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Did you know that David Morgan, the most successful British fighter pilot in the Falklands War, had a hole in the heart that was only discovered after he applied to join the military?
Did you know that Johann Schwarzhuber, the leader of the Auschwitz men's camp, was sentenced to death during the first Ravensbrück concentration camp trial?
Did you know that Peter Hamm, a successful writer, literary critic, and jury member for literary prizes, dropped out of school when he was 14?
Did you know that US Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory accused the United States Guards of imposing a "reign of terror" in Butte, Montana?
Did you know that among Ibuki Kido's voice acting roles is a vacuum cleaner?
Did you know that multi-level marketing company Younique was valued at US$1 billion at the time of its acquisition by Coty?
Did you know that psychoanalyst Carl Jung could afford to build his mansion on Lake Zürich (now the C. G. Jung House Museum) after his wife Emma inherited her father's fortune?
Did you know that the Arizona Miner, a newspaper published in Prescott, Arizona Territory, changed its political leanings from Republican to Democrat and back again over a succession of owners?
Did you know that the bat fly Enischnomyia was first described from a specimen fossilized with Vetufebrus malaria in its gut?
Did you know that the dark and fatalistic humour of Canadian comedians has been attributed to the dangers of Canada's climate and geography?
Did you know that themes of British band Everything but the Girl's 1985 album Love Not Money include sexism, social and economic stratification, and The Troubles in Northern Ireland?
Did you know that Celso-Ramón García oversaw early clinical trials of the first contraceptive pill in Puerto Rico?
Did you know that James Kyle, Roman Catholic bishop of Aberdeen, designed a Buckie parish church so grand that it is known locally as the Buckie Cathedral?
Did you know that Joseph J. Himmel, once president of Georgetown University, lived out his final years as a recluse in the university's archives?
Did you know that Ursula Boese, a long-time member of the Hamburgische Staatsoper, appeared as Stravinsky's Iocaste at La Scala, and at the San Francisco Opera in the presence of the composer?
Did you know that investigation by detective Wu Guoqing, who was acclaimed as "China's Sherlock Holmes", led to the murder conviction and death sentence of a prosecutor?
Did you know that radio station KSUN in Bisbee, Arizona, sold its call letters to a station in Phoenix after going off the air due to financial troubles?
Did you know that research into digital media use and mental health has found that females are more likely to be affected by problematic social media use while males are more likely to have gaming disorder?
Did you know that the father of athlete Safia Abukar Hussein disliked the idea of her competing for Somalia at the 2000 Summer Olympics, as he thought it would prevent her from finding a husband?
Did you know that the fictional character Forrest Gump was portrayed as serving during the Vietnam War with the 47th Infantry Regiment?
Did you know that the novel Trust Exercise was inspired by discussions about sexual abuse which followed the publication of the Donald Trump Access Hollywood tape?
Did you know that when Chen Shunyao served as deputy party chief of Tsinghua University, the future Chinese president Hu Jintao was a protégé of hers?
Did you know that Abigail Mbalo-Mokoena's 4Roomed, a restaurant 30 kilometres (19 mi) outside Cape Town in Khayelitsha township, was one of only three in Africa named to a 2019 list of the best in the world?
Did you know that Duthie's golden mole and the long-tailed forest shrew are among the wildlife of South Africa that are both endemic and "vulnerable"?
Did you know that James Blake took inspiration from the 1967 film Barefoot in the Park for his song of the same name, despite never having watched it?
Did you know that Samragyee RL Shah is the highest-paid actress in Nepali cinema as of 2019?
Did you know that a former member of ISIS who was arrested in 2016 and released in 2017 attacked a police and army patrol in Tripoli, killing four people, in 2019?
Did you know that eight years to the day after it first signed on, WVOB radio in Bel Air, Maryland, lost its tower when a construction worker clipped the tower's guy wires?
Did you know that for the fifth anniversary of video game developer Defiant Development, everyone who had been employed at the company for at least two years was gifted a sword?
Did you know that in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, the player character Caveira's "Silent Step" ability featured a game-breaking bug?
Did you know that the Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt manage stages for opera and drama under one roof, in a building incorporating the ruins of the bombed former playhouse?
