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Did you know that American Atheists unsuccessfully sued the city of Austin, Texas, because they believed the city's flag violated the First Amendment?
Did you know that Bishnu Majhi is the highest-paid singer in Nepal?
Did you know that Florida radio station WEBY received three threats to blow it up if it did not stop criticizing the sheriff of Okaloosa County?
Did you know that Hong Kong protestors have drawn analogies between Nazi Germany and China?
Did you know that Julian Wylie, known as the King of Pantomime, "never took to drink, he took to ice-cream"?
Did you know that My Name Is Han, a 1948 docudrama about Christian missionary work in China, was filmed on location near a war zone?
Did you know that Oakland Athletics fans coined the chant "I believe in Stephen Vogt!", inspired by a similar U.S. men's national soccer team chant?
Did you know that according to Muslim sources, Muhammad IV of Granada was assassinated due to his alliance with Sultan Abu al-Hasan, while Christian sources say it was due to his closeness to King Alfonso XI?
Did you know that in 1940, 40 Wall Street in New York City was worth less than its elevators had cost?
Did you know that the installation of a garbage-eating sculpture in Riverfront Park caused an uproar from goat farmers, concerned that it perpetuated the false stereotype that goats eat anything?
Did you know that Heinrich Schütz House in Bad Köstritz, the inn where composer Heinrich Schütz was born, is now a museum and concert venue?
Did you know that McDonald's lost over £20 million in its sale of The Aroma Cafe, the first non-American chain it had acquired to run as a separate brand?
Did you know that Peter the Great experienced "a riotous and revelling Christmas" in London in 1697?
Did you know that Pierre Schlumberger ran the family business, was a "visionary" art collector, and hosted guests including Audrey Hepburn, Yves Saint Laurent, Andy Warhol, and Rudolf Nureyev?
Did you know that The Biafra Story by Frederick Forsyth was reportedly one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of the Nigerian Civil War?
Did you know that Tracy R. Norris, the first female commander of the Texas Military Department, has masters degrees from Florida State University, the University of Texas, and the United States Army War College?
Did you know that in the 1970s, Disney attempted to build a ski resort and mountain village at Independence Lake, a glacial lake high in California's Sierra Nevada mountains?
Did you know that the banteng is the second endangered species to be successfully cloned, and the first clone to survive beyond infancy?
Did you know that the colonial morphology of Staphylococcus species (culture pictured) is described as "creamy"?
Did you know that the opera Doktor Johannes Faust by Hermann Reutter, which was premiered by the Oper Frankfurt in 1936, is based on a puppet play?
Did you know that the veterinarian Janina Oyrzanowska-Poplewska, whose work led to the creation of the first Polish canine distemper vaccine, has been honored as a Righteous Among the Nations?
Did you know that the world's largest building by volume is an airplane factory in Everett, Washington?
Did you know that American missionary Laura Fish Judd taught a queen how to make dresses, co-founded the first school for Hawaiian children, and wrote about Hawaiian dining etiquette and cuisine?
Did you know that Frédéric Passy was challenged to a duel over the 1901 Nobel Peace Prize?
Did you know that Hossein Kazempour Ardebili, Iran's former commerce minister and OPEC governor, once worked as a pizza delivery man in the U.S.?
Did you know that Ira L. Hanna, the 36th mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, served for only five months before being convicted for bribery?
Did you know that Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher discovered a song to release while under lockdown, which his brother called "not worth a wank"?
Did you know that Ping Yuen, a public housing complex in San Francisco's Chinatown, has an entrance modeled after that of a temple in Beijing?
Did you know that Sarah Fisher, the first woman to claim a pole position in American open-wheel racing, began competing at age five?
Did you know that Vonda McIntyre's 1973 short story "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand", which won a Nebula Award, was used as the first chapter of her 1978 novel Dreamsnake, which also won a Nebula Award?
Did you know that ant gardens are cultivated by several species of ant, including Crematogaster carinata?
Did you know that cloth face masks are considered source control but they are not considered personal protective equipment?
Did you know that in 1914, the Oxford historian L. G. Wickham Legg contributed to Why We Are at War: Great Britain's Case, then joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve?
