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Did you know that Captain Archie C. Kuntze, known as the "American Mayor of Saigon", was court-martialled for living "openly and notoriously in his official quarters" with his Taiwanese girlfriend?
Did you know that Susan Silk developed ring theory when a colleague said that Silk's breast cancer wasn't just about her?
Did you know that a TV station in New York state signed on just to carry the 1953 World Series, then went off the air and did not start scheduled programming for several weeks?
Did you know that a conversion plan led to the "Battle of the Century"?
Did you know that according to Jimmy Carter, "more of [Georgia's] business was probably conducted in the Henry Grady than in the state capitol"?
Did you know that despite a truce, the siege of Wark continued?
Did you know that in 2016, Lukáš Vondráček became the first Czech pianist to win the Queen Elisabeth Competition?
Did you know that there were two failed attempts to adapt Sailor Moon into a Western live-action series?
Did you know that "Surprise" by Chloe Bailey was hand-picked by Beyoncé?
Did you know that , before there was a Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Factory Building, William S. Harley and Arthur Davidson built motorcycles in a shed?
Did you know that Alexander Marble, an expert in diabetes, was described as one of "the giant trees among the diabetes sequoias"?
Did you know that Alexis Sharkey's last Instagram post before her murder documented her travels to Tulum, Mexico?
Did you know that Donald Trump and his attorneys John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani spoke to some 300 Republican state legislators in an effort to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election?
Did you know that Fernbrook Farms was once a model breeding farm named New Warlaby?
Did you know that Milt Wilcox, winning pitcher of Game 3 of the 1984 World Series, credited "throwing bowling balls" with rescuing his Major League Baseball career?
Did you know that Pier Giorgio Morandi first played as the principal oboist at La Scala in Milan, and conducted a 2019 recorded production of Verdi's Il trovatore at the Verona Arena, directed by Franco Zeffirelli?
Did you know that Prabhudas Gandhi invented an innovative foot-driven spinning wheel and named it "Magan Charkha" in memory of his uncle Maganlal Gandhi?
Did you know that Saudi Arabian broadcaster beoutQ pirated and resold beIN Sports programmes during the Qatar diplomatic crisis?
Did you know that more than 1000 tons of paper were used every year printing car literature for the British Motor Corporation by the in-house Nuffield Press?
Did you know that the Assumption of the Virgin by Palma Vecchio depicts the legend of the Girdle of Thomas as part of the Assumption of Mary?
Did you know that the choral music of Artemy Vedel, who is regarded as one of the Golden Three composers of 18th-century Ukrainian classical music, was censored but performed from handwritten copies?
Did you know that the developer of Citizen Sleeper was inspired by the feeling of people coming together and their own experiences as a non-binary person struggling to make ends meet through the gig economy?
Did you know that "Slapshot", a 1995 rock song commissioned by the New York Rangers, is widely considered to be the best goal song in the National Hockey League?
Did you know that Eva Duldig, who was interned by Australia during the Second World War, later represented the country at the Wimbledon Championships?
Did you know that Larry Herndon hit a game-winning home run in the 1984 World Series and a playoff-clinching home run on the last day of the 1987 season?
Did you know that Manfred Mann's 1966 single "Semi-Detached, Suburban Mr. James" was amongst the first songs to utilize the Mellotron?
Did you know that Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, was the father of two queens and a French regent, despite preferring his male lovers to his wives?
Did you know that Seattle-based Tom Alberg, one of the earliest investors in Amazon, was convinced of the company's promise when he could not find a book by Peter Drucker in his local bookstore?
Did you know that endocrinologist Reginald Hall, who studied the thyroid gland and its diseases, received a heart transplant in 1984?
Did you know that in Arnett v. Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court justice William Rehnquist said public employees must accept "the bitter with the sweet" in their due-process rights when contesting dismissal?
Did you know that the City Hall station, intended to be the showpiece of New York City's subway system, has been closed since 1945?
Did you know that the Indian independence movement's underground Congress Radio once submerged their equipment in the Godavari River?
Did you know that the Iranian operation to liberate the town of Bostan during the Iran–Iraq War was described by Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, as "the victory of victories"?
