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Did you know that the Bodleian Plate is among the earliest depictions of the College of William & Mary's campus, including the President's House?
Did you know that Cambodian leader Hun Sen released four imprisoned dissidents as a "gift" to the United States upon the opening of its new embassy in Phnom Penh?
Did you know that Casa Anchieta in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, was the childhood home of Brazilian missionary Joseph of Anchieta?
Did you know that John Barefoot's catalogue of British Commonwealth revenue stamps grew from 142 to more than 500 pages between its first and tenth editions as new stamps were discovered?
Did you know that Karl-Günther von Hase, who served as a German government spokesman under three chancellors, became director of the broadcaster ZDF in 1977?
Did you know that Langshi is one of the oldest erotic novels published in China?
Did you know that Mary Custis Lee, a daughter of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee, refused to sit in the "whites-only" section of a streetcar?
Did you know that Turkey built a courtroom on the island of İmralı for the 1999 trial of Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party?
Did you know that Zealand received more than 5,000 lightning strikes in three hours during the 2011 cloudburst in Denmark?
Did you know that a Steinway piano showroom at 111 West 57th Street in New York City was expanded by 2,850 percent to become one of the tallest buildings in the United States?
Did you know that musical comedian Bo Burnham wrote, directed, filmed, starred in and edited Inside by himself, during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that while France abolished slavery in 1794, Napoleon reinstated it in 1802?
Did you know that Barack Obama was once gifted a baseball glove belonging to Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Matt Moore?
Did you know that Cuilin Zhang leads a study of about 4,000 women who had diabetes in pregnancy to identify factors in the progression from gestational diabetes to type 2 diabetes?
Did you know that Headroom was a bar that operated only during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Did you know that Ira H. Owen was one of the first steel-hulled lake freighters?
Did you know that Ita Ekpenyon coached American actor Paul Robeson in speaking the Efik language for the 1937 film King Solomon's Mines?
Did you know that photographs of South Vietnam transmitted to the United States by the Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program (artist's rendering pictured) made possible near-real-time battlefield analysis during the Vietnam War?
Did you know that some moʻolelo took multiple days to tell in full, and were sometimes told in the form of hula?
Did you know that the Los Campitos Reservoir in Tenerife has never held water?
Did you know that the Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs said that it will not arrest communist leader Jose Maria Sison if he visits the Philippine embassy in The Hague?
Did you know that the late-Ming-dynasty erotic novel Zhulin yeshi was written by "Man of the Crazy Way"?
Did you know that Donato Palumbo's leadership of Euratom's fusion-power organization led to him being known as the "founding father of the European fusion program"?
Did you know that Eve Pitts, one of the Church of England's "fiercest critics", is also their first black woman vicar?
Did you know that William Bains-Jordan led the committee that designed the Hawaii State Capitol?
Did you know that although Margaret Thatcher announced to the House of Commons on 14 June 1982 that Argentine troops were flying "white flags over Port Stanley", they were probably just laundry on a washing line?
Did you know that architect Paul Rudolph's residence at 23 Beekman Place has a penthouse terrace overhanging the nearby street, which even Rudolph was afraid to use?
Did you know that baseball player Eric Filia worked as a butler at the Playboy Mansion while he was suspended by the University of California, Los Angeles?
Did you know that four Russian billionaires – Roman Abramovich, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and Shalva Chigirinsky – and the oil firm Rosneft are suing HarperCollins over Putin's People by Catherine Belton?
Did you know that in the Chinese erotic novella Chipozi zhuan, a woman has sex with her cousin, her brothers-in-law, her father-in-law, and two Buddhist monks?
Did you know that interest rates on repos, which are short-term loans between financial institutions, experienced a sudden and unexpected spike on September 17, 2019?
Did you know that one in a thousand women have three X chromosomes, but fewer than 10 percent of them know it?
Did you know that the Irish bog body Gallagh Man preserves the remains of an Iron Age man who was around 25 years old, dark haired, and was either strangled during a ritual killing or executed as a criminal?
Did you know that the Rockefeller Apartments, with its glass-enclosed cylindrical "bows", allowed 15 percent more air and natural light than other apartments of the time?
