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Did you know that at 8 minutes and 45 seconds, the released version of Neil Young's song "Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero Part I)" was much shorter than the original, which included a verse about genocide of Native Americans?
Did you know that despite a ban on Indonesian nationalist hymns during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, a Japanese army propagandist wrote one and it debuted in an official event?
Did you know that during construction of New York City's Sixth Avenue subway line in the 1930s, workers had to build around various utilities and tunnels, including an existing railroad tunnel and an elevated line?
Did you know that paintings of Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene (example shown) reflected the position of both Catholic and Protestant churches that people should not flee to avoid the plague?
Did you know that some water birds use their webbed feet (illustration shown) as an aid in elaborate courtship displays?
Did you know that the Gutta Percha Company, whose main product was submarine telegraph cable, started out making bottle stoppers?
Did you know that Armenia's anthem is based on Mikayel Nalbandian's poem, inspired by Italian unification?
Did you know that Australian actor Nick Russell quit his law career to concentrate solely on acting?
Did you know that Chinese director Ying Liang was exiled from Shanghai for filming When Night Falls?
Did you know that Genia Kühmeier appeared as Mozart's Pamina at the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, and recorded the soprano solo in Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem with Nikolaus Harnoncourt?
Did you know that a 12-hour hearing for Mexican businesswoman Rosalinda González Valencia was held behind closed doors because the government was presenting sensitive evidence about a drug cartel?
Did you know that although Mulatschak has been called the card game of the state of Salzburg, its rules were almost certainly unpublished before 2004?
Did you know that changes in Earth's orbit around the Sun over 10,000 years ago led to the disappearance of the Sahara desert?
Did you know that former prime minister of India Manmohan Singh called the events of the First War of Indian Independence in 1857 a testimony to Hindu–Muslim unity?
Did you know that the Cavalry Staff Corps is regarded as Britain's first standing military police force?
Did you know that the North Carolina State House and Canova's George Washington (engraving shown) were both destroyed by an "awful conflagration" that began while the building was being fireproofed?
Did you know that the bark of the lancewood smells like violets when cut or exposed?
Did you know that the opening of the Submarine Telegraph Company's first oceanic telegraph cable was marked by remotely firing a cannon in Calais from a telegraph station in Dover?
Did you know that ... sofferte onde serene ... ("serene waves suffered") is a composition for piano and tape written by Luigi Nono in collaboration with pianist Maurizio Pollini?
Did you know that Eugène de Mirecourt wrote 100 biographical articles on his contemporaries, including Alexandre Dumas, Hector Berlioz, and George Sand?
Did you know that Gaspar Jiménez, who was indicted in 1981 for a bombing attack on radio newscaster Emilio Milián, was later convicted for plotting to assassinate Cuban president Fidel Castro?
Did you know that John Buddle Blyth and August Wilhelm von Hofmann were the first to report photopolymerisation?
Did you know that Liang Jingkui designed an instrument to measure the temperature in nuclear tests?
Did you know that Madame A. C. Bilbrew directed the choir that appeared as cotton pickers singing spirituals in Hearts in Dixie, one of the first all-black talkies?
Did you know that actor Carl Au shaved the back and sides of his head for the final arc of his Waterloo Road character Barry Barry, in a style he dubbed "The Ferret"?
Did you know that after sailors from HMS Sickle boarded a small enemy ship, they brought 1,000 oranges and lemons from the ship's cargo back to their submarine?
Did you know that before being appointed to the Supreme Court of Texas, William F. Ramsey served as president of three banks, in different cities, at the same time?
Did you know that the rare, much sought after record in Deadwax has killer sound?
Did you know that Hamilton Hamilton, best known for his landscapes of the American West (example shown), was born in England and lived most of his life in the American East?
Did you know that Olympians Jacques and Philippe Lacarrière were the second father–son pair to be inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame?
Did you know that Portland's MAX Red Line light rail, initially planned decades into the future, was built ahead of other projects because of an unsolicited proposal by Bechtel?
Did you know that Suoyang City, a major commercial and cultural center on the Silk Road for more than a millennium, was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2014?
Did you know that Vincent Boussard staged Manon for Vilnius, San Francisco, and Seoul, and I puritani for Liège and Frankfurt?
