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Did you know that convicted serial killer Mariam Soulakiotis, a Greek Old Calendarist abbess, is known in Greece as "Mother Rasputin" for fasting nuns to death?
Did you know that each song on Andy Shauf's 2016 album The Party is sung from the perspective of a different guest at a house party?
Did you know that in Le Tombeau de Couperin, George Balanchine's ballet to Ravel's orchestral suite, the dancers are divided into two groups, dancing separately?
Did you know that in the twelve-stanza Easter hymn "Ihr Christen, singet hocherfreut", based on a 15th-century hymn in Latin, an angel tells women to not remain at the empty tomb?
Did you know that none of the original core Ice Age cast returned for The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild?
Did you know that the Colonial Office refused to appoint Cyrus Prudhomme David to the magistracy, considering it wrong "as a matter of policy" to appoint a second Black man to a legal post in Trinidad and Tobago?
Did you know that the Selangor State Executive Council degazetted most of the Kuala Langat North Forest Reserve, despite the legislative assembly having unanimously voted to preserve it?
Did you know that The Goldberg Variations, performed to Bach's music, was partly choreographed by Jerome Robbins while he was in a wheelchair?
Did you know that The Uses of Disorder, characterized by one reviewer as "the best available contemporary defense of anarchism", was intended to be a critique of orderly city life?
Did you know that the Russian airstrike on Kyiv TV Tower (video featured) killed Yevhenii Sakun, one of at least 14 civilian journalists killed in the line of duty during the Russo-Ukrainian War?
Did you know that the Vorpostenboot John Mahn was the only German ship sunk during the Channel Dash?
Did you know that Inuvialuk actress Marika Sila views her acting career as a platform for outreach and education on the culture and rights of Indigenous peoples in Canada?
Did you know that Katharina Konradi, a soprano born in Kyrgyzstan, made a recording of lieder with pianist Gerold Huber including settings by Lori Laitman of children's poems written in Terezin?
Did you know that at Beaversprite, beavers lived indoors and were allowed to chew on the furniture?
Did you know that during the American Revolution, Hugh Gaine's printing shop was threatened by the Sons of Liberty because of his wavering loyalty to the American cause?
Did you know that the Arthur Dudley Dobson Memorial was unveiled by New Zealand's prime minister George Forbes on this day 85 years ago?
Did you know that Christopher Gunning apparently only got paid £15 to arrange the top-20 hit "Say You Don't Mind"?
Did you know that Flat Top Mountain's agriculture is mainly devoted to livestock and Christmas tree farming?
Did you know that Monthly Halloween was the first manga magazine to publish horror for girls?
Did you know that Phillips O'Brien revised World War Two?
Did you know that in the 1920s, Austrian painter Richard Geiger produced numerous portraits of the character Pierrette (example pictured)?
Did you know that the mezzo-soprano of Beth Taylor was the only lower voice when she appeared as Dardano in Handel's Amadigi, portraying her male character with fine vocal lines and "remarkable coloraturas"?
Did you know that Monika Buczkowska, who, as a student in Poznań, performed as Mozart's Susanna, was a soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at a charity concert for Ukraine at the Alte Oper?
Did you know that Tin Srbić was the first Croatian to win a gold medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships?
Did you know that gynaecologist Oon Chiew Seng, who was diagnosed with dementia in 2013, was the founding chairperson of the first dementia home in Singapore?
Did you know that the first two English translations of Trilby, or the Fairy of Argyll (title character pictured) were made to piggyback on the success of the mostly unrelated novel Trilby?
Did you know that unlike his famously generous brother Mansa Musa, Mansa Sulayman of Mali was considered a miser?
Did you know that Hans Robertson ran a studio in 1920s Berlin where he photographed celebrities such as artist Käthe Kollwitz, boxer Max Schmeling and dancer Gret Palucca?
Did you know that Laura Ashe believes the Gawain Poet used the beheading game to criticize the emptiness of chivalry?
Did you know that Ukrainian artist Kateryna Antonovych worked at Prague's Museum of Ukraine's Struggle for Independence before the US Army Air Forces bombed it?
Did you know that in response to Disney's stance on Florida's House Bill 1557, also known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill, Pixar employees stated that Disney removes LGBT references from the studio's films?
