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Did you know that the Cathedral of Nocera Umbra probably rests on the foundations of a temple dedicated to the goddess Favonia?
Did you know that the platform shelters in the redevelopment concept design for Bayswater railway station, Perth, were criticised for looking like a trestle table?
Did you know that watching Tacoma, Washington's KTVW "used to be worse than no TV at all"?
Did you know that Facebook's outage on October 4, 2021, also cut off the company's internal communications, preventing employees from sending or receiving external emails or logging in to Zoom?
Did you know that George Fan, the designer of Plants vs. Zombies, was fired from PopCap Games after its acquisition by EA?
Did you know that Givans Creek Woods was once used to dump construction fill?
Did you know that Jackie Collins likened nightclub owner Johnny Gold, not unkindly, to "an old whore"?
Did you know that a 1917 explosion broke the SS Fernebo in two, with one part drifting ashore carrying six survivors?
Did you know that a Chinese corruption investigation into Gao Yan has been interpreted as a political move against Li Peng, then second-in-command of the Communist Party of China?
Did you know that the 12th-century Lismore Crozier was rediscovered, along with the 15th-century Book of Lismore, in a concealed doorway in Ireland's Lismore Castle in 1814?
Did you know that the 1981 execution of Werner Teske was the final use of the death penalty in Germany?
Did you know that the early Germanic priestess Ganna may have been named for her magic staff?
Did you know that the first successful Mars rover, Sojourner, was named after the Civil War era African-American abolitionist and women's rights advocate Sojourner Truth?
Did you know that when Dan Quayle announced his 2000 presidential campaign, Larry King congratulated him by telling him "you're not a joke like you once were"?
Did you know that when Jean Kekedo was made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire in 2020 she became the third woman in her family to receive this honour, after her mother Dame Mary Kekedo and her sister Dame Rose Kekedo?
Did you know that A Passage North, which is shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, is set in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan Civil War?
Did you know that Arkansas legislator Denise Jones Ennett took part in a Black Lives Matter protest in front of the Arkansas State Capitol?
Did you know that Carl Freedman viewed science fiction as the most sound genre for academic study?
Did you know that Eberhard Panitz wrote his novel, My Father's Tram, with autobiographic elements around his father—a tram conductor in Dresden?
Did you know that In Freundschaft was composed in friendship by Karlheinz Stockhausen as a clarinet solo for Suzanne Stephens, and later adapted to the instruments of other friends?
Did you know that Susan Chitty's memoir on her mother, Antonia White, was viewed as a "literary assassination" when published?
Did you know that Wernher von Braun claimed that General Samuel C. Phillips  was the man most responsible for putting the pieces of the Apollo program together and making them work?
Did you know that an Australian state premier said he would be taking a spear to meetings on a tax-distribution dispute?
Did you know that in 1943, the United States Army conducted a large-scale battle near Stauffer, Oregon, as part of the Oregon Maneuver training exercise preparing troops for combat in World War II?
Did you know that the small tree Homalanthus nutans is a pioneer species, readily colonising disturbed ground?
Did you know that when La Folia Barockorchester made the first recordings of anonymous violin concertos found in the Dresden Hofkirche, they chose not to discover the identity of the composers?
Did you know that 701,133 flags were planted on the National Mall as a memorial to Americans who have died of COVID-19?
Did you know that CCH Pounder, who guest starred in The West Wing's "Celestial Navigation", was almost selected for the main role of C. J. Cregg?
Did you know that Castle Recording Laboratory, Nashville's first commercial recording studio, was established in a repurposed hotel banquet room?
Did you know that Janet Wilmshurst paints pictures of the past with poop?
Did you know that Max Wallraf replaced Paul Löbe as President of the Reichstag for a few months in 1924–25?
Did you know that Robin Stern's book The Gaslight Effect describes gaslighting as an epidemic?
Did you know that Sama Jaya Free Industrial Zone houses the first semiconductor fabrication plant in Borneo?
Did you know that according to legend, the god of wisdom Odin was tricked by his own wife, and her priestess Gambara, to give victory to Gambara's tribe?
Did you know that addressing poverty is an important factor in achieving tuberculosis elimination?
Did you know that the Inglis Bridge in Monmouth, Wales, is the only known example in Britain of an Inglis bridge that is still in public use?
