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Did you know that Divyansh Singh Panwar won four medals at the 2019 Shooting World Cup, two years after his father became worried by his "PUBG addiction" and sent him to New Delhi to train?
Did you know that Kang Woo-kyu hid a grenade between his legs to pass through the Russian–Japanese border and try to assassinate the Japanese governor-general of Korea?
Did you know that Werner Haseleu appeared as Moses in Schoenberg's Moses und Aron at the Staatsoper Dresden, and as Holofernes in the world premiere of Judith by Siegfried Matthus at the Berlin State Opera?
Did you know that William S. White took a two month break from The New York Times to write the book that won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography?
Did you know that a contributing factor to the demise of black radio station KOJC in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was an internal struggle among its board of directors?
Did you know that in 1959, an estimated 700 people on the ground were saved when Ensign Albert Hickman stayed with his crippled aircraft (type pictured)?
Did you know that to create the Great Northumberland Forest, up to a million trees are due to be planted between 2020 and 2024?
Did you know that Franz Halder, a former chief of staff of Nazi Germany's army, was the only German to be decorated by both Adolf Hitler and an American president?
Did you know that Gujarati writer Rambha Gandhi wrote and participated in more than 400 radio plays?
Did you know that at the 2019 China Championship, Judd Trump's fifteen-match and six-month winning streak was broken when he was defeated by Joe Perry?
Did you know that medical researcher Shuping Wang may have saved tens of thousands of lives by defying authorities and exposing an HIV/AIDS scandal in China?
Did you know that the 1977 fantasy novel The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions was originally planned as a children's book?
Did you know that Dabusun Lake is the largest remaining lake in China's Qarhan Playa, which 30,000 years ago held a single lake spreading over at least 25,000 km2 (9,700 sq mi)?
Did you know that mathematician Dona Strauss left South Africa over apartheid, lost a faculty job at Dartmouth for joining an anti-war protest, and helped found European Women in Mathematics?
Did you know that one of the Buddha's chief female disciples, Uppalavanna, is said to have become a nun because she was so beautiful that her father feared conflict between her many wealthy suitors?
Did you know that prior to joining the Supreme Court of Chile, Gloria Ana Chevesich was best known for convicting a former government minister and 13 others of fraud in the MOP-Gate case?
Did you know that the Church of the Gesú in Philadelphia once held more than 200 relics?
Did you know that Marlion Pickett is the first player since 1926 to win a premiership in his Australian Football League debut?
Did you know that the Springs Mills Building, a New York City Landmark built in 1963, has a hexagonal tower that may have taken inspiration from Milan's Pirelli Tower?
Did you know that John Gibson's design of Nutfield Priory was inspired by the Palace of Westminster?
Did you know that Ross T. McIntire was the first Physician to the President to have had a certified medical specialty?
Did you know that a US$25,000 bounty is offered for Big Momma?
Did you know that the first Serbian feature film, The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Leader Karađorđe (still frame shown), was considered lost for much of the 20th century and only rediscovered in 2003?
Did you know that under the leadership of Liu Shunyao, the Chinese air force began emphasizing the need to fight offensive battles?
Did you know that after Ruth Darrow's son died from hemolytic disease of the newborn, she was inspired to study the disease, and became the first person to identify its cause?
Did you know that in the 1970s, London's Earl's Court Square (houses pictured) was the location of two brothels and the site of the "Battle of Earl's Court" between rival poets?
Did you know that industrialist John Mason Loomis, a Union Army colonel in the American Civil War, fought in 57 battles and skirmishes, marching with his men for more than 6,900 mi (11,100 km)?
Did you know that the Friendship Bridge on the Russian–Chinese border at Shiwei, Inner Mongolia, is used by trucks carrying quarried stone, but passenger vehicles are not permitted?
Did you know that the nectar-rich flowers of the African locust-bean are visited by bats, dormice, and pottos?
Did you know that German stock trader Dirk Müller is known as "Mr. DAX"?
Did you know that John B. Creeden was a founder of both Boston College Law School and Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service?
Did you know that Mai Khôi, an outspoken singer and political dissident known as the "Lady Gaga of Vietnam", received a Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent in 2018?