Did you know that the melody of the Christian hymn "Ich steh vor dir mit leeren Händen, Herr" is written without bar lines, reflecting the singer's insecurity and questions?
Did you know that the polluted Roberts Landing on San Francisco Bay, California, was cleaned up to create a housing development and a marsh, now home to the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse?
Did you know that with 20 goals, Hassan Maatouk is the Lebanon national football team's joint top-scorer?
Did you know that Chinese Muslim scholar Yu Zhengui worked as a laogai labourer during the Cultural Revolution?
Did you know that West Point cadets fill their hats with notes and other items for small children to collect after the hat toss during their graduation ceremony?
Did you know that after the fall of the state of Zhongli, its eponymous capital remained an "important governmental, economic, cultural, and military center" for over a thousand years?
Did you know that an anti-suffragist threw rocks at Nora Houston as she was giving a speech advocating for women's voting rights, and Houston kept one of the rocks for the rest of her life?
Did you know that four species of reptile, a bird, and an amphibian were named after Arthur Lennox Butler?
Did you know that several entrants in the 2019 Riga Masters professional snooker event—including the defending champion—missed the tournament because their flights were cancelled?
Did you know that the African-American conductor Henry Lewis conducted the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra in support of America's cultural diplomacy initiatives after World War II?
Did you know that the Lebombo wattle, the water ironplum, and the Zulu coshwood grow in the Southern African Sand Forest, where they are often swathed in pinhead orchids and other epiphytes?
Did you know that the Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester ('So-called Left Radical Wind Band') played at demonstrations against nuclear power and far-right politics, and at the Berliner Philharmonie?
Did you know that Carlo Rossi designed a pavilion and a bridge for his redevelopment of the Mikhailovsky Garden in Saint Petersburg?
Did you know that China is the only country in the world to have a licensed vaccine for hepatitis E?
Did you know that Prince Tarabya Minye Kyawhtin ceded the throne of Ava to his cousin Prince Min Nyo after marrying his deceased brother's favorite queen, Shin Saw Pu, in return?
Did you know that Venezuelan director Patricia Ortega has drawn strength from her film Being Impossible during both personal and political upheavals?
Did you know that Wang Guodong painted some of the world's most recognizable portraits, which inspired Andy Warhol?
Did you know that after the September 11 attacks, a seldom-staffed temporary border patrol checkpoint was installed on Interstate 91 near White River Junction, Vermont, about 100 miles (160 km) from the Canadian border?
Did you know that as general manager of the municipal theatres in Frankfurt, Harry Buckwitz staged plays by Brecht including Mutter Courage, and recruited Georg Solti for the opera?
Did you know that before opening West Point High School, the Tolleson Union High School District in Arizona was so overcrowded that it had to turn students away and use teachers' lounges as classrooms?
Did you know that comic books by Magdalene Visaggio have been nominated for two Eisner Awards and three GLAAD Media Awards?
Did you know that in June 2019, Northern Irish pilot Norman Surplus became the first person to circumnavigate the globe using an autogyro?
Did you know that the hard seeds of the Guinea plum are dispersed by elephants, and crushed and eaten by Sanje mangabeys?
Did you know that the prisoner of war massacre in Ciepielów is the most infamous instance of the war crimes of the Wehrmacht committed during the invasion of Poland?
Did you know that Brad Leone, a chef and YouTube personality at Bon Appétit, started at the magazine as a self-described "glorified dishwasher"?
Did you know that Danish MEP Pernille Weiss is a sexologist?
Did you know that English violinist Eva Mudocci (depiction shown) was a muse to Edvard Munch and Henri Matisse?
Did you know that Guo Zhenqian and his successor, Guo Shuyan, both ended their governorships of Hubei prematurely due to disagreement with the province's party secretary?
Did you know that Lučko Airport in Zagreb, Croatia, is the helicopter base for an anti-terrorist police unit that gave former member and mixed martial arts champion Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović his nickname?
Did you know that Noelle Campbell-Sharp has led the Cill Rialaig project, hosting over 5,000 artists on residencies in County Kerry, Ireland, since 1991?
Did you know that Russian breakdancer Sergei Chernyshev, the 2018 Youth Olympics B-Boys champion, competes under the nickname Bumblebee, after a robot superhero in the Transformers franchise?