Did you know that Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, a motet by Telemann, was performed and recorded in 2017 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation?
Did you know that Elaine Estes, the first African American director of the Des Moines Public Library, holds a patent on her parents' barbecue sauce?
Did you know that a group of feminists placed the Women Who Fight anti-monument on a pedestal on which a statue of Christopher Columbus formerly stood?
Did you know that after watching Matilda the Musical, Mattea Conforti complained that she could have starred in the title role?
Did you know that championship belt designer Reggie Parks, whose work was used by WWE, UFC, and Madonna, was the first wrestling opponent of future NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Dusty Rhodes?
Did you know that during her early career, ballerina Indiana Woodward danced the lead role in La Sylphide, replacing an injured dancer?
Did you know that porcelain cabinet cups were especially lavish pieces (example pictured) intended to be displayed in a china cabinet rather than used?
Did you know that radio station KWKC dropped its application for a TV station in order to speed the arrival of television to Abilene, Texas, which would otherwise have been 89th in line?
Did you know that the 2020 documentary film Gather, which explores Native American efforts for food sovereignty and reclamation of ancestral foodways, was named a Critic's Pick by The New York Times?
Did you know that the Guns N' Roses debut studio album Appetite for Destruction was recorded at a recording studio founded by 1970s pop duo Captain & Tennille?
Did you know that Florissantia flowers were possibly pollinated by bats?
Did you know that parsnips serve as sawed-off tibiae in feetloaf?
Did you know that the Battle of Saint Charles featured what is known as the deadliest shot of the American Civil War?
Did you know that the New Amsterdam Theatre, once described as "a vision of gorgeousness", later had dead cats in the basement and mushrooms growing through the floor?
Did you know that the account of the Haliurunas in the 6th century history of the Goths, the Getica, is a precursor to later Christian traditions that wise women had sex and orgies with demons and the Devil?
Did you know that the opera The Devil and Daniel Webster features a jury of ghosts made up of famous historical American figures who are now residents of Hell; including the pirate Blackbeard?
Did you know that HMS Cicala was commanded at the 1941 Battle of Hong Kong by a one-armed veteran of the 1916 Battle of Jutland?
Did you know that Johannes Schröder composed an oratorio honouring Katharina Kaspar, who became a new saint in 2018?
Did you know that Lisa Federle's mobile surgery service for refugees was adapted to be a mobile test station during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that Robert Weiner taught AP English Literature while coaching football at Henry B. Plant High School?
Did you know that at one point in its political history, the Philippines was represented in the Spanish Cortes Generales?
Did you know that it took five years of observations to find the planet orbiting the star HD 175167?
Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel Richard John Andrews survived the Second Boer War, the First World War, the Russian Civil War and the Irish War of Independence only to be killed by a defective tool in his garage?
Did you know that Piecemeal, who appeared in The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga, was considered one of the strangest characters to appear in a Marvel video game?
Did you know that according to science fiction essayist Jacques Van Herp, the novella The End of Illa caused the temporary decline of French science fiction?
Did you know that the conical-spring in Topre's capacitive keyboard switch (example pictured) was inspired by a mosquito coil?
Did you know that Arkansas linebacker Grant Morgan, originally a walk-on himself, signed a personality rights deal with Walk-On's Bistreaux and Bar?
Did you know that Grey Gowrie, while holding office under Margaret Thatcher, described himself as "Irishman with a Scots name and a German wife, working, somewhat to his surprise, for a very English government"?
Did you know that belyanas were giant disposable wooden ships used in the Volga region for timber rafting?
Did you know that melodies by Guillaume Franc, composed to French psalms published in Geneva in 1542, are still in use in the 21st century?
Did you know that the type specimen of the icefish Pagetodes, a synonym of Cryodraco, was stolen and eaten by a cat before it could be preserved?
Did you know that Hans Haselböck, later an international concert organist and professor at the Vienna Music Academy, began 65 years as organist at the Dominican Church, Vienna, on 4 November 1949?
Did you know that Marie Surcouf was the president of Stella, a club for French women aeronauts?
Did you know that a reviewer said that Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice has "more holes than a dodgy knitting pattern" but he "enjoyed every minute"?
