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Did you know that Neil Warnock left Huddersfield Town shortly after they gained promotion by winning the 1995 Football League Second Division play-off Final because he said the club chairman had told him a "porky pie"?
Did you know that Washington State Route 539 is named the "Guide Meridian" because it follows a surveying meridian?
Did you know that William Steig wrote Shrek! at the age of eighty-three, two decades after leaving a career as a cartoonist at The New Yorker?
Did you know that physicist Joseph Gelders was kidnapped and beaten, probably by members of the Ku Klux Klan, for his civil rights and labor organizing activities?
Did you know that the 1998 Football League Third Division play-off Final was the first play-off final to feature two brothers when Neil and David Gregory played for Colchester United?
Did you know that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Building has been described as "a bigger Florentine palace than has ever stood in Florence"?
Did you know that the melody of a song to Venus became the tune for the 17th-century hymn "Auf meinen lieben Gott" (in English "In God, My Faithful God") and others?
Did you know that Andrew Logan assisted at the first pneumonectomy in the UK and performed the country's first lung transplant?
Did you know that Domus Litonii is the only remaining 19th-century residential building in the entire centre of Helsinki?
Did you know that Hollis Taylor has argued that birdsong should be considered music?
Did you know that Millie Dienert was called the "first lady of prayer" for her work on behalf of evangelist Billy Graham?
Did you know that Sammy Byrd is the only person to play in both a World Series and a Masters Tournament?
Did you know that at the 2021 Welsh Open, Jordan Brown was the lowest-ranked snooker player to win a ranking event since 1993?
Did you know that in the film Dog Day Afternoon, Al Pacino improvised the "Attica! Attica!" scene following the suggestion of an assistant director?
Did you know that one of the first generators of chemical graphs (example pictured) was developed in the context of NASA's Mariner program to facilitate the automated identification of chemical compounds in the search for life on Mars?
Did you know that the 1938 film Gangster's Boy starred silent-film actress Betty Blythe, who took on roles that she liked despite a source saying that she was "more or less retired"?
Did you know that the baritone Benjamin Appl, the last private student of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, was named Gramophone's Young Artist of 2016?
Did you know that when commenting on her decision to depict Achilles and Patroclus as lovers in her novel The Song of Achilles, author Madeline Miller remarked: "I stole it from Plato"?
Did you know that Dwayne De Rosario is Canada's all-time leading male soccer goalscorer, with 22 international goals?
Did you know that KQLO, the antecedent of today's KIHM, was established after its founder drove from Nevada to Vermont and found no Catholic radio stations on the trip?
Did you know that The Book of American Negro Poetry, Negro Poets and Their Poems, An Anthology of Verse by American Negroes, and Caroling Dusk, major poetry anthologies from the Harlem Renaissance, included poems by African-American poets ranging from Langston Hughes to a nine-year-old girl?
Did you know that microcredit activist Ringyuichon Vashum was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar for working to empower more than 13,000 female self-help organizations?
Did you know that the BoJack Horseman episode "The View from Halfway Down" received its title because series creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg needed an episode title starting with the letter "V"?
Did you know that the Rhodesian Air Force's Green Leader once threatened to shoot down any Zambian Air Force planes that interfered with Operation Gatling after taking control of Zambian airspace?
Did you know that the bank initially refused to provide a mortgage for the 1932 Alvar Aalto–designed house Villa Tammekann in Tartu until its flat roof was replaced by a pitched one?
Did you know that the first words ever spoken in a feature film were uttered by Al Jolson after singing "Dirty Hands, Dirty Face"?
Did you know that the now-closed Kangasala railway station in Finland was designed in the National Romantic style, unlike many contemporaneous buildings?
Did you know that when John-Michael Caprio became the director of music at the Roman Catholic St. Patrick's Cathedral, he ordered that the choir's robes be replaced because they looked "too Protestant"?
Did you know that Andrew Russell Murray, pioneer of pollicization and of finger joint replacement, was shot dead by Karl Kast in the Brisbane medical massacre?
Did you know that Doug Sahm's album Groover's Paradise was produced by former Creedence Clearwater Revival drummer Doug Clifford?
Did you know that LeRoy Woodson's photographs of steel-industry pollution were part of the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project?