Did you know that the Theater Trier runs a series including the premiere of Zemlinsky's Sarema, the German premiere of The Voyage by Philip Glass, and the revival of Koanga by Frederick Delius?
Did you know that the Wild Bird Fund is New York City's first and only wildlife hospital (example treatment pictured)?
Did you know that the government radio station in Mandatory Palestine had an Arab Hour in the late 1930s hosting Palestinian writers like Stephan Hanna Stephan?
Did you know that Elon Musk lost $16.3 billion in a single day, the largest in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index?
Did you know that HMS Sherwood is located more than 50 miles (80 km) from the sea?
Did you know that Tanja Tetzlaff recorded Einojuhani Rautavaara's cello sonatas from the 20th century and Wolfgang Rihm's cello concerto, premiered in 2008, on a cello built in 1776?
Did you know that according to hacker Tillie Kottmann, most of her data breaches did not require much technical skill?
Did you know that after hairdresser Mr. Kenneth's salon in a converted New York City house burned down, he lamented that "nothing like it will ever exist again"?
Did you know that before a career in stage and film, Edwards Davis was an ordained minister known for dancing in his pulpit?
Did you know that critics have compared Marina's "Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land" to Britney Spears's "Womanizer", with one describing it as "an electro-glam-pop stomper"?
Did you know that in 1630, fewer than three percent of candidates were awarded the rank of juren, the second-highest civil rank in imperial China?
Did you know that in 1905, Mae Eleanor Frey became the first woman to be ordained in the American Baptist Churches USA?
Did you know that late arrivals at American colonial-era inns might find that the only drink on offer was Whistle Belly Vengeance, a mixture of sour beer, molasses and bread crusts?
Did you know that the Alte Handelsbörse, now an event venue in Leipzig, began as the trade-fair city's first bourse?
Did you know that Christian radio station KIXL near Austin, Texas, pulled an anti-pornography program off-air in mid-transmission because of its graphic descriptions of gay sex?
Did you know that Indira Gandhi made Zulfikar Ali Bhutto choose between the sculptures Dancing Girl and Priest-King to be returned to Pakistan in 1972?
Did you know that Jim Clendenen went into winemaking instead of law school after staying in Bordeaux, Champagne, and Burgundy for six months?
Did you know that Mennonites and Lutherans both think Canada should recognize the Stoney Knoll First Nation?
Did you know that Swedish writer Annie Åkerhielm was an active campaigner against women's suffrage and democracy?
Did you know that William Forsythe's ballet Blake Works I is set to seven songs from James Blake's album The Colour in Anything?
Did you know that actor Arthur Blake was famous for his female impersonations of Bette Davis, Carmen Miranda, and Eleanor Roosevelt?
Did you know that open ocean convection, the mixing of deep and surface waters, plays a crucial role in the global climate?
Did you know that rhythmic gymnast Márcia Lopes is the first Cape Verdean athlete to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that "Segne du, Maria", requesting Mary to bless her child in life and death, was written by Cordula Wöhler in 1870 and finally included in the common Gotteslob hymnal in 2013?
Did you know that German swimmer Lisa Höpink won two medals at the 2019 Summer Universiade and qualified for two events at the 2020 Summer Olympics?
Did you know that Indianapolis's Tomlinson Hall was destroyed by fire on January 30, 1958, allegedly after a pigeon dropped a lit cigarette on the roof of the building?
Did you know that Iowa Hawkeye Leo Jensvold played starting quarterback alongside his twin brother in 1930?
Did you know that Kanye West performs a bare acoustic gospel rendition of "Street Lights" with the Sunday Service Choir in the film Jesus Is King?
Did you know that Kanye West's track "Say You Will" was recorded in 15 minutes?
Did you know that Ladakh has several festivals throughout the year, including Hemis Tsechu and Losar?
Did you know that Pauline monk László Báthory spent twenty years living in a cave in Budapest so he could focus on translating the Bible?
Did you know that Roy DeCarava's photos of Black Harlem life later included in The Sweet Flypaper of Life were rejected by at least two major publishers before Langston Hughes wrote the book's accompanying text?
Did you know that in Hindu mythology, Kripa was born from a clump of weeds after his father ejaculated on it?
Did you know that the North Shore School District, home to Kate McKinnon's alma mater, benefited from taxing the Glenwood Generating Station, with one official saying "we endure the smoke, let's have the gravy"?
