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Did you know that the Terebinth of Nero in Rome got its name from a species of tree that traditionally shaded Saint Peter's tomb?
Did you know that the biannual festival Wiesbadener Bachwochen has featured Faure's Requiem sung by a project choir in 2015, and Bach's Mass in B minor sung by the Schiersteiner Kantorei in 2019?
Did you know that 23 of the 25 disc jockeys of Utah radio station KJQN-FM defected and started their own station, taking with them a converted truck called the "Milk Beast"?
Did you know that Irish neuroscientist Sabina Brennan was a soap actress in the television series Fair City before she started investigating dementia?
Did you know that Japanese rolled omelettes are made with rectangular pans (examples pictured)?
Did you know that Pope Alexander VI granted a plenary indulgence to those willing to work on the demolition of the Meta Romuli?
Did you know that T. S. Eliot defended himself from the grave after 1,131 of his letters to Emily Hale were released in January 2020, stating that he "never at any time had sexual relations" with her?
Did you know that Willard Ryan was the first head coach of the Green Bay Packers, even though the team claims that Curly Lambeau was actually the first?
Did you know that after a car accident left him unable to play brass instruments, Native American musician R. Carlos Nakai began playing a traditional cedar flute, and went on to receive eleven Grammy nominations?
Did you know that following the annexation of the Leeward Islands, the people of Bora Bora appointed a blind man to raise the flag of France?
Did you know that in 1988, Columbia Villa was the site of the first known drive-by shooting in Portland, Oregon?
Did you know that in order to bypass political changes demanded by Germany at the 1940 Salzburg Conference, Slovakia adopted the Führer principle?
Did you know that the Dęblin–Irena forced-labor camp was one of the last forced-labor camps for Jews in the Lublin District?
Did you know that Albert Lortzing (engraving shown), who adapted a 1733 French play for his German Spieloper Die Opernprobe, died the day after its successful premiere at the Oper Frankfurt on 20 January 1851?
Did you know that Chinese-Hawaiian politician and businessman John Ena was decorated with the Royal Order of the Crown of Hawaii by King Kalākaua?
Did you know that Filipe Albuquerque, João Barbosa, and Christian Fittipaldi won the 2018 24 Hours of Daytona, and broke a distance record that had been held since the 1982 race?
Did you know that George Nathanael Anderson translated the New Testament into the Iramba language?
Did you know that Irene Palaiologina, the elder sister of Byzantine emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos, became a staunch opponent of his proposed union of the churches, and tried to form a Bulgarian–Mamluk alliance against him?
Did you know that Liverpool F.C. became the first team allowed to wear the FIFA Champions Badge in the English Premier League, but only for one game against Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. on 29 December 2019?
Did you know that a 1-metre (3.3 ft) section was added to the County Fermanagh War Memorial to commemorate eleven civilians who were killed in a 1987 IRA bombing at the site?
Did you know that after the Indian team won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, their manager PR Man Singh ensured that Wisden Cricket Monthly editor David Frith would "eat his words"?
Did you know that hosts of the passionvine bug (example pictured) include coffee, citrus, mung bean, squash, and mango?
Did you know that producer Orla Doherty spent 500 hours underwater in a submarine during her work on Blue Planet II?
Did you know that the International Criminal Court investigation in Palestine will investigate alleged war crimes by Israel, Hamas, and Palestinian armed groups?
Did you know that George Downing created the first surfboard with a removable fin?
Did you know that Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil became a leading member of the Primrose League, the first British political organisation to give women a prominent role, despite finding its medieval influences absurd?
Did you know that James Stephen, who designed several schools listed on the National Register of Historic Places, received his architectural training through a correspondence course?
Did you know that Jutta Hering-Winckler, a lawyer from Minden whose grandfather saw the premiere of Wagner's Ring cycle, "made the impossible possible" by organizing Der Ring in Minden?
Did you know that Peter Hedges was paid $10 to write the screenplay for Pieces of April, and another $10 to direct the film?
Did you know that in 2006, a Tupolev Tu-160 bomber was named after its chief designer, Valentin Bliznyuk?
Did you know that medal inflation is the devaluation of military awards if too many are issued?
Did you know that the Kłodzko Synagogue, destroyed in 1938 during Kristallnacht, has been commemorated in a cast-aluminum sculpture model?
