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Did you know that Wolfgang Fortner composed the chamber opera In seinem Garten liebt Don Perlimplin Belisa after Lorca for the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, where it opened the Festival in 1962?
Did you know that the Kingdom of Bosnia allowed the Ottoman Turks to penetrate deep into their territory before inflicting a heavy defeat on them at the 1388 Battle of Bileća?
Did you know that 300,000 people watch every time Christian Guzman trains?
Did you know that Chris Rowley is the first West Point graduate to pitch in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that Gerhild Romberger, an award-winning contralto and professor of voice, was a soloist in Mahler's Second Symphony at the Rheingau Musik Festival?
Did you know that John Grisham said his novel Camino Island was conceived on a road trip to Florida while talking about stolen books with his wife?
Did you know that Michael Bolton and Diane Warren felt Barbra Streisand would be the perfect artist to sing "We're Not Makin' Love Anymore"?
Did you know that Navayana is a modern Buddhist movement that abandons precepts such as meditation and enlightenment?
Did you know that American novelist Cynthia Propper Seton, who wrote about affluent, middle-aged wives and mothers dissatisfied with their lives, was often compared to Jane Austen?
Did you know that Ghanaian highlife musician C. K. Mann added western instruments to Osode, a traditional form of fishermen's music?
Did you know that Players Weekend was the first time the New York Yankees had a name on their uniforms?
Did you know that finafloxacin (chemical structure shown) is a new treatment for swimmer's ear?
Did you know that sculptor Thea Tewi, known for her work in stone, was also one of the United States' top lingerie designers?
Did you know that the Martian dunes of Siton Undae are mostly composed of volcanic glass?
Did you know that the murder of Vicente Bermúdez Zacarías, a federal judge, was a rare incident in the ongoing Mexican Drug War?
Did you know that Kunphela, a favorite personal attendant of the 13th Dalai Lama, was a co-founder of a political party that aimed to restructure Tibetan society through revolution?
Did you know that biostatistician Rafael Irizarry is a founder of Bioconductor, an open-source software project for the analysis of genomic data?
Did you know that in 1831 Thomas Abernethy was in James Clark Ross's party—the first to reach the North Magnetic Pole?
Did you know that the Theater Chemnitz has staged "rediscovered" operas, such as Meyerbeer's Vasco da Gama, in the opera house?
Did you know that the only independent radio station in Eritrea is not in Eritrea?
Did you know that Peter Gabriel wrote "Biko" after learning of the death of Steve Biko in police custody on 12 September 1977?
Did you know that Reid Moore, Jr. ran for a Florida House of Representatives seat in 1976 with the campaign slogan "We need More in Tallahassee"?
Did you know that Reinhard Peters conducted several new operas and Wilhelm Killmayer's Tre Canti di Leopardi, and a number of his recordings were chosen for the CD compilation Musik in Deutschland 1950–2000?
Did you know that Una B. Herrick was called a "trailblazer" as she "made a place for women" at Montana State College?
Did you know that during the 2010 Winter Olympics, the United States Postal Service deployed a Mobile Mail-Screening Station to Vancouver, Canada, to detect mail-borne nuclear threats?
Did you know that Daniel H. Coakley was impeached after he secured a pardon for mobster Raymond L. S. Patriarca?
Did you know that Europol was able to identify a hotel used in child porn using Twitter and a crowdsourced website?
Did you know that Harold Joe Waldrum took thousands of Polaroid photos of the adobe churches and Penitente moradas of Northern New Mexico?
Did you know that in 2014, Iva Honyestewa created the pootsaya, a combination of coil and sifter basket, "a rare innovation in Hopi basketry"?
Did you know that the second of Five Childhood Lyrics, compositions for an unaccompanied choir by John Rutter, is Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" (illustration shown)?
Did you know that Ida Hinman, author of a popular Washington, D.C. guidebook, died in poverty and her body was identified through a membership pin of the Daughters of the American Revolution?
Did you know that baritone Georg Nigl, who names as his favourite roles Monteverdi's Orfeo, Mozart's Papageno, and Alban Berg's Wozzeck, created the title role of Dusapin's Faustus, the Last Night?
Did you know that following the Rwandan Civil War, two million Hutu refugees fled to neighboring countries (Rwandan refugee camp pictured), fearing reprisals?
