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Did you know that Latin philologist Robert Rodgers produced the first detailed commentary on Frontinus's work on Roman aqueducts in almost 300 years?
Did you know that Soccer Mommy hosted a virtual concert through Club Penguin Rewritten?
Did you know that the United States Army Replacement and School Command (insignia pictured) reached its peak in May 1945 with 481,000 personnel?
Did you know that the bombing of Mokha was described as one of the deadliest attacks by the Saudi Arabian–led coalition against Yemen, leaving between 65 and 120 dead, including 10 children?
Did you know that when Josette Simon appeared as Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, she was the first black woman in a lead role at the Royal Shakespeare Company?
Did you know that Cephas L. Bard, the first American physician in Ventura, California, was also the first person to die in the hospital he built there?
Did you know that Reconstructing Womanhood by Hazel Carby, about the history of American black women writers, was said to be a "landmark study" and "groundbreaking"?
Did you know that despite a song duration limit of three minutes and thirty seconds at the Eurovision Song Contest 1957, the entry from Italy lasted over five minutes?
Did you know that the flat wooden ceiling of St. Martin, the Lutheran main church of Sindelfingen built in the 11th century, is still preserved?
Did you know that American environmentalist Rosalie Edge was called "the only honest, unselfish, indomitable hellcat in the history of conservation"?
Did you know that academic Kohei Saito describes the Sustainable Development Goals as the "new opium of the masses" in his 2020 Marxist book, Capital in the Anthropocene?
Did you know that Incas, the last known Carolina parakeet, died in the same aviary cage as the last passenger pigeon?
Did you know that Rings of Power showrunner Patrick McKay likened Isildur to Michael Corleone from The Godfather?
Did you know that Wesley Tann designed dresses for Jackie Kennedy, Carmen de Lavallade, Leontyne Price and Michelle Obama?
Did you know that heavy metal band Judas Priest took their name from Bob Dylan's song "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest"?
Did you know that some microorganisms consume honey despite it having antimicrobial qualities?
Did you know that the anti-monument to the 43 students  kidnapped in 2014 was also dedicated to the thousands of people reported missing in Mexico?
Did you know that the lichen genus Felipes is named for its fruiting structures, which resemble a cat's paw?
Did you know that Christian Krohg's painting Leiv Eirikson Discovering America was shown at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition together with a replica of a Viking ship?
Did you know that Herb Lusk retired from the National Football League at the age of 26 to become a minister?
Did you know that Nicola Griffith's Slow River, described as a lesbian romance, features a "sophisticated depiction of environmental management"?
Did you know that Perth's Airport Central railway station, which opens today, has the longest operating escalators in the southern hemisphere?
Did you know that upon the redescription of the fossil marchfly Plecia avus, an additional seven specimens were identified?
Did you know that when Fred Franzia created Two-Buck Chuck, he was said to have "turned the wine industry on its head"?
Did you know that while oil and gas production is a large part of Turkmenistan's economy, there are only two oil refineries in Turkmenistan?
Did you know that Cleo Damianakes's 1920s book dust jacket designs "made sex respectable", but Hemingway did not like the "large misplaced breasts" on A Farewell to Arms?
Did you know that Gilbert Bundy killed himself on the 12th anniversary of a traumatic experience as a war artist at the Battle of Tarawa?
Did you know that The Summer Hikaru Died went from drawings on a Twitter account to receiving three times more orders than copies available in its first print run?
Did you know that Tova Friedman is a Holocaust survivor who now posts videos of her life and survival on TikTok?
Did you know that Wankaner's Ranjit Vilas Palace in Gujarat, India, features Venetian Gothic, Italianate, Mughal and Rajput styles?
Did you know that the ampullae of Lorenzini enable sharks to sense electric fields?
Did you know that the margins of the Hours of Charles the Noble contain 180 depictions of musical instruments, providing a representative overview of medieval instruments?
Did you know that Cathie Dunsford was unable to find many books about lesbianism in the 1970s, but by the 1980s had herself become a writer and anthologist of lesbian literature?
Did you know that Dave Barrow quit municipal politics to work at his family's insurance brokerage before becoming mayor of Richmond Hill?
Did you know that Kiriko, a "fox girl" character for Overwatch 2, was teased through a coded message that translates to "What Does the Fox Say?"
