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Did you know that English scientist Nicola Curtin donated to charity the £865,000 she received for helping develop the cancer drug Rubraca?
Did you know that Jacques Durand studied at the Conservatoire de Paris together with Claude Debussy, and later published both Debussy's compositions and his edition of Chopin's piano works?
Did you know that Ms. Monopoly replaces properties with inventions women contributed to, such as Wi-Fi, chocolate chip cookies, and modern shapewear?
Did you know that Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was personally present at the Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup?
Did you know that ancient Gupta art of India includes gold coins commemorating the Ashvamedha Vedic horse sacrifice (example pictured)?
Did you know that Hirtodrosophila mycetophaga mate on bracket fungi, selectively choosing those with a lighter surface to enhance the visibility of their courtship displays?
Did you know that sumo wrestler Asahishō Kōta is a regular guest on chat shows due to his sense of humour?
Did you know that the 2001 manga series World of the S&M was released in English as The World Exists for Me?
Did you know that the Carolina Watchman newspaper supported the Confederacy during the Civil War, but backed the Union cause both before and after?
Did you know that Appasus japonicus, a species of giant water bug, provides an example of insect paternal care?
Did you know that KSLN-TV, the ABC television affiliate in Salina, Kansas, folded twice in three years under two different owners?
Did you know that Louie Cullen, known as "the last of the suffragettes", started a prison hunger strike after her arrest for a 1908 attempt to rush into the House of Commons to promote women's right to vote in the UK?
Did you know that Sharon Priest, the Secretary of State of Arkansas, launched the state's first internet-based information network in 1995?
Did you know that a Sony α7S II captured the first commercial 4K footage in space from the International Space Station?
Did you know that the pianist Clara Schumann, who toured Europe for decades, taught 68 students at Dr. Hoch's in Frankfurt, including those from Britain and the U.S.?
Did you know that to assist the Australians with INTERFET logistics, the U.S. Army brought in helicopters from Russia and Bulgaria?
Did you know that Andrey Kelin, the new Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom, holds the diplomatic rank of ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary?
Did you know that in his 1915 En blanc et noir for two pianos, Claude Debussy quoted Luther's hymn "Ein feste Burg" and dedicated the work in part to Jacques Charlot, who fell in World War I?
Did you know that the Pak-Age-Car (example pictured) is similar in appearance to a horse-drawn delivery carriage, which it was designed to replace?
Did you know that Clairo drew inspiration for her songs "Sofia" and "Bags" from her crushes on women?
Did you know that Sun Yang is the first swimmer in history to win Olympic gold medals in the 200-, 400-, and 1500-metre freestyle events?
Did you know that Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to Chief of the Armed Forces High Command because of his craven willingness to function as Adolf Hitler's mouthpiece?
Did you know that when lead miners discovered Dream Cave in Derbyshire in 1822, they found it to contain the near-complete skeleton of a woolly rhinoceros?
Did you know that Jef Raskin would prove his FLOW language was easy to use by closing his eyes, typing randomly on the keyboard, and producing executable programs?
Did you know that Shen Jilan, who successfully proposed the clause of equal pay for equal work in China's first constitution in 1954, is still serving as a congresswoman 65 years later?
Did you know that The History of Doing describes a fundamentalist Hindu protest, with many women part of it, in favour of sati, the burning of widows?
Did you know that in 1817, the Ontario became the first steamboat to see active service on the Great Lakes at Lake Ontario?
Did you know that the 1511 miniature altarpiece in the British Museum, sometimes attributed to Adam Dircksz, is the only surviving Gothic boxwood miniature to have been inscribed with a date by its artist?
Did you know that the surgeon Thomas Morstede served the three successive English kings Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI?
Did you know that Alku and Alku Toinen, built by Finnish immigrants, were the first nonprofit housing cooperatives in New York City?
Did you know that Hong Kong protests in November 2019 included an escape by protesters at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, by rope and via underground sewers?
Did you know that Kunihiko Ikuhara, who was one of the directors of Sailor Moon, cosplayed as Sailor Mars to promote his series Schell Bullet?
Did you know that Mohammad Tabrani first proposed the term "bahasa Indonesia" for the national language of Indonesia?
Did you know that mathematics professor Henry Crapo donated a bronze sculpture of a boar to the University of Waterloo?