Did you know that Farnham Mires is one of the few sedge-and-rush marshes left in the Vale of York?
Did you know that Infection, the first Venezuelan zombie film, has been banned in the country despite horror being a popular genre there?
Did you know that Wanjira Mathai aims to continue the work of her mother, Nobel Peace Prize–winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai, by restoring 12.6 million acres (5.1 million hectares) of Kenyan land by 2030?
Did you know that Winshill Water Tower was guarded by Boy Scouts during the First World War?
Did you know that despite Charles Jones already having a reputation for ineptitude and dishonesty, he was awarded the contract to dig the longest canal tunnel in England?
Did you know that period names for Ancient Egyptian history, such as "Old Kingdom" and "New Kingdom", are modern inventions?
Did you know that the City of San Francisco considers its United Nations Plaza eligible for landmark status due to its historical connection to the LGBTQ movement?
Did you know that the nationally rare tansy beetle (example pictured) survives at Acaster South Ings, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near York, England?
Did you know that Baltimore television station WMET-TV was housed in a converted movie theater?
Did you know that Home for Christmas, Netflix's first Norwegian TV show, was inspired by televised Nordic Christmas calendars?
Did you know that Reinhold Fritz of the Stuttgart Court Opera, who participated in world premieres such as Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, was dismissed in 1933 because his wife was Jewish?
Did you know that Whittington Tump in Worcestershire was the site of a motte castle?
Did you know that as an attempt to Turkify its Kurdish minority and their land, the Turks deported 300,000 Kurds in 1916 alone and continued the deportations until the 1940s?
Did you know that fashion model Kesewa Aboah is descended from British nobility?
Did you know that guitarist Cory Wong (pictured, left) was mentored by Peruvian guitarist Andrés Prado and Prince's drummer Michael Bland?
Did you know that only a few hundred Jews survived out of the more than 57,000 who were deported from Slovakia in 1942?
Did you know that stock car driver Joey Logano's victory in the 2009 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at the age of 19 made him the youngest person in history to win a NASCAR Cup Series race?
Did you know that the 97-year-old, 499 km (310 mi) Irish land border discusses Brexit on Twitter as @BorderIrish and in its book I Am the Border, So I Am?
Did you know that the Mad About You episode "The Conversation" was filmed with a single camera in one take, and broadcast without interruption from commercials?
Did you know that the degradation of a mural by Francisco Narváez in the University City of Caracas led to the formation of a group dedicated to preserving his works there?
Did you know that there is a US$5 million reward for information leading to the conviction of Gilberto Barragán Balderas?
Did you know that when Louisville, Kentucky's WKYW radio became religious station WFIA in 1965, it ceased accepting beer, wine and tobacco commercials?
Did you know that All the Freckles in the World, a Mexican coming-of-age romantic comedy film, was released on Netflix after finding success in theaters in Mexico?
Did you know that Fred Evans is the most successful Welsh boxer in Olympic history?
Did you know that Indian lyricist Gulzar wants his patriotic song "Ae Watan" to become the "song of our nation"?
Did you know that Queen Tuarii traveled to the Cook Islands to seek British intervention in Raiatea's war with France?
Did you know that Ranjit Sitaram Pandit translated Kalhana's Rajatarangini while he was imprisoned?
Did you know that Ulysses S. Grant, known for his excellent horsemanship, set a high-jump record at West Point in 1843 that stood for 25 years?
Did you know that chitons, such as Acanthochitona crinita, are molluscs with a shell composed of eight separate articulating valves?
Did you know that sprinter Judith Ayaa, the first Ugandan woman to win a Commonwealth Games medal, later lived in poverty, begging on the streets of Kampala?
Did you know that the Cassington Canal was built by the Duke of Marlborough to connect his lands to the River Thames and the country's network of canals and rivers?
Did you know that Gabriela Rodríguez de Bukele, the current first lady of El Salvador, is the first person in the country to hold a doctorate in prenatal psychology?
Did you know that U.S. general Arthur MacArthur gave an address at the unveiling of a monument to Scottish poet Robert Burns in Milwaukee?
Did you know that both Aleksandr Blagonravov and his son Aleksandr worked on designs for armoured vehicles for the Soviet Armed Forces?
Did you know that in 2019, the United States ratified a treaty that had been negotiated 16 years earlier to protect the wreck of the RMS Titanic?
