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Did you know that Cora Agnes Benneson, one of the first female lawyers in New England, was rejected by Harvard Law School because "the equipments were too limited to make suitable provision for receiving women"?
Did you know that Lauryn Hill's song "To Zion" is about her decision not to terminate her pregnancy despite facing pressure to do so?
Did you know that in December 2022 Panos Katseris scored his first goal for the Italian club Catanzaro less than a minute after kick-off?
Did you know that the "first settler of Asotin County" was the second?
Did you know that Marie Vuillemin was acquitted in the trial of the Bonnot Gang, as the prosecution defined her according to her gender rather than her role in the gang?
Did you know that for at least 90 minutes, Mori Calliope livestreamed herself begging video game developer Atlus to allow her to stream their game Persona 3?
Did you know that the Balconcillo mutiny is considered to be the first coup d'état in the history of Peru?
Did you know that the Seattle metropolitan area includes two major volcanoes, Mount Rainier and Glacier Peak?
Did you know that the first Russian feature film, Stenka Razin (poster pictured), depicts the historical Cossack leader throwing a princess into the Volga?
Did you know that the principal of a high school in Taiwan resigned after students held a Nazi-themed parade, complete with mock uniforms and a cardboard tank?
Did you know that Ingushetia is often called the "land of towers" after the Ingush towers (examples pictured), unique medieval monuments found throughout the region?
Did you know that Maria Leshern von Herzfeld helped to organise the prison escape of the Russian revolutionary Peter Kropotkin?
Did you know that The Seoul Press was an English-language newspaper created to justify Japan's colonial rule of Korea?
Did you know that archaeologist Karl Frederik Kinch identified the location of Stagira, the hometown of Aristotle?
Did you know that the US federal government's "checking account" held more than $800 billion at the beginning of February 2024?
Did you know that Frankee Connolly signed to Xenomania and took her first singing lessons – in that order?
Did you know that Olympic hammer thrower Tamer Balcı was later cast in a movie as Tarzan?
Did you know that Sarah McCreanor imitates objects under hydraulic presses through dance?
Did you know that TV stations in Nashville and in Memphis, Tennessee, both on channel 30, lost their Fox affiliations in 1990?
Did you know that after the 1999 Tempe military base shooting, the Pan African Congress demanded a military funeral for the perpetrator?
Did you know that due to 19th-century French views of widespread homosexuality among Ottoman Turks, Mehmet Cemaleddin Efendi was offered male prostitutes by officials on a visit to Paris?
Did you know that Franz Jakob Späth's fortepianos were favorites of Mozart, but Beethoven refused to play them?
Did you know that Maxine North swore never to return to Thailand after the death of her undercover CIA husband, but ultimately settled there and introduced bottled water to the country?
Did you know that an Indian rhinoceros, sent as a gift to Pope Leo X in 1515, was immortalised as Dürer's Rhinoceros after dying in a shipwreck?
Did you know that the hall of worship of Okunoin holds more than 10,000 perpetually lit lanterns, two of which are believed to have been lit for more than 900 years?
Did you know that the slave António Corea may have been the first Korean to visit Europe?
Did you know that British prime minister H. H. Asquith described John Cowans as "the best Quartermaster since Moses"?
Did you know that Mount Churchill, a volcano in Alaska, distributed ash as far as Europe and may have driven migration from Canada to southwestern North America?
Did you know that a Virginia TV station had to take out title loans to pay its staff?
Did you know that although the Jesuit missionary He Tianzhang despised his "sad Chinese appearance", it allowed him to circumvent the Qing's ban on Christianity and enter China?
Did you know that songs recorded by Ben&Ben will be featured in the musical adaptation of the film One More Chance?
Did you know that the Canadian journalist Bernard Descôteaux is credited with the economic revival of the independent newspaper Le Devoir?
Did you know that Steven A. Shaw, one of the first food bloggers, decided to pursue the career that he loved after the early death of his father?
Did you know that a well-publicised conflict with a superior officer led British cavalry officer John Williams Reynolds to take a break from his military career, study chemistry and discover propylene?
Did you know that after becoming "convinced of the evils of slavery", James Townsend left Kentucky for Indiana?
Did you know that since 1904 the Gasparilla Pirate Festival (float pictured) in Tampa, Florida, has featured a pirate-themed parade?
