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Did you know that Zollstock, a district of Cologne, takes its name from a local tollhouse?
Did you know that in 1952 meteorologist Harry Volkman delivered the first on-air tornado warning on Oklahoma City's WKY-TV, in defiance of a federal ban on the practice?
Did you know that plant biology professor Luca Comai independently developed glyphosate-resistant plants while working at Calgene and published his research before Monsanto researchers were able to?
Did you know that reports of Julie Wera's death were greatly exaggerated?
Did you know that the Unisphere was designed based on a doodle on the back of an envelope?
Did you know that the composer Francis Burt, who came from London and settled in Vienna, was inspired by the drumming of the Nigerian Ibo people?
Did you know that Diving With a Purpose, a nonprofit focused on maritime archaeology, helped identify and document the wreck of the 18th-century Portuguese slave ship São José Paquete Africa?
Did you know that Eli Bebout, a future Speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives, was first elected as a write-in candidate?
Did you know that Giedrė Šlekytė conducted a version of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte for children at the 2018 Salzburg Festival, and Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites at the Oper Frankfurt in 2021?
Did you know that Maki Kaji formulated the name "Sudoku" while scrambling to get to a horse race?
Did you know that New Zealand writer Jessie Weston wrote for William Ernest Henley's magazine for 18 months without him knowing she was a woman?
Did you know that Quinn became the first out, transgender, non-binary athlete to medal at the Summer Olympic Games when they won gold with the Canada national soccer team?
Did you know that the 1959 song "Go, Jimmy, Go" by Jimmy Clanton was originally offered to Bobby Rydell with the title "Go, Bobby, Go"?
Did you know that the Leschenault Lady, which is believed to be the oldest operational Australian-built steam locomotive, is returning to steam today (22 August) after a lengthy overhaul?
Did you know that the budget process in the United States Senate often ends in a vote-a-rama?
Did you know that your attention can be stolen?
Did you know that Geoffrey Guy's company GW Pharmaceuticals was the first to obtain regulatory approval for a medicine based on cannabis?
Did you know that Miao Poya successfully campaigned to change her high school's uniform policy before becoming one of the first Taipei city councillors to be openly lesbian?
Did you know that Queen Maria Comnena abducted her daughter and coerced her into divorcing to place her on the throne of Jerusalem?
Did you know that films from the Long Bow Trilogy depict the same village and villagers mentioned in Fanshen?
Did you know that in his early life, Joe Biden was known by his classmates for his cramming abilities?
Did you know that mathematician Gunilla Kreiss, the daughter of Heinz-Otto Kreiss, later became his granddaughter?
Did you know that the Taylor Swift song "London Boy" features a spoken-word intro by English actor Idris Elba?
Did you know that the black-and-red broadbill lays eggs in three color morphs?
Did you know that the finale of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 31 sees a gradual "return to life" and ends with a "passionate" and "heroic" coda?
Did you know that Aisha de Sequeira led Morgan Stanley's mergers and acquisitions in India when it was the top bank by the value of its deals in 2012?
Did you know that John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded Ono's song "Remember Love" in a Montreal hotel room that has been a tourist draw ever since?
Did you know that President Theodore Roosevelt described the declining birthrate of the United States as a form of "race suicide", citing a term coined by eugenicist Edward Alsworth Ross?
Did you know that according to local legend, Piers Shonks, whose tomb can be seen in the Brent Pelham church, killed a dragon ravaging the district?
Did you know that although Pixie Davies has been performing in films since 2012, her breakout role came in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns in 2018?
Did you know that during the Edo period, commoners used semi-cursive script while scholars used regular script?
Did you know that in 1985, Captain Dale Snodgrass was chosen as "Fighter Pilot of the Year" and was called the real "Maverick" from Top Gun?
Did you know that radio station KCON in Conway, Arkansas, shut down twice on March 10?
Did you know that the first flag carried in the 2020 Paralympics opening ceremony was scheduled to be that of the International Paralympic Committee, with Ileana Rodriguez as the flag-bearer?
Did you know that the predatory sea slug Tubulophilinopsis gardineri hunts other sea slugs by following the mucus trails they leave?
Did you know that there are no trees around Lake Letsie, since its entire catchment area is above the tree line?