Did you know that after informing on a drug cartel, José Manuel Garza Rendón may live the rest of his life like a "hunted rabbit"?
Did you know that hand-spinning writer Abby Franquemont spent her early childhood in Peru, where women "spun to eat and pay for the home they lived in"?
Did you know that larvae of the red tube worm do not settle on bull kelp, probably because that seaweed inflates its float chambers with carbon monoxide?
Did you know that on a 1932 visit to the Soviet Union, S. Ramanathan was not allowed to meet Joseph Stalin because the Indian politician had also met with Trotskyists?
Did you know that the economy of the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos saw its first crisis in 1969 because of heavy borrowing in preparation for the Marcos re-election campaign?
Did you know that Joyce Sumbi, one of thirteen black librarians in the 242-librarian LA County Library system in 1971, charged her employer with discrimination against minorities?
Did you know that Liang Weiyan and his team designed the water turbines of the world's largest power plant?
Did you know that St. John the Evangelist Church was the first Catholic church in Frederick County, Maryland, and the first church consecrated in the Archdiocese of Baltimore?
Did you know that among the Mozart roles sung by soprano Sophie Karthäuser are Ilia, Tamiri, and Serpetta?
Did you know that in 1407, Admiral Zheng He's treasure fleet defeated the pirate force of Chen Zuyi, who had occupied Palembang in today's Indonesia, and sent him back to China for execution?
Did you know that the "sleepy town" of Tarraville, Australia, with a population of around 80, was once the largest town in Gippsland?
Did you know that the channeled dog winkle drills into shells of the thatched barnacle (both species pictured) and injects a toxin to gain access to the soft parts?
Did you know that "wolf's teeth" were once a feature of Transylvanian state symbols (example shown)?
Did you know that Cleitarchus's History of Alexander, written in the fourth century BC, was criticized by contemporaries as being overly sensational?
Did you know that Edris Allan, the first telephone operator for the Jamaica All Island Telephone Service, married Sir Harold Allan, the first Afro-Jamaican to be knighted?
Did you know that Karl Plagge's efforts to rescue Jews during the Holocaust succeeded because he entered a "grey zone" of moral compromise?
Did you know that Reina Ueda voiced 18 sisters in the anime series Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono?
Did you know that actor Michael Rennie and temperance activist Catherine Gurney are buried in Harlow Hill Cemetery?
Did you know that prey of the spotted wobbegong have been known to approach its mouth and nibble on its tentacles?
Did you know that Alberto Jorge is the only association football manager to have won the Liga MX title as caretaker, doing so with Toluca in 2003?
Did you know that Australian rules footballer Tom Barrass injured his back while using a dustpan and missed six matches?
Did you know that Bach set the phrase "Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks" from Psalm 75 in German to begin a cantata, and in Latin in his Mass in B minor?
Did you know that Hintersche, a historical card game played by farmers, foresters and journeymen in the Principality of Fürstenberg, is still played in the Black Forest today?
Did you know that Mair von Landshut's prints (example shown) "resemble whimsical stage sets, and are endowed with an unreal character, like something from a fairy tale"?
Did you know that Solrad 1 was the first satellite to successfully observe solar X-rays?
Did you know that Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, author of Bad News for Outlaws, asked that US black deputy marshal Bass Reeves appear unclothed in an illustration to ensure its historical accuracy?
Did you know that William McSherry arranged for the sale in 1838 of the slaves who worked the Jesuit province in Maryland?
Did you know that XTC's Oranges & Lemons, released 30 years ago today, reinterpreted 1960s psychedelic music styles using 1980s instrumentation and technology?
Did you know that in the 2015 film Frankenstein vs. The Mummy, the director designed Frankenstein's monster to look like a muscular zombie with long black hair?
Did you know that the 1945 Bierut Decree nationalized all land in the Polish capital of Warsaw after the city's destruction by the Nazis?
Did you know that the soprano Julia Kleiter has appeared internationally in Mozart operas, as both Susanna and the Countess in Figaro, and both Papagena and Pamina in The Magic Flute?
Did you know that 19th-century actress Alice Marriott played Hamlet in doublet and hose in British and American theatre, and "made the female Hamlet respectable in England"?
Did you know that Beverly Gray was able to survive three plane crashes thanks to A. L. Burt?
Did you know that Green Jacket Shoal is Rhode Island's largest ship graveyard?