Did you know that Benny Lefebvre had three sons who signed professional baseball contracts and four brothers who played football?
Did you know that Ding Roman defeated his cousin Tet Garcia in the 1993 Bataan gubernatorial recall election?
Did you know that Louise McKinney was the first woman in the British Empire to be sworn in as an elected legislator?
Did you know that Sheila Egoff, Canada's first professor of children's literature, returned to her library work immediately after retirement?
Did you know that Vegeta is used to attack HTTP-based applications?
Did you know that a television station spent so little on programming that a media columnist called it the "IOUs of Cincinnati"?
Did you know that after depopulating the island of Samson, Augustus Smith established a deer park there, only for the deer to escape to the neighbouring island of Tresco?
Did you know that someone once paid $750 to enjoy a hurricane?
Did you know that the first known publication of the phrase "any port in a storm" was in a 1749 erotic novel?
Did you know that wind power in Turkey (turbine pictured) is so profitable that companies pay the government for licences?
Did you know that Charley Frazier played in the American Football League even though he did not play college football?
Did you know that Chloe Bailey dances next to a leopard in the music video for her song "Treat Me"?
Did you know that Osmond J. Ritland was one of four men who selected Area 51 as the site for their Lockheed U-2 spy plane project?
Did you know that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman proclaimed the independence of Bangladesh from his residence in Dhaka before his arrest by the Pakistan Army?
Did you know that Twyla Tharp's ballet Nine Sinatra Songs, to songs sung by Frank Sinatra, features ballroom dance-inspired choreography?
Did you know that a lion's head was preserved during construction of Gilman Square station?
Did you know that artist Thomas Eakins remarked "I think you've got a heap of impudence" upon receiving the Temple Gold Medal for his portrait Archbishop William Henry Elder?
Did you know that despite two 16th-century books often being referred to as the Edwardine Ordinals,  the word "ordinal" was not applied to them until the 17th century?
Did you know that temples served as banks in ancient Rome?
Did you know that the 8.2 Mw Biak earthquake of 1996 triggered disproportionately large tsunamis relative to its magnitude?
Did you know that the illustrations in the 1992 video game Tetris Classic are based on scenes from Alexander Pushkin's poem Ruslan and Ludmila?
Did you know that when construction began on the Kauai Plantation Railway, "nobody in the crew knew how to build a train track"?
Did you know that Adele moans in "Can I Get It", a song about desire for a real relationship instead of casual sex?
Did you know that Dorli Rainey, at the age of 84, was pepper-sprayed by police at a 2011 Occupy Seattle protest, making her a symbol of the Occupy Wall Street movement?
Did you know that George Eisenbarth conducted twin studies showing that if one twin had type 1 diabetes, the other was also at risk of the disease?
Did you know that Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt by Heinrich Schütz, a 1619 setting of Psalm 100 for double choir, was performed at the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in 1972?
Did you know that Samuel Fyzee-Rahamin was born a Jew, became a Muslim, moved to Pakistan and died in poverty?
Did you know that Zack Kelly received a $500 signing bonus, lost money in his first professional seasons, and was released by two organizations before he made his Major League Baseball debut?
Did you know that audience members interrogated suspects in an Australian Cluedo game show based on the board game?
Did you know that construction of Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit uncovered tracks from the California Street Cable Railroad?
Did you know that for fifteen years Joseph Henry Gest was both the director of the Cincinnati Art Museum and the president of the Rookwood Pottery Company, spending mornings at one and afternoons at the other?
Did you know that in Norse mythology, the sun and moon are each chased by a warg?
Did you know that in the legend of John Faa, styled King of the Gypsies, the Countess of Cassilis was imprisoned for life in Maybole Castle by her husband after he killed Faa for attempting to elope with her?
Did you know that the Romans enjoyed balneotherapy from  geothermal energy in Turkey?
Did you know that when asked who let New Jersey have a Twitter account, its manager simply replied, "your mom"?
Did you know that whilst serving in the Royal Navy during World War II, Tom Dorrien-Smith, a former leaseholder of Tresco, was involved in the sinking of the Bismarck?
Did you know that Linus Roth, who plays the 1703 Dancla Stradivarius violin, recorded all compositions by Mieczysław Weinberg which feature a solo violin?