Did you know that William Hartnell was the only original Doctor Who cast member who remained by the end of the second season?
Did you know that a Nebraska radio station's plans to broadcast college sports were met with "audible gasps"?
Did you know that during the First World War the East African Mounted Rifles sometimes painted stripes on their horses to camouflage them as zebras?
Did you know that in 1816, a copy of the long-lost Institutes by the Roman jurist Gaius was discovered, hidden underneath writings by Saint Jerome?
Did you know that in 2021, two Swedish prison inmates took correctional officers as hostages, demanding twenty kebab pizzas?
Did you know that the First National Bank Tower, standing at 634 feet (193 meters), is the tallest building in the state of Nebraska?
Did you know that the Michigan banner survived an attack by uniformed men from Ohio during the Ten Year War?
Did you know that the lenient sentencing of two Europeans convicted in 1918 after the death of a black man in the East Africa Protectorate led to inquiries from the British Colonial Office?
Did you know that there are no NIMBYs in NIMBY Rails?
Did you know that Borys Lyatoshynsky wrote Mourning Prelude, described as among his most tragic works, the day his father died of typhus?
Did you know that Edgar Williams, Bernard Montgomery's intelligence officer, was an Oxford don who hated soldiering as a profession?
Did you know that Freetown, Alabama, was founded by free and formerly enslaved African Americans in Alabama, whose church, built in 1929, burned down in 2022?
Did you know that Galadriel's gift of some of her hair to Gimli in The Lord of the Rings has echoes in both English literature and Norse legend?
Did you know that Miguel Rivera sold cosmetics and appliances while working as a jockey?
Did you know that Ruth Huenemann was one of the first researchers to make a connection between socioeconomic status and childhood obesity?
Did you know that Songbird Sings was a series of concerts that focused on Regine Velasquez's music career?
Did you know that Windows 2.0 is the last version of Windows that ran solely on floppy disks?
Did you know that a New York state radio station became entangled in an estate dispute in which a man was jailed four times in six months for contempt of court?
Did you know that a TV station in Buffalo, New York, owned a 1921-vintage fire engine?
Did you know that the English River within the East English River Provincial Park has no regulated flow and no pollution, unique in northwestern Ontario?
Did you know that the Felix M. Warburg House was converted into the Jewish Museum after nearly being replaced by apartments?
Did you know that the book Questioning Collapse was created as a critique of the claims made by Jared Diamond in his book Collapse?
Did you know that the eight original Francis turbines of Kraftwerk Heimbach, a hydro-electric power station that opened in 1905 as then the largest in Europe, served until 1974?
Did you know that there was an internet challenge to eat Tide Pods?
Did you know that Fritz Pleitgen, who interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, directed the broadcaster WDR from 1995 to 2007?
Did you know that Harry Booth played for, captained, and coached the Saint Joseph's Hawks baseball and men's basketball teams?
Did you know that Magnus Carlsen, the current World Chess Champion, resigned a recent tournament game after only one move?
Did you know that Mary Ridge blew up the Liberator on her first encounter with Blake's 7, and killed off the crew on her last?
Did you know that although he won the battle of Brentford, Edmund Ironside lost so many men that he needed a new army?
Did you know that the final scene in the 1931 Soviet Yiddish theatrical play Fir teg is said to evoke the mass suicide at the siege of Masada?
Did you know that the firm of Israel Sack supplied American antiques to leading private collectors and museums, including the Winterthur Museum, The Henry Ford, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
Did you know that the isolation of shielings (examples pictured) might have given opportunity for "sexual experiment[ation]"?
Did you know that the southernmost worm species, Scottnema lindsayae, reproduces best at temperatures below 10 °C (50 °F)?
Did you know that the white design on the national Māori flag is a traditional Māori koru, or fern frond, representing renewal and hope for the future?
Did you know that the yellow bloodstain lichen is not always yellow?
Did you know that there are palaces named the Ranjit Vilas in Rajkot, in Ratlam and in Wankaner?
Did you know that Arab Coffeehouse depicts Henri Matisse's visit to Tangier, where he saw its locals gaze for hours into fishbowls?
Did you know that Cornell University's student-oriented programming language dialect was made available to other universities but required a "research grant" payment in exchange?
