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Did you know that the abduction of the Georgian demoness Samdzimari and her subsequent conversion to goddess may have been derived from the Christian story of Saint George and the Dragon?
Did you know that the composition of the 1st Wyoming Territorial Legislature was entirely Democratic?
Did you know that Barracuda is home to the longest-running bar show in New York City, which may have inspired RuPaul's Drag Race?
Did you know that Jem Bendell's paper Deep Adaptation argues that neither a complete halt in emissions nor geoengineering can prevent what he sees as an impending climate apocalypse?
Did you know that Monita Rajpal, whose first job out of college was as a receptionist, has interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, Vicente Fox, Al Gore, Tom Ford, and I. M. Pei?
Did you know that NATO has its own anthem?
Did you know that St Anselm's Church, Pembury, a Catholic church for former Anglicans, once used an altar on wheels?
Did you know that the 1970 spoken-word poem "Whitey on the Moon" by Gil Scott-Heron critiques the Moon landings carried out by the United States?
Did you know that the 1980s American manufacturer Parallel Computers, Inc., was part of a wave of new companies trying to make fault-tolerant systems?
Did you know that the local council voted against listing Crown House, the first building in St Leonards-on-Sea, criticising its "out-of-date design" and "fake Greek architecture"?
Did you know that Fonner Park in Grand Island, Nebraska, was described as having become "the center of the horse racing world" during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that Layla Saad's 2020 book Me and White Supremacy originated from an Instagram challenge?
Did you know that Munster Technological University, scheduled to open in 2021, will be only the second university of its type in Ireland?
Did you know that Sir Hereward Wake, 13th Baronet, preserved the keep of Dover Castle from possible loss to fire by giving it to the Office of Works?
Did you know that Swedish ballerina Nikisha Fogo's parents owned the first hip-hop dance school in Sweden?
Did you know that a reviewer praised child star Jane Withers's expressiveness in the title role of Paddy O'Day, saying that she "talks with eyes, hands, feet and hair"?
Did you know that an American politics podcast has said that "if you sleep on a mattress on the floor and fuck in a sleeping bag, then you just might be the dirtbag left"?
Did you know that before the passage of India's anti-defection law, an estimated 550 out of 3,500 legislators elected in 1967 defected from their parent parties, some crossing the floor more than once?
Did you know that excavations for the Steinway Tunnel expanded a reef in the East River into an island?
Did you know that in 1963, a majority-black Loyola-Chicago team and an all-white Mississippi State team defied segregationists to play a historic college basketball game?
Did you know that in Nepal, it is against the law to beg?
Did you know that motorsport champion Ashley Freiberg does cyclo-cross, hiking, rock climbing, and skate skiing in the mountains of Vermont to prepare for auto racing events?
Did you know that the Unicode characters ☕, ☔, and ⚡ were originally proposed by North Korea?
Did you know that vestigial organs in the Brazilian Callichirus major population (example species pictured) suggest Callichirus may be the only crustacean genus with basal, yet not universal, hermaphroditism?
Did you know that Megacephalosaurus was one of the last known pliosaurs and coexisted with some of the earliest mosasaurs?
Did you know that Niya was the Polish god of the underworld?
Did you know that St Mary's Church, Rolleston on Dove, is unusual in having the public entrance on its north side, the southern entrance being reserved for the Mosley family?
Did you know that William Frederick Windham (depicted) was the subject of the longest and most expensive lunacy case in English history?
Did you know that after Joanna Jordan left her job at the Late Show with David Letterman to start a talent agency, the show became her first client?
Did you know that after a 2016 prison break by suspected terrorists, the government of Madhya Pradesh called on the Central Industrial Security Force to review the security of its jails?
Did you know that an eruption in the Hakkōda Mountains could create volcanic mudflows that might inundate large sections of the Japanese cities of Aomori and Towada?
Did you know that during a 1977 blackout, crews filming Superman: The Movie at the Daily News Building lent their Klieg lights to Daily News editors so that the next day's issue could be published?
Did you know that in A World Without Jews, Alon Confino argues that "the messianic struggle to create a Nazi civilization depended on the extermination of the Jews"?