Did you know that Juan Carlos de la Cruz Reyna tried to bribe an undercover agent to ensure he was released from prison to members of a drug cartel?
Did you know that Rediffusion House in Malta cannot be used for immoral activities?
Did you know that a cardiovascular fitness suite at the UK Army School of Physical Training is named after Edward Henslow?
Did you know that because of the difficulty of transporting art from Angola, Hildebrando de Melo created multiple paintings in the United States so they could be exhibited there?
Did you know that before becoming a football coach, Neil Dewsnip worked as a teacher and taught future professional players and managers including Karl Robinson, Jim Bentley, and Steven Gerrard?
Did you know that the Austrian actor and librettist Karl Lindau co-wrote The Nazi, a comedy, in 1895?
Did you know that the Dicta Boelcke, written by Oswald Boelcke in 1916, was the world's first manual of aerial combat tactics?
Did you know that the frog-eyed gecko is adapted to the desert conditions experienced by the wildlife of Kuwait?
Did you know that the main award of the Danish Animation Society is named after Børge Ring, who directed the Oscar-winning animated short film Anna & Bella?
Did you know that 17-year-old Robbie Capito defeated the pool world number one Eklent Kaçi at the 2018 WPA World 9-Ball Championship?
Did you know that Agnes Buntine, Australia's first female bullocky, survived a large bush fire only because of her thick clothing and boots, at a time when most women wore "crinolines, bonnets, and shawls"?
Did you know that Mausam Noor was the youngest Muslim woman member of parliament to be elected to the 15th Lok Sabha?
Did you know that Rich Sauveur pitched for six Major League Baseball teams across three decades without earning a win?
Did you know that bass-baritone Alfred Jerger, who appeared at the Salzburg Festival between 1922 and 1959, created the leading role of Mandryka in Arabella, an opera composed by Richard Strauss?
Did you know that journalist Dorothy Jurney was called "the godmother of women's pages"?
Did you know that the Italian Communist Party blamed Trotskyite agents for carrying out the Schio massacre, which led to an Allied military court trial?
Did you know that the Ta'er Temple (ruined pagoda pictured) is believed to be where the 7th-century Chinese monk Xuanzang preached before he left for India?
Did you know that the University of Farmington (logo pictured) was a fake university set up by the United States Department of Homeland Security as a part of an undercover operation to expose immigration fraud?
Did you know that up to C$250 million in cryptocurrencies owed to 115,000 customers cannot be accessed due to the unexpected death of the founder of Quadriga, who was the only person who knew the password?
Did you know that Elena Ivanovna Barulina's 1930 paper became a standard guide to lentils (seeds pictured)?
Did you know that Green Bay Packers president Russ Bogda advocated for a public referendum in the 1950s to finance the construction of Lambeau Field?
Did you know that HMS Saracen was sunk during her 13th patrol shortly after midnight of a Friday the 13th?
Did you know that Idas simpsoni lives on weathered whale skulls?
Did you know that Lynnwood Farnam was the first North American organist to play the entire repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach's organ works?
Did you know that St Peter's Bridge in Burton upon Trent, opened in 1985, is the newest road crossing of the River Trent?
Did you know that Yan Jici, a founder of modern physics in China, has a minor planet named after him?
Did you know that actress Georgina Naidu premiered her one-woman show Yellowfeather in 2005 at the Sydney Opera House?
Did you know that in 2019, millions of women came together to form a 620 km-long (390 mi) women's wall in the Indian state of Kerala?
Did you know that in 914–915 and in 919–921, just a few years after its founding, the Fatimid Caliphate launched two unsuccessful invasions of Egypt?
Did you know that singer Bracha Zefira is credited with bringing Yemenite and other Oriental Jewish folk songs into the mix of ethnic music in Palestine to create a new "Israeli style"?
Did you know that the glaucoma medication levobunolol is more than 60 times as active as its mirror image?
Did you know that Indian theatre actor Jahangir Pestonji Khambhata wanted to see Shakespeare's plays in England, but the ship he boarded went in the other direction?
Did you know that John Kirklin's modifications to Gibbon's heart–lung machine allowed blood-free surgery on the human heart?
Did you know that K2, the world's second highest mountain, was first climbed by Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli on the 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition?