Did you know that the Canadian film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing was the second production screened at 1987 film festivals to have a title taken from T. S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
Did you know that the Welsh fiscal deficit was higher than Greece's throughout the Greek government-debt crisis?
Did you know that "Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty", written by future Anglican bishop Reginald Heber (depicted), was first published at a time when hymn singing was prohibited in Church of England liturgy?
Did you know that "Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem" has been described as the "only medieval resurrection hymn still widely sung"?
Did you know that American rapper 6ix9ine requested permission from a judge to record the music video for "Gooba" while under house arrest?
Did you know that D'Angelo spent several hours playtesting Red Dead Redemption 2 before being invited to write the song "Unshaken" for its original soundtrack?
Did you know that Joe Davis, champion from 1927 to 1946, remains the only undefeated player at the World Snooker Championship?
Did you know that during the 1990s, some British Army infantry battalions suffered such severe manpower shortages that they had to be reinforced by companies of Gurkhas?
Did you know that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Polish police requested criminals to stop all criminal activities until further notice?
Did you know that the 1964 Elektron satellites, launched in pairs to simultaneously measure the upper and lower Van Allen belts, marked the first time multiple satellites were orbited on a single Soviet rocket?
Did you know that the San Antonio Municipal Archives contain the architectural plans for the Alamo?
Did you know that the ancient Indian religion Jainism (primary symbol pictured) holds that the universe was not created?
Did you know that 20-year-old Alejandro Cruz won the 1988 Chicago Marathon after being selected as an emergency replacement for Mauricio González?
Did you know that Bob Dylan's line "horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees" in "Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)" has been called the sound of a man who has hit the wall?
Did you know that Ken Nightingall, an uncredited boom operator on Star Wars, was not mentioned in the citation for his sound team's Academy Award, but was still invited to Buckingham Palace with the winners?
Did you know that Nottingham Castle was set on fire during the 1831 reform riots?
Did you know that Sophia Kianni was the youngest activist at a hunger strike and sit-in at U.S. speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's office?
Did you know that only one hydroelectric plant was built on the Jordan River, out of the fourteen planned by Pinhas Rutenberg (depicted)?
Did you know that the American merchant ship Herald served in the U.S. Navy against France before becoming a French privateer, was sold to Britain as a slaver, and ended her days as a West Indiaman?
Did you know that the Cranbrook Strict Baptist Chapel was converted from two cottages?
Did you know that the Vietnamese pop song "Ghen Cô Vy" was produced to educate people on how to avoid contracting COVID-19?
Did you know that the documentary Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness includes an appearance by Aleichem's granddaughter Bel Kaufman, who was 100 years old at the time of filming?
Did you know that the presence of the beetle Coelomera ruficornis on its host tree is tolerated by the ant Azteca alfari, but not by the ant Azteca muelleri?
Did you know that the railway management building at Ankara Central Station, which served as a residence and headquarters for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk during the Turkish War of Independence, is now a museum?
Did you know that German politician and activist Marie Bernays joined a convent and converted to Catholicism in 1933 in response to the rise of Nazism?
Did you know that Irish milliner Philip Treacy said of the controversy surrounding his "pretzel hat" for Princess Beatrice, "I thought I would find myself with my head on a spike outside the Tower of London"?
Did you know that King Sithu I of Burma founded and donated "boatloads of rubies" to the Thatbyinnyu Temple in Bagan?
Did you know that Yinka Jegede-Ekpe, the first Nigerian woman to go public with her HIV-positive status, later gave birth to a healthy, HIV-negative baby girl?
Did you know that after an aeroplane hijacking, the Central Industrial Security Force was given the responsibility of securing airports in India?
Did you know that during World War II, Royal Air Force ace Thomas Wallace lost his commission but nonetheless joined the volunteer reserve, where he downed seven enemy aircraft in three weeks?
Did you know that the Equitable Life Building, once described as fireproof, was destroyed by a massive fire?
Did you know that the first mayor of Mountlake Terrace, Washington, lent the city $5 to file its incorporation charter?
Did you know that Roald Dahl became an advocate of vaccination after his eldest daughter died from measles, saying that it was "almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunized"?
