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Did you know that Chris Horn, founder of the NASDAQ-listed IONA Technologies, was still living with his wife and four children in a three-bedroom semi-detached house at a time when his net worth exceeded 300 million dollars?
Did you know that Conn Findlay is one of only two individuals to win sailing's America's Cup and an Olympic gold medal in rowing?
Did you know that John Thomas Douglass's Virginia's Ball, which premiered in 1868, is generally regarded as the first opera written by a black composer?
Did you know that Kolkata's Currency Building has housed the Agra Bank, an office for the issue and exchange of currency, the Reserve Bank of India, and a public art museum?
Did you know that Langston Hughes allowed his poem "Mississippi–1955", written in response to Emmett Till's lynching, to be republished in all newspapers that wanted to?
Did you know that May 4 is celebrated both as Literary Day and as Youth Day in honor of the May Fourth Movement?
Did you know that Orgill, Inc., now the world's largest independently owned distributor of hardlines, began as a hardware store in 1847, making it the oldest Memphis-founded company still in operation?
Did you know that in his book, Uğur Ümit Üngör argues that the Armenian Genocide contributed to The Making of Modern Turkey?
Did you know that pentasomy X, in which a girl or woman has five X chromosomes, is sometimes mistaken for Down syndrome?
Did you know that seeds from Asia allowed Dorothy Renton to create "the finest two acres of private garden" (detail pictured) in Scotland?
Did you know that the fossil torchwood genus Barghoornia was named in honor of paleobotanist Elso Barghoorn?
Did you know that the play Karl Marx in Kalbadevi depicts an imaginary visit by Marx to Kalbadevi, the hyper-capitalist area of Mumbai, India?
Did you know that Adam West was on the set of Zombie Nightmare for two days?
Did you know that Charles Scribner's Sons occupied its Fifth Avenue building, designed by Ernest Flagg, for 19 years before moving to another Fifth Avenue building, also designed by Flagg?
Did you know that Ecuadorian presidential candidate Ximena Peña previously represented the United States and Canada in the National Assembly?
Did you know that Grischa Huber played Grischa in Under the Pavement Lies the Strand, regarded as "a cult film in the feminist movement"?
Did you know that Ishihara Park and Gandara Park in Santa Monica, California, are both named after local World War II veterans whose military contributions were overlooked during their lifetimes?
Did you know that Japanese singer Lovely Summer Chan attended the same middle school and high school as the members of the all-female band the Peggies?
Did you know that after their roughly 320 km/h (200 mph) crash at the 2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, George Russell slapped Valtteri Bottas on his crash helmet while Bottas showed Russell his middle finger?
Did you know that choreographer George Balanchine completed the ballet Symphony in Three Movements in a week, despite its complex choreography, large cast and Stravinsky's intricate score of the same name?
Did you know that eight-year-old Róża Maria Goździewska was "the youngest child nurse" in the Warsaw Uprising?
Did you know that spherical concretions (example pictured) were revealed on Ward Beach as a result of the large uplift of the seabed caused by the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake?
Did you know that Emma Mullin, who won four Gaelic football championships, was also the first player from her association football club to play for the Republic of Ireland?
Did you know that Rosa Agthe and her future husband performed the roles of Elsa and Telramund, respectively, in the world premiere of Wagner's Lohengrin, conducted by Franz Liszt in Weimar?
Did you know that Spanish actress Úrsula Corberó captured footage for the music video for "Un Dia (One Day)" without involving production assistants?
Did you know that art collector Michael Xufu Huang bought a portrait of Anna Sorokin, who had defrauded him years earlier, to be displayed in his museum?
Did you know that chemical warfare agents require specialized equipment for workplace exposure monitoring?
Did you know that pioneer film actress Ann Brody was known for her roles as Jewish mothers?
Did you know that the former Adelaide Level lead mine at Arn Gill in Swaledale, England, was named after Lady Adelaide Lamont, a descendant of Judge Jeffreys?
Did you know that when Giovanni Rossi founded a utopian community in Brazil, based on anarchist ideals including free love, most of its 300 members were men?
Did you know that when Ruth Stokes defended her dissertation on the theory of linear programming in 1931, she became the first person to earn a doctorate in mathematics from Duke University?