Did you know that Neil Robertson will not play at the 2019 World Open snooker tournament because he drove to Barnsley, Gloucestershire, rather than Barnsley, South Yorkshire, to compete in the qualifiers?
Did you know that director and screenwriter Travis Stevens paused renovations on his production company's house to film Girl on the Third Floor?
Did you know that KGCX, located in a town with a population of 50, claimed to be the world's smallest broadcasting station?
Did you know that after Xu Chi published his biography of mathematician Chen Jingrun, the latter received a sackful of love letters?
Did you know that at least 70 members of the cast and crew were injured while working alongside 130 or more untrained big cats, mostly lions and tigers, for the film Roar?
Did you know that the Khalili Collections (manuscript folio shown) comprise some 35,000 works of art assembled by Nasser D. Khalili over five decades?
Did you know that Eagle Woman is credited as the only woman to become a chief among the Sioux, and the first woman to sign a treaty with the United States?
Did you know that Joseph Kupelwieser wrote the libretto for Schubert's Fierrabras, and was later held responsible by the composer for the opera's failure?
Did you know that New Hampshire radio station WBRL's first license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission because of double-billing practices?
Did you know that a future president of Georgetown University, John D. Whitney, decided to convert to Catholicism after reading a book accidentally dropped into the ocean from a U.S. Navy ship?
Did you know that folic acid, a synthetic form of the vitamin folate, is added to wheat flour in many countries to reduce the risk of infants being born with spina bifida and other neural tube defects?
Did you know that the Green Bay Packers' training facility Rockwood Lodge burned down less than four years after it was purchased by head coach Curly Lambeau?
Did you know that Japan National Route 279's course in Aomori Prefecture follows an ancient pilgrimage path to Mount Osore, a destination believed to be a gate to the underworld in Japanese mythology?
Did you know that KSKI AM initially broadcast from a lodge at the Sun Valley ski resort?
Did you know that Lisa Daugaard attended the University of Washington at the age of twelve?
Did you know that despite a name meaning "strong-smelling durian", Durio graveolens has been described as odorless?
Did you know that the New York Public Library Main Branch, whose stacks contain an estimated 2.5 million volumes, uses "book trains" to carry books to patrons?
Did you know that David Bowie's first gig as lead singer was at the Green Man, Blackheath?
Did you know that Greg Moore won a record-breaking ten races, and completed every event, on his way to winning the 1995 Indy Lights season?
Did you know that Pixar cinematographer Patrick Lin pioneered the use of a virtual lens based on an actual camera lens in Inside Out?
Did you know that Sunita Sharma is reportedly India's first woman cricket coach?
Did you know that during the Siege of Eshowe, members of the Natal Native Pioneer Corps ventured out of the town under Zulu fire to retrieve maize and pumpkins to sell to the defenders?
Did you know that in his eighties, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Whitney North Seymour Jr. co-wrote and produced a one-act play performed off-Broadway?
Did you know that many Castleford-type ceramic teapots have either hinged or sliding lids (examples pictured)?
Did you know that Wen Chuanyuan was the chief designer of China's first drone and first flight simulator?
Did you know that a tree at least 700 years old, reputedly planted by Robert the Bruce, was destroyed by an arson attack in 2004?
Did you know that as President of Georgetown University, Arthur A. O'Leary traveled around the United States to organize inactive regional chapters of the university's alumni into a national network?
Did you know that in the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship Final, Niamh McEvoy came on as a second-half substitute for Niamh McEvoy?
Did you know that the Church of St. Nicholas in Tolmachi, which houses the icon of Our Lady of Vladimir, is both a house church and a museum?
Did you know that American tenor Joshua Guerrero stepped in at late notice to sing Almaviva in a Grammy Award-winning production of The Ghosts of Versailles?
Did you know that Ladakh was originally called Maryul (capital pictured), the "lowland" of West Tibet?
Did you know that Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková established the first girls' secondary school in Moravia?
Did you know that forensic artists at the University of Dundee used 100-year-old photographs of a skull to digitally recreate the face of an accused witch in Scotland?
Did you know that "Liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times", a slogan commonly chanted at the 2019 Hong Kong protests (shown), was first used for a LegCo campaign in 2016?
