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Did you know that Robert and Kathleen Ridder helped the Gophers get the first ice rink for women in college hockey?
Did you know that Yang Kuo-shu, who earned the first PhD in psychology in Taiwan, founded indigenous Chinese psychology and studied such phenomena as yuanfen, guanxi, and face?
Did you know that in 1794, a silver statue of the Virgin Mary from the chapel at Notre-Dame de la Garde was melted down at the mint of Marseille located on Rue du Tapis-Vert?
Did you know that the French submarine X was the first to use twin shafts?
Did you know that the Provisional Army of the United States had only seven officers?
Did you know that the footballer Ted Gorin scored Scunthorpe United's first goal in the Football League?
Did you know that the worm Polydora glycymerica bores into the shell of bivalve molluscs, mainly Glycymeris yessoensis, and lives inside it?
Did you know that while raising two young children, Li Minhua became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at MIT?
Did you know that Debbie Mucarsel-Powell is set to become the first Ecuadorian-born member of the United States Congress?
Did you know that Karel Sperber escaped to England after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia, but was sent to Auschwitz after the ship on which he served as a doctor was sunk by the Germans?
Did you know that MLS Cup 2002 was the first of five MLS Cups lost by the New England Revolution and the first of five won by the LA Galaxy?
Did you know that Prunus kansuensis, the Gansu peach, has pits that are not pitted?
Did you know that Young Voters for the President helped Richard Nixon capture 52 percent of the "under 30" vote during the 1972 United States presidential election?
Did you know that although the lyrics of Bob Seger's song "Her Strut" were criticized for being misogynistic, they were inspired by Seger's admiration for Jane Fonda?
Did you know that before Melvin Cohn became a co-founder of the Salk Institute, he studied the after-effects of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima?
Did you know that the critically endangered Eyrewell ground beetle is known from just one locality—a pine plantation in New Zealand which is currently being cut down and turned into dairy farms?
Did you know that the reforms of Kawaji Toshiyoshi to standardize police swordsmanship contributed to the development of kendo?
Did you know that Derrick Barnes, author of the award-winning children's book Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut, began his career as the first black male copywriter for Hallmark?
Did you know that Irritator (model pictured), a spinosaurid dinosaur, was named due to the frustration of palaeontologists who discovered that its skull had been covered with plaster by fossil dealers?
Did you know that Native American poet Jennifer Foerster co-directs a program fostering arts education for women and girls of the Muscogee Nation?
Did you know that a geologic fault was discovered in the Yakima, Washington, area during construction of Interstate 82?
Did you know that in the only season W. Webber Kelly served as president of the Green Bay Packers, the team went undefeated and won their first NFL Championship?
Did you know that lymphocytic esophagitis is a rare and poorly understood medical condition that can lead to food getting stuck in the esophagus?
Did you know that structures which helped create oxygen in the atmosphere today persist in a group of salty turquoise lakes?
Did you know that the French submarine Regnault, built to fight in the First World War, was named after a 19th-century chemist?
Did you know that the Throne Hall of Dongola is the oldest preserved mosque in Sudan?
Did you know that thousands of bats are protected by monks at the Bat Pagoda in Sóc Trăng City, Vietnam?
Did you know that until at least 2009, Chen Chuangtian's laboratory was the only one in the world that could make the nonlinear optical crystal KBBF?
Did you know that Cardiff City lost £200 from a deal signed with Joe Hillier's transfer to Middlesbrough in 1930 after the club's manager wrote down the wrong sum?
Did you know that Meghan Trainor's 2019 album Treat Myself has been characterized as "filled with self-love anthems"?
Did you know that Wolfgang Rennert conducted the world premieres of Louise Talma's Die Alkestiade at the Frankfurt Opera and Rainer Kunad's Sabellicus at the Staatsoper Berlin?
Did you know that after the 1980 coup d'état that overthrew and killed Liberian President William Tolbert, the People's Redemption Council took power pending a rewrite of the country's constitution?
Did you know that as a child, Japanese voice actress Nichika Ōmori wanted to become a magical girl after gaining an interest in the anime series Sailor Moon?
Did you know that in 2016, a researcher used the Statcheck software package to scan more than 50,000 peer-reviewed psychology articles for statistical errors, and then posted the results on PubPeer?
