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Did you know that Tucson, Arizona, school board president George J. Roskruge demanded the resignation or suspension of five female teachers after they were caught smoking and drinking with men?
Did you know that after astronaut Gordon Cooper died, his ashes were launched into space three times?
Did you know that for NHL 96, the National Hockey League changed its stance on fighting in licensed hockey video games and allowed the feature as long as it occurred only once or twice per game?
Did you know that laboratory experiments suggest that the free-swimming larva of the whale barnacle Coronula diadema is induced to settle on a host whale in response to chemical cues from its skin?
Did you know that red-collared lorikeets sometimes appear drunk at the end of the dry season in Darwin?
Did you know that the British submarine HMS Syrtis twice towed X-class midget submarines, and on both occasions the submarines sank while under tow?
Did you know that the Cinderella starfish normally fasts while brooding its young?
Did you know that the first airborne radar system, ASV Mk. II, led to the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck?
Did you know that Chiu Hsien-chih was one of the first two legislative candidates supported by the newly established New Power Party?
Did you know that Eco-Link@BKE, the first ecological corridor of its kind in Southeast Asia, is intended to help conserve animals such as the banded leaf monkey and Sunda pangolin in Singapore?
Did you know that Mary Margaret Francis told Graham Lord that her husband, Dick Francis, "would like me to have all the credit" for his novels?
Did you know that Nao Tōyama, whose solo singles have been used as theme songs for anime series on television and in film, was tone-deaf as a girl?
Did you know that Qiu Dahong studied the force of sea waves?
Did you know that Queens Botanical Garden in New York City was built on top of landfill atop a creek?
Did you know that Ruthilde Boesch, who performed as Mozart's Susanna and in 37 other roles at the Vienna State Opera, made five world tours of recitals with her second husband as her accompanist?
Did you know that Zuzana Marková's last-minute performance as Lucia di Lammermoor at Opéra de Marseille in 2014 was described as "dazzling" and praised for its depth of understanding?
Did you know that for Pacific Islanders, the sudden arrival of a mass of men and machines during World War II resulted in lasting religious effects, such as cargo cults?
Did you know that from age nine, college basketball player Zion Williamson began waking up at 5 a.m. every morning to train?
Did you know that in the 2006 UK Championship snooker tournament, Ronnie O'Sullivan conceded his quarter-final match against Stephen Hendry while 4–1 frames behind in a best of 17 frames match?
Did you know that the Chandos Anthems, psalm settings by Handel as composer in residence at Cannons, were described as a "panorama of the composer's creative output"?
Did you know that wildlife photographer Thomas D. Mangelsen referred to Grizzly 399 as "An Icon of Motherhood", and  60 Minutes claimed she is "the most famous mother grizzly in the world"?
Did you know that Amy Shuler Goodwin is the first woman to serve as mayor of Charleston, West Virginia?
Did you know that Mendelssohn was requested to compose Psalm 100 for the new Hamburg Temple, but probably set it as Jauchzet dem Herrn, alle Welt for the Berlin Cathedral?
Did you know that Scottish sculptor John Hutchison was commissioned by Queen Victoria to create her portrait bust (sketch shown)?
Did you know that Spas Wenkoff, first a tenor at a Bulgarian amateur theatre, appeared as Tristan at the Staatsoper Dresden, and was then invited to sing the role at the centenary Bayreuth Festival?
Did you know that actor Tom O'Sullivan's first television role was on Home and Away as a journalist who got into a fight with Alf Stewart (Ray Meagher)?
Did you know that after scientist Qian Lingxi was denounced during the Cultural Revolution, China's nuclear submarine project sought the help of Premier Zhou Enlai to make him available for this strategic program?
Did you know that major general John K. Singlaub said that Frank Dux's book The Secret Man, which states Dux was recruited in a urinal to work for the CIA, was "an insult" to the reader's intelligence?
Did you know that six-time world snooker champion Steve Davis reached his 100th career final in the 2005 UK Championship?
Did you know that the cactus wren builds nests shaped like American footballs in spiny cholla and saguaro cactus but, despite this protection, the coachwhip snake still preys on chicks?
Did you know that Sam Bass was NASCAR's first officially licensed artist?
Did you know that Spinophorosaurus had spikes on its tail, unlike most other sauropod dinosaurs?
