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Did you know that the construction of Rockefeller Center was the largest private development project ever undertaken for its time?
Did you know that the figure of Jazz from the Transformers toyline Power of the Primes drew controversy because the text on its sticker, when translated from Cybertronian, spelled the acronym MAGA, associated with Donald Trump?
Did you know that Florence shows the awkwardness of a first date through a puzzle minigame, which becomes easier as the main character becomes more comfortable?
Did you know that Hussein started his 46-year reign as King of Jordan in 1952 when he was a 17-year-old schoolboy?
Did you know that Macrobiotus shonaicus, a Japanese water bear, was first found in the parking lot of the apartment building where one of the researchers lived?
Did you know that the Double Concerto for oboe and harp was composed by Hans Werner Henze for Heinz Holliger and his wife Ursula, and performed with 18 string players of Paul Sacher's orchestra?
Did you know that the UN Security Council has banned exports of charcoal from the Somali port town of Burgabo?
Did you know that the new Chief Management Officer of the U.S. Department of Defense position outranks the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force?
Did you know that Captain Ruck-Keene's command of HMS Cochrane ended a few days after Admiral Jellicoe wrote that he had become "lazy, lacks energy & has run to seed"?
Did you know that Saw Ganesan initiated construction of a temple to the Tamil language?
Did you know that at the conclusion of the 2018 AFL Women's Grand Final, acting captain Ellie Blackburn called upon her suspended skipper Katie Brennan to help hoist the team's trophy?
Did you know that in 2015, Kjell Lindgren played a plastic set of bagpipes made by McCallum Bagpipes on the International Space Station?
Did you know that the budget for the Doctor Who serial The Daleks allowed for only four Daleks (one pictured) to be made?
Did you know that upon hearing the Confederate song "I'm a Good Ol' Rebel", the future King Edward VII requested a repeat performance of "that fine American song with the cuss words in it"?
Did you know that Colin Robert Chase's major work on the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf was called "one of the most important inconclusions in the study of Old English"?
Did you know that Nicholas Muellner was in the Caribbean when he decided to photograph acquaintances in Russia?
Did you know that Norman Bel Geddes claimed that his Airliner Number 4 (design pictured) would be able to fly from Chicago to London in 42 hours using in-air refueling over Newfoundland?
Did you know that Guido Jung was dismissed from the Royal Italian Army after the enactment of the Italian Racial Laws, despite having served as Minister of Finance under Mussolini?
Did you know that before taking over Moldavia in 1561, Iacob Heraclid had been executed in effigy and staged his own death?
Did you know that in South Carolina, the flat bullhead is threatened by pollution and sedimentation, as well as by the introduction of non-native catfish?
Did you know that the Gujarati poetry collection Kusumamala includes a translation of "The Cloud" by English romantic poet Shelley?
Did you know that the robot CISBOT once found a baseball under New York City?
Did you know that Canadian association footballer Liam Millar scored a hat-trick in his debut for Liverpool U18s against Blackburn Rovers U18s?
Did you know that Central Link trains share a tunnel with buses in Downtown Seattle?
Did you know that Colonel Chen Xiaolu publicly confessed and apologized for torturing and persecuting his teachers and school officials, one of whom committed suicide, during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that Groom Mine has a view over Area 51?
Did you know that John Fraser, a young Scottish surgeon, proved Nobel Prize winner Robert Koch wrong?
Did you know that Jos has been called the "home of country music" in Nigeria?
Did you know that Koyunbaba Bridge is the longest stone arch bridge in Anatolia built during the Ottoman Empire?
Did you know that Psalm 84 about God's lovely dwellings was set to music by Heinrich Schütz, by Brahms in the centre of Ein deutsches Requiem, and as Wilhelm Kempff's Op. 1?
Did you know that Russia's Law Against Rehabilitation of Nazism, compared by proponents to laws against Holocaust denial, was used to prosecute a blogger discussing German–Soviet cooperation?
Did you know that archaeologists believe the cultural memory of the burial site at the Alepotrypa cave may have become associated with the mythological entrance to Hades?
Did you know that in 1844, Thomas D. Keizur was elected captain of the Oregon Rangers, the first militia unit authorized and formed in the Oregon Country?
Did you know that locals claimed St. Edward's Catholic Church to be the first church in the world to have electric lighting?
