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Did you know that when Jo Ann Evansgardner ran for a position on the Pittsburgh City Council, she asked voters to "put this woman in her place"?
Did you know that "Ich lobe meinen Gott von ganzem Herzen" is a cheerful hymn based on the beginning of Psalm 9?
Did you know that Brooklyn's West Street Foundry, owned by Wilson Small, built the engine for Daniel Webster, which on debut in 1853 was the largest and fastest steamboat in Maine coastal service?
Did you know that Chicecream's ice cream flavours include aged cheese and bird's nests?
Did you know that Gentner Drummond flew in the first combat mission of Operation Desert Storm?
Did you know that South Carolina's Buford High School was named in 1925 after Continental Army Colonel Abraham Buford, who fought at a nearby battlefield in 1780?
Did you know that after a successful siege of Mogaung, Commander Thiri Zeya Thura rushed back to Ava, arriving there in time for the coronation of Narapati I to present the captured sawbwa?
Did you know that after the Italian soprano Fausta Labia worked at the Royal Swedish Opera, she appeared as Mascagni's Iris at La Fenice in Venice and as Wagner's Sieglinde at La Scala in Milan?
Did you know that the Treaty of Breda did not establish the borders of Acadia, so Hector d'Andigné de Grandfontaine established them at the Saint George River?
Did you know that the son of Reverend Canon W. W. Covey-Crump, Commander A. T. L. Covey-Crump, compiled a list of Jack-speak that is still consulted by historians of the Royal Navy?
Did you know that Adele reduced the length of "I Drink Wine" from fifteen to six minutes because her label thought that no one would play a fifteen-minute song on the radio?
Did you know that Isabel Darlington was the first woman lawyer in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and the only woman practicing law there for 45 years?
Did you know that Martin Nievera said "you won't see any dancers, fire eaters and things like that" at his 2003 World Concert Tour with Regine Velasquez?
Did you know that Rod Zaine scored his high school's championship-winning single in Canadian football before playing in the National Hockey League?
Did you know that Theophilus Gates started a nudist free-love Christian sect in the mid–19th century near Pottstown, Pennsylvania?
Did you know that after a massacre that took place there, the village of Sohagpur was renamed the "village of widows"?
Did you know that after its merger with India, the last raja of Jubbal State joined the Indian Foreign Service?
Did you know that organist Jehan Alain's Messe modale en septuor was written for a septet of soprano, alto, flute and string quartet?
Did you know that some members of the Daughters of the American Revolution came up with the idea to design a flag of Colorado, unaware that such a flag already existed?
Did you know that the head on top of the Museo Cabeza de Juárez inspired the pictogram of Guelatao metro station?
Did you know that up to 13 groups of the Cotton Blossom Singers (group pictured) toured through the United States at a time?
Did you know that Alexander Caulfield Anderson was the first European to widen and use the Naches Pass?
Did you know that Anita Rivas, an Ecuadorian mayor, visited the United Kingdom and offered to stop oil drilling in a rainforest in Yasuní National Park?
Did you know that Athanasius Safar, a Syriac Catholic bishop from the Ottoman Empire, left Europe for Mexico in 1689?
Did you know that Jerome Robbins's final ballet, Brandenburg, set to excerpts from Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, is likened to a kaleidoscope?
Did you know that Olivia Rodrigo and Dan Nigro wrote the song "Deja Vu" within one day?
Did you know that Robert Byron Tabor's first major painting was put on display in the White House by Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife?
Did you know that Robert M. Blizzard, who pioneered growth hormone therapy in children, liked to joke that he had added 11 miles (18 km) to the height of the U.S. population?
Did you know that an inscription uncovered at the Pyramid of Khentkaus I, identifies Khentkaus I as the mother of two kings, or perhaps the mother of one and a king herself?
Did you know that the Deutsches Romantik-Museum in Frankfurt, the only museum dedicated to the entire era of German Romanticism, looks like three houses and features blue elements?
Did you know that there are nearly 100 carillons in Belgium, two of which are in the same building?
Did you know that Garsa Fwip's portrayer, Jennifer Beals, did not know what series she was part of when she arrived on set?
Did you know that Heather Baron-Gracie of the band Pale Waves likened the music video for their song "Jealousy" to a "Helmet Lang or Calvin Klein advert"?