Did you know that Stephen Hendry compiled his 700th career century break during the first round of the 2007 Malta Cup snooker tournament?
Did you know that Tara Sweeney is the first Alaska Native to oversee the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
Did you know that Yasumi Matsuno was an avid player of Final Fantasy XIV before being hired to write a scenario based on his Ivalice setting for the game's expansion, Stormblood?
Did you know that all 15 torpedoes fired by HMS Simoom during her career missed their targets, but 3 hit and sank a destroyer instead?
Did you know that if children are not exposed to sounds and language during their first years of life, they will have difficulty in developing language—which can be prevented through hearing screening for infants?
Did you know that the Monumento Rodoviário da Rodovia Presidente Dutra in Rio de Janeiro state opened in 1938 as a tourist observation point and lighthouse, but it was abandoned in 1978?
Did you know that the soprano Ursula Wendt-Walther appeared in more than 60 operatic roles at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, including Marei in the world premiere of Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge?
Did you know that Alfred Clayton Cole, a director of the Bank of England, said: "during any time of crisis ... all that the Bank is called upon to do is to take care of itself"?
Did you know that André Previn composed his Violin Concerto for Anne-Sophie Mutter, his future wife?
Did you know that Beethoven composed two symphonies during the eight years he lived in the Pasqualati House in Vienna?
Did you know that Douglas Albert Munro is the only member of the U.S. Coast Guard to receive the Medal of Honor?
Did you know that John Leak was convicted of desertion by a court-martial, even though he had previously been awarded the Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery?
Did you know that Véronique Aka was the first woman to be elected president of an Ivorian regional council?
Did you know that after Huang Zhiqian, chief designer of the Chinese fighter jet Shenyang J-8, died in a plane crash in Egypt, his deputy Gu Songfen and other colleagues completed the project?
Did you know that the Royal Navy damaged Samuel Travis' house in 1775, then returned 38 years later and attacked his ship?
Did you know that the antisemitic tale "The Jew Among Thorns" was used to indoctrinate children in Nazi Germany?
Did you know that Amina Gerba's beauty-care companies hire and give a portion of profits to the 2,000 women of the Songtaaba Cooperative in Burkina Faso?
Did you know that Swiss businessman Cesar Lüthi pioneered the use of revolving billboards in sports marketing?
Did you know that a 2016 Japanese light novel series received praise for its unique protagonist, who is a vending machine?
Did you know that despite being a co-author of The Spy Chronicles, Asad Durrani was not allowed to attend the launch of the book?
Did you know that fossils found at Granton Shrimp Bed provided evidence of the structure of conodonts?
Did you know that future Phoenix mayor James D. Monihon's regiment was attacked by an estimated 450 Apaches led by chief Cochise during the American Civil War?
Did you know that in 1895, Edward Chauncey Luard, a planter in British Guiana, led a campaign to amend the colony's constitution?
Did you know that researchers Eileen Shore and Frederick Kaplan discovered the mutation responsible for a disease that turns muscle into bone?
Did you know that the U.S. Public Health Service can hire – but not fire – scientists "without regard to the civil-service laws" using a Title 42 appointment?
Did you know that the conductor Marc Piollet recorded rarely performed symphonies by Norbert Burgmüller and Hugo Staehle, and a DVD of Carmen staged by Calixto Bieito?
Did you know that until 2002, researchers thought that the two species of Cuban warblers (Oriente warbler pictured) belonged in the New World warbler family?
Did you know that "Das Weizenkorn muss sterben" (The grain of wheat must die), the signature song written by Lothar Zenetti, deals with the mystery of faith that in death there is life?
Did you know that Frant Gwo's science fiction film The Wandering Earth is the world's highest-grossing film of 2019 so far and the second highest-grossing film of all time in China?
Did you know that Nepal declared a national day of mourning after the 2019 Taplejung helicopter crash?
Did you know that Raymond Butt compiled a directory of "every station, halt, platform and stopping place on the British railway passenger network"?
Did you know that Roma producer Gabriela Rodríguez is the first Latin American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture?
Did you know that Wayne Messam, mayor of Miramar, Florida, won a national championship in American football with the Florida State Seminoles?
Did you know that if Caesar had successfully carried out his planned invasions, he would, according to Plutarch, have ensured that his empire "would then be bounded on all sides by the ocean"?