Did you know that one of the versions of Vivaldi's Magnificat included five arias to be performed by girl soloists from the Ospedale della Pietà orphanage, who were named in the score?
Did you know that the Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, Jacqueline Coleman, is a basketball coach and the granddaughter of a National Basketball Association player?
Did you know that "The Sinner's Redemption" was called a "rude old carol" favoured by peasants?
Did you know that Erza Muqoli was a founding member of the French child music group Kids United, which had three number-one albums during her tenure?
Did you know that Filippo Lippi's Mystical Nativity (shown) of c. 1459 includes "no cave, no shed, no Joseph, no angels, no ox, no ass"?
Did you know that French Resistance member Odette Abadi was a co-founder of Réseau Marcel, which saved more than 500 Jewish children during the Holocaust?
Did you know that John Rutter wrote the text and music for Angels' Carol, a choral piece for Christmas, using the Latin "Gloria in excelsis Deo" from the Christmas story as a refrain?
Did you know that Kavya Manyapu led the development of a dust-repelling fabric for space suits using carbon nanotubes?
Did you know that Taylor Swift wrote, recorded, and released "Christmas Tree Farm" in six days?
Did you know that Tlingit artist Tanis S'eiltin's mixed-media installation Hit includes video, a replica M16 rifle, and a glass tank of oil and water?
Did you know that as pastor of a Catholic church in Baltimore, William Francis Clarke worked to integrate black and Italian Catholics into parish life?
Did you know that in 1929 Rosika Schwimmer, a woman over 50 and thus ineligible to take up arms in the U.S., was denied citizenship by the Supreme Court for pacifism and became stateless?
Did you know that in later life, Paul Mickelson bought the organ upon which he had made his first recording as a solo artist at NBC?
Did you know that James A. Ward was one of the last surviving graduates of the Jesuit novitiate in White Marsh, Maryland?
Did you know that Pomo basket weaver Susan Billy comes from a family of basket weavers that includes Susan Santiago Billy and Elsie Allen?
Did you know that Tetsu Yasui, who was raised by devout Buddhists, later converted to Christianity and served as president of Tokyo Woman's Christian University for 17 years?
Did you know that Turkish folk singer and bağlama player Arif Sağ helped introduce Anatolian music to the West in a 1996 concert with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne?
Did you know that Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend, the second part of Bach's Christmas Oratorio and written for the second day of Christmas, focuses on the annunciation to the shepherds?
Did you know that after John Lennon called the Beatles more popular than Jesus, KLUE radio responded by staging a bonfire of Beatles memorabilia – and its transmitter was struck by lightning the next day?
Did you know that confectioner Tom Smith is traditionally described as the inventor of the Christmas cracker, in 1847?
Did you know that in the absence of males in North America, the female woolly alder sawfly reproduces through parthenogenesis?
Did you know that the Christmas Island flying fox matures more slowly than nearly all other bats?
Did you know that the German carol "Kommet, ihr Hirten", derived by Carl Riedel from a Bohemian song in Czech, addresses shepherds, men, and women?
Did you know that the Mexican Netflix series The House of Flowers has been compared to such disparate films as Sharknado and the Oscar-winning All About My Mother?
Did you know that the tallest Christmas tree in Arizona is decorated with at least 5,000 ornaments and bows?
Did you know that after the withdrawal of Walter Bersey's 1897 design (drawing shown), it took 120 years for fully electric-powered taxis to return to the streets of London?
Did you know that after writing a programming language used to publish books on the humanities, Michael Barnett wrote the SNAP language to teach programming to humanities students?
Did you know that although Half Alive wrote their song "Still Feel" with the intention of making it unattractive for radio stations, it became their breakout hit?
Did you know that former naval diver Esther Tan has been dubbed "Singapore's G.I. Jane"?
Did you know that in Requiem for the Living, a setting by Dan Forrest of selected texts from the Requiem Mass and an additional movement about Vanitas, the choir sings seemingly endless melodies?
Did you know that tenor Mirko Ludwig took part in the opening of Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie as a member of a vocal quintet?
Did you know that the Famine Inquiry Commission has been criticized by scholars and Indian nationalists for exonerating the British government of responsibility for the 1943 Bengal famine?