Did you know that "Herr, du bist mein Leben" (Lord, You are my life), a translation of a popular Italian 1977 "Symbolum" with text and music by Pierangelo Sequeri, was included in the next German Catholic hymnal?
Did you know that Nicholas Chevalier designed a fern-inspired dress for Anne Maria Barkly, an expert on South African ferns?
Did you know that Thomas S. Riley, the son of Irish immigrants, was West Virginia's 11th attorney general and chairperson of the West Virginia Democratic Party State Executive Committee?
Did you know that a Financial Times reviewer described Der Mieter (The Tenant), a German opera based on a French novel, as "a journey to the blackest regions of an anguished psyche in a hostile world"?
Did you know that a tunnel along Japan National Route 410 and Japan National Route 465 is the second-oldest tunnel still used on Japanese national highways?
Did you know that after Lady Ganga learned that she had stage-four cervical cancer, she traveled to India and set a women's world record by standup-paddleboarding 700 miles (1,100 km) on the Ganges?
Did you know that after Watergate, the legal profession turned to the 19th-century ethics of David Hoffman because the President's lawyers had "blindly followed the demands of their client"?
Did you know that although Surrey County Council created over 250 smallholdings for men after the First World War, it was the Women's Farm and Garden Society which created those for women?
Did you know that facial scarification (example pictured), a feature of ethnic groups of both Northern and Southern Sudan, has been documented by various photographers in Sudan?
Did you know that in "Oh Sheit It's X", Thundercat sings about feeling ecstasy while on ecstasy?
Did you know that international cricketer Rohit Sharma is the rhino ambassador for WWF-India?
Did you know that the casques of some large hornbill species (example pictured) can take up to six years to reach their full size?
Did you know that Alejandro Calvo García's mother overcame her fear of flying to see him score the winning goal in the 1999 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
Did you know that H. J. Sterling once hired a detective to investigate players in the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association?
Did you know that Helmut Branny, a double bassist of the Staatskapelle Dresden, conducted a recording of four bassoon concertos found in the library of the Dresden Court, including two by Antonín Reichenauer?
Did you know that Isabelle Andréani appeared as Bizet's Carmen (pictured in the role) first at the Opera de Marseille, and from 1960 in a production of the Opera de Paris?
Did you know that West Virginia delegate Harry J. Capehart introduced bills establishing a state anti-lynching law, and a school for West Virginia's African-American deaf and blind students?
Did you know that Zoom towns may increase the demand for self-driving cars?
Did you know that after surviving the Holocaust, writer Trudi Birger moved to Israel with her family and founded a non-profit dental clinic?
Did you know that during the production of Jeepers Creepers, a budget cut of $1 million resulted in a third of the film being rewritten?
Did you know that horticulturalist Albert F. Yeager's accomplishments led to him being referred to as the "plant wizard of the north" and the "Luther Burbank of North Dakota"?
Did you know that one can accurately estimate the area of irregular objects such as plant leaves using only a transparent sheet printed with a grid of dots?
Did you know that the Canopy Group, one of the first venture capital firms in Utah, found success, controversy, and tragedy?
Did you know that the Kharijites were the first sect to arise in Islam?
Did you know that the best-preserved Punic building in Malta has been incorporated into a priest's private garden?
Did you know that Pakistan was envisioned as the New Medina to be used as a staging point for the conquest and Islamisation of India, similar to the conquest of Mecca by Muhammad?
Did you know that civil engineer Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston oversaw major projects, from the clean-up of Havana's leper colonies to the construction of Yankee Stadium?
Did you know that the 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship Game, held between UConn and Notre Dame, was the first to feature two undefeated teams?
Did you know that the Long Sault Parkway connects eleven islands created by the flooding of the Long Sault rapids (animation pictured) during the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway in the late 1950s?
Did you know that the art and diaries of coal miner Sakubei Yamamoto were Japan's first entry on the UNESCO Memory of the World Register?
Did you know that the independent record label Bellmark Records distributed hit records by Prince, Tag Team, and Duice in the 1990s?