Did you know that the 369th Regiment Armory, built for the "Harlem Hell Fighters", was planned as a boxing and gymnastics venue in New York City's unsuccessful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that the Marine Cemetery, made from plastic bottles collected from an Indian beach, is dedicated to nine endangered aquatic species?
Did you know that the main pollinators of the winter bell are the singing honeyeater and the red wattlebird?
Did you know that Hungarian veterinarian József Marek, the first to identify Marek's disease, also developed a remedy for liver fluke in cattle and a nasogastric tube for treating horse colic?
Did you know that Kim A. Wagner wrote The Skull of Alum Bheg to tell the story of "thousands of Indian soldiers" who rebelled in 1857?
Did you know that it would take Bronisław Pięcik upwards of a thousand hours on average to build his elaborate Kraków szopka nativity scenes (example pictured)?
Did you know that quotations by architect Abraham H. Albertson about the Cobb Building in Seattle were immortalized 80 years later in a staircase in nearby University Street station?
Did you know that the song "New Body" was removed from Kanye West's 2019 album Jesus Is King one day before its release?
Did you know that Charlotte Spencer, Countess Spencer, formed an organisation in the East End of London in 1868 that provided "outfits for girls going into service, or families willing to emigrate"?
Did you know that Mozart (portrait shown) composed four litanies between 1771 and 1776 – two Marian and two sacramental – as a church musician for the prince-archbishop of Salzburg?
Did you know that Skeleton Cave in Maricopa County, Arizona, gets its name from the bones of the massacre victims from the Battle of Salt River Canyon that were found inside?
Did you know that Svetolik Dragačevac was deported to a concentration camp after sending a threatening letter to Adolf Hitler?
Did you know that students from eight school districts in the region of Wenatchee, Washington, created public artwork for Columbia Station?
Did you know that the 1990 Wrestling Summit was the only time the World Wrestling Federation, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, and All Japan Pro Wrestling presented a show together?
Did you know that the first Celtic currency of Britain consisted of iron bars?
Did you know that the identification of the body of outlaw Joseph Henry Loveless more than 100 years after his death is the oldest successful identification by the DNA Doe Project?
Did you know that the performance of French singer Angelina at the 2018 Junior Eurovision Song Contest marked France's return to the competition after 14 years?
Did you know that typeface designer Dick Dooijes's first solo design was a Hebrew alphabet, which he could not read?
Did you know that English footballer Tyreece John-Jules's uncle is Red Dwarf's Cat?
Did you know that Seattle councilmember Andrew J. Lewis was sworn in at a community garden atop a parking garage?
Did you know that Uganda's delegation at the 1968 Summer Olympics included boxers Leo Rwabwogo and Eridadi Mukwanga, who won the nation's first Olympic medals at the Games?
Did you know that a verse from Psalm 85 inspired artworks depicting the kiss of Justice and Peace (example shown)?
Did you know that according to philosopher Liu Gangji, modern Chinese aesthetics have largely resulted from the propagation of German idealism?
Did you know that between 934 and 944, Abu Abdallah al-Baridi fought against Ibn Ra'iq, Tuzun, Bajkam, the Hamdanids, the Buyids, and Oman, twice occupied Baghdad, and was named vizier four times?
Did you know that in the Apollo 11 spaceflight, Neil Armstrong brought two pieces of the Wright Flyer to the Moon in his personal preference kit?
Did you know that place cells are thought to play an important role in episodic memory?
Did you know that the bell of the Church of the Good Shepherd, one of New Zealand's most photographed buildings, commemorates photographer and explorer Edward Sealy and his granddaughter?
Did you know that the cemetery of what is now Fordham University had to be relocated in 1889 to make way for the New York Botanical Garden?
Did you know that German spy Alphons Timmerman was captured while carrying ingredients for invisible ink?
Did you know that Prince Minye Kyawhtin, who had rebelled against three Ava kings for over 32 years, was killed by his own bodyguard for sexually assaulting the guard's sister?
Did you know that Richard Rudzitis wrote poetry and articles with a pencil on rags, which he stitched into a pea coat, while in labour camps?
Did you know that despite her membership in two of Scotland's largest land-owning families, philanthropist Lady Victoria Campbell dedicated her life to helping those who lived on the islands of Argyll?
Did you know that despite spending 15 years in the Soviet Union's Italian embassy, diplomat Valentin Bogomazov's only ambassadorships were to South American countries?
Did you know that martial law was declared in Russell County, Alabama, after the assassination of state attorney general candidate Albert Patterson in 1954?
Did you know that the China-exclusive Let's Hunt Monsters is the second highest-grossing augmented reality mobile game, behind Pokémon Go?
Did you know that the doubleband surgeonfish (example pictured) can turn a dark brown shade flushed with red or violet when stressed?
Did you know that the fleet of the Fatimid Caliphate went up in flames in 996, resulting in anti-Christian pogroms in Cairo?
Did you know that the infernal machine was a 25-barrel gun used in a failed assassination attempt on King Louis Philippe I in 1835 (depicted)?
Did you know that the player controls a smiley face in 868-HACK?
Did you know that three cannonballs were discovered in the roof of the Church of St Cuthbert, Bellingham, during renovation works?
Did you know that George W. Christians, leader of the American Fascists, claimed to be "so red" that he made the Russians look yellow?
Did you know that La Saline Natural Area in northeastern Alberta, Canada, features a large tufa mound?
Did you know that Scottish screenwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns, who co-wrote the Academy Award–nominated screenplay for the World War I film 1917, once wrote a short story about killer guinea pigs?
Did you know that a 1986 contest by radio station KXUS jammed all telephone circuits in Springfield, Missouri, for an hour?
Did you know that engraver Abraham Goos and merchant Jacob ben Abraham Zaddiq were responsible for the first map of the Holy Land printed in Hebrew?
Did you know that some media sources described Queen Elizabeth II's agreement with Prince Harry and Meghan as a "hard Megxit"?
Did you know that the Carnegie Building in Atlanta was designed by G. Lloyd Preacher, who moved his offices to the building after its completion?
Did you know that the Wellington clock tower has no clock?
Did you know that the locally scarce bird's eye primrose grows at Cow Myers in North Yorkshire?
Did you know that violent content in the video game Road Rash disqualified it from official motorcycle manufacturer endorsements, resulting in soundalike brands such as "Panda" for Honda and "Kamikaze" for Kawasaki?
Did you know that 2020 AV2 is the first asteroid discovered to have an orbit completely within Venus's orbit?
Did you know that Canadian Yves Abel, the chief conductor of a German symphony orchestra, founded Opéra Français de New York, which focuses on rarely played French operas?
Did you know that Crepereia Tryphaena's doll had its own kit, comprising several jewels, a wooden casket, two silver mirrors, and two tiny bone combs?
Did you know that NearlyFreeSpeech was considered a "safe haven" for alt-right Twitter alternative Gab?
Did you know that Rue du Brexit in France was named as a tribute to the British people after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union?
Did you know that Widener University Commonwealth Law School is one of two independent law schools run by Widener University?
Did you know that former residents of Chicago's Aldine Square held a reunion at a hotel?
Did you know that marketing for the Venezuelan film That's the Woman I Want told prospective viewers it was so funny they would forget about foot-and-mouth disease?
Did you know that the 1978 Japanese manga series California Story was inspired by American New Wave cinema, particularly Midnight Cowboy?
Did you know that the Michigan Stove Company, started by Jeremiah Dwyer, made the World's Largest Stove, a 15-ton replica conceived by George H. Barbour and designed by William J. Keep?
Did you know that the owner of WRSL AM and FM in Stanford, Kentucky, built a dinner theater on the station's property?
Did you know that the song "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher" from the Netflix television series The Witcher became a viral hit within days of the show's release?
Did you know that Church of the Cosmic Skull released a single to celebrate a solar eclipse?
Did you know that Dave Hakkens founded Precious Plastic, an open hardware plastic recycling project, to enable individuals to set up "their own miniature recycling company"?
Did you know that Mary Gordon, the first British female prison inspector, once forestalled recidivism by supplying men's clothes and a train fare to South Wales to a female inmate who wanted to live as a man?
Did you know that Quarry Moor is one of the few locations in England where the rare parasitic plant thistle broomrape (example pictured) grows?
Did you know that Western Hockey League coach Punch McLean was born in a coal mine?
Did you know that a Royal Air Force serviceman was recalled from a Second World War secret mission to help run Syd's coffee stall in London?