Did you know that at the Battle of Sourton Down, a Parliamentarian ambush by 108 soldiers successfully routed a Royalist army of 3,600?
Did you know that playwright Eugene O'Neill stipulated that actress Mary Welch had to gain at least 50 pounds (23 kg) for a role in his play A Moon for the Misbegotten?
Did you know that the extinct birch Betula leopoldae (leaf fossil pictured) is named after conservationist Estella Leopold?
Did you know that the video for Marilyn Manson's soft-rock ballad "Running to the Edge of the World" was widely condemned for its depiction of violence against women?
Did you know that until the 1930s, sheep grazed in a meadow in New York City's Prospect Park?
Did you know that Mathea Olin's gold and bronze medals at the 2017 Pan American Surf Games were Canada's first international medals in surfing?
Did you know that Siegel modular varieties naturally capture information about black hole entropy in string theory?
Did you know that St Andrew's Cross in Glasgow is also known as Eglinton Toll, as it was the entry point to an inland dock for a canal established by Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton, in the early 19th century?
Did you know that Winnie Quagliotti protested against the Australian Bicentenary by dressing in a possum-skin cloak and throwing a wattle wreath into the sea at Princes Pier?
Did you know that according to Guinness World Records, the Carolina Reaper is currently the leader in the race to grow the hottest pepper?
Did you know that as of August 2019, around thirty LGBT-free zones have been declared in Poland, including four south-eastern voivodeships (depicted on map)?
Did you know that during the political campaign for the 1953 Italian general election, the Italian Nettist Party promised voters a free daily supply of steak?
Did you know that hematologist Samuel Charache discovered the first effective treatment for sickle cell disease?
Did you know that in 1874, the New York Herald wrote a hoax story to draw attention to inadequate safety precautions at the Central Park Zoo?
Did you know that the String Quartet in A major, composed by Arthur Bliss around 1913 as a student, was later withdrawn from performance and not revived until his widow gave permission in the 1990s?
Did you know that there are believed to be fewer than 100 mature specimens of Dacrydium guillauminii, which is considered critically endangered?
Did you know that C. P. E. Bach's Sonata in A minor for Solo Flute, composed around 1747 for flauto traverso without bass and printed during his lifetime, is one of the few significant pieces for solo flute?
Did you know that Liu Wenxi's art is universally known in China?
Did you know that National Treasures at Hōryū-ji include the Tamamushi Shrine and images inside the Tachibana Shrine?
Did you know that Pandrosion may have been an earlier female contributor to mathematics than Hypatia?
Did you know that after making a breakthrough in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, Jean-François Champollion (depiction shown) cried "I've done it!" and collapsed in a faint that lasted days?
Did you know that an earthquake on 11 September 1275 caused the destruction of the church on Glastonbury Tor (tor and rebuilt church pictured) and was felt across England and Wales, but its epicentre is unknown?
Did you know that in 1945, Arnold Peter Meiklejohn supervised the medical students at the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp?
Did you know that the interviewer in the documentary Enter the Anime did not know anything about anime?
Did you know that when learning to play pool, Veronika Ivanovskaia stood on a crate of Coca-Cola?
Did you know that American actor Matt William Knowles was a "rotating mayor" of Danzhai Wanda Village in Guizhou, China?
Did you know that Doris Bergen holds Canada's only endowed chair in Holocaust history?
Did you know that Robert Michael Forde made the first definitive observation of the cause of sleeping sickness (parasites pictured) in human beings?
Did you know that Spoon frontman Britt Daniel was inspired by Franz Ferdinand's 2004 song "Take Me Out" while writing "I Turn My Camera On", and was influenced by Prince to sing it with falsetto vocals?
Did you know that a 2018 documentary depicts Nadia Murad, who escaped sexual enslavement by the Islamic State, alerting politicians and journalists to the atrocities being committed in her native Iraq?
Did you know that some Buddhists believe that all beings could have been their parents in a previous life, so liberating people from suffering is a form of filial piety?
Did you know that the Hong Kong Way was a peaceful political campaign held in Hong Kong on the 30th anniversary of the Baltic Way?
Did you know that American potter Hugh C. Robertson was left "nearly penniless" in 1889 by his years of attempts to recreate the Chinese porcelain sang de boeuf glaze (example pictured)?