Did you know that when Five Pianos premiered in Berlin in 1972, composer Morton Feldman was one of the five humming pianists performing the piece?
Did you know that when arguing for a narrow front, Monty called  Ike's messages, "nothing but balls"?
Did you know that Alan Comfort caught a helicopter to Heathrow then a flight to Ireland to get married hours after winning the 1989 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final?
Did you know that Arthur Kopit dismissed the commercial potential of his first play, which ran for six weeks on Broadway and earned him the Vernon Rice Award and Outer Critics Circle Award?
Did you know that Irma Toivanen, who was part of a group of Finnish volunteer medics during World War II, helped make a film about the group six decades later?
Did you know that Ontario's last German-language newspaper, the Berliner Journal, was forced to publish in English in 1918 after the Canadian government prohibited German publications?
Did you know that juggling patterns can be encoded in terms of a mathematical object called the affine symmetric group?
Did you know that the U.S. Public Health Service Environmental Health Divisions grew from a water-pollution research station in Cincinnati into the modern Environmental Protection Agency?
Did you know that the standard of the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, contains references to his status as a former prince of Greece and Denmark, and his title as Duke of Edinburgh?
Did you know that when Risa Tsumugi was hired to be the disc jockey and rapper for the band Raise A Suilen, she had no prior experience in either disc jockeying or rapping?
Did you know that Daniel Post Senning studied molecular biology and modern dance but ultimately became an expert in etiquette?
Did you know that Les McKeown worked at a paper mill before becoming the frontman of the Bay City Rollers?
Did you know that more than 90 percent of all volcanic rock on Earth is basalt (example pictured)?
Did you know that Australian rules footballer Kate Lutkins, the best on ground at this year's AFL Women's Grand Final, played with a painful foot injury that required surgery?
Did you know that Boris Carmeli, a basso profondo born in Poland who made an opera career in Italy, appeared in the world premieres of Penderecki's Seventh Symphony and Stockhausen's Sirius?
Did you know that Ken Bloom's real-life blog Quantum Diaries was a plot point on The Big Bang Theory?
Did you know that all inmates of Nohra concentration camp, the first Nazi concentration camp, were communists?
Did you know that in 1968, the inhabitants of a commune in Zealand, Denmark, named themselves after the valley Rivendell from J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth?
Did you know that the "Dirty Tricks" campaign run by British Airways against Virgin Atlantic involved BA staff working behind locked doors to illicitly obtain information about Virgin by pretending to be Virgin?
Did you know that Paul Odgers was the last survivor of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery's tactical headquarters who was present at the German surrender at Lüneburg Heath?
Did you know that Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Mathura, India, combines Gothic principles, Indian craftsmanship, and a Russian dome?
Did you know that in The Gamblers, Shostakovich tried to set Gogol's play word for word but gave up after one act, and Krzysztof Meyer completed the opera decades later?
Did you know that the upcoming television series House of the Dragon takes place before Game of Thrones and chronicles the beginning of the end of House Targaryen?
Did you know that two utility companies fought in court over who would supply electricity to North Dakota radio station KBMR?
Did you know that Alan Little led York City to victory in the 1993 Football League Third Division play-off Final two days before his brother's side played in the First Division play-off Final?
Did you know that Colonel Anna von Wattenwyl went to jail in Switzerland because of her work for the Salvation Army?
Did you know that Silvia Bottini, the face of the "First World Problems" meme, has done makeup for T-Pain and publicly performed Ovid?
Did you know that although considered impenetrable when built, the fortress town of Mariembourg was taken by French troops after only three days of siege?
Did you know that the region of Oostpunt, which encompasses roughly 10 percent of the island of Curaçao, is privately owned?
Did you know that Miroslav Fryčer's wish for his former head coach John Brophy to be fired after scoring two goals against the Toronto Maple Leafs came true that same month?
Did you know that Russ Ford developed the emery ball pitch and taught it to Ed Sweeney and Earle Gardner, who taught it to Cy Falkenberg, before it was banned by Major League Baseball when Ray Keating was caught using it?
Did you know that construction site visits for the Denny Centre in Seattle were conducted through 360-degree video for the Canadian developer due to the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that in a 1980 Japanese study, virgin female adult Comstock mealybugs (examples pictured) were taken from pumpkins so that scientists could extract their sex pheromone to capture the males?