Did you know that shortly after purchasing the coffin of Nedjemankh for $4 million, the Metropolitan Museum of Art decided to return it to Egypt?
Did you know that the 2019 book We Are Displaced by Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai tells the stories of ten displaced girls, including herself?
Did you know that Anatoli Khorozov is referred to as the father of ice hockey in Ukraine?
Did you know that E Dongchen participated in eleven polar expeditions, including China's first expeditions to Antarctica and the North Pole?
Did you know that Ian Eaves has catalogued the arms and armour of Queen Elizabeth II, and written about those of King Henry VIII?
Did you know that Jules Van Nuffel, founder and conductor of the choir at the Mechelen Cathedral, set Psalm 93, Dominus regnavit, for choir and organ – but it was Psalm 92 for him?
Did you know that Marcello Costa spent his career researching the links between the nervous system and the gut?
Did you know that Venezuelan journalist Luz Mely Reyes was one of the "Guardians" spotlighted for the 2018 Time Person of the Year?
Did you know that a U.S. presidential candidate making a campaign announcement is said to "throw one's hat in the ring", after a boxing metaphor popularized by the Theodore Roosevelt 1912 presidential campaign?
Did you know that although the yacare caiman was "heading for oblivion" in the 1980s due to hunting, its current population in the Pantanal wetlands alone is about 10 million?
Did you know that in India, a postal officer became a spymaster?
Did you know that preceding a 1948 Dutch attack, Daan Jahja recommended the creation of a contingent government in exile, which later became the Emergency Government of the Republic of Indonesia?
Did you know that the boarding net of the Mary Rose trapped her crew aboard the ship as she was sinking?
Did you know that Arvo Pärt composed the motet The Deer's Cry on a commission from Louth, Ireland, setting the conclusion of Saint Patrick's Breastplate, "Christ with me"?
Did you know that Indian activist S. Dharmambal was honoured as a Heroic Tamil Mother for her contributions to the Tamil language?
Did you know that Xu Shunshou, chief designer of China's first jet aircraft, died after being tortured during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that mountaineer Andy Nisbet created more than 1,000 new winter climbing routes in Scotland?
Did you know that the upcoming Dr. Seuss book Horse Museum features horse-themed artwork by Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and other artists?
Did you know that Danielle Ponter is the first member of the Rioli–Long family – described as one of "footy's most famous dynasties" – to play top-level women's Australian rules football?
Did you know that Josiah Wedgwood "was very unwilling to disfigure" his Frog Service with "this reptile", but Catherine the Great insisted it appear on all 944 pieces?
Did you know that after Tu Jida experienced Japanese aerial bombing at the age of ten, he studied aircraft design and came to be known as the "father of the J-7 fighters"?
Did you know that after the editor of an Alabama newspaper called for the return of the Ku Klux Klan, he was initially replaced by an African-American woman?
Did you know that the Dutch musicologist Leo Riemens and the German physician Karl-Josef Kutsch wrote Großes Sängerlexikon, a biographical dictionary of opera singers, with 18,760 entries in 2012?
Did you know that Soediro stole a limousine to be used as Sukarno's presidential car, despite not knowing how to drive?
Did you know that U.S. citizens are prohibited from engaging in business activities with Víctor Manuel Vázquez Mireles?
Did you know that a series of articles by investigative journalist Ida Tarbell in 1902 led to the dissolution of Standard Oil as a monopoly?
Did you know that the graceful kelp crab tends to inhabit the understory rather than the canopy of the kelp forest?
Did you know that He Yousheng studied the high-speed hydrodynamics of torpedoes?
Did you know that Jonas Noreika is commemorated on plaques and street signs in Lithuania, despite his active participation in the Holocaust?
Did you know that in 1878, Liverpool stamp dealer Thomas Ridpath bought a collection of British Guiana stamps for £120 that included the unique 1-cent magenta, which sold in 2014 for US$9,480,000?
Did you know that the 23-storey Dusit Thani Hotel, with its distinctive golden spire, was the tallest building in Bangkok when it opened in 1970?
Did you know that the Scythian archers may have functioned as a police force in ancient Athens?
Did you know that the soprano and voice teacher Ria Ginster sang recitals at Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall, and recorded Rossini's Petite messe solennelle conducted by Sir John Barbirolli?