Did you know that the New York City comic shop Desert Island maintains a modified version of the signage used by the previous tenant, an Italian bakery?
Did you know that the demise of Sportsvue, which lost $2 million in its 10 months of operation, prompted Jim Fitzgerald to sell the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team?
Did you know that two-spirit artist Storme Webber has used various media to retell her family's experience at The Casino, one of the oldest gay bars on the West Coast?
Did you know that "Baby Yoda", a character in the Star Wars spin-off The Mandalorian, was named "2019's biggest new character" by The Guardian?
Did you know that Burleigh House in Enfield, near London, was said to be haunted by a ghost wearing a doublet, hose, and a ruffle?
Did you know that Crossroads Village in Genesee County, Michigan, has a narrow huckleberry?
Did you know that Donald Mackintosh was posthumously awarded an Olympic gold medal for shooting 22 live pigeons in a row?
Did you know that Shetlander Johnnie Notions, a physician with no formal medical background, developed a smallpox inoculation that successfully immunised thousands of people before Jenner's vaccine was available?
Did you know that Stan Lee supported the viral fan campaign to allow Donald Glover to audition for the role of Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man‬?
Did you know that Stribodh, first published in 1857, was one of the earliest magazines in India to be aimed at a female audience?
Did you know that Vytautas Tomaševičius is the first Lithuanian to win an Excellence Award at the Tokyo Art Olympia Biennale, for his painting A Still Life with Two Objects (shown)?
Did you know that a year after Five Ash Down Independent Chapel opened, doctrinal differences caused some members to leave and form Uckfield Baptist Church?
Did you know that in 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the refusal of the International Longshoremen's Association to unload cargo from the Soviet Union was illegal under the National Labor Relations Act?
Did you know that the Christmas darter is considered a priority species by the state of South Carolina, but of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature?
Did you know that the novel Tzilla is based on author Judith Katzir's great-grandmother, who invited her lover to live with her and her husband in Palestine?
Did you know that British actress Naomi Watts' roles include CIA officer Valerie Plame, journalist Gretchen Carlson, and Princess Diana?
Did you know that Culley C. Carson III's research has included treatments for Peyronie's disease, in which the penis curves when erect?
Did you know that Jay Shah oversaw the Gujarat Cricket Association's project of constructing the world's largest cricket stadium?
Did you know that Kiuchi Kyō, believed to be the first Japanese woman to be a school principal, worked to improve the status of women teachers?
Did you know that Michler's Palace, a townhouse destroyed in the Warsaw Uprising, is remembered for a wartime song named after it?
Did you know that baritone Heiko Trinsinger of the Aalto Theatre appeared as Alberich in Der Ring in Minden, in which reviewers noted expressivity in every moment and a thunderous curse of the ring?
Did you know that before entering journalism, G. Gould Lincoln was part of Thomas Edison's team that looked for nickel in Canada?
Did you know that blue-ice areas are places in Antarctica where snow evaporation and wind have exposed blue-colored ice, which often accumulates meteorites (example pictured)?
Did you know that during the 2004 US presidential election, Hans Riemer ran an online campaign against the military draft, leading then-President Bush to coin the phrase "on the Internets"?
Did you know that the Battle of Marshall's Elm has been described as the "first real confrontation" of the First English Civil War?
Did you know that the British Empire's first parachute training tower (example pictured) was built by the Polish military?
Did you know that HMS Melpomene missed the Battle of Trafalgar, but arrived in time to tow away damaged enemy vessels?
Did you know that Idham Azis, the chief of the Indonesian National Police, succeeded in enrolling at the national police academy on his third attempt?
Did you know that Lynn Family Stadium shares its namesake with another stadium in the same city?
Did you know that Marco Streng's Genesis Group has a bitcoin mine in Iceland?
Did you know that Polish courtier and writer Krzysztof Warszewicki was a respected orator who spoke at the funerals of Catherine, queen consort of Poland, and Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor?
Did you know that Sally Milgrim designed the dress that Eleanor Roosevelt wore to her husband's first inaugural ball?
Did you know that Yume Wo Katare, a ramen bar in Cambridge, Massachusetts, encourages diners to share their dreams and aspirations with each other after finishing their meals?
