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Did you know that Rose Delaunay, a French operatic soprano who began her career at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and her husband, an actor, celebrated their diamond wedding in 1937?
Did you know that basketmaker Ramona Lubo is known as the "real Ramona"?
Did you know that the tanker MV Millennial Spirit sailed under a Moldovan flag, was crewed entirely by Russians, and was mistaken for a Romanian ship?
Did you know that the website NewsFront evaded a Facebook ban by posting its content on mirror sites?
Did you know that Chinese writer Feng Xuefeng rewrote his 500,000-character manuscript, lost after he was captured by the Nationalists—only for him to burn it himself?
Did you know that Industrial Electronic Engineers' nimo tube (example pictured) contained ten electron guns firing through a number-shaped stencil?
Did you know that John Wesley Shipp, who played the Flash in the 1990 television series, was cast as his father in the pilot episode of 2014's The Flash?
Did you know that New Zealand editor and journalist Madeleine Chapman, known for fashion label exposés and snack food ranking lists, is a champion javelin thrower?
Did you know that Valeriy Chybineyev was honored as a Hero of Ukraine in 2016 for his actions during the war in Donbas?
Did you know that "Bewahre uns, Gott" (Keep us, God) is a hymn for protection and blessing that Eugen Eckert derived from a 1968 peace song written and composed in Argentina?
Did you know that 1950s Iowa Hawkeyes men's basketball player Carl Cain was part of the Fabulous Five, whose jerseys were all retired?
Did you know that a snooker table used at the 2022 Turkish Masters was fixed with a car jack?
Did you know that the Neil Simon Theatre, a New York City landmark, was the first Broadway theater renamed after a living playwright?
Did you know that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Guam in the territory's attempt to seek U.S. Navy contributions to clean up Ordot Dump, a former landfill and Superfund site?
Did you know that Eleonore Schönborn, who had to leave Czechoslovakia in 1945 with two young children, received an Austrian award in 2013 for cultural and social improvement?
Did you know that the creator of Comic Sans also designed a levitating man in a business suit?
Did you know that the lock flight in Siddington, Gloucester­shire, has lain abandoned for almost 100 years, but restoration is now planned?
Did you know that Burundian judge Domitille Barancira upheld Pierre Nkurunziza's death sentence, then later administered his presidential oath?
Did you know that after the Ukrainian soprano Olga Bezsmertna won the Neue Stimmen competition in 2011, she was engaged at the Vienna State Opera?
Did you know that the colonial enslavement of American Indians is described as a cultural genocide?
Did you know that Fori Nehru founded an employment campaign in 1947 to sell handicrafts made by refugee women following the partition of India?
Did you know that Jason Robertson is only the second Filipino American to play in the National Hockey League?
Did you know that Ludwig Ferdinand Huber wrote the text for a book with humorous illustrations (example pictured) by poet Friedrich Schiller?
Did you know that Racer's hurricane in 1837 was named after a Royal Navy vessel that was dismasted by the high winds?
Did you know that an animal rendering and recycling plant dumped illegal amounts of ammonia, phosphorus, and fecal bacteria into the Transquaking River?
Did you know that in the 1960s Tennessee had a radio station named after the "Wonderful Gay Way"?
Did you know that the 1886 song of thanks "Ein Danklied sei dem Herrn" was performed at a thanksgiving service for Pope Benedict XVI on the day of his abdication?
Did you know that Clement Crisp, a dance critic for the Financial Times from 1956 to 2020, authored or co-authored 17 books on dance and dance history?
Did you know that Peter Merseburger refused to host a 1974 edition of German political TV magazine Panorama after a report by Alice Schwarzer on an abortion was cancelled by authorities?
Did you know that despite perceived sexist tropes in The West Wing's women, C. J. Cregg  is widely considered to be one of the show's most complex and witty characters?
Did you know that in the early days of news at KPHO-TV in Phoenix, Arizona, one employee processed newsfilm in his bathtub?
Did you know that the 7th Macho de Monte Infantry Company of the Panama Defense Forces was named after a tapir?
Did you know that the rare Somali pigeon urgently needs a population survey?
Did you know that Caesar studied German forests before turning to politics?
Did you know that Cyril Croker was a member of the Suicide Squad?
Did you know that Darth Vader's anal shield has a "pronounced bell shape"?
Did you know that Nebraska once sued a gremlin?
