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Did you know that Alaskans in coastal areas evacuated to higher ground where they waited to see if the 2018 Gulf of Alaska earthquake had caused a tsunami?
Did you know that Camilla Nylund appeared as the Countess in Capriccio by Richard Strauss at the Frankfurt Opera, staged by Brigitte Fassbaender, who set the opera in Occupied France?
Did you know that during the American Revolutionary War, George Washington participated in "a pretty little frisk" at the Van Veghten House?
Did you know that Benty Grange is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest, but not because of the boar-crested helmet discovered there?
Did you know that due to its proximity to a charter school, alcoholic beverages cannot be served at Zions Bank Stadium?
Did you know that the Goat Canyon Trestle is the world's largest curved wooden trestle?
Did you know that Luo Haocai, who was jailed by the British and deported from Singapore, became Vice President of China's Supreme People's Court?
Did you know that Tillie Walden's graphic novel Spinning, a memoir of her adolescent career as a competitive figure skater, was originally her thesis for the Center for Cartoon Studies?
Did you know that US Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett taught constitutional law at Blackstone Legal Fellowship?
Did you know that Zofia Posmysz, Auschwitz inmate No. 7566, wrote an audio play based on her memories, which formed the basis for her 1962 novel Passenger, a 1963 film, and a 1968 opera?
Did you know that the solar eclipse of May 20, 2012, began on a Monday and ended on the previous Sunday?
Did you know that the spider genus Seycellesa and the nematode genus Traklosia were both originally named Robertia, but had to be renamed?
Did you know that Ali Soozandeh was inspired to film Tehran Taboo, which explores sexual double standards in Iran, by a conversation he overheard on a train?
Did you know that Arthur and Morley Cowles Ballantine, co-publishers of The Durango Herald, sometimes wrote opposing editorials, as when he endorsed Nixon and she Humphrey for president in 1968?
Did you know that among those rescued by the British Army during the attack on the United States embassy in Addis Ababa was a reporter's pet cheetah?
Did you know that during their winter meetings, members of medical history society the Osler Club drink a punch made of tangerine oranges, Tarragona wine, rum, brandy whisky or gin, water, spices and cream?
Did you know that female urinals available today (example pictured) are typically used in a "skiing" position?
Did you know that integral bridges do not have movement joints?
Did you know that Captain Marvel is expected to be Marvel Studios' first female-led film?
Did you know that Greek legends claim Pythagoras had a golden thigh, could fly thanks to a magic arrow, was greeted by name by a river, and when bitten by a snake, bit it back and killed it?
Did you know that Pinewood Hospital was located in a pine wood in Pinewood, as pine trees were thought to be beneficial for tuberculosis patients?
Did you know that oceanographer and former Florida State University dean Nancy Marcus was also a magician and ventriloquist?
Did you know that Crimean Tom, a tabby cat, helped save British and French soldiers from starvation after the Siege of Sevastopol by locating hidden food supplies?
Did you know that London's Bull and Mouth Inn (sign pictured) was originally known as the Boulogne Mouth, in reference to the town and harbour of Boulogne which was besieged by Henry VIII in the 1540s?
Did you know that in 1998, Dottie Lamm, former First Lady of Colorado, ran for a US Senate seat against the same man who had defeated her husband in the Democratic primary for the same seat six years earlier?
Did you know that the Flying Dutchman-related poems in J. Slauerhoff's 1928 collection Eldorado are more likely inspired by a French romantic spirit than a German Romantic or Dutch Calvinist one?
Did you know that Charles Phillips, who excavated the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, was tasked as a schoolboy with digging latrines near Stonehenge?
Did you know that a badly wounded Major Shaitan Singh (statue pictured), who was later awarded the Param Vir Chakra, ordered his soldiers to leave him behind rather than face enemy fire evacuating him?
Did you know that in 2016, annual global internet traffic reached 1.2 zettabytes, leading some to label the current period the Zettabyte Era?
Did you know that the Orange College of Breda was founded by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange?
Did you know that Allanah Harper was responsible for introducing W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf to the French people?
Did you know that a large lake formerly covered California's Death Valley, and occasionally reappears?
Did you know that the 1900 English beer poisoning, in which more than 6,000 drinkers were poisoned by arsenic, was misdiagnosed for months as alcoholic neuritis?