Did you know that in Buddhism, the doing of good deeds, known as merit-making, is seen as a form of saving for the future?
Did you know that residents of three adjacent counties in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado have the longest life expectancy in the U.S.?
Did you know that Caroline Stein appeared as Mozart's Queen of the Night at the Berlin State Opera, and sang his Mass in C minor and Alban Berg's Altenberg Lieder at The Proms?
Did you know that Ginza Six, a new shopping complex in Tokyo, contains artwork by Yayoi Kusama?
Did you know that Ida Hall Roby was the first woman to graduate from the Illinois College of Pharmacy at Northwestern University?
Did you know that Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park was based on her brother's residence Godmersham Park, Kent, which she frequently visited?
Did you know that a lyric video for the song "Walk on Water" by Thirty Seconds to Mars features user-submitted footage depicting Independence Day in the United States?
Did you know that at Modena Park 2017, rock singer Vasco Rossi broke the world record for the largest ticketed concert?
Did you know that between modelling for Victoria's Secret, Calvin Klein, and Prada, Lyndsey Scott develops mobile apps for iOS?
Did you know that starting at age nine, Carlos Cuevas acted for six years in the Catalan television series Ventdelplà?
Did you know that British crews launched Thor intermediate-range ballistic missiles (example pictured) from Vandenberg Air Force Base as part of Project Emily?
Did you know that Edith Kawelohea McKinzie was named a Living Treasure of Hawai'i after indexing early 19th-century Hawaiian-language newspapers and documenting the genealogy of the chiefs of Kahoolawe?
Did you know that Grant Liddle discovered Liddle's syndrome, a genetic cause of high blood pressure?
Did you know that Reah Whitehead, the first female justice of the peace in Washington state, started her legal career as a stenographer?
Did you know that Roland Poska's painting From Blue to Blue, which appears in Milwaukee's Henry S. Reuss Federal Plaza Building, is 270 feet (82 m) long?
Did you know that cultural governance could refer to anything from cultural policy regarding concerts to broad governance of language and meaning?
Did you know that each sign of the zodiac can be further subdivided into twelve parts?
Did you know that the Basilica of St. James in Levoča contains the world's tallest carved wooden altar?
Did you know that the First Toungoo Empire adopted the Wareru Dhammathat, the customary law code of the defeated Hanthawaddy Kingdom, as its basic law?
Did you know that the Labor Congress of Liberia was closely tied to the Liberian government and membership fees were paid directly to the governing True Whig Party?
Did you know that 19th-century concert singer Sarah Mundell Crane was the mother of silent movie actor Harry Ogden Crane?
Did you know that Don Checco, composed by Nicola De Giosa, was one of the greatest successes in the history of Neapolitan opera buffa and a favourite of King Ferdinand II?
Did you know that Eleonore von Grothaus, a writer and poet, raised thirteen children, including seven from her husband's first marriage, and educated a future queen?
Did you know that Elizabeth Wade White was accepted into the B.Litt. program at Oxford, despite not having an undergraduate degree?
Did you know that Kalasipalyam in central Bangalore, India, known for its traffic congestion and unhygienic conditions, is also a transportation hub for 800,000 bus passengers a day?
Did you know that Krake ZK 14 was a floating poet's workshop?
Did you know that Two Ton Baker played piano in place of Duke Ellington?
Did you know that although the 8.0Mw 1679 Sanhe-Pinggu earthquake devastated towns near Beijing, China, during the Qing dynasty, another large earthquake along this fault is not expected for 6,500 years?
Did you know that an 1847 shipment of Massachusetts foreign aid to Ireland was called repayment for an Irish donation to Massachusetts in 1676?
Did you know that by portraying Alex Parrish in Quantico, Priyanka Chopra became the first South Asian to headline an American network drama series?
Did you know that rose coral (skeleton pictured), a member of the family Mussidae, can right itself if it gets turned over?
Did you know that the opera Das Schloß by Aribert Reimann, on his own libretto after Kafka's novel, premiered in 1992 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin?
Did you know that when only 23 years old, Nigel Williams was tasked with restoring "the most iconic object" from a spectacular archaeological discovery?
Did you know that "The Madness of King Scar" was recorded and storyboarded for The Lion King, but Disney removed it, probably due to its explicit content?
Did you know that Enver Baig accused the Pakistan national cricket team's players of being involved in match fixing?