Did you know that a common way to travel to another world is to be hit by a truck?
Did you know that an Elvin man sang Poems and Songs of Middle Earth?
Did you know that shoe-mirrors were reportedly banned (example pictured) at Brigham Young University?
Did you know that Cy Block and Ross Horning testified before the United States Congress about how the reserve clause limited their careers in professional baseball?
Did you know that Davide Soliani, the creator of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, became an Internet meme for crying on stage?
Did you know that Ukrainian museum director Horpyna Vatchenko forced the Hermitage Museum to abide by its agreement and return the Kernosovskiy idol after a loan?
Did you know that all stanzas of the song "Gott liebt diese Welt" begin with this line, sending the message that God loves this world to young Christians in Mecklenburg after the Berlin Wall was built?
Did you know that deadly attacks from stray cows in India have become an electoral issue?
Did you know that decades after resigning from his pulpit, rabbi Mitchell Fisher published a book titled Rebel, O Jews! And Other Prayers?
Did you know that lichexanthone, a chemical found in some lichens, enhances human sperm motility and kills mosquito larvae?
Did you know that Abhijātābhivaṃsa, 12th recipient of the title of Tipiṭakadhara Dhammabhaṇḍāgārika, could memorize and recite all the pages of the Tipiṭaka?
Did you know that a 10-foot-tall (3 m) chicken stands on a roundabout in Dorking, Surrey?
Did you know that according to the "boots" theory, poverty is more expensive than being rich?
Did you know that during the Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis, rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker threw a chair at the perpetrator?
Did you know that the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust, which found the wreck of Endurance in 2022, also discovered the wreck of SMS Scharnhorst in 2019?
Did you know that Royce Clayton idolized Ozzie Smith, the shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, as an amateur and took his job as a professional?
Did you know that Saint Rose Catholic Church   was moved from the ghost town of Fleetwood, Oregon, to the Fort Rock Valley Historical Homestead Museum in 1988?
Did you know that Samuel Marolois wrote books about theory and practice of both perspective and fortification?
Did you know that WBAA, the radio station of Purdue University, received its broadcast license 100 years ago today?
Did you know that in 2019, Border Report launched a ten-day project covering news stories along the Mexico–US border?
Did you know that journalist Travis Lupick first wrote about the opioid epidemic for The Georgia Straight in 2014 and has since published two books, Light Up the Night and Fighting for Space, on the subject?
Did you know that Barbara Shermund illustrated two early New Yorker covers (second shown) and, 25 years later, was one of the first women to join the National Cartoonists Society?
Did you know that Lucy Feagin  founded the Feagin School of Dramatic Art in New York City, where talent scouts for radio, screen, and stage were always present to watch her senior students' plays?
Did you know that William Rees Jeffreys was a cyclist who became the first secretary of the Road Board, the forerunner of the UK's Department for Transport?
Did you know that many international law experts and states doubt that extended occupations, such as the Israeli occupation of Palestine, can ever be legal?
Did you know that the House of Brag organized a "Monstrous Pride" event to clash with London's pride parade?
Did you know that IBM has not been in the IBM Building since 2019?
Did you know that Rashida Beal was named 2016 Big Ten Defender of the Year after the Minnesota Golden Gophers won that year's conference tournament?
Did you know that antimonumentas in Mexico, like those in Guadalajara, in Morelia, or in Mexico City, are installed by protesters to demand justice for women who suffer from violence in the country?
Did you know that in May 2021, Alisson became the sixth goalkeeper to score in the Premier League?
Did you know that in front of the Government Palace in Dili, East Timor, is a monument to the famous Portuguese explorer and imperialist, Prince Henry the Navigator?
Did you know that in the judgment of historians, the Fatimid caliph al-Musta'li "had no noteworthy life", as he was a puppet of his vizier, al-Afdal?
Did you know that the 14th-century house Maison de Jeanne was positively dated with the science of dendrochronology?
Did you know that the Noefefan Bridge in Oecusse, East Timor, was originally planned to be a truss bridge, but was constructed as an arch bridge?
Did you know that the satirical study of "Qallunology", the study of white people, in the film Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny, is meant as a critique of the treatment of Inuit culture by anthropologists?
Did you know that J. R. R. Tolkien invented Elendil for a time-travel story, but ultimately included the character in his main Middle-earth mythology?