Did you know that the city of Madrid has had five successive sets of walls, from the first built by the Moors in 860 to the ones built by Philip IV in 1625?
Did you know that American soprano Emily Pogorelc went from winning the 2018 "Most Promising Talent" prize at Glyndebourne to appearing as Mozart's Cherubino at the Munich Opera Festival?
Did you know that Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia, established in 1784, was the first national parish in the United States?
Did you know that Italian Jacopo Tissi became one of the few foreign principal dancers in Bolshoi Ballet's history, only to leave two months later due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
Did you know that Mordecai Strelisker published a Hebrew elegy on the death of Emperor Francis I of Austria?
Did you know that a tradition is for singers of the Iowa Corn Song (audio featured) to raise their arms above their head when the words "tall corn" are sung during the chorus's last line?
Did you know that in his 2015 book The Evolution of Atheism, atheist Stephen LeDrew criticises the New Atheism movement?
Did you know that it is now possible to run Linux on an Apple-silicon Mac?
Did you know that Carlton Town F.C., now competing at the eighth tier of the English football pyramid, was once denied promotion by a hat-trick scored by future England international Jamie Vardy?
Did you know that Elphaba, the main character in Wicked, is named after L. Frank Baum, who wrote the book that inspired Wicked?
Did you know that Singaporean zoologist Bernard Harrison was disliked by an orangutan?
Did you know that The Keyboard Company's numeric keypad was praised for not voiding Apple's warranty because it did not require soldering to install?
Did you know that The West Wing's Amy Gardner is said to be the only character on the show with "a genuinely militant attitude towards equality of the genders"?
Did you know that dead cotton is immature or underdeveloped cotton that has poor dye affinity and appears as white specks on a dyed fabric?
Did you know that during a German charity concert for Ukraine, Slovakian singer Judita Nagyová performed a solo in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony?
Did you know that Khalid ibn Barmak was so close to the first Abbasid caliph, al-Saffah, that his daughter was suckled by al-Saffah's wife?
Did you know that Mimi Reinhardt typed Schindler's list?
Did you know that a 2020 study concluded that taco pizza is the favorite pizza of Iowa?
Did you know that eight sailors on USS Varuna received the Medal of Honor for actions during the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip?
Did you know that legislator Henry Alcazar successfully defended everyone accused of inciting the 1903 Water Riots that burned down the Trinidad and Tobago seat of government?
Did you know that the now-destroyed statue of Alexander Wood was the first LGBT monument in Canada?
Did you know that though one publication said in 2001 that going to the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building was like "an act of religious devotion", it was poorly suited for modern uses?
Did you know that Canadian painter Ethel Ogden was central to developing china painting within the Fine Arts Department at the Mount Allison Ladies' College?
Did you know that Ulf Merbold, the first West German in space, grew up in East Germany?
Did you know that a photograph by Maks Levin, showing destroyed buildings in Kyiv, was featured on the cover of a March 2022 edition of the German magazine Der Spiegel?
Did you know that in Arlington County Board v. Richards, the U.S. Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of one of the first American residential zoned parking programs?
Did you know that judge advocate Julian M. Wright was once a fencer, and President Theodore Roosevelt attended one of his matches in 1902?
Did you know that most of the Chinese in the Chinatown of Phoenix, Arizona, had emigrated from the same village in China's Hoiping County?
Did you know that 3D Microcomputers produced and marketed Commodore-branded computers from 1991 until over a year after Commodore's bankruptcy?
Did you know that Claus Leusser, a justice of the German Federal Constitutional Court, served for only four months?
Did you know that a walrus was given his own pontoon to stop him damaging other boats in St Mary's Harbour?
Did you know that the 15th-century figures on the Irish reliquary known as the Corp Naomh are based in part on a design in the 9th-century Book of Kells?
Did you know that the Comoro River, which cuts through the East Timorese capital of Dili, has seen large floods despite often running almost dry?
Did you know that the choreography of Crystal Pite's ballet The Seasons' Canon is inspired by the movement of tectonic plates?
Did you know that Ashton Hawkins arranged for the construction of the West Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, to house the Temple of Dendur?
Did you know that Daniel Davis was the first person in the United States to work with gold and silver electroplating (illustrated) as a business?
Did you know that Gret Palucca had to close her dance school in Dresden, Germany, in 1939 because of her Jewish descent, but reopened it in 1945?