Did you know that John Giffard, of Chillington Hall, was described as "arguably Britain's most aristocratic policeman" in 2004?
Did you know that Julian Niccolini of the Four Seasons Restaurant deliberately sat ex-partners next to each other?
Did you know that North Coast Radio went silent after playing the song "In a Silent Way"?
Did you know that Scottish glass artist Denis Mann has made the winner's trophy for every series of the British game show Mastermind, which started in 1972?
Did you know that Vlado Milunić admitted that the Dancing House, which he co-designed, was compared to a "gold tooth that spoils a smile"?
Did you know that in 2017, Vincent Ialenti became the first anthropologist with a feature article in Physics Today?
Did you know that the leak of the upcoming Grand Theft Auto game was described as one of the biggest leaks in video game history?
Did you know that the pro-adoption documentary I Lived on Parker Avenue premiered at the Louisiana Governor's Mansion in 2018 at the invitation of Governor John Bel Edwards?
Did you know that the young protagonist of A Costume for Nicholas has Down syndrome, as does his portrayer?
Did you know that Clinton D. Burdick and his father Howard are the only father–son pair to receive the title of flying ace?
Did you know that Darrell Mudra was known as "Dr. Victory"?
Did you know that Sarah Clarke was the first female president of the British Cardiovascular Society?
Did you know that Windows 2.1 was the first version of Microsoft Windows to require a hard disk drive?
Did you know that a radio astronomy facility in Illinois objected to the establishment of a TV station in New Jersey?
Did you know that groups of white-lipped peccaries can drive away jaguars with their screaming and clacking of teeth?
Did you know that in the 2022 Berlin Marathon, Tigist Assefa won by running the third-fastest marathon ever by a woman, in just her second marathon, breaking her personal best by nearly 20 minutes?
Did you know that people queued in a queue to queue in The Queue?
Did you know that two days after it had ignited, the Tiger Fire had already burned 5,567 acres (2,253 ha) of land near Black Canyon City, Arizona?
Did you know that David Cortés, a member of the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies, was dubbed the "Santa Claus of Potosí"?
Did you know that Robert Micklewright created the cover art for Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul's first two novels?
Did you know that University of Exeter lecturer Fu Jia and his coauthors said in 2017 that "uniquely for any hotel in China", Fairmont Beijing has three workers who have learning disabilities?
Did you know that William Penney, Baron Penney, was credited as the "father of the British bomb"?
Did you know that ice XVII (structure shown) potentially has a use in green technology as a medium for storing hydrogen?
Did you know that in her song "Icy Chain", Saweetie disses PETA, telling them she wears fur?
Did you know that the 1944 Story of a Secret State was one of the first book accounts of the German occupation of Poland, including the Holocaust in Poland?
Did you know that the Dimension 68000 microcomputer had expansion cards to emulate the Apple II, the IBM PC, and various CP/M machines?
Did you know that the book Working from Within details how W. V. Quine only began to use the term "naturalism" years after he had already developed the key tenets of the philosophy?
Did you know that the proposed third season of teen sitcom Sonny with a Chance was reworked into the sketch comedy series So Random! after the departure of its lead actor Demi Lovato?
Did you know that yoga nidra, a state of consciousness "in which Buddhas may access secret knowledge", is being studied for potential treatment of sleep problems?
Did you know that Don Lemon "didn't mean to set the internet on fire" when teasing the rebranding of CNN Tonight to Don Lemon Tonight?
Did you know that Joe Kraker was said to be the only lineman in football history to play without shoulder pads?
Did you know that Jonathan Beaulieu-Richard retired from the Canadian Football League to become a pharmacist?
Did you know that Ponce de Leon Springs in Atlanta was named in reference to the legend of Juan Ponce de León's search for the Fountain of Youth due to the spring water's supposed health benefits?
Did you know that The New York Times claimed that if Johnson beat Jeffries (fight pictured), black people would "misinterpret his victory as justifying claims to much more than mere physical equality with their white neighbors"?
Did you know that Windows 3.1 had a special version, known as Modular Windows, that was controlled via television?
Did you know that during the 1960s and 1970s, American artist Robert Bauer painted figures that were a mixture of 20th-century avant-garde funk and 17th-century Dutch realism?