Did you know that the first Romanian-language references to "patriotism" are traced back to documents issued by both sides of an armed uprising in 1821 (peasant soldiers pictured)?
Did you know that to compose the entire score for the video game Heavy Rain, Normand Corbeil was given two months, producing nearly 300 cues?
Did you know that Fragments of Horror was Junji Ito's first return to the horror genre after eight years of writing "manga about cats or about society"?
Did you know that among Stanley Gelbier's writings on pediatric dentistry is a 1962 study of tooth erosion in a boy who drank copious amounts of cola and soft drinks?
Did you know that in October 2017, Alhambra Nievas became the first woman to referee a men's international rugby union match in Europe?
Did you know that Archibald Cary Smith designed the first American iron yacht?
Did you know that Kennington tube station, opened in 1890, is a listed building and the only one from the world's first underground electric railway to retain its original appearance?
Did you know that Victorian physician and discoverer of arsenic in beer, Ernest Reynolds, did not believe in over-reliance on medical technology?
Did you know that philologist Caroline Brady wrote about the words used for weapons and warriors in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf?
Did you know that the search for near-Earth asteroids large enough to cause a global catastrophe (example pictured) is almost complete, and efforts now focus on smaller asteroids?
Did you know that Clarence G. Child, a scholar of medieval literature at the University of Pennsylvania, was also a hobbyist mathematician?
Did you know that Swedish songwriter Kenneth Gärdestad wrote the lyrics for the Melodifestivalen 1979 winning song "Satellit" performed by his brother Ted Gärdestad?
Did you know that an arrow killed Hugh of Fauquembergues, Prince of Galilee, in a skirmish when he was returning from a plundering raid?
Did you know that at the Bhagavad-gita Museum in Los Angeles, dioramas (example pictured) featuring almost life-sized dolls convey the philosophy of Krishna consciousness?
Did you know that in 2017 Georgetown University named a building after Isaac Hawkins because his name appeared first on the list of enslaved people sold by them in 1838?
Did you know that several astronomical observatories are constructed on the Purico volcanic complex?
Did you know that Elsa Cavelti, who appeared in dramatic roles at the Opernhaus Zürich and taught voice at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt, was Wagner's Brangäne at La Scala?
Did you know that Goldman Sachs bankers Richard and Robert Menschel are related to E. W. Priestap, assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division?
Did you know that at the 2018 Winter Olympics, New Jersey-born Anthony Watson became the first slider to represent Jamaica in skeleton at the Olympic level?
Did you know that people supposedly kept picking up a vanishing hitchhiker outside the Lower Bell pub in Kent?
Did you know that the 1,000-year-old Buttington Oak, said to have been planted to commemorate the 893 Battle of Buttington, fell last month?
Did you know that the Woozle effect delayed the identification of Naomi Parker Fraley as the most likely model for We Can Do It!?
Did you know that while most Indonesians do not speak Arabic, they learn to read the Quran using a textbook called Iqro?
Did you know that Alliance Defending Freedom's first landmark case was the 1995 US Supreme Court lawsuit Rosenberger v. University of Virginia?
Did you know that James W. Downing, a survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor, compiled lists of his shipmates' names and addresses to inform their families back home?
Did you know that Mary Nomura, a singer who was sent to the Manzanar concentration camp as an orphaned teenager, became known as the "songbird of Manzanar"?
Did you know that dead heats between two or even three racehorses (example pictured) were more common before the introduction of the photo finish?
Did you know that strandflats are the most studied coastal landform in Norway?
Did you know that Danielle Herrington, cover model for the 2018 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, booked her first swimsuit shoot four months after moving to New York City to pursue modelling?
Did you know that a sculpture of the god Neptune on one of the parapets of the University of Washington's Gerberding Hall represents the academic disciplines of oceanography and fisheries science?
Did you know that dark spots on the flowers of Gorteria diffusa are thought to resemble bee flies to attract other bee flies?
Did you know that dimension stone from the Sulphur Mountain Formation has been used extensively in buildings around Banff, Alberta?
Did you know that during the American Civil War, Barney Prine made money by running races against fellow soldiers in the 1st Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment?
Did you know that in the aftermath of the Gajda Affair, the government of Czechoslovakia moved to disenfranchise the army's officer corps?