Did you know that Bill Walton made 21 of his 22 field goal attempts in the 1973 NCAA University Division Basketball Championship Game?
Did you know that Grigory Skornyakov-Pisarev wrote on mechanics, investigated a tsarina, was in charge of the Ladoga Canal, and sported with concubines as commandant of Okhotsk?
Did you know that XHFAMX-TDT "La Octava", which opens tonight, marks Grupo Radio Centro's return to Mexico City television for the first time since 1972?
Did you know that rings of modular forms are stacky thanks to GAGA?
Did you know that Kurt Rackow and his soldiers were trapped for hours during the Battle of Verdun, even though their comrades were just 20 ft (6 m) away?
Did you know that Thomas Sturgis was a prisoner of war in the American Civil War, a prominent cattle grower, and New York City Fire Commissioner?
Did you know that an omelette created by Mother Poulard is one of the major tourist attractions in Mont-Saint-Michel, France?
Did you know that in The Book of Gutsy Women, the mother-and-daughter authors feature, among others, the 17th-century nun Juana Inés de la Cruz and climate activist Greta Thunberg?
Did you know that the All Blacks were once defeated by Rhodesia, a non-test rugby playing country?
Did you know that today's 2019 Rugby World Cup Final between England and South Africa is a repeat of the 2007 final?
Did you know that Brants's whistling rat (illustration shown) seldom ventures more than 30 cm (12 in) from one of the many entrances to its burrow?
Did you know that Brazil was the only country with an exhibit at the 1918 Bronx "World's Fair"?
Did you know that Ernest Graves Jr. was one of four generations of his family to go to West Point, all of whom graduated first or second in their class?
Did you know that Hungarian pianists Márta Kurtág and her husband performed together for 60 years, often from his collection entitled Játékok ('Games')?
Did you know that Khema, one of the Buddha's chief female disciples, attained enlightenment before even becoming a nun?
Did you know that Rabbi Shimon Baadani, a senior leader of Israel's Shas party, once said that those who did not vote for the party would go to hell?
Did you know that Jiang Weipu has been called the "patron saint of lianhuanhua"?
Did you know that Mikhail Semyonov swapped a career in mining for one in politics, rising to the position of Chairman of the People's Khural of Buryatia?
Did you know that Mill Creek, Washington, was not named after a mill or a creek?
Did you know that Ramatoulie DK Sanneh, The Gambia's first woman general, has campaigned against gender-based violence?
Did you know that Ramin Djawadi was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for an episode of the Westworld season 2 soundtrack, but lost out to his own work on Game of Thrones season 7?
Did you know that Toki Pona, a constructed language devised in 2001, uses only around 120 to 125 root words?
Did you know that in 1945, British medical student Michael Hargrave (pictured, second from right) volunteered to provide assistance in the Netherlands, but was sent to help survivors at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp instead?
Did you know that the assassin bug Rhynocoris longifrons will feed on moth larvae in preference to sap-sucking pests?
Did you know that Hall of Fame players Curly Lambeau and Arnie Herber both played in the Green Bay East–Green Bay West football rivalry?
Did you know that in 1985, Hezi Shai and two other captured soldiers were returned to Israel in exchange for 1,150 Palestinian and Lebanese security prisoners?
Did you know that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation wound up operating a radio station when it seized a failed Tennessee bank, which in turn had seized WIDD?
Did you know that the Lang Ayre, the longest beach in Shetland, has red sand?
Did you know that James Brown, a visually impaired Paralympian, recently climbed atop an aeroplane to protest against government inaction on climate change?
Did you know that Seneca Village, a community composed mainly of free black people, was destroyed in the 1850s to make way for New York City's Central Park?
Did you know that Xia Peisu, the "mother of computer science" in China, and her husband Yang Liming, who helped explain magic numbers, were elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences at the same time?
Did you know that just three years after starting radio station WESQ, North Carolina Wesleyan College sold it, partly because of a failure to integrate the station into its curriculum?
Did you know that one user said of JOSS, an interactive programming system at RAND, "it's better than beer"?
Did you know that Melissa Leilani Larson's play Pilot Program imagines a future where members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are asked to practice polygamy again?