Did you know that c. 1900, the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company provided health care to field workers with a mobile clinic transported by railroad flatcar?
Did you know that knights are depicted in the Freydal illuminated manuscript enjoying cross-dressing after a day's jousting?
Did you know that the Dedham Covenant was meant to be eternally binding?
Did you know that "Die Himmel rühmen!" ('The heavens praise'), which begins an 1803 lieder collection by Beethoven setting Gellert's paraphrase of Psalm 19 to music, is also the title of a concert series by pop singer Heino?
Did you know that Hawaiian pastor Moses Kuaea raised funds for Kaumakapili Church, which was later burned down in the Great Honolulu Chinatown Fire of 1900?
Did you know that Henry Eastburn studied under his uncle John Smeaton before undertaking his own civil engineering projects, such as the Basingstoke Canal?
Did you know that IG-11, from the Star Wars series The Mandalorian, so closely resembles the character IG-88 that fans and journalists initially confused the two?
Did you know that Rooks Nest House in Stevenage was the childhood home of author E. M. Forster, who described it in his 1910 novel, Howards End?
Did you know that Sallie Shearer's brothel in Reading, Pennsylvania, was "magnificently furnished" with fine velvet carpets and beautiful mirrors?
Did you know that The Coca-Cola Company proposed painting a gasometer in Gothenburg, Sweden, to resemble a Coke can?
Did you know that artist and illustrator Rune Naito, credited with pioneering the culture and aesthetic of kawaii, also contributed erotic illustrations to the gay men's magazine Barazoku?
Did you know that over 100 Moroccan Hajj pilgrims died on the SS Sardinia when it caught fire off Malta in 1908?
Did you know that the Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Keep On Chooglin'" popularized the neologism "chooglin'", which has been interpreted as a sexual term?
Did you know that the hollow Shelton Oak near Shrewsbury was so big that a party of eight could dance a quadrille inside it?
Did you know that Bach used the first, fifth and seventh stanzas of the 1533 hymn "In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr", a paraphrase of Psalm 31, as chorales in three vocal works, including in the St Matthew Passion?
Did you know that Canadian professor and writer W. G. Hardy was given the honorary tribal chief title of "Chief Running Eagle" by the Sarcees?
Did you know that James Thompson, who made the first plat of Chicago, declined an offer of land in the city in favor of $300?
Did you know that Sarah Ellerby's flight to the United States to play professional pool was diverted due to the September 11 attacks?
Did you know that Sunrise, Inverness Copse, a World War I watercolour by Paul Nash, was one of what he described as "fifty drawings of muddy places on the Front"?
Did you know that The Minute Man was cast from the metal of ten cannons captured from the Confederate Army during the American Civil War?
Did you know that archaeologist Winifred Lamb had previously worked in Room 40, the Royal Navy's cryptanalysis section, during World War I?
Did you know that of the initial cluster of people confirmed to have been infected by a novel coronavirus in China, two-thirds had been directly exposed to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan?
Did you know that the ant Acropyga exsanguis shares its nest with several species of mealybug, including Geococcus coffeae?
Did you know that the cultural and literary journal Morgenblatt für gebildete Stände was most successful under its only female editor, Therese Huber?
Did you know that Bill Gates is a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering?
Did you know that Edith Hern Fossett, one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves, was taught French cuisine in the White House and became the head chef at Monticello?
Did you know that Leitmeritz concentration camp (memorial pictured) was not liberated, but dissolved by the German Instrument of Surrender?
Did you know that Lin Zonghu was China's first graduate student to major in boilers?
Did you know that William Rose illustrated dozens of film posters of the Classical Hollywood era, but only a fraction – including an alternate poster for Citizen Kane – have been attributed to him by name?
Did you know that before becoming a passenger ferry, the MV Star of Malta made a round-the-world cruise, belonged to a Dominican Republic dictator, and served in the United States Navy?
Did you know that in 2016, New York became the 50th U.S. state to legalize and regulate mixed martial arts?
Did you know that no fungi or algae are listed as endangered or threatened by the Illinois Endangered Species Protection Board?
Did you know that the Fatimid military commander Dirgham abandoned his pupil Ruzzik ibn Tala'i, the vizier, to be deposed and killed by Shawar, only to overthrow the latter a few months later?