Did you know that Mick Moloney was a social worker in London before establishing the Green Fields of America, an Irish traditional music ensemble?
Did you know that Robert Redford helped the Lion of Zion receive a federal grant?
Did you know that a bystander's video of the arrest of Randal Worcester in Mulberry, Arkansas, showed one law enforcement officer holding Worcester on the ground while two other officers beat him?
Did you know that the video game Serious Sam: Tormental was originally inspired by Geometry Wars?
Did you know that the working title of Alien  was Star Beast?
Did you know that Madeleine Swann's name is a tribute to Marcel Proust?
Did you know that Moses Judah Hays leased a block of buildings to the Canadian Parliament after its seat was burned down in 1849?
Did you know that Robert Downey Jr. declared Elvis Costello's Imperial Bedroom his favorite album in a 2005 article for Uncut magazine?
Did you know that according to Ruth Marcus, the facts of Michael H. v. Gerald D. "more closely resembled a soap opera synopsis than a typical Supreme Court case"?
Did you know that in 1943, Bhicoo Batlivala led a group of Indian women to the House of Commons to request the release of Gandhi from prison?
Did you know that "gambling lord" Hong Taechawanit's mansion in Thailand became a police station?
Did you know that Gaylord Perry admitted that he had cheated in baseball in his autobiography Me and the Spitter?
Did you know that Jewish Indian theory, the erroneous idea that some lost tribes of Israel became ancestors to Native Americans, influenced the Book of Mormon?
Did you know that Ruffian Games co-developed Kinect games to stay in business after the release of Crackdown 2?
Did you know that Liu Yunbin, the son of the second president of the People's Republic of China, was a graduate in radiochemistry and contributed to the development of China's first atomic bomb?
Did you know that Taylor Swift announced her upcoming album, Midnights, while accepting the 2022 Video of the Year award?
Did you know that Thomas Moran's 1872 painting The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone influenced the decision to preserve Yellowstone National Park for future generations?
Did you know that women- and minority-owned businesses built the Frequent Express high-capacity bus line in Portland, Oregon?
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln Davis cofounded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr., serving as his vice president?
Did you know that George F. Kosco filmed the signing of the Japanese surrender in color?
Did you know that James W. Lugenbeel's journal became the only known record of the proceedings of the 1847 Liberian Constitutional Convention?
Did you know that after building Turkey's first airplane, its builder was sentenced to jail for flying it without a permit?
Did you know that because of the increasing prevalence of sesame allergy, the U.S. will join the EU and Canada in 2023 in instituting mandatory food labeling?
Did you know that the Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia organized partisan units behind the front lines during the Polish–Soviet War?
Did you know that Elizabeth II approved the design of the state hearse used in her funeral?
Did you know that Westminster Abbey's director of music James O'Donnell, who is responsible for the singing at the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, is scheduled to become a professor at Yale University in 2023?
Did you know that a coffin carriage used in British state funerals has been pulled by sailors since an incident at Queen Victoria's funeral in 1901?
Did you know that in 1988, Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to make an official visit to Spain?
Did you know that the 1991 song "Queen's Road East" by Lo Ta-yu describes Elizabeth II as "beautiful even when saying goodbye"?
Did you know that today's funeral procession of Elizabeth II to Windsor Castle started at the gate to Shaw Farm?
Did you know that 48 of the 55 British participants in the August 1919 raid on Kronstadt received gallantry medals or were mentioned in despatches?
Did you know that a Duesenberg car was the first American car to win a French Grand Prix, doing so in 1921?
Did you know that according to Modern Times, a San Francisco–based bookstore collective, if there was only one book that you read in 1975 it had to be Canadian author and activist Helen Potrebenko's Taxi!?
Did you know that besides official retreats in Hyderabad and in Shimla, the president of India also has one in Dehradun?
Did you know that the reign of Abbas II of Persia was marked by peace with neighbouring nations, except for a war with the Mughal Empire in 1649 to recover the city of Kandahar?
Did you know that Kohoutek was the first comet to be proven a dirty snowball?
Did you know that Northwest High School required transgender staff members of the student newspaper to use deadnames in bylines?