Did you know that from 1912, Jindřiška Flajšhansová was the principal editor of Ženské listy, a Czech journal that became a women's "survival manual" during World War I?
Did you know that in 2021 Sarah Aristidou recorded Jörg Widmann's Labyrinth V, a wordless piece for her soprano voice with "ululations, sobs, jazz inflections and wild laughter"?
Did you know that the Amṛtasiddhi (folio pictured), translated as 'the attainment of immortality', is an early text about what later became haṭha yoga?
Did you know that the Grade II*–listed Church of St Benedict, in Ardwick, Manchester, is now a climbing centre?
Did you know that the Violin Concerto by Mieczysław Weinberg, premiered in Moscow in 1961 by Leonid Kogan, was first performed in Germany by Linus Roth in 2014, and in the U.S. by Gidon Kremer in 2015?
Did you know that Andreas Reize ranked Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, a choral setting of the first verses of Psalm 84 by Johann Hermann Schein, as one of three pinnacles of motets before Bach?
Did you know that Annie Dove Denmark was offered residency on campus for the rest of her life after resigning as the president of Anderson College?
Did you know that Kanye West's "Hands On" marked Fred Hammond's first appearance on the US Billboard Hot 100?
Did you know that Plutarch believed that animals were more virtuous than humans?
Did you know that Tom Urbani was an original Dirtbag?
Did you know that crown prince of Ava Minye Kyawswa discarded advice from Yazathingyan, and subsequently got slain in battle?
Did you know that some analysts considered Víctor Hugo Zamora's appointment as hydrocarbons minister to be a gesture to oil companies, guaranteeing "covert continuity" between the Áñez and Morales governments?
Did you know that the Zunda Towers in Riga, Latvia, changed their name from "Z-Towers" to avoid being associated with Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
Did you know that the day before the 1969 investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales, two protestors were killed when their homemade bomb exploded prematurely?
Did you know that "the Hurricane Shark is real"?
Did you know that Adele's artwork for "When We Were Young" features a picture of her as a child?
Did you know that Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, India's second Muslim president, was also the second Indian president to die in office?
Did you know that Herbert James Gunn used a paper cut-out of Princess Elizabeth's corgi dog to help him paint his Conversation Piece at the Royal Lodge, Windsor?
Did you know that Jutta Fleck protested for six months in front of border guards at Checkpoint Charlie for her daughters' release from East Germany?
Did you know that Shaun Aguano's interview to join the Arizona State football coaching staff consisted only of being asked, "you want the job?"
Did you know that Stardust, the title of a composition by Taylor Scott Davis for eight voices a cappella commissioned by Voces8, became also the name of the vocal ensemble's 2022 tour?
Did you know that circle packings in the form of a Doyle spiral were used to model plant growth long before their mathematical investigation by Doyle?
Did you know that following his election to the Constituent Assembly, Severo Aguilar had to trek four hours and hitch a ride on a truck in order to get to the assembly's headquarters in Sucre?
Did you know that the day after returning to Atlanta following his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance in 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. joined picketers who were on strike against Scripto?
Did you know that the documentary film Jihad Rehab features interviews with former inmates from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp who are now in the Care Rehabilitation Center, a "jihad rehab" in Saudi Arabia?
Did you know that the roadless Solace Provincial Park in the Temagami area of Ontario, Canada, is considered as one of the most isolated, wild places in the province?
Did you know that "Like as the hart", a setting of Psalm 42 for a cappella choir, was composed by Judith Weir, Master of the King's Music, for the state funeral of Elizabeth II?
Did you know that "perhaps the most notable wedding gown in existence" within the United States was once worn in St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo?
Did you know that Adam Kingsmill, who is missing most of his right leg, played stand-up ice hockey until 2016?
Did you know that Sir John Anderson was described as the "world's most-shot-at-man" in 1935, after surviving three assassination attempts?
Did you know that Sri Lanka's ancient tank cascade system of irrigation reservoirs creates habitats for the island's elephants (examples pictured)?
Did you know that after Billie Eilish wrote the song "Wish You Were Gay", its subject came out to her as gay?
Did you know that after the liberation of towns in Ukraine during the Ukrainian Kharkiv counteroffensive, authorities found evidence of numerous Russian torture chambers?
