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Did you know that American volunteer civilian physician Beulah Ream Allen (pictured, right) survived three Japanese internment camps in the Philippines during World War II?
Did you know that Tom Hayden used his Campaign for Economic Democracy to help pass a rent-control measure in Santa Monica, California?
Did you know that the 1831 Londonderry City by-election was the second of three in that constituency within nine months, all of which were won by Robert Ferguson?
Did you know that the 74 artists who created the 95 original prints for the subscription portfolio L'Estampe originale included Toulouse-Lautrec, Gaugin, Renoir, Rodin, Pissarro, Whistler, Redon, and Bonnard?
Did you know that the chiton Tonicella marmorea was first described from Greenland by the Danish naturalist Otto Fabricius, who spent five years as a missionary in the country?
Did you know that with no prior work experience, William B. Jordan turned the Meadows Museum's collection into the most prominent collection of Spanish art outside Spain?
Did you know that "On the Death of Mr. Crashaw", an elegy for Richard Crashaw, is considered one of Abraham Cowley's finest poems?
Did you know that Eugène Delacroix's only work in the semiphotographic cliché verre printmaking technique depicts a tiger at bay?
Did you know that Hainer Hill, who took hundreds of photographs documenting Brecht's Berliner Ensemble, created the stage design for Hindemith's Mathis der Maler at the new Opernhaus Dortmund in 1966?
Did you know that in 1949 the admirals were revolting?
Did you know that in 1995, French journalist Didier Roustan helped set up a world footballers union with Eric Cantona and Diego Maradona?
Did you know that the 2020 World Series will be the first to be held at one ballpark since 1944?
Did you know that the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that burqa bans may be "necessary in a democratic society"?
Did you know that Greece is the only state to have left the Council of Europe?
Did you know that Leon Uris called Rod Serling's In the Presence of Mine Enemies "the most disgusting presentation in the history of American television" and demanded that the negative be burned?
Did you know that Saefullah was acting governor of Jakarta for 40 hours?
Did you know that William Fraser won a commission in 1896 to design a memorial in Mauchline honouring Scottish poet Robert Burns, which incorporates a tower in the Scottish baronial style?
Did you know that as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Paul Alexander tried unsuccessfully to tell Dr. Anthony Fauci what he could and could not say about the coronavirus?
Did you know that the Eocene-age plant Paraconcavistylon was described from a "Rosetta Stone" fossil?
Did you know that Bill Nation rejected an attempt by the American Nazi Party to establish a headquarters in Cheyenne, Wyoming?
Did you know that Polish-French author Anna Langfus, a Holocaust survivor, wrote novels that had her own life experiences interwoven into the fiction?
Did you know that Robert Burg, a leading baritone at the Semperoper in Dresden between the First and Second World Wars, performed the title roles of Busoni's Doktor Faust and Hindemith's Cardillac there?
Did you know that after an erotic encounter with a young wife in London's Seething Lane, diarist Samuel Pepys bought the lady eight pairs of gloves?
Did you know that as one of its campus traditions, Pomona College reveres the number 47, having the bell in its clock tower chime on the 47th minute of the hour?
Did you know that pole vaulter Holly Bradshaw won her eighth national title at the 2020 British Athletics Championships?
Did you know that the Maratha Empire's direct rule came to an end in the Carnatic region when Murari Rao surrendered to Nizam I after the 1743 siege of Trichinopoly?
Did you know that The Lodger, released in 1913, was the first fictional work based on the story of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper?
Did you know that according to the superseded Catholic doctrine that "error has no rights", non-Catholics did not deserve civil or political rights?
Did you know that both the Cross of Camargue (example pictured) and the anchored cross use a cross and anchor to represent a relationship to the sea?
Did you know that unauthorized persons are not allowed to go to Hooks Island?
Did you know that when Annette Jahns portrayed Bettina von Arnim in an opera by Friedrich Schenker, the role required her to scream as well as sing?
Did you know that New York's Continental Iron Works, founded in 1861 by Thomas F. Rowland, built the Union Navy warship that engaged in the first battle between ironclads?
Did you know that in the early 20th century, residents of Mġarr, Malta, were encouraged to contribute eggs to raise funds for the construction of their parish church?