Did you know that Florence Jepperson Madsen directed choirs of over 500 "Singing Mothers" for annual Relief Society conferences?
Did you know that Johnny Peirson signed with the Boston Bruins to earn some extra money for his education at McGill University?
Did you know that Walter Donaldson, a two-time World Snooker Champion, converted his snooker room into a cowshed and used the slate from his billiard table for paving?
Did you know that a Colorado policeman laughingly told coworkers "Ready for the pop? ... I think it was her shoulder" as they watched footage of a handcuffed 73-year-old being forced to the ground and hogtied?
Did you know that in 2012, French women's football club Arras FCF were promoted to the country's top division and reached the semi-finals of the French Cup?
Did you know that the creators of the Indian web series His Storyy changed the ending because of prevailing social discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community in the country?
Did you know that Alli Lahtinen, the first woman to lead a central government agency in Finland, helped establish the country's national child care system?
Did you know that Esquire magazine, a tenant of 488 Madison Avenue, tried to prevent the building from being named after Look, its competitor in the same building?
Did you know that Max Emanuel Stern published a two-part epic poem on the life of Elijah?
Did you know that although Justin Peck's ballet In the Countenance of Kings is plotless, the dancers are credited with superhero names?
Did you know that the Black Keys' 10th album Delta Kream comprises cover versions of hill country blues songs, a genre that strongly influenced the band's early works?
Did you know that the neighborhood of Eastport in Annapolis, Maryland, declared independence in mock secession after the state highway administration temporarily shut down the drawbridge connecting it with the rest of Annapolis?
Did you know that Musée de l'Amérique francophone's collection contains first edition copies of The Birds of America and Encyclopédie?
Did you know that for the construction of the Mediterranean-style Jesús Soto Museum of Modern Art, architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva brought builders from Spain to Venezuela?
Did you know that in order to keep two paintings by Pablo Picasso in the Kunstmuseum Basel, the people of Basel voted in the 1967 Basel Picasso paintings purchase referendum to buy them?
Did you know that some of the Science Museum Group's collection have Never Been Seen?
Did you know that the Museum of Literature Ireland is branded MoLI in homage to Molly Bloom of James Joyce's Ulysses, of which it holds "Copy No. 1"?
Did you know that the Musée Archéologique de Dijon holds dozens of religious offerings to the pagan goddess Sequana?
Did you know that the designer of the flag of Papua New Guinea, Susan Karike, had a gallery at the national museum named after her?
Did you know that during George H. W. Bush's 1992 presidential campaign, he conducted a whistle-stop tour on a train named Spirit of America?
Did you know that the new director of DARPA, Stefanie Tompkins, was paid by NASA to analyze Moon rocks?
Did you know that Fijian Napolioni Bolaca was the top point scorer at the 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series?
Did you know that George Mogridge threw the first no-hitter in New York Yankees franchise history?
Did you know that IBM worker organizations compared the company's business deals with apartheid South Africa in the 1970s to those with Nazi Germany?
Did you know that the Danish Civil War was paused so that combatants could participate in the Wendish Crusade?
Did you know that the New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company went out of business less than a decade after completing its headquarters building?
Did you know that the founder of New Orleans radio station WHIV-LP chose those call letters to help reduce the stigma surrounding the virus?
Did you know that The Simpsons episode "Panic on the Streets of Springfield" features a "Morrissey-esque" character voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, performing music by Bret McKenzie?
Did you know that a penalty shootout was used to determine which side would host the replay of the 1988 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
Did you know that the court of Hossein Ali Mirza, the governor of Fars, was compared to the courts of Ottoman sultans due to its large and extravagant festivals?
Did you know that the serpent eel (example pictured) wriggles backwards into the sandy seabed, leaving only its head visible?
Did you know that Hampden Park's square wooden goalposts, which were used at Scotland's national football stadium between 1903 and 1987, were later placed on the roof of an English pub?
Did you know that financial troubles at a television station in Florida led to the bankruptcy that caused the 1994 demise of Mississippi radio station WHSY?
