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Did you know that Bahra 1 in Kuwait is the oldest permanent settlement south of Mesopotamia?
Did you know that Charles Wilkins, who wrote prolifically about the history of Wales, was described as "an Englishman with a Welshman's enthusiasm"?
Did you know that Charlie Watts was the organiser of the British Union of Fascists' cab-drivers group, which was said to have 1,000 members, in the 1930s?
Did you know that John Tiedtke, heir to a grocery- and department-store fortune, sponsored a Bach festival and served as its president?
Did you know that Manchester United became the first English football team to win the European Cup by defeating Benfica in the 1968 final?
Did you know that a vote of no confidence was successfully brought against the Kurti cabinet following a cabinet minister's dismissal over disagreements on how to manage the coronavirus pandemic in Kosovo?
Did you know that both 60 Hudson Street and 32 Avenue of the Americas, two Art Deco skyscrapers in Manhattan designed by Ralph Thomas Walker, are now major internet and data hubs?
Did you know that in the 0x88 chess-board representation, 8-by-16 boards are used?
Did you know that nephrologist and cellist Leah Lowenstein, an advocate for women in medicine, was the first female dean of a co-educational medical school in the United States?
Did you know that the Htupayon Pagoda in Sagaing, Myanmar, has been hit by at least five major earthquakes and rebuilt three times?
Did you know that Edward Ardolino sculpted and carved Art Deco architectural works including the central Los Angeles Public Library and the Nebraska State Capitol?
Did you know that Kathleen Pelham Burn, Countess of Drogheda, was nicknamed "The Flying Countess" because of her involvement with early aviation?
Did you know that Renée Gilly studied under her parents and became a leading mezzo-soprano at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, where she sang roles such as Bizet's Carmen?
Did you know that Second World War fascist Susan Sweney was shipwrecked so often that she described herself as "many times drowned"?
Did you know that Sylvia Rose Ashby, an Australian market researcher, was once threatened with arrest if she did not stop surveying popular opinion on the Second World War?
Did you know that after serving as president of Georgetown College in Washington, D.C., Giovanni Antonio Grassi became the confessor to King Charles Felix and Queen Maria Cristina of Sardinia?
Did you know that scrcpy allows a user to control an Android phone from a desktop computer?
Did you know that the book Calendrical Calculations has been called "the most extensive and detailed publication on calendar systems" since Friedrich Karl Ginzel's work in the early 20th century?
Did you know that the orange-band surgeonfish can change colour from dark to light almost instantaneously?
Did you know that the term "informed consent" was coined during the 1957 court case Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees?
Did you know that the title character of the Star Wars television series The Mandalorian was partially inspired by Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name and the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa?
Did you know that 90 West Street, damaged by falling steel in the September 11 attacks, may have survived because of its use of architectural terracotta?
Did you know that American performing artist Nashom Wooden starred in an off-Broadway play titled My Pet Homo with drag queen RuPaul?
Did you know that Karan Johar launched the pop song "Genda Phool" on social media during India's coronavirus lockdown?
Did you know that Paige Bueckers held athletic scholarship offers by the age of 14 from the college basketball programs of Minnesota, of Iowa State, and of Illinois?
Did you know that Upāli (statue pictured), the Buddha's learned low-caste disciple, was ordained before his friends of royal blood to humble their pride?
Did you know that a poster (shown) illustrated by Karoly Grosz for the 1932 film The Mummy held the record for the most expensive sold at auction for 17 years?
Did you know that during World War II, the 1st Engineer Special Brigade fought in Italy, in Normandy, and in Okinawa?
Did you know that the Longview Museum of Fine Arts in Texas was founded by the Junior Service League of Longview, whose members transported paintings in their own station wagons?
Did you know that when US president Bill Clinton phoned Trimdon Labour Club to talk to UK prime minister Tony Blair, the barmaid who answered the call said that "someone called Clinton" was on the phone?
Did you know that 500 Queer Scientists are informally partnered with 500 Women Scientists?
Did you know that Ball Farm, in the small Cheshire village of Hankelow, dates from 1510 and might once have been used as a district court?
Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi praised the Gujarati-language poem "Amar Asha" ('Immortal Hope'), saying that both Hindus and Muslims "should be proud of it"?
Did you know that Somerset could have won the 2010 Twenty20 Cup Final if they had known the Laws of Cricket?
Did you know that U.S. Air Force U-2 pilot Chuck Wilson flew the first operational mission of the S-model Dragon Lady in 1995 from Osan Air Base, South Korea?
Did you know that actor James Stewart displayed his only Oscar, which he had won for The Philadelphia Story, in his father's hardware shop?
Did you know that county judge Clay Jenkins did not wear PPE while interacting with the family of a patient with Ebola virus disease, to show that asymptomatic individuals cannot spread the disease?
Did you know that during John Early's presidency of Georgetown University, the school was occupied three times by the Union Army but never ceased classes?
Did you know that during the initial naval battle of the First Punic War, the Roman sailors fled, with their commander and the entire fleet captured by the Carthaginians?
Did you know that in a Berge equilibrium, every player of a strategic game makes sure other players do as well as possible?
Did you know that the cartography of Palestine (example map pictured) has been described as "obsessive"?
Did you know that the song "Shiny Suit Theory" was the result of a chance meeting between Jay Electronica and Jay-Z at a birthday party?
Did you know that Bräus, from the Swedish island of Gotland, differs from all other card games in that not all cards are playable?
Did you know that Duncraig Castle has been a summer home for the wealthy, a naval hospital, a girls' college, and a B&B, has its own railway station, and was the subject of a reality television show?
Did you know that Joey Dosik wrote the song "Game Winner" while recovering from a basketball-related ACL injury?
Did you know that Muhammad al-Riquti taught Muslims, Christians, and Jews at his school under the patronage of the future Alfonso X of Castile?
Did you know that NPR called Robinson Crusoe the "patron saint of the kitchen hack" (example pictured)?
Did you know that Srećko Albini, a conductor at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, composed operettas that were also performed in Venice, London, and New York?
Did you know that actor Erik Knudsen worked with Kevin Drew from Broken Social Scene, his favorite band, in a fictional band based on them for the soundtrack of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World?
Did you know that the 1992 St. George earthquake caused more damage outside St. George, Utah, than within it?
Did you know that the parasitic greater broomrape usually grows on the roots of the common broom or the European gorse?
Did you know that when seeking to board an enemy ship, German naval officer Ulrich Mohr once disguised himself as a British officer?
Did you know that American rapper Lil Uzi Vert took more than a year to release his second studio album Eternal Atake, but released its deluxe edition only a week later?
Did you know that Ansgar the Staller was severely injured at the Battle of Hastings, but was carried to London where he then led the English defence at the Burning of Southwark?
Did you know that French medievalist Francis Rapp, who taught at three universities in Strasbourg, specialised in the history of Alsace?
Did you know that Heinz Imdahl, a baritone at the Bavarian State Opera, appeared as Beethoven's Pizarro at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and as Wagner's Hans Sachs at the Philadelphia Opera?
Did you know that John W. Walsh founded several non-profits around alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a condition that had fewer than 5,000 recorded cases when he was diagnosed with it?
Did you know that despite being the third edition of the tournament, the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup featured the first final held in the tournament's history?
Did you know that during filming of the banned ski-BASE jump performed by Rick Sylvester in Yosemite Valley, the film crew were threatened with arrest but not caught afterwards?
Did you know that if completed, the coal-fired Afşin-Elbistan C power station would emit more than a tenth of Turkey's greenhouse gas emissions?
Did you know that the French ironclad Hoche had such a large superstructure that she was nicknamed "le Grand Hôtel"?
Did you know that the tree Macaranga triloba encourages the ants that defend it by providing them with food bodies?
Did you know that Dayton Moore, general manager of the Kansas City Royals, held an anti-pornography seminar for the baseball team in 2018?
Did you know that Haroun and the Sea of Stories, an opera by Charles Wuorinen, is based on a children's novel by Salman Rushdie about free imagination in battle with thought control?
Did you know that Nelson House is located on Rotherhithe Street, London's longest street, alongside the River Thames?
Did you know that costermongers are named after the costard, a variety of apple that they sold?