Did you know that at the premiere of The Cage, a ballet about female insects preying on their male counterparts, choreographer Jerome Robbins's mother walked out of the theater?
Did you know that magnetoreception in birds works by quantum effects in their eyes?
Did you know that the 1972 hymn "Das eine Brot wächst auf vielen Halmen", with an Israeli melody, has been used for Catholic Corpus Christi processions and Protestant Kirchentag conventions?
Did you know that the Malyuk rifle was originally developed as a private venture under a contract with the Security Service of Ukraine?
Did you know that Rachel Dyer, published in 1828, is the first American bound novel about the Salem witch trials?
Did you know that during the late 1700s, Cheshire Hall Plantation was the largest house and estate on Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands?
Did you know that the melody of Mozart's aria "Dove sono" from Le nozze di Figaro, asking "Where are those happy moments ...?", begins similarly to the Agnus Dei from his earlier Coronation Mass?
Did you know that with "Alligator", Of Monsters and Men had their second top-ten hit on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart and their first number-one on the magazine's Rock Airplay chart?
Did you know that Dave Frederick has been referred to as the "Sussex County humorist-teacher-writer-radio-host-philosopher dude"?
Did you know that Jaega Wise co-hosted the television series Beer Masters alongside musician James Blunt?
Did you know that Martin Fehérváry became the youngest foreign player to play in the Swedish Hockey League following his debut at the age of 16?
Did you know that the largest intact Ancient Egyptian tomb ever found, with 254 richly decorated sarcophagi, was forgotten for almost a century?
Did you know that Hollywood star Gary Cooper was baptised at the Church of All Saints, Houghton Regis?
Did you know that a mobile production unit served as the first studios of Washington state public TV station KTNW?
Did you know that eight of ten ministers in the Bhagwant Mann ministry are first-term members of the Punjab Legislative Assembly?
Did you know that the French mezzo-soprano Germaine Bailac played the title role in Bizet's Carmen at least 3,000 times?
Did you know that the Guyim Vault House has been compared to a spaceship?
Did you know that Hungarian historian Andrea Pető believes that "right to be forgotten" policies should not be applied to the Holocaust?
Did you know that Interlingue, an international auxiliary language, was released 100 years ago under the name Occidental (advertisement pictured) by a Baltic German from Estonia?
Did you know that Of Monsters and Men filmed the music video for their song "Wild Roses" in 12 hours, just before beginning a tour?
Did you know that by devising the Fairfield Experiment in industrial relations, Iain Maxwell Stewart inspired The Bowler and the Bunnet, Sean Connery's sole film as a director?
Did you know that Japanese mixed martial artist Itsuki Hirata's nickname is "Android 18" due to being told she looks like the Dragon Ball character?
Did you know that Mansiya V. P., an Indian classical dancer, has experimented with choreographing a fusion of classical Bharatnatyam and traditional Sufi music?
Did you know that Phoenix's Chinese Cultural Center was remodeled into an ordinary office building despite the objections of preservationists and community groups?
Did you know that in 1776 Abraham Hunt entertained Hessian mercenaries with food and drink to render them incapable for duty the night before George Washington defeated them at Trenton?
Did you know that George Balanchine's ballet Who Cares?, to songs written by George Gershwin,  is likened to "a tap dance on pointe"?
Did you know that Klaus Wallrath composed  a mass for peace for the 2018 Katholikentag in Münster, performed to an audience of more than 30,000 by a choir, an orchestra, and a dance company?
Did you know that Nick Schmaltz's older brother and younger sister would team up against him when they played basement hockey as children?
Did you know that the former German chancellor Bernhard von Bülow called Wilhelm II's 1900 Hun speech the "worst speech of that time and perhaps the most disgraceful speech that Wilhelm II [had] ever given"?
Did you know that the recycling symbol depicts a Möbius strip?
Did you know that Hi-Tek Corporation's 725 series keyboard switches were rated for a lifetime of 100 million keystrokes?
Did you know that NTT Docomo was the first cell phone service to utilize deco mail (emoji pictured)?
Did you know that a reviewer noted that when Leo Hussain conducted Weinberg's Die Passagierin at the Oper Frankfurt, the orchestra excelled in chamber music moments, hard beats and distorted entertainment music?