Did you know that "I Knew You Were Trouble" made Taylor Swift the first artist to have two songs each sell over 400,000 digital copies within the first week of release in the U.S.?
Did you know that 537 Votes, documenting the controversial 2000 United States presidential election in Florida, was released in the run-up to the 2020 United States presidential election?
Did you know that Basilico's, an Italian restaurant in Huntington Beach, California, does not admit diners who are either masked or vaccinated against COVID-19?
Did you know that Paralympian Gemma Collis-McCann, who sits on wheelchair fencing's new Gender Equity Commission, has been chosen to join three men as the UK's wheelchair fencing team in Tokyo?
Did you know that Thomas Earle had his slave-ship Annabella seized by the British Crown, not for slave trading, but for slave trading with the enemy?
Did you know that in Why Marx Was Right, author Terry Eagleton aims to refute ten common objections to Marxism?
Did you know that one of Hong Kong YouTuber Mama Cheung's most viewed videos shows her using a rice cooker to bake a cake?
Did you know that the Port of Krueng Geukueh in Aceh, Indonesia, became an entry point for aid shipments as it was not damaged by the 2004 tsunami?
Did you know that the melody of "Nimm, o Gott, die Gaben, die wir bringen", an offertory hymn written in 2009, is taken from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar?
Did you know that the owner of Grand Central Terminal sued the developer of One Vanderbilt and the New York City government for $1.1 billion over air rights?
Did you know that Chinese biblical scholar Zhu Weizhi believed that Jesus was a proletarian?
Did you know that Herma Albertson Baggley was the first woman to be on staff full-time as a naturalist with the United States National Park Service at Yellowstone National Park?
Did you know that Robert McLean served as a missionary in Chile for six years before moving to Oregon, where he founded two churches and was elected to the state legislature?
Did you know that Shirley Chiang captured the first image of individual benzene molecules?
Did you know that although Steinitz's theorem is commonly used to describe convex polyhedra using graph theory, its original formulation did not use graphs?
Did you know that before she was elected to the Parliament of Armenia, Maria Karapetyan spray-painted political graffiti on the streets of Yerevan in support of Nikol Pashinyan?
Did you know that limonene, a compound found in orange peels, can cause balloon popping based on the "like dissolves like" principle?
Did you know that on Quebec's maps, the land border with Newfoundland and Labrador must have a separate symbol in the map's legend from other interprovincial boundaries?
Did you know that the 2014-built ERV Nene Hatun is Turkey's first emergency response vessel?
Did you know that the six-year-old steel freighter Cayuga was sunk by a wooden freighter twenty years older than her?
Did you know that Dr. Jodie Lewis led a team of students from the University of Worcester and volunteer archaeologists in excavating the first timber circle discovered in Somerset?
Did you know that Jacqueline Kennedy found the Resolute desk languishing in the White House basement and had it moved to the Oval Office?
Did you know that Operation Hectic, an operation planned by the Rhodesian security forces to assassinate Robert Mugabe, was called off three hours before it was due to start?
Did you know that as general director of the Grand Theatre in Łódź, bass singer Kazimierz Kowalski led a worldwide television broadcast of Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor?
Did you know that the New Zealand tree mountain neinei (example pictured) can live for up to 600 years?
Did you know that the SS Alpena, currently the oldest active steamship on the Great Lakes, was shortened by 120 feet (37 m) in 1991?
Did you know that the death of Uyghur writer Nurmuhemmet Tohti has been linked to mistreatment in the Xinjiang internment camps, a claim China denies?
Did you know that two school districts in Kentucky protested against a statewide mandate to hang a copy of the United States national motto by showing oversized $1 bills and 1¢ coins, which contain the motto?
Did you know that wheelchair racer Nathan Maguire, who is scheduled to compete at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, appeared on a British gameshow with his partner in 2020?
Did you know that while Bubsy 3D is often labeled as one of the worst video games of all time, it had a positive to mixed reception around its initial release?
Did you know that Coral Bell believed that Ric Throssell had tried unsuccessfully to recruit her as a Soviet spy in Canberra?
Did you know that Johannes Schott of Strasbourg took over the printing company of his father, Martin Schott, in around 1500, and printed texts by Protestant reformers such as Ulrich von Hutten and Martin Luther?
Did you know that Kylie Minogue's seventh studio album, Light Years, was her first number-one album in her native Australia?
