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Did you know that musicologist Uwe Wolf conducted X-ray research to distinguish J. S. Bach's handwriting in the score of his Mass in B minor from changes made by his son, Carl Philipp Emanuel (revised page pictured)?
Did you know that the diaries of James Humphreys, the "Emperor of Porn", were used to convict thirteen members of the Metropolitan Police Force of accepting his bribes?
Did you know that the last British troops left India in 1948, post independence, from the Gateway of India?
Did you know that Kurdish civil engineer and politician Hevrin Khalaf, who worked for tolerance among Christians, Arabs, and Kurds, was killed in the 2019 Turkish offensive into Syria?
Did you know that a film set for The Mummy was built at Gara Medouar, an 11th-century fortress on a rock plateau near Sijilmasa, Morocco?
Did you know that soldiers were reduced to eating rats during the Siege of Masaka?
Did you know that the Racecourse Ground, which has hosted more Wales home international matches than any other stadium, is the oldest stadium in the world still hosting international football fixtures?
Did you know that the William Ulmer Brewery, the first brewery to be designated a New York City landmark, produced up to 3,200,000 U.S. gal (12,000,000 L) of beer per year?
Did you know that with Danielle Dithurbide's appointment to anchor the morning newscast on Las Estrellas, a majority of Mexican news broadcaster Noticieros Televisa's news programs are hosted by women?
Did you know that Akira the Hustler was a member of the Biters, a performance art group whose members were both artists and sex workers?
Did you know that Chinese government minister Xiao Han lost two sons in the 1976 Tangshan earthquake?
Did you know that in 2019, Vancity CEO Tamara Vrooman received the Order of British Columbia for her contributions to a better quality of life in the province "and beyond"?
Did you know that just prior to the construction of 500 Fifth Avenue, the site on which it was built was reportedly the second most valuable undeveloped lot in Manhattan?
Did you know that the Satanic nightjar can make a growling noise when disturbed?
Did you know that the first incarnation of radio station WYFI was described as running "on faith and LPs" and ending in an "Edsel-like burn" within a year?
Did you know that with 21 goals, Hassan Maatouk is the Lebanon national football team's all-time top goalscorer?
Did you know that Māru-Gurjara architecture (example pictured) originated in Gujarat and Rajasthan from the 11th to 13th centuries, but can now be found in Antwerp and Potters Bar?
Did you know that an owner of radio station KPRB sold it to devote himself to his duties as the fire chief of Redmond, Oregon?
Did you know that during the Apollo 11 program, biomedical engineer Judy Sullivan was instantly identifiable if she made an error as she was the only female voice on NASA's headset link?
Did you know that it took Pan Handian, a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation, 27 years to translate Machiavelli's The Prince into Chinese?
Did you know that the unpaid dowry owed by Lucia Visconti's family upon her marriage to Edmund Holland remained a source of friction between England and Milan for more than 60 years after her death?
Did you know that Benjamin Britten, who composed A Hymn of St Columba for the 1,400th anniversary of Saint Columba's voyage to Iona, wanted it sung "with fire"?
Did you know that Fred Rogers's 1969 testimony (video shown) resurfaced in 2012 and 2017 to counter calls for defunding PBS and similar non-profit arts-related organizations?
Did you know that Mustafa Güzelgöz was called the "Librarian with Donkey" as he circulated hundreds of books among villagers in Ürgüp, Turkey, on the back of a donkey?
Did you know that nurse and suffragette Mary Bartlett Dixon helped establish the first hospital in Easton, Maryland?
Did you know that the Isaac T. Hopper House, built during the development of one of New York City's wealthiest neighborhoods, is now a halfway house for women?
Did you know that American diplomat George Kent speaks Ukrainian, Russian, and Thai, as well as some Polish, German, and Italian?
Did you know that Red Dead Redemption 2 features 1,200 actors and 500,000 lines of dialogue?
Did you know that Taiwan's Amis Music Festival (performers pictured) does not publish its schedule in advance, preferring to focus attention on the overall theme of aboriginal heritage rather than individual performers?
Did you know that in 2005, multidisciplinary artist Serge Rezvani married actress Marie-José Nat, whom he had first met nearly half a century before?