Did you know that in 1776 Robert Bell was commissioned by Thomas Paine to print Common Sense, considered the most inciteful work of the American Revolution?
Did you know that the 1895 painting Self-Portrait with Cigarette by Edvard Munch was met with criticism of his amorality and "degeneration"?
Did you know that the Raytheon 704, which cost more than $10,000 in 1970, was the first computer used for playing games by mail?
Did you know that Frank Jeremiah Armstrong, the first African-American graduate of Cornell College, became an assistant to Booker T. Washington?
Did you know that Małgorzata Kalinowska-Iszkowska was awarded a Polish Gold Cross of Merit for her work in information technology?
Did you know that landscape architect Harriet Pattison collaborated with her lover Louis Kahn on the design of Four Freedoms Park and the grounds of the Kimbell Art Museum?
Did you know that the African zebrawood is in danger of becoming extinct?
Did you know that Cher Scarlett is one of the leaders of #AppleToo, a workers' rights movement at Apple Inc.?
Did you know that Colombian-born Susan Bernal is developing new cements that can reduce the substantial CO2 emissions currently caused by concrete?
Did you know that deleted articles on Wikipedia may be "salted" so that they cannot be recreated?
Did you know that of the hundreds of hands stenciled at Cueva de las Manos as artwork, very few are right hands?
Did you know that the Columbus was a disposable ship, built from large quantities of North American timber and intended to be sailed to London where she would be dismantled to avoid cargo import duties?
Did you know that 125 years ago today, the lifeboat Henry Ramey Upcher rescued the fourteen-man crew of the SS Commodore and three fishermen who had been stranded aboard her?
Did you know that Citizens Square was almost named after Fort Wayne's Harry Baals?
Did you know that Cwmhiraeth's name roughly translates to "valley of longing"?
Did you know that Osa Maliki opposed the introduction of the Guided Democracy, and as a result was removed from his position?
Did you know that according to his brother, Budge Patty would not budge?
Did you know that the original release of Jason Shiga's comic Demon included a four-page issue, a sixty-page issue, and an issue in which all the panels were black?
Did you know that the women's race at today's New York City Marathon will feature two of the medalists from this year's Olympic marathon?
Did you know that while the Empire of Japan did not actively participate in the Holocaust, it has been found to have committed war crimes of its own?
Did you know that American Computer and Peripheral was the first company to offer a plug-in board for Intel's 386 processor?
Did you know that SpaceX's reusable Starship launch vehicle has twice as much thrust as the Apollo program's Saturn V?
Did you know that after men took all the 2021 Nobel Prizes for science, one of the selectors, Eva Olsson, said "we want to have more women nominated"?
Did you know that thanks to the advocate general's opinion, one is likely to know the outcome of a court case before the European Court of Justice before it even starts drafting the ruling?
Did you know that the woman of the Chatti was allegedly a Germanic prophetess whose advice inspired Roman Emperor Vitellius to murder his own mother, Sextilia?
Did you know that Julius Caesar's portrayal of his actions in the Gallic Wars have led historians to call him one of history's first "spin doctors"?
Did you know that Lorenza Böttner, a mouth and foot painter, had both of her arms amputated following an electric shock?
Did you know that Rhyothemis fuliginosa (example pictured) is known as the "butterfly dragonfly"?
Did you know that after starring in several films directed by Umberto Lenzi, actor Me Me Lai later worked as a police officer who confiscated them as "video nasties"?
Did you know that former judge Steve Alm's successful campaign to be elected Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu was endorsed by the State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers in 2019?
Did you know that the 1992 book A Song for Arbonne is set in a fantasy world loosely based on 12th-century Provence?
Did you know that KMXO near Abilene, Texas, aired the region's first Spanish-language radio program and later became its first full-time Spanish-language station?
Did you know that Lesley Akyaa Opoku Ware, daughter of Asante ruler Opoku Ware II, simultaneously served as Ghana's ambassador to six countries?
Did you know that a branch line of the New Haven and Northampton Railroad was so difficult to build, the area was nicknamed "Satan's Kingdom"?
Did you know that the English botanists Jane Ingham and Joseph Hubert Priestley were the first to separate cell walls from meristematic tissues in broad beans?