Did you know that professional Super Smash Bros. player Samsora performed a runway walk while cosplaying as the character he competes with, Princess Peach, at a tournament in 2019?
Did you know that the Corn Exchange in Chichester has also been used as a cinema and a McDonald's?
Did you know that the titular antagonist in the Chinese short story "Hu Dagu" is based on a toilet spirit?
Did you know that when boiled in milk, black coral (example pictured) emits a faint scent of myrrh?
Did you know that when the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba discussed the speed limit, Toby Sexsmith remarked that nobody, with the possible exception of the premier, needed to travel faster than 50 mph (80 km/h)?
Did you know that American law professor Harry Bigelow sat on President Harry S. Truman's National Loyalty Review Board during the Second Red Scare?
Did you know that George Brian Sinclair worked on British thermonuclear weapons tests, the Channel Tunnel, and a Korean sewer system?
Did you know that Günther Massenkeil, editor of an eight-volume music encyclopedia, initiated the restoration of the village organ he had played as a prisoner of war in Alsace decades earlier?
Did you know that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" has been described as incitement to genocide?
Did you know that Lady Henrietta Berkeley had an affair with her older sister's husband, claimed in court to have married his servant, and then fled with both of them to Cleves?
Did you know that Rupert Bunny gained an honourable mention at the Paris Salon of 1890 with his painting Tritons?
Did you know that former GlaxoSmithKline executive Moncef Slaoui is chief adviser to Operation Warp Speed, which aims to deliver 300 million doses of a vaccine for COVID-19 by January 2021?
Did you know that on the Lycian Way, a hiker can experience all four seasons in one day?
Did you know that one of the factors affecting the future of the Huanchaca mouse is the increased cultivation of biofuels?
Did you know that over ground workers act as the "eyes and ears of the underground militants" in Jammu and Kashmir?
Did you know that production of Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story was delayed by a monsoon and the director having a heart attack, then sped up following an extortion attempt by the Chinese mafia?
Did you know that the Central Asian riparian woodlands ecoregion features shrubby vegetation known as tugai, which adapts to the region's extremely hot summers and cold winters?
Did you know that the hum has been heard in Times Square (location pictured) since 2002?
Did you know that Canadian soccer player Christabel Oduro is the cousin of Dominic Oduro, who has played for Ghana?
Did you know that Dragut built the Sidi Darghut Mosque in Tripoli on the site of a Hospitaller church, and was later buried there after being killed whilst attacking the Hospitallers in the Great Siege of Malta?
Did you know that Héctor Suárez was the first comedian from Latin America to be "roasted" by fellow celebrities?
Did you know that Manoj Muntashir originally wrote "Teri Mitti" as a tribute to soldiers, then wrote a reprise as a tribute to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in India?
Did you know that Wong Keng Liang was arrested after Malaysian customs officials found nearly one hundred baby boa constrictors, two vipers, and a South American turtle hidden in his suitcase?
Did you know that after 28 Liberty Street's private plaza was fenced off during the Occupy Wall Street protests, people sued to reopen the plaza, claiming the barriers violated freedom-of-speech laws?
Did you know that during the 1985 Gujarat riots, police in Ahmedabad attacked and burned down the offices of a newspaper?
Did you know that in Eve Online, the Battle of Asakai became one of the largest online battles after a single player made an accidental move that escalated the conflict to include more than 3,000 players?
Did you know that more than 1,000 men fought in the 1st Missouri Infantry Regiment, the first unit from the state to officially enter the Confederate States Army?
Did you know that the 2018 film Hotel Milan is based on "anti-Romeo squads" formed in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh?
Did you know that the Strawberries and Cream Tree is noted for producing pink blossoms on one side of the tree and white on the other, when it blooms every spring?
Did you know that the United States Army employed its first non-Christian chaplain, Rabbi Jacob Frankel, during the American Civil War?
Did you know that the Wells curve, which illustrates what happens to respiratory droplets once they are exhaled, helps explain the spread of respiratory infections?
Did you know that a mathematics teacher became one of Kashmir's most hunted militants?
Did you know that during the 1970 U.S. Senate election in New York, Vice President Spiro Agnew referred to Senator Charles Goodell as the "Christine Jorgensen of the Republican Party"?