Did you know that the Excelsior Power Company Building, the oldest known surviving power plant in Manhattan, now contains apartments?
Did you know that the Greek Volunteer Legion fought on the side of Russia during the Crimean War?
Did you know that Aran Bell, who was profiled at age 11 in the dance documentary First Position, became a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre at age 21?
Did you know that Kanye West used an extended version of his track "Jesus Is Lord" under the title of "Every Knee Shall Bow" for his film Jesus Is King?
Did you know that Myint Myint Khin, a professor at the Institute of Medicine, Mandalay, and a WHO consultant, published her first English-language poetry collection at age 89?
Did you know that contractors spent 5,500 man-hours on drawings for the design of the TWA Flight Center?
Did you know that the decommissioned minesweeper USS Lucid was used as a floating warehouse by a scrap-metal dealer on Bradford Island for 18 years?
Did you know that today's London Marathon is not being run on its usual course, but instead as 19.6 laps around St James's Park, to prevent spectators from attending?
Did you know that women called Honey Badgers are among the most prominent men's rights activists?
Did you know that Gerhard Weber signed tennis player Steffi Graf, at age 17 and before her international success, as an ambassador for the fashion brand Gerry Weber that he co-founded?
Did you know that the 1936 film Hearts in Bondage is a rare example of a Hollywood film depicting naval battles of the Civil War?
Did you know that the British Board of Film Classification was forced to watch paint dry?
Did you know that unlike their Euclidean equivalents, the ideal regular tetrahedron, octahedron, and dodecahedron can all tile hyperbolic space?
Did you know that "Einer ist unser Leben" ("One is our Life"), a hymn with text written by Lothar Zenetti in 1973, was recommended for a regional ecumenical service in 2020?
Did you know that a 1998 inquest found that the killing of Alton Manning was unlawful, and a judicial review found that the decision to not bring charges was flawed, but no charges have yet been filed?
Did you know that deafblind author Morrison Heady invented assistive devices throughout his life, including a self-opening gate, a steam-powered embossing press, and a "talking glove"?
Did you know that the Global Certification Commission has certified the eradication of wild poliovirus in five of the six WHO regions, with the exception of the Eastern Mediterranean Region?
Did you know that the Santa Fe Freight Building in Fort Worth, Texas, was redeveloped as a market space with restaurants in 2002 and then as a university satellite campus in 2007?
Did you know that the commercial success of Juluka's "Scatterlings of Africa" enabled band co-founder Johnny Clegg to leave his academic position as an anthropologist and become a full-time musician?
Did you know that when the 2,500-seat Bridges Auditorium was completed in Claremont, California, in 1931, its capacity was equal to the population of the entire city?
Did you know that Austrian-born Turkish footballer Dilan Yeşim Taşkın became a member of the Turkey women's national team although she initially wanted to play for the Austrian national team?
Did you know that Schopenhauer was expelled from the Ernestinum at Gotha?
Did you know that actor Robert De Niro gained 60 pounds (27 kg) and trained as a boxer for a year to portray Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull?
Did you know that in preparation for the ballet Glass Pieces, choreographer Jerome Robbins marked down the structure of Philip Glass's music on graph paper?
Did you know that the title and cover art for Molchat Doma's 2018 album Etazhi reference the Stalinist and socialist-realist architecture that inspired its lyrical themes?
Did you know that two weeks after the owner of a Kansas City television station declared that "KCIT-TV is here to stay", it ceased broadcasting?
Did you know that Bernard Fils-Aimé, CEO of the cell carrier Comcel Haiti, was mistaken for Reggie Fils-Aimé by the Miami Herald?
Did you know that John H. Hill, born into slavery, was the first African-American lawyer in West Virginia and the second president of West Virginia State University?
Did you know that Louis Vierne completed his Third Organ Symphony during a summer vacation with the family of Marcel Dupré, who played the world premiere in Paris in 1912?
Did you know that a COVID-19 outbreak at the White House involved at least 35 people, including the President, First Lady, three senators, and a governor?
Did you know that the former site of the Majestic Cinema, Leeds, which was gutted by fire in 2014, will become the national headquarters of Channel 4?
Did you know that Dawa Dem was the first woman to join the Bhutanese civil service and to become a member of the Royal Advisory Council?