Did you know that Amna Suraka, "the world's most depressing museum", includes a hall of broken mirrors with a shard for each victim of the Anfal genocide?
Did you know that Helene P. Foley's Sather Lecture on the reception of Greek theatre in the United States was described as "something of a milestone" in bringing the subject closer to the mainstream?
Did you know that Shin Hae-chul, who previously made hard rock and heavy metal albums, was inspired by big band music when he made The Songs for the One?
Did you know that an improperly dismantled orphan radiation source injured three lumberjacks and killed one of them in the Lia radiological accident?
Did you know that despite ducking and avoiding being hit in the head by a baseball, Joe Beckwith suffered double vision that required two surgeries to correct?
Did you know that in Hindu mythology, the creator deity Daksha married Asikni, after realising that copulation was necessary for procreation?
Did you know that in a 1922 letter to the editor, Flora Kaai Hayes defended the morality of hula compared to the "bosom to bosom, thigh to thigh dances" seen on steamships and roof gardens at the time?
Did you know that the 1976 "Britain Awake" speech by Margaret Thatcher led to her being nicknamed the "Iron Lady" by a Soviet newspaper?
Did you know that the first translation of the Quran into the Gojri language was authored by Mufti Faizul Waheed?
Did you know that until its demolition in 2014, The Jungle in San Jose, California, was often considered to be one of the largest homeless encampments in the United States?
Did you know that Catherine Sourbut Groves, who experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall as a student, became an archdeacon in the Church of England via Zoom?
Did you know that Frederick Ashton's ballet Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan took inspiration from a performance by Duncan that he saw when he was 17?
Did you know that the Philippine embassy in Berlin was once purportedly located above a supermarket, with frankfurters visible from the windows?
Did you know that up to fifty starfish shrimps have been found living on a single host?
Did you know that George Balanchine's ballet Kammermusik No. 2 was referred as "Kammer-computer" by ballerina Karin von Aroldingen because it is "speedy"?
Did you know that Indrani (sculpture pictured), the queen of Hindu devas (gods), is a daughter of a demonic figure?
Did you know that Rod Bonella, who won a Commonwealth Games marathon medal, was also a horse trainer?
Did you know that the Theater am Aegi, which opened in Hanover in 1953 as "Germany's most modern theatre" and served mostly as a cinema, is now a venue for a wide range of performances?
Did you know that the biography of Karin Boye, written by Swedish literary critic Margit Abenius, was criticised for the conservative analysis of Boye's homosexuality?
Did you know that three Aldershot players were involved in a road traffic accident after winning the 1987 Football League Fourth Division play-off Final?
Did you know that while Filiberto Avogadro di Collobiano was initially mistrusted by King Charles Albert, he was eventually appointed by the king to his royal court?
Did you know that Australotitan is the largest dinosaur discovered in Australia?
Did you know that Cal Anderson was the first openly gay member of the Washington State Legislature?
Did you know that Sydney Morton's grandfather appeared in Run, Little Chillun (poster pictured), but the musical theatre bug skipped a generation?
Did you know that the Bitcoin Law would make El Salvador the first country to recognize bitcoin as legal tender?
Did you know that the Superior Auditor of the Federation of Mexico observed damage to an overpass between Tezonco and Olivos stations on the Mexico City Metro prior to its collapse in May 2021?
Did you know that the dancing school at 165 West 57th Street in New York City was described as instructor Louis Harvy Chalif's "greatest highlight and dream"?
Did you know that China expert Sasaki Tōichi was chastised for referring to Sun Yat-sen with the honorific sensei?
Did you know that Esplanade Mansions is the only building in Kolkata in the Art Nouveau architectural style?
Did you know that Malcolm Gladwell's The Bomber Mafia, about the Bomber Mafia of World War II, concludes that "LeMay won the battle. [...] Hansell won the war" with regard to high-precision aerial bombing?
Did you know that Sae Eun Park is the first Asian étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet, and one of the few foreigners to hold the title?
Did you know that in 1981 the Conservative Party leadership feared that 25 of its members of parliament would vote against Margaret Thatcher's economic policies and cause a split in the party?