Did you know that in 1981 Indiana State University–Evansville received a donation valued at nearly $300,000 in the form of campus radio station WSWI?
Did you know that some have considered the Holocaust a unique event, external to history and beyond human understanding?
Did you know that the 2022 EuroLeague Playoffs marked the first appearance in the event for AS Monaco?
Did you know that American author Julie Jensen McDonald's first story was sold to a Sunday school paper for US$6.50?
Did you know that Angela Bassett donated a dance studio at the Royal Theater in St. Petersburg?
Did you know that Harry Styles's goddaughter voices the opening words in "As It Was"?
Did you know that Hokuseihō Osamu was inspired to become a sumo wrestler by a chance meeting with Hakuhō, a yokozuna, at an airport?
Did you know that the 1662 Book of Common Prayer was approved by Parliament on 19 May 1662, and required by law starting on St Bartholomew's Day that year?
Did you know that the Duke of Alcantara Stradivarius violin went missing for 27 years?
Did you know that the Yiddish-language satirical newspaper Munkatsher Humorist frequently joked about disputes between the Hasidic courts of Munkacs and Belz?
Did you know that "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!" is the first new Pink Floyd song in more than 25 years?
Did you know that Carrie Jenkins Harris, the North American writer who died in 1903, should not be confused with Carrie Jenkins Harris, the North American writer and editor who died in 1903?
Did you know that Castle Hill in Budapest's 1st district is easily accessible by funicular?
Did you know that Johannes zu Eltz, who decided to become a Catholic priest after earning his doctorate in law, has advocated blessings of same-sex marriages by the Catholic Church?
Did you know that the algal species Trachelomonas cervicula has been observed in environments highly polluted with cadmium, lead, and zinc?
Did you know that English singer Ella Henderson almost named her second studio album Chapter Two, but decided instead that "this is a whole book"?
Did you know that Vincent Munier's quest to photograph snow leopards became the basis for several books and a film?
Did you know that although it spent only one week on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, "Visitor" was the fifth Adult Alternative Airplay number-one for Of Monsters and Men?
Did you know that otomechikku, a subgenre of Japanese girls' comics focusing on stories about ordinary teenaged protagonists, has been compared to monogatari and the genre of Bildungsroman?
Did you know that the sea squirt Distomus variolosus colonises both fronds of kelp and the shells of crustaceans such as the spider crab Maja brachydactyla?
Did you know that "Es tönen die Lieder", a German round about greeting spring with songs, first appeared in 1869 in a collection of works by Adolf Spieß, who developed a series of school-gymnastics steps to it?
Did you know that LACE found a pre-dawn breeze on the Moon?
Did you know that Nigerian footballer Chibuzor Nwakanma was among the first few foreign players to play for all the "big three" Kolkata-based football clubs, Mohun Bagan, East Bengal, and Mohammedan Sporting?
Did you know that Shining Spark has sired 1,300 foals?
Did you know that Ukrainian science fiction and fantasy is written both in Ukrainian and Russian?
Did you know that disability-rights activist Edith Prentiss objected to the title of a documentary about her, Edith Prentiss: Hell on Wheels, for being too mild?
Did you know that messianic rebel Abu al-Umaytir's attempt to restore the Umayyad Caliphate in Damascus was defeated by the forces of the Abbasid loyalist Ibn Bayhas?
Did you know that the scientific name of the crimson-headed partridge translates to "blood-headed blood quail"?
Did you know that Francis Orray Ticknor was a country doctor whose fame as a poet relies on "Little Giffen", a poem about one of his patients who died in the American Civil War?
Did you know that Ron Miles, who would have turned 59 today, played in the same high school jazz band as Don Cheadle?
Did you know that a call to prayer is a common feature to Christianity, Islam and Judaism?
Did you know that during the attack on the Delhi chief minister's residence, protesters painted the gate red and tried to scale it while police officers watched?
Did you know that the 1653 hymn "Du, o schönes Weltgebäude", about renouncing the world, contains the stanza "Komm, O Tod, du Schlafes Bruder", which Bach used to conclude his cross-staff cantata?
Did you know that István Banó collected Two Pieces of Nuts in Baranya?
Did you know that Kyiv's Molodyy Theatre is located in the same mansion originally occupied by Les Kurbas's first theatre of the same name?