Did you know that Louis Weinstein, a pioneer in infectious disease treatment, funded his education by working as a jazz violinist?
Did you know that Margot Sponer used her international network of contacts to help people escape persecution in Nazi Germany?
Did you know that R. B. Schlather directed the world premiere of Hertzberg's chamber opera The Rose Elf in Brooklyn, as well as Cimarosa's L'Italiana in Londra and Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Oper Frankfurt?
Did you know that Rust has been named the "most loved programming language" every year for seven years since 2016 by annual surveys conducted by Stack Overflow?
Did you know that after Lew Dickey Sr. broke into the radio business by buying a station in West Virginia, his son would go on to own Cumulus Media?
Did you know that in 1946, Margrethe Parm was appointed the director of a women's prison that had been used as a political prison during the German occupation of Norway?
Did you know that the flag of Sint Maarten depicts the friendship monument delineating the boundary between the Dutch and French sections of the island?
Did you know that the presentation of Inuit fashion items made from sealskin at contemporary art exhibition Floe Edge was called "an upraised Inuit middle finger" to anti–seal hunting activists?
Did you know that Garretson, South Dakota, was named after businessman Arthur Samuel Garretson?
Did you know that Paul Blasingame was a member of the "inertial mafia", who advocated the use of inertial navigation systems, and he oversaw the development of the one used by the Apollo spacecraft?
Did you know that Redcliffe railway station has been renamed twice since 2016?
Did you know that Vivien Lyra Blair's performance was deemed "just absurd" in the Netflix film We Can Be Heroes?
Did you know that after Keri Blakinger left Cornell University to serve time in prison for possession of heroin, she returned to finish her degree and then became a criminal justice reporter?
Did you know that although Leah Kate's single "10 Things I Hate About You" shares the same name as the 1999 movie, she said that she did not use it as inspiration for the song?
Did you know that music from Mariah Carey, Sheena Easton, and Whitney Houston was the inspiration for the concert residency Reflections?
Did you know that the blue stripe in the Azerbaijani flag reflects the country's Turkic heritage?
Did you know that the book Love Falls On Us, about the LGBTQ movement in Africa, was praised by author Uzodinma Iweala for "elevating the extraordinary ordinariness of L.G.B.T.Q. Africans"?
Did you know that Charles Johnson received the most votes for student body president at the University of Colorado Boulder, even though he had already been disqualified from running?
Did you know that Horace Archambeault introduced a Quebec bill in 1904 that would make employers responsible for workplace accidents, even if they were not negligent?
Did you know that Kanye West recorded "Everything We Need" as a new version of his leaked track "The Storm"?
Did you know that New Galloway Town Hall's clock mechanism was replaced in 1872 because the original was "utterly worthless as a time keeper"?
Did you know that Regine Velasquez had to audition for composer Michel Legrand before collaborating in the concert Songbird Sings Legrand?
Did you know that Sarah Pike Conger helped defend the international legations during the Boxer Rebellion by making sandbags and carrying supplies?
Did you know that Sdorica featured crossovers with the fellow Rayark games Cytus II and Deemo, involving special events in Sdorica and song albums in Cytus II?
Did you know that a new Christmas stamp that debuted in the 350-person town of Bethlehem, Georgia, in 1967 got so much attention that the two-employee post office had to hire forty-three temporary workers?
Did you know that when expanding the airline's fleet in 1989, the directors of Turkish Airlines did not fulfil the request of Turkey's president to buy the Boeing 747, and ordered the Airbus A340 (example pictured) instead?
Did you know that American ornithologist William Savage painted pictures of birds (example pictured) that he hunted or received?
Did you know that Kamome Shirahama, in addition to writing and illustrating her best-selling Witch Hat Atelier manga series, has created variant covers for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and the Star Wars franchise?
Did you know that Katja Husen was the speaker of the Green Youth, a member of the Hamburg Parliament, and the CEO of the Centre for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg?
Did you know that Thomas Dickson Archibald, when speaking against increasing fines for violating liquor licenses, said "we need only go a step further and make the violation a hanging matter"?
Did you know that according to Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. Supreme Court justice David J. Brewer had "a sweetbread for a brain" and was a "menace to the welfare of the Nation"?
Did you know that as women's ski jumping was not then an Olympic event, Yoshiko Kasai participated as the only female test jumper at the 1998 Winter Olympics, as dramatized in Jump!! The Heroes Behind the Gold?