Did you know that the earliest of the three surviving operas by Claudio Monteverdi, L'Orfeo from 1607, is the oldest extant opera still regularly performed today?
Did you know that the inaugural Top 106.7 Countdown in 1980 was topped by the song "Whip It" by Devo?
Did you know that the phrase "When the looting starts, the shooting starts" was first used by a Miami police chief who told the press in 1967 that they "don't mind being accused of police brutality"?
Did you know that visitors often find a double entendre in the General Hooker Entrance of the Massachusetts State House?
Did you know that 16-year-old Tate McRae has been described as "Canada's answer to Billie Eilish"?
Did you know that Boie's frog and the Banhado frog both resemble dead leaves on the floor of the forest?
Did you know that Jasraj, a Hindustani classical musician, is still teaching music at age 90, including via Skype?
Did you know that Lilly Dubowitz, co-developer of the Dubowitz Score, also introduced the use of cranial ultrasound to assess the brains of newborns at Hammersmith Hospital?
Did you know that the Bodie Creek Suspension Bridge was built to carry sheep?
Did you know that you can't take pictures inside The Cock?
Did you know that "There is a green hill far away" was described by French composer Charles Gounod as "the most perfect hymn in the English language"?
Did you know that Danielle Lessovitz found respite in New York's ball culture after her father's suicide, later setting her first feature film, Port Authority, within it?
Did you know that Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale, claimed that John Singer Sargent's portrait Lord Ribblesdale (shown) "forced greatness upon me"?
Did you know that famous chefs have based their menus on recipes found in Thai funeral books?
Did you know that rapper Big Zuu's first demos were recorded at a studio that did not allow expletives to be used?
Did you know that the 1920 blind march led the British government to pass the Blind Persons Act, the first disability-specific legislation anywhere in the world?
Did you know that the fire of Landis' Missouri Battery helped clear the way for an infantry charge at the Second Battle of Corinth?
Did you know that Jimmy and Sally, a 1933 film written for the popular screen duo of James Dunn and Sally Eilers, ended up creating a new screen duo of Dunn and Claire Trevor?
Did you know that William Carney is the only registered member of the Conservative Party of New York State to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives?
Did you know that the 13th-century St Andrew-in-the-Oxmarket Church in Chichester, which was bombed during the Second World War, is now an arts centre?
Did you know that the French cruisers Pascal, Descartes, Bugeaud, and Chasseloup-Laubat were deployed to East Asia as part of France's response to the Boxer Uprising in Qing China?
Did you know that the title of Got7's 2020 EP Dye is a pun referring to both colour and death as they relate to "eternal love"?
Did you know that Rachel Bitecofer, who closely predicted the 2018 U.S. House election results, contends that elections are decided by negative partisanship rather than swing votes?
Did you know that Vancouver restaurant St. Lawrence playfully references Quebecois cultural icons by serving tourtière with a miniature Montreal Canadiens flag, and oreilles de crisse in a maple syrup can?
Did you know that during a 2015 speech at the Oxford Union, Indian politician Shashi Tharoor claimed that Britain owes reparations to India?
Did you know that the 1949 film Prejudice drives its point home by having characters use many ethnic slurs, including "nigger", "wops", "dagoes", "dirty Jew", and "dumb Swede"?
Did you know that the former New York City nightclub The Beatrice Inn is now owned by Chopped "Grill Masters" champion Angie Mar?
Did you know that Bobby Diamond turned down the role of second son Robbie on My Three Sons, which ran for twelve seasons, in favor of Westinghouse Playhouse, which lasted only one?
Did you know that Lieutenant-General Sir David Lindsay feared being made a scapegoat for the poor state of defences at Plymouth during the Armada of 1779?
Did you know that Luigi Gregori used University of Notre Dame founder Edward Sorin as the model for Christopher Columbus's face in one of his Columbus murals?
Did you know that Nora Ephron was the first writer to use the word "shit" in Esquire, in her 1972 essay "A Few Words About Breasts"?
Did you know that Storkyrkan, Stockholm's oldest church, was the first church in Sweden where Mass was celebrated in Swedish?
Did you know that a 1978 coup d'état attempt sought to remove Somali president Siad Barre, who himself had come to power in a coup a decade earlier?