Did you know that tropical ecologist Winifred Hallwachs helped develop and expand the Área de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Did you know that as a 10-year-old, Lin Mei-hong joined a dance troupe in Taiwan founded by the Italian priest Gian Carlo Michelini, and later choreographed for the troupe?
Did you know that between 1920 and 1938, the NAACP flew a flag at its New York headquarters to mark each lynching that occurred in the United States?
Did you know that in 2019, Ivorian footballer Amad Traoré became the first player born in 2002 to score in the Serie A?
Did you know that the 1934 choral composition Totentanz (Danse Macabre) by Hugo Distler combines motets with spoken dialogue between Death and its victims?
Did you know that the first Paleolithic sculpture of a woman found in modern times was excavated at Laugerie-Basse, one of the Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley?
Did you know that the tree Drypetes gerrardii was named after William Gerrard, who collected plants in southern Africa in the 1860s?
Did you know that Adaora Adimora, an American professor who studies sexually transmitted infections among minorities, was named one of the top 100 African American leaders by The Root in 2009?
Did you know that Aneurin Bevan led the establishment of the National Health Service, which was inspired by the Tredegar Medical Aid Society in his hometown?
Did you know that Cameron Chesterfield Alleyne was the first resident bishop in Africa for the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church?
Did you know that Vasily Kalinnikov composed his Symphony No. 1 while suffering from tuberculosis?
Did you know that WXGM AM dropped its coverage of William & Mary Tribe athletics in favor of the smaller Christopher Newport University, since CNU offered to pay for the rights?
Did you know that both Rye railway station and its signal box are Grade II listed?
Did you know that in Nova Scotia, the tricolored bat roosts exclusively in the dangling fronds of bony beard lichen?
Did you know that Aaron Hawkins uses nail polish to guide laser light into optofluidic devices to detect antibiotic resistance?
Did you know that British submarine HMS Sceptre towed an X-class midget submarine tasked with attacking German battleships off Norway?
Did you know that Carolyn F. Ulrich, who began her career with no formal library training, eventually became the chief of the periodicals division at the New York Public Library?
Did you know that England's 2019 Tree of the Year, the Allerton Oak, was reportedly damaged in an 1864 gunpowder explosion?
Did you know that Li Yin's paintings (example shown) were so sought after that as many as forty imitators in her area turned out fakes of her work?
Did you know that after recording material later compiled into the album Breaking It Up!, Louis Prima left Columbia Records in a disagreement over "Come On-a My House"?
Did you know that the southern black korhaan, native to South Africa, is becoming rarer due to loss of its natural habitat to agriculture?
Did you know that Isabelle Kabatu, a Belgian soprano of African origin, recorded the role of Dolly in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Sly alongside José Carreras in the title role?
Did you know that a man claiming to be Lynyrd Skynyrd's Billy Powell fooled Sioux Falls radio station KRRO into letting him sing in their studios?
Did you know that the appointment of Eugen Ernst as president of the Berlin police prompted the Spartacist uprising of 1919?
Did you know that Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, a film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's play with the Berliner Ensemble, premiered on the author's birthday (opening night pictured)?
Did you know that Zeng Rongsheng organized a Sino-American joint investigation of the geology of the Tibetan Plateau and examined the collision process of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate?
Did you know that a local story suggests that, in 1912, a cow swam the entire 1,630-yard (0.93 mi; 1.49 km) length of the Foulridge Tunnel before being pulled out and revived with some brandy?
Did you know that the 2019 Basshunter song "Home" was described as a throwback to the bounce music of the 2000s?
Did you know that the Northwestern Lumberman, known originally as the Lumbermen's Gazette, was the first trade magazine for the U.S. lumber industry?
Did you know that Gongnyong Ridge in Seoraksan National Park, South Korea, acquired its name (lit. 'Dinosaur Ridge') from its peaks looking as "vigorous and dynamic as a dinosaur rising from the ground"?
Did you know that Hedwig Porschütz, who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, was not honoured as an "unsung heroine" in West Berlin because she had been a prostitute?
Did you know that Vermont's first FM radio station renamed itself WQCR, standing for "Wonderful Queen City Radio", in 1972?
Did you know that the Queen briefly lived at 77 South Audley Street?
Did you know that the parasitic wasp Lathrolestes luteolator has adopted the amber-marked birch leaf miner as a new host?