Did you know that Satya Graha was briefly barred from reporting from the Indonesian presidential palace after his newspaper published a piece on Sukarno's new wife?
Did you know that in 1972, Catalina Island was occupied  by the Brown Berets, who claimed that the territory rightfully belonged to Mexico?
Did you know that in 2006, when The New York Times Book Review asked "What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years?", the answer was Beloved by Toni Morrison?
Did you know that the Black Opry is a website and musical revue that helps raise awareness of Black artists in country music?
Did you know that the form of ecclesiastical income in the Catholic Church known as the mense gets its name from the Latin word mensa, meaning 'table'?
Did you know that BeReal, a social media app, purportedly makes everyone look boring?
Did you know that President Thomas A. Spragens suspended all classes at Centre College several days after the Kent State shootings, and organized teaching sessions for students on the college lawn?
Did you know that more than 30,000 cars were being towed annually by the 1970s to accommodate snow removal efforts in Montreal?
Did you know that transgender pioneer Barbara Ann Wilcox proposed to her husband on the day she met him?
Did you know that Elizabeth Bonhôte wrote Bungay Castle after her husband bought Bungay Castle?
Did you know that Goodbye Normal Street was named after a street in Oklahoma, but also refers to the Turnpike Troubadours' new life touring on the road?
Did you know that Suluh Indonesia, once Indonesia's top newspaper by circulation, was banned after the 30 September Movement in 1965?
Did you know that an advertising campaign promoting an Aqua Teen Hunger Force film went wrong when signs throughout Boston displaying the Mooninites (example pictured) were mistaken for bombs?
Did you know that 19th-century Polish ethnographer Zorian Dołęga-Chodakowski travelled the countryside as a "wild man" and later appeared as a literary character?
Did you know that Brian Fawcett, who would have turned 78 today, taught English to inmates before becoming a full-time writer?
Did you know that French deafblind artist Arnaud Balard created the Sign Union flag in 2013 to promote the global unity of deaf people?
Did you know that after the ANT catalog of espionage tools by the National Security Agency was leaked to the public, the tools were implemented as open-source hardware and software?
Did you know that during a promotional tour of Matt & Kim's third album Sidewalks, it was played on the public speaker system of the venue before each show began but none of its tracks were on the setlist?
Did you know that many places in the United Kingdom were racially segregated and non-white customers were banned from using spaces and facilities, even though the law never officially permitted such a colour bar?
Did you know that Bhutanese cricketer Anju Gurung, a pace bowler, has been described as looking "... more like a pop star ..."?
Did you know that an Israeli football club whose fans regularly shout "death to Arabs" was almost half-owned by an Arab Sheik?
Did you know that during the 2013 Norwegian Sámi parliamentary election, the North Calotte People party advocated the transformation of the Norwegian Sámi parliament into a joint Kven and Sámi parliament?
Did you know that even though plans to convert the studio building of station KITN in Olympia, Washington, into a courthouse were soon changed, county taxpayers still paid its moving expenses?
Did you know that former convict Lord William Beauchamp Nevill wrote Penal Servitude, a book about his prison experiences?
Did you know that the black Christian Siriano gown worn by actor Billy Porter was said to have "won" the 91st Academy Awards?
Did you know that Port Jefferson village officials opposed the expansion of the Caithness Long Island Energy Center because they feared it would lead to the decommissioning of the Port Jefferson Power Station?
Did you know that Romy Golan's 2021 book Flashback, Eclipse is an exploration of Italian art of the 1960s that moved away from the art created under Italian fascism?
Did you know that The Archives of the Planet includes 72,000 color photographs (example pictured)  of human cultures taken in 50 countries between 1908 and 1931?
Did you know that journalist W. A. Hewitt refereed the first game played in the history of ice hockey at the Olympic Games?
Did you know that Easter in Poland was considered to be an important patriotic holiday during the country's period of Partitions?
Did you know that J. T. Blatty was a tennis star and US Army captain before photographing military volunteers in Ukraine?
Did you know that Jacqueline Kennedy did not want to make her clothes the focus of her 1962 goodwill tour of India and Pakistan, but still wore 22 different outfits in the first nine days?
Did you know that Jane C. Beck traveled to Virginia, West Africa, and England to research the family history of Daisy Turner for her 2015 book Daisy Turner's Kin: An African American Family Saga?