Did you know that Red, White and Blue, a 26-foot (7.9 m) lifeboat, was believed in 1866 to be the smallest ship yet to cross the Atlantic?
Did you know that Walther Killy, who wrote his dissertation about Hölderlin's poems, published a literary lexicon which came to be known as "Der Killy"?
Did you know that the New York World Building, once New York City's tallest building, was demolished to make room for a ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge?
Did you know that Paul McCartney named a puppy after Brown Meggs, who signed the Beatles to Capitol Records?
Did you know that a prominent obituary of Socorro Sánchez, the first feminist journalist in the Dominican Republic, criticized her as "manly" and too political?
Did you know that according to legend, Swayambhunath, one of the oldest stupas in Nepal, came out of a sacred lotus at the centre of Kathmandu when the city was a lake?
Did you know that limpa, a sweet Scandinavian rye bread, was historically leavened with fermented brewer's wort?
Did you know that most editions of the annual Brit Asia TV Music Awards were held in Birmingham, which has been called the "Bhangra capital of the world"?
Did you know that the fossil Rhus garwellii likely hybridized with other sumac species in the Klondike Mountain Formation?
Did you know that Anna Tifu, a violinist from Cagliari, Sardinia, who won the 2007 George Enescu International Competition, plays a 1716 Stradivarius?
Did you know that Büşra Kuru, who began playing football every day at age six encouraged by her footballer brother, is a member of a German club and of the Turkey national team?
Did you know that Dances with Wolves was filmed on a 60,000-acre (24,000 ha) ranch owned by L. Roy Houck, a former lieutenant governor of South Dakota?
Did you know that former ballet dancer Edward Villella said that when he performed Tarantella, he "would be flying", and then "in the wings, on the ground, gasping for air"?
Did you know that the Bureau of State Services was broken up to become the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and parts of two other agencies?
Did you know that the Titanic International Society helped identify some of the unknown victims of the Titanic disaster buried in Halifax, Canada (wreath-laying pictured)?
Did you know that Kolkata, the smallest by area of India's six A-1 cities, has the country's largest suburban rail system by track length and number of stations (one pictured)?
Did you know that My Lonesome Cowboy, a sculpture created by artist Takashi Murakami as a companion to his earlier Hiropon, sold at auction for US$15.1 million – nearly four times the amount at which it had been valued?
Did you know that it took until 2009 to determine which of two apostles was the patron of the 14th-century church of St. Jacobi in Werther?
Did you know that the National Covenant was signed after protests possibly started by Jenny Geddes throwing a stool at the dean of St Giles'?
Did you know that the New York Tribune Building, once New York City's second tallest building, "vanished almost without a trace, and barely a whimper"?
Did you know that the YouTube channel All Gas No Brakes contains interviews with flat earthers, QAnon adherents, and other groups that its host says represent "true Americana"?
Did you know that Belgian waffles were introduced to the United States at the 1964 New York World's Fair?
Did you know that Nan Wood Graham, the sister of painter Grant Wood, posed for her brother's 1930 painting American Gothic?
Did you know that Russian Bank, also known as Crapette or Tunj, has been called "probably the best game for two players ever invented"?
Did you know that a dispute between Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and Roger Mortimer over the rebuilding of Cefnllys Castle was one of the factors that led to Edward I's conquest of Wales?
Did you know that five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand and India's first woman Everest climber Bachendri Pal received the Arjuna Award in the 1980s, then India's highest sporting honour?
Did you know that soprano Ilse Helling-Rosenthal, her husband, and two others formed a vocal ensemble that appeared as the soloists in Bruckner's Te Deum at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1920?
Did you know that state representative Angela Russell introduced legislation to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Montana?
Did you know that (523764) 2014 WC510 is a binary, trans-Neptunian object that orbits the Sun only once every 245.8 years?
Did you know that Wilson Cary Swann organized the construction of several drinking fountains in Philadelphia, in part to stop people from drinking alcohol?
Did you know that mosses grow on Mount Melbourne in the cold Antarctic, thanks to volcanic heat?
Did you know that photographer Heji Shin created Big Cocks, a series of portraits of roosters that she admired for their "angry cock energy"?
Did you know that A Night to Remember, a live broadcast about Titanic's final night, featured 107 actors and 31 sets, and proved that "TV occasionally can rise to great heights"?