Did you know that actor Ryan Reynolds has lent his voice to a garden snail, a caveman, and Pikachu?
Did you know that in baseball, it is not against the rules to steal signs?
Did you know that the Jewish a cappella group Six13 sings traditional Hanukkah songs and prayers to music from Star Wars?
Did you know that the sale of WWIZ radio in Lorain, Ohio, undertaken in order to raise capital to build WXTV in Youngstown, prompted both stations to lose their licenses?
Did you know that the songs on the Kabir Singh soundtrack album, including "Tujhe Kitna Chahne Lage" ('I have begun to really love you'), have been described as "saccharine rock"?
Did you know that John Moutoussamy is the only African-American to have designed a high-rise building—which featured "colorful walls and psychedelic carpets"—in the Chicago Loop?
Did you know that Lu Youquan's book on Piaget's theory of cognitive development won a national education award in China?
Did you know that Mekong Bobtails (example pictured) were among 200 royal cats given to Nicholas II of Russia by King Chulalongkorn of Siam in the 19th century?
Did you know that Miley Cyrus gained over 2.3 million likes on the video-sharing platform TikTok when she danced and lip-synced with Cody Simpson to "Stupid" by Ashnikko?
Did you know that TMNT Shellraiser, the world's steepest roller coaster, beat the previous record holder by half a degree?
Did you know that due to Spanish singer Melody's three-year disappearance from the public eye, she was rumoured to be dead?
Did you know that pygmy Ota Benga was moved to the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum after people objected to him being shown in the Bronx Zoo?
Did you know that the 1988 opening of New York City's Archer Avenue lines, expected to lessen congestion, ended up slashing ridership at Parsons Boulevard station by half?
Did you know that the Field Music album Plumb was nominated for the 2012 Mercury Prize, even though the band thought that their odds were "minimal to nil"?
Did you know that the Hellvi helmet eyebrow, made of iron, bronze, and silver, is one of several Vendel Period helmets for which only eyebrows remain?
Did you know that the Indian Air Force has launched two mobile air combat games, Guardians of the Skies and A Cut Above, to reach out to youth?
Did you know that "Tom's Secret", an animated short film by Israeli artist Ohad Elimelech, was selected as the official video for the 2016 European Day on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse?
Did you know that 110 East 42nd Street and the Pershing Square Building, both located above a subway station, were designed with interlocking structures, including what is thought to be New York City's tallest party wall?
Did you know that André Couto, the winner of the 2000 Macau Grand Prix, is the first Macanese driver to win the race under Formula Three regulations?
Did you know that Carla's coach at the French talent show The Voice Kids did not want her to release a record?
Did you know that Korean-Chinese missile expert Li Xianyu is the only female general in the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force?
Did you know that Priestly's Hydraulic Ram in Gooding County, Idaho, pumped water uphill with no moving parts?
Did you know that Queen Kapiʻolani founded the Kapiʻolani Maternity Home for the care of Hawaiian mothers and newborns, and a school for the daughters of leprosy patients?
Did you know that a cantata titled God is Now, based on the hymn "Gott ist gegenwärtig" and scored for choir, big band, organ, and live electronics, premiered on the 250th anniversary of the hymn writer's death?
Did you know that actress Anne Baxter's roles included an Egyptian princess, a ruthlessly ambitious understudy, an alcoholic, and two villains in the 1960s Batman television series?
Did you know that after Mississippi radio station WKNZ relaunched as "Zoo 107", it sponsored a name-the-zebra contest at its namesake, the Hattiesburg Zoo?
Did you know that in 1975, Donna Tobias became the United States Navy's first female deep-sea diver?
Did you know that the extinct giant thresher shark Alopias palatasi is the only one of its kind to possess serrated teeth?
Did you know that Andrew Watt Kay's paper describing his augmented histamine test was the single most cited paper in the British Medical Journal between 1945 and 1989?
Did you know that Ave Maria, an obscure piece for two men's choirs by Franz Biebl, became a choral standard after Chanticleer made it part of their holiday programs?
Did you know that Cheng Sihan, a former driver and art-school dropout, started a successful acting career after becoming homeless and desperate for work?
Did you know that Dogor, an 18,000-year-old canine puppy, may represent a common ancestor of the dog and the wolf?