Did you know that Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics to the Grateful Dead song "Dire Wolf" after watching a film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles the night before?
Did you know that Togashi Masachika was restored to power by a rebel army, only to later commit suicide when confronted by a similar force?
Did you know that the Qarhan Playa's Bieletan subbasin – including the Suli, South Suli, Dabiele, and Xiaobiele salt lakes – is China's largest source of brine lithium?
Did you know that wheelchair rugby co-inventor Duncan Campbell is nicknamed "the Quadfather"?
Did you know that Jennifer Morgan, co-chief executive officer at SAP SE, is the first woman CEO of a company on the DAX index?
Did you know that Peng Yuxing was a "czar" of China's military–industrial complex?
Did you know that a vandal "knew what he was doing" when he disconnected the fuse blocks to WEYY's transmitter, keeping it off the air for two and a half hours?
Did you know that after a secret purchase from Europe, the Special Group became the first Indian troops to be equipped with the AK-47?
Did you know that director Kunihiko Ikuhara sought to make the 1999 film Adolescence of Utena "more naughty" than the television series it was adapted from?
Did you know that in a condition known as carcinocythemia, cells from cancerous tumours can be seen in patients' blood smears (example pictured)?
Did you know that Belgian bass Tijl Faveyts, recognized internationally since his 2006 performance as Mozart's Sarastro at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, has portrayed both Fasolt and Hunding in Der Ring in Minden?
Did you know that Jack Hadley founded his own black history museum in Thomasville, Georgia?
Did you know that UK prime minister Boris Johnson said he would "rather be dead in a ditch" than seek an extension to Brexit under the terms of the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019?
Did you know that for his narrative poetry novel The Long Take, Robin Robertson became the first poet and first Scot to win the Walter Scott Prize?
Did you know that the fall of the Berlin Wall (immediate aftermath pictured) was the result of a bureaucratic mistake?
Did you know that Christof Nel staged the world premiere of Thomas Brasch's play Rotter and the first production in German of Aulis Sallinen's opera Kullervo?
Did you know that Hawaii radio station KKON's change of format from "beautiful music" to a rock-and-roll/country mix in 1974 lasted just one day?
Did you know that before becoming a film director, Nepal's Nischal Basnet went to Australia to study 3D animation, but ended up studying hospitality and becoming a chef?
Did you know that in a single week in 1992, a four-man team including Mick Fowler and Andy Nisbet climbed all the main stacks of the Drongs?
Did you know that today's MLS Cup 2019 will be the third cup final in four years to feature Seattle Sounders FC and Toronto FC?
Did you know that when Lois Ellen Frank first proposed her 2003 James Beard Award–winning cookbook on Native American foods, publishers told her there was no such cuisine?
Did you know that Gwendolyne Cowart – the "youngest girl in the south" to obtain a commercial pilot's license – went on to serve as a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II?
Did you know that Louisiana radio station WBOX lost more than 90 percent of its advertisers as a result of a 1965 boycott by the Ku Klux Klan?
Did you know that a cross from the grave of a Canadian World War I soldier was brought back to Canada by W. A. Fry, and now hangs in St. Paul's Anglican Church in Dunnville, Ontario?
Did you know that the rest on arms reversed command is used as a mark of respect at funerals and occasions of mourning in some militaries?
Did you know that the song "A Pittance of Time" was written to remind people to observe the two-minute silence on Remembrance Day?
Did you know that 52 years ago today, PFC John A. Barnes III was killed after jumping on a grenade to save wounded comrades during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that Helmuth Froschauer, a former member of the Vienna Boys' Choir, later conducted the ensemble on 22 international tours?
Did you know that Massport is expanding its Logan Express service, expecting to remove up to three million vehicle trips from the roads in and around Boston's Logan International Airport?
Did you know that New York City's Beekman Tower, built as housing for women in college sororities, was later patronized by United Nations delegates?
Did you know that Rhode Island Public Radio's 2007 acquisition of WAKX brought NPR service to communities in southern Rhode Island for the first time?
Did you know that Tsai Ying-wen jokingly said that his award-winning book had sold well because readers mistook the author as Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen?
Did you know that cricketer Yashasvi Jaiswal lived in a tent and sold panipuri before becoming the youngest List A double centurion?