Did you know that recording a "ghost" helped lead to Peter van Geersdaele's appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire?
Did you know that singer Rihanna's Fenty Beauty cosmetics line was named one of Time magazine's best inventions of 2017?
Did you know that the archaeologist Peter Addyman was awarded the right to drive three beasts across a bridge in York?
Did you know that 98 percent of coffee grown in China comes from one province?
Did you know that Antonello Manacorda, who made an award-winning recording of Schubert's symphonies with his Kammerakademie Potsdam, conducted Mozart operas at La Fenice and Meyerbeer's grand opera at the Frankfurt Opera?
Did you know that Charles Jewtraw was the first Winter Olympics gold medallist, winning the 500 m speed skating event at the 1924 Games?
Did you know that Governor John Volpe sought Boston Police Commissioner Leo J. Sullivan's removal after Biography of a Bookie Joint showed officers visiting an illegal gambling parlor?
Did you know that Jeb Bush was the campaign manager for Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's first Congressional campaign?
Did you know that before becoming director of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Dominic Tweddle helped excavate the Coppergate Helmet, and published a chronology of post-Roman helmet types?
Did you know that footballer Hugh Lester was the first non-British player to represent Liverpool?
Did you know that in 2015, the then-20-year-old Hussein, Crown Prince of Jordan, became the youngest person ever to chair a UN Security Council session?
Did you know that parasitoid wasps in the genus Trogus emerge through the side of swallowtail pupae after using liquid to soften the hard casing?
Did you know that part of Adolf Hitler's Tannenberg compound was used for fertilizer storage after World War II?
Did you know that the Southern Rhodesia Act 1965 was designed to affirm British rule in Southern Rhodesia after its Unilateral Declaration of Independence, but it was largely ignored in Rhodesia?
Did you know that Frank Fowler Loomis designed and built the world's first motorized police paddy wagon?
Did you know that George Town, the capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang, was the first British settlement in Southeast Asia?
Did you know that J. Slauerhoff's 1930 poetry collection Serenade provoked critical responses ranging from "childish" to "pure lyric" with "refined technique"?
Did you know that Polish Jewish communist activist Eliezer Gruenbaum wrote a memoir about his experiences as a kapo in the Auschwitz concentration camp?
Did you know that Princess Minkhaung Medaw of Prome was twice married off by her brothers, becoming queen of Hanthawaddy and later of Mrauk U?
Did you know that Romanian singer Corina portrays a female punk burlesque character in the music video for her 2010 single "No Sleepin'"?
Did you know that a coat designed by Andrea Galer and worn by the character of Withnail in the British cult film Withnail and I was included in a charity auction to raise funds for a school in Swaziland?
Did you know that according to Richard Hamming, Nobel Prize winners often discover they can no longer work on small problems?
Did you know that an entire Gothic-arch barn (example pictured) could be ordered from the Sears & Roebuck catalog?
Did you know that in 1952, mayor Pedro Zaragoza was threatened with excommunication from the Catholic Church for allowing women to wear bikinis in Benidorm, Spain?
Did you know that on New Year's Day, tens of thousands of Americans take a hike?
Did you know that the 650 km (400 mi) Jordan Trail, where Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad are believed to have walked, was named one of 2018's best tourist destinations in the world by National Geographic?
Did you know that the Samathuvapuram (Equality Village) scheme was started to reduce caste discrimination in Tamil Nadu?
Did you know that the inspiration for the Philippine thriller Neomanila came from a BBC interview with a married couple who worked as hitmen?
Did you know that while Mary E. Woolley Chamberlain was mayor of Kanab, Utah, she passed an ordinance prohibiting the use of slingshots in town?
Did you know that Gavin Lowe went from being at John's to being at Hugh's, but finally ended up at Catherine's?
Did you know that Glen Nelson co-founded the Mormon Arts Center Festival, which Terryl Givens called "a seminal event in Mormonism's coming of age artistically"?
Did you know that John A. Kenney Jr. was known as the "dean of black dermatology"?
Did you know that Patricia Lovett created a medieval-style book of hours for the BBC production of Wolf Hall?
Did you know that Sarah Frey is the United States' most prolific pumpkin grower?