Did you know that Hanno Müller-Brachmann appeared as Papageno in Claudio Abbado's award-winning recording of Die Zauberflöte, and recorded Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Michael Gielen?
Did you know that N. K. Jemisin's The Stone Sky has been favorably compared to works by famed science fiction authors Ursula K. Le Guin and William Gibson?
Did you know that Sheryl Lee was originally given the role of Mary Alice Young on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives, but the producers decided to replace her with Brenda Strong?
Did you know that Una R. Winter reported in 1935 that there was very little interest in women's suffrage in Mexico?
Did you know that before becoming a state representative and state senator, George Merryman served as a ship's doctor on a commercial steamship traveling between Portland, Oregon and the Far East?
Did you know that in 2006, the English communist Anita Halpin recovered Berlin Street Scene by Ernst Kirchner, which was looted from her grandfather by the Nazis, and sold it for £20.5 million?
Did you know that learning Japanese bamboo weaving involves a lengthy apprenticeship and the skills require at least a decade to fully master?
Did you know that the Kangri Garpo mountain range contains the lowest-altitude glacier in Tibet?
Did you know that the clarinetist Jörg Widmann composed Babylon, an opera in seven scenes, on a commission from the Bavarian State Opera to a libretto by Peter Sloterdijk?
Did you know that the coral Pavona maldivensis can emit a bright orange fluorescence?
Did you know that Henry Purcell's eight-voice anthem Hear my prayer, O Lord features "pungent" harmonies in a long, "inexorable" build-up to a "towering dissonant tone cluster" right before it ends?
Did you know that Ivy Wedgwood's retirement after 21 years in the Australian Senate was reported with the headline "Ivy is a housewife again"?
Did you know that Norman Mailer wrote "The Man Who Studied Yoga" in 1952 in order to free himself from the past success of his first novel?
Did you know that although the British commander was accused of incompetence following the Battle of the Basque Roads, he was controversially acquitted at his court-martial?
Did you know that as a high school student, Evin Demirhan supported her family of 13 by wrestling, and later became a bronze medalist in the 2017 World Wrestling Championships?
Did you know that both Eritrea and Ethiopia consider Zerai Deres a folk hero of anti-fascism and anticolonialism?
Did you know that state senator Jane Kitchel and her sister chair both of the Vermont Legislature's appropriations committees?
Did you know that the extinct ant genus Electromyrmex includes an undescribed species from Bitterfeld amber?
Did you know that the oldest surviving illuminated Passover Haggadah depicts Jews as humans with the faces and beaks of birds (detail pictured)?
Did you know that the song cycles by Wilhelm Killmayer, written across five decades, set poems by authors from Sappho to Peter Härtling, with a focus on the late poems by Hölderlin?
Did you know that Frederick Langenheim made the first set of panoramic images (example pictured) of Niagara Falls and a sequential set of images of the first American total solar eclipse ever photographed?
Did you know that Paolo and Francesca, the second work "for Reader with Piano accompaniment" by pianist and composer Berenice Wyer, was performed in New York and Chicago?
Did you know that Steps achieved thirteen consecutive top-five singles in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that at age 16 years 204 days, Sneha Deepthi became the youngest cricketer ever to represent the India women's Twenty20 International team?
Did you know that in the American West from the 1860s to the 1880s, nearly 25% of cowboys were black?
Did you know that the French Football Federation issued a reversal of a league win after Amiens SC disputed Olympique Noisy-le-Sec player Frédéric Boniface's eligibility to play in the match?
Did you know that the Martian dunes of Aspledon Undae may have formed due to erosion of part of the Planum Boreum?
Did you know that the Swiss mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Glauser performed in the Jahrhundertring in Bayreuth, and created the role of Babette in Henze's The English Cat?
Did you know that the absurdist Twitter writer known as dril continues to insist that he is not owned, even as he slowly shrinks and transforms into a corncob?
Did you know that the common loon used to be known as call-up-a-storm in New England, because its noisy cries supposedly foretold stormy weather?
Did you know that the house of Judith Ellen Foster, the "Iowa lawyer" of the temperance movement, was burnt down, presumably by her opponents?
Did you know that the purpose of the statue Spirit of the Confederacy (illustration pictured) in Houston, Texas, unveiled on Robert E. Lee's birthday in 1908, has been questioned since the 2015 Charleston church shooting and the 2017 Unite the Right rally?
