistant superintendent of police?
Did you know that Elke Heidenreich, two-time winner of the Grimme television award, wrote the book Nero Corleone featuring a tomcat as the bullying protagonist?
Did you know that Leprous's 2019 album Pitfalls took shape from its songwriter's depression and anxiety?
Did you know that Raiatean chief Teraupo'o was captured on the night of 15–16 February 1897 and sent into exile for leading an indigenous resistance against the French takeover of the Leeward Islands?
Did you know that a fire training academy in the state of Washington has been designated as a quarantine site during the current coronavirus outbreak?
Did you know that according to a 1930s critic, "If ever a book comes to be written on How to Murder Architecture, the Swanage Town Hall should find a place therein"?
Did you know that common lousewort owes its name to the belief that livestock that ate it would become lousy?
Did you know that during the Battle of Kalijati, a Royal Air Force pilot managed to creep into his plane under Japanese fire and take off with it?
Did you know that in his ballet Alice im Wunderland, composer Herbert Baumann made the story's author a character?
Did you know that the 2020 opera Eurydice was created by three geniuses?
Did you know that the Doctor Who story Planet of Giants was inspired by Rachel Carson's 1962 environmental science book Silent Spring?
Did you know that to commemorate its new call letters in 1938, radio station KITE in Kansas City, Missouri, gave away 15,000 kites to children?
Did you know that "The Night We Met", a song by indie-folk band Lord Huron, was certified two-times platinum nearly two years after its initial release?
Did you know that Egyptian radiologist Sahar Saleem has used CT scans of Tutankhamun's body to theorise that he died from the effects of a knee fracture?
Did you know that Wang Jin, one of China's first female archaeologists, participated in the discovery of the Neolithic Qujialing culture?
Did you know that Zhang Changshou co-led a Sino-American archaeological project investigating sites that were sometimes buried under more than 10 meters (33 ft) of alluvium?
Did you know that in 1890 William Morrison invented the first successful practical electric automobile (illustration shown) in the United States?
Did you know that prior to becoming Google India's manager, Sanjay Gupta was credited for expanding Star India's sports business by launching Pro Kabaddi League and Indian Super League?
Did you know that the Little Cut, a quarter-mile (0.4 km) branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, had the only tunnel containing a towpath on the entire 127-mile (204 km) canal?
Did you know that the music video for Faith No More's "Anne's Song" features a caged Chuck Mosley being tormented by Metallica's James Hetfield?
Did you know that the third of Claude Debussy's three Nocturnes for orchestra requires a women's chorus to sing wordlessly like sirens?
Did you know that time decompression is a common narrative technique in sports manga, with one series stretching a four-month basketball season into six years' worth of weekly stories?
Did you know that until the Salary Grab Act (cartoon pictured) was passed in 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant earned the same salary as George Washington did 80 years earlier?
Did you know that Grace Buxner said when the developers of Superhot noticed her "cool frog game, they were like 'hmmm... what if..... money?????'"
Did you know that Lisa Cristiani was the first European to hold public musical concerts in Siberia?
Did you know that Newsweek described the Goucher College campus in Towson, Maryland, as "unusually bucolic"?
Did you know that Samuel Bacon, government agent on the first American Colonization Society expedition, died of "actual exhaustion" soon after arriving in Africa?
Did you know that Sir Thomas Byron was killed during the First English Civil War by one of his own soldiers over a pay dispute?
Did you know that The Myth of the Eastern Front explores the parallels between the myth of the clean Wehrmacht and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy?
Did you know that Vasily Bakalov oversaw the design of weapon systems to destroy tanks, such as the 9M113 Konkurs, and to protect tanks, such as the Drozd?
Did you know that in the 1830s, a Mère in Lyon, France, became famous for her creation Tétons de Venus ('Venus's Breasts'), a dish of giant dumplings that was popular at bachelor parties?
Did you know that the church of Santa Maria della Purità in Rome was managed by caudatari, priests whose main task was to carry the trains of the pope or cardinals?
Did you know that the names of several side roads and buildings along the A1206 (bridge pictured) in London relate to the Isle of Dogs' connection with the shipping industry?
Did you know that Indonesian-born Wang Wenjiao and Chen Fushou coached the Chinese national men's and women's badminton teams to win four Thomas Cups and two Uber Cups, respectively?
Did you know that Kanye West credits creating "an album for God" for being able to collaborate with Dr. Dre on the upcoming Jesus Is King Part II?
Did you know that Roland Kotani, a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives, was murdered by his estranged wife in 1989?
Did you know that Ted Robbins was the longest-serving secretary in the history of the Football Association of Wales?
Did you know that all John F. Kennedy talked about on his way to and from church in England was the Profumo affair?
Did you know that as part of a restoration of New York City's Bryant Park, 84 miles (135 km) of bookshelves were built underneath it?
Did you know that physicist John Bell published the theorem that now bears his name in a journal sometimes called by the unusual title Physics Physique Физика?
Did you know that the yoga breathing and meditation practiced by clarinetist Annelien Van Wauwe led to a specially commissioned concerto by composer Wim Henderickx?
Did you know that Dua Saleh's debut single "First Take" was recorded in a single take?
Did you know that the First Baptist Church is Toronto's oldest black institution?
Did you know that the Great Hall of New York City's Cunard Building was formerly used as a post office?
Did you know that the coloratura soprano Julia Bauer played five roles in Der Ring in Minden, including her on-stage portrayal of the Forest Bird in Siegfried?
Did you know that Kanye West sold his Maybach to buy a Polar Bear?
Did you know that Keith Sebelius voted against the War Powers Resolution, but supported capping the U.S. military at 400,000 troops overseas?
Did you know that William Dorsey Swann was the first American on record who pursued legal and political action to defend the LGBTQ community's right to gather?
Did you know that depictions of urinating boys (example pictured) in Renaissance art could alternatively represent boyish innocence or erotic virility?
Did you know that the Little Cross monument in Elgin, Scotland, was listed as a Category A building in 1971?
Did you know that the best-selling novel Dear Edward was inspired by a real-life plane crash in which a nine-year-old boy was the sole survivor?
Did you know that Dutch baritone John Bröcheler first sang concerts including world premieres, but was "discovered" for opera in a role of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda alongside Joan Sutherland?
Did you know that Ephraim Bacon, a leader of the American Colonization Society expedition that founded Liberia, fled to Barbados after coming down with a fever?