Did you know that according to one sociologist, Franklin Flores's landslide victory demonstrated his party's ability to win the rural vote "regardless of the candidates nominated"?
Did you know that following the introduction of the round goby to Lake Erie, the Lake Erie watersnake's population recovered enough to be removed from the U.S. threatened species list?
Did you know that in the lead-up to the 1919 Copa del Rey Final between FC Barcelona and Arenas Club de Getxo, fans broke the fencing twice to watch the sold-out match?
Did you know that "illegal operation" was a common euphemism for abortion in early-20th-century North American newspapers?
Did you know that Pedro II of Brazil examined the signal system on the Fitchburg Cutoff?
Did you know that the San Remo was once described as an "ATM for Democratic presidential campaigns" in the United States?
Did you know that Adriana Salvatierra, the youngest legislator to preside over the Bolivian Senate, accompanied her father to trade-union meetings while still a child?
Did you know that The Maiden in the Tower, the only opera by Jean Sibelius, was withdrawn after only three performances with the intention to revise it, which never happened?
Did you know that Wes Freed was the secretary of Future Farmers of America before becoming the album cover artist for the Drive-By Truckers?
Did you know that protesters demanded the closure of the embassy of the Philippines in Lisbon?
Did you know that the Suquamish tribe opened their community house, the House of Awakened Culture, in 2009?
Did you know that when a computer journalist saw the IBM PS/2 Model 25 for the first time, he thought that he "was looking at a deformed Macintosh"?
Did you know that Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell wrote the melody for their four-time Grammy-nominated song "Happier Than Ever" on an $80 guitar?
Did you know that Iraqi psychologist Nuri Ja'far, in his youth, was denied admission to the College of Medicine University of Baghdad by Harry Sinderson?
Did you know that Rockstar Vancouver developed most of the "Beta 5" update for Counter-Strike?
Did you know that South African politician Speedy Mashilo was kidnapped for seven hours?
Did you know that The Random Years includes a version of strip poker played to Antiques Roadshow?
Did you know that a Carolingian military sermon promises soldiers victory, provided they do not engage in sexual activity or looting?
Did you know that after the Basilica of St. Mary of the Assumption was named a minor basilica by Pope Francis in 2022, this was announced on the vigil of the Assumption of Mary?
Did you know that Eddie Keenan was once the largest American football player?
Did you know that Getbol, Korean Tidal Flats, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is an important migration stopover for the critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper?
Did you know that Kannada-language author M. V. Seetharamiah established that the Rashtrakuta emperor Nrupatunga did not write the classic Kavirajamarga?
Did you know that the court-martial of William T. Colman, the commander of a U.S. air base, created a storm of protest when he was merely reduced in rank after shooting a black soldier?
Did you know that Cowbridge Girls School, built in 1896, was unusual for its time in providing a science laboratory for the students?
Did you know that Jim Nettles followed his older brother to San Diego State University and the Minnesota Twins, but preceded him in being diagnosed with prostate cancer?
Did you know that Microsoft made a Mac enhancer?
Did you know that according to climate scientist Chip Fletcher, "our communities are scaled and built for a climate that no longer exists"?
Did you know that subgroup distortion theory, introduced by Misha Gromov in 1993, can help encode text?
Did you know that the first film written and directed by Marysia Nikitiuk has been called one of the "most iconic" works of modern Ukrainian cinema?
Did you know that Bob Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie" was misspelled on several international releases of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 2?
Did you know that Saudi Arabian poet Hamad al-Hajji  lost three members of his family during his childhood and later suffered from schizophrenia until he died at the age of 49 after a lung disease?
Did you know that a civil servant sued his own minister for libel?
Did you know that at one point in 2008, the Bear Stearns Building was worth approximately five times the price offered for the acquisition of Bear Stearns?
Did you know that television production companies working in Bhadun, Bangladesh, can hire a local woman as an extra for ৳500 (US$5.30) per day?
Did you know that China Miéville's novella This Census-Taker fluctuates between the first and third person to convey the trauma felt by the protagonist?
Did you know that Earle M. Chiles, a businessman and philanthropist from Portland, Oregon, was also a senator of the board of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany?