Did you know that there are three hydroelectric generating stations on the White River in Northern Ontario, Canada, all part-owned by First Nations?
Did you know that Andreas Reize assumed the post of Thomaskantor as the first Swiss and the first Catholic since the Reformation?
Did you know that David Kennedy, co-founder of the agency that came up with Nike's Just Do It campaign, was once gifted 50 pairs of Levi's denims by his employees?
Did you know that David Whitaker has been called "the father of the ISBN"?
Did you know that Indonesian historian Sartono Kartodirdjo's father wanted him to be a doctor, but he refused as he claimed to be afraid of blood?
Did you know that Johann Reinhold Forster's 1778 book Observations Made During a Voyage Round the World has been described as "the beginning of modern geography"?
Did you know that White Lake Provincial Park is the only provincial park in Ontario, Canada, with an exceptional provision allowing hydroelectric activity as a non-conforming use?
Did you know that for his appearance in the fourth-season finale of The Drew Carey Show, Hal Linden spoke with a German accent because he had trouble speaking with a Dutch accent?
Did you know that future rear admiral Robert Wertheim had a hand in the naming of the MIM-72 Chaparral?
Did you know that the  First World War Kirkcudbright war memorial depicts a sword-wielding warrior with a sleeping child on his knee?
Did you know that the Engineers' Club Building and Engineering Societies' Building in New York City were described in the mid-20th century as "the engineering crossroads of the world"?
Did you know that the streaming service Alchemiya has been dubbed the "Muslim Netflix"?
Did you know that Broadway producer Richard Aldrich penned a biography on his wife, the actress Gertrude Lawrence,  after her death from cancer?
Did you know that Earl Old Person, lifetime honorary Chief of the Blackfeet Nation, inadvertently broke a 1000-year tradition in 1971 when he asked the Shah of Iran to stand up?
Did you know that Ed Beauvais co-founded the "darling of deregulation"?
Did you know that Lars Fause is the first governor of Svalbard to use the gender-neutral title Sysselmester?
Did you know that Micah Joseph Lebensohn began to translate poetry into Hebrew at the age of twelve?
Did you know that Rise Bar's management spent more than US$110,000 soundproofing the space, which holds just 74 patrons?
Did you know that despite not being an economist, Sunarjo Kolopaking became dean for the faculty of economics at the University of Indonesia?
Did you know that the 1996 song "Gott hat mir längst einen Engel gesandt", with text by Eugen Eckert and music by Thomas Gabriel, began as part of a rock oratorio about Daniel?
Did you know that the Corsi-Rosenthal Box (example pictured) is a homemade air purifier that was designed during the COVID-19 pandemic as an alternative to more expensive air purification systems?
Did you know that the French animated film The Summit of the Gods is based on a Japanese manga series?
Did you know that the first pendulum clock was invented in 1657 by Christiaan Huygens?
Did you know that the plant Dyssodia papposa  was given to horses for coughs by the Dakota and smoked for epilepsy by the Keres?
Did you know that workers have the right to sit in some jurisdictions?
Did you know that "Möge die Straße uns zusammenführen", a German song based on Irish toasts, was ranked fourth in a recent survey of favourite hymns?
Did you know that Anne Saxelby was a pioneer in promoting American artisanal cheese?
Did you know that Kane Ioane finished his playing career at Montana State as the Big Sky Conference's all-time tackles leader?
Did you know that Miller's Anatomy of the Dog, a textbook dedicated to canines, was found by a specialist feline publication to be bereft of information about cats?
Did you know that Samsi Sastrawidagda, Indonesia's first finance minister, once leased the veranda of future president Sukarno's house for his accountant's office?
Did you know that even though Australian citizens are no longer British subjects, they can still vote in elections and stand for parliament in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that none of the six then-living CCNY players were interviewed for the 1998 documentary film City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal?
Did you know that the 1914 Lubin vault fire (aftermath pictured) in Philadelphia destroyed several thousand unique early silent films?
Did you know that the philosopher Emil Utitz, a classmate of Franz Kafka, became the head librarian of Theresienstadt Ghetto?
Did you know that Ernie Ross, the Member of Parliament for Dundee West, was nicknamed "the MP for Nablus West" due to his support of Palestinian nationalism?