Did you know that Lucia Votano was the first woman to be appointed director of the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, the largest underground research center in the world?
Did you know that Paul Laurence Dunbar would "undoubtedly" have been killed if contemporary white society had fully understood his poem "We Wear the Mask"?
Did you know that Roxette's final studio album Good Karma was recorded in a studio named "Tits & Ass"?
Did you know that Rupert Richardson, a civil-rights activist, was known as the "grand dame" of the NAACP?
Did you know that after Pokémon Legends: Arceus was announced, users pointed out that it was very similar to another hit game on the Switch, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild?
Did you know that before his 1868 impeachment, there had been several previous efforts to impeach Andrew Johnson?
Did you know that both Robbie Williams and Michael Jackson played for Blackpool in the 2007 Football League One play-off Final?
Did you know that many South Asian migrants are brought into the Gulf Cooperation Council area under the kafala system, which is seen by human-rights groups as highly exploitative?
Did you know that the listing particulars of Cromwell House call it a "splendid example of Renaissance brickwork"?
Did you know that Edward Hewitt Nichols, the first leader of Hong Kong's Country Parks administrations, oversaw the designation of 40 per cent of the territory as parkland?
Did you know that Isa Briones, who played Soji and other roles on Star Trek: Picard, sang a new arrangement of Irving Berlin's song "Blue Skies" for the first season's finale?
Did you know that Jakob Grün, concertmaster of the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra from 1868 to 1897, played violin solos standing, in Hungarian tradition?
Did you know that Kaktovik numerals are an iconic, base-20 numeral system created by the Alaskan Iñupiat, with shapes that visually indicate the numbers being represented?
Did you know that Myra MacDonald, whose career as a foreign correspondent for Reuters spanned virtually three decades, and who covered South Asia for a long time, wrote three books on India and Pakistan?
Did you know that actress Isabel Bonner died on stage while performing in a play written by her husband?
Did you know that at the opening ceremony for Ontario Highway 105, a construction company presented Minister of Highways George Doucett with a bear cub as thanks for his efforts towards the creation of the route?
Did you know that recordings of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, a Bach chorale cantata for the Annunciation, include Fritz Lehmann's with the Berlin Philharmonic, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt's using period instruments?
Did you know that the 2002 Football League Third Division play-off Final was one of the last matches shown on the ITV Sport Channel?
Did you know that the current United States Chargé d'affaires to China, Robert W. Forden, taught English at universities in Shenyang and Beijing from 1981 to 1983?
Did you know that the original trenches from the 1916 defensive battle of the Ottoman Army against Russians were identifiable from the satellite images of the Mount Kop Defense National Historic Park?
Did you know that Australian hotelier and television personality Simon van Kempen recorded a single, "I Am Real", in 2011?
Did you know that Japan's Shirongo Festival sees ama compete to be the first to catch and dedicate to the kami a pair of "beckoning abalone"?
Did you know that Kanye West's inspiration for "Welcome to Heartbreak" was Dave Sirulnick showing him pictures of his children?
Did you know that Noah Beck, a social-media personality and former college soccer player, wore fishnet tights, cuffed jeans, and stiletto heels for a digital cover of VMan magazine?
Did you know that Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai is considered the greatest Sufi poet in the Sindhi language?
Did you know that Woodrow Wilson's 1919 Pueblo speech was the last time he gave a public oration?
Did you know that operators of the Mark 1 Red Steer tail warning radar joked that the Soviets would not attempt to jam it as such attempts would not make it any harder to read?
Did you know that physician-scientist and cancer researcher Giovanna Tosato had just crossed the finish line when the Boston Marathon bombing started?
Did you know that the 1952 film Girls Marked Danger was classified as being morally objectionable for Catholics by the National Legion of Decency?
Did you know that the St. Clair Parkway travels through Corunna, Ontario, a planned town intended to be the capital of a united Upper and Lower Canada when it was established in 1823?
Did you know that the Z173 Shipyard changed its name seven times from 1965 to 2010 before it adopted its current public name, Hong Ha Shipbuilding One-Member Limited Liability Company?
Did you know that A Ruined Life was the first film by director Victor Sjöström to be shown in Sweden because his earlier film, The Gardener, had been censored for 68 years?