Did you know that eight years after the U.S. Army canceled the M8 Armored Gun System, the 82nd Airborne Division requested that prototypes from the program be sent to Iraq?
Did you know that singer Billie Eilish wrote and produced a film that critiques body shaming?
Did you know that the Education for Economic Security Act prohibited secular humanism in magnet schools?
Did you know that the Gyarah Murti statue was featured on the Indian 500-rupee note?
Did you know that the only trumpet concerto by Antonio Vivaldi is for two trumpets?
Did you know that Alice King overcame her disability to lead Bible classes and write eleven novels?
Did you know that Calvin Harris's 2022 album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 features nearly 20 collaborators, including Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg, and Busta Rhymes?
Did you know that Toshiko Ueda, the author of the manga series Fuichin-san, was still actively publishing new manga at the age of 90?
Did you know that a survey found that only 10 per cent of Britons had heard of all Seven Natural Wonders of the UK (one pictured)?
Did you know that at 107 years old, Stanley Stair  of Jamaica was at the time of his death the last surviving Caribbean veteran of World War I?
Did you know that in 1969, unknown persons dynamited the tower of a Kentucky TV station, leaving it leaning at a 15-degree angle?
Did you know that seats of some roundabout chairs have corners?
Did you know that the "candidate of God" badly lost the 2000 Pasay mayoral recall election?
Did you know that the 2021 French documentary From Where They Stood examines photographs secretly taken by inmates of Nazi concentration camps?
Did you know that the Sofia, a condominium building in New York City, was originally a parking garage?
Did you know that Carl-Gustav Groth was the first surgeon in Sweden to perform pancreas, liver, and islet cell transplants?
Did you know that according to investigations by independent press agencies, journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by an Israel Defense Forces bullet while wearing a blue "press" vest?
Did you know that the Amazon rainforest may change into a savanna once it passes a tipping point?
Did you know that three gasholders at the Windsor Street Gasworks were painted in the claret and blue colours of local football team Aston Villa?
Did you know that "Kommt her, ihr Kreaturen all", a Catholic hymn first published in 1687, is still commonly used for Corpus Christi processions?
Did you know that 100-year-old logs, perfectly preserved and good enough to mill, have been retrieved from the bottom of Lake Brunner?
Did you know that Shanti Devi was awarded the Padma Shri Award for her social work, including eradicating the yaws disease in a village in Odisha?
Did you know that the first ray of sunlight on 23 April passes through the eye of the Coyote en Ayuno, which was built to commemorate the founding of Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico?
Did you know that Bob Dylan's song "I Pity the Poor Immigrant" uses phrases from the Book of Leviticus?
Did you know that Martha Wolfenstein wrote stories based on her father's experiences in a Moravian Judengasse?
Did you know that Suzie Zuzek's impactful 1960s and 1970s textile designs for Lilly Pulitzer dresses (examples pictured) were recovered from under floorboards?
Did you know that shoals of Munida gregaria, the gregarious squat lobster, can be up to 5 km (3.1 mi) long?
Did you know that the carillons of the British Isles were primarily constructed in the interwar period?
Did you know that Laura J. Crossey  has shown that travertines (example pictured) are more likely to form when meteoric groundwater mixes with deeper groundwater from the Earth's mantle?
Did you know that Oleksandr Kamyshin, the head of Ukrainian Railways, who runs the iron diplomacy program that brings world leaders to Kyiv by rail, carries his gun and his son's stuffed owl with him?
Did you know that Seckinger High School was created in 2022 with an artificial intelligence–themed curriculum?
Did you know that Super Mario has spent more than a million dollars on cruises?
Did you know that Zahia Mentouri was credited with training all pediatric anesthetists in western Algeria?
Did you know that "The Strike" (1954), about an American officer's turmoil in ordering an air strike on his own men, was rated as Rod Serling's best script he had written to date?
Did you know that Suleman Raza was coincidently awarded an MBE while his organisation Uplyft received the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service in the 2022 Birthday Honours?
Did you know that the use of the flag of Gdańsk was discontinued during World War II and was not restored until 1991?
Did you know that Avelina Carrera made her debut at the Liceu in Barcelona in 1889, stepping in as Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin, and created the role of Maddalena in Giordano's Andrea Chénier at La Scala?