Did you know that Albert Johnson was the first black mayor in New Mexico?
Did you know that Myra Kathleen Hughes's Vanishing London series captured several landmarks before they were demolished?
Did you know that a ten-day silent retreat led Deradoorian to invite Dave Harrington to collaborate on her 2020 album Find the Sun?
Did you know that the Khalili Collection of Spanish Metalwork includes a Moroccan-style dagger previously owned by King Alfonso XII of Spain?
Did you know that the fish-for-finance trade-off in EU–UK trade negotiations pits an industry that accounts for nearly seven per cent of the UK's GDP against one with revenues less than those of Harrods?
Did you know that 19-year-old Union Army colonel Charles R. Ellet ran two separate steam-powered ram ships past the batteries at Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the American Civil War?
Did you know that Albert Heschong parlayed his childhood interest in model boats and Erector Sets into building huge stage sets, including a $15,000 Victorian house for ABC's Pulitzer Prize Playhouse?
Did you know that a makeup artist used a rubber mask and fake nose to age Julie Harris by 60 years in the Emmy-winning "program of the year" Victoria Regina?
Did you know that conductor Eugen Szenkar, who promoted works by Béla Bartók and Gustav Mahler in Germany, Russia, and Brazil, caused a "near riot" with the world premiere of The Miraculous Mandarin?
Did you know that the New York State Agricultural Society annually recognizes farms that have been owned and operated by one family for a hundred years?
Did you know that the six members of Navika Sagar Parikrama, an all-female crew who circumnavigated the globe, received India's highest adventure award in 2017?
Did you know that 130 historians protested the Institute of National Remembrance's removal of Adam Puławski from his position researching Polish–Jewish relations during World War II?
Did you know that Keiji Nishioka, a Japanese botanist, was the first foreigner to receive the Bhutanese honorific Dasho?
Did you know that Swiss architect Gion A. Caminada designed a "death room" for Vrin, his native village?
Did you know that when the Bureau of Medical Services was ordered to shut down all U.S. Public Health Service Hospitals, the director of the Seattle hospital simply refused to stop admitting patients?
Did you know that Berkeley humorist Alice Kahn described the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia as a "hippie abominable snowman"—and he liked it?
Did you know that in the 2003 ballet Carnival of the Animals, actor John Lithgow appeared as a school nurse and a female elephant?
Did you know that on this date in 1766, the mayor of Nottingham was knocked over by a cheese wheel (example pictured) whilst trying to stop the Nottingham cheese riot?
Did you know that the Pink Loerie Mardi Gras and Arts Festival celebrates LGBTQ culture with Wigstock events for drag queens, a bear fest, athletic events, and an art festival?
Did you know that the private collections of Giuseppe Saverio Poli formed the foundation of the Zoological Museum of Naples?
Did you know that Charles Dickens used the Saracen's Head (plaque pictured) as the place for Nicholas Nickleby's first encounter with the one-eyed schoolmaster Wackford Squeers?
Did you know that Claude Rains's reference to the Nazis' "gas ovens" was cut from the audio during the broadcast of Judgment at Nuremberg due to an objection by a gas-company sponsor?
Did you know that the Austrian entomologist Gustav Mayr named more than 500 new species of ant?
Did you know that the solution to Pell's equation was mistakenly attributed to mathematician John Pell?
Did you know that thunderstorms from Hurricane Dolores flooded the Moreno Valley, destroyed a bridge on Interstate 10, and killed a man by lightning strike?
Did you know that Kathy Karpan was the first female director of the Office of Surface Mining?
Did you know that Nogiwa Park was built around a 17th-century reservoir?
Did you know that actress Gloria Swanson created an inventions and patents company to employ refugee scientists whom she and her former husband Marquis Henry de La Falaise (both pictured) helped escape Nazi Germany?
Did you know that before he died aged 46, Anton Ausserer had described 38 new species of tarantula?
Did you know that it took Jerome Robbins two years to choreograph the 16-minute-long ballet A Suite of Dances for dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov?
Did you know that American mine owner Charles Butters risked execution by firing squad to protect his mines during the 1926–27 Nicaraguan Civil War?
Did you know that Francis Poulenc composed his Sinfonietta on a commission from the BBC?