Did you know that Yabu Meizan's success as a porcelain artist (work pictured) inspired a rival workshop to sell imitations under his name?
Did you know that a 2006 German documentary attempted to answer the question "Do communists have better sex?"
Did you know that a comedian was jailed for his negative video review of the 2019 Nepali romantic comedy Bir Bikram 2?
Did you know that a version of Alexander Calder's hanging mobile Snow Flurry sold for more than $10 million in 2012?
Did you know that during World War II, the Fremantle Fortress protected the second-most important Allied submarine base in the Pacific Theatre?
Did you know that for the centenary of Stravinsky's birth, Zoltán Peskó conducted three of the composer's stage works—The Flood, Renard, and Mavra—directed by Peter Ustinov at La Scala?
Did you know that the Battle of Mine Creek was one of the largest battles between mounted cavalry during the American Civil War?
Did you know that the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower was used in its namesake's advertising as "The Light That Never Fails"?
Did you know that the name "Hashub", mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Nehemiah, was found on a piece of pottery contemporary to Nehemiah at the archaeological site of Tel Zeton, Israel?
Did you know that Drużbart, named after its second-highest card (shown), was the favourite card game of Polish novelist Count Henryk Rzewuski?
Did you know that New York City's Equitable Building, completed just before the 1916 Zoning Resolution, was described as being "more famous for what it caused than what it is"?
Did you know that after the former church of San Sebastiano in Verona was bombed in 1945, its façade was relocated to San Nicolò all'Arena?
Did you know that despite being shortsighted and nearly deaf, Rodger Young saved his platoon from an enemy ambush, for which he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor?
Did you know that despite suffering from vertigo, actor Bob Barrett performed his own stunt on the hospital rooftop in the Holby City episode "Man Down"?
Did you know that five years after the major film studios branded him "unemployable", James Dunn was cast as the dreamy alcoholic father in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and won an Academy Award?
Did you know that the Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan houses the Katherine V, believed to be the last intact wooden fishing tug built to harvest the freshwater fish of the Great Lakes?
Did you know that the Church of England expected to distribute a few hundred millennium yews, but ended up sending out 8,000?
Did you know that the Cyfarthfa Band was conducted by a circus musician and his son?
Did you know that the Hotel Adams, Phoenix's first luxury hotel, burned to the ground in 1910, leaving the territorial governor homeless?
Did you know that the opera The Devil in Love by Alexander Vustin took 15 years to be completed and 30 more years to be premiered, debuting at the centenary of a Moscow theatre?
Did you know that Blackrocks Brewery was created by two unemployed pharmaceutical salesmen?
Did you know that Heuglin's gazelle (illustrated), reportedly last seen in Eritrea over a century earlier during Italian colonial rule, was sighted again in the country last year?
Did you know that Héctor D. Abruña's outreach efforts resulted in 15 out of 55 graduates of his Cornell University electrochemistry research group coming from Puerto Rico, like Abruña himself?
Did you know that President Ulysses S. Grant planned but failed to annex the Dominican Republic from his summer cottage?
Did you know that William G. King Jr. explored and surveyed islands where downrange stations were subsequently established as part of the Eastern Test Range?
Did you know that a June 2015 performance of the 1999 Smash Mouth song "All Star" went awry when audience members began throwing loaves of bread onto the stage?
Did you know that after joining her father's church choir at the age of six, contralto Portia White grew up to become the first Black Canadian concert singer to achieve international fame?
Did you know that during the Paris Peace Conference, Czechoslovak politicians claimed that their country was tolerant, even as anti-Jewish violence was ongoing?
Did you know that in medieval Tutbury, Staffordshire, minstrels chased a bull that, if caught, could be eaten or exchanged for forty pennies?
Did you know that the Portland Streetcar's Loop Service enabled the production of the first U.S.-built streetcars in nearly 60 years?
Did you know that the Taungtha, an unrecognized ethnic group of Myanmar, claim descent from the Pyu during the reign of the legendary King Thamoddarit of Pagan?
Did you know that the hills of Hárshegy offer commanding views of Budapest?
Did you know that the railings on Santa Cruz de Tenerife's Galcerán Bridge were replaced in 1954 to reduce the number of suicides?