Did you know that Crewe Alexandra were promoted back to the second tier of English football for the first time in 101 years when they won the 1997 Football League Second Division play-off Final?
Did you know that Dalby Church may once have been part of a Danish royal palace complex?
Did you know that Ted Cohen's romance was set to music by Isaac Asimov?
Did you know that after his professional baseball career, Joe Beggs was superintendent of prisons in Kentucky and director of urban renewal for Newport, Kentucky?
Did you know that of the ten Taiwanese delegates at the 2017 National Congress of the Communist Party of China, only one, Lu Li'an, was born in Taiwan?
Did you know that the 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemic was the Democratic Republic of the Congo's 10th and longest Ebola outbreak and the second largest in the world after the outbreak in West Africa?
Did you know that the Cambridge United team took a cold shower before winning the 1990 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final?
Did you know that the katydid genus Supersonus (example pictured) has been considered to produce the highest-frequency ultrasonic noise in the animal kingdom?
Did you know that the original name for the Arrested Development episode "Motherboy XXX" was an advertisement for Burger King?
Did you know that when Marjan Haydaree became the all-time top scorer for the Afghanistan women's national football team, she had never set foot in Afghanistan?
Did you know that "Wer unterm Schutz des Höchsten steht", a hymn paraphrasing Psalm 91, has been recommended instead of the psalm in the Liturgy of the Hours, and for memorial services after disasters?
Did you know that A Winged Victory for the Sullen's album Invisible Cities was composed as the score of a multimedia theatre production that was inspired by Italo Calvino's 1972 novel of the same name?
Did you know that Arora Akanksha, the first millennial candidate for Secretary-General of the United Nations, believes the organisation is wasteful?
Did you know that Sandra Wolin, a physician-microbiologist, devised an early ribosome profiling method as a postdoctoral researcher in Peter Walter's lab at the University of California, San Francisco?
Did you know that Will Arnett is the only voice actor to appear in the BoJack Horseman episode "Free Churro"?
Did you know that in 2001, John J. DeGioia became the first lay president of a Jesuit university in the United States?
Did you know that only posthumously was Patrick Francis Healy described as the first black American to become a Jesuit, earn a Ph.D., and become the president of a predominantly white university?
Did you know that the 1918 painting Composition with Grid No. 1 by Piet Mondrian is based on the golden ratio?
Did you know that to attract commercial investment, stones were installed on Stone Street in New York City?
Did you know that 19th-century Guyanese poet Egbert Martin, who died at the age of 29, is considered to be the country's first major poet?
Did you know that Carl Craig became the state auditor of Mississippi in 1936 after defeating a former state auditor also named Carl?
Did you know that Dreamcar's "All of the Dead Girls" was inspired by a comment made by American actor Josh Richman?
Did you know that John Frankenheimer's World War II drama Rumors of Evening led one critic to predict stardom for Robert Loggia?
Did you know that Kolja Lessing, playing both violin and piano, focuses his repertoire on neglected composers, including numerous former students of Franz Schreker?
Did you know that Pseudolarix wehrii fossils can be mummies?
Did you know that Sailor Moon contributed significantly to the development of yuri, a genre of media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters?
Did you know that a child in command of the controls crashed an airplane, killing all seventy-five occupants on impact?
Did you know that after a Falklands War adventure with rigid inflatable boats, Tommy Turtle's SAS troop called itself "The South Georgia Boating Club"?
Did you know that both grandfathers of Donough MacCarty, who fought for the Irish Catholic Confederation, were Protestants?
Did you know that professional goalkeeper Scott Brown lost his father to Parkinson's, witnessed the birth of his son, and then signed with Aberdeen, all in the space of ten days?
Did you know that the common depiction of the Borromean rings as three linked but pairwise-unlinked circles is an impossible object, because they cannot actually be circular?
Did you know that the street Borgo Santo Spirito in Rome was named after a fortified complex for Anglo-Saxon pilgrims to Rome?
Did you know that Berwind, a mining ghost town in Colorado, was a battle site during the Colorado Coalfield War in 1913 and 1914?
Did you know that Christina Adane's free school meal campaign created a UK government U-turn?