Did you know that Emily Riehl, former bassist for the band Unstraight, wrote about "unstraightening" in her research as a professional mathematician?
Did you know that Gujarati poet Panna Naik was inspired to write by Anne Sexton's Love Poetry?
Did you know that Welsh sisters Jessie Ace and Margaret Wright used their shawls as a rope to rescue lifeboat crew who had fallen overboard during the rescue of a German barque in 1883?
Did you know that during the First World War the British Army recruited Maltese waiters to serve its Salonika Army?
Did you know that the American-made schooner Meteor III was the largest yacht in the world when built for German Emperor Wilhelm II?
Did you know that "Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut" (Lord Jesus Christ, you highest good) is the beginning of two Lutheran hymns, one for penitence, the other for communion?
Did you know that Major League Baseball has authenticated a smashed telephone and some dirt?
Did you know that Opening Day for the Seattle Mariners in 1982 was delayed when a player hid the keys to the bullpen car?
Did you know that Sharon Calahan is the first member of the American Society of Cinematographers whose feature film background is entirely in computer animation?
Did you know that the Da He ding, the only known ancient Chinese bronze decorated with human faces, was sold as scrap metal?
Did you know that the baritone Johannes Hill was the voice of Jesus and Pilate in Bach's Passions, and of Pope Francis in the premiere of Laudato si'?
Did you know that the spymaster and cricketer J. C. Masterman trained at the Royal Naval College, Osborne?
Did you know that ProRodeo Hall of Fame steer roper Guy Allen's record streak of 11 consecutive world titles was ended by Buster Record?
Did you know that Susan O'Malley was the first female president of an NBA franchise?
Did you know that Willem Ravelli was the voice of Christ in Bach's St Matthew Passion more than 400 times, including the first complete recording of the work conducted by Mengelberg?
Did you know that several composers of the 18th century used Paul Gerhardt's hymn "Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld" to begin their Passion music?
Did you know that when it entered service in 1936, the ferry SS Princess Anne was considered "svelte" and "ultra-modern"?
Did you know that Canadian soprano Kirsten MacKinnon, a winner of the Met Auditions, appeared as Fiordiligi at the Glyndebourne Festival, and as Meyerbeer's Inès at the Frankfurt Opera, staged as a space mission?
Did you know that Hitler's demands for mobile phone gift cards may have upset some Nazis?
Did you know that James Longstreet was mauled by pelicans?
Did you know that Jonah ibn Janah, one of the most important medieval Hebrew grammarians, wrote his major works in Arabic?
Did you know that London South Africa RFC started as a new club at the bottom of English rugby after the RFU blocked their attempts to buy a National League 1 club and Wimbledon RFC?
Did you know that Robert Bartholomew has been in hysterics for over twenty years?
Did you know that Shalimar Sharbatly's hand-painted Porsche 911 was featured at the Louvre?
Did you know that some extinct ants were simply terrible?
Did you know that some people know Christ the Lord is risen today from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?
Did you know that squirrels may be a major cybersecurity threat (suspect pictured)?
Did you know that the board game Suffragetto featured suffragettes trying to storm the House of Commons?
Did you know that the proposed city of Greenhaven, Georgia, would have a population of 300,000, making it the state's second largest city after Atlanta?
Did you know that the script of Who Framed Roger Rabbit originally intended Judge Doom to be the killer of Bambi's mother?
Did you know that Daisy the dinosaur (relative pictured) lives with Elton John?
Did you know that Fly Fishing by J. R. Hartley, a non-existent book by a non-existent author, became a number one bestseller and had two sequels?
Did you know that Hillary's portrait is now being printed on the $5 bill?
Did you know that Jigsaw wants to play a game with your computer?
Did you know that Obama was born in Japan?
Did you know that Trump is directly connected to Russia?
Did you know that the United States Navy considered calling on Zeus to defend a battleship?
Did you know that the United States once sued 43 gallons of whiskey?
Did you know that Ayaka Fukuhara decided to become a voice actress after listening to a radio drama adaptation of the manga series Hunter × Hunter?
Did you know that Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette were the only married couple to be assassinated (bombed house pictured) during the civil rights movement era?
Did you know that Otar Taktakishvili's opera Mindia was based on Vazha-Pshavela's epic poem The Snake-eater and premiered in 1961, the centenary of the poet's birth?