Did you know that footballer Jamal Farhan, who was banned for life by FIFA after punching a referee in the head, later expressed remorse and advised fans not to imitate him?
Did you know that nine-year-old Dana Fischer is the youngest winner of a cash prize at a Magic: The Gathering Grand Prix, beating 94 percent of the mostly adult players in 2020?
Did you know that of the more than 1.5 million US Army servicemen in the UK in May 1944, nearly 460,000 were part of the Services of Supply, which was responsible for American logistics in the Normandy campaign?
Did you know that the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine (design shown) in New York City has been nicknamed "St. John the Unfinished"?
Did you know that the first act passed by the New Zealand Parliament was the "Bellamy's Bill", which permitted the sale of alcohol on the parliamentary premises?
Did you know that the low interest rates of the Great Recession contributed to the corporate debt bubble?
Did you know that the play-by-mail game Hyborian War, which began in 1985, allows players to fight battles with mammoths, undead infantry, and mounted flying reptiles in the world of Conan the Barbarian?
Did you know that French philosopher Lucien Sève wrote a four-volume work focusing on his perceived problems with various interpretations of Marxism?
Did you know that Hatherton Flush, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hatherton, supports an abundance of orchids, including the marsh helleborine, which is rare in Cheshire?
Did you know that Kirk Deighton, a Site of Special Scientific Interest in North Yorkshire, has one of the largest known breeding populations of great crested newt in the United Kingdom?
Did you know that Milagros Benet de Mewton, a US citizen, fought for women's suffrage to be extended to Puerto Rico because the 19th Amendment did not apply to US unincorporated territories?
Did you know that Tamara Levitt is the Head of Mindfulness?
Did you know that actor Ranveer Singh was slapped 21 times while filming the music video for "Ude Dil Befikre"?
Did you know that at 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m), Jakob Nacken was the tallest German soldier in World War II, and later found work in the United States as the world's tallest Santa Claus?
Did you know that punk pioneer band X's 2020 album Alphabetland, released on the 40th anniversary of their debut album Los Angeles, was the first featuring the original lineup in 35 years?
Did you know that the song "Time" debuted in Childish Gambino's 2019 film Guava Island before being included on his 2020 album 3.15.20?
Did you know that the world's oldest postcard, mailed in 1840, was designed as a practical joke to mock postal clerks?
Did you know that Essex Market was built as part of New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia's "war on pushcarts"?
Did you know that Naomi Munakata, who began singing in a choir at the age of seven, served as the choral conductor of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo from 1995 to 2013?
Did you know that Willa Brown's efforts to train African-American pilots in the United States led to the creation of the Tuskegee Airmen?
Did you know that a recording of Credo, composed by Krzysztof Penderecki for five soloists, choirs and orchestra for the 1998 Oregon Bach Festival, won a Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance?
Did you know that after winning a place in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Mia Kang became suicidal from a modeling-related eating disorder and credits the combat sport Muay Thai for saving her life?
Did you know that bronze fangyi vessels are thought to have been used for food or wine offerings to ancestors in Bronze Age China?
Did you know that by the end of the Addled Parliament, which James I had hoped would be a "Parliament of Love", the king feared that he was in danger of assassination?
Did you know that during the Mercenary War, Carthaginian rebels killed 700 prisoners by cutting off their hands, castrating them, breaking their legs, and throwing them into a pit to be buried alive?
Did you know that the globe chamomile, a member of the daisy family native to South Africa, infests parts of Arizona and California?
Did you know that Dorothy Horrell, Chancellor of the University of Colorado Denver, credits her experience in a 4-H farm youth exchange program in Taiwan for developing her ideas on leadership and community?
Did you know that French weightlifter Alexandre Maspoli, who won a medal at the 1906 Intercalated Games, later competed in the sculpture event at the 1924 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Henry Merritt's triple-differential transmission allowed the Churchill tank to rotate on the spot?
Did you know that Luis Miguel's duet with Frank Sinatra, "Come Fly with Me", is the only English-language song that he has released to date?
Did you know that a series of eruptions of Mount Takahe 17,700 years ago may have resulted in an ozone hole?
Did you know that part of the spire of Zagreb Cathedral broke off during a 2020 earthquake?