Did you know that some 5,000 white people looted a Black church for wood to burn the lynched body of John Carter, a Black man who was hanged and shot in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1927?
Did you know that the Harzburger Musiktage is an annual festival founded in a German spa town in 1970 by violinist Luz Leskowitz, who first played there with colleagues from Berlin and Vienna?
Did you know that the finalists from Nizi Project debuted in the Japanese girl group NiziU?
Did you know that the first founder of a free-to-use English school was Lady Katharine Berkeley (sculpture pictured)?
Did you know that "O komm, du Geist der Wahrheit" is an 1833 German-language hymn for Pentecost in which the "Spirit of Truth" is called to come and restore the attitude of early Christianity?
Did you know that because of her striking beauty and sense of high fashion, soprano Annamary Dickey was dubbed the "Glamour Girl of the Met" in 1949?
Did you know that the Golden Age short story "The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years" includes the first use of a generational starship in fiction?
Did you know that the Nakba – the destruction of Palestinian society, their homeland, and the permanent displacement of a majority of the Palestinian people – has been described as an ongoing catastrophe?
Did you know that the University of Oulu renamed an institute after Finnish politician Kerttu Saalasti in 2017, six decades after she introduced the bill that established the university?
Did you know that the design of Suffolk Downs station was inspired by medieval fortified churches?
Did you know that Henderson Hall Historic District (building pictured) contains one of the oldest extant schools in West Virginia?
Did you know that Thomas Fritsch, a film actor who charmed the teens of the 1960s, was the German voice of Russell Crowe, Scar and Diego, a Smilodon?
Did you know that bishop Adam Naruszewicz was a prominent writer of the Polish Enlightenment, and one of the first modern historians of Poland?
Did you know that hockey player Troy Terry was named after former National Football League quarterback Troy Aikman?
Did you know that the first use of the phrase "crimes against humanity" in diplomacy was in a May 1915 Entente declaration condemning the Armenian Genocide?
Did you know that Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau made an unannounced visit to a McDonald's at the Whitby Mall?
Did you know that Judas and the Black Messiah's film director Shaka King approved "Fight for You" by H.E.R. after he heard aspects inspired by Curtis Mayfield?
Did you know that Lachlan Power became the first Australian gaming content creator to reach 10 million subscribers on YouTube?
Did you know that Stuart Baggs "The Brand" was told he was "full of shit" by Lord Sugar after it was revealed he had lied on his application for The Apprentice?
Did you know that dentist Christian Linger ordered two hand-powered horseless carriages to be constructed by machinist Frank Toepfer, leading to the first American gasoline-driven vehicle?
Did you know that despite growing up "no more than a bus ride away from Yankee Stadium", Don Savage had never been to the team's home field before he made the 1944 New York Yankees roster?
Did you know that during World War II, Helena Kuipers-Rietberg helped create a national underground network that supported Dutch Jews, downed airmen, and people conscripted for forced labor in Nazi Germany?
Did you know that the 1765 painting A Boy with a Flying Squirrel by John Singleton Copley was lauded as a "very wonderfull [sic] Performance" by Sir Joshua Reynolds?
Did you know that the Tō-Ō Nippō was the first newspaper distributed throughout Aomori Prefecture?
Did you know that the UFC's Dana White said that EliteXC: Heat was "fucking illegal" over allegations of fight tampering in the main event involving Kimbo Slice?
Did you know that the poem Beachy Head by Charlotte Turner Smith was written while Britons feared Napoleon's armies would invade at that spot?
Did you know that the work (example pictured) of Sudanese visual artist Rashid Mahdi was discovered by a French photographer in the dusty backrooms of several stores?
Did you know that Dickens changed the delusion of Mr. Dick from a bull in a china shop to King Charles's head?
Did you know that Doja Cat stopped smoking marijuana while recording Hot Pink, and discovered that her songwriting improved significantly?
Did you know that Karl Schuke's company built the organs of the Berliner Philharmonie and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church?
Did you know that L. Zenobia Coleman, a librarian at Tougaloo College for 36 years, "paved the way for Black librarians"?
Did you know that Simonie Michael was the first elected Inuk legislator in Canada?