Did you know that the Indonesian video game Rage in Peace was loosely inspired by the works of Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho?
Did you know that the Nazi dentist Martin Hellinger, convicted of removing dental gold from victims at Ravensbrück, was released in 1955 and given a special grant to reopen his dental practice?
Did you know that the Royal Air Force thought that Green Garlic was very good indeed?
Did you know that when the statue Bishop John Carroll was unveiled in 1912, a plaster cast version was secretly used instead?
Did you know that "Dr. Birdbath", a voice actor known for mimicking the sounds of birds and other animals, was the voice of Cheetah in the Tarzan movies?
Did you know that Gongsun Shu proclaimed himself emperor of Chengjia and issued his own iron coins (example pictured), in defiance of the Han dynasty?
Did you know that President Donald Trump's comment that "it's a very scary time for young men in America" inspired a viral protest song?
Did you know that Qerim Sadiku, an Albanian Catholic blessed, said "Long live Christ our King. Long live Albania!" just before his execution?
Did you know that Tadashi Suzuki, librettist for the opera Vision of Lear, also served as stage director and costume and lighting designer for its premiere at the 1998 Munich Biennale?
Did you know that a member of a Waffen-SS lobby group contributed to Germany's official history of World War II?
Did you know that before becoming a writer for Saturday Night Live, actress Alison Gates said "my dream job would be writing instead of performing"?
Did you know that since the Konin Lakes became hotter, non-native species which have become established there include one species of flatworm, three of bryozoa, three of crustacean, seven of mollusca, and at least six species of fish?
Did you know that the Estadio Jesús Martínez "Palillo" in Mexico City has housed Olympic field hockey, professional American football, and Central American migrants?
Did you know that the death of Venezuelan politician Fernando Albán Salazar led to protests in Caracas, and calls for investigations by the European Union and the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner?
Did you know that the design of Gants Hill tube station concourse was inspired by stations on the Moscow Metro?
Did you know that "House of the King" by Focus has been a theme tune on British television twice?
Did you know that King's Cross St Pancras is the busiest station on the London Underground?
Did you know that Latvian artist Rūdolfs Pērle was sent to the Caucasus front in World War I as an expert on observation balloons?
Did you know that architect Agnes Ballard once said she designed "apartments, residences and hot dog stands"?
Did you know that having fought in three wars and numerous battles, Yao Baoqian said the most tragic experience of his life was the Great Tangshan earthquake?
Did you know that in the film Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha, 75-year-old Melvin Van Peebles plays himself, while his mother is 40 years younger than him, and his lover is young enough to be his granddaughter?
Did you know that the police force of a town in Jalisco, Mexico, was disarmed in 2015 after their own officers ambushed the national police?
Did you know that the shrub Hakea pulvinifera was first described in 1962, believed extinct in 1971, and rediscovered in 1988?
Did you know that when the student Li Xifan published articles criticizing the scholar Yu Pingbo, Mao Zedong praised the "nobody" Li and launched an attack on the "bigwig" Yu?
Did you know that Eratosthenes, the head librarian of the Library of Alexandria, calculated the circumference of the earth with remarkable accuracy in the third century BC?
Did you know that Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave contains what is believed to be the world's oldest figurative art?
Did you know that Max Rose, the U.S. Representative-elect for Staten Island and south Brooklyn, is the recipient of a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart?
Did you know that Roz Young's column appeared opposite the editorial page in the Dayton Daily News at a time when most women writers were relegated to the women's pages?
Did you know that Tom Adeyemi turned down a place at Cambridge University in order to become a professional footballer?
Did you know that at the Battle of Damme, a smaller English fleet captured 300 French ships and burned another 100?
Did you know that gymnast Pierre Payssé, who won two gold medals at the 1906 Intercalated Games, later helped organise women's football matches?
Did you know that in 1887, Temulji Bhicaji Nariman co-founded one of the first maternity hospitals in Bombay?
Did you know that in the late 19th century, Australian author Louis Becke's infant daughter went on a trip to Tamakautoga without him?
Did you know that murder stones (example pictured) were historically erected in the United Kingdom to mark the locations of unlawful killings?
Did you know that the Kenya Coast Guard Service commissioned its first vessel last month?