Did you know that Robert Howard Hodgkin was part of a "Quaker dynasty" that included a banker, a Marxist historian, a Nobel-winning chemist, a painter, another Nobel winner, and the namesake of Hodgkin's lymphoma?
Did you know that a fan sued Major League Baseball  for $10 million after he was filmed sleeping at a game and the announcers allegedly made unflattering comments about him?
Did you know that although Zhang Junsheng publicly feuded with Chris Patten, Hong Kong's last British governor, the latter offered his condolences when Zhang died recently?
Did you know that the Easter hymn "Erschienen ist der herrlich Tag" (The glorious day has appeared) by Nikolaus Herman inspired other hymns and musical settings of the 20th century?
Did you know that the basket star Astrobrachion constrictum is always found living in association with a black coral such as Antipathes fiordensis?
Did you know that Franz Joseph I of Austria gave a portrait by Georg Decker to his ten-year-old son?
Did you know that Jordan Poole's game-winning buzzer beater three point shot in the 2018 NCAA Basketball Tournament was nearly identical to his shot in the 2017 Dick's National High School Championship Game?
Did you know that Tooth and Tail's art style was described as a modernized version of 1990s pixel art?
Did you know that in 1969, the Military Engineering Experimental Establishment became the first British research establishment to be granted freedom of a borough?
Did you know that the Hellenized Syrian satirist Lucian wrote the novel A True Story, sometimes regarded as the first work of science fiction, in the second century AD?
Did you know that George Crowninshield Jr. was the first American yachtsman and owned the first American yacht?
Did you know that in 1910, Oliver Toussaint Jackson established the agricultural settlement of Dearfield, Colorado, for black Americans?
Did you know that the 3,000-year-old Min fanglei set a world-record auction price for a piece of Asian artwork?
Did you know that the Beach Boys' 1967 album Wild Honey was made partly in response to a critical perception of the group as consisting of "ball-less choir boys"?
Did you know that the tenor Julian Podger, who took part in the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, recorded the title role in Handel's last oratorio Jephtha?
Did you know that Canadian cardiologist Thomas Forrest Cotton was the first to recognise the correlation between finger clubbing and infective endocarditis?
Did you know that Laura Barney Harding once declared she was Katharine Hepburn's husband?
Did you know that archaeologist Su Bingqi proposed a heretical multi-region model for prehistoric China which rejected the traditional view that Chinese civilization radiated from the Central Plain?
Did you know that it took almost five years to rebuild the South Ferry/Whitehall Street station in New York City, which was completely flooded three years after it opened?
Did you know that the comic book X-Men Red stars Jean Grey, a character who had been dead for nearly fifteen years?
Did you know that R. Stevie Moore pioneered modern indie music, earning him the sobriquet "the godfather of home recording"?
Did you know that Robin Surgeoner, a multiple Paralympic gold medal-winner in swimming, performs as a poet, artist, and musician under the stage name "Angryfish"?
Did you know that elected at age 39, Sadiq Sanjrani is the youngest-ever Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan?
Did you know that the new east platform of Tukwila station in Tukwila, Washington, was built with additional width that was later removed for the installation of a third track?
Did you know that Christian Boros owns an art gallery in a former bunker in Berlin?
Did you know that Leon Tomșa, who passed laws limiting Greek immigration to Wallachia, was reportedly a Greek oyster-monger?
Did you know that Reki Kawahara, author of Sword Art Online, planned to submit the draft for the light novel series to a 2002 competition, but refrained because it exceeded the page limit?
Did you know that at age 16, sport shooter Manu Bhaker became the youngest Indian to win a gold medal at the ISSF World Cup?
Did you know that the red-tailed tropicbird eats mainly flying fish and squid?
Did you know that the tale "Town Musicians of Bremen" by the Brothers Grimm has been connected with the Buddhist legend about four harmonious animals?
Did you know that Ariel Pink is frequently cited as the "godfather" of chillwave and hypnagogic pop?
Did you know that Mike Marjama overcame an eating disorder to make it to Major League Baseball?
Did you know that aerial torpedo-carrying missiles developed for the US Navy under Project Kingfisher included the Petrel, Diver, Grebe, and Puffin?
Did you know that violinist David Frühwirth played music from the interwar period for violin and piano at the Salzburg Festival and on a recording titled Trails of Creativity?