Did you know that Japan National Route 37 was the only evacuation route for the town of Abuta during the March 2000 eruption of Mount Usu?
Did you know that Nabela Qoser, a Hong Kong news reporter of Pakistani descent, learnt Cantonese as a child by watching television?
Did you know that sprinter Milkha Singh refused to accept the Arjuna Award, one of India's top sporting honours, citing undeserving awardees?
Did you know that the character Nina Cortex was intended by Traveller's Tales to debut in the video game Crash Twinsanity, but appeared in an earlier game without the development team's knowledge?
Did you know that Baptist Hoffmann, a leading baritone at the Berlin Court Opera, appeared as Jochanaan in the first production of Salome there in 1906?
Did you know that the Japanese pop group Yaen, originally formed to perform a parody song on a television variety series, went on to produce three top-ten albums?
Did you know that the lounging odalisques in The Interior of the Palm House (detail pictured) were added as exotic objects, a common Orientalist trope?
Did you know that the sponge Halisarca caerulea forms part of a "sponge loop", absorbing large quantities of dissolved organic carbon, and returning the carbon to the sea as detritus?
Did you know that Bang the Drum Slowly, in which Paul Newman stepped in and out of character to double as a Greek chorus, was called "daring television of rare quality"?
Did you know that California maintains 16 checkpoints along its borders with Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona to help protect against an invasion by exotic lifeforms?
Did you know that a group-stage match at the 2001 Malta Grand Prix snooker tournament was disrupted when electrical cables attached to the television lighting rig snapped and swung across the table?
Did you know that the 2019 film Lucy in the Sky is loosely based on the life of astronaut Lisa Nowak?
Did you know that the Philharmonia Quartet Berlin, formed by principal players of the Berlin Philharmonic, celebrated its 30th anniversary with a recording of all of Beethoven's string quartets?
Did you know that Eli is an opera by Walter Steffens, who based the libretto on a mystery play by Nelly Sachs which dealt with the suffering of Israel?
Did you know that If You Could Be Mine was the first novel to win first prize in two different categories in the same year from the Publishing Triangle?
Did you know that according to Slavic mythology, the creation of the world required the cooperation of a "good god" and an "evil god"?
Did you know that being introduced to Whiskey enabled one of Samuel Corson's patients to regain his speech after 26 years?
Did you know that journalist Robert Evans had his hand broken by a member of the Proud Boys while covering the George Floyd protests in Portland, Oregon?
Did you know that the essay "In Praise of Polytheism" dismisses all similarities between Enlightenment philosophy and striptease?
Did you know that the first large bathhouse in York was built at the bottom of Marygate in 1836?
Did you know that P.O.W. was based on interviews with repatriated prisoners about communist "brainwashing treatment" during the Korean War?
Did you know that a law blog has been cited by the supreme courts of Poland and of Germany?
Did you know that lumberman-turned-newspaper-publisher Wesley O. Smith served two terms in the state legislature, representing what are now six large counties in central Oregon?
Did you know that soprano Hermine Finck became the third wife of Eugen d'Albert (couple pictured), who composed songs and a cantata based on The Little Mermaid for her?
Did you know that the smooth jazz–jazz fusion album Worth Waiting For was keyboardist Jeff Lorber's only solo album to reach number one on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart?
Did you know that New York City's Coney Island has not been an island since the 1930s?
Did you know that astrophysicist and space-weather specialist Professor Peter T. Gallagher led the building of Ireland's first serious radio telescope, the 3,000-antenna I-LOFAR, at Birr Castle?
Did you know that one critic wrote that he had banned his children from watching Doctor Who due to the ending of the first episode of The Dalek Invasion of Earth?
Did you know that the children's picture book Julián Is a Mermaid was initially going to be about drag balls, until the author learned about the meaning of mermaids to transgender people?
Did you know that the hymn "Singt dem Herrn ein neues Lied" (Sing to the Lord a new song) was written in both French and German in Nazi-controlled Alsace in 1941?
Did you know that J. B. Clark, together with Aubrey Beardsley and William Strang, illustrated an edition of Lucian's True History?
Did you know that King of Beasts, a documentary about lion trophy hunting, was filmed during the same month as the killing of Cecil the lion?
Did you know that nervous drivers can purchase a shuttle ride to get across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge?