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Did you know that some LGBTQ activists have opposed the use of the term "lesbian erasure", because it has sometimes been used in opposition to transgender rights?
Did you know that the announcement of a delay in the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons caused Nintendo's stock market valuation to fall by over US$1 billion?
Did you know that the tomb of Sultan Alauddin Khalji was built inside an Islamic school in Delhi, India?
Did you know that Chitpas Kridakorn, whose family owns Thailand's Singha brewery, had to change her last name due to her political activism?
Did you know that Justin James was selected by the Sacramento Kings in the 2019 NBA draft, despite most mock drafts predicting he would not be picked by any team?
Did you know that Waylon Jennings and Johnny Dollar were guest disc jockeys for country music station KOYL in Odessa, Texas?
Did you know that despite a ban on the National Peasants' Party (logo shown) taking effect on this day in 1947, the party still organized in the Romanian underground, attempting to field a candidate in the 1985 election?
Did you know that 19 years after Mrinalini Devi married Rabindranath Tagore, many of her wedding jewels were sold to fund Brahmacharya Ashram, a school he founded?
Did you know that Bill Kibby was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions during the Second Battle of El Alamein?
Did you know that Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman rejects frybread, seen as a symbol of colonial oppression, but also considers it a symbol of resilience?
Did you know that Susan Beschta was a punk rocker and federal judge?
Did you know that in a 2019 documentary, Astra Taylor interviews trauma surgeons, refugees, and a barber about the meaning of democracy?
Did you know that polonium-210 is 250,000 times more toxic by weight than hydrogen cyanide?
Did you know that John Rutter wrote the text and music of A Clare Benediction for choir and orchestra to honour Clare College, Cambridge, where he had studied?
Did you know that Kent Angus, a Canadian businessman and Paul Loicq Award winner, incorporated hidden details into hockey jerseys for Team Canada and other countries at the 2010 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that Puke Ariki, the name for the combined library and museum in New Plymouth, New Zealand, is Māori for "hill of chiefs"?
Did you know that falguera, a plant known from only one valley in Spain, is threatened by rock climbers and by road maintenance?
Did you know that the 2008 Universal fire may have destroyed the audio master tapes of up to half a million songs?
Did you know that Japanese pool player Naoyuki Ōi once responded to a question asked at a press conference with lyrics from the comedy song "Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen"?
Did you know that Wilhelmine Lübke (pictured, center), who joined her husband, President of West Germany Heinrich Lübke, on more than 50 state visits, was fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian?
Did you know that the Mongols were advised to invade Sakhalin island in 1273 by marching across the frozen Strait of Tartary?
Did you know that Arthur Sullivan was awarded the Victoria Cross for rescuing four drowning soldiers under fire during the North Russia intervention in 1919?
Did you know that Charles H. Stonestreet received the First Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1852 as President of Georgetown University?
Did you know that East German Udo Zimmermann composed his fifth opera, Die wundersame Schustersfrau, based on a Spanish play by Federico García Lorca, on a commission for the West German Schwetzingen Festival?
Did you know that English theatre historian "Popie" called Robert Michaelis "one of the very best performers Daly's ever had"?
Did you know that Johann Münzberg ran leading textile factories in Bohemia and promoted the building of the Empress Elisabeth Bridge over the Elbe?
Did you know that Mother Berry, a jockey who rode disguised as a man, earned her nickname after she adopted a runaway child?
Did you know that Ning Bin, who won a national special prize for his contribution to the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway, died in a traffic accident?
Did you know that the Chief Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation investigates both Nazi crimes and communist crimes?
Did you know that the tree Humbertia madagascariensis, whose durable timber is used in heavy construction, is a member of the morning glory family?
Did you know that trash, sediment, and debris from Tijuana flow into the United States through Smuggler's Gulch?
Did you know that American collage artist Eunice Parsons, who turns 103 today, is the last of the "Northwest Matriarchs of Modernism"?
Did you know that Jeanne Laisné appeared as Aurore in the 1894 world premiere of Massenet's Le portrait de Manon, a sequel to his Manon?
Did you know that after Josephine Groves Holloway's petition to form an official Girl Scout troop for African-Americans was rejected, she formed her own troop and encouraged her friends to do the same?
Did you know that at a young age, German TV personality Ranga Yogeshwar learned Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam in order to communicate with his housekeeper, teacher, and gardener, respectively?
Did you know that the Challacombe scale assesses the severity of a dry mouth (illustration shown)?
Did you know that Gordon Bell was awarded the Military Cross 31 years before becoming president of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons?
Did you know that Lawrence of Arabia's plan to install the Sharif of Mecca's sons as rulers in what became modern Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and western Saudi Arabia was only partially successful?
Did you know that a biography of Joel Roberts Poinsett, co-authored by Charles Lyon Chandler, went unpublished after two others came out the same year?
Did you know that critics found the couch gag of The Simpsons episode "Dad Behavior" "pretty darned grim" and "bleak", as all but one of the Simpsons die during its otherwise familiar title sequence?
Did you know that during the Peasants' Revolt, Margery Starre danced with a mob that sacked Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and burnt its charters, shouting: "Away with the learning of clerks, away with it!"?
Did you know that philanthropist Mary Robinson Foster was known as the first Hawaiian Buddhist?
Did you know that Isoldé Elchlepp began her career as a protest song singer and later appeared as Wagner's Ortrud at the Bayreuth Festival and as Schoeck's Penthesilea at the Staatsoper Hannover?
Did you know that Murtaja Qureiris, the youngest political prisoner in Saudi Arabia, is a member of the Shia minority who may face execution for taking part in anti-government protests when he was 10 years old?
Did you know that in a 2019 court case, the US Supreme Court ruled that Wyoming's statehood did not void the Crow Tribe's right to hunt on unoccupied lands?
Did you know that the Carron Bridge was the last cast-iron railway bridge to be built and used in Scotland?
Did you know that the Creole Petroleum Corporation's 1956 propaganda film Assignment: Venezuela sought to convince American oil workers that the anti-capitalist military dictatorship had embraced the American way of life?
Did you know that Sonny West, the co-writer of Buddy Holly's hits "Oh, Boy!" and "Rave On", took 40 years to finish the follow-up songs?
Did you know that American academic Amy Wax graduated from Harvard Medical School before becoming a lawyer?
Did you know that Elongatoolithus, Macroolithus, and Nanhsiungoolithus were the first types of fossil eggs to be given names in the modern classification system?
Did you know that Günther Leib, who often sang at the Halle Handel Festival, was called a "first rate Beckmesser" by The New York Times when he first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that Lionel Matthews was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the courage he displayed while a prisoner of war?
Did you know that following the release of "You Need to Calm Down", GLAAD reported an "influx" of $13 donations?
Did you know that the Pampean flat-slab is an area of low angle subduction in South America, associated with a large volcano-free gap in the Andean Volcanic Belt?
Did you know that the name of the Afsarwala tomb translates as 'officer's tomb', but the identity of the occupant is unknown?
Did you know that Ottessa Moshfegh's second novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, was originally planned to focus on the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that over its 300 years, the area of Saint Petersburg's Field of Mars has been a military parade ground, public meeting space, festival site, and location for sports and exercises?
Did you know that the 1813 sinking of the British warship HMS Peacock was celebrated with a song by Eliakim Doolittle?
Did you know that the investigational drug SEP-363856 may represent a new class of antipsychotics?
Did you know that the maple Acer beckianum was described from a piece of petrified wood found near Vantage, Washington, in 1954?
Did you know that Nizam Nasir-ud-Daulah established a modern revenue administration system in Hyderabad State?
Did you know that Wibke Bruhns, the first female German television news presenter, was a correspondent for Stern in Jerusalem and wrote the biography of her father, who was executed by the Nazis?
Did you know that in 2011, Stephen J. Challacombe and colleagues laid out research challenges of global health inequalities and oral health, relating to TB, STDs, HIV, and Noma?
Did you know that the Atascadero Printery, founded by Edward Gardner Lewis, housed the first rotogravure printing press in the Western United States?
Did you know that the queen parrotfish feeds on the algae it scrapes from corals and other surfaces, resulting in bioerosion?
Did you know that Carlos Carrera's El héroe was the first Mexican entry to win the Short Film Palme d'Or, in 1994?
Did you know that Durant-Dort Factory One in Flint, Michigan, is often considered the birthplace of General Motors?
Did you know that Guðrún Björnsdóttir, a 20th-century Icelandic politician and women's rights activist, was at one time a milk vendor?
Did you know that Harold Forsyth, the Peruvian ambassador to Japan, is the father of a professional football player and husband of a beauty pageant queen?
Did you know that KSOM in Tucson, Arizona, suffered two transmitter fires in less than four years of broadcasting?
Did you know that Karski's reports were the first comprehensive documents on the Holocaust in Poland to reach the government-in-exile?
Did you know that Paul Loicq from Belgium was the first European to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame?
Did you know that The Twilight Zone episode "The New Exhibit" features axe-murderer and last pirate of New York, Albert W. Hicks?
Did you know that a century after Irish antiquarian Francis Joseph Bigger had revived the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, sites he had dug were still being referred to as "well and truly Biggered"?
Did you know that pianist Alexandre Kantorow won the first prize, gold medal, and Grand Prix in the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition, becoming the first French winner in the competition's history?
Did you know that the C train, described as the "least loved of New York City subway lines", still uses subway cars that date to the 1960s?
Did you know that the nine balls of Parapivot come from nine different countries?
Did you know that the weebill, measuring 8 to 9 cm (3.1 to 3.5 in) long, is Australia's smallest bird?
Did you know that Ambroise Ouédraogo, who became the first Bishop of Maradi, Niger, in 2001, has focused on dialogue with Islam?
Did you know that American composer Eunice Lea Kettering, who had almost 20,000 copies of her work published, started composing music at age six?
Did you know that Elsie Joy Davison was Britain's first female director of an aircraft company and its first woman pilot to die in World War II?
Did you know that Rose Hollermann was the youngest player on the Team USA women's wheelchair basketball team at the 2016 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that Unbox Therapy sparked Apple's "Bendgate" controversy when host Lewis Hilsenteger used only his hands to bend his iPhone 6 Plus?
Did you know that Zhang Xu discovered the regulatory mechanisms in sensory neurons for opioid receptors?
Did you know that after a Buddha statue was installed on an Oakland traffic median, neighborhood crime dropped by 82 percent?
Did you know that all five components of the climate system—air, water, ice, Earth's crust, and life—help determine Earth's average weather?
Did you know that in one of the vigilante witch-hunts in Nepal, an 18-year-old girl was dragged from her home and tortured for hours in public on International Women's Day 2018?
Did you know that pool player Han Yu did not celebrate after winning her first world championship?
Did you know that the Sahel bush sparrow, found in the Oti Valley Faunal Reserve, is one of 676 species of bird recorded in Togo?
Did you know that the sons of Pyotr Rumyantsev turned down the offer of a palace built at public expense to honour their father, in preference for a public monument?
Did you know that the third European factory to make "true" hard-paste porcelain (examples pictured) was the Vezzi porcelain factory of Venice, founded in 1720?
Did you know that Anna Eckstein dressed in white and collected six million signatures to promote world peace before the First World War?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers lawyer Gerald Francis Clifford served as assistant Attorney General of Wisconsin, was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, and lost a congressional election in 1934?
Did you know that Raja ibn Haywa, an adviser to the Umayyad caliphs, supervised the financing for the construction of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem?
Did you know that Ravindra Dave directed Jesal Toral, one of the biggest hits of Gujarati cinema, to keep his production crew employed?
Did you know that according to legend, Gabriel Boughton treated Jahanara Begum's burns and in return received the right to free trade for the East India Company from her father Shah Jahan?
Did you know that as a surgeon, John Campbell had the right to sit unelected on Edinburgh Town Council?
Did you know that the Continental Currency dollar coin (obverse pictured), the first pattern coin of the United States, was designed by Benjamin Franklin?
Did you know that the Swan Canal, one of the oldest canals in Saint Petersburg, is crossed by the Upper and Lower Swan Bridges, the former being one of the oldest stone bridges in the city?