Did you know that Khin Maung Lat, a servant at the king's palace in Ratnagiri, India, eloped with Princess Myat Phaya Lat against the will of the king and queen?
Did you know that Myrtle Edwards's family objected to Seattle's Gas Works Park being named after her?
Did you know that Osman Çakmak won the European Amputee Football Championship as a player in 2017 and as a manager in 2021 with the Turkey national team?
Did you know that Willy von Beckerath, after studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, depicted Johannes Brahms at a grand piano?
Did you know that the 115-metre-long (377-foot) Bourbaki Panorama (detail pictured) depicts the internment of 88,000 French soldiers in neutral Switzerland at the end of the Franco-Prussian War?
Did you know that the 1979 German song "Selig seid ihr, wenn ihr einfach lebt" offers eight beatitudes which include a blessing for living simply, and another for daring to be kind?
Did you know that the Russian Fort Raim was built in 1847 around the ruined mausoleum of Kazakh warrior Raiymbek Batyr?
Did you know that the original name of the sidewheel steamer CSS Maurepas, Grosse Tete, means "big head" in French?
Did you know that the protagonist of the novel Long Live the Post Horn! campaigns against a real European Union Directive?
Did you know that John Carter started his career as an early American colonial printer working as the apprentice of Benjamin Franklin?
Did you know that a wreck rediscovered in the former Royal Navy dockyard in Antigua in 2021 might be that of the French ship Beaumont, captured by the British in 1778?
Did you know that despite contesting the 1924 presidential election as a third-party candidate, Robert M. La Follette received approximately 16.6 percent of the popular vote?
Did you know that in Botswana, writer Unity Dow took legal actions as a plaintiff, legal counsellor, and judge to challenge gender discrimination and protect indigenous rights, before becoming a legislator?
Did you know that in Connecticut, there are statues of Revolutionary War hero Israel Putnam in Brooklyn, in Hartford, and in Redding?
Did you know that surgeon Margaret Louden developed a treatment for people crushed by rubble during the The Blitz, but her contribution was forgotten until the 1990s?
Did you know that the World Bank's Open Knowledge Repository was called "one of the most important hubs for economic scholarship in the world" by Creative Commons?
Did you know that the new head coach for Washington State Cougars football once played in a football game two weeks after an appendectomy?
Did you know that the song "House Party" by Super Junior was praised by Tedros Adhanom, the director-general of the WHO?
Did you know that Ally Condie's dystopian Matched trilogy was inspired by a high school prom?
Did you know that Ask la Cour, who came from Denmark, only planned to perform with the New York City Ballet for a few years, but spent two decades there and became a principal dancer?
Did you know that German fashion magazine Der Bazar had many spin offs, including Harper's Bazaar?
Did you know that Iris Murdoch wrote a poem juxtaposing the outbreak of World War II with a seminar by Eduard Fraenkel?
Did you know that Scott Isphording coached golf and baseball for a time while on the football coaching staff at Wittenberg University?
Did you know that Wikipedia editors wrote over 40,000 words arguing over a single letter?
Did you know that glaciation in Wisconsin 17 thousand years ago helped create its unique geography?
Did you know that in the early 20th century, "playing the  Palace" (interior pictured) was said to mark the pinnacle of a vaudeville entertainer's career?
Did you know that students and faculty from Fuchs Mizrachi School protested at Nazi guard John Demjanjuk's home in 1993, objecting to his release from Israeli prison and residence in the United States?
Did you know that the Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad never actually reached Boston or Barre?
Did you know that the Turkish government tried to have the German music video "Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan" taken down because it insulted Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan?
Did you know that the design and form of the late 8th- or early 9th-century Irish Kilmainham Brooch was influenced by both earlier Pictish and contemporary Viking art?
Did you know that Indian cricketer Bangalore Jayaram's English styled Mashie Lodge, was named after his favourite golf club, the Mashie Niblick?
Did you know that Satrio used water buffaloes to vaccinate 240,000 people against smallpox?
Did you know that Susan Catania shocked male legislators by bringing her infant daughter to the floor of the Illinois House of Representatives and nursing her baby in the women's restroom?
Did you know that Symphyotrichum molle, the soft aster, can be found only in the Bighorn Mountains of Montana and Wyoming?