Did you know that Laura Kamhuber's rendition of "I Will Always Love You" at The Voice Kids Germany is the most-watched YouTube video by an Austrian artist?
Did you know that MacArthur "Genius Grant" winner Joaquin Avila wrote the California Voting Rights Act?
Did you know that after Feng Yidai was denounced as a "rightist" during China's Anti-Rightist Campaign, he was recruited by the Communist Party to spy on other "rightists"?
Did you know that the 2012 anthology No Straight Lines, edited by Justin Hall, collects queer comics covering a 40-year period?
Did you know that the Hennepin County Library has 41 branches in 24 cities and towns in Minnesota, and historically had locations in a sanatorium and a bookmobile?
Did you know that Dai Prefecture and County carried on the name of a "barbarian" kingdom and Qin commandery, despite being in a completely different part of China?
Did you know that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini tried to buy Norman Bel Geddes' 1932 design for a Streamlined Ocean Liner?
Did you know that Lega Nord politician Toni Iwobi is the first black person elected to the Italian Senate?
Did you know that Liberian president George Weah's son Timothy plays for the United States men's national soccer team?
Did you know that humans and horses are dead-end hosts for the West Nile virus?
Did you know that the upcoming film Avengers: Infinity War draws inspiration from the 1991 comic book The Infinity Gauntlet?
Did you know that violist Konstantin Sellheim recorded fairy tale music with the Sellheim-Kuti Trio, and played the premiere of the piano quartet Skylla and Charybdis by Graham Waterhouse?
Did you know that Bob Nygaard, a private investigator specializing in psychic fraud, has been instrumental in the return of millions of dollars to victims of this crime?
Did you know that Lin Hu, a half-Russian orphan, joined the army at age 10 and grew up to become deputy commander of the Chinese Air Force?
Did you know that NASA's Planetary Missions Program Office manages three of the agency's solar system exploration programs?
Did you know that William Bliss Baker, a promising Hudson River School landscape painter (work pictured), died a week before his twenty-seventh birthday after being injured while ice skating?
Did you know that fruit flies have been used extensively in laboratory experiments of speciation?
Did you know that Brian Wilson is a genius?
Did you know that on 12 April 1945, a white flag was hung from the tower of the Große Kirche Aplerbeck, one of two churches after the same design by Christian Heyden, to signal capitulation?
Did you know that the African-American settlers at Port Cresson were pacifist Quakers who were unequipped to defend themselves when attacked by King Joe?
Did you know that war veteran Owen Pick carried the flag for Great Britain at the 2018 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony?
Did you know that when dissenting from the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lafler v. Cooper, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote that the Court had elevated "plea bargaining from a necessary evil to a constitutional entitlement"?
Did you know that "Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig", a hymn about vanity by Michael Franck, is the basis of a chorale cantata by Bach, and quoted in Mauricio Kagel's Passion?
Did you know that Peter Newton founded Sterling Vineyards and Newton Vineyard, and was very proud of his eight-year-old granddaughter, who "discovered" Harry Potter?
Did you know that R. A. Hardie, a Canadian physician and missionary to Korea, was the catalyst for the 1903 Wŏnsan Revival and also inspired the Great Pyongyang Revival of 1907?
Did you know that SegaSonic the Hedgehog was desired for inclusion in Sonic Gems Collection, but was left out due to difficulties emulating its trackball controls?
Did you know that at the Van Horne House following the Battle of Bound Brook, the owner hosted British General Cornwallis for breakfast and American Generals Lincoln and Greene for supper?
Did you know that biathlete Jakov Fak won a silver medal for Slovenia at the 2018 Winter Olympics, having previously won a bronze medal for Croatia in Vancouver?
Did you know that the hermit crab Diogenes pugilator has to make do with the empty shells that Paguristes eremita and Pagurus forbesii don't want?
Did you know that the islands in Great Egg Harbor Bay, a habitat for migratory birds, are eroding at a rate of 0.28 in (7 mm) per year?
Did you know that Richard O. Culver, Jr., one of the founders of the U.S. Marine Corps Sniper School in Quantico, Virginia, was born on Alcatraz Island?
Did you know that after World War II, filmmaker Miloš Havel, the uncle of Václav Havel, was cleared on charges related to collaboration with Nazi Germany due to lack of evidence?