Did you know that the 2023 Argentine provincial elections were overshadowed by the disappearance of Cecilia Strzyzowski?
Did you know that Caspar Richter co-founded an orchestra in Vienna and conducted it in performances of new musicals including Mozart! and Elisabeth?
Did you know that Muhsin Hendricks of South Africa has been described as "the world's first openly gay imam"?
Did you know that Robert Brigandyne constructed the first purpose-built dry dock in England, after King Henry VII's new warships grew too big to be repaired on mudbanks?
Did you know that a malaria-control program in rural Brazil attracted droves of annoying, colorful bees that collect pesticide (example pictured) into homes?
Did you know that actor Jim O'Heir consumed numerous cinnamon rolls for a scene in Better Call Saul?
Did you know that the British musician Nieve Ella has a hair salon named after her?
Did you know that Elizabeth II's childhood toys at 145 Piccadilly included 30 toy horses and a farm set collected from Woolworths?
Did you know that Nilüfer Gürsoy's memoirs detail the 1960 Turkish coup d'état, which overthrew her father?
Did you know that Olivia Olson won state championships as a soccer goalkeeper and a basketball guard?
Did you know that during the 1997 Spring Creek flood, a railroad embankment suppressing 8,250 cubic feet (234 m3) of water per second overflowed, causing a train to derail?
Did you know that in Stieler's portrait of Beethoven, the composer's arms "are not convincingly attached to his shoulders"?
Did you know that popular garden plants like malfurada often escape from cultivation and become invasive?
Did you know that Rob Thomas always planned to give iZombie a happy ending?
Did you know that The One, a private residence in Los Angeles, has 21 bedrooms, 42 bathrooms, a 30-car garage, a four-lane bowling alley, a casino, a nightclub, and five swimming pools including a moat?
Did you know that gynecologist Mary Lake Polan wrote a medical mystery novel to "demystify" the procedures behind in vitro fertilisation?
Did you know that in his Ethics, Peter Abelard argued that infidels who sincerely believe themselves to be honouring God are not guilty of sin?
Did you know that the Scottish judge Lord Duthie served as an officer in the Royal Naval Reserve?
Did you know that the first election in Baden in which women could vote resulted in nine women being elected to the state legislature?
Did you know that Chinese-born Joseph Pierce enlisted as a Union Army soldier, fought at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, and was made a corporal?
Did you know that Saint Melangell's shrine was reconstructed from pieces of the 12th-century original found in the walls of the church and lychgate?
Did you know that Sting wrote "We Work the Black Seam" because he felt that "the case for coal was never put to the nation" during the 1984–85 British miners' strike, which began 40 years ago today?
Did you know that a school in New York City occupies a Renaissance-style palazzo and a "French Renaissance hotel"?
Did you know that in the song "Carnival", Kanye West references several public figures including Elon Musk and Taylor Swift?
Did you know that the horse Sardar was gifted to Jacqueline Kennedy during her 1962 goodwill tour of Pakistan?
Did you know that Michigan's victory in the 2024 College Football Playoff National Championship marked their first outright national championship since 1948?
Did you know that Yangzhou's Five-Pavilion Bridge was built by salt merchants to welcome the Qianlong Emperor?
Did you know that lenses for telescopes are being designed using optics inspired by lobster eyes?
Did you know that the British rock musician Hannah Grae went viral online with an anti-sexual harassment parody of Aqua's "Barbie Girl"?
Did you know that the cherry blossom was used symbolically in Japanese World War II propaganda, with falling petals representing "young soldiers' sacrifice for the emperor"?
Did you know that the journalist Wendell Steavenson's book Circling the Square covers the events of the 2011–2013 Egyptian crisis, which were centered around Cairo's Tahrir Square?
Did you know that the music video for SB19's "I Want You" showed scenes of the boy band shot underwater?
Did you know that the use of trade in prehistoric society may have given humans an evolutionary advantage over Neanderthals?
Did you know that Marcos G. McGrath, the Catholic archbishop of Panama, was allowed to enter Manuel Noriega's "witch house" and other residences, and found evidence of torture, devil worship, and voodoo?
Did you know that Nicki Minaj, who receives a shoutout from Ben Shapiro in his song "Facts", congratulated him when it reached number one on the iTunes chart?