Did you know that the eleven-armed starfish Coscinasterias muricata can reproduce by binary fission, splitting apart to make two new individuals?
Did you know that with an average age of 14.4 years, Sexy Zone became the youngest music act to top the weekly Oricon Singles Chart with its eponymously named debut single?
Did you know that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos aims to land rockets on a moving ship?
Did you know that Aurelia Henry Reinhardt was the longest serving president in the history of Mills College?
Did you know that Leonard Hall, a leading member of the British Independent Labour Party, worked as a cowboy in the United States?
Did you know that Slovak paramilitary groups that collaborated with Nazi Germany participated in the two largest massacres in Slovakia during World War II?
Did you know that Wang Guangying, the brother-in-law of Chinese President Liu Shaoqi, was likely the first person to be publicly referred to as a "red capitalist"?
Did you know that in 1961, the surgeon Charles Rob successfully used his shirt to repair an aortic aneurysm?
Did you know that the first own goal and penalty kick in MLS Cup history were caused by the same player at MLS Cup 2003?
Did you know that the mace pagoda was twice presumed extinct, but in each case reappeared in its natural habitat from seed after a wildfire?
Did you know that AJ Gil, who placed eighth on season 1 of American Idol, sang the national anthem at the first concert ever held at Seattle's Seahawks Stadium?
Did you know that Adruti Laxmibai introduced free education for girls in the Indian state of Odisha?
Did you know that a star system located around 8,000 light years from Earth may produce a gamma-ray burst?
Did you know that anime musician Yuiko Ōhara was selected as a brand ambassador of Japan's Baseball Challenge League?
Did you know that in 1901, Charlotte Reeve Conover led the Young Women's League in taking over publication for a day of the Dayton Daily News?
Did you know that in German war crimes trials after World War II, Befehlsnotstand, the necessity to obey orders, was successfully used as a defence, but was rarely justified?
Did you know that in the five years since the disappearance of Heather Elvis, there have been several trials related to the case but her whereabouts are still unknown?
Did you know that the 1964 church for the new parish Zu den heiligen Engeln (To the Holy Angels) in Hanover was designed by Josef Bieling to symbolize the tent of God among men?
Did you know that the Cloughmore Stone in Kilbroney Park is said to have been thrown there by Finn Mac Cool?
Did you know that the entirety of the film LOL was improvised?
Did you know that the frigate HMS Latona rescued the ship-of-the-line HMS Bellerophon on the Glorious First of June?
Did you know that Karabo Mathang-Tshabuse is South Africa's first female FIFA-accredited soccer agent?
Did you know that Kathleen Hall Jamieson, author of Cyberwar, thinks it "highly probable" that Russia changed the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election?
Did you know that Rabbi Michael Robinson and 15 other Reform rabbis were arrested and jailed after answering Martin Luther King's call to stand with him for civil rights in St. Augustine, Florida?
Did you know that Roger Norman Sainsbury was named a joint winner of Construction News "man of the year" award in 1979 for his work on the Natwest Tower?
Did you know that Yohana Yembise is the first female minister in the Government of Indonesia to come from Papua?
Did you know that artist Go Mishima selected his pen name as a tribute to his friend, the writer Yukio Mishima?
Did you know that as an ally of the Mamluk Sultanate, the Kingdom of al-Abwab provided an Assassin to watch over the Mamluk puppet king in Dongola?
Did you know that data from Media Bias/Fact Check was used to train an artificial intelligence machine learning algorithm to identify fake news?
Did you know that Basil Cardew, whose father was killed in a road accident, became one of the pre-eminent motoring journalists in Britain?
Did you know that Daniel Goldhagen threatened to sue Ruth Bettina Birn for libel for her critique of his work Hitler's Willing Executioners?
Did you know that Jean-Claude Zehnder, for decades the head of the department for organ at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, has edited organ works by Bach for a recent new edition?
Did you know that Poèmes pour Mi is a song cycle by Olivier Messiaen, who set his own poems for a grand soprano dramatique and orchestra, and dedicated it to his wife?
Did you know that Sitaris muralis, a species of blister beetle, is a kleptoparasite of digger bees?
Did you know that U.S. Representative-Elect Joe Cunningham is an Eagle Scout?