Did you know that writer Malcolm Neesam was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Harrogate, England, by the town council for services to local history?
Did you know that In Win Development designed a computer case that can be opened with a smartphone app?
Did you know that Jacqueline Kennedy bought several saris during her 1962 tour of India and Pakistan to be turned into sari-inspired dresses?
Did you know that Luis Gallego had only completed middle-school education when he was elected to the Bolivian Chamber of Deputies?
Did you know that Robert Nimmo's command of the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan remains the longest ever command of a United Nations operation?
Did you know that Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency tumbler, was blacklisted by the United States Department of the Treasury?
Did you know that if you remove two opposite corners of a chessboard, you cannot cover all squares with dominos?
Did you know that in 2010, the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Atlanta became the first church in the state to be elevated to the rank of a minor basilica?
Did you know that since 1976 there have been no additions to, but two removals from, the Hall of Fame for Great Americans?
Did you know that the Victory Theatre, the first theater on 42nd Street to show adult movies, later became a children's theater?
Did you know that Australia has three major Japanese language schools?
Did you know that George Balanchine said Allegro Brillante (dancers pictured) "contains everything I knew about classical ballet – in thirteen minutes"?
Did you know that Rockstar Leeds was once based at a decommissioned church?
Did you know that Scottish physician George Gray received the thanks of the Chinese government for his work during the Manchurian plague of 1910–11?
Did you know that Yemen currently has two parliamentary upper houses?
Did you know that birders in New York City have recorded over 400 species?
Did you know that in "Who shall separate us?", composed by James MacMillan for the state funeral of Elizabeth II, verses from Romans 8 are followed by Alleluias described as "burning bright sonic trails"?
Did you know that killing a resplendent quetzal was a crime in Aztec and Maya law?
Did you know that the public artwork Eroclamation at Haw Par Villa MRT station reflects Haw Par Villa's themes of mortality and reincarnation?
Did you know that Carlo Carrà attributed The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli to the 1904 Italian general strike, while the actual funeral and riot occured in 1906?
Did you know that Mark Williams travelled for more than 13 hours to be a last-minute replacement at the 2022 Hong Kong Masters?
Did you know that Sir Frank Price, a former Lord Mayor of Birmingham, grew up in the city's slums and left school at the age of 14?
Did you know that despite a "No Rock & Roll" sign in the studios of the Utica College radio station, students played it anyway?
Did you know that nightclub singer Rommy Revson earned millions of dollars from her 1986 invention of the scrunchie (examples pictured), which she originally named after her pet poodle?
Did you know that portraits of Lucy de László with a violin (one portrait pictured), painted by her husband, are recognised as some of the first examples of portraiture to include womens' talents in them?
Did you know that the Pedestals of Biahmu are known locally as Al-Ṣanam, Arabic for "the idol"?
Did you know that the Sugar Puffs bear once escaped from Clinton Keeling's home zoo?
Did you know that the beat in Taylor Swift's song "Holy Ground" was described by Brad Nelson of The Atlantic as "insistent enough to act as punctuation for the lyrics"?
Did you know that the memorabilia of Jennie Scott Griffiths, a Texan who died in California, are housed in the National Library of Australia?
Did you know that Betty Hall introduced a New Hampshire bill that would have petitioned the United States Congress to impeach George W. Bush?
Did you know that Egon Schiele disrupted the dichotomy between beauty and ugliness in his Seated Woman with Bent Knees?
Did you know that Markus Becker, who earned awards for his recording of the complete piano works by Max Reger, also recorded jazz?
Did you know that Taylor Swift got in touch with Gary Lightbody, with whom she collaborated on the song "The Last Time", through Ed Sheeran?
Did you know that a grey poplar in Amsterdam is "the tree that saw it all"?
Did you know that according to the Open Syllabus Project,  the most widely taught novel in college courses is Frankenstein?
Did you know that the Lithuanian-Belorussian Soviet Republic exchanged 13 detained German diplomats for 24 jailed leaders of the Kaunas Soviet of Workers Deputies?
Did you know that the level of detail in medieval depictions of firebugs (example pictured) has been cited as evidence that the Master of the Brussels Initials "knew the bug in nature"?