Did you know that a Miami TV station built a news set atop a wooden conference room table?
Did you know that after criticising horsegiirL's "My Barn My Rules" live on air, the British DJ Arielle Free was suspended from BBC Radio 1 for a week?
Did you know that off-roading at Muriwai Beach in New Zealand may be damaging the habitat of the newly described korowai gecko (example pictured)?
Did you know that the Chicago Community Bond Fund sought to put itself out of business by eliminating cash bail?
Did you know that Bill Post helped invent the Pop-Tart?
Did you know that Henry Clay Frick would not take World War I as an excuse for delays in the construction of his New York City house?
Did you know that after losing his brother to suicide, Turno collaborated with Skepsis and Charlotte Plank on a single about men's mental health?
Did you know that in South Africa's genocide case against Israel, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to "punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza?
Did you know that the Pulitzer jury said that Ford Strikers Riot is "a brutal picture, it sums up much of the labor history of 1941"?
Did you know that the stage for Pantheon ad Lucem by Alexander McQueen evoked imagery of alien starships and the Roman Colosseum?
Did you know that Aaron Hertzman paid $25 to have a team in the National Football League?
Did you know that Rubymar was the first ship sunk by Houthi missiles during the Red Sea crisis?
Did you know that a Missouri TV station blew up its call letters – literally?
Did you know that as part of the Hardpoint missile defense system, ARPA developed missiles able to hit 377 g of acceleration with reaction times in milliseconds?
Did you know that only months after going out of business, Milkrun relaunched?
Did you know that the King Tornado football team once won by a score of 206–0 – without even playing the full game?
Did you know that the album cover for Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run has been imitated by several musicians, as well as the Sesame Street characters Bert and Cookie Monster?
Did you know that the headstone of George Bax Holmes, who is buried at Horsham Friends Meeting House, is now a paving slab?
Did you know that Indian historian R. Champakalakshmi was a script consultant for Bharat Ek Khoj, a television series based on Jawaharlal Nehru's The Discovery of India?
Did you know that Jack Biddle was the first and only person to be elected to the Alabama Legislature as a Democratic, Republican, and independent representative?
Did you know that Tom Landry led the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League to a record 20 consecutive winning seasons?
Did you know that only 130 personnel joined the United States Army's Slavic Legion?
Did you know that sports journalist Tim Burke specialized in capturing "offbeat" moments through GIFs?
Did you know that the 1993 Pacific hurricane season generated more than double the average number of major hurricanes, which have sustained winds of at least 111 mph (179 km/h)?
Did you know that the rebuilt Onekaka Power Station is controlled remotely using text messages via the cellular phone network?
Did you know that Julian Assange's lawyer argued that the rules set by the Ecuadorian embassy requiring Assange to take care of his pet cat Michi were "denigrating"?
Did you know that Songs from Suicide Bridge was recorded in a repurposed tool shed?
Did you know that Will Smith took part in the expedition that discovered the northern green anaconda?
Did you know that the 1866 barque Thoon Kramom has a replica serving as a floating restaurant?
Did you know that the British political theorist Chris Armstrong has called for a "blue new deal" to secure ecological resilience for the ocean and a just blue economy?
Did you know that Lovro Šitović, a 17th-century Croatian Franciscan friar who wrote a Latin grammar, was a convert from Islam?
Did you know that former football player Elbert E. Martin stopped an assassin from killing former US president Theodore Roosevelt?
Did you know that in New Orleans, galleries differ from balconies because they feature supporting posts?
Did you know that the dish gogi-guksu, from South Korea's Jeju Island, developed in part because of the Japanese colonial period?
Did you know that trans women in Cape Verde are colloquially referred to as tchindas, named after Tchinda Andrade, the first trans woman in the country to come out publicly?
Did you know that Ettore Sottsass's design of the Olivetti Valentine typewriter (example pictured) was inspired by the pop-art nudes of Tom Wesselmann?
Did you know that Family 1, a closely related group of Greek New Testament manuscripts, place the passage of the woman caught in adultery at the end of the Gospel of John as a separate story?
Did you know that Indian aristocrat and photographer Umrao Singh Sher-Gil left more than 3000 prints and negatives, including many of his daughter Amrita Sher-Gil, documenting life in Europe and India?