Did you know that Shutt and Thompson designed All Saints, Harlow Hill, with a "circular bell tower reminiscent of Irish bell-houses"?
Did you know that The Tempestry Project presents climate change data in knitted form?
Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Chhota Shakeel?
Did you know that at the 1176 Cardigan eisteddfod in Deheubarth, Wales, The Lord Rhys awarded chairs as prizes to the winners of the poetry and music competitions?
Did you know that self-taught archaeologist Zhao Kangmin was officially recognized as the discoverer of the Terracotta Warriors, even though others found them first?
Did you know that the peanut worm Aspidosiphon elegans reproduces by transverse fission?
Did you know that Qian Linzhao's research on the Mohist Canon influenced Joseph Needham's treatment of physics in his Science and Civilisation in China?
Did you know that Ralf Otto, director of the Bachchor Mainz from 1986, conducted world premiere recordings of cantatas by Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach?
Did you know that Texas politician Beto O'Rourke was in a punk band called Foss with Cedric Bixler-Zavala, who went on to become the singer of At the Drive-In and the Mars Volta?
Did you know that Zhong Wanxie pioneered computational mechanics in China?
Did you know that although Durham is considered a rare Old English example of a work in praise of a city, the poem never names the city it is said to praise?
Did you know that an adult gray whale may be infested by several hundred pounds of barnacles and whale lice?
Did you know that in 1318 an English nun, Joan of Leeds, faked her own death and fled her priory, leaving a dummy in her place to be buried instead of her?
Did you know that in the Shepard tabletop illusion, identical parallelograms look very different?
Did you know that the Electric Telegraph Company operated the Monarch, the first dedicated cable-laying ship?
Did you know that the Galápagos ghostshark was scientifically named after John E. McCosker, who had discovered the species on his 50th birthday?
Did you know that the modern separation between West Timor and East Timor resulted from a battle in 1749?
Did you know that the soprano Claire Born appeared in Bayreuth as Wagner's Eva and Gutrune, and in Salzburg as Mozart's Countess and Donna Elvira?
Did you know that when a massive rockfall in 1920 covered part of the Brenva Glacier, it caused it to lengthen considerably, at a time when nearby glaciers were retreating?
Did you know that 18th-century British actress Mary Bulkley was once hissed by her audience because she had "taken the son of her long-term lover to her bed"?
Did you know that Adipicola pelagica was first discovered living on floating whale blubber?
Did you know that Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the 2003 Budweiser Shootout stock car race despite starting from the back of the grid?
Did you know that Dua Lipa's character transforms into Alita at the end of her "Swan Song" music video?
Did you know that Eli Grba was the first player chosen by the Los Angeles Angels in the 1960 MLB expansion draft and their first starting pitcher?
Did you know that Hou Xun was the chief scientist of a major research project on ultrafast phenomena?
Did you know that Yvonne Blenkinsop, Mary Denness, Christine Jensen and Lillian Bilocca became known as "headscarf revolutionaries" for their attempts to improve safety in the English fishing industry?
Did you know that according to the theory of mineral evolution, the number of mineral species on Earth has increased from about 250 to over 5400?
Did you know that over 200,000 people applied to be part of Oriental Wrestling Entertainment?
Did you know that real-life X-ray technician Paul Bateson, convicted of murder 40 years ago today, played the X-ray technician in The Exorcist's cerebral angiogram scene?
Did you know that slave labor at Flossenbürg concentration camp was essential to restoring the production of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter plane after Big Week?
Did you know that the Greater London Group, a research centre at the London School of Economics, played a major role in the reformation of the structure of London government in the 1960s?
Did you know that the Limburger Domsingknaben, a boys' choir founded in 1967 by Wilhelm Kempf to sing at the Limburg Cathedral, took part in the premiere of Kagel's Sankt-Bach-Passion?
Did you know that Egyptologist Wafaa El Saddik has provided historical tours to Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Carter, Helmut Schmidt, and Anwar Sadat?
Did you know that Philip Hugh-Jones coined the term type J diabetes, where J stands for Jamaica?
Did you know that Saudi prince Khaled bin Alwaleed bin Talal is a vegan?
Did you know that The Princess Saves Herself in This One?
Did you know that Yan Luguang and his colleagues built China's first tokamak?