Did you know that American philatelist William Thorne owned a unique block of four United States 1869 24-cent stamps with an inverted center showing the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence?
Did you know that Artur Schnabel's recordings of Beethoven's piano sonatas were the first complete recordings ever made of all of the composer's 32 piano sonatas?
Did you know that Boro Maa created a refugee colony at Thakurnagar for the Matuas, who were displaced due to the 1947 Partition of Bengal?
Did you know that Jon Teske posted a double-double in his first collegiate start and the first collegiate basketball game played at Little Caesars Arena?
Did you know that Nickey Barclay played with Fanny, Cocker, and Ball?
Did you know that Tobago's Main Ridge is one of the oldest protected areas in the world set aside for conservation, having been created by the British Parliament in 1776?
Did you know that Percy Furnivall, Britain's first heart surgeon, was also a champion amateur bicyclist, tricyclist, and tandemist?
Did you know that Sharlene San Pedro and Nash Aguas, the lead actors of the 2018 thriller Class of 2018, worked together on a sketch comedy show when they were children?
Did you know that according to historian An Zuozhang, the governing principle of the Western Han dynasty of ancient China was "doing nothing against nature"?
Did you know that the University of Mississippi band was asked to stop playing "From Dixie with Love" because fans kept chanting, "The South will rise again"?
Did you know that the soprano Margit Bokor created the role of Zdenka in Arabella by Richard Strauss at the Semperoper in Dresden in 1933, and performed the role in the UK premiere at the Royal Opera House?
Did you know that the wildlife of Sweden is likely to be affected by climate change, with the tree line moving further north and to higher altitudes, and forests replacing tundra?
Did you know that Rosie Bernard's bar in Monte Carlo, The Chatham, was "one of the temples of grand prix racing"?
Did you know that Tuvalu could only afford to become a member of the United Nations after selling its Internet country code top-level domain?
Did you know that among the live venues Japanese singer and voice actress Aimi performed at prior to her major debut was a steakhouse?
Did you know that architect Jörg Streli and his two colleagues designed the Sankt-Margarethen-Kapelle in Tyrol, which rises like a tower on a circular floor?
Did you know that Walter Wasservogel was the first full-time general secretary of the International Ice Hockey Federation?
Did you know that actor Jude Akuwudike originated the part of "the Queen" in the first British production of Not About Nightingales?
Did you know that the "Weird Al" parody song "Chicken Pot Pie" was not released at the request of vegetarian Paul McCartney, who felt it endorsed eating meat?
Did you know that the 2019 IndyCar Classic at Circuit of the Americas will be the first time that American open-wheel cars and Formula One have raced at the same track during their respective seasons since 2006?
Did you know that the fiery-browed starling, found only on Sulawesi in Indonesia, forms mixed flocks with the Sulawesi myna and grosbeak starling?
Did you know that Alfred Westou is said to have combed the hair and cut the nails of St Cuthbert, even though the saint had been dead for more than three centuries?
Did you know that Bekah Brunstetter's play The Cake, about a baker refusing to serve gay customers, was partly inspired by her father Peter S. Brunstetter's opposition to same-sex marriage?
Did you know that Karta, an orangutan at the Adelaide Zoo, escaped from her enclosure by short-circuiting an electrical fence using a stick?
Did you know that after her son, U.S. Coast Guard signalman Douglas Albert Munro, was killed in battle, 48-year-old Edith Munro joined the Coast Guard herself?
Did you know that the start of the Greek Revolution of 1821 is celebrated today?
Did you know that Swedish singer Sophia Somajo released her second album via The Pirate Bay?
Did you know that a visit to The Farm by UNICEF resulted in the development of The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook?
Did you know that modern cue sports games such as snooker and nine-ball can be traced back to the game of ground billiards, played with hoops and mallets (illustration shown)?
Did you know that physician Sumant Mehta spent five years in jails for his participation in the Indian independence movement?
Did you know that the sheriffs of more than a dozen of the 39 counties of Washington state have announced they will not enforce recently enacted gun-control legislation?
Did you know that , in rejecting so-called "New Criticism", Robert Kaske argued that medieval poetry needs to be read in context?
Did you know that Abby Cubillo is the first woman born and raised in the Northern Territory to play in the Women's National Basketball League?