Did you know that Anette Hosoi designed a robot snail that moved by rippling over artificial snail slime?
Did you know that Jiva Pandu Gavit is the only Communist Party of India member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly?
Did you know that King Hussein responded to the 1989 Jordanian protests by lifting martial law and reintroducing parliamentary elections?
Did you know that Nancy Coonsman sculpted Victory, the war memorial erected in Cheppy, France, to honor the men from Missouri in the 35th Infantry Division killed during World War I?
Did you know that Vince Lombardi began his football coaching career at New Jersey's St. Cecilia High School, where he taught algebra, chemistry, physics and Latin, in addition to his coaching duties?
Did you know that during his presidency, Ronald Reagan appeared on the covers of records by the Ramones, Fela Kuti, Bootsy Collins, and The Clash?
Did you know that heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Lidia left a sinkhole engulfing a street in central Mexico City?
Did you know that the Styriarte music festival publicly screened Mozart's Coronation Mass, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, from the church of Stainz (organ loft pictured)?
Did you know that the creator of the popular YouTube channel Ali-A has been called a "YouTube megastar" by the BBC?
Did you know that the scale worm Arctonoe vittata protects the keyhole limpet (shell pictured) with which it lives by attacking predatory starfish?
Did you know that Ōrora Satoshi is the heaviest ever wrestler in professional sumo?
Did you know that USS Omaha (CL-4) was the last United States Navy ship to be awarded prize money?
Did you know that Younis Khan holds the records for most runs and centuries for Pakistan in Test cricket?
Did you know that although it drinks when it gets the chance, the Natal red rock hare (illustration pictured) can obtain all the moisture it needs from its food and the dew?
Did you know that in Telemaco, one of Alessandro Scarlatti's last operas, Minerva enters in a chariot which holds a string orchestra with trumpets?
Did you know that last month, Kirti Kumari, a sitting member of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, died of an H1N1 infection?
Did you know that software pirates created an unofficial port of Sega's 1991 video game Sonic the Hedgehog for the Nintendo Entertainment System that features Mario instead of Sonic?
Did you know that some of the mounds of the Martian formation of Abalos Colles are similar to volcanoes in Iceland?
Did you know that the cellar system under the Kőbánya district of Budapest, Hungary, has served as a limestone quarry, a beer cellar, an aircraft engine factory, and a bicycle race venue?
Did you know that the snake sea cucumber will break itself into bits to escape from a predator?
Did you know that Frederick Brundrett, the UK's Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Defence, was one of Britain's oldest first-class field hockey players?
Did you know that Nannie C. Dunsmoor, a Los Angeles pioneer woman physician practicing into her 80s, was the oldest United States active member of the Soroptimist Club?
Did you know that Rupes Tenuis, the Martian north polar scarp, may have been in retreat since the Late Amazonian period?
Did you know that cowboy Little Joe Monahan's gender became a national news story in 1904?
Did you know that during the tug of war at the 1900 Olympics, a journalist was drafted into the gold medal winning team?
Did you know that in order to accurately portray her character Kirsty Clements' domestic violence storyline, actress Lucy Gaskell spoke to women affected by domestic abuse?
Did you know that one year ago today Chapel Hill, North Carolina, police released an image of a suspect in the Faith Hedgepeth homicide based purely on DNA left at the crime scene?
Did you know that the Cup of Solid Gold, China's first national anthem, was never performed publicly?
Did you know that the Hashemite dynasty, Jordan's royal family, claims custodianship over Jerusalem's holy sites?
Did you know that the Kraków Fire of 1850 destroyed approximately 10% of the city?
Did you know that the Massachusetts Convention of Towns in 1768 created a war scare, causing prices to drop on the London Stock Exchange?
Did you know that the call of the slaty-backed forktail can easily be mistaken for that of the Blyth's kingfisher?
Did you know that when the jazz pianist Michael Wollny was artist in residence of the Rheingau Musik Festival, he played a concert with Andreas Schaerer, Émile Parisien and Vincent Peirani?
Did you know that Hippopotamus is Sparks' first UK top-ten album in over 40 years?
Did you know that Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik used concrete sewer pipes for construction of the Church of St. Michael?
Did you know that after a drunkard smashed the Portland Vase into hundreds of pieces, John Doubleday was dubbed "the prince of restorers"?