Did you know that convicted assassin Anastasia Bitsenko was one of the seven Soviet delegates to the German-Soviet peace negotiations in World War I?
Did you know that four Apollo 11 Fiftieth Anniversary commemorative coins were issued in 2019 to commemorate the first landing on the Moon?
Did you know that the 16 plaques called the Magdeburg Ivories (one pictured) were probably made around 968 to decorate an unknown cathedral fixture destroyed in the next century?
Did you know that the 1961 book Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber told the story of Ishi, the last known member of the Yahi people?
Did you know that the tenor Ewandro Stenzowski went from early competition successes in Brazil to leading roles such as Rodolfo in La bohème at the Landestheater Detmold?
Did you know that the unstable limpet is essentially a parasite of the kelp Saccharina dentigera?
Did you know that 1920s Broadway star Adele Astaire taught dance steps to the Prince of Wales, played backgammon with Winston Churchill, and proposed to an English nobleman in an American speakeasy?
Did you know that Gun Runner won the 2017 Whitney Stakes with another horse's shoe caught in his tail?
Did you know that Ida Dorsey built the last standing bordello from Minneapolis' three red-light districts?
Did you know that Mount Ferguson in Nevada was named after geologist Henry G. Ferguson?
Did you know that Peggy Goodin wrote her Hopwood Award-winning novel Clementine in the basement of the Chi Omega sorority house at the University of Michigan?
Did you know that Soham El Wardini is the first female mayor of post-independence Dakar, Senegal?
Did you know that a crisper drawer can help protect fruits and vegetables from ethylene gas?
Did you know that a disputed Priory election in early 14th-century Yorkshire led to nuns being placed under interdict and later being accused of being "daughters of perdition" by their own Archbishop?
Did you know that the 2019 Khash–Zahedan suicide bombing, which killed 27 of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, has been reported as one of the deadliest attacks in Iran in years?
Did you know that the staged version of Henze's radio opera Ein Landarzt, closely based on a short story by Kafka, premiered at the Frankfurt Opera?
Did you know that 18-year-old Ashwathi Pillai is the youngest-ever winner of the Swedish Senior National Championship in badminton?
Did you know that Australian actress April Rose Pengilly had not yet appeared on-screen as her Neighbours character Chloe Brennan when she was longlisted for a Logie Award?
Did you know that Austrian-born Malcolm Mencer Martin was interned by the British at the beginning of World War II, and graduated from King's College, Newcastle, at war's end?
Did you know that Caroline Katzenstein began campaigning for women's suffrage in 1910 and, once the vote was granted, focused on supporting the Equal Rights Amendment – which is still not ratified today?
Did you know that Colorado Springs architect Elizabeth Wright Ingraham incorporated natural light into her designs, outfitting one home with a 100-foot (30 m) high skylight?
Did you know that Elizabeth Webber Harris is the only woman to receive a Victoria Cross, though hers was a replica given by permission of Queen Victoria?
Did you know that Janell Cannon's children's book Stellaluna won a Grammy Award for best spoken word album?
Did you know that Ten Talents, a 50-year-old vegetarian and vegan cookbook that is still in print, was the first to feature recipes for soy milk ice cream shakes?
Did you know that during a grand jury investigation into land-sale fraud at New York City's Kissena Park, Queens borough president Joseph Bermel resigned and fled the U.S. the day before he was scheduled to testify?
Did you know that for Vida, Tanya Saracho assembled an all-Latinx, "heavily queer" writers' room and a directorial team who are all Latinx or women of color?
Did you know that of the three main types of helmets that proliferated in early medieval Europe, the Lamellenhelm (example pictured) was the only one derived from eastern, rather than Roman, examples?
Did you know that one of the two hosts of Dopey, a podcast about addiction, died of a drug overdose?
Did you know that the motet Lord, have mercy upon us was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1833, setting responses from the Book of Common Prayer?
Did you know that Dutch footballer Leon de Kogel's playing career ended following a car accident in which he had to be cut out of his vehicle by the fire service?
Did you know that Henry Ward's painting The 'Finger-Assisted' Nephrectomy of Professor Nadey Hakim is based upon The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt?
Did you know that Robert Schunk, who performed minor roles at the Bayreuth Festival, stepped in successfully for Peter Hofmann as Siegmund in Die Walküre there?