Did you know that Julian MacKay moved to Moscow at the age of 11 to attend the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, and later became the first American to complete both the lower and upper schools there?
Did you know that Northup Avenue Yard in Providence, Rhode Island, was described as "the finest in the New Haven system"?
Did you know that Spy Princess by Shrabani Basu tells the story of Noor Inayat Khan, a British secret agent in France who was executed by the Nazis?
Did you know that according to historian Rashid Khalidi, "Israel has been extremely successful in forcibly establishing itself as a colonial reality in a post-colonial age"?
Did you know that in 2022, Michael Phillips became the third professor in a year to sue Collin College for retaliating against protected speech?
Did you know that milk's gotta lotta bottle?
Did you know that Akbar Bhawan, which houses the South Asian University and offices of India's Ministry of External Affairs, was originally a hotel?
Did you know that Colombian singer Juanita Lascarro became a soprano at the Oper Frankfurt, where she appeared as both Calypso and Penelope in a new production of Dallapiccola's Ulisse?
Did you know that Curtis Imrie  won three world championships as a pack burro racer?
Did you know that Pop Team Epic creator Bkub Okawa is also a virtual YouTuber?
Did you know that Taco Bell initially commissioned a TikTok musical for their Mexican Pizza?
Did you know that after the Little Rock campaign, Union forces held three-quarters of Arkansas?
Did you know that within the graveyard of the Category A–listed Crossmichael Parish Church, there is a memorial to William Gordon of Greenlaw that is itself  designated Category A in its own right?
Did you know that "Highway 51", the closing track on Bob Dylan's debut album, incorporated elements from earlier songs by Curtis Jones,  Tommy McClennan, and the Everly Brothers?
Did you know that Akron Baptist Temple once featured 6-foot-tall (1.8 m) red lettering that flashed?
Did you know that Kenyan theologian Mary Getui was named a Moran of the Burning Spear?
Did you know that Ruslana Pysanka, who hosted a Ukrainian television program with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, died as a refugee in Germany?
Did you know that The Scent of Joseph's Shirt was said by Iranian director and screenwriter Ebrahim Hatamikia to reflect his perception of waiting for Imam Mahdi?
Did you know that in his early career, Daniel Camargo was cast to dance a lead role at the opening night of Don Quixote at Stuttgart Ballet, over the principal dancers?
Did you know that Bill Hatfield, the oldest person to have sailed solo around the world, had previously narrowly survived a shipwreck with his young family?
Did you know that a Billie Eilish song references the Depp v. Heard defamation trial and the overturning of Roe v. Wade?
Did you know that a reviewer said that playing as a cat "is at least 50% of the appeal" of Stray?
Did you know that in 2010, a blue poison bottle inscribed "not to be taken" was excavated from the wheel pit of Knowles Mill?
Did you know that the 6.0 system of judging figure skating was replaced in 2004, as a response to the scandal during the pair skating competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that the German guitarist Roman Bunka studied the Arabic oud in Egypt and played in Mohamed Mounir's band at the Pyramids of Giza to celebrate entering the year 2000?
Did you know that British writer Adolphe Smith Headingley popularised the singing of the socialist anthem "The Red Flag" to the tune of "O Tannenbaum" against the wishes of its lyricist?
Did you know that after a 1968 split in the Communist Party of Italy (Marxist–Leninist), the Black Line and Red Line groups would engage in reciprocal acts of violence and vandalism?
Did you know that creating visual art led Maya Pindyck to write poetry?
Did you know that the Missa brevis in C by František Brixi, an 18th-century kapellmeister at Prague Cathedral, was not published until 2004?
Did you know that the late Foo Fighters member Taylor Hawkins plays the drums on the closing track of King Princess's album Hold On Baby?
Did you know that when the United Nations Secretariat Building was finished, its staff were described as "neither united nor very peaceful"?
Did you know that Jesse Fuller's first release of his song "You're No Good" was more than a year after Bob Dylan had included it on his debut album?
Did you know that U.S. sanctions against Iran have adversely impacted Iranian children with epidermolysis bullosa, among other patients?
Did you know that the earliest-known Phoenician inscriptions (examples pictured) were found near Bethlehem?
Did you know that when reggae musician Bob Marley was arrested in London for cannabis possession, he falsely told the police he lived in Collingham Gardens?