Did you know that Fannie Flagg set her 2010 comedy-mystery novel I Still Dream About You in Birmingham, Alabama, because she wanted "to write a Valentine to my hometown"?
Did you know that H. M. Hook, the first mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, drowned while searching for silver mines?
Did you know that Martin Luther King Jr. used the phrase "justice too long delayed is justice denied" in his Letter from Birmingham Jail?
Did you know that Singaporean authorities hope that the Mandai Wildlife Bridge will reduce the risk of animals such as Sunda pangolins and leopard cats becoming roadkill?
Did you know that Temple Memorial Park, named after Archbishop of Canterbury William Temple, was given to the people of South Shields in recognition of their military contributions at sea in World War II?
Did you know that a room in the Nebuta Museum in Aomori, Japan, is darkened so the floats on display can be illuminated as they are during the city's annual summer festival?
Did you know that fever hospitals, for infectious patients, were once the most common type of hospital in England and Wales?
Did you know that one Labour MP said that the result of the 2016 Sleaford and North Hykeham by-election could foreshadow an "electoral disaster" for the party?
Did you know that one hundred years ago, Frank William North brought his congregation home from Russia on the SS Dongola?
Did you know that the University of Cologne awards an annual gender equality prize in honor of Jenny Gusyk, who became the school's first female and first foreign student when it was re-established in 1919?
Did you know that the gold-striped frog sometimes breeds inside an active nest of leafcutter ants?
Did you know that the recording of the Bon Iver song "iMi" took five years and nearly 30 collaborators to complete?
Did you know that the song "Running", which was set to represent Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, was sung by a German-born singer of Greek and American ancestry?
Did you know that "Ode to the Mets" is not actually an ode to the Mets, despite being written following a Mets game?
Did you know that Irene Triplett, who died in May 2020, was the last recipient of a pension from the American Civil War of 1861–1865?
Did you know that Jane Bell, one of the original occupants of Bell Cottage, was found guilty of concealing a birth and became the first European woman to be incarcerated on Rottnest Island?
Did you know that Jim Lander graduated from Lander University?
Did you know that Siamosaurus, a large bipedal carnivore from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand, is the first crocodilian-like dinosaur named from Asia?
Did you know that Systime Computers, based in Leeds, was once Britain's second largest computer manufacturer?
Did you know that Tilly Bébé, a pioneer in the docile training of predators, starred with her lions in a silent film of a genre described as "exotic-erotic-escapist"?
Did you know that a song from the Kris Kristofferson album The Silver Tongued Devil and I is referenced in the film Taxi Driver?
Did you know that an exit ramp of the Ikeda Route in Osaka passes through the Gate Tower Building, taking up part of the building's fifth, sixth, and seventh floors?
Did you know that in qualifying for the 1987 World Snooker Championship, Jimmy van Rensberg had a suspected heart attack, but returned to win his match?
Did you know that legislation for a Hong Kong national security law was attempted during both the SARS and COVID-19 epidemics?
Did you know that Fumio Tajima published a paper described as among the "founding papers of modern population genetics" the same year he submitted his doctoral dissertation?
Did you know that George Pechell Mends witnessed the burning of the steam frigate USS Missouri at Gibraltar on 26 August 1843, and his sketch was the basis for a painting by Edward Duncan (lithograph shown)?
Did you know that Luis Ocaña won the Orcières-Merlette stage of the 1971 Tour de France, beating the 1970 champion, Eddy Merckx, by more than eight minutes?
Did you know that Massachusetts's Question 3 was the first U.S. ballot measure to ban the sale of animal products such as eggs and pork from intensively confined animals?
Did you know that Rob Wiethoff's work as John Marston in Red Dead Redemption lasted almost two years?
Did you know that Roland Tan, the most-wanted fugitive in Singapore, remained at large for 50 years until his death in April 2020 in Denmark?
Did you know that Susan Benesch, founder of the Dangerous Speech Project, advocates the use of "counterspeech" and humor against hate speech?
Did you know that U.S. advocates for the decriminalization of psilocybin (species pictured) have cited ongoing research on its use in treating depression and nicotine dependence?