Did you know that a queen of Bohemia died at Leicester House, Westminster, shortly after moving in?
Did you know that the 1st and 4th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Consolidated) lost six colorbearers at the Battle of Champion Hill?
Did you know that Elizabeth I is said to have been told of her accession whilst sitting beneath Queen Elizabeth's Oak at Hatfield Palace?
Did you know that Hollywood stuntwoman Lila Finn, who "jumped out of bombers, [was] chased by lions, clawed by tigers, and thrown overboard into icy ocean waters at night", performed injury-free into her seventies?
Did you know that the combination of fernet and cola (example pictured) is so popular in Argentina that the country consumes more than 75 percent of all fernet produced globally?
Did you know that the extinct sumac species Rhus republicensis is named for Republic, Washington?
Did you know that Pakistani model Zara Abid, who made her film debut in the upcoming biopic Chaudhry, died in the crash of PIA Flight 8303?
Did you know that streetcars on the Ipswich Street line ran on both Boylston Street and Boylston Street?
Did you know that the Indonesia–Japan Economic Partnership Agreement was Indonesia's first bilateral free trade agreement?
Did you know that the first murder trial in Iowa led to the hanging of Patrick O'Connor?
Did you know that the men's marathon at the 2019 World Athletics Championships started just before midnight?
Did you know that Craig Hall, the first African American in New York City Ballet to dance the title role in Apollo, went on to teach the role to Taylor Stanley, another dancer of color?
Did you know that MkLeo, regarded as the best Super Smash Bros. Ultimate player in the world, won his first tournament at the age of eight?
Did you know that Ng On-yee defeated Reanne Evans, the champion for the ten previous years, on her way to win the 2015 World Ladies Snooker Championship?
Did you know that Patrick Stewart invented "photo negative" casting in order to play Othello when it had become no longer acceptable to perform the role in blackface?
Did you know that St Luke's burial ground, on the south side of London's Cale Street, once had a 9-foot-high (2.7 m) wall and railings to protect against grave robbers?
Did you know that a mine was detonated under the position of part of the 6th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Confederate) on July 1, 1863, during the Siege of Vicksburg?
Did you know that after a show host on Orlando-area radio station WTLN hired a hitman to kill his former lover's husband, the intended victim began a campaign to urge advertisers to boycott the station?
Did you know that Asa Binns was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, but died before he could take office?
Did you know that a tiny Tasmanian island called the Isle of the Dead is home to one of the few preserved convict-period burial grounds?
Did you know that during the Siege of Vicksburg, the former commander of the 2nd Missouri Infantry Regiment stated that the regiment "died once, and can die again"?
Did you know that fans were asked to return their copies of The Lot, a 2013 compilation album by Queen drummer Roger Taylor, due to audio and typographical errors?
Did you know that film producer Sue Bruce-Smith was credited with the success of Oscar-winning films including 12 Years a Slave, The Favourite, Room, and Slumdog Millionaire?
Did you know that some of Dungiven Celtic F.C.'s players play association football and Gaelic football concurrently?
Did you know that the Pepsi Number Fever draw in May 1992 was supposed to have just two 1-million-peso winners, but 486,170 people made claims for a winning bottle cap?
Did you know that Gwen Stefani's song "Hollaback Girl" was the first single ever to sell more digital downloads than CDs?
Did you know that Norman Whitten, who played the Mad Hatter in the 1903 film Alice in Wonderland, later married May Clark, who played Alice?
Did you know that despite owning it, the city of Athens, Georgia, has to look for a legal loophole to relocate its Confederate monument?
Did you know that the Great Northern School District is named for a railroad?
Did you know that the hollow trunk of Queen Elizabeth's Oak was used as a prison?
Did you know that Alan Cumming started a nightclub in his dressing room?
Did you know that Boneybefore in Northern Ireland contains the ancestral home of the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson?
Did you know that neurologist Frank Clifford Rose believed that any alcohol might cause a headache, but that red wine could trigger a migraine?
Did you know that the Jonas Brothers' song "Cool" has several popular culture references in its lyrics, including Post Malone, Game of Thrones, and 1950s actor James Dean?
Did you know that the Star Stations radio group was the subject of the largest denial of license renewals in the history of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission?