Did you know that Comic Takaoka opened in 1880 as a general used bookstore and operated continuously until 2019, closing only for the Second World War?
Did you know that Irish Times columnist Róisín Ingle has penned more than 4,000 pieces, including "It was love at first riot" about meeting her life partner in Northern Ireland?
Did you know that Satyavathi Rathod is the first woman from a scheduled tribe to serve as a minister in the Indian state of Telangana?
Did you know that William Lyon Mackenzie was the first mayor of Toronto?
Did you know that chemist Ana Kansky became the first person to be awarded a doctoral degree by the newly established University of Ljubljana in 1920?
Did you know that pianist David Kadouch, named Young Artist of the Year in 2011, recorded Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and his Piano Quintet on a single CD?
Did you know that the East Bengal Ultras, founded in 2013, became India's first ultras group?
Did you know that the New York Produce Exchange's business was described in 1886 as "callithumpian discord" with "fiendish screeches"?
Did you know that the first Route 128 station was built in just one week?
Did you know that when Fred Stewart was appointed the manager of Cardiff City F.C., he paid the transfer fee of his first signing himself?
Did you know that Alexander Bielaski was friends with Abraham Lincoln and the grandfather of a director of what became the FBI?
Did you know that Andy Crosby captained Scunthorpe United to victory in the 2009 League One play-off Final, the last match of his 715-game career?
Did you know that Around the World in 90 Minutes featured Elizabeth Taylor cutting a 30-foot-long (9.1 m) cake, Walter Cronkite reporting, and Hubert Humphrey delivering a speech?
Did you know that British singer Rita Ora and Kazakh DJ Imanbek collaborated with translators over videotelephony software Zoom to record their collaborative EP Bang?
Did you know that Richard W. Wells claimed that before he brought several eastern brown snake eggs into the office of a local newspaper, the species had never been photographed hatching?
Did you know that after his baseball career, Byron Houck worked as a camera operator on Buster Keaton's production crew?
Did you know that although Peter Doyle was Walt Whitman's intimate companion for over twenty years, he was almost not permitted to attend Whitman's funeral?
Did you know that one of Elizabeth Cressener's nuns entered her priory as a ten-year-old princess?
Did you know that physician Roopa Dhatt has highlighted the disproportionate number of women working on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock was the first symphony orchestra to perform as a full ensemble following a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany?
Did you know that the River Poddle, the main water source of the city of Dublin for over 500 years, was later so polluted by industry that it allegedly killed cattle and horses drinking from it?
Did you know that the Siuro railway station, located in the Finnish town of Nokia, was proclaimed a nationally significant built cultural environment by the Finnish Heritage Agency?
Did you know that the elderly Widow Mulchrone baked griddlecakes at the Kelly homestead for Princess Grace and Prince Rainier?
Did you know that the encrusting bryozoan Chorizopora brongniartii has a strategy for avoiding being overgrown by worm tubes?
Did you know that 14 April is Cake and Cunnilingus Day?
Did you know that Hy Cohen's seven-game-long Major League Baseball career ended before his baseball card could be produced?
Did you know that Johnny Dickshot was captain of the All-Ugly team?
Did you know that Leonard Bernstein wrote "I hate music"?
Did you know that Michigan governor William Milliken gave the homily at a funeral for frozen cheese and mushroom pizzas?
Did you know that Mr Bean attempted to kill the Queen with a tobacco-loaded gun?
Did you know that Vorau Abbey's collegiate church has been described as the "most splendid baroque church in Styria?"
Did you know that cosmic horror Cthulhu has run for President of the United States (2016 campaign pictured) in every election since 1996?
Did you know that having sex at different times may produce new species?
Did you know that in 1941, a Trinidadian king was crowned with the assistance of Adolf Hitler?
Did you know that the Cerrón Grande Reservoir, also known as Lake Suchitlán, is one of the most contaminated and polluted bodies of fresh water in Central America?
Did you know that the founder of WZIP in Covington, Kentucky, beat out his own brother for the right to build the station?
Did you know that the title of the Taylor Swift song "Cornelia Street" refers to a street in New York City on which Swift rented a townhouse?
Did you know that Duncan Jupp scored his first league goal for more than a decade in the 2005 Football League Two play-off Final?