Did you know that after logging their 199th win, Hendrick Motorsports had to wait for seven months and sixteen races before they won their 200th NASCAR Cup Series, with Jimmie Johnson at the wheel?
Did you know that during the COVID-19 pandemic, United Nations secretary-general António Guterres called for a global domestic violence "ceasefire"?
Did you know that the text of the hymn "Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit" was written by Albert, Duke of Prussia, while the tune came from a secular French song?
Did you know that when sports journalist Andy O'Brien discovered John Landy bleeding in the locker room at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, the runner swore him to secrecy?
Did you know that Arlington State College left the Texas A&M University System after 48 years to join the University of Texas System?
Did you know that Chelsea F.C.'s loss in the 1988 Football League Second Division play-off Final triggered football hooliganism that injured 45 people?
Did you know that Hungarian émigré Frank Varga followed in his father's footsteps to become a noted sculptor?
Did you know that La Parka Jr. won the Mexican National Cruiserweight Championship, relinquished the title when he changed his ring name, then won it again under his new name?
Did you know that Olga Yurievskaya, a daughter of Alexander II of Russia and Princess Catherine Dolgorukova, was legitimated by her parents' morganatic marriage?
Did you know that Walkiria Terradura was a member of the Italian resistance movement during World War II and a specialist in blowing up bridges?
Did you know that William Jefferson Hardin was the first black member of the Wyoming House of Representatives?
Did you know that a Pony on YouTube creates make-up tutorials for millions of subscribers?
Did you know that in a promotional stunt, staff at Cincinnati-area radio station WIZF demanded a 40-percent raise, which turned out to refer to a 40-foot (12 m) increase in the height of the station's antenna?
Did you know that the former seal of Zion, Illinois, was ruled unconstitutional because it contained the phrase "God reigns"?
Did you know that the hymn "Praise, my soul, the King of heaven", sung at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth, now Queen Elizabeth II, was written by Henry Francis Lyte, who also wrote the well-known "Abide with Me"?
Did you know that while lente insulin is no longer approved for use in humans in the United States, it is still used commonly in cats and dogs with diabetes?
Did you know that Ján Vojtaššák, deputy chairman of the Slovak parliament when it approved the deportation of Jews from Slovakia, is being considered for beatification?
Did you know that Nigel, nicknamed "the world's loneliest gannet" (species pictured), attempted to mate with a concrete decoy bird on Mana Island, New Zealand?
Did you know that Swedish composer Harald Fryklöf, "who had hardly ever known a day's illness in his life", died from the Spanish flu at the age of 36?
Did you know that a well-preserved ghost town lies intact at the bottom of an Arizona lake?
Did you know that after the king of Kachar died whilst invading the Pratapgarh Kingdom, his widow Kamala commanded its conquest herself to avenge him?
Did you know that both the white-bellied woolly mouse opossum and the Fernando Po swift are named after the British architectural historian and philanthropist Constance Sladen?
Did you know that purple Skittles (assortment pictured) are grape-flavored in the United States because of a long-standing ban on blackcurrant production?
Did you know that the East York Lyndhursts' loss to the Russians in ice hockey was "a national calamity, a national humiliation, and a mortifying experience"?
Did you know that the Keweenaw Brewing Company's most popular beer gets its "widow maker" nickname from a dangerous drill once used to mine copper?
Did you know that the drama The Undivine Comedy has been recognized as one of the most significant works of literature of the Polish Romantic period?
Did you know that Bristol mayor Charles Pinney was tried before the King's Bench for his actions during the 1831 riots in the city (depicted)?
Did you know that Plácido Zuloaga trained more than two hundred artists to make damascened artworks (example pictured)?
Did you know that a former school band teacher became the Archbishop of Winnipeg?
Did you know that a group of escaped German prisoners established a short-lived Nazi state in the Dutch East Indies?
Did you know that in the early years of Montana radio station KGHL, some musical groups had to perform on the roof of the studio building?
Did you know that the All India Conference of Indian Christians was opposed to the partition of India?
Did you know that the Laguna Creek watershed debouches into the San Francisco Bay near the site of the ghost town of Drawbridge?