Did you know that Presidential Ballots, 1836–1892 was reviewed by Richard P. McCormick, who wrote that it "should stimulate a host of studies in the little-explored field of American political behavior"?
Did you know that Rock Demers was spurred to make The Dog Who Stopped the War after reading an article on youth suicide?
Did you know that after the 2001 fall of Kabul, young men lined up to have their beards shaved off?
Did you know that dyadic rationals, fractions based on powers of two, can be easier to work with than other kinds of fractions for both schoolchildren and computers?
Did you know that soaking a paper banknote in 50% (v/v) alcohol fuel can create a fireproof banknote?
Did you know that taxidermist James Dickinson mounted the Armley Hippo, a hippopotamus native to Yorkshire that is at least 113,000 years old?
Did you know that the Columbia University mascot, Roar-ee the Lion, inspired the creation of the MGM Lion?
Did you know that the Land of Lost Content contains bluebirds from the Blue Bird Toffee factory gates, tickets from the first National Lottery draw and a Sinclair C5?
Did you know that while writing Scary Stories for Young Foxes, Christian McKay Heidicker, under his agent's advice, "added a snuggle for every snarl"?
Did you know that Bicellariella ciliata, Crisularia plumosa, Bugulina flabellata and Bugulina turbinata form part of a bryozoan "turf" on steep or vertical rock exposed to moderate water movement?
Did you know that Brachystelma tumakurense's stem is so weak that it sometimes bends under the weight of leaves and flowers?
Did you know that Claus Guth, recognised internationally for directing the 1999 premiere of Berio's Cronaca del luogo at the Salzburg Festival, later received two Faust awards?
Did you know that George Orwell said of Mairin Mitchell's Storm over Spain (1937) that it was "written by a Catholic, but very sympathetic to the Spanish Anarchists"?
Did you know that Linda Watson, a dramatic soprano born in San Francisco who made a career in Europe, is proud of a Grammy nomination for Wagner's Ring cycle with her as Brünnhilde?
Did you know that Marie Antoinette with a Rose by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun was a Salon exhibition replacement for her criticized portrait of the queen wearing a chemise?
Did you know that Natalie Simanowski began her "second life" as a Paralympian cyclist after being attacked by someone described as a "psychopath"?
Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt sent National Baptist Convention president Elias Camp Morris to investigate atrocities committed in the Congo Free State?
Did you know that Tonic Immobility's "pure, undiluted chaos" is "an escape from the realities of the world"?
Did you know that after Thomas Doughty was sentenced to death by Francis Drake, the two men dined and received communion together just before Doughty's execution?
Did you know that after appointing the Gavrilița Cabinet, Moldova is only one of two republics in the world where the non-collective head of state and head of government are both currently women?
Did you know that the W71 nuclear warhead had a tamper made of gold?
Did you know that the world's 82 million refugees will be represented at the 2020 Summer Paralympics by the Refugee Paralympic Team?
Did you know that thousands of political prisoners in Indonesia were interned in the Waeapo River valley in Buru?
Did you know that Alia Issa, the first woman competitor to enter during the 2020 Paralympics opening ceremony, is the first female refugee to compete at any Paralympic Games?
Did you know that Fernando Alonso (pictured in car) finished third at the 2010 Japanese Grand Prix while his Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa crashed out at the first corner?
Did you know that Kangmei Pharmaceutical's financial fraud was initially described as an "accounting error"?
Did you know that Nova Iriansyah, the governor of Aceh, was expelled from elementary school as a child?
Did you know that Research Policy is regarded as the leading journal in the field of innovation studies?
Did you know that William McAndrew, the superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, was accused of being an agent of George V, King of the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Yoko Ono's song "Beautiful Boys" incorporates sound effects from the first Star Wars film?
Did you know that coins issued by Baalshillem II, the Phoenician king of Sidon, were the first Sidonian coins to bear minting dates corresponding to the king's year of reign?
Did you know that the Dalai Lama's 2008 Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy was a proposal aiming for autonomy rather than full independence for Tibet?
Did you know that the Zuijin Teiki Emaki, a 13th-century Japanese painted handscroll, presents nine equestrian portraits of some of the Imperial Guards who protected the Daijō Tennō?