Did you know that Russian generals proposed to invade India in 1854 and in 1855 to divert British forces from the Crimean War?
Did you know that in China, Buddha-like parents, the polar opposite of tiger parents, do not envision their offspring accomplishing much in life?
Did you know that in the musical Fermat's Last Tango, mathematicians Euclid and Newton are played by women?
Did you know that pianist and composer Grace Welsh  turned down becoming president of the American Conservatory of Music due to thinking that it would get in the way of her teaching music?
Did you know that the hooded visorbearer (example pictured) builds its nest out of cactus spines?
Did you know that the illustrated erotic novel Su'e pian, published during the late Ming dynasty, describes "Stopping the Horse to Pull the Saddle", "Flowers Longing for Butterflies", and "The Union of Yin and Yang"?
Did you know that the new bishop of Kotor in Montenegro, Ivan Štironja, speaks Swahili and served as a missionary in Tanzania?
Did you know that French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy was admired by musicians such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan during the 1960s?
Did you know that Genoa honored Stefanina Moro, a teenage courier in the Italian resistance who was killed by Nazis, by naming a street after her?
Did you know that Northampton Town manager Ian Atkins declared that the "whole town has gone barmy" after his side won the 1997 Football League Third Division play-off Final?
Did you know that Three Notch Road, covering 233 miles (375 km) between Pensacola, Florida, and Fort Mitchell, Alabama, cost $1,130 to build?
Did you know that after he escaped from the high-security İmralı prison, Billy Hayes wrote a book about the escape that was later adapted into a film?
Did you know that despite Beverly White's earlier opposition to abortion, she represented Planned Parenthood at the World Conference on Women, 1995?
Did you know that despite going behind in less than one minute courtesy of an own goal, Blackpool secured a record sixth post-season final when they won the 2021 EFL League One play-off Final?
Did you know that the theories of Swiss geographer Samuel Engel about an ice-free region near the North Pole led to a British expedition towards the North Pole in 1773?
Did you know that Edith Kanakaʻole's acceptance speech for a 1978 Na Hoku Hanohano Award was given entirely in the Hawaiian language?
Did you know that How Doth the Little Crocodile by Leonora Carrington was based on Lewis Carroll's poem of the same name?
Did you know that Stina Quint was the founder and editor of Kamratposten, one of the earliest children's magazines in Sweden?
Did you know that an 18th-century carillon-music manuscript by Joannes de Gruytters was discovered at a book auction?
Did you know that comic book creator Brandon Dayton chose medieval Russia as the setting for his minicomic Green Monk after watching Andrei Tarkovsky's film Andrei Rublev?
Did you know that the Bush Tower, near New York City's Times Square, was an attempt at a trade center before the World Trade Center itself?
Did you know that Carla Van Zon ran two arts festivals in New Zealand?
Did you know that Margot Heumann is the first woman known to have survived the Nazi concentration camps despite being both Jewish and queer?
Did you know that Marie André Cantillon was awarded 10,000 francs in Napoleon's will for a failed assassination attempt on the Duke of Wellington?
Did you know that Rosa Ponselle blamed Metropolitan Opera star Giovanni Martinelli's poor singing on his love affair with French soprano and actress Colette D'Arville?
Did you know that the 1987 FA Charity Shield was played one week early to allow Diego Maradona, Gary Lineker, Michel Platini and Josimar to play alongside one another at Wembley Stadium?
Did you know that the Vickers Red Hebe air-to-air missile was dismissed by the British Air Ministry's own Operational Requirements branch as "still in the piston era" compared to the US Sparrow?
Did you know that at the suggestion of writer and translator Cecilia Bååth-Holmberg, Mother's Day was celebrated for the first time in Sweden in 1919?
Did you know that some men purposely have sex in order to become infected with HIV?
Did you know that the Suffrage Torch was a symbol of illumination during the Suffragist campaigns in the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the summer of 1915 and the idea of Harriot Stanton Blatch?
Did you know that the slogan of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, "Make America Great Again", was also used by Ronald Reagan in his 1980 presidential campaign (campaign button pictured)?
Did you know that two business partners' townhouses at 10 and 12 West 56th Street were described as being "paired in an uneasy dance, one doing the cancan, the other a minuet"?