Did you know that the album Open Here by Field Music has what one band member calls "definitely the angriest songs I have ever written", inspired by Brexit?
Did you know that with his victory at the 2004 24 Hours of Le Mans, Dane Tom Kristensen became the first driver to win the endurance motor race five times in a row?
Did you know that Asamardhuni Jivayatra by Tripuraneni Gopichand is regarded as the first psychological novel in Telugu?
Did you know that Barney Smith was a pastor before opening a museum at his home dedicated to toilet seat art?
Did you know that Chance Rencountre is the first member of the Osage Nation to win a match in the Ultimate Fighting Championship?
Did you know that Lauren Price was the first Welsh woman to win a Commonwealth Games boxing medal?
Did you know that Polish colonel Andrzej Marecki was one of the victims of the controversial 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash?
Did you know that because the half-life of beryllium-8 is less than 10−16 seconds, there is a bottleneck in stellar nucleosynthesis that limits the abundance of heavier chemical elements?
Did you know that in 1966, British journalist John Anderson led an expedition across the Atlantic to replicate Leif Erikson's voyage?
Did you know that policeman and artist Anatol created the outdoor iron sculpture series Wächter, including a group guarding the environment and a memorial to fallen police officers?
Did you know that technology developed for use in inkjet printers helped make the automated white blood cell differential, a common blood test, possible?
Did you know that the brown-cheeked hornbill is among the eleven species of hornbill native to Ivory Coast?
Did you know that Alice Evans was the first British female professional futsal player?
Did you know that British physician Donald Irvine was the only general practitioner to have been a president of the General Medical Council?
Did you know that Bronx Park contains the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Garden, and what is believed to be New York City's only remaining uncleared forest?
Did you know that President Gerald Ford delayed the signing ceremony for the 1974 Jackson–Vanik amendment because Mark E. Talisman's wife was in labor?
Did you know that Suzy Dietrich was part of the first women's team to finish an international-standard 24-hour motor race?
Did you know that a British climate scientist invented a graphic (shown) depicting historical global temperatures using coloured stripes to portray global warming to non-scientists?
Did you know that activist Célia Xakriabá is the first individual of indigenous descent to represent indigenous Brazilians in the Minas Gerais Department of Education?
Did you know that among the many uses of Erythrophleum ivorense and Lannea welwitschii, trees growing in Assagny National Park, are rope-making, canoe-building and to poison fish?
Did you know that in 1845, Samuel Mulledy was the President of Georgetown College, a Jesuit institution, but five years later was expelled from the Jesuit order?
Did you know that the Manhattan blackout of July 2019 occurred exactly 42 years after the New York City blackout of 1977?
Did you know that the only building in England designed by the artist Piet de Jong could be turned into a Wetherspoons?
Did you know that Clyde Foster, a mathematician with NASA, persuaded former Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun to support a computer science program at historically black Alabama A&M University?
Did you know that New Jersey high school radio station WHPH, itself shared between two schools, had to share time with another high school radio station?
Did you know that Nicolas Joel, general manager of the Paris Opera from 2009 to 2014, directed Wagner's Ring in 1979 after having assisted Patrice Chéreau for the cycle's centenary?
Did you know that Queens at Heart, which features four trans women in the mid-1960s, has been called both a documentary and an exploitation film?
Did you know that Terry Dempsey's songs reached number one in the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia, and his native South Africa?
Did you know that chef Asma Khan's husband is not a fan of her food?
Did you know that despite being described as a "weak candidate", Arvind Sawant defeated his nearest competitor by more than 120,000 votes to represent the Mumbai South constituency in the 2014 Indian general election?
Did you know that in 1982, the King of Janow, son of the Queen of Poland, moved to California?
Did you know that the Monument to the Fighters of the Revolution incorporates Russia's first eternal flame?
Did you know that the captain of the SS Grampian intentionally rammed an iceberg head-on so as to avoid the Titanic's fate?
Did you know that the densely-populated territory of Macau is home to a recently discovered, endemic species of freshwater crab of the genus Nanhaipotamon?