Did you know that Fred H. Brown went from a bean eater to a bean counter?
Did you know that Gwen Stefani's "Slow Clap" has a country-inspired cover artwork, despite the song itself having a ska sound?
Did you know that Ich will den Kreuzweg gerne gehen, a Passion cantata for solo bass by Telemann composed in Frankfurt, was performed there in Lent during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that Lieutenant General Osman Erbaş was one of 11 Turkish military personnel killed in a 4 March 2021 helicopter crash?
Did you know that Mr. Spock ate my balls?
Did you know that Mussolini is not interested in politics?
Did you know that President George H. W. Bush was King of the Pit?
Did you know that Prides Crossing station had separate benches for Democrats and Republicans?
Did you know that an Alligator in PVC made Mary Quant look wet?
Did you know that in 1930, the new infant-care centre of the Mothercraft Training Society was named after Princess Elizabeth of York, now Queen Elizabeth II?
Did you know that there are dragons in Buckingham Palace?
Did you know that when journalist Pierre Nadeau reported on the 1973 famine in Ethiopia, his suggestion for viewers to donate to Oxfam led to an inundation of contributions the next day?
Did you know that English musician Jane Weaver's album Flock was inspired by Lebanese torch songs, 1980s Russian Aerobics records, and Australian punk music?
Did you know that Green Bullfrog featured members of Deep Purple, Procol Harum and Chas & Dave?
Did you know that Harry Styles, who is known for his flamboyant fashion, was voted the Most Stylish Man of the Year by GQ in 2020?
Did you know that Sister Elizabeth Sander, who was imprisoned for carrying "lewd books", escaped twice?
Did you know that author Edmund G. Love spent several years homeless, sleeping on the subway and interacting with other homeless people, leading him to write the book Subways Are For Sleeping?
Did you know that due to her Casualty character Ruby Spark's near-photographic memory, actress Maddy Hill had to learn all the intricate details of the medical terminology used by the character?
Did you know that in his 1898 painting The Annunciation, Henry Ossawa Tanner uses a column of light to depict the angel Gabriel?
Did you know that people thought Boxers would gentrify Washington Heights?
Did you know that the coral reefs of Tuvalu include the Funafuti Conservation Area, which encompasses 20 per cent of the reef area of Funafuti atoll?
Did you know that "Christians, awake, salute the happy morn" is a hymn based on a poem that John Byrom first presented "For Dolly"?
Did you know that "prophet of doom" Craig Hamilton-Parker claims to have predicted Brexit and Trump?
Did you know that Alice Saxby was nurse in charge of an officer's wing at Botleys during the Second World War and cared for many casualties from the Normandy landings?
Did you know that Mark Cullen was named as League Two Player of the Month for October 2014 after scoring a perfect hat-trick?
Did you know that Masako Yashiro was one of the earliest female artists to create Japanese boys' comics?
Did you know that an article headlined "(Almost) Straight Outta Compton" led to Prince Harry's communications secretary issuing a public statement denouncing "racist" and "sexist" commentary about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Lupita Infante advocates for women's empowerment through her traditional norteño and ranchera music?
Did you know that the 2003 spy thriller The Hero: Love Story of a Spy was Priyanka Chopra's first Bollywood film?
Did you know that the dual circulation policy calls for China to prioritize domestic consumption while remaining open to international trade?
Did you know that the music video for St. Vincent's song "Pay Your Way in Pain" recalls the 1970s downtown New York, taking inspiration from the works of Kate Bush, David Bowie, and Cindy Sherman?
Did you know that the rolling ball sculpture Archimedean Excogitation has almost 30 moving or sound-producing components?
Did you know that the series finale of Schitt's Creek was written in three hours by co-creator Daniel Levy?
Did you know that British novelist Noreen Riols trained agents who supported the French Resistance during World War II?
Did you know that Eugénie Brazier was the first chef to be awarded six Michelin stars?
Did you know that German minister Wolfgang Clement said that the secret to drinking a glass of beer in 1.5 seconds was to fold back the uvula?
Did you know that Ivorian politician Téné Birahima Ouattara, the brother of the country's president, is nicknamed "Photocopy" due to their similar appearance?