Did you know that Carolyn Huntoon was the first woman to serve as the director of the Johnson Space Center?
Did you know that Elena Urrutia helped launch the Mexican feminist magazine Fem?
Did you know that Major Byers wrote "The Song of Iowa" after being inspired by hearing Confederate soldiers playing "Maryland, My Maryland" outside his prison cell and used the same tune?
Did you know that Thomas Laubach, who wrote more than 250 Christian pop songs, is the same person as Thomas Weißer, a professor of ethics at the University of Bamberg?
Did you know that a major Asian collection was donated to the National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History by Jewish benefactor Albert Bender while the museum was headed by Adolf Mahr, head of the Dublin Nazi chapter?
Did you know that the largest dictionary of the Polish language is 50 volumes long?
Did you know that Gilles Lupien used the C$75,000 signing bonus from his first Montreal Canadiens contract to buy shares in a lumber company, enabling him to obtain quality lumber to construct his first home?
Did you know that Morecambe secured promotion to the third tier of English football for the first time in their history when they won the 2021 EFL League Two play-off Final?
Did you know that Nell Walden was the first abstract artist in Swedish history?
Did you know that Paul Fiset's research led to the development of the first successful vaccine against Q fever (bacteria pictured)?
Did you know that Thomas Rhett's "What's Your Country Song" contains lyrical references to 16 other country songs?
Did you know that there are few tall buildings on Long Island because residents do not want it to become "Queensified", referring to the neighboring New York City borough?
Did you know that Kata Wéber moved to Berlin to write the play that would become Pieces of a Woman to avoid her husband, who had encouraged her to write it after finding her personal notes?
Did you know that William E. Woods took three same-sex couples to fill out marriage licenses in 1990, beginning a series of events that would lead to the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States?
Did you know that a 17th-century illustrated manuscript of the Anis Al-Hujjaj shows pilgrims sailing from the Indian subcontinent to Arabia?
Did you know that in San Diego, you can get a steak dinner made by a bear?
Did you know that British general Charles Bertie Prowse was killed while leading his brigade in an attack during the first day on the Somme, 105 years ago today?
Did you know that John Mercer Johnson, a Father of Canadian Confederation, entertained the public and members of the London Conference of 1866 with poetry readings and ice-skating performances?
Did you know that St. Nikolaus von Flüe, the first Catholic church in Wörsdorf, was consecrated in 1962?
Did you know that following a career-ending injury while playing Australian rules football, Justin Clarke became a Rhodes scholar in 2021?
Did you know that the first use of Je me souviens, the official motto of Quebec, was on a wall of the province's parliament building?
Did you know that the flag of Nova Scotia was officially recognized in 2013, even though its first documented use was in June 1858?
Did you know that the song "Canadian Idiot" satirizes American xenophobia?
Did you know that Murray Dowey was a clerk and typist for the Toronto Transit Commission before being the goaltender for Canada's gold-medal-winning hockey team at the 1948 Winter Olympics?
Did you know that Toman helped popularize genderless fashion in Japan?
Did you know that some species of bacteria in the genus Alkalihalobacillus live in hypersaline lakes while others are added to laundry detergent?
Did you know that the Walter Bean Grand River Trail was named after Walter Bean, who created the idea of a continuous trail through the Waterloo region?
Did you know that the site of Parliament Hill was previously called Barrack Hill and had been intended for development as a major military base?
Did you know that the third Wanamaker expedition, led by Joseph K. Dixon, travelled at least 20,000 miles (32,000 km) and visited 89 Native American tribes?
Did you know that Bambi delivered more than 35,000 babies?
Did you know that Kanfei Nesharim Street is long and wide and straight like a runway, because it was originally built as one?
Did you know that Topol, who won a Golden Globe for his performance as Tevye in the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof, played the role in shows and revivals about 3,500 times?
Did you know that future cantor David Werdyger was saved from a Nazi firing squad when he sang the Jewish prayer for the dead?
Did you know that in 1975 Time named Schwester Selma, head nurse at the Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, one of the world's "living saints", alongside Mother Teresa and Sister Annie?
Did you know that the 2005 birth of Gabi (pictured with mother), the first elephant in Israel conceived through artificial insemination, was viewed live by more than 350,000 people in 108 countries?