Did you know that the card game Comet, originally called Manille, was renamed in 1682 after the appearance of Halley's Comet?
Did you know that there is an annual holiday for dancing pallbearers in Suriname (examples pictured)?
Did you know that when Paralympian Issy Bailey was in Stoke Mandeville Hospital, she had so many injuries that taking up shooting seemed to be the best option?
Did you know that French king Louis XVI appointed Benjamin Franklin to head the Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism?
Did you know that S. Isaac, Campbell & Company, a British firm, was a major supplier of arms to the Confederacy during the American Civil War?
Did you know that William Trench, 5th Earl of Clancarty, had eight children, three of whom also became earls of Clancarty?
Did you know that a 2020 congressional election in New York had a sticky problem?
Did you know that a Viking ship sailed to Brazil?
Did you know that in Bio's Bahnhof, a German live music talk show presented by Alfred Biolek in a former train depot, Kate Bush made her first television appearance?
Did you know that in his 1683 work Qingzhen Zhinan, Chinese Islamic scholar Ma Zhu recommended the "official persecution" of Sufis?
Did you know that in the Wild West pioneers used to hunt wolves and coyotes with American Staghounds (example pictured)?
Did you know that poet Trina de Moya was the first Dominican presidential wife to be called first lady?
Did you know that refugee swimmer Abbas Karimi, who competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, has won national championships in Afghanistan, Turkey and the US?
Did you know that sensors suggest that Lorraine Lambert's new bra has improved her chances of winning a Paralympic medal for shooting?
Did you know that the world record for the greatest weight supported by a brick bridge was broken on the French version of Lego Masters?
Did you know that Evelyn van Leeuwen won a wheelchair basketball silver medal at the 1996 Paralympics and twenty years later she won a bronze at the 2016 Games?
Did you know that Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva fell in love with Brajesh Singh, whom she considered her husband although they were never allowed to marry?
Did you know that Klaus Storck recorded Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata on original instruments, with Alfons Kontarsky at the hammerflügel?
Did you know that Meme Man is used in many surreal memes, a genre of internet humor inspired by surrealism?
Did you know that medieval Ethiopian kings claimed to be descended from Solomon?
Did you know that seventeen-year-old Julie Hayden was killed by members of the White Man's League days after starting a position teaching Black children, and became "the poster child of southern violence"?
Did you know that some philosophers of mathematics believe that the life cycle of a species of cicadas is a good argument for the existence of numbers?
Did you know that the comb jelly Beroe gracilis feeds on other comb jellies, swallowing them whole?
Did you know that the vast majority of fiction, including science fiction, takes place on Earth?
Did you know that when the Irish Bronze Age Gleninsheen gorget was found in 1930 by a local hunting rabbits, he brought the "queer looking thing" to his uncle, who would not let it be kept in his house?
Did you know that Franc Pinter, a para-shooter from Slovenia, competes at his eighth Summer Paralympic Games in Tokyo?
Did you know that France won the UEFA Euro 2000 Final with a golden goal?
Did you know that In the Ditch (1972) is based on the experiences of writer Buchi Emecheta, and deals with the systemic violence faced by working-class women in Britain at the time?
Did you know that Joachim Werzlau composed the music for the DEFA films Naked Among Wolves and Jacob the Liar?
Did you know that Megan Phelps-Roper announced her departure from the Westboro Baptist Church when the church planned to protest at the funerals of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting?
Did you know that New Zealand opera singer Helen Medlyn's first performing role was as one of the Three Kings?
Did you know that Sjerstin Vermeulen has won Paralympic medals in swimming and equestrian?
Did you know that Tory MP John Solomon Cartwright refused a request by the governor-general of the Province of Canada to join the government, because he would not sit in Cabinet with radical Francis Hincks?
Did you know that advertisements for Road 96 were taken down by Facebook for being too political?
Did you know that following World War II, members of Bangkok's British Club were able to reclaim their building thanks to a mortgage that helped preserve its land deeds?
Did you know that more than 400 millimetres (16 in) of rain was recorded in northern Turkey on 11 August 2021, causing catastrophic flooding?
Did you know that the name of the robot Jet Alone, which first appeared in the Neon Genesis Evangelion episode "A Human Work", is a reference to Jet Jaguar (also known as Red Alone) from Godzilla vs. Megalon?