Did you know that photographs of the Holocaust, including many taken by German photographers, have been used as evidence during trials of Nazi war crimes?
Did you know that rear admiral Valery Varfolomeyev was named a Hero of the Russian Federation in 2017, while his 11th Submarine Division was recognised as the best submarine formation in the Northern Fleet?
Did you know that the formation of Wellesley College's Albright Institute was announced by former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine Albright at her class's 50-year reunion?
Did you know that "Storm Area 51" was a comedic Facebook event intended as a raid on Area 51 in search of aliens?
Did you know that California governor Pete Wilson celebrated his 60th birthday as a DJ on Sacramento radio station KSEG?
Did you know that Callaghan MacCarty left his life as a Catholic monk in France and converted to Protestantism to become the third Earl of Clancarty?
Did you know that Camp Jened, a summer camp for disabled people, was heavily influenced by the 1960s counterculture and hippie values?
Did you know that Charles Villiers Stanford's Violin Sonata No. 1 was first performed in Cambridge, by violinist Ludwig Straus and the composer at the piano?
Did you know that England international footballer Colin Grainger was also a professional singer and shared a bill with the Beatles?
Did you know that Mary Catherine Phillips, author of Skin Deep. The Truth About Beauty Aids – Safe and Harmful, was a member of the board of directors of Consumers' Research in Bowerstown, New Jersey?
Did you know that Ruby Mazur, who designed the cover for the Rolling Stones' "Tumbling Dice", once sold a painting to a Saudi Arabian prince before the paint had even dried?
Did you know that Slovak dissident Ján Mlynárik was hunted down by the Communist authorities for criticizing the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia?
Did you know that a number of Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Cane Hill were armed only with shotguns?
Did you know that a young Ruth McLain Smith, member of The McLain Family Band, had been playing the Appalachian dulcimer for only two weeks when she performed at the White House on national television?
Did you know that after the Battle of Adys, the peace terms offered to the defeated Carthaginians were so harsh that they decided to fight on?
Did you know that the Kanye West song "Up from the Ashes" invokes both the rise of the mythological phoenix and the resurrection of Jesus?
Did you know that the bicoloured sedge was part of an attempted botanical fraud?
Did you know that the pasquinade, a form of satire usually in verse or prose, is named after Pasquino, a Hellenistic statue in Rome on which anonymous postings were made?
Did you know that tropical cyclones leave deposits in lakes that can be used to reconstruct past cyclonic activity?
Did you know that Captain Tom, who turns 100 today, has raised more than £32 million for NHS Charities Together by walking laps of his garden?
Did you know that Charli XCX, while under self-isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic, is collaborating with her fans to record her album How I'm Feeling Now?
Did you know that Mahatma Gandhi championed the concept of composite nationalism, which led to a massive expansion of the Indian independence movement?
Did you know that Neanderthals went fishing?
Did you know that Sallyanne Payton, Stanford Law School's first African-American graduate, served as an adviser for the Clinton Health Care Reform Task Force?
Did you know that coconut mites can be dispersed by wind, or perhaps by hitching a lift?
Did you know that the 1951 short film A Wonderful Life, starring James Dunn, was an adaptation of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life for the Christian film industry?
Did you know that the Art Nouveau ceramicist Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat invented a red glaze known as "Rouge Dalpayrat" (example pictured)?
Did you know that the design of 432 Park Avenue was inspired by a trash can?
Did you know that Manchester United opened Manchester City's former training ground after floodlights were installed?
Did you know that a finishing gap of 0.002 seconds at the 2003 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400 was the closest finish in NASCAR Cup Series history since the introduction of electronic scoring in 1993?
Did you know that having served as acting governor for five Indonesian provinces, Eddy Sabara was known as the "acting governor specialist"?
Did you know that the Buddhist disciple Śāriputra made a pact with his friend Maudgalyayana that they would tell each other if one of them found the path to nirvana?
Did you know that the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has used the popularity of 2020 Netflix documentary Tiger King to help investigate the 1997 disappearance of Don Lewis?
Did you know that the distinctive style of the drum majors of HBCU bands, such as those of Jackson State University, was inspired by performers in minstrel parades?