Did you know that Kitty Shiva Rao was the head of a committee to find out what Indian women wanted from the new Constitution of India?
Did you know that Mily Treviño-Sauceda, the co-founder of the first national grassroots women's farmworker organization in the United States, the National Alliance of Farmworker Women, was a child farmworker in the 1960s?
Did you know that Ploning and Mindanao, films starring Judy Ann Santos, were the Philippine submissions for Best International Feature Film at the 81st and 93rd Academy Awards, respectively?
Did you know that Verdi Square was originally a triangle?
Did you know that during the Napoleonic looting of art, French soldiers destroyed the Venetian state ship, the Bucentaur, and melted down its gold decorations?
Did you know that postcards were made of Olena Stepaniv during the First World War, and in 1991 Lviv named a street after her?
Did you know that radio station WIQT near Elmira, New York, was co-owned with a regional group of clothing, furniture, and shoe stores?
Did you know that the 32-story Bridge Apartments in New York City were built directly above a 12-lane freeway?
Did you know that the Godhavn inquiry found that a psychiatrist gave children the antipsychotic medication chlorprothixene to stop bedwetting – which was neither standard nor validated by contemporary evidence?
Did you know that the owner of Phoenix's KNXV-TV "[held] a gun to ABC's head" – and it paid off?
Did you know that when Heather Phillips made her European debut in Rossini's Bianca e Falliero at the Oper Frankfurt, reviewers agreed that her nuanced coloraturas served to portray Bianca's development?
Did you know that Hans-Karl von Kupsch, who was instrumental in the unification of the East and West German booksellers' associations, ran a gallery of contemporary art together with his wife?
Did you know that QAnon has used feminine aesthetics to lure in mothers?
Did you know that a Ukrainian soldier has written a song dedicated to the Turkish combat drone Bayraktar TB2?
Did you know that a song from Rammstein's eighth album Zeit premiered on the International Space Station?
Did you know that at the 2022 British Indoor Athletics Championships, Lorraine Ugen equalled the championship long jump record?
Did you know that prior to starting her music career, Akari Akase was a popular cosplayer and TikToker, with more than 1.2 million subscribers?
Did you know that the 2017 short film Juice, starring Shefali Shah as a middle-class Indian wife defying patriarchal norms, won two Filmfare Short Film Awards?
Did you know that the golden rooftop charioteer was removed during the restoration of the Minnesota State Capitol and its artwork?
Did you know that the royal necropolis of Byblos was discovered in 1922 due to a heavy rain-triggered landslide, which uncovered an unspoiled royal tomb in the seaside cliff of Byblos?
Did you know that you can watch frogs playing poker in Split, Croatia?
Did you know that "Ambush", the fourth-season premiere episode of ER, was filmed live twice, for the East and West Coasts?
Did you know that Lesia Vasylenko founded a human-rights non-governmental organization to assist servicemen and veterans before becoming a People's Deputy of Ukraine?
Did you know that LittleBigPlanet, a video game that allows the player to create levels, coincided with the rise of user-generated content?
Did you know that Ruyi Bridge was designed to resemble the Chinese symbol for good fortune?
Did you know that Vladyslav Buialskyi, a 24-year-old bass-baritone from Berdiansk, sang the State Anthem of Ukraine on the night of his debut with the Metropolitan Opera?
Did you know that a young Ukrainian photographer, Valeria Shashenok, posts satirical TikTok videos about the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Did you know that after a trip to Germany, Xiang Guangda decided to shift from making car doors to making stainless steel?
Did you know that chess on a really big board, Nuclear Gandhi, and a list of sexually active popes can all be found in the Depths of Wikipedia?
Did you know that lyricist Neko Oikawa wrote Neon Genesis Evangelion opening theme "A Cruel Angel's Thesis" in two hours?
Did you know that the calls of Whitehead's broadbill (example pictured) resemble those of trogons, woodpeckers, and jays?
Did you know that Baku was the last major city to hold municipal elections in 1917 Russia, with the delayed voting occurring after the beginning of the October Revolution?
Did you know that Carol Van Strum, an environmental activist who wrote the book A Bitter Fog, accumulated 20,000 documents across 40 years that revealed corporate and government cover-ups?
Did you know that Chanson à bouche fermée, a 1933 choral piece composed by Jehan Alain, is sung without text and with a closed mouth?
Did you know that Diane Burns's Alphabet Serenade provides an early critique of the gentrification of the Lower East Side?
Did you know that Disney once created a political advertisement for Dwight D. Eisenhower (featured)?
Did you know that Merck & Co. avoided repatriation taxes totaling over $3 billion during its 2009 acquisition of Schering-Plough?
Did you know that Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area has one of the largest fields of Virginia bluebell flowers in northern Virginia?
Did you know that after a career as political journalist, Peter Merseburger wrote biographies of Der Spiegel founder Rudolf Augstein and chancellor Willy Brandt?
Did you know that at WOPR, a high-school radio station in Michigan, DJs were forced to change the music styles they played every two weeks?
Did you know that the first New Testament in English was printed by Peter Schöffer the Younger in Worms?
Did you know that visitors to the Museum of Sexual Cultures can make offerings to a statue of Priapus?
Did you know that Amazon Labor Union founder Chris Smalls was one of the leaders in the first successful effort to unionize Amazon warehouse workers in the United States?
Did you know that Earlonne Woods details the experience of co-hosting the first podcast created entirely while incarcerated in his book, This Is Ear Hustle?
Did you know that Marina Nekrasova was the first woman artistic gymnast to represent Azerbaijan at the Olympics?
Did you know that Yes complained about former manager Roy Flynn getting "Five per Cent for Nothing"—but he said he got nothing?
Did you know that Yulia Tolopa, a single mother from Russia, has fought for Ukraine in the war in Donbas since she was 18 years old?
Did you know that due to the work of John Henry Bell a set of guidelines was introduced to protect woolsorters from anthrax?
Did you know that moral equality of combatants, regardless of whether they fight for a just cause, is said to be "one of the stickiest problems in the ethics of war"?
Did you know that more than 200 Nobel Prize laureates have signed a letter against the war in Ukraine?
Did you know that the James Rumsey Monument was  built on a spot known as "Crazy Rumsey's Walk"?
Did you know that the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York, founded in 1949 by immigrants, first toured Ukraine in 1990?
Did you know that the nests of Hose's broadbill have tails?
Did you know that Billie Eilish's "Male Fantasy" reportedly "sneaks up and destroys you emotionally"?
Did you know that Brea Beal   received her first college basketball scholarship offer in sixth grade?
Did you know that Christian Herwartz, a Jesuit who lived in an open community in Berlin from 1978 to 2016, held "street exercises" and peace prayers?
Did you know that Henri Coutard, an early pioneer in radiation therapy, spent the last decade of his life conducting fanciful experiments that were rejected by his peers?
Did you know that Hong Kong native Grace Ho gave birth to her fourth child, Bruce Lee, while on a one-year tour through the United States with the Mandarin Theatre?
Did you know that Jerome Robbins's Afternoon of a Faun is set in a dance studio, with the dancers facing the audience as if they were the mirror?
Did you know that Ronnie O'Sullivan became the first player to make five century breaks in consecutive matches at the 2022 Tour Championship?
Did you know that following a 1964 police raid on a gay bar, Chicago newspapers published the names and personal information of several of those arrested?
Did you know that the Carbon Neutral Laboratory is the first of its kind in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that the Polish soprano Zofia Kilanowicz appeared as Roxana in Szymanowski's King Roger in Paris, and recorded Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs?
Did you know that the RKO Keith's Theater, once described as one of New York City's "great theaters", later stood in ruins and was covered with graffiti?
Did you know that when a Russian warship asked the Ukrainian defenders of Snake Island to surrender, their response was "Russian warship, go fuck yourself"?
Did you know that "big mamas" caused China to become the biggest purchaser of gold?
Did you know that Croydon-based rapper ZieZie started studying carpentry in college before he decided to focus on music?
Did you know that Francis Childs was the publisher and printer of The New York Daily Advertiser, the third daily newspaper to appear in the United States, in 1785?
Did you know that Karie Ross was the first female reporter on ESPN's College Football GameDay?
Did you know that Nigel Fossard did not mention his wife's name in a charter, but did mention the name of the king and queen of England?
Did you know that according to the book Price of the Modi Years, the popularity of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi does not depend on his performance?
Did you know that crane driver Bob Sredersas's donation of over 100 pieces of art led to the establishment of Wollongong Art Gallery?
Did you know that in Rosamund's Bower (setup pictured), the aim is to reunite Fair Rosamund with King Henry?
Did you know that over the course of her career, vocal coach Barbara Maier Gustern taught Debbie Harry, Taylor Mac, Justin Vivian Bond, Diamanda Galás, and Kathleen Hanna?
Did you know that the divers who found the c. 9th-century Tully Lough Cross in 1986 were convicted for trying to sell it to American museums?
Did you know that the egg-size Logan Sapphire glows reddish orange under ultraviolet radiation?
Did you know that the text of the hymn "Herr, nimm auch uns zum Tabor mit" was written in 2001 because few German hymns dealt with the transfiguration of Jesus, an annual reading during Lent?
Did you know that ESA astronauts used virtual reality to verify the design of the International Habitation Module?
Did you know that Lisa Winter took part in robot battles at 10 years old?
Did you know that Stephen Bishop's 1842 map of Mammoth Cave, drawn from memory, was so accurate that it remained in use for more than forty years?
Did you know that The West Wing's theme music was only intended for use in one scene?
Did you know that Zebedee Nungak, taken as a child for an experiment by the Canadian government, went on to "cross antlers with prime ministers, premiers and Québec separatists"?
Did you know that during the Year of Luigi, Nintendo released a mockumentary depicting Luigi as a "legend of parkour"?
Did you know that forensic scientist Angela Gallop has investigated the stomach contents of Diana, Princess of Wales, alleged alien abductions, and the presence of boar sperm in a hospital patient's intestines?
Did you know that one reviewer wrote that her "pinkies protested and went on strike" after half an hour of typing on a Sharp PC-4500?
Did you know that the 16th-century Hockley Pendant was discovered by a four-year-old in 2009?
Did you know that the titular character of Verdi's Nabucco, the opera that established his fame, is a combination of three historic rulers?
Did you know that Andrew Barclay, a bookbinder in colonial Boston, was commanded by British general Sir Guy Carleton to take Loyalist refugees to Nova Scotia?
Did you know that Artem Datsyshyn, the National Opera of Ukraine's principal dancer in ballets such as Swan Lake and La Bayadère, is said to have danced with "romantic sublimity" and "psychological depth"?
Did you know that Ciceruacchio, a cart driver, was described as "Rome's first citizen"?
Did you know that Eric Sbraccia made his professional wrestling debut at the age of fourteen as a "junior member" for Tony Rumble in International Championship Wrestling?
Did you know that Paddy Morgan conceded the final of the 1976 Australian Professional Championship rather than play with Eddie Charlton's balls?
Did you know that Scottish nurse Euphemia Steele Innes was decorated with the Royal Red Cross first class for services with the Territorial Force Nursing Service in World War I?
Did you know that Ukrainian actress Oksana Shvets, who was killed in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, starred in the 2013 joint Ukrainian–Russian television family saga House with Lilies alongside Russian actors?
Did you know that butterflies of the genus Anaea (example pictured) are said to have "commanded the admiration of even the most gold-mad conquistadores"?
Did you know that the 1962 Book of Common Prayer has been translated into Cree, French, Inuktitut, and Mohawk?
Did you know that the Johannespassion by Wolfram Menschick, a setting of the Passion according to St John for three soloists and choir, will be performed today at Essen Cathedral?
Did you know that the freighter Emperor is the most visited shipwreck in Isle Royale National Park?
Did you know that the island of Poilão, within the João Vieira and Poilão Marine National Park, supports five percent of the world's green sea turtle nests?
Did you know that the trial of Neumann and Sass, held in Lithuania in 1934–1935, is said to be the first mass trial of Nazis in Europe?
Did you know that there wasn't enough water in Oceanside to build more than half of the E. F. Barrett Power Station?
Did you know that Charlie Moore played basketball for four universities?
Did you know that Chow Leung started a language school for children in Chicago before writing Chinese Fables and Folk Stories (illustration pictured) with Mary Hayes Davis?
Did you know that Italian anarchists founded the first trade union for bakers in Argentina?
Did you know that Minnesang poet Walther von Klingen is depicted jousting in the Codex Manesse manuscript?
Did you know that Walter Cronkite was one of 40 finalists in NASA's Journalist in Space Project?
Did you know that Winston Churchill painted Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque, his only painting during World War II, at the Villa Taylor?
Did you know that brewer Sophie de Ronde is allergic to most beer?