Did you know that Spring Lake has suffered from an infestation of Eurasian water milfoil, a noxious weed?
Did you know that a Variety critic suggested that the title of Ariana Grande's "Yes, And?" followed on from that of "Thank U, Next"?
Did you know that as a result of the medicalisation of sexuality, sexual disorders like erectile dysfunction have been used as a "penile health gauge" to measure general wellbeing?
Did you know that the Canada Centre Building has one of the first aquifer thermal energy storage systems?
Did you know that the first game in Georgetown football history was never played?
Did you know that Charles Knight's wartime painting activities led to him being mistaken for a German spy?
Did you know that Zwycięzcy oceanu, a Polish young-adult adventure book from 1890, features Polish, English, and American characters?
Did you know that after dodging censorship for years, The Korea Daily News was finally bought out and turned into a publication of the Japanese colonial government in Korea?
Did you know that the Mosque of Ulmas al-Hajib has the first "flat" muqarnas vault in Cairo?
Did you know that the city of Tacoma, Washington, incentivized building Seattle–Tacoma International Airport at Bow Lake by contributing $100,000?
Did you know that the record label Tidy Trax released an album in 2023 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of  Tony De Vit, the "godfather of UK hard house"?
Did you know that Lana Del Rey, who is known as an alt-pop artist, will release her first official country album, Lasso, this year?
Did you know that Patricia Grace did not intend for her novel Potiki, about the impact of land development on an indigenous community, to be seen as political?
Did you know that both Thackeray and Longfellow bought paintings by Fanny Steers?
Did you know that in the 1934 German referendum, some areas recorded more votes than there were eligible voters?
Did you know that the actress Lottie Williams was one of the cakewalk dancers depicted on the front cover of the sheet music for Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag"?
Did you know that Singaporean chef and restaurateur Tan Kue Kim cooked while wearing a S$40,000 gold Rolex watch?
Did you know that US president Calvin Coolidge left Mystic, South Dakota, in a lumber wagon?
Did you know that a seven-metre-tall (23 ft) "sculptural forest" was created during Leeds 2023, inspired by the region's ancient woodland?
Did you know that as she commenced chemotherapy, Irish singer Majella O'Donnell raised more than €350,000 for the Irish Cancer Society with a sponsored head shave live on The Late Late Show?
Did you know that some online social and "Barstool conservatives" spent their Christmas holidays arguing about whether a beer promotional calendar was "demonic"?
Did you know that the 2023 drama film Time Still Turns the Pages won the Audience Choice Award at the 60th Golden Horse Awards?
Did you know that the abandoned New World Department Store in Bangkok became home to thousands of fish?
Did you know that "runology" is the study of how to run away from China?
Did you know that Diana, Princess of Wales, drove through the night to be with Adrian Ward-Jackson before he died?
Did you know that Joseph Bosworth was the last Republican speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives until the election of Jeff Hoover in 2017?
Did you know that Latvian-Soviet artist Karlis Johansons exhibited a skeletal tensegrity form of the Schönhardt polyhedron seven years before Erich Schönhardt's 1928 paper on its mathematics?
Did you know that Lewes Friends Meeting House, built in 1784, replaced an earlier building whose proximity to a slaughterhouse made it "unfit to sit in"?
Did you know that Walker Keith Baylor, a strong believer in phrenology and physiognomy, determined the fitness of political candidates by measuring their faces and heads with a tape measure?
Did you know that in nearly one in three clinical trials, authors engage in outcome switching, which can undermine the reliability of the trials?
Did you know that only approximately 50 individuals have been diagnosed with Beck–Fahrner syndrome?
Did you know that Rhinecliff station was unusually large for a small hamlet due to the influence of John Jacob Astor IV and Levi P. Morton?
Did you know that San Rafael Falls, once Ecuador's largest waterfall, was swallowed by a sinkhole in February 2020 and no longer exists?
Did you know that Sinéad O'Connor personally invited M-Beat to remix her single "Fire on Babylon" after meeting him backstage at Top of the Pops?
Did you know that The Red Moon (sheet music pictured) was the first Broadway show to depict alliances between African Americans and Native Americans?
Did you know that Xu Garden was created by community residents grateful to their local warlord?