Did you know that Olivia Salamanca, one of the founding members of the Philippine Anti-Tuberculosis Society, died from the disease at the age of 24?
Did you know that Oskar Cohn initiated protests against the deportation of Jews from Tel Aviv and Jaffa in the German parliament?
Did you know that Rabbi Chaim Malinowitz approved every line and footnote of the English translation of the Talmud in the 73-volume Schottenstein Edition of the Babylonian Talmud?
Did you know that Twenty One Pilots had concerns over the sensitivity of their handling of the topic of suicide in their song "Neon Gravestones", but still kept it in their album Trench?
Did you know that although it is classified as a commuter rail line, Cercanías Madrid's C-9 line primarily serves ski resorts?
Did you know that the Buddhist site of Ratnagiri (Buddha head pictured) in Odisha, India, includes rare carved scenes that seem to combine eroticism and hair-cutting?
Did you know that the STIR/SHAKEN protocols aim to end the "epidemic" of robocalls, of which there were an estimated 5.7 billion in the U.S. placed in October 2019 alone?
Did you know that the name of the Japanese band Spira Spica comes from a Latin word meaning "having hopes as long as one lives", and the star Spica?
Did you know that the theft of Paul Cézanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise from Oxford's Ashmolean Museum 20 years ago today used the noise of fireworks from the millennium celebrations as a distraction?
Did you know that upon his election in 1970, Cecil Andrus became the first Democratic governor of Idaho in 24 years, and began 24 consecutive years of Democratic governors?
Did you know that Bambang Soegeng initiated a service number system in the Indonesian National Armed Forces, and received a service number of 10001?
Did you know that British teacher Joe Kirby has described marking homework as a hornet?
Did you know that Keanu Reeves's film roles include a time-travelling slacker, a computer hacker, an exorcist, and a dentist?
Did you know that Ralph Mellanby's production of the 1988 Winter Olympics for CTV used a television lens described as the "world's longest", for the ski jumping events?
Did you know that a bowling green and a monument now occupy the site of Helston Castle in Cornwall?
Did you know that as recently as 2013, girls as young as six from landless families were sold each year as labour in Nepal?
Did you know that limnological towers (example pictured) can be used to predict algal blooms that may have an adverse effect on drinking water quality?
Did you know that the Baralt Theatre in Maracaibo, the location of Venezuela's first film screenings, now hosts the country's short-film festival?
Did you know that the card game of Kaschlan, named after its top trump, became so popular that it was used in the Prussian idiom "my stomach's playing Kaschlan with my bowels"?
Did you know that the manga series Our Colors was inspired by author Gengoroh Tagame's desire to create a story about gay characters that was not centrally focused on romance or sex?
Did you know that the recreational reading collection at Imperial College London's Central Library was started from books accumulated in student halls?
Did you know that British medieval historian Isobel D. Thornley died when her home was hit by a bomb during the London Blitz?
Did you know that Herbert C. Ridout wanted to "set the Thames on fire"?
Did you know that The Idea of Pakistan attempts to answer the question "What is Pakistan"?
Did you know that William J. Devlin was called the "builder of the super-structures" at Boston College, despite his fundraising campaign falling short of its goal?
Did you know that more than 1,500 Byblos figurines (examples pictured) found in the Temple of the Obelisks and the Temple of Baalat Gebal have become the "poster child" of the Lebanese tourism ministry?
Did you know that professors at the Roman law school of Beirut drafted parts of the Corpus Juris Civilis, a fundamental work in Roman jurisprudence?
Did you know that tenor Carl Demmer was possibly Beethoven's first Florestan at the Vienna Court Opera, but failed to please the composer?
Did you know that the Caton Oak in Lancashire, England, was reputed to be a site of worship by druids?
Did you know that the Independence was the first propeller-driven vessel built on Lake Michigan, and, in 1845, the first steamboat to run on Lake Superior?
Did you know that the design of Totzeret HaAretz Tower 1 in Tel Aviv, Israel, was inspired by an iceberg?
Did you know that the election of Zuzana Čaputová, the Progressive Slovakia candidate in the 2019 presidential race, was hailed by international media as a victory of liberalism over populism?
Did you know that the success of the 1978 film The Other Side of Aspen led to increased production of feature film–length works across the gay pornography industry?