Did you know that Chinese virologist George F. Gao led a test laboratory in Sierra Leone during the peak of the 2014 Ebola outbreak?
Did you know that Jedediah Sanger founded New Hartford, but gave his name to Sangerfield?
Did you know that Rainbow Valley, one of the books in the Anne of Green Gables series, draws heavily on Lucy Maud Montgomery's life in the Leaskdale Manse?
Did you know that baritone Hans Braun, who performed 75 roles at the Vienna State Opera, appeared as Mozart's Count Almaviva at the Royal Opera House and as Wagner's Wolfram at La Scala?
Did you know that following the defense of Katowice on 4 September 1939, dozens of defenders, including a number of Polish Boy and Girl Scouts, were summarily executed?
Did you know that screenwriter and director Yūki Yamato created her first film, That Girl is Dancing by the Seaside, while studying philosophy at Sophia University?
Did you know that the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory in Brooklyn, originally built for one of the world's largest pencil makers, now contains the Kickstarter headquarters?
Did you know that Kathrin Göring portrayed both Fricka and Waltraute in Der Ring in Minden, and a critic called her scene in Götterdämmerung a highlight, noting her dramatic mezzo-soprano and intense acting?
Did you know that WXXX's broadcast license was challenged in the 1970s because the station employed no African Americans in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, a city that was 30 percent black?
Did you know that Yang Enze, who built China's first fiber-optic communication system approved for practical use, taught until the age of 99?
Did you know that for a halfpenny fare, children could ride on a small chariot drawn by four muzzled mastiffs to the Farthing Pie House?
Did you know that string quartet Well-Strung has performed "Chelsea's Mom", a reimagining of "Stacy's Mom", for Hillary Clinton?
Did you know that British journalist Anna Kessel co-founded the charity Women in Football, and initiated the Blue Plaque Rebellion, to promote gender equality for women in sport?
Did you know that HKmap.live, an app tracking protests and police presence in Hong Kong, was removed by Apple from its App Store less than a week after being approved?
Did you know that The Cedars School is the first senior school in Great Britain to be based on the ethos of Opus Dei?
Did you know that before they were New York Mets teammates, baseball pitchers Steven Matz and Marcus Stroman faced each other in a high school game that a Mets scout called "one of the best duels I've ever seen"?
Did you know that Ignaz Saal, for decades a bass with the Imperial Court Theatre in Vienna, performed the bass parts in the world premieres of Haydn's oratorios Die Schöpfung and Die Jahreszeiten?
Did you know that Sara Wesslin, featured on the BBC's 100 Women for 2019, is one of only two journalists in the world broadcasting in Skolt Sami?
Did you know that public health historian Elizabeth Fee wrote on topics as varied as the history of HIV/AIDS, the racialized treatment of syphilis, bioterrorism, and the history of the toothbrush?
Did you know that radio station KEYZ in Williston, North Dakota, owned a Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft and used it for news coverage, promotional events, sales calls, and search and rescue efforts?
Did you know that the Polish–Bohemian War of 990 resulted in Poland taking control of Silesia?
Did you know that the Straight Mile is not a mile, and includes the Culvert, which is not a culvert?
Did you know that the government of Thailand has branded the Buddhist celebration Magha Puja as a day of spiritual love and gratitude, to compete with Valentine's Day?
Did you know that Charles Blackwell was the third Blackwell (after his father and his grandfather) to be elected to the Institution of Civil Engineers?
Did you know that Memory: The Origins of Alien defines the Alien franchise as "a collective art form" inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Francis Bacon, and the Greek Furies?
Did you know that jazz musicians Ben Tucker and Billy Taylor bought Savannah, Georgia, radio station WSOK and expanded its album collection from 20 to 4,000?
Did you know that letters which Charlotte Pistorius, the self-taught wife of a country pastor, wrote to intellectuals Friedrich Schleiermacher and Ernst Moritz Arndt were published with their works?
Did you know that radio host Rick Cluff accepted a position at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation despite his father's belief it was "full of left-wing communists" and that radio was "a dead-end career"?
Did you know that the brother of Ugandan president Idi Amin was once delivered in a car boot to military commander Hussein Mohammed?