Did you know that Portugal's Monastery of Serra do Pilar (church pictured) was designated a World Heritage Site in 1996?
Did you know that a Republican candidate has not won a Chicago mayoral election since 1927?
Did you know that in 2018 Lydia Steier, born in Hartford, Connecticut, became the first woman to stage Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Salzburg Festival?
Did you know that the Engenho dos Erasmos, built in Colonial Brazil around 1534 to produce sugar cane, was attacked by the English in 1591 and the Dutch in 1615?
Did you know that Sumiko Hennessy, a co-founder of the Asian Pacific Development Center in Denver, Colorado, has taught courses for corporate executives about Asian cultures and "stress management Asian-style"?
Did you know that after the Great Sichuan earthquake, Ding Yi donated more than 200,000 yuan to his former company to help with reconstruction?
Did you know that the Baseball Rule in American tort law holds that as long as a baseball team has protected seats available, fans injured by foul balls generally cannot hold the team liable?
Did you know that the Persian city of Arrajan, built using the labour of Roman prisoners of war in the early 6th century, later flourished as a large settlement by the 11th century?
Did you know that when Barbara Low and Dorothy Hodgkin determined the structure of penicillin in 1945, it was the largest molecule ever to be successfully investigated by X-ray crystallography?
Did you know that when Elly Mayday was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, she not only continued to model, but appeared in pictorials with a bald head from chemotherapy and surgery scars?
Did you know that Jane Somerville has "Unicorns" all around the world?
Did you know that Mark Angel produced the first African YouTube comedy channel to reach one million subscribers?
Did you know that Toronto treasure and antique dealer Billy Jamieson discovered the lost mummy of pharaoh Ramesses I when he purchased the Niagara Falls Museum?
Did you know that in 1674, the Dutch East India ship Wapen van Rotterdam was captured in Ronas Voe, Shetland, by three English men-of-war?
Did you know that the pink-necked green pigeon (male pictured) was one of the first species of bird recorded on Krakatoa after the main island erupted in 1883?
Did you know that when Riko Azuna auditioned to perform the opening theme to the anime series Bloom Into You, all she knew about the series was that it focuses on love between two girls?
Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin once rejected an offer from Hayao Miyazaki to adapt her Earthsea series for the screen, but changed her mind after watching Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro?
Did you know that jams made by French chocolatier Christine Ferber are sold in Tokyo Isetan department stores, each wrapped in red cloth with a white bow?
Did you know that the 1923 film The Shepherd King about the Biblical David has an opening scene in Egypt because of King Tut?
Did you know that the soprano Melitta Muszely appeared as the four women Hoffmann loves in Felsenstein's production at the Komische Oper Berlin in 1958, and still sang recitals at age 80?
Did you know that Bizzarro serves in the Connecticut Senate?
Did you know that Dippy is the most famous dinosaur skeleton in the world?
Did you know that Jesse James eliminated Warren G. Harding?
Did you know that a 2016 song by Taiiku Okazaki went viral in Japan as it parodied commonly used tropes in Japanese music videos?
Did you know that a Genie and three Beavers recognized Young People Fucking?
Did you know that a bronze statue co-created by Fiona Peever apparently stepped off its pedestal and sat down on some nearby steps?
Did you know that activist Linda Sarsour was a leader of the 2017 Women's March and the 2019 Women's March?
Did you know that in 1905, three days of violence in Warsaw were possibly sparked by a Bund activist trying to save his sister from sexual slavery?
Did you know that mobile mechanics were needed for the stationery service?
Did you know that not enough people entered Crinkley Bottom to keep it open?
Did you know that the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act ensures retroactive pay for US federal employees affected by government shutdowns?
Did you know that the United States once sued 422 casks of wine, and the wine won?
Did you know that you are onto a winner if you can catch four sows with the Jaggl, Zanggl and Buggl?
Did you know that zombies can be arrested before they've even committed a crime?
Did you know that Australians refused to call this bastard a bastard?
Did you know that Bill Gates' converted dustbin lorry helped old people get around Worthing?
Did you know that Patsy, the recently deceased Irish king, personally welcomed visitors who landed in his realm?
Did you know that a giant has been seen stomping buses underfoot in Arizona?
Did you know that people sometimes send lewd objects to IBM?
Did you know that the United States Supreme Court had a divorce and the daughter was sent to Scotland?