Did you know that Christopher Nolan wrote and directed a no-budget film titled Doodlebug as a student at University College London?
Did you know that John Soothill gave "boy in the bubble syndrome" its formal name, severe combined immunodeficiency?
Did you know that John Talbot White's last nature column before his death described a mouse escaping a weasel by jumping over its back?
Did you know that New York City's Eastern Parkway, built in the 1870s, is considered the world's first parkway designed for personal and recreational traffic while prohibiting commercial traffic?
Did you know that according to the U.S. Supreme Court, Medicare payment levels count as "substantive legal standards"?
Did you know that after William Tarrant was sacked from the civil service of British Hong Kong, he became a journalist and ran a 12-year-long vendetta that led to his imprisonment?
Did you know that in 1979, fifteen-year-old Laura Michalek became the youngest athlete ever to win the Chicago Marathon?
Did you know that in 1982, Brooks Resources, originally a subsidiary of the Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company, donated 135 acres (55 ha) to help Donald Kerr establish the High Desert Museum near Bend, Oregon?
Did you know that sagu is a southern Brazilian dessert made with tapioca balls that are extracted from cassava, not from sago palms?
Did you know that the baritone Ernst Gerold Schramm was the voice of Christ for Karl Richter in Bach's St John Passion and St Matthew Passion?
Did you know that the crimson seedcracker has two morphs, large-billed and small-billed, but this trait is not related to sex, age, body size, or location?
Did you know that the large leaves of Marantochloa purpurea are used for wrapping cola nuts to prevent them from becoming desiccated?
Did you know that the score of the song "Sweet Little Woman o' Mine", composed by Floy Little Bartlett, was played in the 1925 silent film The Big Parade?
Did you know that by approving selinexor, the FDA overruled a panel of independent experts that had voted 8–5 against the anti-cancer drug?
Did you know that librettist Gerhard Müller and composer Georg Katzer wrote Antigone oder die Stadt in East Germany, but it premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin only after reunification?
Did you know that manhua artist Xia Da's April Story was published in 2003 before she had even graduated college?
Did you know that the San Francisco Historic Trolley Festival featured streetcars from cities in Australia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, England, Germany, and Italy?
Did you know that the classic French card game of Nain Jaune is named after the seven of diamonds, which is depicted as a yellow dwarf on the game board?
Did you know that "A Rugrats Kwanzaa" was one of the first mainstream television episodes to feature Kwanzaa?
Did you know that "The U.S. Air Force Blue" started as an advertising jingle for United States Air Force recruitment advertisements?
Did you know that Christel Boom passed information about NATO exercises to East Germany for the Stasi?
Did you know that Churchill's Port was not bottled until 1982?
Did you know that Deepak Fertilisers and Petrochemicals uses GPS to track its vehicles transporting ammonium nitrate, as the chemical has been used by Naxalites to create the explosive ANFO?
Did you know that Knut Nystedt wrote Immortal Bach as a scheme for many voices to sing the first line of Bach's "Komm, süßer Tod" simultaneously in different tempi, meeting on the last word meaning peace?
Did you know that Kristine M. Larson and her research team were the first to demonstrate that GPS could be used to detect seismic waves?
Did you know that Perla Farías has created telenovelas, such as Juana la virgen and La Reina del Sur, which avoid classic stereotypes?
Did you know that deforestation in Brazil could be linked to higher rates of the severe fungal infection caused by P. lutzii, a neglected tropical disease?
Did you know that the pianist Erik Werba, professor at the Wiener Musikakademie for four decades, is known as an accompanist of lieder singers?
Did you know that 18-year-old Gerda Hofstätter was given a key to the city of Althofen after winning Austria's first European Pool Championship?
Did you know that Flat Rock Speedway's opening was delayed by a week after a raccoon drowned in its drainage system and rain led to track flooding?
Did you know that James J. Mason Brown was the first paediatric surgeon to serve as president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh?
Did you know that Konstantinos Smolenskis, a future general and hero of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, was expelled from the Greek military academy by his own father for unruly behaviour?
Did you know that Polish philosopher and World War II resistance member Jan Gralewski likely died in the controversial 1943 Gibraltar B-24 crash?