Did you know that there is a man in tweeds on a gallows outside the Green Man, Ashbourne?
Did you know that Alois Ickstadt founded a children's choir and an adult choir for the public broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, conducting the latter for 45 years?
Did you know that Kodama Naoko, creator of I Married My Best Friend To Shut My Parents Up, called the yuri manga series her first "light" work "in a long time"?
Did you know that Red Dead Redemption 2 was the highest-rated game on Metacritic in 2018?
Did you know that despite fighting for more than two years to stop the other station from signing on, WGVL's last day on the air was also WSPA-TV's first?
Did you know that the otherwise inconclusive Polish–Bohemian War of 1345–1348 cemented Bohemian control of Silesia?
Did you know that the site of the Battle of Muster Green in Haywards Heath was the farthest a Royalist army advanced through Sussex during the First English Civil War?
Did you know that Indian-American chef Raji Jallepalli, who is credited with "originating the fusion of classic French and Indian cuisines", originally trained as a microbiologist?
Did you know that M.O.N.T was the first Korean idol group to film a music video on the disputed Liancourt Rocks?
Did you know that William Chapple discovered Euler's theorem and Poncelet's porism?
Did you know that a young Bob Smith, later famous as Wolfman Jack, got his first radio job as "Daddy Jules" at WYOU in Newport News, Virginia?
Did you know that sculptures of rats outside the Graybar Building, near Grand Central Terminal, were included to signify New York City's role as a "great transportation centre"?
Did you know that the Peleng tarsier, a small carnivorous primate, can rotate its head nearly 180 degrees in either direction?
Did you know that the use of retentions in the British construction industry, which is now commonplace, had its origins in the Railway Mania of the 1840s?
Did you know that Barrie Marmion spearheaded the development of the first vaccine against Q fever?
Did you know that Gayl King became the first female darts player to compete in the PDC World Darts Championship after the Professional Darts Corporation invited her to play in the 2001 tournament?
Did you know that Hewahewa, a high priest of the Hawaiian religion, supported the abolition of the kapu system and the introduction of Christianity?
Did you know that Zee Yee Lee, who flew an Etrich Taube (example pictured) over Shanghai in 1912, was one of China's first aviators?
Did you know that in Der Ring in Minden, the orchestra played at the back of the stage, and the singers all turned towards it to listen to the music at the end?
Did you know that low water levels at Loch Vaa threatened the remains of a historic crannog?
Did you know that there was a campaign to give Captain America a boyfriend?
Did you know that Brooklyn's 13th, 14th, and 23rd Regiment Armories, all built significantly over budget, were later converted to homeless shelters?
Did you know that Chinese doctor Kang Laiyi spent more than 30 years researching the epidemiology of HIV?
Did you know that Chrysomya putoria (genus member pictured) and other flies that feed on decomposing flesh are used as important tools in forensic entomology to establish the post-mortem interval?
Did you know that Dixit Maria, a motet in Latin by Hans Leo Hassler, sets to music the narrative of Mary's consent to the Annunciation?
Did you know that Myname's record label was forced to destroy 20,000 CDs of the group's second single album after accidentally including Psy's "Gangnam Style" as its sixth track?
Did you know that future U.S. senator Howard Baker campaigned for president of the University of Tennessee student body on a platform to establish a campus radio station?
Did you know that German painter Gebhard Fugel led the team creating the monumental Crucifixion Panorama in Altötting, which became a UNESCO-listed monument?
Did you know that Russian vice admiral Mikhail Motsak, who oversaw the salvage of the wreck of the submarine Kursk, is buried in the same cemetery as a number of the crew who died aboard the vessel?
Did you know that bodega cats (example pictured) are used as a form of pest control in New York City?
Did you know that in 2018, Maëlle became the first female and youngest contestant ever to win the French version of The Voice?
Did you know that the Seven Wonders of the Waterways include the UK's longest and highest aqueduct, its longest, deepest, and highest canal tunnel, and the world's only swinging aqueduct?
Did you know that Lu Shijia, founder of China's first university aerodynamics program, twice declined nominations to the Chinese Academy of Sciences?
Did you know that although Elizabeth Richards Tilton was a central figure in a six-month-long trial, she was never allowed to speak in court?