Did you know that a documentary which follows Geert Wilders's campaign for Prime Minister of the Netherlands in 2017 compares him to Donald Trump?
Did you know that after the French-built Japanese submarine No. 14 was requisitioned by France and commissioned into its navy as Armide, the Japanese built their own No. 14 to the same design?
Did you know that in 1959, Lois Graham became the first woman in the United States to earn a PhD in mechanical engineering?
Did you know that in 2017, Australian rules footballer Jackson Nelson finished a game against Hawthorn despite breaking his wrist in the second quarter?
Did you know that in the early history of the Earth's crust, the dichotomy between oceanic crust and elevated continental crust may have been caused by a massive meteorite bombardment?
Did you know that since 1851, 162 Atlantic hurricanes (example pictured) reached a peak intensity of Category 3 on the Saffir–Simpson scale?
Did you know that the white-crested turaco has a wider range than Bannerman's turaco, perhaps because it was able to adapt to new habitats when climate change reduced forest cover?
Did you know that when the Pokémon Meltan was first revealed in Pokémon Go, many players thought it was a placeholder revealed by a glitch?
Did you know that former footballer Charlie McGeever is principal of a Gaelcholáiste?
Did you know that general manager Claus Leininger's tenure at the Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen was described as the period of the company's highest artistic accomplishment?
Did you know that in 1983, Bruno Reichart performed Germany's first combined heart–lung transplant?
Did you know that literary critic Ron Charles said that the "beauty of Daniel Mason's new novel, The Winter Soldier, persists even through scenes of unspeakable agony"?
Did you know that the 1959 West German film Roses for the Prosecutor was one of the rare post-war German films that openly discussed the Nazi justice system?
Did you know that the French submarine Narval was sunk by the same minefield that sank its sister ship Morse six months earlier?
Did you know that the lyrics of the 2018 Basshunter song "Masterpiece" quote lines from the 2009 video game League of Legends?
Did you know that the music of Japanese dōjin artist Akari Nanawo has been viewed more than 9 million times on the video sharing site Niconico?
Did you know that the springtail Allacma fusca can tolerate a 10% level of carbon dioxide for a few hours while Folsomia candida, which lives deeper in the soil, can survive under the same conditions more than six weeks?
Did you know that the victim of the first house fire in America for which an account was published can be found at the Point of Graves in Portsmouth, New Hampshire?
Did you know that two portraits of 17th-century midwife Jacquemijntje Garniers by her son, the Dutch painter Gabriël Metsu, sold in London and Paris more than 200 years later?
Did you know that while regent of Kebumen, Indonesia, Rustriningsih would answer phone calls from her constituents during a TV programme?
Did you know that Binokel, from which the American card game of Pinochle was developed in the 19th century, is still popular in its native Württemberg?
Did you know that Herbert Vivian, a leader of the Neo-Jacobite Revival and later a fascist, was the first journalist to interview Winston Churchill?
Did you know that Joe Nguyen and My-Linh Thai were the first two Vietnamese American legislators to be elected to the Washington State Legislature?
Did you know that Joseph Jagger broke the bank at Monte Carlo?
Did you know that astronaut Buzz Aldrin created a rap single with Snoop Dogg to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Moon landing?
Did you know that historically, curryfish (example pictured) was not commercially harvested because it disintegrated too easily when handled?
Did you know that of the eight Li brothers, the eldest taught Mao Zedong, the second became the "father of Chinese popular music", and the youngest wrote a novel that was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film?
Did you know that stromatolites, which constitute the main evidence of life from 3.5 to 1.5 billion years ago, still grow in Laguna Socompa?
Did you know that the French submarine Laplace, built during World War I, was named after astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace?
Did you know that the films Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America, Spectres of the Spectrum, and Mock Up on Mu were created using found footage from the collection of Craig Baldwin?
Did you know that "Lift up your heads, O ye gates" from David's Psalm 24 has been paraphrased in Advent songs such as "Macht hoch die Tür", and was set in Handel's Messiah to represent the Ascension?
Did you know that Chungará Lake was formed between 17,000 and 8,000 years ago when the Parinacota volcano collapsed and debris dammed a river?
Did you know that Clémentine Touré coached the Ivory Coast women's national football team in their first matches outside Africa at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup?