Did you know that Styling Garage charged luxury car customers almost the cost of the vehicle to convert it to gull-wing doors?
Did you know that Washington Huskies basketball player Matisse Thybulle was the first in the school's history to be named Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year?
Did you know that Yuta Shitara won 100 million yen for breaking the Japanese record at the 2018 Tokyo Marathon?
Did you know that according to Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman, Israel has carried out at least 2,700 assassination operations in the 70 years since its founding?
Did you know that for his role in the Doctor Who serial The Aztecs, actor John Ringham was told to "make all the children in the country hate you"?
Did you know that soprano Margarete Luise Schick, who performed roles such as Gluck's Iphigenie and Mozart's Zerlina with noted diction and acting, sang for the coronation of Leopold II?
Did you know that Elisabeth Speiser was the first to record Sandrina in Haydn's opera L'infedeltà delusa, and recorded Debussy's Ariettes oubliées?
Did you know that Fresno Yosemite International Airport has a replica of a sequoia forest inside the terminal, reflecting the airport's role as a gateway to three national parks?
Did you know that Hans Klumbach connected the late Roman ridge helmets (example pictured) to the medieval spangenhelme?
Did you know that Levering Smith, a U.S. Navy officer, was credited with assisting the British Polaris programme to finish "on time and on budget, an unprecedented feat in British naval history"?
Did you know that Parable of the Polygons, an interactive blog post based on game theory, shows that even a slight demand for diversity can reverse residential segregation?
Did you know that a letter by Maria Perkins, a literate slave, is the only record of her existence?
Did you know that the Eritrean Dahlak Archipelago once housed a thriving trading kingdom, the Dahlak sultanate?
Did you know that the actor Jamie Davis asked his former co-star Sunetra Sarker to reprise her role for his departure in Episode 1068 of Casualty?
Did you know that the earliest recorded recipe for fortified rice wine appears in a 1670 Korean cookbook?
Did you know that Rachel Brown, professor of baroque flute at the Royal College of Music, recorded Private Passion?
Did you know that The Times of London described Anthony Lejeune as a man for whom the term "young fogey" could have been invented?
Did you know that Villa Albergoni, a 16th-century Italian country mansion, was featured in the 2017 film Call Me by Your Name?
Did you know that a drum major backbend, performed before many college football games, involves a drum major leaning back to touch their headgear to the ground without the knees also touching?
Did you know that all cerumenolytics are equally good at softening ear wax?
Did you know that in the nineteenth century, relics found in India were attributed to Maudgalyayana, a leading disciple of the Buddha?
Did you know that tail chasing in dogs is a compulsion similar to those seen in humans suffering from OCD?
Did you know that the deep sea cactus urchin may be a filter feeder, a very unusual method of feeding for a sea urchin?
Did you know that African singer-songwriter and rapper Sampa the Great has performed as a supporting act for Joey Bada$$, as well as Kendrick Lamar and Thundercat?
Did you know that Blackpool were described as the "smallest club to reach the Premier League" after they were promoted by virtue of winning the 2010 Football League Championship play-off Final?
Did you know that Christopher Little has been described as "the luckiest agent ever" for his association with Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling?
Did you know that François de Vendôme lost favour at court by declining to marry brides chosen for him, including a second-generation royal bastard, and was eventually imprisoned in the Bastille?
Did you know that Katherine Oppenheimer, the wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, was a cousin of German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel?
Did you know that St. Lawrence Anglican Cathedral Ambohimanoro, one of the first Anglican churches in Madagascar, was designed by William White?
Did you know that in 1844, the medical officer of the Surrey Dispensary said he frequently visited places where excrement accumulated for months or remained in streets until the rain washed it away?
Did you know that in 1979, eight people escaped from East Germany to the West in a homemade hot air balloon?
Did you know that in a 1974 bench trial connected to the Watergate scandal, Judge John H. Pratt found G. Gordon Liddy guilty of contempt of Congress?
Did you know that it has been proposed that there are more than 1,000 examples of humor in the Bible?
Did you know that model worker Sun Jian became China's vice premier during the Cultural Revolution, but was later purged and returned to factory work?
Did you know that part of the University of Texas at Arlington campus used to be the site of a home for unwed mothers and orphans?
Did you know that the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning play Cost of Living uses disabled actors to play disabled characters?