Did you know that women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony spoke twice at the now defunct Academy of Music in Sioux City, Iowa, during the 1870s?
Did you know that Baya Gamani was freed from prison by his captor, King Mohnyin Thado, to defend the capital region of Ava?
Did you know that William H. Davis was the first teacher of Booker T. Washington and the first African American to be nominated as a candidate for West Virginia governor in 1888?
Did you know that defence was not a significant factor in the design or placement of Earlstoun Castle, which was unusual for a 16th-century tower house?
Did you know that hostile references towards Anglo-Egyptian rule in Sudan by Khalil Farah were hidden in colloquial Sudanese Arabic?
Did you know that taxation may have played a part in the fall of the Roman Empire?
Did you know that when the University of South Dakota started a radio station, the transmitter was built by student and future Nobel Prize winner Ernest Lawrence?
Did you know that Harris Computer Systems specialized in making computers for real-time simulation?
Did you know that LGBT rights activist Kit Malone helped create the first transgender organized marching group in the Indianapolis Pride Parade's history?
Did you know that in a choral tour program titled Salmo!, Bach's 18th successor first conducted Salmo 150, an a cappella setting of Psalm 150 by the Brazilian composer Ernani Aguiar?
Did you know that the Franco-Greek defence agreement is the first intra-NATO defensive alliance?
Did you know that wood type for printing (example pictured) was invented in China, first mass-produced in the United States, and later exported back to China for use by missionaries?
Did you know that Kyaymyin Mibaya was King Mindon's youngest, last and richest queen?
Did you know that Russell Strong pioneered multiple techniques for liver transplantation, including splitting a donor liver between multiple recipients?
Did you know that This Tender Land is a retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn set in the 1930s and incorporating elements of Homer's Odyssey?
Did you know that Turkey's newly acquired fourth drillship, Abdülhamid Han, is able to drill up to 12,200 m (40,000 ft) and in a maximum water depth of 3,665 m (12,024 ft)?
Did you know that according to researchers including Stephen Hargarten, the slogan "guns don't kill people, people kill people" is "scientifically inaccurate"?
Did you know that after Hank Goldberg was dismissed from WIOD for publicly disregarding his program director's instructions, he joined its struggling rival, which ultimately surpassed WIOD in the ratings?
Did you know that during the 2022 National Arena League season, a player hit a referee?
Did you know that AMTD Digital had a market value greater than the Coca-Cola Company, Costco or McDonald's after its stock price rose 21,000 percent in a matter of days?
Did you know that Gandhi's statue in the Indian parliament is frequently used as a protest site by members of parliament?
Did you know that Rogers Covey-Crump, once the high tenor of the Hilliard Ensemble, is known as a leading Evangelist in Bach's Passions?
Did you know that Roland Jefferson, the first African-American botanist to work at the U.S. National Arboretum, helped preserve the famous flowering cherry trees in Washington, D.C.?
Did you know that after the tower of a New York state TV station was toppled by Hurricane Hazel, it did not return to the air for more than 18 months?
Did you know that in 1944, at the age of 18, Trevor Hill was responsible for broadcasting Eisenhower's D-Day announcement of the Normandy landings?
Did you know that the traditional shampoo tayaw kinpun has been used by successive Burmese kings to wash their hair ritually to cast away evil, and augment their powers?
Did you know that John Caffey was the first to describe the condition now known as shaken baby syndrome?
Did you know that Thomas Jeremiah, a slaveowner, was executed for inciting a slave insurrection?
Did you know that New York City's largest office building is owned by an Alabama pension fund?
Did you know that Sharp Corporation produced three official variants of Nintendo's Famicom in Japan, one of which was a television set that was subsequently released in the United States?
Did you know that Victória Pitts from Brazil portrayed characters in all three parts of Puccini's Il trittico at the Oper Frankfurt in 2022, including Zita in Gianni Schicchi?
Did you know that the US Special Envoy for Afghan women and girls, Rina Amiri, is a former refugee who told US Senator John Kerry that "the Afghan population is not the Taliban"?
Did you know that Derek Jeter discusses his biracial upbringing and experiencing racism in Michigan in the 1980s and 1990s in The Captain?
Did you know that after Claudia Winterstein dropped plans to become an architect because of the Berlin Wall, she led her party as a member of the Bundestag?