Did you know that after the Stadt Zürich collided with another ship in Lindau Harbour, a Bavarian correspondent sarcastically commented that it had sunk more German ships than the entire Royal Danish Navy?
Did you know that as part of her journalism degree, sportscaster Kelly Crull worked at KOMU-TV?
Did you know that the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor raised money for New York's Neponsit Beach Hospital by distributing pictures of "Smiling Joe", a boy with spinal tuberculosis?
Did you know that the St. Collins Lane luxury shopping centre replaced a building considered one of Melbourne's worst?
Did you know that the lambda designed by Tom Doerr as a symbol for the Gay Activists Alliance was chrome yellow, a reference to Aldous Huxley's novel Crome Yellow?
Did you know that while many people think "Trapped" is a Bruce Springsteen song from the 1980s, it was written and recorded by Jimmy Cliff in 1972?
Did you know that Alex Virot is the only journalist to have died whilst covering the Tour de France?
Did you know that Dua Lipa said that her song "New Rules" talks about setting rules to keep "your distance from someone who's bad for you"?
Did you know that Titian's 1516 work The Tribute Money was painted to be a cupboard door?
Did you know that carbon-carrying minerals are known as organic minerals, except for some that were considered inorganic before 1828?
Did you know that in 1948, Oreste Pucciani, champion of the "direct method" of language teaching, banned English from his classroom at UCLA?
Did you know that in Women's One Day International cricket, India has the fourth highest number of victories?
Did you know that residents of Uttan aided Gilbert Mendonca's candidacy in the 2009 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election by refusing to allow other candidates to campaign in their town?
Did you know that the 1896 novel The Courage of Her Convictions by Caroline Augusta Huling is the story of a woman who is artificially inseminated?
Did you know that the Glover's pika was at different times treated as a subspecies of the Turkestan red pika and the Chinese red pika, but is now accepted as an independent species?
Did you know that two years after Henry Ferrers, 4th Baron Ferrers of Groby, fought alongside King Richard II in the 1385 invasion of Scotland, the king and queen stayed the night in Ferrers' castle?
Did you know that while working on the representations of the Lorentz group, an encounter with Dirac convinced Harish-Chandra that he did not have "the mysterious sixth sense which one needs in order to succeed in physics"?
Did you know that white-crowned forktails (example pictured) breed between mountaintops in Borneo, but not with individuals of the same species in adjacent lowlands?
Did you know that Sergeant Ömer Halisdemir was killed on the spot after he shot dead a general who had tried to take over the Special Forces Command HQ during the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt?
Did you know that Tre Canti di Leopardi, three orchestral songs by Wilhelm Killmayer, are based on poems from Canti, addressing the infinite, the self, and the moon?
Did you know that as of 12 September, 48 wildfires in Montana (example pictured) were actively burning?
Did you know that the Martian dunes of Ogygis Undae consist of two different sand types, and look similar to the dunes in Grand Falls, Arizona?
Did you know that the anti-illegal immigration bill Georgia House Bill 87, which was signed into law in 2011, was partly based on Arizona's SB 1070 immigration bill?
Did you know that the comic book Ultimate End was made by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley, who had created the Ultimate Marvel imprint 15 years before?
Did you know that Kent Nagano commissioned Jörg Widmann's oratorio Arche for the opening celebrations of the Elbphilharmonie, and conducted 300 performers in the premiere?
Did you know that Ursula K. Le Guin's 2006 novel Voices has been compared to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, which also prominently features the destruction of books?
Did you know that before working with Bob Crewe and Dusty Springfield, folk singer Norma Tanega performed at summer camps and a mental hospital?
Did you know that during the Rhine Campaign of 1796, the French troops were hampered by having to steal their supplies, which turned the local populations against them?
Did you know that the 1992 New Delhi by-election included the candidacies of two Bollywood stars and a "Bandit Queen"?
Did you know that American soprano Pamela Coburn appeared as Mozart's Countess in Vienna and New York, and as Ellen, the friend of Peter Grimes, in Munich and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino?
Did you know that Farrakhan v Home Secretary was the first court case to successfully overturn a client's ban on entry to the United Kingdom—only to be overturned itself on appeal?
Did you know that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has been accused of plagiarizing his PhD thesis?
Did you know that John Ford portrayed an Office of Strategic Services officer in an OSS training film that he directed in 1943?