Did you know that Donald Balfour, who began working at the Mayo Clinic as a pathology assistant, later became the director of the Mayo Foundation?
Did you know that Ernst Dammann, an early member of the Nazi Party, was a founding figure of African studies in East Germany – together with Walter Markov, a communist who spent much of the Nazi era in prison?
Did you know that Mexican lawyer María José Cristerna, known as "The Vampire Woman" for her extensive body modifications, is recognized as the most tattooed woman in the world?
Did you know that South African theoretical physicist Adriana Marais was one of 100 candidates chosen for Mars One?
Did you know that according to Bert Cumby, China used thought reform on American prisoners of war during the Korean War as part of a plan to create support for China-friendly policies in the United States?
Did you know that in his book ABC of Alcohol, Alex Paton explained why women are more susceptible to the effects of alcohol?
Did you know that the Asian garden dormouse can enter torpor, a state in which it may remain for several days?
Did you know that the Empress Elisabeth Bridge, a chain bridge over the Elbe that opened in 1855, was named in honor of the newly married Elisabeth of Austria?
Did you know that the Texas Reliability Entity monitors the state's electrical grid to ensure its reliability?
Did you know that twelve years after his death, Mou Zuoyun became the first Chinese person to be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame?
Did you know that 19-year-old mxmtoon, who records lo-fi songs in her parents' guest bedroom, reached 100 million streams and nearly sold out an international tour before releasing her first album?
Did you know that Alexander's bush squirrel is named after Lieutenant Boyd Alexander, a British Army officer, explorer, and ornithologist?
Did you know that Australian astrophysicist Kirsten Banks was inspired to learn about her Wiradjuri heritage while training at the Sydney Observatory?
Did you know that Bharatiya Janata Party politicians Maneka Gandhi and Santosh Gangwar, current members of the 17th Lok Sabha, have been elected to the Indian lower house for the eighth time?
Did you know that during the English Civil War, Katherine Stuart smuggled messages from Charles I to royalist sympathisers in London?
Did you know that in 1865, Confederate losses during the American Civil War were characterized as "blessings in disguise"?
Did you know that in 1949, the students of Northwestern Schools underwrote the US$40,000 cost to build KTIS in Minneapolis, the first radio station of Northwestern Media?
Did you know that in 2013, Sangramsinh Gaekwad and his nephew, Samarjitsinh Gaekwad – the unofficial Maharaja of Baroda – settled a 23-year-long legal inheritance dispute worth more than ₹20,000 crore (US$3 billion)?
Did you know that the Samsung Galaxy A70's triple-lens camera can create a bokeh effect through a 3D depth sensor?
Did you know that the mushroom Pholiota squarrosoides has decayed logs of the trees Acer saccharum and Tilia glabra in the Great Lakes region of the US?
Did you know that the myth of the clean Wehrmacht persisted in Germany until the 1990s, when it was eroded by the Wehrmacht Exhibition?
Did you know that while Greenpeace activist Steve Sawyer was celebrating his birthday ashore with his crew, French agents bombed and sank their boat, the Rainbow Warrior?
Did you know that Ariana Grande's song "In My Head" includes a voicemail recorded by her best friend, Doug Middlebrook, because it suited the lyrics?
Did you know that Art Deco architecture of New York City was typified by the use of new metals, such as the stainless steel and aluminum of the Chrysler Building?
Did you know that John Howland established the United States' first full-time pediatric department at the Johns Hopkins Hospital?
Did you know that Kazuo Wada spent decades building his parents' grocery store into the multinational retailer Yaohan, but became almost penniless after it went bankrupt during the 1997 Asian financial crisis?
Did you know that Yella Beezy's father was murdered when the rapper was 12 years old?
Did you know that Ziyad ibn Abi Sufyan (dirhams pictured), the first governor of a unified Iraqi province, restarted the Muslim conquests in Khurasan?
Did you know that after studying excavated legal documents from the ancient Qin dynasty, Gao Heng concluded that Qin's sentence of penal servitude was a lifelong punishment?
Did you know that after the Siege of Ghent, the victorious commander, the Duke of Marlborough, claimed the garrison was so numerous that it took their army "from ten in the morning till seven at night" to evacuate the town?
Did you know that in 1991, the Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples became Canada's first national parish for indigenous people?