Did you know that Ukrainian baritone Danylo Matviienko, who holds a master's degree in mathematics, appeared as Demetrius in Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Oper Frankfurt?
Did you know that in 1937, water from Tulainyo Lake was carried by runner, horseback, donkey, covered wagon, twenty-mule team, stagecoach, train, car, and plane to Death Valley to mark a highway opening?
Did you know that the development of the Port of Tanjung Api-Api resulted in a bribery scandal implicating the incumbent governor?
Did you know that Danny Kaleikini once worked as a singing hotel busboy in Waikiki before becoming the headline entertainer at the Kahala Hilton for 28 years?
Did you know that Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine, said that Ukrainians care less about her being transgender than Americans do?
Did you know that the new curriculum in Wales allows schools to set their own curricula?
Did you know that Elise Reiman, who taught children's classes at George Balanchine's School of American Ballet for four decades, was called "the bridge between generations"?
Did you know that Hamim Tohari, the current spokesperson of the Indonesian Army, was once removed from his post after being caught using a phone during a meeting with the commander-in-chief?
Did you know that Jamie Proctor won Port Vale's Goal of the Season award after scoring a scissor-kick volley against Sutton United?
Did you know that TreasuryDirect, a website for purchasing US Treasury securities, originated in 1986 as a computerized service conducted over postal mail?
Did you know that the video for "7/11" by Beyoncé contains a cameo from her daughter Blue Ivy?
Did you know that 17th-century freemason and alchemist Elias Ashmole attempted to invoke the spirits at the mediaeval Dove Bridge?
Did you know that Golf Digest has described "Narco" as having "a fire beat"?
Did you know that William Anders took the iconic photograph Earthrise?
Did you know that badminton in Singapore began in the early 19th century?
Did you know that the first Catholic synod in China was held in 1803 near Chungkingchow in Sichuan Province?
Did you know that Bob Dylan recorded "To Ramona" in a single take, for an album recorded in a single three-hour session?
Did you know that Tolkien may have devised the sundering of the Elves to justify the existence of two distinct Elvish languages in his legendarium?
Did you know that during his first air-sea rescue mission with the Irish Air Corps, Barney McMahon landed to refuel with a mixture of petrol and paraffin, filtered through a pair of tights?
Did you know that the only run scored by John Gamble was a game-winner?
Did you know that the six highest Minor League Baseball season attendance counts were all at Sahlen Field?
Did you know that when pieces from Mendelssohn's German Liturgy were sung by the Thomanerchor in 2022, a reviewer noted "a captivating purity in the tone of devotional Reformation romanticism"?
Did you know that Boost! won a temporary restraining order against Mead Johnson, after claiming it had infringed on their trademarks?
Did you know that Taylor Swift said she wrote "Should've Said No" to address her "dramatic and crazy" experience?
Did you know that in being hired as a newscaster for ATB, Bertha Acarapi became one of Bolivia's first high-profile chola indigenous presenters?
Did you know that the "Temple of Humanity" hosted underwear companies?
Did you know that the Peruvian Civil Guard officer Mariano Santos Mateo was nicknamed the Brave Man of Tarapacá because he captured a banner of a Chilean military unit during the Battle of Tarapacá?
Did you know that until a 1982 legal decision, women were not permitted to stand at the bar at El Vino in London?
Did you know that Britten's Five Flower Songs, part songs composed for a couple's 25th wedding anniversary, premiered at their estate Dartington Hall?
Did you know that Pietro Badoer was banished twice, poisoned one of his three wives, but declined an offer for a coup to make him doge?
Did you know that Surinder Singh Bakhshi led the successful containment of smallpox in the community during Birmingham's smallpox outbreak in 1978?
Did you know that college debates in the United States were originally conducted entirely in Latin?
Did you know that despite entering politics as part of a right-wing party, Betty Tejada was later elected president of the Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Movement for Socialism?
Did you know that the 2022 U.S. Open Cup Final was the first in 14 years to feature a non-Major League Soccer team?
Did you know that Adele's song "Water Under the Bridge" is about her relationship with Simon Konecki, which she is usually reluctant to discuss in her music?