Did you know that Belarusian activist Vitaly Shishov, the head of an organisation helping people escape repression following the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests, was aware of risks to his life before he was found dead?
Did you know that Columbia Eneutseak, named for the World's Columbian Exposition where she was born into one of the exhibits, starred in her film The Way of the Eskimo?
Did you know that Gian Marco's Días Nuevos, the best-selling album of 2011 in Perú, was the first quintuple platinum awarded by Unión Peruana de Productores Fonográficos?
Did you know that IMF economist Tobias Adrian helped devise CoVaR, a method used to stress-test banks after the Great Recession?
Did you know that a separated couple competed against each other for the first time at the 2021 British Open?
Did you know that before Carnegie Hall Tower was built, pianos at Carnegie Hall were carried up staircases because the hall did not have a freight elevator?
Did you know that in 1999 two necklaces were repatriated to the Cook Islands National Museum from a museum in Angus, Scotland?
Did you know that taking St John's wort can weaken the effects of the blood thinner phenprocoumon?
Did you know that the Romanian soprano Iulia Maria Dan was Hamlet's Ophelia in the Bregenz Festival's revival of Franco Faccio's revived opera Amleto?
Did you know that to rebuild the collection of Tāoga Niue Museum in the aftermath of Cyclone Heta, staff searched through rubbish dumps for historic items?
Did you know that Germany's players sang "Three Lions" after winning the UEFA Euro 1996 Final?
Did you know that Naoki Saito is a contributing artist of both the Duel Masters Trading Card Game and the Pokémon Trading Card Game?
Did you know that the Huanaki Cultural Centre & Museum was destroyed by a cyclone?
Did you know that the owner of the Solow Building tried to evict the Bank of America under a law normally used for evicting drug dealers and prostitutes?
Did you know that Aaron Pike has competed in wheelchair racing at three Summer Paralympics, and in both biathlon and cross-country skiing at two Winter Paralympics?
Did you know that Horace Harral engraved "one of the most famous photographs of the nineteenth century", a portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, for publication in the Illustrated Times?
Did you know that according to legend, Malan Bridge was built by two mythical princesses who mixed egg shells with clay to create a bridge stronger than steel?
Did you know that the Rhodesia Information Centre spread propaganda about Rhodesia in Australia?
Did you know that the counting-out rhyme "One potato, two potato" is more than 135 years old?
Did you know that the opening of Geistliches Lied by Johannes Brahms possibly references Clara Schumann's fantasy of playing her husband's music on the organ?
Did you know that thousands of people who fled Burundi have taken refuge in Rwanda's Mahama Refugee Camp, but only one has competed in the Paralympics?
Did you know that Jonathan Carr's 342 bankruptcy petitions set a record?
Did you know that Miguelina Acosta Cárdenas played a key role in the fledgling women's movement in Peru in the early 20th century?
Did you know that Paraguay made its Paralympic debut at the 2020 Summer Paralympics?
Did you know that Thomas Fairfax, Lord General of the New Model Army, resigned his commission rather than invade Scotland in 1650?
Did you know that in the upcoming video game Marvel's Midnight Suns, players will be able to create their own superhero in the Marvel Universe?
Did you know that Alfred Koerppen, who taught music theory and composition at the Musikhochschule Hannover, wrote the text and music of a 1951 opera after Virgil?
Did you know that Mary V. R. Thayer was briefly arrested on suspicion of spying after abandoning a 1929 business trip in the Soviet Union to explore the Caucasus?
Did you know that a track on Maxïmo Park's album Nature Always Wins is about Nick Alexander, the band's former merchandiser who was killed in the Bataclan concert hall attack?
Did you know that the Noh play Haku Rakuten is parodied in a woodblock print?
Did you know that the Silver Deer of Bilge Khan, a 7th-century artifact, is recognized by the Mongolian government as being of "invaluable heritage"?
Did you know that Dutch radio and TV presenter Hanneke Kappen presented the second Dutch radio show dedicated to heavy metal music?
Did you know that a Socialist Youth League candidate in the 1990 Bosnian general election registered his ethnicity as 'Eskimo' as an apparent protest against ethnic registry requirements for candidates?
Did you know that the 2005 documentary The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till, about African-American teenager Emmett Till's murder in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, contributed to the case being reopened?