Did you know that before charting on the UK Albums Chart with Are We There Yet?, the indie rock musician James Marriott had made a career of mocking other YouTubers' music?
Did you know that more than 50 Microsoft engineers opposed the development of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, as they believed this made them war profiteers?
Did you know that the 2026 FIFA World Cup final will be hosted by a stadium that is cutting corners?
Did you know that "GBI (German Bold Italic)" has been described as the first song written about a specific typeface?
Did you know that a park in Brookline, Massachusetts, is named for the Massachusetts politician Sumner Z. Kaplan?
Did you know that the title of Vampire Weekend's upcoming fifth studio album, Only God Was Above Us, is derived from a 1988 New York Daily News article about an aircraft's roof being torn off mid-flight?
Did you know that My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy are not emo bands, according to Is This Band Emo?
Did you know that Woodrow Wilson, Hermann Collitz, and Carey Thomas all taught at Bryn Mawr College before becoming presidents?
Did you know that Xebec Corporation's partnership with IBM was both their greatest achievement and their eventual downfall?
Did you know that Zoé Clauzure won the 2023 Junior Eurovision Song Contest with a song about school bullying?
Did you know that one of the buildings that house the Safe House Museum was where Martin Luther King Jr. hid from the Ku Klux Klan on 21 March 1968, just weeks before he was assassinated?
Did you know that Alan Wace recruited Walter Abel Heurtley, a former military prison governor, to help manage the students of the British School at Athens?
Did you know that Britney Spears's 2011 song "Selfish" reached number one on the iTunes chart in 2024?
Did you know that Kate Gleason would wear her most feminine attire available as a strategy to sell bevel gears?
Did you know that R. Ames Montgomery resigned as president of Centre College after students petitioned to remove him for de-emphasizing football?
Did you know that despite a career writing queer literature, Chen Xue's 2019 novel Fatherless City had a "putatively straight premise"?
Did you know that jazz singer Judi Singh's mother and father were, respectively, among the earliest Black and Sikh settlers of Alberta, Canada?
Did you know that singer-songwriter Madi Diaz released her sixth studio album, Weird Faith, after touring with Harry Styles?
Did you know that the Elmwood Tower may have once been the tallest building in Omaha?
Did you know that the Myanmar Photo Archive (example photograph shown) revealed "a side of modern Myanmar that, until very recently, remained hidden in dusty attics"?
Did you know that American mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall portrayed the lead male role in Mozart's Ascanio in Alba?
Did you know that Grounded, an opera about drone warfare, was sponsored by General Dynamics, a major military contractor?
Did you know that Oregon state senator William Kuykendall was a physician who founded the first hospital in Eugene, Oregon?
Did you know that Paul Nunn worked as a climbing double for Sean Connery on the film Five Days One Summer?
Did you know that Weise's law was first proposed as a way to explain why cognates differ unexpectedly in ancient Greek and Sanskrit?
Did you know that the proprietor of the music venue the Mussel Inn in Onekaka built tables strong enough for up to eight people to dance on?
Did you know that Halley's Comet is a living creature in several works of fiction?
Did you know that May O'Flaherty's purchase in 1949 of Parsons Bookshop, which would become a hub of activity in Dublin's Baggotonia, was inadvertent?
Did you know that Oakwood Cemetery contains the graves of Confederate soldiers and officers, English, Canadian, and French World War II pilots, and Hank Williams?
Did you know that Piri formed a band with Porij's guitarist after matching with him on Tinder?
Did you know that according to Indian chef Imtiaz Qureshi, who is credited with reviving the cooking tradition of dum pukht, all biryanis are pulaos?
Did you know that during their two-minute performance at the Oulu City Theatre, the group Jumalan teatteri caused a huge scandal by throwing excrement, eggs and yoghurt at the audience?
Did you know that one Baltimore Orioles player compared the 2024 Major League Baseball jerseys to knockoffs from TJ Maxx?
Did you know that Bob Moore did not found Bob's Red Mill until after his first retirement?
Did you know that Mildmay Mission Hospital in East London is the only hospital in Europe specialising in the care and rehabilitation of people with HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder?
Did you know that Sukadji Hendrotomo's daughter solemnized her marriage contract in front of his deceased body?
Did you know that an Illinois radio station closed down to reduce interference with television reception?