Did you know that surgeon Sir James Dundas-Grant conducted his own orchestra?
Did you know that the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge's stiffening trusses accounted for a quarter of the weight held up by its suspension cables, contributing to the bridge's deterioration and necessitating their removal?
Did you know that Bush Terminal, an intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex in New York City, was once so large that it had its own judicial system?
Did you know that Dorothy Christian Hare was the first woman general physician to be elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians?
Did you know that José Naranjo delivered the head of his own brother to Diego de Vargas, the Spanish governor of New Mexico?
Did you know that Lady Burton's rope squirrel was named in honour of Isabel Burton, wife of British explorer Sir Richard Burton?
Did you know that Major League Baseball player Cole Sulser has two degrees in engineering from Dartmouth College?
Did you know that Taylor Swift uses Leonardo DiCaprio as an example to explain sexism in her song "The Man"?
Did you know that Ulrike Sonntag, a soprano at the Staatsoper Stuttgart and an academic voice teacher in Stuttgart, recorded an oratorio by Fanny Hensel and psalm settings by Lili Boulanger?
Did you know that Yang Hongxun designed the National Museum of Chinese Writing in the form of an ancient pictographic character from oracle bones?
Did you know that a sherd of pottery found by Ye Zhemin led to the identification of the kiln site for the rare Ru ware of the Song dynasty?
Did you know that lieder singer and voice teacher Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann's textbook for singers was recommended for general readers interested in "the human instrument"?
Did you know that the 1805 Treaty of Potsdam committed Prussia to joining the War of the Third Coalition, but was effectively ended by the Battle of Austerlitz less than a month later?
Did you know that the final of the 2017 World Women's Snooker Championship was the longest ever recorded best-of-11-frames match, lasting over eight hours of playing time?
Did you know that Russian ambassador to Egypt Sergei Kirpichenko was the son of Vadim, former KGB resident to the country, and Valeriya, a philologist specialising in Arabic literature?
Did you know that South African Member of Parliament Wynand Boshoff is the grandson of assassinated apartheid-era Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd?
Did you know that The New York Times's The 1619 Project, which aims to re-examine slavery in the United States, was developed in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center for use in schools?
Did you know that backlash over Dodge City, Kansas, radio station KTTL's racist programming and its refusal to pay property taxes left the station with just one advertiser by 1983?
Did you know that during the First World War, the Women's Reserve Ambulance Corps was criticised in the contemporary press for "encroaching too closely on male territory"?
Did you know that the Narsaq stick was the first Viking Age runic artifact discovered in Greenland?
Did you know that the dogū with palms pressed together is one of the five dogū that have been designated National Treasures of Japan?
Did you know that writer Brigitte Kronauer, who won the Georg Büchner Prize, the Jean Paul Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize, was described as both "a master of spite" and having "great kindness"?
Did you know that Better Together's "The woman who made up her mind" advert opposing Scottish independence so upset politician Sandra Grieve that she changed her mind and began supporting independence?
Did you know that Carlton le Willows Academy alumni include cricketer Mark Footitt, Air Supply singer/guitarist Graham Russell, and balloonist Janet Folkes?
Did you know that Leo Frobenius announced the discovery of the lost city of Atlantis during his Fourth German Inner Africa Research Expedition?
Did you know that Para Mi, the debut studio album by Cuco, touches on recent problems that he has experienced first-hand, including a tour bus accident that sent him and his band to the hospital?
Did you know that Ralph Henry Gabriel founded the American Studies Department at Yale University but later resigned in protest during the Cold War?
Did you know that Serbian poisoner Baba Anujka, aged over 90 at the time of her trial, was sentenced to 15 years' hard labor?
Did you know that according to Jennifer Foster, Iron Age metalsmiths of high-quality goods in Britain might have been itinerant rather than having a fixed abode?
Did you know that after Mary Ma orchestrated Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's PC division, she was named by Forbes as the 57th most powerful woman in the world?
Did you know that the Elevador de Aguas de Gordejuela housed the first steam engine on Tenerife?
Did you know that the Roman temple of Bziza, dedicated to the Semitic god Azizos, was converted to a church by the Byzantines?
Did you know that the cut flesh of the bitter tooth mushroom smells of watermelon?