Did you know that Anne C. Morel was the first woman to become a full professor of mathematics at the University of Washington?
Did you know that Shinori Fort in Hokkaido was twice sacked by the Ainu?
Did you know that Walk-in-the-Water, which made her maiden voyage from Buffalo to Detroit in 1818, was the first steamboat to run on Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan?
Did you know that businessman Delford M. Smith acquired the Spruce Goose for the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon?
Did you know that in his Purcell Realizations, Benjamin Britten created arrangements for voice and piano of songs by Henry Purcell, as a commemoration of the 250th anniversary in 1945 of Purcell's death?
Did you know that subjects of Venezuelan films of the 1890s include a dentist pulling teeth in a hotel and a man getting into a brawl with a stagecoach driver?
Did you know that George W. Hotchkiss published the world's first lumber journal, the Lumberman's Gazette?
Did you know that John Cule was forced to learn Italian because his batman spoke no English?
Did you know that Rear Admiral Ma Weiming has led the development of the electromagnetic catapult system for China's future aircraft carriers?
Did you know that a fake version of Bish's album Carrots and Sticks became the sixth-bestselling album in Japan for the week of its release?
Did you know that the Michigan Firehouse Museum is home to the largest collection of fire truck bells in the United States?
Did you know that John Ystumllyn (portrait shown) has been described as the first black person of North Wales "about whom we have detailed knowledge"?
Did you know that Margaret Lyons, the first female vice president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, was nicknamed the "Dragon Lady"?
Did you know that Red Dead Redemption 2 was developed by a team of 1,600 people?
Did you know that Samuel May Williams borrowed against his brother's credit to purchase the 125-ton schooner Invincible on behalf of Texian rebels?
Did you know that for their 2019 documentary film The Elephant Queen, the two directors followed elephant herds for four years?
Did you know that in the 1858 Staten Island Quarantine War, angry local residents burned down the United States' largest quarantine facility after years of opposition?
Did you know that the Isla dela Victoria resort and casino under construction in Kawit Island, Cebu City, Philippines, is named for a city officer murdered for his role in the fight against illegal fishing?
Did you know that Irish republican O'Donovan Rossa claimed that the phrase "England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity" was typically used as an excuse for inaction?
Did you know that Japanese fighter ace Naoshi Kanno, credited with 25 confirmed kills, appears in the anime Drifters?
Did you know that Renatus Mészár, who made his opera debut at the Munich Biennale and then was a member of the NDR Chor, has appeared as Wotan in Wagner's Ring cycle, including on DVD?
Did you know that WACH-TV in Newport News, Virginia, pleaded with the FCC to regulate networks because another station was "hogging" affiliations?
Did you know that having received the results of the 1848 U.S. presidential election by telegraph, George F. Lewis helped publish the news of Zachary Taylor's win?
Did you know that Carla Lalli Music, the food director of Bon Appétit magazine, was the first general manager at Shake Shack?
Did you know that Chen Zhongyi, an engineer born in Taiwan and educated in the U.S., taught the future Chinese president Hu Jintao?
Did you know that Frank Philipp Schlößmann designed the stage for Wagner's Ring cycle in Bayreuth in 2006, and more recently created a large illuminated ring framing the stage for the same work in Minden?
Did you know that after having to leave her World War I posting in Greece upon contracting dysentery, Canadian nurse Mabel Clint later re-enlisted to serve out the war in England and France?
Did you know that more than 100 interviews were conducted for the 2019 documentary Queer Japan?
Did you know that the female black-capped tanager moulds her nest by vibrating in it?
Did you know that the stories in Chestnut Street by Maeve Binchy, published posthumously in 2014, had been written over a period of decades and filed away in a drawer?
Did you know that A. N. Wilson described Oxford's Clarendon Shopping Centre when it opened as "the most grotesquely horrible building I have ever seen"?
Did you know that Calvert Vaux Park, named after the landscape architect found dead in a nearby bay, is largely made of landfill from the construction of the Verrazzano Bridge?
Did you know that Order of Canada recipient Thelma Finlayson was Simon Fraser University's first professor emerita?
Did you know that Xie Gaohua established the Yiwu Market, which has grown into the world's largest small commodities market?