Did you know that the Statue of Liberty was not designated a New York City landmark until 1976?
Did you know that Art Tomassetti is the only test pilot to fly all three variants of the X-35 in addition to the F-35?
Did you know that BTS transform into black swans in their music video for "Black Swan"?
Did you know that U.S. law enforcement used chemical irritants to disperse a peaceful George Floyd protest in Washington, D.C., shortly before President Donald Trump's photo op at St. John's Church?
Did you know that after meeting Pueblo Indians during his World War II service, Burton Benedict switched his focus at Harvard University from ornithology to anthropology?
Did you know that more men died while serving in the 16th Missouri Infantry Regiment than any other Missouri unit of the Confederate States Army?
Did you know that the Büyük Valide Han, a 17th-century caravanserai in Istanbul, was one of the locations used for a motorcycle chase scene in the 2012 James Bond movie Skyfall?
Did you know that there is a large cock at a junction of Sutton High Street, London?
Did you know that James A. Baker helped to reveal the murder conspiracy against wealthy businessman William Marsh Rice?
Did you know that Kensal House, the UK's first modernist block designed for the working class, was used by Abram Games for his 1942 poster "Your Britain. Fight for It Now"?
Did you know that Markham's storm petrel, which nests in Peru and northern Chile, has been described as "one of the least known seabirds in the world"?
Did you know that in 1381, the Monastery of St Lawrence at Buda gained greatly in prestige when it received the body of Paul of Thebes?
Did you know that to make the ethnographic film series The Doon School Quintet, visual anthropologist David MacDougall was given unprecedented access to film students at an all-boys boarding school in India?
Did you know that while researching for his book How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, Randall Munroe enlisted Serena Williams to knock a drone out of the sky with a tennis ball?
Did you know that John Jonathon Pratt, known as the grandfather of the typewriter (1867 model pictured), invented several common typewriter features before Remington or Hammond machines entered the market?
Did you know that rights of nature are legally recognized in twelve countries?
Did you know that Cuthbert Brodrick was invited to design Headingley Hill Congregational Church after its committee rejected all of the entries in its architectural competition?
Did you know that after a 2014 Philippine Supreme Court decision, liking or retweeting cyberlibel is no longer a crime?
Did you know that at the Battle of Grand Gulf, men of the Confederate 3rd Missouri Infantry Regiment fired into the portholes of Union Navy ships?
Did you know that the 14-year-old lead actress in the 1931 British Indian film The Last Kiss was brought from a brothel in Dhaka?
Did you know that the Football Association has asked England fans to stop singing "No Surrender to the IRA"?
Did you know that Friedrich Dörr was a member of the commission for Gotteslob, the first common Catholic hymnal in German, which included several old hymns translated by him into modern language?
Did you know that King Carlos I of Portugal often donated the game shot during his hunts to a soup kitchen founded by Maria Luísa de Sousa Holstein?
Did you know that Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge are the only teammates to hit a home run in their first major league at bats in the same game, and to accomplish this in back-to-back at bats?
Did you know that before becoming a presenter of Home School Hub, teacher Clíona Ní Chiosáin played the title role in the Irish-language teen drama Aifric?
Did you know that in 2014, judge William Orrick III upheld the constitutionality of a California law banning the possession and sale of shark fin?
Did you know that in 2016, on the tenth anniversary of its premiere, the Royal Ballet performed Chroma with five dancers from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater?
Did you know that production of mina'i ware, the first pottery to use overglaze enamels, stopped with the Mongol invasion of Persia in 1219?
Did you know that "God Save the Queen" was twice played by mistake at the 1982 Commonwealth Games instead of "March On, Bahamaland" (featured), before officials realized they did not have a recording of the latter?
Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald's works, such as The Great Gatsby, only gained popularity after his death?
Did you know that Joseph Crews, who organized a militia to mobilize African-American voters in South Carolina, was assassinated by whites in the run-up to the 1876 gubernatorial election?
Did you know that Leo Pacheco, a member of the Texas House of Representatives, used to drive buses for VIA Metropolitan Transit?
Did you know that a kidney-transplantation scandal led to a 2011 amendment to the law on organ donation in India?