Did you know that the wasp Aphelinus mali is a parasitoid of the woolly apple aphid, a pest of apple trees?
Did you know that 18S rDNA analysis has shown that the green algae genus Golenkinia may belong to a previously unknown sister clade of order Sphaeropleales?
Did you know that Gujarati poet Manilal H. Patel has written poetry touching on his experiences in and around Idar, a town in the Gujarat state of India?
Did you know that Leo Tornikios, a failed claimant to the Byzantine throne, was publicly blinded at Christmas 1047?
Did you know that President John F. Kennedy said: "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"?
Did you know that Spain abandoned El Piñal, its trading port in China, after encountering hostilities from the Portuguese?
Did you know that a Royal Australian Air Force officer is the head of the UN's rear?
Did you know that a series of British nuclear tests was carried out in the United States to develop warheads for the UK Polaris programme?
Did you know that in 1851, the German soprano Anna Bochkoltz-Falconi appeared at La Scala in Milan in Pergolesi's Lo frate 'nnamorato?
Did you know that plants of the genus Leucospermum (L. cordifolium pictured) are known as pincushions?
Did you know that the current rivalry between Major League Soccer teams in the Los Angeles area is named El Tráfico?
Did you know that the revised edition of John Richard Clark Hall's translation of Beowulf includes a preface by J. R. R. Tolkien?
Did you know that when Ukrainian pianist Milana Chernyavska recorded Nikolai Rakov's violin sonatas with David Frühwirth, a review called her "a full partner in the proceedings, delicate and brutal as required"?
Did you know that when Ulysses S. Grant visited the island of Hachijō-jima in 1877, he was ceremonially adopted by the village chief and given a name meaning "courageous general" in the local dialect?
Did you know that "the errors of many generations" were said to have been "forever buried" in the footnotes of the 1841 travelogue Biblical Researches in Palestine?
Did you know that American baseball player Tyler Kinley's ancestors changed their surname from "McKinley" after the assassination of the 25th President of the United States?
Did you know that Berthe Fraser, a French Resistance agent, helped more than 100 Allied airmen and other agents escape during the Second World War?
Did you know that Elizabeth Paston's first husband died in battle fighting for the House of York, and her second husband was beheaded for treason against it?
Did you know that Franz Schubert dedicated compositions to Cathinka Buchwieser, a soprano who appeared in Vienna as Mozart's Sesto and Elvira, and as Ferdinando Paer's Achille and Leonora?
Did you know that among American architectural artist Edwin D. Mott's aerial depictions was the General Motors building at the 1939 New York World's Fair?
Did you know that at the time of his appointment at Stockport County in 1999, footballer Andy Kilner was the youngest manager in the Football League?
Did you know that more than 400 clay figures of animals, boats, dancers, houses, and warriors line the garden paths of Heiwadai Park?
Did you know that on the Ramones' 1987 Halfway to Sanity tour, the group was banned from playing at Boston College and attended a student anti-censorship protest instead?
Did you know that the Clydesdale Motor Truck Company was named, in part, after a breed of horse?
Did you know that the motion sickness of the manga character Natsu Dragneel was based on one of Fairy Tail author Hiro Mashima's friends?
Did you know that Henry S. Russell, commander of the 5th Regiment Massachusetts Colored Volunteer Cavalry, later served as the first solo commissioner of the Boston Fire Department?
Did you know that Mariya Tsukanova was the only woman in the Soviet–Japanese War to be awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union?
Did you know that Scott Foster, a 36-year-old accountant, made his professional ice hockey debut as a goaltender for the Chicago Blackhawks in 2018 and saved every shot he faced?
Did you know that a children's book illustrated by Gerald Kelley parodies another children's book written by Charlotte Pence about her pet rabbit Marlon Bundo by portraying him as gay?
Did you know that a train graveyard in Uyuni, Bolivia, has become a tourist attraction?
Did you know that during the 2015 Mo Pop Festival in Detroit, heavy rainfall overwhelmed the park's drainage capabilities and formed a standing body of water nicknamed "Lake Mo Pop"?
Did you know that during the Baltimore Orioles–Chicago White Sox crowdless game, announcer Gary Thorne called an Adam Jones at-bat in the hushed tone of golf announcers like Jim Nantz?