Did you know that the fashionable hula master ʻIoane ʻŪkēkē was mistaken for a prince in his prime but ended his days blind and begging for money on the streets of Honolulu?
Did you know that the marriage bed of Henry VII, valued at £20 million, lay dismantled for a while in a hotel car park?
Did you know that the modern legacy of South Wales colliery proprietor James Harvey Insole is his Victorian mansion Insole Court at Llandaff, Wales?
Did you know that the video game Xenon 2: Megablast was named after its theme music, "Megablast (Hip Hop on Precinct 13)" by Bomb the Bass?
Did you know that to win It's a Crime, a play-by-mail game, players had to first succeed as a gang leader before rising to mob boss level, and achieve victory as "Godfather"?
Did you know that "Democracy Manifest" is a top Australian viral video and meme?
Did you know that Anatoliy Mokrenko, a baritone and future director of the Ukrainian National Opera, performed in a Russian film based on Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor?
Did you know that Richard Curzon inherited Kedleston Hall and a recently created peerage from his Uncle George?
Did you know that according to legend, the 6th-century Irish monk Brendan spent days fasting on Mount Brandon before voyaging across the Atlantic to discover Saint Brendan's Island?
Did you know that an estimated 3 million women and children in the United States were wearing clothing made from feed sacks (example pictured) at any given time during World War II?
Did you know that coughs and sneezes spread diseases (poster shown)?
Did you know that in the song "LA Monster", Kanye West claims that Los Angeles lets Satan run the city's streets?
Did you know that racing driver Justin Wilson entered the 2003 Formula One World Championship through an investment programme listed on the London Stock Exchange?
Did you know that the Prohibition Party considered Horace Greeley for the presidential nomination at its first national convention, but rejected him because he was not supportive enough of women's suffrage?
Did you know that the Serbian flag was flown from the White House in 1918?
Did you know that the saint to whom the church of San Filippo Neri in Via Giulia in Rome was originally dedicated was the patron of people with gout?
Did you know that A Case of Spring Fever, a film in which springs disappear, was parodied in an episode of The Simpsons?
Did you know that Aquarium has a problem with water getting in?
Did you know that Florence Boot introduced the sale of books, stationery, and perfume at the pharmacy chain Boots?
Did you know that Hammersmith Town Hall in London, designed by Ernest Berry Webber, was called an "unfortunate building" by architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner?
Did you know that Renate Brümmer and Heike Walpot were the only two women originally selected for the German astronaut team, but neither has gone to space?
Did you know that St Augustine's Church, Wrangthorn, raised money for a stained-glass window in 1934, but ended up spending it on a church hall instead?
Did you know that fan-recorded footage of a live DJ set revealed the existence of 100 Gecs' song "Ringtone (Remix)" a month prior to its release?
Did you know that the 1938 deportation of Jews from Slovakia was justified by blaming them for a recent territorial concession to Hungary?
Did you know that the Potter Building in Manhattan replaced a structure that "made itself notorious the country over for burning up in the shortest time on record"?
Did you know that the Vietnam mouse-deer, which had been feared to have gone extinct nearly 30 years ago, was sighted again in 2019?
Did you know that the writer of the hymn "Angel Voices, Ever Singing" banned it from being published with a tune composed by Arthur Sullivan?
Did you know that while commanding one of the last Confederate units north of the Potomac River during the retreat from Gettysburg, J. Johnston Pettigrew was mortally wounded but refused to be left in Union hands?
Did you know that A. H. M. Jones called his assistant J. R. Martindale's contributions to the Prosopography a "worthy contender for the thirteenth labour of Hercules"?
Did you know that Benno Bikes manufactures an e-bike designed to carry cargo?
Did you know that Dreeg is a card game played with German-suited cards that is described as "a special Franconian form of Sixty-Six"?
Did you know that Emilie Widemann Macfarlane was the first president of the women's branch of Hui Aloha ʻĀina, which was formed in opposition to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893?
Did you know that Filipino Americans first settled in Louisiana in the 18th century?
Did you know that John R. Davis Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Poland, was known to host leaders of the banned trade union Solidarity at his home?