Did you know that although Ernest Fahmy played for Abertillery RFC in Wales, he opted to play international rugby for Scotland?
Did you know that the Broe helmet, an artefact of the Vendel Period, was discovered while digging up a garden?
Did you know that A Stanislaw Lem Reader showcases the work of one of the most widely read science fiction writers, including interviews on the relation of literature to philosophy and science?
Did you know that American rapper Gucci Mane recorded Trap Back as his "comeback mixtape"?
Did you know that Chinese economist Zhang Peigang's dissertation was translated into Spanish and used as a university textbook in Latin America in the 1950s, but was not published in Chinese until 1984?
Did you know that Colleen Barrett, the first female president of a major airline, appeared in patriotic advertisements for Southwest Airlines after the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that Educational Media Foundation's 2006 acquisition of WSMU-FM marked the "first major foray" by Christian FM broadcasting into New England?
Did you know that Tell Qudadi, a buried Iron Age era fortress, was unknowingly used as the site of a military stronghold during World War I?
Did you know that a moth is being used in biological pest control of the sugarcane planthopper?
Did you know that Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, was a failure in its original form, but was revised partly at the behest of Carl Weinmüller, who then appeared in the premiere in the bass role of Rocco?
Did you know that according to the American Society of Civil Engineers, Thomas Evans Blackwell was the first hydraulic engineer in England?
Did you know that in the Newar festival of Depukhu, young men compete for the carcass of a young female goat that is first sacrificed by drowning in the Deopokhari pond in Khokana, Nepal?
Did you know that it is possible to pack 27 equal cuboids into a cube?
Did you know that the television series The Bold Type is inspired by the life and career of former Cosmopolitan magazine editor-in-chief Joanna Coles?
Did you know that there is a lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge in Fort Washington Park?
Did you know that Esther Killick repeatedly "gassed herself for science" in order to study carbon monoxide poisoning and acclimatisation?
Did you know that Siegfried Matthus composed the opera Judith for the reopening of the restored Semperoper, but it premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin, staged by Harry Kupfer?
Did you know that there have been calls for the Warwick Road Estate in London's Earl's Court to be listed to prevent it from demolition?
Did you know that American tenor Jeff Martin has appeared as the Astrologer in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre?
Did you know that Nevada radio station KONE was sued in 1966 by the proprietors of 16 musical works, who claimed that the station did not pay royalties for playing songs such as "San Antonio Rose" and "Sweet Georgia Brown"?
Did you know that along with her business partners, philanthropist Sara Braun, one of the first businesswomen in Punta Arenas, Chile, was involved in the genocide of the Selk'nam people?
Did you know that the Royal Navy's Type 277 radar was so successful that it served as the basis for Navy radars for years, and was used on land by the Royal Air Force and the British Army?
Did you know that the video game developer Rockstar San Diego once worked on XGirl, an "interactive girlfriend" experience for the Xbox console?
Did you know that Bernd Loebe, who began his career as a music journalist, received the 2018 International Opera Award in the category of Leadership in Opera?
Did you know that Brownie Lake is one of two lakes in Minneapolis in which the surface and bottom layers do not intermix?
Did you know that Chris Morocco has reverse-engineered dishes by Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, and Guy Fieri from taste, touch, and smell alone?
Did you know that Qaleh Kharabeh, a fort on the Gorgan Plain in Iran, may have housed troops manning the defence of the Great Wall of Gorgan?
Did you know that before Minoru Yoneyama founded the sports-equipment company Yonex, he was a member of a Japanese suicide unit during World War II?
Did you know that Christ Mocked (shown), which recently sold for €24 million, is a long-lost painting by Cimabue discovered in the kitchen of an elderly Frenchwoman?
Did you know that John Blackwell was dismissed for being "bigoted and obstinate" by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for suggesting a new road might cause a landslide, which indeed happened once the road was built?
Did you know that Juli Briskman, who received international coverage for flipping off President Donald Trump, went on to enter politics and win an election?
Did you know that an article published in the Satyaprakash weekly, which criticised Hindu religious leaders, resulted in a libel case?
Did you know that water damage postponed the premiere production of the science fiction folk musical Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future?
Did you know that Coelopa pilipes fly populations can live at temperatures of 40 °C (104 °F) within piles of kelp, even in areas covered with snow and ice?