Did you know that for the production of 47 Ronin, costume designer Penny Rose oversaw the creation of 998 costumes and 400 suits of armour?
Did you know that in 19th-century London, residents of the Strangers' Home were "undefiled by even the shadow of an infidel"?
Did you know that public art at Convention Place station in Seattle includes neon tubes that emulate New York's Chrysler Building and the nearby Paramount Theatre?
Did you know that the Western Union Building is the only surviving example of a 19th-century bank building in Aberdeen, South Dakota?
Did you know that Benjamin Ladraa embarked on a 4,800-kilometre (3,000 mi) trek from Sweden to Jerusalem to raise awareness of rights violations in the West Bank?
Did you know that Chris Caple, an artefact conservationist, began archaeological excavations at the age of 14?
Did you know that George Smith left money to establish a school for poor children named Smith?
Did you know that Nicole Girard-Mangin, the first woman doctor to serve in the French army, was initially paid at the same rate as a nurse?
Did you know that Ordinaire, a wine bar in Oakland, California, opened while its owner was writing a dissertation on the sense of taste in modernist literature?
Did you know that Pope Alexander VIII, elected in 1689, was the first Venetian in over 200 years to become pope?
Did you know that a luminous discharge could be seen around a person taking an electric bath?
Did you know that an automobile graveyard in Georgia, United States, has become an open-air art gallery?
Did you know that in his Clarinet Sonata in G minor, composer Ferdinand Ries provided the opportunity for improvised cadenzas?
Did you know that in the United States, it is estimated that for every dollar spent on prison education, $4 to $5 is saved due to decreases in recidivism?
Did you know that investigators allege Libyan influence in the 2007 French elections was partly accomplished by laundering money from the sale of paintings by 17th-century Dutch artist Andries van Eertvelt?
Did you know that the elephant trunkfish grazes on the seabed and can weigh up to 4.5 kg (10 lb)?
Did you know that the video game Harlem Globetrotters: World Tour does not feature the Washington Generals, even though they have been the Globetrotters' traditional rival for over 50 years?
Did you know that Charles Green excavated burial mounds near Stonehenge?
Did you know that China can also be found outside China?
Did you know that Low Country Sound operates out of historic RCA Studio A in Nashville, Tennessee?
Did you know that Mary A. Monroe was the first woman to serve as president of the Washington Education Association?
Did you know that Minister Dein, a loyalist of King Binnya U of Hanthawaddy, escaped execution by King Razadarit by telling the new king that his only "crime was being a servant of your father, the king"?
Did you know that Paralympic silver-medal winning snowboarder Patrick Mayrhofer was the first person in the world to undergo elective amputation to get a bionic hand prosthesis?
Did you know that due to the well-preserved colonial Alsatian architecture in the Castroville Historic District, the city is known as the "little Alsace" of Texas?
Did you know that in 2005, Kyrgyz politician Anvar Artykov was elected as a "people's governor" of Osh Region, only to be detained a day later by the police?
Did you know that the American superhero film Thor: Ragnarok features elements from the comic book storyline "Planet Hulk"?
Did you know that the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit, Michigan, was the first factory where more than 100 cars were assembled in one day?
Did you know that the duties of Mollie Lentaigne, a nurse during the Second World War, included drawing the experimental surgery (example pictured) being performed on members of the Guinea Pig Club?
Did you know that the species description for the mite Afropolonia tgifi was likely only approved because the journal's editors were unfamiliar with the expression "TGIF" ("Thank God It's Friday")?
Did you know that Oleta Crain, one of only three black women officers in training in the U.S. Army in 1943, was not allowed to sleep in the same barracks or take a shower at the same time as the white women?
Did you know that Romania won its only Winter Olympics medal at the 1968 Games in Grenoble, France?
Did you know that U.S. Vice President Al Gore smashed a glass ashtray on the Late Show with David Letterman to advocate for simplified government acquisition procedures?
Did you know that as of 2009, the highest location where crustaceans had been discovered was in the crater lake of Paniri?
Did you know that before becoming a prehistorian, Hans-Jürgen Häßler lived in a refugee camp and trained as a plumber?
Did you know that in Sean Penn's satirical novel Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, Honey advocates the assassination of the US President, "Mr. Landlord", who resembles Donald Trump?