Did you know that Heather Spears practiced drawing premature and critically-ill infants at night in a neonatal intensive care unit?
Did you know that Russian scientist Natan Yavlinsky was credited as the inventor and developer of the world's first working tokamak?
Did you know that in the 1860s, Charles Hunter added a needle to the design of the syringe and coined the name "hypodermic"?
Did you know that the St. Bonifatius church in Kassel, completed in 1957 on a design by Josef Bieling, has been regarded as one of the city's most striking buildings from the postwar period?
Did you know that the church of St. Nikolai, the oldest building of Kiel, was destroyed in World War II and restored with a simpler interior?
Did you know that the leopard eel is neither a leopard nor an eel?
Did you know that baseball pitcher Henry Mathewson and his brothers, among them Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson, were said to have been taught to throw by their mother?
Did you know that historian and educator Tomas Fonacier had the longest public service record in the Philippines, spanning more than six decades?
Did you know that reindeer were introduced to St. Lawrence Island to prevent starvation following the famine of 1878–1880, which killed more than 1,000 people?
Did you know that the Adoration of the Shepherds (detail pictured) by Giovanni Cariani seems to have been started as a Rest on the Flight into Egypt before the subject was changed by adding shepherds?
Did you know that the Christmas carol "Green Groweth the Holly" was composed and written by King Henry VIII?
Did you know that the German Christmas hymn "Fröhlich soll mein Herze springen" (Merrily my heart shall leap) by Paul Gerhardt was published by Johann Crüger, who also wrote the melody?
Did you know that the choir sings Jauchzet, frohlocket! (Shout for joy, exult!), the beginning of Part I of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, first imitating kettledrums due to its secular model?
Did you know that the footballer Owen McNally scored eight goals in a single match, which remains a joint record for the Scottish Football League?
Did you know that the larva of Mantispa styriaca spins a cocoon inside a spider's egg sac?
Did you know that the study of intergroup relations has led to the development of psychological interventions to reduce group conflict and prejudice?
Did you know that while serving in the British Army in 19th-century Afghanistan, Milo Talbot carried out a survey of the Buddhas of Bamiyan?
Did you know that "Cozy Little Christmas" is Katy Perry's second Christmas song after "Every Day Is a Holiday"?
Did you know that Hanifan Yudani Kusumah's hug of Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto during the 2018 Asian Games was seen as a gesture of national unity?
Did you know that Lisa Buckwitz and Mariama Jamanka, who were nicknamed the "Berlin Bob", won the two-woman bobsleigh event at the 2018 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that a "Tex-Mex" version of Santa Claus known as Pancho Claus (example pictured) is popular in parts of the United States?
Did you know that the "Shepherd's Pipe Carol" was reportedly sung by choirs in the Baltic states as a sign of resistance to Soviet control?
Did you know that the Penney-Missouri Awards for women's page journalism were described as the "Pulitzer Prize of feature writing"?
Did you know that the ground plum was used as medicine for horses by the Lakota people?
Did you know that "Sozusagen grundlos vergnügt" ("Call it causelessly merry") was one of about 40 poems by Mascha Kaléko set to music on a 2011 album?
Did you know that Clare Faulds, the first woman admitted to the Manx bar, later served as the Vicar General of Sodor and Man?
Did you know that Lord Byron was called a "melancholy rat" for writing the Hebrew Melodies?
Did you know that professor Dawn Mabalon is credited with helping to get Little Manila, Stockton, listed as one of America's Most Endangered Places?
Did you know that Dorothée Munyaneza, who moved to London as a girl because of the Rwandan genocide, has choreographed two works about her experiences?
Did you know that Mary Jane Odell was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame in 1979, the year before her appointment as Secretary of State of Iowa?
Did you know that after initially committing to Stanford, David Long agreed to play for Michigan Wolverines football after Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh climbed a tree on a recruiting visit?
Did you know that prior to a Red Cross inspection of Theresienstadt ghetto, a "beautification" program there included the transfer of 7,500 prisoners to Auschwitz?
Did you know that the Phaya Tani cannon in front of Thailand's Ministry of Defence headquarters was turned around in 2004, in a rumoured attempt to fix bad luck from its pointing at the Grand Palace?